I must admit that most external hard drive enclosures today resemble nothing more than a melted hunk of plastic or metal. Why not get a little creative and rip off Etsy user NES Box. He shoves external hard drives inside of old NES cartridges which give your computer a real retro feel. Need to back up right now? This Super Mario Brothers 3 hard drive can be had for $180 on Etsy and it runs from USB power. Not bad, but we’d recommend trying to make your own. An old Duck Hunt cartridge and a Dremel is all it takes to whip one up. That and a hard disk of course.

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Remember that fishy business about the potential for hackers to prematurely shut off a pacemaker via a wireless communicator? Since many people use pacemakers to keep their heart beating, scientists are taking this loophole extremely seriously and have raised a solution to the issue.

Proposed is a cloaking device, an external attachment that the pacemaker owner would wear, resembling a medical bracelet. The cloaking device would prevent any harmful form of remote access to the pacemaker, keeping the wearer safe from any malicious wireless attacks. The cloaking device would be removable just in case doctors need to modify the pacemaker as needed. Ain’t nobody shuttin’ my heart down, girlfriend!

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Saying you’re into saving the Earth is the best way to score pussy nowadays. After all, after Al Gore’s movie and the Prius, every company is looking for a way to market something as “green.” A company called Fabrik will be releasing what is being dubbed the world’s most eco-friendly external hard drive, as if you cared.

The SimpleTech [re]drive uses Turbo USB 2.0, which is supposedly hella fast, for reading and writing. The casing is made from bamboo and aluminum and 100-percent recycled materials. At $160 for 500GB, it’s not the worst deal in the world and it might get you laid.

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So you’re like Ryan and have a 50GB+ porn collection and you need to back it up, eh? You don’t own a file server and that’s not really up your alley, so that’s out. You’d burn it to a DVD except it’d take about a month before you finished. Simply deleting it isn’t an option. So what are you left to work with?

Buffalo’s latest Blu-ray drive is what. It comes in an internal and external version, supports burning single-layer BD-R discs at a stunning 8x. It can burn DL BD-R at 2x, DVDs at 16x and the standard 48x for CD-Rs. Don’t forget: it can play all the aforementioned formats as well. At ~$430 for the external version and ~$400 and about $375 for the internal drive. Essentially, the deal of the century if you own a Playstation 3.

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External hard drives never really become a personal affair. For the most part, we buy them to add additional storage to our computers because we just downloaded 100GB of pornography off a Bit Torrent site. Rather than have our OS slow to a crawl and our storage shrink to the size of an appendix, we simply copy all the tits and dicks over and our objective is fulfilled.

However, not everyone in this world is a complete slob and I hear some people actually have clean, organized PC setups. That’s where Hardbox comes in. It’s a beautiful looking hard drive enclosure that resembles a book written by Dracula himself. It takes any 3.5″ SATA hard disk and uses the fake pages as a heat-sink to eliminate the need for a fan. Hooks up via USB and can be yours for $300.

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Been wanting to turn your Mac mini into a home media center, but don’t have enough storage space for all your movies and music? You’re in luck, as Kuroutoshikou of Japan has announced four new external drive enclosures designed to compliment the Mac mini. Done in the same silver-and-white style as the mini, the enclosures also match the mini’s dimensions, allowing you to stack them. Best of all, these enclosures have room for a full-sized 3.5″ drive, enabling you to pair your mini with one of those 750GB vertical drives.

The GW3.5MM-U2 ($25) connects via USB 2.0 for PATA disk expansion; the GW3.5MM-U2/HUB ($30) adds a 3-port USB 2.0 hub; the GW3.5MM-U2/S ($34) adds support for SATA drives for faster data transfer; and the GW3.5MM-U2/LAN ($51) adds an Ethernet port for network accessible storage. Know which one you want? Hope you’ve got a contact in Japan, because they’re only available there, and not until the end of the month. — Mike Payne

[via Engadget]