New Hawkins Black Drive

I never do product reviews, but this little thing is completely off-the-wall as far as its ability to take absolutely all of your information data.

The Hawkins Black Drive is a one inch globe. At first I thought it was a USB model, but the fact that it has no visible interface means that it must employ some wireless data transfer.

It is black, of course, but that doesn’t begin to describe its color. It is so black that all light almost seems to be sucked into it. I have never seen anything quite like it. Its small form-factor is featureless except for two brilliant little white jets, one on each side, and that is the extent of describing the outside of this strange object.

Inside, details are not forthcoming either. We do not know yet if it has a micro hard drive, or if it employs static memory. The only thing we do know is that it will hold a phenomenal one terabyte of information, or more. How much more, we are not certain.

What is happening inside this black little orb? Does the information you give it get placed in some discrete formation? Or is its digital data spread chaotically over its hidden inner surface? These things are a complete mystery, as all things dealing with quantum mechanics usually are.

This drive will work with any computer, any make or model. However, be advised that although it will suck information from any computer hooked up to it, there is no known method of retrieving any of it yet. Cost is also unknown at this time.

Therefore, the Hawkins Black Drive is NOT one I would recommend to you, despite the fact that it is very cool looking and that it can hold a terabyte or more of information.

Fact is, nobody knows how to retrieve information from a Hawkins Black Hole, er, Drive.