{"id":1632,"date":"2008-02-25T21:11:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/25\/concept-visualize-the-contents-of-a-hard-disc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T21:21:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T19:21:03","slug":"concept-visualize-the-contents-of-a-hard-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/25\/concept-visualize-the-contents-of-a-hard-disc\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept: visualize the contents of a hard disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sequoia.jpg' alt='SequoiaView' align=\"right\"\/>Your hard disk drive is a black box in more meanings than one. Wouldn&#8217;t it be pleasant to be able to directly visualize its contents? That is the core of the following proposal: an external hard disc drive whose surface is covered by an OLED screen used to display a treemap contents like it&#8217;s done by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/news200407.php\">SequoiaView<\/a> (see the example here showing the contents of a large disc drive containing hundreds of small files and a few bigger masses).<\/p>\n<p>The display is slightly different, but takes advantage of the same principles and gives you a direct perception of the internal status of your storage media. It reminded me (in a more practical way) the slightly silly proposal I saw a few weeks ago, of a USB key chain that would physically inflate as you fill it with data.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/external_hard_disk_treemap.jpg' alt='External hard disk with included treemap' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.student.tue.nl\/h\/b.j.j.v.d.vlist\/groenebanaan\/IVY.html\">TUE.nl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your hard disk drive is a black box in more meanings than one. Wouldn&#8217;t it be pleasant to be able to directly visualize its contents? That is the core of the following proposal: an external hard disc drive whose surface is covered by an OLED screen used to display a treemap contents like it&#8217;s done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertising","category-tech","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}