german company freecom commissioned belgian designer sylvain willenz - with project assistant robbie van nieuwenhove - to develop a new concept for collecting and organizing data. the result is the CLS external mobile hard drive that incorporates a labeling system on 
its side which allows users to organize their data and identify hard drive contents at a glance. 

the design concept came from witnessing the growing number of hard drives owned by individuals for their data (music, films, back-ups…). influenced by the good old cassette tapes and floppy drives, willenz imagined a drive that could be labeled in a very simple and personal way. labels are kept behind a removable window set in the side of the drive. the CLS comes in a stackable see-through case accompanied by spare colored labels and a small USB cable. there is also a dock which allows three drives and 1 extra peripheral to be connected to the computer simultaneously.

(Via | Design Boom)

This is so sexy.