People who thought AI would just ruin humanity never really met David Delahunty. The man is a creative juggernaut, coming up with idea after idea of some of the most bizarrely beautiful products on the planet. With just the sheer number of quirky designs he comes up with on a weekly basis (my top favorites being the and the ), AI becomes Delahunty’s partner in crime, helping him visually execute as many ideas as possible.
The Folder Drive is one of those ideas that Delahunty just unleashed on the world, along with 5-6 other ideas, not really paying much attention to just how clever this one particular design was. The internet finally rallied around this idea, begging him to turn it into a real product, and lo and behold, you have the Folder Drive, a MacOS-inspired drive that looks like a folder taken from your desktop. Why is it clever? Well, beyond the obvious fact that it’s an icon of storage, and now it’s actually storage, this folder manifests itself digitally as well as physically. What do I mean? Hold it in your hand, and it’s a blue folder. Plug it into your Mac and it shows up as the exact same blue folder on your desktop! Poetry, I tell you.
Designer: David Delahunty
Delahunty partnered with Superfantastic Toys to bring this concept to life. The end result is a 128GB SSD drive designed to look like your Mac folders. Iterations involved 3D printed outer shells, and each piece will be printed and hand-finished to perfection, offering 128 gigs of storage in a tiny gizmo that’s 3.5 inches wide, 2.5 inches tall, and just 0.5 inches thick.
The Folder Drive comes with a USB-C interface, which means it plays nicely with your Mac, Windows, and Linux machines, but also works with tablets as well as phones (both Android and recent iPhones). The product hasn’t officially hit the shelves, and the page just lets you opt for a notification when it’s available, although a little snooping in the source code reveals a $39.99 price tag for the 128GB Folder Drive. You can visit for more information or if you want to be notified.
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