The MicroDrive is absolutely fascinating and allowed the creation of the highly influential iPod Mini.<p>I'm not an engineer, but to my layman brain, fitting a spinning hard drive into such a tiny package is the kind of engineering feat that, had it been presented to me as an April Fools' joke, I would have believed it as a funny prank because such a thing is <i>clearly</i> impossible. Like, there's a <i>motor</i> in there? No way.<p>I mean, this image is <i>obviously</i> photoshopped to shrink it - except that it's not:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive#/media/File:Seagate_Microdrive_(5GB).png" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive#/media/File:Seagate...</a>