| 00:00:01 |
00:00:06 |
Here we are at Pogoplug at CES 2009,
and we're talking to Jed Putterman. |
| 00:00:07 |
00:00:09 |
Am I pronouncing that right, Putterman?
-You are, exactly right. |
| 00:00:09 |
00:00:14 |
Right on. And he has, what looks to be
a very cool product called the Pogoplug. |
| 00:00:14 |
00:00:17 |
And when I first heard about it I was
like, well, I've kinda seen this before. |
| 00:00:17 |
00:00:20 |
And then you gave me some details, I was like,
nope, I haven't seen this before. |
| 00:00:20 |
00:00:23 |
So, what exactly is Pogoplug?
|
| 00:00:23 |
00:00:26 |
So, Pogoplug takes any external disc
drive that you attach to this thing, |
| 00:00:26 |
00:00:28 |
and makes it available
anywhere in the home, |
| 00:00:29 |
00:00:30 |
or away from the home with
no changes to your Firewall, |
| 00:00:31 |
00:00:33 |
or any other settings
or configuration required. |
| 00:00:34 |
00:00:39 |
So, how do you pull off that trickery with
not having to adjust anything in the Firewall? |
| 00:00:39 |
00:00:40 |
Because the Firewall
always trips me up. |
| 00:00:40 |
00:00:42 |
Every time I want to
do anything outside, |
| 00:00:42 |
00:00:45 |
anytime I want to stream any of
my media from home, or whatever, |
| 00:00:45 |
00:00:47 |
I have to open up ports,
I have to go through all this rigmarole. |
| 00:00:48 |
00:00:50 |
How did you do that?
|
| 00:00:50 |
00:00:51 |
You know, we have exactly the same problem,
so this is why we created this unit. |
| 00:00:52 |
00:00:54 |
We played some tricks. This is a full
server right here, so it's always on. |
| 00:00:55 |
00:00:58 |
It's extremely low powered. It doesn't require
any other computers to be on in your home. |
| 00:00:58 |
00:01:02 |
And what we're doing is, we're taking
care of all the networking configurations |
| 00:01:02 |
00:01:07 |
using tricks similar to Skype or Sling.
|
| 00:01:11 |
00:01:13 |
Now, so how do I access.
So, I gotta plug this into my wall, |
| 00:01:14 |
00:01:15 |
plug in my Ethernet,
plug in my drive, |
| 00:01:15 |
00:01:17 |
plug in my NAS drive
lthat I have at home. |
| 00:01:17 |
00:01:21 |
How am I then going to be able
to access that drive say, from work, |
| 00:01:22 |
00:01:24 |
or, from my hotel,
from wherever I am. |
| 00:01:24 |
00:01:26 |
How do I get to it?
-Nah, that's a great question. |
| 00:01:26 |
00:01:28 |
So, on the back of this thing
there is an identifier. |
| 00:01:28 |
00:01:32 |
You go to my.pogoplug.com
and let's go ahead now and sign in. |
| 00:01:34 |
00:01:36 |
So, when you first got you registered,
the entire registration process |
| 00:01:36 |
00:01:39 |
is to type in the identifier here,
your email address, your password. |
| 00:01:39 |
00:01:41 |
That's it, you're done.
Once you've done that, |
| 00:01:41 |
00:01:46 |
you can get to it by either going to
the site here, we'll type in my email address. |
| 00:01:51 |
00:01:55 |
And what you'll see now,
is you can look at my hard drive |
| 00:01:55 |
00:01:57 |
attached to my Pogoplug.
Behind my router, |
| 00:01:58 |
00:01:59 |
at my house
in San Francisco. -Okay. |
| 00:01:59 |
00:02:01 |
And what you're seeing here now
is all of my kids' pictures |
| 00:02:01 |
00:02:04 |
and I have about a terabyte's
worth of stuff here, videos, etc. |
| 00:02:04 |
00:02:07 |
It's all available, as if I'm sitting
there back in my home. Okay? |
| 00:02:08 |
00:02:11 |
I can go ahead and I can share this with
mom without having to output anything. |
| 00:02:11 |
00:02:13 |
I have huge videos that
I take constantly of the kids. |
| 00:02:13 |
00:02:15 |
I have nowhere to output them,
it's hard to send them. |
| 00:02:16 |
00:02:18 |
She can actually screen them directly on
the Pogoplug from the back of my house. |
| 00:02:19 |
00:02:22 |
Now, let's say I don't have a
drive I want to plug into it |
| 00:02:22 |
00:02:26 |
I want to share my files that are on my
computer, is that going to be possible? |
| 00:02:26 |
00:02:28 |
Or does it have to be like an external
NAS drive or an external drive? |
| 00:02:29 |
00:02:31 |
Well, it is an external drive. But what we say
is take whatever external drive you have, |
| 00:02:32 |
00:02:34 |
plug it into the Pogoplug, and when
you're home, we show our self, |
| 00:02:35 |
00:02:37 |
actually, if I point you over here,
as a disc drive. |
| 00:02:37 |
00:02:40 |
So, you'll notice, there's Pogoplug
so any computer in your home can see this thing. |
| 00:02:40 |
00:02:42 |
Oh, that's cool.
-What's really cool about it is that |
| 00:02:42 |
00:02:44 |
when you're out of the home
you see the same drive. |
| 00:02:45 |
00:02:47 |
It works exactly the same way.
-Oh, so, so if you use a Mac |
| 00:02:47 |
00:02:50 |
or it's in the Finder,
if you use Windows it's in Explorer, |
| 00:02:51 |
00:02:53 |
like it'll, like it's just there, persistently,
like, wherever you are? |
| 00:02:54 |
00:02:56 |
That's exactly right. In or out of the home.
It looks exactly the same way. |
| 00:02:56 |
00:02:59 |
It's a little faster in the home, but out
of the home it can still write and read files. |
| 00:02:59 |
00:03:01 |
You don't even have to use the web interface.
-You don't even have to use web interface, |
| 00:03:02 |
00:03:04 |
we have an iPhone application and a
Adrian application, so. |
| 00:03:04 |
00:03:08 |
Well, that's incredibly cool.
Alright, so is this on the market now? |
| 00:03:08 |
00:03:10 |
Or is it coming soon?
-Yeah, we're taking pre orders |
| 00:03:10 |
00:03:15 |
at www.pogoplug.com
it's $79 and we're shipping in early March. |
| 00:03:15 |
00:03:18 |
Right on. Well this looks like it can
solve a few problems for some people, |
| 00:03:19 |
00:03:20 |
because literally though, when you
first started talking to me, I was like, |
| 00:03:21 |
00:03:24 |
ah, you know, this is share stuff, but
when you can bypass the router |
| 00:03:24 |
00:03:27 |
and it's all integrated, it's
always there, very cool. |
| 00:03:27 |
00:03:28 |
Thank you very much Jed,
appreciate it. -Thank you. |
| 00:03:29 |
00:03:29 |
Right on.
|
