Blackhacker

note: I had this whole post just about written when I saw this. Seemed like a shame to waste it. Here it is…

Everybody is rushing to put as many applications into one device. We have phones that take pictures, play music, play video. PDA, that double as phones, pagers, that double as PDA. This leads has lead us to a soup of wireless devices that might do one thing well, and others not so well.
The backpack disk drive. The drive is really like a mini fileserver, that could be mounted on ANY digital device. It should have a USB 2.0 and a fast Ethernet port. It should be bluetooth enabled. It should be a flash memory / magnetic hybrid drive (30+ GB), and a Lithium batter that should allow 24 continuous hours of use.

The backpack drives gives you a central, portable media storage. That can sync with your iPods, mp3 players, cameras, PDAs, blackberries, phones and any new digital device that could dreamed up. You could simple sync it with desktop, and then sync with all of your devices as needed. It would just need to be bluetooth enabled. (I realize that not all of the devices come with bluetooth. bare with me this is a fantasy.)

The secrete is it being enabled with some ubiquitous wireless technology. For the purposes of this article I will just call it bluetooth. The idea is that the backpack drive stays in the backpack. you never see it, or touch until you get home.
Hop in the car and turn on your bluetooth enabled car stereo (another device that should have hit the show room by now) and sync up with the backpack drive to get podcasts, today’s playlists. Hours and hours of music goodness with NO commercials.

You can go on vacation or to your child’s piano recital, with your bluetooth enabled camcorder. Never have to worry about how much memory you brought again. When particular shot is over just “push” it back to the BPD.

You finally get on the train, and settle in to for your 45 minute commute to the city. You pull out the bluetooth mp3 player. You pull in a soothing playlist of late 80 & early 90 hip hop from the BPD.

I remembered that ClickStar, a movie download site, that is partly owned by Morgan Freeman, opened on Friday. In an effort to check it out, I was greeted with I uses a Windows2000, at work. One word for Clickstar, BOOOOO!!!! I can imagine setting up such restrictions for download or video play, but at least let me look around. What about Mac, Linux and FeeBSD users? Oh well. Looks like I’ll have to wait till I get home.

UPDATE:

Should have known they would not like Firefox. Once a again BOOOOOOO!!!!!!