Create Your Own Cloud with PogoPlug

My wife walked in to my home office yesterday and took note of one of my gadgets. She liked it. That’s usually a sign of an amazingly useful and simple device that’s going to be wildly successful.

This time she was merely pleased that the gadget is pink. It’s called the PogoPlug.

The PogoPlug is a device that takes a simple hard drive and transforms it into a platform for multimedia Web sharing. It’s shockingly easy to use and costs only $129.

You plug your hard drive (it accommodates up to four drives) into the PogoPlug, hook up a network cable and plug in the power cord and everything on your drive is instantly accessible over the Web. You can access your content from your PC, Mac or even your iPhone.

This device could not be easier to set up.

You can do more than access your files. You can stream your audio and video over the web, you can share your files with friends and you can share your pictures and more on Facebook and Twitter.

Basically, the PogoPlug gives you a storage space on the web without paying anything other than the cost of the hardware. It’s great to upload files to the PogoPlug while you’re at the office and access them from home. It’s terrific to store huge folders full of data and have access to them wherever you are.

There are no monthly fees and it’s pink. What’s not to love?

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Post written by Lee Rosen on January 21, 2010 in Technology