LAS VEGAS -- USB hard drives are getting fatter with Toshiba announcing at CES 2009 its 500GB external drive. And that kind of storage means consumers will want to access from anywhere the music, photos and other data from those drives.
The newly launched Pogoplug has created a small box that connects external hard drives to the Internet making all the data on it instantly shareable and accessible.
Users simply plug turn the Pogoplug on, connect the Ethernet cable that comes with it to their home network router and attach it to an external hard drive. That's enough to bring the Pogoplug alive and the data on the external drive online. Users at home don't have to go through the Pogoplug to access their data.
Pogoplug has an open API so there's already and iPhone app that interfaces with Pogoplug available.
The best part? It's priced right at $100, with an introductory pricing at $80.
