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...design firm, to create the new toy. "He told me, 'I want another Furby,'" says Breslow, whose team produced the prototype three months later. iZ's blinking beak adds $1 in costs, but Shiffman insisted on keeping it. He incorporated a jack so that users can hook up their iPod to play their own songs pumped up with riffs from iZ. Suggested retail price...
...three of the four major labels--Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI (Snocap is still in talks with Warner Music)--as well as many independent ones have agreed to participate in the database, already half a million songs large. Because of copy protection, the tracks aren't iPod compatible. Snocap and providers are hoping restrictions will loosen...
...Group. The most successful new products are "consumer driven, not engineering driven," he says. Their benefits are obvious: whisper-quiet dishwashers or space-saving stackable washer-dryers rather than just machines with more powerful motors. That trend affects every consumer product, he says. Look at MP3 players. Before the iPod, they competed on how much memory they had. Apple figured out that the experience of the gadget mattered more and killed the category...
Every so often we're dumbfounded by the newest thing to come along: the iPod, the TiVo, even, once upon a time, the VCR and the Walkman. The Slingbox definitely does its part to dumbfound. It's not a DVD player, or a cable box, or a video recorder like TiVo. It's a little manager, shaped like a brick of gold bullion, that takes video sources like cable TV, TiVo and DVD, and sends the signal to your PC. What's crazy is that it doesn't matter if your PC is in the next room or in Singapore...
...Only time will tell whether the Slingbox turns out to be as addictive as an iPod. But just like TiVos before it, if you really love your TV, and I mean YOUR TV, Slingbox might just be your new best friend...