Archive for the 'Geek/Tech' Category
TiVo Slide in Wall Street Journal
(click pic for larger version) Wow, this is pretty cool. The print edition of the Wall Street Journal devoted nearly half a page to its review of the Slide remote. I had already read the online version of the article, but to see the print article with a giant photo of the remote is pretty [...]
TiVo Slide Remote
Introducing the hands down, coolest remote in the world: the TiVo Slide! I’ve designed a lot of products in my career, but the Slide is, without a doubt, the one I’m most proud of and feel the most ownership over. One of the most rewarding things for me about product design is being able to [...]
TiVo Wireless N Adapter
The latest fruits of my labor: the sleek and incredibly sexy TiVo Wireless N adapter. It has the same design language as our original wireless G adapter, but several aesthetic enhancements to the design make it look far cooler. For starters, the metal base is stunningly beautiful. Whereas the G adapter has a lighter colored [...]
TiVo Premiere & Premiere XL
Today, we introduced the Premiere and Premiere XL which both feature the cool new wide-screen HD UI (High-Definition User Interface for the lay people). They also feature remote controls designed by yours truly. To the casual eye, the Premiere XL remote probably doesn’t look much different from the current Series3 / TiVoGlo remote. However, there [...]
50″ Plasma TV
Switch to Comcast
I’ve been wanting to get a “real” TiVo box for some time, but was locked into a two-year contract with DirecTV. Until now, we’ve been using a DirecTV TiVo box, which is still supported, but these boxes only possess the base TiVo DVR features and don’t have any of the cool features of a “true” [...]
24″ Aluminum iMac
Pics of my new toy!
TiVo HD Released!
Well, I guess the launch of the new TiVo HD isn’t a complete surprise since its impending release was first discovered a little over a week ago. Although the sleuth who uncovered the leak didn’t initially blog about it, others soon found out and word quickly spread. It didn’t take long before the leaked pics [...]
Unbox on TiVo!
Cool! We announced a partnership today with Amazon that will allow you to download movies and TV shows from Amazon’s Unbox service to your TiVo for viewing on your TV. This is one of the capabilities that I was most excited about when I joined TiVo, so it’s great to see it now finally becoming [...]
Pro/E on Parallels
Video of Pro/E and Intralink running on Parallels. 15MB, 06:54. Quicktime 7 required. WARNING: may be mind-numbingly boring, especially if you’re not a Mac user who uses Pro/E! As mentioned previously, installing Windows XP Pro on Boot Camp was pretty straightforward. Installing Pro/E and Intralink (the file library/management system that integrates with Pro/E) went largely [...]
Elfin Judy
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a really long time. I was laughing so hard that my abs started to hurt! I don’t think Judy found it quite as amusing as I did. This is a great site that anyone can upload a picture to and have some fun with. The [...]
MacBook Pro
I’ve been longing to be able to run Pro/E (the 3D mechanical CAD software that I use for product design) on a Mac for many years, basically ever since I started using Pro/E. With Apple’s move to the Intel architecture, it’s subsequent public beta of Boot Camp (which runs Windows in a separate partition and [...]
White TiVoGlo Remote
A white version of the TiVo Glo remote is now available for sale on the TiVo store. Functionally, this remote is identical to the black TiVo Glo remote. The difference is purely cosmetic – instead of glossy black, the front and back housings are glossy white. In addition, the keys are a dark gray instead [...]
TiVo Glo Remote
TiVo is now selling the Series3 remote as an accessory on the TiVo Store. Actually, we started selling it around Oct. 27, but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to post about it until now. Hey, I’ve been preoccupied designing our next great products! This remote is essentially the same remote that [...]
NY Times Series3 Video
David Pogue of the NY Times created this short video espousing our new Series3 product. The video is unabashedly corny and cheesy, but that’s what makes it so humorous, especially when you consider that it comes from one of the most respected and widely read consumer electronics reviewers. We’re definitely not going to complain about [...]
