Pogoplug second generation unboxing

We hope you like pink. Cloud Engines' new iteration of Pogoplug just landed on our doorstep, oddly enough packed with an unopened pack of microwavable popcorn (something tells us we're missing a joke here). We're still in the plugging-in-and-testing phase, but no point in depriving you of the unboxing fun while we do that, right? Right. Enjoy the gallery below.

Pogoplug second generation unboxing

[mannyftw Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:21PM]

Can we get some more pictures of the popcorn? Thanks.

[daytripper Posted Dec 9th 2009 8:05PM]

@mannyftw
Yeah, i was thinking that also. Is it kettle corn, movie theater...I must know.

[TofuSama Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:24PM]

Yeah, that joke completely escapes me, and the Pogoplug still looks awesome.

[glamajamma Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:26PM]

Looks like something the teletubbies molested each other with.

[Hazman Posted Dec 9th 2009 10:54PM]

@glamajamma

Naughty, naughty Noo Noo.

[mannyftw Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:29PM]

@(Unverified) It's a box that lets you "turn any USB hard drive (and drives only) into a network device" so says Engadget.

[Bandigolo Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:33PM]

@(Unverified)

Or you could just get a cheap home server with external USB ports. That isn't pink.

[CoffeeCoffee Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:35PM]

Maybe the popcorn is for the Engadget team to eat, whilst they are watching their streaming movies?

[Bandigolo Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:35PM]

Well I hope you guys didn't eat said popcorn... nothing is worse than the revolting smell of popcorn in the workplace. Except maybe pink gadgets. And herpes.

[sickboy Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:35PM]

maybe the popcorn is to enjoy while using the new direct playback of video from the interface feature

[lowdrag Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:37PM]

I'm waiting on the cease and disist letter from Tmobile

Are we having fun yet?

[someone73 Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:37PM]

popcorn is sent to reviewers as a message that "you can configure the device before the popcorn is ready to come out of the microwave". They've been doing that since the previous iteration, see
http://www.electronista.com/reviews/pogoplug-file-sharing-device-for-usb-storage.html

[mannyftw Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:41PM]

@someone73 That makes sense.

[Hydra Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:44PM]

So this is just an enclosure or an external network harddrive inside?

[mannyftw Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:51PM]

@Hydra You have to connect a hard drive to it, and then the box to a router.

[Rounin Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:34PM]

@Hydra

its a network device without the harddirve. You plug your own harddrive. So you can swap the drive when ever you want. It's through usb though. It's pretty much a linux system though. Check out the out plug devices,(tonidoplug, sheevaplug). The tonido plug actually runs a variant of Ubuntu Jaunty. With the tonido plug you can install apps, (webserver, torrent, mail, etc). You also don't have to pay service to use it over the internet.

[Nightmare Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:09PM]

@(Unverified) From the press release featured in the article about this last month -http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/pogoplug-second-generation-debuts-coming-this-holiday-with-en/

"San Francisco, Calif. – November 20, 2009 – Cloud Engines, Inc. unveiled the second generation of the award winning Pogoplug multimedia sharing device today giving consumers more flexibility to store personal content safely in the home and access, manage, and share it from anywhere on the Internet."

[trinh Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:32PM]

I don't just like pink, I love it.

[rickster Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:37PM]

a hot-pink/magenta communications product?

shouldn't T-Mo legal be calling up about now?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/09/know-your-rights-does-t-mobile-really-own-magenta/

[Schmitty Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:45PM]

This is a really great idea. I would love having a setup like this. It is $129 though (no HDD), so I would have to figure in the cost of a couple HDDs. Could get a little pricey...

[anmwhite Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:47PM]

Was very excited about this product, until I started reading the forums and everyone was complaining about performance when trying to access your media remotely. Seems like it has some latency issues that still need to be worked out.

[WalnutSoap Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:54PM]

Isn't the popcorn a small reference to the Popcorn Hour, a very similar gadget?

[WalnutSoap Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:55PM]

@WalnutSoap

Well...maybe not that similar

[mannyftw Posted Dec 9th 2009 8:03PM]

@WalnutSoap It's a reference to how fast you can configure it. Faster than popping a bag of popcorn.

[Nitesh Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:57PM]

The company shipped the Pogoplug with a bag of popcorn as a time benchmark to determine if the system could be configured before the popcorn popped - not that big a mystery, and frankly pretty awesome of them.

[MindJuice Posted Dec 9th 2009 8:33PM]

The packing pieces which many call "peanuts" are also called "popcorn" by some folks.

Maybe that's why they added the bag of popcorn? If that's why, then it's not very funny.

[incognito Posted Dec 10th 2009 12:33AM]

My, my, what a girlie toaster...

[alberth Posted Dec 10th 2009 4:03AM]

Is this just a pink Linksys NSLU2 (Slug)
The Slug appears to do the same thing, is hackable to actually run applications and is $110 on Amazon.
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

On the pink... not in my house.

[GGG Posted Dec 10th 2009 5:48AM]

@mannyftw

wow, that's cool, it's just what i need :)

how much does it cost?

[ewookie Posted Dec 10th 2009 6:06AM]

omg! i can't believe no one gets the popcorn thing! it bothered me so much that i finally registered just so i could tell ya...

PACKING POPCORN!!!!

[ScottishDan Posted Dec 10th 2009 7:05AM]

@(Unverified)
1st gen was $99, i'd expect this one to be a little more

[groovely Posted Dec 10th 2009 6:14PM]

I wish something like this existed for FireWire800 devices...