While playing with my new iPod and it's tiny, massive 30GB hard drive, I realized that the next step is obviously a portable color video player of comparable size. Color PDAs are already able to play MPEG-4 video, they only need the capacity for a full TV show or ten, and a way to sync up with a TiVo. I'm actually quite terrible at trend spotting, and if I've thought of a neat idea, it's inevitable that someone already has it in development. (No mention of TiVo yet, but it seems unlikely that this isn't already on a few hundred drawing boards and the tips of everybody's tongues.)
June 9, 2003