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Interview With PC Magazine Editor Robin Peterson

Aired January 10, 2004 - 14:36   ET

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FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the cutting edge of technology. The latest electronics gadgets are on display at the consumer electronics show. So what products can you look forward to this year? CNN's technology correspondent Daniel Siebert is live from the floor of the show in Los Vegas. Hello again Dan.
DANIEL SIEBERG, TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDNET: Hi Fred, that's right. We have an array of products to talk about here. Some of them are related to safety. Some of them are just plain cool. And I'm joined by Robin Peterson, editor at "PC Magazine." Robin, let's start with this one here. If people have lets say more than one DVD player in their house, if they be so lucky, and they want to move around the house and watch a movie on a different TV screen. Does this make that possible?

ROBIN PETERSON, PC MAGAZINE: Yes that is exactly right. This is the digital deck whole home entertainment system. And what this will give you is the ability to network your DVD player, your TVs, even security cameras into one system with the pc as the brain.

SIEBERG: OK, now we should say this is it right here, this is a prototype. This is not on the market yet.

PETERSON: This is a prototype and this is actually the TV unit. And what this will do for the average TV into a what is called a PVR, a personal video recorder to allow you to record, pause and rewind live TV.

SIEBERG: All right, a lot of stuff here at the show is into the future. But this one out yet?

PETERSON: No, this one comes out in the summer. This is the gn6110 Netcom wireless head set. And the cool thing about this headset is, of course it's a small form factor and it allows you to connect seamlessly to two different phones. Your analog office phone, as well as your mobile blue tooth phone.

SIEBERG: Ok, so wireless technology involved with this if you got it on your phones.

PETERSON: Exactly.

SIEBERG: And it fits over your ear, right and you can just walk around.

PETERSON: You can put it on both ears, and the device is smart enough so that when you flip the side, the tilt sensor will change the direction of the volume buttons. SIEBERG: All right, very cool. Now let's move on to a couple here that we talked about earlier. These are for parents that are concerned about their kids. This first one, let's talk about this, there is from Whereifie (ph) and this is to help locate your kid or if they are in an emergency situation they can call out.

PETERSON: Yes, that is exactly right, this is the where ifie (ph) gps locator phone. And this device, actually you wear it around your neck on this strap. And whenever you run into trouble you can hit this button here, that's a direct 911 call. And the cool thing about that is it will do a GPS location, which will alert the whereifie (ph) emergency operators, and it will dial 911 directly.

SIEBERG: And you can program one other number in here?

PETERSON: You certainly can. And the other button can go to your parents, and this right here is the speakerphone.

SIEBERG: So you can talk back and forth.

PETERSON: So you can talk in here.

SIEBERG: OK, and this was I think for about $150.

PETERSON: It is hopefully going to retail for under $150. And be ready by the summer.

SIEBERG: OK, we have about 30 seconds left. We have gone small, smaller and now even tinier here. Now what is this one all about? We have a key chain here.

PETERSON: Yep, this is the control key. This is basically a pc locking device. Once you set up the software on your pc, once you remove that key, it locks down your computer. It can lock down your Internet connection and it can also lock down your file system.

SIEBERG: So you just put this into your computer, and it recognizes who you are.

PETERSON: Yep. That's exactly right, it does some key exchange there and it recognizes who you are. And then it will give you access to your private files. You can use it to lock down your quicken files, Microsoft money files, anything that is sensitive at work.

SIEBERG: And so for parents, if they wanted to put restrictions on when their children use the Internet or chat rooms for example, they could use this to restrict that.

PETERSON: That's exactly right. It is great for paranoid parents. You can pull that, you can pull the key right out and then your kid can't use e-mail or chat rooms.

SIEBERG: All right, well Robin Peterson editor of "PC Magazine," thanks for joining us to help sort through this stuff.

PETERSON: Sure. SIEBERG: So Fredricka, quite a cross section of products here. Some cool stuff, but believe it or not technology that can be practical in your life as well.

WHITFIELD: Yeah, I see. Now how much, talking about practicality, how much would something like that key cost someone?

SIEBERG: Robin, how much was that key, do you remember how much that was going to cost?

PETERSON: $59.

SIEBERG: It was $59 for the key. That's $59 to lock your pc and whereifind (ph) was about $150. Those are reasonably priced compared to a super huge plasma screen, which will run you about $5,000. These are on the lower end of pricing.

WHITFIELD: All right, good job. Thanks very much Dan, from Los Vegas.

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Aired January 10, 2004 - 14:36   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the cutting edge of technology. The latest electronics gadgets are on display at the consumer electronics show. So what products can you look forward to this year? CNN's technology correspondent Daniel Siebert is live from the floor of the show in Los Vegas. Hello again Dan.
DANIEL SIEBERG, TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDNET: Hi Fred, that's right. We have an array of products to talk about here. Some of them are related to safety. Some of them are just plain cool. And I'm joined by Robin Peterson, editor at "PC Magazine." Robin, let's start with this one here. If people have lets say more than one DVD player in their house, if they be so lucky, and they want to move around the house and watch a movie on a different TV screen. Does this make that possible?

ROBIN PETERSON, PC MAGAZINE: Yes that is exactly right. This is the digital deck whole home entertainment system. And what this will give you is the ability to network your DVD player, your TVs, even security cameras into one system with the pc as the brain.

SIEBERG: OK, now we should say this is it right here, this is a prototype. This is not on the market yet.

PETERSON: This is a prototype and this is actually the TV unit. And what this will do for the average TV into a what is called a PVR, a personal video recorder to allow you to record, pause and rewind live TV.

SIEBERG: All right, a lot of stuff here at the show is into the future. But this one out yet?

PETERSON: No, this one comes out in the summer. This is the gn6110 Netcom wireless head set. And the cool thing about this headset is, of course it's a small form factor and it allows you to connect seamlessly to two different phones. Your analog office phone, as well as your mobile blue tooth phone.

SIEBERG: Ok, so wireless technology involved with this if you got it on your phones.

PETERSON: Exactly.

SIEBERG: And it fits over your ear, right and you can just walk around.

PETERSON: You can put it on both ears, and the device is smart enough so that when you flip the side, the tilt sensor will change the direction of the volume buttons. SIEBERG: All right, very cool. Now let's move on to a couple here that we talked about earlier. These are for parents that are concerned about their kids. This first one, let's talk about this, there is from Whereifie (ph) and this is to help locate your kid or if they are in an emergency situation they can call out.

PETERSON: Yes, that is exactly right, this is the where ifie (ph) gps locator phone. And this device, actually you wear it around your neck on this strap. And whenever you run into trouble you can hit this button here, that's a direct 911 call. And the cool thing about that is it will do a GPS location, which will alert the whereifie (ph) emergency operators, and it will dial 911 directly.

SIEBERG: And you can program one other number in here?

PETERSON: You certainly can. And the other button can go to your parents, and this right here is the speakerphone.

SIEBERG: So you can talk back and forth.

PETERSON: So you can talk in here.

SIEBERG: OK, and this was I think for about $150.

PETERSON: It is hopefully going to retail for under $150. And be ready by the summer.

SIEBERG: OK, we have about 30 seconds left. We have gone small, smaller and now even tinier here. Now what is this one all about? We have a key chain here.

PETERSON: Yep, this is the control key. This is basically a pc locking device. Once you set up the software on your pc, once you remove that key, it locks down your computer. It can lock down your Internet connection and it can also lock down your file system.

SIEBERG: So you just put this into your computer, and it recognizes who you are.

PETERSON: Yep. That's exactly right, it does some key exchange there and it recognizes who you are. And then it will give you access to your private files. You can use it to lock down your quicken files, Microsoft money files, anything that is sensitive at work.

SIEBERG: And so for parents, if they wanted to put restrictions on when their children use the Internet or chat rooms for example, they could use this to restrict that.

PETERSON: That's exactly right. It is great for paranoid parents. You can pull that, you can pull the key right out and then your kid can't use e-mail or chat rooms.

SIEBERG: All right, well Robin Peterson editor of "PC Magazine," thanks for joining us to help sort through this stuff.

PETERSON: Sure. SIEBERG: So Fredricka, quite a cross section of products here. Some cool stuff, but believe it or not technology that can be practical in your life as well.

WHITFIELD: Yeah, I see. Now how much, talking about practicality, how much would something like that key cost someone?

SIEBERG: Robin, how much was that key, do you remember how much that was going to cost?

PETERSON: $59.

SIEBERG: It was $59 for the key. That's $59 to lock your pc and whereifind (ph) was about $150. Those are reasonably priced compared to a super huge plasma screen, which will run you about $5,000. These are on the lower end of pricing.

WHITFIELD: All right, good job. Thanks very much Dan, from Los Vegas.

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