Doing it Doggo Style

Friday night, I was invited to attend an open house to see a  demo of a prototype product that a friend of mine has been working on for the past several months. This friend, owner and creator Derek Bartron, calls it Doggo – a fully loaded home theater system that also combines home automation and security into it’s interface.

The name comes from the British slang “lie doggo”, which means to keep out of site; a definition that is at the core of Doggo’s design. Derek and his team have bent the rules on some of the known limitations of technology to make Doggo appear as though a TV and a remote are all it takes to make this product run. In fact, a well designed server is tucked out of the way making the magic happen over 150 feet away. Read the rest of this entry »