AirStash: pocket multimedia server targets iOS devices
Cloud vs Physical: Moore’s law says that physical will win in the end.
“We’re not fighting the cloud, we’re just finding a way to meet in the middle and integrate.”
That’s the attitude of Brian Mastenbrook, CTO of Wearable Inc. based out of the Chicago suburbs. His company offers a product called AirStash, a sort of pocketable network-attached storage (NAS) system that takes an SD card and then broadcasts its contents over WiFi for use with any platform. It’s targeted particularly at iOS devices.
The AirStash itself is about two-thirds the size of an iPhone (or slightly smaller than a MiFi), but its real strengths are its software offerings. Wearable has written its own operating system for the device, along with compatible iOS apps and Web apps for non-iOS platforms.
The company has just announced an SDK so that other iOS developers can integrate AirStash support into their apps. Mastenbrook made his first trek out to WWDC in San Francisco this year in order to spread the word about the new offering, and we sat down to chat with him about AirStash, where it’s going, and how Apple’s latest announcements might affect the product.