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I went to one of those trade shows that seem to happen every week these days, talking about the future of the digital den, and came home to my present-day home a bit disappointed. Hopeful, but still longing for the killer solutions that will make

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

my life easier.

The challenges are numerous: First, the digital home should be all about delivering fantastic entertainment, not about watching how you deploy your computing resources. And unfortunately, right now the computing challenges get i

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

n the way of making entertainment any better. Second, home networks are still far too hard to setup, despite new attempts by several vendors to make things easier. The infrastructure for storing and sending music, photos, and videos to different

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

users and different devices is also far from perfect, or even usable by anyone but the most determined techie. Third, wireless is still somewhat witless and confounding to most of us. And while broadband penetration continues to climb, having a c

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

onstant Internet connection doesn't make matters easier, more compelling, or any different today for consuming new forms of content.

Let's look at each of these items one by one, and see where the promise of the new lies and where the challenges

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

of today keep things from moving forward.

First, entertainment should be king, but it isn't -- yet. Both Verizon and Turner Entertainment announced downloadable game services (called Games on Demand and Gametap.com respectively) to enable anyon

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

e to play a wide variety of games for various subscription prices of up to $15 a month. While it is nice that major media moguls have set their lasers on the video gaming industry, it is still far from a perfect solution. Neither service is avail

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

able for non-Windows platforms, and on Gametap they coyly say that Windows machines more than four years old will not be very gamey. Also, the pair of products will require broadband connections to download the necessary huge game executable file

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

s.

Some of this has to do with where you put your PC – the living room isn't the most hospitable place in the digital home, and vendors are trying to make PC cases look more like VCRs and sound less like jet airplanes, and there were some exampl

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

es at the show from various vendors. But there are still many wires to connect, and many protocols – and products -- to ponder and purchase.

Microsoft announced its Xbox 360 will act as a media extender for any Windows Media Center PC, something

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

that will allow the unit to play movies and music to your TV and stereo system more easily. And several vendors, including the usual networking guys, have media extender boxes too. The issue I have with this approach is that I don't want to stor

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

e my media files on any client PC and clog up its hard drive. To this end, Iomega announced a file server that can contain your photos and videos available across the home network as well as over the Internet too. All of these products will be av

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ailable soon.

Second, the home network setup is far from simple. As someone who still does tech support for friends and neighbors' networks, I can tell you that many of these installations are still very fragile and far from dependable. Wasn't t

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

he latest version of Mac OS, Linux, and Windows XP supposed to making setting up networks easier? Well, they did, but not easy enough and we still have plenty of issues. At the show I saw new products from Pure Network's Network Magic, McAfee, an

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

d Iomega among others that are attempting to remedy this situation. I was impressed with the demo I saw of Network Magic, but will let you know once I actually test it if it delivers the ease of use (and then, only for Windows PCs) that the demo

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

promised.

Third, wireless home networking is another matter entirely: Either you can't get a good signal throughout your home, or you get too many of your neighbor's signals unintentionally. Several vendors are working on these solutions, and we

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

should see the fruits of their labors soon. Toshiba and Lenovo are making software to sort out wireless connections more easily on their laptops. McAfee has a software solution to make setting up secure wireless networks easier, and that certain

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ly will be a big improvement. And Netgear, Linksys, Buffalo Technology and others are selling higher-gain and MIMO antenna products to grab stronger signals from their access points and wireless cards.

Finally, broadband choices to the home are

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

about to get more interesting, with powerline technologies finally getting out of trial mode and into paying customers' hands. The cable and phone monopolies will have some competition from the electric utilities and major ISPs like Earthlink wil

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

l also offer this service, which will involve nothing more than plugging in a powerline modem into your nearest electric outlet.

Yes, the digital den is coming soon to a home theater near you. But in the meantime, we still have lots to sort out.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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