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He started the engadget Podcast, hackaday, and now MAKE.

it seems like he's really good at getting cool stuff off the ground and then he leaves it to other people once its up and running

http://flashenabled.com/ is his site

And people thought Phillip Torrone was ahead of the times :-)

In terms of DIY, not many people can beat that guy

The guy behind this, Phillip Torrone, has done a TON more cool stuff. Check out his site/blog for tons more stuff.

This dude is now my personal hero of geekdom. He builds robots and gear and has pics of tons of stuff on his site.

Chris

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Very true.

This guy is a perfect example of that. Ofcourse, he does it because he's a geek and because he has the means. But more than that, its a status symbol for such folks to be carrying the latest coolest gadget around.

i'd say in the last year more and more robots are living in my home. here they are...enjoy, bitch about, tease...

qrio, sony's new human robot. the latest ones can jog. this one i don't have of course, but i've been around them for work projects.

aibo photos, of the aibo and what it takes pictures of and send via wifi to my email account. this is the new aibo ers-7

aibo training, new bone. his name is wuffie, after a cool concept in cory doctorow's latest book, quicktime.

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

robot dance video, with the robots in my home. roombas, aibos, home made robots, etc..quicktime

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

aibo (old gen) on it's scooter..

video of my roomba running around, winmedia and i have a segwway ht, which might be a robotic platform for some experiments.

cheers,
pt

i'd say in the last year more and more robots are living in my home. here they are...enjoy, bitch about, tease...

qrio, sony's new human robot. the latest ones can jog. this one i don't have of course, but i've been around them for work projects.

aibo photos, of the aibo and what it takes pictures of and send via wifi to my email account. this is the new aibo ers-7

aibo training, new bone. his name is wuffie, after a cool concept in cory doctorow's latest book, quicktime.

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

robot dance video, with the robots in my home. roombas, aibos, home made robots, etc..quicktime

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

aibo (old gen) on it's scooter..

video of my roomba running around, winmedia and i have a segwway ht, which might be a robotic platform for some experiments.

cheers,
pt

i'd say in the last year more and more robots are living in my home. here they are...enjoy, bitch about, tease...

qrio, sony's new human robot. the latest ones can jog. this one i don't have of course, but i've been around them for work projects.

aibo photos, of the aibo and what it takes pictures of and send via wifi to my email account. this is the new aibo ers-7

aibo training, new bone. his name is wuffie, after a cool concept in cory doctorow's latest book, quicktime.

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

robot dance video, with the robots in my home. roombas, aibos, home made robots, etc..quicktime

my home made robot, made with a tablet pc and..

aibo (old gen) on it's scooter..

video of my roomba running around, winmedia and i have a segwway ht, which might be a robotic platform for some experiments.

cheers,
pt

my site has a pretty good collection of gadgets. http://www.flashenabled.com/ arcos video player, roomba robot, panasonic ewear, tablet pc, nokia 3650, er1 robot kit, aibo, media center (2004 version), segway ht (with new software), pocket pc 2003 devices, sony ericsson p800...and the list goes on....

For FREE & hot gAy Segway sex, email pt@flashenabled.com NOW!

For those spam bots it is:
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For FREE & hot gAy Segway sex, email pt@flashenabled.com NOW!

For those spam bots it is:
pt@flashenabled.com
pt@flashenabled.com
Free_Seg_P0rn

here is a picture of an ichat av session, this was before i got the isight (today) it worked fine with my cannon dv cam:

http://www.flashenabled.com/nimages/ichatbg.jpg

it works great, full screen and super-simple. msn 6 and ichat both do im, but msn is on version 6 with lots of features that many people need, or want while apple is starting out for the most part and many people don't need app sharing, white board, etc...it's pretty exciting. i use a mac and a pc so i've got the best of both.

cheers,
pt

WHOIS on the obviously bogus-named bookofseg.com:

Organization: phillip torrone 424 second ave west seattle, wa 98119 US Phone: 206-372-2651 Email: phillip@flashenabled.com

I note from a Google search that this is a Tony neighbourhood of Seattle, with one of "Puget Sound area's largest advertising agencies" located at 424 second ave west. So this seems like a hotspot for marketing companies.

And then he goes and leaves his regular advertising site URL unmasked in the header: www.flashenabled.com. Where he outs himself as a bigwig with Fallon Worldwide. And spends a lot of time pimping PocketPC gadgets.

Some of our other clients include; BMW of North America, Citibank, EDS, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Holiday Inn, International Truck and Engine Corp., Lee Jeans, Microsoft, Nikon, Nordstrom, Nuveen Investments, PBS, Ralston Purina, Timberland, Timex, and United Airlines.

Come on, it's even written in obviously dumb marketing buzzwords futzed around a bit to look "cool" and "hip" and "with it". The same 206-372-2651 phone number is re-used for the POCKETPCMAGIC.COM website, registered to phillip torrone 627 broadway suite 504 new york, NY 10012. There are other interesting websites operating from this nice Manhattan location.

WHOIS on the obviously bogus-named bookofseg.com:

Organization: phillip torrone 424 second ave west seattle, wa 98119 US Phone: 206-372-2651 Email: phillip@flashenabled.com

I note from a Google search that this is a Tony neighbourhood of Seattle, with one of "Puget Sound area's largest advertising agencies" located at 424 second ave west. So this seems like a hotspot for marketing companies.

And then he goes and leaves his regular advertising site URL unmasked in the header: www.flashenabled.com. Where he outs himself as a bigwig with Fallon Worldwide. And spends a lot of time pimping PocketPC gadgets.

Some of our other clients include; BMW of North America, Citibank, EDS, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Holiday Inn, International Truck and Engine Corp., Lee Jeans, Microsoft, Nikon, Nordstrom, Nuveen Investments, PBS, Ralston Purina, Timberland, Timex, and United Airlines.

Come on, it's even written in obviously dumb marketing buzzwords futzed around a bit to look "cool" and "hip" and "with it". The same 206-372-2651 phone number is re-used for the POCKETPCMAGIC.COM website, registered to phillip torrone 627 broadway suite 504 new york, NY 10012. There are other interesting websites operating from this nice Manhattan location.

The domain "bookofseg.com" is registered to Phillip Torrone. (listed on the about page as well). According to his site , this guy works at Fallon , an advertising company devoted to "generating disproportionate results for our clients through a unique combination of rigor, relentlessness, and surprise" .

What I'm getting at is, how do we know that this site isn't just a plant by Segway's marketing agency?

And what else does P. M. Tyronne endorse?

XBox live, for one...and the iPod...and large doses of Flash, apparently. This gentleman is a one-man press release :)

There is a prototype called Mipad that does exactly this!
download and unzip the video from the mipad link
I could only find a zipped copy of the video, but its worth watching.

I was at a conference last week and saw Macromedia Flash on many phones, PDAs and smartphones. It's pretty easy to develop content with Macromedia Flash, so making games looks easy too. Here is a site with lots of games.

http://www.flashenabled.com/mobile/

i had my pocket pc and an 802.11 card, couldn't get on on even find a network where i was at...

for more info...http://www.flashenabled.com/mobile

cheers,

pt

Flash Enabled has a link to a great macromedia Flash HP calculator app that looks and acts exactly like an HP. You'll need to download flash for the Pocket PC here.
There's a stack load of other cool Flash stuff there too. Hope that helps.