Awesome!!! Torrents on a spotty WiFi connection to a tiny screen. Will it do Blu rips?

does it work on the itouch??

Props to the Core...

@scott-e: Lets hope it does.

sorry but what the hell is the point of this?

@jaydot: Nothing more then proving you can...

I would think it would work on the iPod Touch. I wonder how fast, compared to a comp, the iPhone would torrent all those completely legal documents and applications *movies*cough*

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT!
(four pages of provisos to follow)

Still I have to admit, it's impressive.

@jaydot: Whats the point of anything? I guage everything in life on what I like to call a "Binary Awesomeness Scale". It works like this: I download some shit on my iphone, or I play doom on my watch, or I stream a movie in HD from my penis to my toilet... and then I either say "that was fucking awesome" or I don't. Capiche?

Gizmodo = 1.

I've been increasingly thinking lately about how much I'd love to have a little box that I can plug a single power cable into, stick in the corner, and access (preferably via a Bonjour app on any computer on the network) to give it torrent files to download. And it would just sit there, wirelessly downloading them to some internal storage. And then I'd copy them over to my computer after.

Then I could free up CPU resources and hard drive space on my computer, and not have to leave my whole computer on overnight just to deal with torrents. It would be so easy, convenient, and efficient. Why hasn't it been done yet?

Get this running on an iPod Touch and you have a total overkill solution (well, without the luxury wireless torrent setup) for $300. For some reason that's the best we have right now, so no need in bashing it.

meet his children "dual", "quad" and "^n"

@swarmster: Reading that was pretty much orgasmic.

aaaand here comes the DCMA...and firmware update..and..oops, now its down.
/future>

Please remove your device from ATT's grip! I want one!

congrats on the breakthrough but sadly it stupid and pointless

I'd like to dload Ipod videos straight to the phone w/o having to worry about transferring em over.

@swarmster: there are available torrent boxes (don't know what they are called) already. just load torrent files in it and it goes download silently while you do your groceries.

is this a first on a mobile handset to date, or do WinMo/Symbian/RIM handsets have an app for this already?

It's nice in theory but not that great in practice - I have SymTorrent and Symella on my N95 and although it works well it rapes the battery.

If you have mains power then fine, otherwise nothing more than a novelty.

@swarmster: i deal with tiny systems like this for work. you should look into them, some of them are more than powerful enough to sit in the corner (or even inside your 'real' pc) leeching torrents, serving media etc.

[www.via.com.tw]

[www.acrosser.com]

/me wonders if there will ever be a true 'peer to peer' network using ADHOC to broadcast data between devices rather than through a network.

@swarmster: eee pc 4g surf + external usb hd. closer to $400 but more than enough to get the job done.

f you have any questions about the iphone, many of your answers can be found here: [www.iphonedownloadworld.com]

I wasn't sure if I wanted one, but I read a few of these articles and I really wanted one. They also have a link to get a free iphone for signing up.