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In this world of technology, things that ever changing, rearranging.
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You need someone to help you out.
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You'll be with Paul.
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I'm a days lane in the Tech Zone.
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Tech Zone. I hope
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you enjoyed my chat with.
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George, Verizon's gadget guy.
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We got a great look at the Gizmo smart watch
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street and all the cool things Verizon is doing in.
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The world of tech.
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And also we never want to forget what the Verizon
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is doing here in California to help victims of the
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wildfires that are that are going on now. For those
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of you just joining us, we kicked off today's show
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talking about my awesome experience at CES twenty twenty five.
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I made moderated a panel with some incredible tech leaders
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and even scored an invite to a couple of VIP dinners.
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But one of the highlights definitely was connecting with my
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next guest. As a person with a disability, a quadriplegic
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and empower you will chair use it myself. Personal mobility
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is something that I'm incredibly passionate about. It's literally changed
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my life, giving me freedom and independence and That's why
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I'm so excited to introduce to you Tony Hank, the
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founder and CEO of Strut. They're developing groundbreaking technology that's
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going to revolutionize how people get around. So I am
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so delighted to welcome him on the show. Right now,
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I am so delighted to have me right now here
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at CEES twenty twenty five, they have doctor Tony Hong,
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CEO and founder of Strutt.
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What's going on, Tony? How are you?
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I'm good, My pleasure to be here.
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Hey, it's an honor I speak to you to tell
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me how's your CEES going?
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The CES has been wonderful. We are just getting started.
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Many people are coming to our booths and it's really
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exciting for us to be here.
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Now. Is this your first time exhibiting sees?
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Yes, this is the first time.
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Wow.
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So what was it like, you know, getting ready to
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come here and and be a part of this amazing experience.
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Oh, we did the last work, lost of preparations, ship
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like continents of stuff to support our booths. But most excitingly,
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I think it's it's our pleasure to showcase the technology
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we want to bring to the world. So our product
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is called EVU won't. It's really exciting product I'm going
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to share with you.
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Awesome.
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And you know I called CEES it kind of like
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the super Bowl of technologies exactly. Yeah, you know, and
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and and where what's your company?
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Look, we are a Singapore tech company.
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Well Singapore song. So how was the flight over here?
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It's good? Yeah, my first time being Las Vegas. So
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it's also a great, great trip here.
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Nice you get a chance you go see some of
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the Las Vegas sites or you just kind of focused
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in on ceas.
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Kind of both. Yeah, we did both.
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I love it. I love it.
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Well, well, Tony, you know, let's talk about your innovation
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and what made you want to create this innovation in
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the first place, and why take the lead to come
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here to the super Bowl technology and show it off
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to all of us.
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Yeah, I can probably start from my background. I'm actually
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in tech background. I did my PhD in physics from
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UC Berkeley. So then I worked for a couple of
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technology companies doing the most fancy stuff like things outside
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the towns, driving and so on. And then I realized,
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you know, these technology are really good for the future,
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but what about now? And I mean that brings me
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to my thinking, like what exactly you want to do
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with technology? So I was growing up in a family
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of an engineering father and a nursing mother, so kind
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of mixture between like you know, engineering stuff and taking
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care of people. So then I really wanted to tackle
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the challenge of like, you know, putting technology together with humanity, Like,
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so what exactly can we do? So I think this
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is a really good opportunity for me to put what
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I learned and what I experienced to what can be
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addressed like in the today's society. So that brings us
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to look at some of the challenges here, especially you know,
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the aging population that disabled people. Then like what we
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can bring from the autonomous driving technology to people who has,
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for example, mobility issues or like anything that they need
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in their life. So that brings us to create something
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that we want to really help them. Visa the technology
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not in the future but today.
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I totally get it.
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And as a member of the disabled community myself, I
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would say thank you for tackling this assistive and adaptive
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technology that we so desperately need. And that's one thing
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that I noticed here at CEES. I've been covering CEES
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and broadcasting here since two thousand and eight. I remember
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when we didn't talk about assistive and adaptive technology, and
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now we're talking about it. We're exhibiting some pretty amazing
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innovation like yours. And how does it feel now that
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the world and tech in general are embracing this type
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of technology.
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Yeah, I think people are generally more familiar with you know, autonomus,
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driving technologies like us an obstacle of euidence, trajectory planning.
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So I think all those technologies used to be in
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like terminologies for the future, but now people are getting
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you know, like ma famnia and wanting to help people
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with those kind of technologies. So I think this is good.
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This is a good time that some of the you know,
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components are getting cheaper and some of the people are
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already getting familiar with the concept, and there are more
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people indeed, So yeah, I think this is like people
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are getting excited about of this tony.
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One thing that I like about it is lighter technology.
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I remember covering light our technology and ontonomous vehicles, and
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I always thought, you know, I'm not gonna credit myself
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for thinking this up, because smart guys like you have
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done it yourself. But to use the same type of
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technology and assistive and adaptive technology is for those and
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the aging adult population, the disabled community. And to see
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it now, Tony, I am just so so blown away
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by what has been the reception from the tech world
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as far as this type of inn.
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I think this has been progressing dramatically over the past
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few years. Uh, it's really great to see the lighter
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sensors has been used in many of the applications. In fact,
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I was like one of the working for one of
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the most important lighter manufacturer.
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I think the technology is evolving, but I think most
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at this moment, most people are just building it for
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for cars. So I think the way we we envision
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it like we want to have purpose built technology that
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would suit a mobidity device. Just like you said, the
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lighter has been like fascinating, but they are expensive. The
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performance is you know, overkill for most of these low
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speed applications. So that's what we do. We try to,
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you know, work with our partners to design the lighters
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that work specific for the mobility products. At those speeds
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you don't really need to look at for example, two
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hundred meters away, you don't really want to see, you know,
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like a petssion two hundred meters away, a dog two
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hundred meters away, So what we need is like twenty meters,
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but we do need to be accurate about, for example,
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what the table is, what the chair is, so that
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kind of thing. You know. This there is a rebalance
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of the focusing area from the techno knowledge itself. So
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this is what we mean by purposely build technology, so
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especially suit for the applications we are building for. So
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I think that is also keeping us keeping us competitive
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because we're not just buying you know, expensive lighters off
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the shelf. Yeah, so this we hope that could keep
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the cost competitive and people could be able to afford it.
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That's so true and totally. I only want to bring
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us up because this has been the topic of conversation curiously. Yes,
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and that's the that's the potential of what tariffs will
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do to innovation in general, and also just innovators like
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yourself bringing technology over to us here in the United States.
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What kind of impact would that have on just your.
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Vision and also just where we're at in your timeline
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of wanting to introduce this over to us here in
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the States.
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Yeah, so we are right now only building these minimum
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viable products. So I think one of the philosophy we
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have is we want to put our users in the center,
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So we just don't want to you know, build something
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for them and then think they may use it. So
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one of the important reasons we want to show his
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at the CS is to showcase we have this technology
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and to come become our test users and give us feedbacks.
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So we we have this concept of like code designing
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and co develop with our audience so that this is
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usually some thing pete for them. It's so so that
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roughly like take some time, like we envision it to
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take half a year to a year k so then
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our mass production was kicked saying once we have everything finalized,
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that our users love it and then we will start
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to manufacture and ship it. So yeah, I think this
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is like a really good time for us to be
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excited about the technology itself while the product side, there
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are still a lot of things for us to you
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know finalizing.
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Okay, good to know.
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So if potential tariffs were to happen, they wouldn't impact
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you at this point in time because we're still in
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the R and D phase, in the testing phase, and
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that if when that time comes to put it out
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to mass production. Maybe there's some political wins that can
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change where that won't even be an issue.
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Exactly, gotcha, got you.
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Appreciate you sharing that because that has been the hottest
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topic here with tech right now, and it's just been
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you know, in the tech world where we're kind of
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scared about about what may happen. So Tony talk about
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cod design and testing because not only as journalists, but
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I am an accessibility consultant. I've code designed with PlayStation,
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I've code designed with Meta, I've cod designed with Google.
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And I love the fact that we're seeing more of
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this now in innovation because you have to make sure
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that you not only are building for us, but working
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with us to make sure that your innovation will work
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for us.
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Talk about why that was so important.
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Yeah, So, as I mentioned, like, we started this company
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with the vision of combining technology and the humanity. So
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we don't really want to be like a bunch of
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tech enthusiasts do something like really cool, but then eventually
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that product doesn't really fit most of the people. So
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that's why we honor it. Actually, very at the very
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beginning of our development phase, we have interviewed like more
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than one hundred people asking them what are the problems
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they have in every day life and what could be
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have been solved and would what have not been solved?
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So those kinds of questions give us a very good
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understanding of what our product could help them. For example,
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let me show you example, so if you want, it
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has riders, it has all these advanced technology. So like
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a lot of people just ask us, as would this
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be like autonomous driving by itself? So I think that's
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a really good question because people would just think about that.
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But I think at this moment we after intervene so
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many people. A lot of people just don't like the
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feeling of losing control. So if something is really autonomous driving,
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like in all kinds of situations, this is something that
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you cannot make instant in instant decisions. You cannot control
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the wheel, show the vehicle that you are driving, while
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you can only for example, said that a lot from
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is like a driver says system instead of autonomous system.
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But the automa system be useful, yes, And a lot
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of people are asking us could you could it be
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like a self charging itself because they always forgot to
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charge it and then the next day they will not
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be able to use it. So yeah, that's something that
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we can welcome because this technologynology is fully capable of
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doing all those kinds of things. But yeah, for the
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first thing, first first feature, we just want to raw
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out the copilot as the products so because like that
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would help people be safer, be like easier, much easier
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to use those devices. So yeah, I think that's the
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purpose and we we we are going to achieve.
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That's incredible, you know, I love that co pilot says,
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that's amazing. And then the fact that you are thinking
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not only the first iteration, but second and third iteration
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social medias and so on. That people will find the
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That was fantastic, Tony, thank you so much.
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It was great meeting you at CES twenty twenty five
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changing lives. And a huge shout out to my man
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great finding meeting you face to face at CES. It's
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amazing to see how innovation is exploding in the field
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using tech. We're all connected. A huge thank you to
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all of you for tuning in and being part of
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more exciting tech and I look back and see Yes
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Tech Zone. I hope
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you enjoyed my chat with.
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George, Verizon's gadget guy.
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We got a great look at the Gizmo smart watch
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street and all the cool things Verizon is doing in.
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The world of tech.
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is doing here in California to help victims of the
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wildfires that are that are going on now. For those
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of you just joining us, we kicked off today's show
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talking about my awesome experience at CES twenty twenty five.
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I made moderated a panel with some incredible tech leaders
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next guest. As a person with a disability, a quadriplegic
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and empower you will chair use it myself. Personal mobility
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is something that I'm incredibly passionate about. It's literally changed
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my life, giving me freedom and independence and That's why
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I'm so excited to introduce to you Tony Hank, the
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going to revolutionize how people get around. So I am
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What's going on, Tony? How are you?
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I'm good, My pleasure to be here.
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Hey, it's an honor I speak to you to tell
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The CES has been wonderful. We are just getting started.
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Many people are coming to our booths and it's really
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Now. Is this your first time exhibiting sees?
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like continents of stuff to support our booths. But most excitingly,
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the super Bowl of technologies exactly. Yeah, you know, and
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and and where what's your company?
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Look, we are a Singapore tech company.
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Well Singapore song. So how was the flight over here?
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I love it. I love it.
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and what made you want to create this innovation in
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the first place, and why take the lead to come
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technology companies doing the most fancy stuff like things outside
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the towns, driving and so on. And then I realized,
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innovation like yours. And how does it feel now that
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people indeed, So yeah, I think this is like people
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are getting excited about of this tony.
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technology and assistive and adaptive technology is for those and
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the aging adult population, the disabled community. And to see
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it now, Tony, I am just so so blown away
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lighter has been like fascinating, but they are expensive. The
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to manufacture and ship it. So yeah, I think this
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excited about the technology itself while the product side, there
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are still a lot of things for us to you
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Okay, good to know.
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So if potential tariffs were to happen, they wouldn't impact
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you at this point in time because we're still in
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the R and D phase, in the testing phase, and
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that if when that time comes to put it out
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to mass production. Maybe there's some political wins that can
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change where that won't even be an issue.
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Exactly, gotcha, got you.
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Appreciate you sharing that because that has been the hottest
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topic here with tech right now, and it's just been
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you know, in the tech world where we're kind of
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scared about about what may happen. So Tony talk about
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cod design and testing because not only as journalists, but
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I am an accessibility consultant. I've code designed with PlayStation,
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I've code designed with Meta, I've cod designed with Google.
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And I love the fact that we're seeing more of
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this now in innovation because you have to make sure
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that you not only are building for us, but working
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with us to make sure that your innovation will work
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for us.
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Talk about why that was so important.
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Yeah, So, as I mentioned, like, we started this company
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with the vision of combining technology and the humanity. So
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we don't really want to be like a bunch of
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tech enthusiasts do something like really cool, but then eventually
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that product doesn't really fit most of the people. So
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that's why we honor it. Actually, very at the very
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beginning of our development phase, we have interviewed like more
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than one hundred people asking them what are the problems
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they have in every day life and what could be
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have been solved and would what have not been solved?
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So those kinds of questions give us a very good
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understanding of what our product could help them. For example,
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let me show you example, so if you want, it
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has riders, it has all these advanced technology. So like
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a lot of people just ask us, as would this
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be like autonomous driving by itself? So I think that's
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a really good question because people would just think about that.
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But I think at this moment we after intervene so
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many people. A lot of people just don't like the
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feeling of losing control. So if something is really autonomous driving,
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like in all kinds of situations, this is something that
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you cannot make instant in instant decisions. You cannot control
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the wheel, show the vehicle that you are driving, while
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is like a driver says system instead of autonomous system.
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of people are asking us could you could it be
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like a self charging itself because they always forgot to
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charge it and then the next day they will not
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be able to use it. So yeah, that's something that
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we can welcome because this technologynology is fully capable of
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doing all those kinds of things. But yeah, for the
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first thing, first first feature, we just want to raw
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out the copilot as the products so because like that
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would help people be safer, be like easier, much easier
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to use those devices. So yeah, I think that's the
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purpose and we we we are going to achieve.
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That's incredible, you know, I love that co pilot says,
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that's amazing. And then the fact that you are thinking
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not only the first iteration, but second and third iteration
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is very forward thinking. That's the way we can stay
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at the head of the curve when it comes to
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AI if we're always thinking about the future and how
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we can we can catch up with that.
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So that that's awesome.
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So where can once find out more information about strut
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right now?
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After cees? Now, we have a.
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Website it's three w dot strut dot Inc. So we
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have almost all the information there and we have some
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social medias and so on. That people will find the
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information about us.
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Now, another thing I wanted to ask you, Tony, are
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you looking for testers even here in the United States
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testers throughout the world, but we as we are launching
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it in the US as well, so we so after
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the CS, we immediately we'll go to some of the
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users and test test drive with them. We also have
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a program it's called a strut Dry Driver Club, which
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is a program we start to invite users to join
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and then we would plan some schedules and then we
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will see the feedback. I think this is the first
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passion we will continue roading out these kinds of activities.
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That's awesome.
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Is there anything else you'd like to share with us
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about your CES experience or just Streut in general?
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Yeah, I think this is a really great experience to
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showcase our technology here that we are very excited and
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we are also very excited about our product and the future.
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So yeah, I guess for everyone interested, feel free to
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contact us and join our struct Driver Club so that
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we will have a better suit and a better development
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with them.
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Yeah, thank you, awesome, Tony. Great talking with you to
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enjoy the rest of your CEES.
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Thank you.
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That was fantastic, Tony, thank you so much.
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It was great meeting you at CES twenty twenty five
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and sharing your vision for the future of personal mobility.
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The strut Evy one is an incredible device and I
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can't wait to see it out in the world, really
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changing lives. And a huge shout out to my man
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JB for making that interview a reality. It was a
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great finding meeting you face to face at CES. It's
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amazing to see how innovation is exploding in the field
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of personal mobility. When I first met Tony at CES,
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I was blown away by Strut's commitment to creating technology
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that really empowers people.
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And that's what the Tech Zone.
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Whether you have a disability or not, it's all about
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using tech. We're all connected. A huge thank you to
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all of you for tuning in and being part of
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this conversation. Hope you enjoyed the show. I'm already looking
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forward to our next episode. We will dive into even
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more exciting tech and I look back and see Yes
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twenty twenty five.
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Don't forget to stay to connect with me.
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All social media platforms, Paul ama Day's Lane at my website,
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Paulamaday's lane dot com.
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And as always getting choked up a little bit and
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as always.
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Everyone stay healthy, stay safe and remember I love you
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all the life. In this world of technology, things are
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ever changing, rearranging.
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You need someone to help you out. I need someone
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that can be alone.
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You'll be with Paul.
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