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Crave Ep. 79: Choose the form of the Destructor

2012-03-06
it's tuesday march six a date that totally tests my lispy abilities i'm donald bell eric franklin well done on Liz yeah I tried I tried to really annunciate I couldn't hear you and I Kyle no I'm snuffaluffagus you are your friend you're here now though is not I am here how's this we're not if we get out delivery already thank God your mind it's all right so has the crave podcast thank you for joining us on this thank you this episode that I'm like I guaranteed last week is completely free of anything apple-related awesome it that way yes yeah for that sowed should I ever mention apple during the course of this in any real way not me mentioning it in the context of mentioning it right like any time after this right after this you can use this on me the shut up gun all right yes this is a speech jammer yes a weapon of speech silencing he's gonna um this video is actually really play dumb but the technology I don't know yeah so what is doing is combining a little handheld you know microphone it's got a directional microphone like a high quality mic and it takes that input the directional input from what you're pointing at and then it it put that applies a to like a point two second delay to the audio and shoots it back of the person to cancel out not cancel out the frequencies but to them it gives them this really weird distortion distorting echo effect like like like there's just been an explosion near them their ears are kind of it like suddenly they're talking went 3d and flipped out their brain and so it disorients them alone all they're talking so it shuts them up but it doesn't it doesn't cancel out the sound it doesn't cancel out this all you can still hear them but then they feel weird talking so it probably shuts yeah it makes it so annoying to them to talk and hear their own voice back then write a stop interesting interesting is interesting it's kinda like the wrap it up box from chappelle's show member to repre- people got along like of you on the Oscars or something like that avenue b school inviolate search yeah exactly the video is kind of amusing it's worth it's worth a play just for like the the weird turns a phrase that the they talk about like it what is it like the cell phone call with empty speech this is it it's like when someone's talking on the phone without really saying anything meaningful but on the little and the video translation all like the translations like empty speech well they put this stuff on YouTube now yeah yellow then but we have to get will be um so it is is a it's a prototype here from the national institute of advanced industrial science and technology at substitute all connected university well I'm glad they're spending their time well yeah yeah by working on really meaningful um inventions delayed auditory feedback is the well that sounds a little bit nauman on more I don't know important yeah I mean um the I shut you up gun or the shut shut up gun is pretty cool as for a name I think that what are they calling it like a speech jammer speech jammer yep hmm they need to work on naming here there's a beautiful name for this thing but it's probably not the speech jammer if you'd be like the empty speech disorient array I like that one yeah yeah there's an acronym in there somewhere I probably said something really dirty another prototype here is the skin stretching game controller pitch for the next Xbox 360 720 this I saw this uh this head earlier and kind of scare me i don't know what they meant by skin stretching yeah you how you feel about cuz you if I said skin I thought it's gonna be stretching my skin that that's not happening way actually I have to imagine yes for the same one thing for me I can't talk right now but I imagine something far more invasive and weird than what this actually is yes something like out of as extends or something like that movie it's like a haptic feedback control right but it just basically stretches the skin under your thumb yeah instead of 0 does so your thumbs are over the little controls a little red like think patty type nubs okay and but they're being controlled by the xbox to either move up or down or wiggle around or give you directional feedback about what's going on on the screen so your thumbs are being massaged while you play and I said the thumb massages is that the point like to see those cramp no so one example the research gave researchers gave is like you're playing a fishing game and you hook a fish and then the buds under your thumb will kind of like jerk back like you've liked captured a fish right like instead of like right now the only haptic feedback on the controllers how is that vigorously it shakes right sure hungry but now this could be like a like a rumble just for your thumb and individual two different little rumbles for each thumb just in and they could not just rumble but actually pull your thumb in a direction Oh based on what oh yeah okay I get it I get it that's nice like it would you be into that like would you wanna game control like that I wouldn't mind the feature in certain games yeah like you say like a fishing game or something like that to to apply a little bit more subtle game plays at me loading oh man sorry yep burrito for lunch um no it's um yeah I like the idea that like have I like having any kind of any kind of new types of feedback in my games and the feedback is always good for a game so sure if it's implemented well I'd be into that you know where I think this would bother you better put to use it's not on the thumb stuff right now you don't have you don't on a conventional controller you don't have little control pads for each thumb right if you had it on the index finger it's like the little triggers that are on the front of the controller sure to pull at your fingers or do something pulled your fingers to give you the feedback like if you to give you the feeling lift that you're actually pulling a gun trigger even more than they already give you or just it's like an extra little way to sense what's going on on the screen yeah like it could be just that you know your index finger on the right hand gets pulled a little bit if there's someone creeping up behind you right now right yeah be good for like like resident evil type games or something like that you know horror games rather horror game and stuff like that that are trying to scare you and try to trying to pull you in a certain direction so that they can misdirect you and all that kind of stuff yeah it's good it's good i'm sure game developers would have great ideas for something like this i'm good i hope they do yes they better just why i brought it up alright game developers get on it you guys oh you guys in a chat room all right and maybe the future game developer or nerd who will make this happen is a is right now involved in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts wishing that there was a merit badge for doing cool techy stuff I wish there was soon there is no now what believe it no words not informally as part of the boy and girl scouts you know a selection of badges but made by Adafruit Industries there is a listing of different badges that you can get an achievements you can get for doing special things like 3d printing your own gizmo where you send something to space right it things you do every day basically uh let's cool though I like how to use an oscilloscope yeah sure controllers sure arduino high altitude blue lasers I just want the laser patch this is just as lasers of it yeah um yeah I don't know I just thought this was kind of cool like I equally I I hope that it actually does get pulled into you know are the little boy and girl out yes actually sure so right now is it just like online you just get badges yes a I did this yeah I think I you can order like little kids and projects in order to earn that skill I like it it's it's it's it's kind of its kind of game unifying Boy Scouts girls and boy scouts a little bit you get more achievements treatments linux promoting like you know and yeah fine fine searing sure sure sure Emily to R if they really if you have to do it like in the woods camping night i'm sure that can be accommodated right i mean all the more impressive if you learn how to use on oscilloscope while camping sure sure yeah yeah may I guess there's always the boy boys and girl scouts have always been very game of I as far as rewards go right or charge badges go I've never been in the boys or girls bouts Jessica Soho I don't know much about it I'd ever knew anyone is growing up that was in it what sure if either of you guys was ever in annex cuts for a week all right this is like two years ago and say whether little money and restriction embarrassingly enough I was I think for like a year my mom put me in the why Indian Braves what before I don't know if I still exists or not wh-why like in hindsight a very racially offensive waited like why are you it was like indoctrinating white kids into like a very like Finn version of you know what Native American culture would be like I was trying to educate yeah but it was it was so like the honky fide version you know was it line eat it would agree each other like how you like that there's no face paint involved or anything but they would like make like teepees and and I don't know is it was I looks like she's me I broke about it more i really wanna type english rock out this capture of my life did you earn badges it called i don't think so i took a while i mean like a different system where like earned feathers or something like that like hey yeah why indians we're gonna show you why why not I'm yeah this is like a google search away from me to be experiencing my childhood but I don't do it I'm too scared all right moving on um cupcakes who doesn't love cupcakes right I love cupcakes I'm like I can't answer a question it is yeah I don't be like I wish I sure you know yeah what fight on this one we're not gonna fight you guys don't like cupcakes no I love oh we love them that's why we didn't answer that's a weird question what you pulled it early and raised who loves ya cakes I knew but I mean it's an awful when you have that cupcake craving know and there's no place to get a cupcake yes especially late at night or while walking San Francisco streets and accidentally inhaling something that you were not meant to inhale yeah definitely a purpose of a right guys what's that peace pipe portion of the money embrace train what here wasn't it that was really weird um 24-hour cupcake ATM it's a thing this is not happening it is real this is not happening if you live in the LA area you could drive to the 24-hour sprinkles to get a treat from the cut cupcake wrinkles yes sprinkles cupcake wrinkles nose me the Playboy it seems I means Beverly Hills seems the wrong place for this machine I know they're so who's gonna eat cupcakes I don't know what I mean is gonna eat cupcakes in though because they're so like I saw the mattress yeah you should get to get out of my head I can read and one cup cakes a year it seems like a portland OR Portlandia invention you know vegan cupcake ATM Spencer yeah sure I it looks like something out of the original Star Trek that the aesthetic of it it looks kind of like 1960s sci fi tek to for some reason not sure why what is this is like the thing that takes over the food truck picked like crazy like what if it's if food truck was just like the one the the missing link the step for all just food ATM yeah do you think do you think people get more dismal food eating less healthy with food ATMs I think this is how long a you would be like the Ebola outbreak of America happens this is this is the beginning of contagion yeah this is okay I still think we should we should have one here at the office though oh that's a girl is and they have their own Facebook page the 24-hour sprinkles Facebook page what yep you have a facebook page and you can't actually go like them now print out a cupcake through the facebook page but I'm sure that's gonna happen someday they even have cupcakes for Fido for dogs just for a wonderfully firefight oh uh I like the idea all right don't eat too many of them are waiting for the burger and pizza bank for today I thought you uh yeah cuz if you indulge too much in these delicious sugary salty treats you will not be able to stay afloat in the hot tub boat Seattle's hot tub boats they're coming you can float on the water while sitting in the hot tub which is barely on top of the water ha like I don't understand the physics of this unless the boat is like really deep somehow or maybe if there's ping you had old poot I don't know maybe it's a really shallow hot tub no it doesn't look as it looks deep enough I guess neither accommodate up on a sandbar Salinger's the tub itself measures four feet by eight feet and two feet deep all right six passengers and okay yeah I don't know I but I'm not going to question it you know if this exists I believe them and Seattle they're they're good it says honest folks in Seattle they're not going to try to do good you know just wholesome folks in Seattle the land of the space I was not gonna try to deceive a something just a hot to vote yeah i just think i don't know i don't i don't really get the point but me I guess it could be fun if it's there good yeah I be afraid that someone's gonna unang caress and we're gonna be you know floating out into the ocean with no paddle and then Anna have a party for a while to the water is too cool I feel like I want to go yeah well I think it's part of its just that I'm sure there's hot tubs on like luxury boats right get a yacht probably hot yeah I can see this is a way to get just that feature in a single purpose hot tub boat mmm I support I support hot tubs the world over I you know there's nothing wrong with hot tubs just saying they're pretty cool pretty great yeah there's that much was one of those items that was not necessarily techie but I genuinely craved it so that I'd include it I was gonna go down to dirty route with this but I'm I'm yeah it's kind of us yeah I know I know the lineup but the night looking I don't know it looks like maybe there's a little kid NAT tub or sauna looks weird no I don't wanna say anything what it looks I think it's just kind of a pixie ish girl yeah Seattle girl okay you know well i miss my opportunities because there is you were just throwing them out there and I was just like oh no yep hot tub time machines or whatever what do you say you said hot tubs are coming and then I just let that go and say anything fill in your own pervy comment yep all right uh enjoy those hot tubs I can because well will soon be all chased down and hunted yes by DARPA's cheetah robots yes wait which swims which now this was this is a product a band that works for a while as far back as 1989 there was a record of 13.1 miles per hour set by a DARPA cheetah robot so now we're up to 14 to 18 verse 18 miles per hour and it struggles to do it but but it the way that is it the way that it's a struggle should do it alone is so amazing we're 18 already magnificent beast I know and this I I put this under the the heading of choose the form of the destruct er yeah forgot the last week's episode I like it because I think that comes up enough that really should be a segment and also I do feel like this thing is perfectly made to chase you down and then use this little stabby legs to claw your value is attached rear back and the creature says it could possibly talk to 70 months ago one day okay bed which point I'm just like yeah yeah I make it fast cheetah speed is up to 70 miles per hour and I could get there with further development and then like call us when you got to that do you get to that milestone all right fellas but you're 80 miles per hour cheetah robot okay I can outrun that thing pretty sure right right guys it well you know what is you sayin but what slows you down at 24 I looked that up actually I was like 26 or 24 okay um probably hit 18 Xavier you're gonna be slowed down by all the screaming you're doing all that screaming and looking back will take at least five miles off of your rent and it's true that's true don't look back then yeah and try not to scream cutting do some breath control on the screen yeah I'll um I'll invest my manliness um before they get to they get to this to the city good I guess he's not thing he it can only run in a straight line at this point though oh well there you go or just cross the street that thing is that you could just do that thing is a connect away from being all the hunt you no that's too if I have a mind control what are the kinect skateboard guys go the chaotic moon chaotic moving on this is going to hunt you down in a second oh man so I think the form of the disruptor is chaotic moon+ DARPA you'll be able to try to get away on your mind controlled skateboard Kinect holiday JC math but what a great video that would be can you imagine like leaping towards you out the skateboard and then just stop what are these haven't you know that that kind of that kind of slow motion fast stuff they do thats be ramping ii do and shows like much like or you do the America's Funniest Home version home video version where you're playing like a bad version of Wipeout while it happens you know wait wait wipeout I was on skateboard oh ho there's so many different ways that could have gone with my gentlemen the game there's a game show there's a song I thought my version of that was the funniest that played in my head larry was funnier in my head all right apologies aside from apologizing for that last comment how poorly was received by the people in this room I want to apologize magaschoni is our last show I gave out the email what you can contact us it's the wrong email as I complain why no one ever contact us all two of you who tried to use that you know yes I felt done i still had in the doc here the crave dash podcast at CNN com which goes to like know where I maybe go see Jasmine France like why am I soon female star wars robots crave at cnet com it's easy it's easy it's simple made it complicated just craving seen it is take those letters you put it into your email client and you press send it's just that easy well you but already message yeah yeah well right up do the press send first see if it works and then go back and make a message once you know that actually that's a matter yeah yeah sure let's do all of that I also want to apologize for my poor definition of men's technology last week did you get a fortified remember that little be a little metal robot need a pop queen shaped little deal one of the minis assemble forms of the destructive right right yeah well I I neglected to mention that MEMS technology is a nanotechnology it's like amazing and it's nan onus I am include a link in the show notes to Wikipedia just to you know help people know for the record what this is did you get contacted by the MEMS guys no I got contacted by a was it can i or can't I 07 from the chat room okay who's like a mechanical engineering oh you know what that was really a sloppy and orbit and he tried to pull it off like you knew what you were talking about but you didn't I didn't I think didn't Bonnie and I say something about nanotechnology you like no no I don't think it is you did appreciate it Oh back and look anyways it is still cool stuff it still scares the crap out of me but you should know what it's all about it was you I don't especially if you don't more things you should know about coming to you in my favorite segment called meanwhile o doom that's my impression of you doing your mind control I love it know it well they also love in addition to Donald's face it's Game of Thrones the new season game of thrones is starting next month I believe first season kick lots of ass I read the first book haven't read any of the other books first books very good like a lot and one of the VIP kind of now iconic things about the show of Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is the intro introduction so see if you could play the the original first just so people can see get an idea of what that intro is like it's it's awesome the best thing about it is that music but well but it's also this like 3d map of Westeros which is the land of Game of Thrones sodium King's Landing like it's all I'm I'm not sure exactly how i did it i haven't done any research on how they did it but it looks all practical to me um nano technology nano technology I'm sure man man had something with this microscopic bees and whatnot well yes this is really cool expansive map thing and just good idea of what it's like and then this weekend the simpsons kind of did their own version of this with a simpsons intro just really cool check it out oh my god about oh you should be an active just reenacting right now is fine all right I'll just walk out this me my skateboard my gun glue do you'll see them totally winter is coming Oh pretty awesome especially if you know the intro I like the last part the couch in place of the wall was my favorite part that net the three-eyed crows anyway very geeky stuff very cool enjoy watch out in this vision with the how the art yeah art of the title calm has a nice how the original version with me yeah awesome I'm going to look at that i will put that in the show notes you should do that too Greg have you guys watch game through no you should get up I think it's on DVD this month I think it is check it out pretty cool uh something else that's pretty cool that goes beyond pretty cool that goes to incredibly mind-numbingly awesome maybe sexy and I don't know where you're going with this um I it's I judge the quality of a trailer by how many times i watch it within the first hour of it being released and and I didn't count you lost count I did lie the lost count so the Avengers trailer came out the day after I think the last crave podcast sewing it didn't get the show it's been out for a week but it's it's worth watching if you already seen it if you haven't seen it sit back relax and enjoy this if you're getting a cut of like promotional money from this movie you really should share it with that although there's the podcast I don't think I think I thought you guys would figure it out long time no I'm just you want to see it you understand man I I am so excited about this is it's whoo I the words can't describe it yeah I just show it and then we can cut back to Eric just frothing war has started and we are hopelessly outgunned director fury I think it's time here with the mission sir trying to get me back in the world trying to save it doctor I need you to come in what if I say I'll persuade you what are you asking me to do it's called the Avengers initiative I thought I'd been qualified apparently I'm what is it volatile self-obsessed and don't play well with others if you need a time out desper died and you call such lost creatures me very government we're not a team we're a time bomb this is nothing we were ever trained for you guys I'm bringing the party to you that's right a giant where that snake arrives event we r do me there it marks the end of human civilization has been to it um I can't stand up it will be rude too soon ah-choo or false did you make Bonnie cha watch The Hulk this weekend The Hulk or Hulk or Hulk movie get it right in there like visually Hulk there to New doing the daily voice brains all right there's angry when I came out is called Hulk and then there was the the Marvel produced marvelously does reduce um Louis Leterrier what I was in is um and he made her watch both know the incredible hulk only made her watch The Incredible Hulk because I want her to be well versed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before she goes in to see the Avengers and you have to see those five movies iron man Incredible Hulk I meant to Thor and Captain America you have to see them sure you happy last time in this week where do we have this week we're gonna watch iron man to you and maybe Thor if you have time yeah I don't want it like you don't want to pressure someone into watching the movie I was this I threw it out there and she was like yeah sure you know and she liked it and like you like she liked it so much true story care to that uh I'll she what way after he saw the movie she was like is I can't wait for the movie I'm like well they're you know they're comic books and she's like they are kind of books do you have any comic books I was like yes I do have comic books so I gave her the first run of the ultimates which is like the version of The Avengers like a a darker version of Avengers she I think what read that in two days in today no yeah i mean if you boil it down that hours yeah it was like yeah you took it took about one Bonnie to know that if she's actually really scared right now she can email me I can help podcast if he pulled head care for her bad want to make sure she's okay hey hey nothing wrong with liking comics no silly huh she's told to expel Mandy for the second foot I'm very I'm very happy that I was able to influence her in this way your next Mary hey that's right title give me the time to do it and I will I will be the geek that you need me to be oh yeah yeah alright but I don't have really busy nevermind i think that we deserve not the geek that we need that's right anyways we've got you and you you handle this so capably i would be intimidated to even try to match wits with you know so i won't but I will be here with you all next week when we do this again on Tuesdays until then check out our crave blog I've done here you can email us at crave at cnet com I swear that one works and we'll see you guys next week thanks for joining us
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