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The Wintergatan Marble Machine is a wacky, whimsical musical instrument (Tomorrow Daily 324)

2016-03-02
creating citizens of the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily these best geek talk show in the known universe are you ready for some rapid-fire headlines let's do this all right the EPFL is developing a technology that can be stretchable potentially bio skin in the future flexible electronics have been popping up here and there in screens and other devices that we've seen but this is expandable circuitry that can still function after being stretched up to four times its original length a liquid metal combo of gold and gallium makes this concept possible with the gold keeping the gallium from separating into droplets and the gallium conducting the electricity the material can be stretched twisted and folded and still send currents properly potential uses for the technology include prosthetic skin where you get your feeling back in your hand if you lose it kind of amazing and also robot skin that's awesome but I feel like it's gonna expensive because it's made of gold you literally have gold skin gold nerves that's kind of you'd have gold and gallium nerves amazing stuff but I want to see how they sort of develop that sure and now for something completely different this is the Venter Garten marble machine from Swedish musician Martin Mullen it's a humongous music box that's played with 2,000 marbles yes there are multiple instruments on board including a vibraphone a bass kick drum a cymbal and more they activate as the marbles move through the machine all 3,000 parts had to be designed and built from scratch taking a year and a half to complete his process is documented pretty thoroughly on YouTube - so you can check it out and see how the machine was made can't tour with this thing though it's too big and intricate looks very fragile - but it's amazing yes pretty incredible stuff I just saw this and it brought me so much joy described seeing stuff like this get built did this guy lose his marbles no they're all innovate they're all inside they're all inside his music box never lose them what story do you wanna talk about on Thursday I think it would be fun to talk more about this music box see how it was made a little bit and maybe talk more about how instruments future instruments if you guys have any future instruments you want to see us go look for in research you can use the hashtag hay TV yeah that's how you shot at us on social media if you say something fun cool and interesting well incorporate it into our discussion on Thursday when we deep dive into these stories indeed we will and with that being said let's check out our photogra for the day today small talk with today is Jason who took this fabulous shot with his Nexus 6p he writes hi Ashley Jeff and producer Logan my name is Jason I love the show and I've been watching for a while now the new format with the shorts and deep dive is great this picture was taken on my Nexus 6p at Ski Beach North Carolina you have my full permission to use the photo have a great day is that kind of an oxymoron ski beach yeah I want to go to a ski beach beach American ski that is really cool that was it gives a great shot it looks really good I seems a little cold we don't know what that is but we've never heard of cold or snow we know what beaches are though we do we are familiar beaches but not once you can ski on if you guys want to send in your phone Trog repeat please email us tomorrow Tina calm yes make sure to tell us what device you took it on give us a little story about why you took that picture and give us permission to use it on the show can also find us all over social media we're pretty fancy we are very finest we were lots of fun and without being said we would react tomorrow with our deep dive episode we have Liam McIntyre sarbs Spartacus might known from Spartacus he's got a kind of Kickstarter he loves a tabletop gaming he's got all kinds of stuff going on we're gonna be talking about him guy are you talking to him and for the ladies he is attractive definitely two men and that being said we will see you guys tomorrow but until then be good humans
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