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on today's show a new competitor has entered the market for modular smartphones a new award show for video games we've got all the details yes and a robot helper is officially put into service at a hardware store right here in the US that's scary yeah tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the Internet well down to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm your host Ashley scyther joining me once again and kale anonymous yeah we got a video game or show so can we just get to this we have say we can get in a second and second we're gonna get to that okay so before we do that though we have to have the graphic so let's hit the headlines we're cutting right to the chase thing it's cutting right to the chase okay so very first story today this is really interesting so project ara is a google owned project that is working on modular smartphone so you know how a PC gamers build your rig you switch things out you upgrade your video cards all the good stuff upgrade ram over time to solve it kind of the same concept for phones so they want to use like modular things well this company is really interesting this is called puzzle phone this is a new challenger approaching okay yeah it's very interesting so they say that they have created this kind of sustainable smart phone that will last longer because of upgradeable parts so in a similar vein of project ara but the way they do it is a little bit different so project ara if you've ever seen pictures of this it looks like a Lego board like it's literally just like pieces of a smartphone all along the back and it looks like a little puzzle this one puzzle phone is what this is called is three parts okay so they split it up a phone into three different sections the spine which is the LCD screen the main buttons the speaker and the microphone the heart which is the battery and some secondary electronics and then the last thing is the brain which is the processor and things like the camera okay nice so this is really cool so it's a modular standard and what they're saying is that basically those are the three basic smartphone parts that you would want to upgrade on you probably for example want to upgrade things like the processor and the camera at the same time yeah so one of the things about project are that a lot of us have kind of had questions about is how viable is it really for a consumer market because it's really overwhelming I would imagine to have to pick out all those parts just like you would do building room computer for a lot of people that's very overwhelming they don't even know where to start and so this company is saying we'll listen we can do this and it can be modular but we can make it really soon yeah it's very simple and if we have three parts then maybe regular consumers will be more apt to try it do they talk about the upgrades like like you know what you like I know what you would upgrade but like did they have any improvements that there would be like oh this is the brain that's in there now this is the next time here's and hairspray okay so next step I would imagine over the course of the next probably a couple year or two if they're on the same kind of timeline that project Aras on we're going to start seeing these sort of use cases where they say well here's this camera and here's a picture of whatever and then like we're gonna switch it out for this camera and here's this so I have a feeling we're going to start seeing all that but not in this particular video that we pulled for today's have any have any providers adopted this yet or is it just kind of like a theory this is very conceptual so far kind of prototype but they did say that for an OS it'll be an Android fork at first but then the cool thing about this is that they said they want to make it compatible with other operating systems in the future so they can encourage a huge development community yeah so they want to be able basically for you to say i want android on this phone Oh next week maybe I'll switch out the camera and make it a windows phone cool or maybe I'll do that like this is really cool stuff so I think it's really fascinating I I love and I've always said that the future of phones is going to end up being just like computers we had this sort of for a while there we have this kind of processor race where was like how many cores can we get into a phone and now we're at a point where just like pcs we kind of plateaued out a little bit like we're still getting better but we've kind of plateaued to a point now where people are like okay well what about we're not modifying them like a nice swap out parts like that's the new thing yeah because you can't do anything with an iphone but you're still not gonna be able to do anything with an iphone yeah no I'm just saying like in comparison yeah speaking of rocky it looks kind of big it looked kind of chunk I have a feeling prototype device I mean it's always gonna be a little bit bigger um and more i look you're always gonna kind of see these prototypes be a little bigger than what retail would be but i'm really curious i mean i suppose your purchase but I'm very very interested yeah just keep an eye on puzzle phone cuz it does seem very fascinating okay the game awards tomorrow about it tomorrow the the game awards are going and in Las Vegas and you can watch it streaming on a device that's right it's not on TV you can watch on twitch and you can watch on your xbox and your playstation want the whole list but what of where you can watch it go for have it ok you can watch it on PlayStation Network Xbox Live we use steam twitch IGN gamespot niconico MLG kotaku and of course YouTube so basically on the the lack of success of a lot of other award shows a lot of us are excited about this one because it's kind of fueled from exactly where it should be which is like you know people that are into the industry so bright Jeff Keely himself was partially responsible for bringing this annihilation he's the ringmaster of this whole thing yep there's a lot of new categories ones that you know a big big name company wouldn't have even think to put in there and and there's a lot of there's a lot of really good judges so I can i assure with you some of the the place the categories because it's the thought I think it's the most interesting well part of the most interesting there's category for best remastered game that's it yeah there's a lot of that going on there is and that's a really good idea a lot of work in that there's also fandango's gonna sleep that next year here we go again all right so uh eSports player of the year so many buds big in eSports yeah which is a huge thing one of my friends is nominates that's good well aren't you fancy a trending gamer so anybody that's like doing uh you know like you know the gate let's play let's play life is a bank fluence are in the gaming industry nice that's kind of a popularity contest I feel but we'll see how that goes are in category so they are popular but but then there's best fan creation this is celebrating anybody who's you know inspired by gaming and is make something out and there's there's a lot of variance in this such as twitch plays Pokemon if you remember it's like yeah put anything direction we did that on the show we do best zelda rap ever by Egoraptor there's there's and then there's like a minecraft song so there's a lot of really cool you know a lot of the cool category I have to say the one thing I always look forward to for shows like this is the is the unveils the reveals the trailers like they're saying they're gonna have was at fourteen or six or eight to 16 new trailers you are never before seen world exclusive there's no for if you could have your kale yes there's no fallout born but uh there's and also Xbox says they're not going to be revealing any Xbox exclusive reveals so that still leaves multi-platform PlayStation and Nintendo all of which NPC all of which are totally supporting this yeah I've heard that not just a no-name show no this is it a lot most of the triple-a developers in the industry are behind this why not watch it it's the first it's the first one it's possibly the one that seems like the most legit and like most fun they're not like what and hosting is Kim Kardashian it's nothing like that I'm excited to watch it so hey I you know I will I will watch it Oh game of the year kit can we can we I know bayonetta 2 is nominated okay so here that you're the game of the year nominees kgotla let's see if you guessed any of them for you none or Dino aside from bayonetta to attain a tattoo all right amazing dark souls 2 good game a lot of people are like darn it a dragon age inquisition hearthstone whoo amazing and middle-earth shadows in Mordor awesome a zoo yeah so a great list I feel like Dragon Age check this out check this out making me what's happening are all like like a medieval period things I mean look at middle-earth fantasy swords and stuff yeah hearthstone yeah dragon is a little weird and dark souls except for Bayonetta there's no future tech stuff there's no like alien stuff which is like iphone as rares or games no no more games that crazy gonna be an interesting year to see which which sword wielding a baby dragon age dragon age I think it's what are you ready you think dragon age yeah okay so that's your vote I'm gonna say middle-earth dragons of Mordor all right no distractions a board or doesn't why you see where my headset so there you go her you got next sorry with that geek out is doing down there uh so ash bot is a robot that actually was announced a couple of months ago but now it is actually officially in service so this is I was very excited to hear about this I wanted to see exactly how was gonna work in the real world before talking about on the shove those promises promises and so this is by lowes innovation labs you're watching the video here here's the robot is that saw spot every time osh is for orchard supply hardware which is the chain that lowes actually owns so it's a smaller chain that's a hardware stores or orchard supply you're able to walk in you talk to this robot you can bring him the cool thing that they doubt about this robot is that you could bring in like a tool apart and say hey I need this what is this and then the robot could tell you oh hey it's over here follow me and then they take you to the parts section where you could get that bit which is kind of awesome but the the other cool thing about this is is that it speaks multiple languages so in the video they actually have somebody speaking to it and Spanish it understands really cool and you can also ask it for things like I'm looking for a hammer like and she's like I'm looking for hammer help me find a ham or whatever but here's the thing is that this finally went into service so this is the shiny promotional video that low that Lowe's labs put together so we got some real stories okay so now I get some real-world use case our friends over at ARS technica if you're familiar with ARS technica I've got to go to go check it out and there's actually one in service now in Silicon Valley so there's a bunch of reporters there and didn't quite go as planned the robot they asked for screwdrivers and it's which it separated the word screwdriver and then it couldn't understand what you're asking for because screwdriver one word is different than screwdriver to know so didn't really get that and then once they fix that as a like an error it they were able to find screwdrivers that's fine ah so what was the dude what was the ratio like just by assumption would do my assumption it seemed like it didn't it wasn't great so as I got seventy-five percent fail right you know how annoying self checkout lines I was gonna bring that up to like that it feels like it's maybe like that where you're gonna be screaming at this robot just getting really frustrated but they also said there were a lot of reporters there and then at one point it just got really confused and it was like I'm sorry I just can't help like it just oh no idea was happening so well you see that's the thing is is that all these things sound great but wrote like the robot technology is not right so when you wanna use when put in use it stuff you've been to a hardware store maybe you have or haven't and you see the person that's helping people out and there's using like a couple of people waiting for them hovering ish yes I'm always those always me I'm always like huh ring just going like well whenever they're done like I'll ask and this robot isn't be wandering around with people helping old ladies Vivian just a trailing line of people just waiting to try the robot yeah the osh bot osh bot b'gosh is that gonna be a thing so I am in that's cool no it's I'm sure to get better and the thing is is it is in use which is it's always nice to actually see something go from hey this is a prototype to actually being used in the real world even though it's a little buggy still pretty cool yep so it's phase one like let's get about a break you might first gen you know what you're getting right leg again it's like the mechanical spider are wait until it has hammer thrower arms oh yeah ya see it should have some that are just like it can dispense it like the whatever the most common items are it can just dispense those items that's one thing that they're actually pretty excited about which is down a collection of course but they're like we want to know what people are most commonly asking for in the store so maybe she's right fine oh maybe easy fun and probably also raise prices but on that note we're going to take a quick break we'll be back in 30 seconds we're going to talk about what we're into this week before we let you go for the weekend like as if you're in school and and then we will of course talk about our phone talker for the day and then we have something a little different for user feedback so don't click away tomorrow daily welcome back welcome back welcome back where we've returned and it's that time of the week once again we're kill and I discuss all the things that we are obsessed with this is called into it I'm gonna let you go first no why I you have to go first oh I do so it's well we're both kind of into this the PlayStation do you like PlayStation do you have I can i play station ok so a PlayStation is having the PlayStation experience on december six through seven that's like kind of like a first thing that they've ever this is the first time they've done something like it is here 20 is there any units anniversary and so they're doing it with you got to watch this promo video it makes me a little choked up they're doing this PlayStation experience that's allowing but it seems like the biggest fans of PlayStation to come and just have like enjoy everything about playstation can play some new games and even have some of the devs come out and do panels you can ask them questions stuff like that that's like a PlayStation cut Plake on my desk I station convention i I really from what it seems like from watching the video and I may just be easily influenced but it seems just kind of like a celebration doesn't really like there there you know too many of their products are being I mean I'm sure maybe absolutely unreleased stuff that they're gonna have on the floor like I know Grim Fandango remastered is gonna be even at full I'm sorry to bring it up twice but I know that will be there cuz I saw tim schafer tweeting about like that's gonna be one of the things that's playable Oh surround stuff that's unreleased yeah so it's almost like III but for the public you're gonna be able to go and make no mistake they didn't pick this date for no reason yeah good be game awards remember i just mentioned that is the day before this thing started night for so a lot of you in Las Vegas for the PlayStation experience who are also one in Game Awards are gonna be really hungover the first day freely really hungover from video games and happiness and camaraderie all those great expect some like announcements I mean obviously we might see some trailers for new games yeah at the game awards and then maurya bowl yeah we might see a playable a station glaciations thing but this is really cool if you're watching this and you go to either please tell us about it you might see kale one or both you might if I can find a all right to Vegas just cause he's gonna hitchhike level and then we'll go but there you go another great weekend for video games so the 2015 nope 2014 brother sorry uh so my thing that I'm into is actually attached to the PlayStation experience but it's in item specific to the PlayStation experience and also you're going to be able to buy it if you're online this is the 20th anniversary edition ps4 which looks ridiculously awesome and I but I want it just shut up and take my money tells me really not gonna get in so you have to be at the event to get them no okay no no so there's okay let's just take a look at this it's actually great it's a grey ps4 just like the eyes and days of the original PlayStation the first PlayStation they take this unboxing is like ridiculous it's my favorite this box that it comes in you get a playstation camera get the camera for the ps4 you the eye you also get a controller that's gray it's just it's really really pretty you guys I want it it's really pretty yeah it reminds me of just laying final fantasy 7 this is so just for us like mega ultra gamers everybody else is like it's just great it's just great guy she's just spray painting spray ranges layoffs um it is going to be limited to twelve thousand three hundred units translation you're not gonna get it may not get one where is it where's it gonna be again okay so you're gonna be able to buy it you will actually be able to buy it first at the PlayStation experience and do we know how many of their selling man I don't know but it might just be that you're able to preorder it there like first and then actual online pre-orders are going to open on the sony playstation store on the sixth did they say it's gonna be any more so on saturday so well it'll be the same day so it'll be the same day as opening on playstation 4 you might be able to actually take one from the playstation store they maybe i'll have them there i'm not sure that i can I please I can't corroborate that that's gross that's speculation pure speculation yeah um but yeah so there it's gonna be 500 bucks for 99 um which limited edition yeah she's gonna be worth okay salutes yeah a little more um and yeah you get you get all the stuff and if you and you'll be able to pre-order it from what does it store sony com on december six relievers playstation or sony was sending us to this event Oh be that would be cool that would be cool guys we'd like that next next year next year we go to e3 it's we go to you three yeah but I mean I get locked out of stuff a lot in and in III it's like even when your preso like actually you'll be the president of company do so I'm hoping with PlayStation experience this actually helps minimize the people trying to like sneak into III like maybe that'll help like I wish like the other two gaming companies would do these things too like Nintendo Direct I really like that they're able to do these like demo stations like Best Buy and stuff were you able to go play smash brothers before it came out and all that I like that and I think we should do more of that I think the gaming industry should do more of that I think about it's a lot of fun why not why not give gamers more places to like check out things that are coming up like it will get gets people excited cause we were really excited about everything do you remember that give that Nintendo thing at the end of the Wiz yes just a wizard sorry it wasn't the wizard the wizard was a movie that I watched as a kid and I was like I want to go to the video game championship so bad and play Super Mario Brothers 3 in the championship and he found the flute for some reason sorry and Lucas had the power glove on the way and like you boy man what a great Fred Savage film that's just fine in this really I definitely if you haven't seen the Wizard track it down I think it you can probably see a we need to reboot the wizard not with the wii u let's go Holly and reboots a wizard with with the adult versions of everybody that's what we should do would be amazing no would be pretty heavy engage on his arm like what does it'll be oculus rift oh man be so good okay you're to hear first all right so uh we this is where we would normally do user feedback so let's run a graphic I know we said we were gonna read your Suicide Squad tweets today but maybe we lied maybe we fit it wasn't really a lie it's more like an untruth I don't know last minute change what you want to call this a lie okay Lyssa life we are gonna read them though we are gonna read them on 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