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on today's show a double amputee makes history with two new Bionic arms NASA proposes cloud cities and airships on Venus that's the purpose re just keep going okay and a Japanese company is working on animating all those cool statues that you see it like comic book shops oh I love this episode already yes it's tomorrow daily greenies synthesis in the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the universe I'm your host Ashley scale economies always my right-hand man literally to my right kill Thomas it's good um this this actually I think you're right in that this might be one of my favorite episodes all year because it because of the stories there's some pretty good stories in here I can't wait so we have we have stories that will will lift your will warm your heart heartwarming we have stories that are like so crazy and awesome that they can't possibly be real but they are and then we have stuff that's just like whoa I really hope that shows up in my house sometime soon right and we'll get to them in about forty six minutes no in about four seconds here's the headlines okay thanks for taking that away from me you know I don't make anybody way fellas really burying the lead here 46 minutes all right what do you got two shows from now okay so this is gonna be the story of a man named les bow I'm gonna call him bow its ba ugh so I think it's bow bow bow now i'm gonna say bow um less lost both of his arms in a freak electrical accident 40 years ago okay so there he is and he is now officially the very first amputee in the world to wear and control two Bionic arms at the same time using just his thoughts using his thoughts yeah this is this is literally what I probably one of my favorite stories of the year a hundred percent it came in at the last minute in December definitely one of my favorites so his arms his Bionic arms are from John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and he had to actually have surgery that literally reassigned his nerves so he could use these arms oh wow this has been a while in the making oh yeah this is like it took he had to go through a lot of different processes but there he is using two Bionic arms at the same time using his thoughts so uh after he got that surgery done to reassign his nerves to these arms like to use these arms he had to then trained to use the arms through a bunch of different tutorials including one that was actually a virtual reality version of his arm of these having these arms and so then there is a custom did socket that fits onto his upper torso which is what you're seeing in between the two that's it's sort of like a chess piece that allows him to kind of where it almost like a jacket but they put it on his torso so that it sets the arms in place and those are his arms like and this is the amazing do can you pick stuff up like I mean has he done this is ok so that is the most appropriate question you could possibly ask this is the crazy thing within 10 days he was able to move objects from one place to another so this right here is a process that I think they said took took over eight different functions that is normally taking one cup and putting it on a different shelf a higher up shelf is it comes very difficult task for people with prosthetics and the fact that he was able to learn to do that in just 10 days is remarkable Wow and they were really excited about how quickly and easily he's been able to sort of pick up the use of these arms and the unless himself was quoted as saying maybe for once I'll be able to put change in the pop machine and get pop out of it oh it's a good just like this would show a man yeah like he's just that's like a really exciting Bank rusty the whole time nobody incredible super major what kind of I mean maybe we don't have that information but like what kind of strength is in the arms I mean like what are they capable of like the dexterity like that how does it they're very they're extremely capable I don't have like super specific detail there's if you go over to our show links there's it's a huge article it has lots of details you can check it out watching the video just in and of itself is extremely inspirational but they're extremely dexterous he's able obviously you saw him grabbing a ball and dropping it into a bowl and that's all done without the use of any remote controls it's just him thinking about it that's crazy it's pretty great just him thinking about it it's amazing it's a little really amazing it I saw the picture today and it was like seeing a guy with two Bionic arms in use what blew my mind because it was just like I'm looking at like the future this is the future it was just such a it was such a tremendous feeling so I can't even imagine what all the researchers and scientists and unless himself feels like having such a such an accomplishment happen and now he they're saying the next step would be for him to take these arms home and you know do his day-to-day activities with them so we'll see way to go science and technology yeah pretty good high five science and this one this next story speaking of science yeah is high five is what sounds like a wacky like idea from somebody that's not a NASA and it's actually coming from NASA and that is that I bet it make sense NASA thinks we should live in in the clouds more specifically the clouds of Venus get me my lando calrissian Kate yeah this computer Cloud City feel is getting better all the time so basically you know let the plan was initially like oh well we're gonna live we're gonna live on Mars well yeah let's all go to Mars well let's keep in mind that Mars has 40 times the radiation of Earth right well Venus Venus itself isn't any better that it's got 92 different atmospheres and pressures and temperatures and it's around 500 degrees Celsius so not exactly the best place in the world to lay it seems really hot on the surface i think that's that is the level of heat that can melt lid yeah so not another fun place to look at however a couple of guys working at NASA's system analysis and concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center that's a mouthful yes have have pointed out that if we live just above the clouds of Venus it's it has just the same amount of radiation as it does have you lived in Canada oh yeah it's like pretty similar kind of not obviously it's not the same but it's a little bit less dangerous yes and there's Ani there's only one atmosphere of pressure and a slightly lower gravity than Earth how high up is this so surface of Venus 500 kilometers 500 or 50 sorry Finn if you use okay 50 50 kilometers okay it's not bad at all so all these things are making it sound less and less crazy yeah um so yeah here's here's the phases so this is this is okay ethically if it happened actually you're the bases here we go got a plan uh there are solar powered airships okay so we'd have the airships check them out okay so the first phase robot explores the upper atmosphere so weird exploration send a robot in like curiosity check it out it's like everyone's gone number Q crewed mission orbits for a month okay so we send somebody sense turkey club from open it out spying yeah like check things out ahead stocking number three crewed mission ghost the atmosphere for a month okay checking it out like really getting in the end of the soup number four crewed mission stays in the atmosphere for a year look at this look at this airship inflating in the sky this is like how they would do I think they said instead of edl owl standing for landing this would be EDI which eyes inflation you can see the solar panels on it too so it's amazing all solar-powered that's came at number five permanent human presence could you imagine living in an air in a blimp in on Venus awesome I'm a Venusian i live on Venus but like i would say i would like to say that these scientists have their heads in the clouds get out hahaha just go it felt so good I bet you've been waiting all day to say that I'm sorry I just can't with it I'm I'm almost offended but I'm also impressed but anyway so yeah that's a it's from NASA that is not intense it's not from my Uncle Louie that lives in a cabin up in the woods now it's great actually for some time ya know this is this is this is really cool so so I mean I'm sure like nobody's really thought about let me ask you would you I don't know there's that the T the day now would you rather I know your answer would you rather live on Mars uh-huh or would you rather live in the clouds and Venus oh my gods on via that's the hardest person a living in the class because here's the thing i believe i read that if at some point if astronauts were ever to settle on Mars we would have to be underground because of the radiation on the surface that's terribly Asian exposure so as far as a right and then the other thing is that i read and i think that was part of this story um was that the trip to Venus actually much shorter than the trip to because of the or below they were saying something along the lines of like a trip to Mars would be like 50 500 plus days like it this would be a pretty lengthy you commitments but they were saying that if you did a 30 day trip I think it was like 110 days to get there and then another and then depending on or 30 days to get there and 110 to get back or somebody is a very much much shorter amount of time to get there and back based on the orbiting schedule of Venus and then they also said that they measure days you can't really measure a day on Venus because a year on Venus actually shorter or is actually shorter than a day because Venus rotates so slowly you say wait what say that again so a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus like isn't that weird he's super weird so anyway stellar stubborn facts oh I'd like to i'd also like to point out that the the Jetsons lived in the clouds and they live just and they seemed like they were doing a robot Butler's I'm sure they had the look there's my house I'm buying that one on the left that's that's me there you go there's your Cloud City right there cheaper than I don't know like la it songs Aang it's probably cheaper than living in Los Angeles downside you're afraid of heights maybe not a fun time you're gonna have a bad time maybe you don't dive out all right um ok so that's the second cool story what's the third cool stone it just keeps getting better um one of the things that I've kind of always wished for is you know you go to the comic book shop and you see these like amazing maquettes where they're these statues of like your favorite characters and I have a bunch of them at the house like North I am sister yeah I did too ah we're all nerds here guys word we're all nerds um but I always wanted like I always wish like man I wish they could like move like I wish she could have them move like not come to life like toy story cuz I'm not two years old just about three years old but like it just in my heart I'm three years old um but yeah like I always thought it would be cool to be able to you know either move them or pose them well this company species speed species I'm assuming its species there in Japan and it was founded by a guy who worked on the robot dog I Bo you remember the robot dog hi Bo yes yeah robot dog maybe if you saw it you'd probably member it so they're hoping to kind of do exactly that's we have this amazing video so here they are this is what's called a motion figure system so imagine over the top of this the skin of like your favorite character ho ok so there are 25 centimeters tall whoa they have 20 joints of them connected by yeah he's cute connected by wires and then the wires feed into the box underneath that has motors Bluetooth Wi-Fi speakers and sensors so here's the thing the species is hoping that the software that they would include would prompt people to do things like develop their favorite characters and give them poses to make like so Zelda like this I see you have a Zelda when you these different poses for Zelda or greet you when you walk past it like you could sit down or even like read your e-mails back to you like if you sat at your desk if it's a like here's all your emails blah blah blah so they want to bring this system to market but it's not going to be cheap they're saying it's gonna cost between 500 and thousand bucks per figure marvel pay attention but but seriously anybody who's a real high-end collector I'm sure would love to have their favorite character that you could program like multiple poses into and have it animated everybody if Marvel took this up shut up and take our mind everyone would do everyone would get one of those yeah imagine if like spider-man like you come home after a long day throw your keys down hey spider-man hey kale what are we doing tonight same thing we're just gonna watch TV awesome cool I'm your friendly neighborhood spider-man and then he poses yeah the thing is that you you're right like you know like spider-man has all these different poses and you can move the pose like the feet and so I me it's like so it's perfectly it's enough articulation to make it look cool but not so much that it gets really bogged down and like this like super technical like oh it's got you know a hundred and fifty points of articulation no its twenty which is enough for a figure I just think it's awesome why why would you say it's so expensive what does I mean that we already have like toys that do kind of move a little bit true well we have action figures that have just plastic points of articulation a full wire system that you'd be able to build characters on top of and then on top of that you've got underneath it all these sensors Bluetooth Wi-Fi connectivity like it's all that as well so it's the box underneath the actual doll or the figure is filled with technology so they're hoping that they would be able to develop a software that would allow people to like create their own you know carrot but not create their own characters that create their own um you know like scripts for like hey kill thank you tell us right right he said I wanted to say hey kale blah blah blah yeah i'll give it two years i say two years and then we're gonna do it like i got really excited when I which is art that's actually a hash well that's our hashtag of the day like a hashtag TT stay here and we want to know what character would you want an animated statue of and what tasks or poses would it do I feel like I'd want Sailor Moon like just the hair moving around oh that's really good I remain I'd want bill paxton I want it I want to bill pay i do want bill paxton i come in on like no after a long day kill how was your day I was crappy mine was fine i'm bill paxton i'm a good yeah no I likes it like it's just so weird something not particularly extraordinary so bizarre they'll be fun and then he talks about like being in twister Jenny only text it's not like me it's like all the movies he's been and he's like a young one time when I was on the set of twister yeah in Helen Hunt had lunch together and me and cheese sandwiches bill had a terrible day well when life gives you lemons twister get in a dude wisdom follow a tornado no I like the idea of it being almost a companion that seems like where our minds are going I like articulation is fun for like we're a different with the Bluetooth wanted to screech at the Bluetooth and the Wi-Fi like imagine if you could get your messages through it like if somebody text you or something like that and then they can get the voice right you have spider-man read you the why do I keep going to spider-man thank you you're spider-man he's no friend yeah we're built axon read it alright worgen I'm breaking up with you all night I got a text from my girlfriend on that bill paxton note on that sad sad bill paxton oh we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back with into it and your user feedback on our photog refer the day so click away tomorrow daily welcome back from the show I know it it only felt like 30 seconds it really it was a lifetime it's like interstellar hey guys did you joke spoiler some people haven't seen it well not just you know we got close sort of the singularity and you could have said inception where it's the lower level of inception yeah we're seven years ago way Christopher Nolan until they're all like they're all connected I think they all happen in the same universe oh do they I'm just gonna be very scary scary universe weird bizarre universe um okay so uh it's Thursday which means it means we're done wait no not yet we got to tell everybody what we're into its into it um I want to go first just because I don't want anybody to even pay attention to what you're gonna say because once every this they're just everyone's gonna shut this show off immediately and just run off to the to the website of steam because the steam holiday sale started today and that's what I'm into I know bye I even kill his off I mean but here's the thing uh really awesome people like yours truly mm-hmm have already gone online to the steam sale and bought games I think last year I bought 12 or 15 to 15 games like a ridiculous amount of games for less than one hundred dollars so it's always really good deals like you see anything right now are you are you super yeah meadow get me Metal Gear uh ground zeroes is on sale ya know big metal gear fan rocks not answer it stated see it a caveman I are there okay no wait here we go sid meier's civilization beyond Earth okay why that I always use the steam holiday sale to buy like indie games like I love buying a pile of indie games that I've been thinking about our I've read about over the you know course of the year I wasn't like buying a whole bunch of any games and then I just spend all your kind of catching up and playing them so it's I mean this team holiday so is what it's all about guys right yes that's what I'm saying and fun fact thirty-one percent of the game that we buy on steam we don't play no that's actually that's a hundred percent accurate in terms of my account like there's still stuff I've never ever opened that's an actual statistic by the way yeah actual it was like a steam so go give steam your money and then and then don't use thirty percent of it ya know is really hurting you guys you gotta get it helps my probably euro truck alright but it changes every day the sales change every day they're even having a thing now where it's like user voted three games our user voted to go into the steam holiday sale so like they're gonna have starting tomorrow I think it's the first one no they're gonna have like these sort of people's choice sale which is kind of nice okay what are you into I'm into a little thing called the black mirror so bright mare is this show that show in the UK it's basically the twilight zone but addressing like issues nowadays Twilight Zone was all about like addressing social issues like challenging you know like social concepts and like how would you deal with the situation type thing this takes that to the next level of course it's gonna have to sensationalize it even more to match what's on TV and it also addresses sensationalism too so let me let me put you this way the name of the show is called Black Mirror gotcha that that means it the meaning of black mirror is your devices your cell phone your computer screen your television they're all black when they're turned off but they're going they're on their reflection of who we are today catch so this is a twisting of that taking all of those things and showing what can and and might go wrong with all of these all the creepy and weird things that could possibly go wrong so for instance my for my favorite one is called the history of you in which your memories are saved to like a small hard drive that you wear and you can re-watch them and you can show them to other people so people become obsessed with their memories and it becomes like it's it's great you've got to watch it that's I you can you just watch watch the history of you and then you know maybe I'll watch at this week and also a holiday episode just came out yesterday it had stars Jon Hamm and they just premiered the trailer for season 3 yesterday it's coming out in May okay Thank You UK for doing something that we should have done a long time ago which is created I don't like do that appropriation thing like where they pick up a UK series and bring it to the US like you know I need a broad church it's the exact same show please don't do that gracepoint and broadchurch infuriate me because broadchurch is literally it's a great show it's an idiot weiners starring David Tennant wait starring David Tennant and then they were like let's bring it to the United States and rename it and have it start David 10 it's like why oh that was still stars the same guy it's so bizarre I only worked once and it was the office and that doesn't even technically count cuz it was a different show yeah just watch black hair black mirror okay good love the people from the UK cuz they're making good stuff alright I like this is I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan huge Twilight Zone fan this is modern a twilight it is modern a twilight zone it's not like you're just saying well it's kind of like the trial is only like no Twilight somebody has nails exactly and somebody asked me it would rather certainly like this show and I said absolutely well he would love this if Rod Serling if you think Rod Serling's would give it and ok then I will watch it we've had that we have a rod serling graphic that comes up whenever I say that no we don't let's talk about user feedback alright so yesterday we asked you guys to tell us whether or not you thought Netflix should have an offline mode using the hashtag TV now it's fighting time it is um our very first our very first tweet came from I'll abdul-rahman i think is the right pronunciation I hope I got that right he says let me have the service first and then I'll complain about Arabia Australia is getting it like next month I think well played well played we realize we often do not consider the fact that things like Netflix are not available in other locations sorry alright Ricky wrote to us and said I have two gigabytes of data on verizon so offline Netflix would be great now that's nice it's my good point yeah glen road to us similarly and said offline netflix wouldn't be necessary if LTE plans were unloaded high speed internet is saturated in my life yeah yeah i agree but a lot of people are watching these on the Oh like I don't really watch Netflix yeah you know I don't know unless I'm waiting in a line for something like or even then i'd like to absorb the outside world a little bit yeah i'm from a computer all the time that's true anthony wrote i think netflix should let users watch offline original content that's only on next there you go see that's the there's the correct answer cuz then what people are gonna watch the netflix originals yeah that's really good on that is a very business-savvy answer somebody at netflix needs to give anthony a job yeah that's all life congratulations Anna you just been hired at Netflix yes according to us I don't um and of course that brings us to our very final piece of user feedback our photog refer the day our phone talker with the day they might frighten you a little bit it sucks from Adele a and he says no hey Ashley no don't touch your microphone no don't leave I took this picture using my iphone 5 back in September when me and a friend of mine we're talking about how small cameras how small cameras have evolved in the past years I saw this little spider on a sidewalk and gave the phone a chance to demonstrate my point although I've never been good at taking photos my iphone did not disappoint me and took this great shot i hope you liked it loved the show keep up the good work and ashley i hope you get better soon misty last week Adele from Dublin Ireland get get get up no get up no I'm not is it off no it's not up anymore it's all hot look there you're you're you're literally your face oh god you screamed right into the mic and you just made people drive off the road right now please don't drive off the road please don't leasing spider out the screen Oh God also I forget it's really ugly looking to it's like a deal it's it's a it's a spider and it's an ugly spider riders are so good it's funny expect because they have a lot of lot more powers than I do know they can they can they can make a web they can jump way higher than I can you could sneak and hide under stuff like they're like literally a hundred they can run faster than me a lot of the time well that's cuz we're out of shape there's a lot more of them than us too that's true if the spiders ever decided to rise humanity you ever see that movie from the 1960s with the giant spiders that were crushed in the building or Iraq that's based on a true stalker yes just like the blair witch project based on it ice cream oh no don't start coughing okay well thank thank you for that photo you're my favorite user know it you're absolutely Kayla's new favorite officially because i am decree it so it you're my new favorite that's rare now I was a really nice picture I thought it was great I like spiders so spiders are helpful don't kill spiders guys unless there are those really big ones that live behind clocks like the one I got you for Christmas and on that note if you want to send in your phone tog raphy you can email it to tomorrow at cnet com you can also send us your user feedback you want email that to us if you hate email that's cool you can head over to Twitter Facebook or Instagram we are at tomorrow daily on all of those platforms and we're also on Google+ as tomorrow daily TV and we have a new tumblr if you go to tomorrow daily tumblr com you can check out our photog refer of the day and also we'll have a link to the article on cnet where you can get 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three episodes next week and that'll be it for the rest of the year because we're we're on break until CES and then we're gonna come we're gonna come storming into the convention center at CES in Las Vegas and we're gonna be on page of CNN we're gonna be checking out the future hoverboards and everything on that no guys will be back on Monday have a great weekend vegan humans and we will see you next time bye daddy on where you sell at Slater you