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on today's show Google releases a new video about their modular smartphone experiment project ara the power glove is back and it's actually it works this time that's cool and lab-grown muscles respond just like the real thing we got to get implants tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet I feel like I should be punching this guy this is weird sue you that's true you have a patent it's a trademark welcome to our daily I'm your host Ashley a scaler joining me as always the man the myth the legend Ashley Ciara Kailyn I don't know I don't know how to do we switch sides because of my hair it's like this is really sad I'm sorry to say but it was Kayla's idea wasn't mine I just want to put that ego rumor to rest immediately yeah you can't you can't do all the things that I do or again I will sue you okay I've got good lawyers you'd better call Saul all right guys it's time for the headlines okay so an exciting thing about 2015 is we've been waiting for Google's Project ara we saw phonebloks last year we've seen a lot of modular smartphone ideas where you have your smartphone and you switch out pieces which is pretty cool it's like it's like building your own computer you have huge on this so it's exciting okay so Google unveiled spiral 2 so this is the newest prototype of their project ara smartphones they did it at the project ara Developers Conference over in Puerto Rico so here look they put a speaker in there they put two two power blocks so like let's say you want double the battery life there's two different battery modules this one is night vision camera they showed a whole bunch of different modules in this video which is pretty awesome whoa so the parts that snap in place by using magnets so these magnets you slide these pieces into place I really like that part of the video where they said crack screen and then they just slide a new screen compasses look at that compass heart rate monitors there all kinds of stuff in there and then they show this big array of like different pieces that could potentially be in the in the blocks on the back of the phone there's like nest Google Toshiba like there's all these different people in there and companies which is pretty awesome so look it looked cool like it looks really cool and actually what I was a skeptic when I first heard about this like when phone walks him home like I don't know you guys like I mean it makes sense because we started buying computers pre-built and then a bunch of hobbyists got into making them you know themselves and building themselves and now you and I build our own computers this DIY so this is sort of an evolutionary step in smartphones I think for me yeah I want that I can think of a million things to put on there is that our is that our TD of the day what kind of things would you want to put on your phone it's not but you guys could totally tell us and we could talk about it anyway like if we want to tweet at us yeah I like it because I said the what was it the night vision thing yeah it was cool yeah and it's like in stock people aren't for my phone and the neat thing is is you can pick the things like so the idea is that you could pick the things that are the most important to you so I'm all about camera on a phone I don't necessarily need a front-facing camera I don't know like maybe I don't need it so far selfie or well not that often no and so but maybe I really want a high-end camera so maybe for example Canon makes a modular piece that is like a super high-end lens it's like that right it's like it's for every different person so if you're someone who likes to like travel or hike a lot you've got the compass you've got many like information anything a heart rate monitor nation you have you're a doctor maybe you have like a pulse thing or I don't think we're real technically yeah super uber doctors really but I love it so like I like I'm I'm like a gamer so maybe there's like things you can add on that are like little joystick knobs yeah this is great I like I like the possibilities I'm worried about it being junkie you know like maybe prototypes are probably a little thick but over time the neat thing is hard enough to buy a new phone I know it of course the new base model you got to buy the new baseball but the cool thing is is that you're able to switch out even they're saying like processors and stuff so when you upgrade your phone you're out just throwing away a phone you're just you just pop a new processor and then it's faster not that I am interested to hear what everybody else comes up with yeah please please send us your ideas because I have a feeling they're gonna be really good um but yeah I really like there's three different size blocks on this smartphone and then they're saying that they're gonna go into pilot testing this year and have about twenty to thirty modules available so Wow we won't see it in like you know obviously beta or like Google glass where you can do the explorers program that just got discontinued today but yeah I feel like some developers will actually be able to get their hands on this this year which is pretty exciting very cool so tell me about the power plug because this story is everywhere right guys you get SuperDuper cool in the wizard no no but all right the power glove is so bad so bad it's good this going everywhere because it's totally amazing it involves the power glove and actually serving a purpose okay so this guy Dylan Mackey he works on Robot Chicken currently and he also works for Pez one of my favorite YouTube channels he decided that he wanted to use the power glove to help him with stop-motion animation really so how this works is he DIY this he replaced the circuit board inside of the power glove so that he could use it to scroll through frames play the frames and capture I mean like it was just DIY it so you can see before he was carrying around like a like a you know a little little controller it was more hold it in his hands so he wanted it to just be like you know so you'd have to hold anything except and he's saying that it's it's way easier to do and he's very excited about it this is cool yeah it's based it uses a Bluetooth that connects to his camera and the best part above all about this is he built it so that if you fist bump it makes a sound that says everything awesome Oh effing awesome well it says no actual but I'm seeing it so I cannot say that you can think about it in your head we only get one a year and you we've already met that quota sorry crapola nuts but there you go you can check out the full video it's on it's on Vimeo yeah it's so cool oh yeah I forgot to mention he has a little a few analog things on there like tweezers in which he can pick up things like it like faces and stuff like that and he also has a magnet that he can attach a bunch of different things on - yeah like parts so he has an eyebrow kit you saw there so he can pick up the pieces of eyebrows for the characters and like change their eyebrows with the little tweezers it's just super awesome but that's really cool I love when they repurpose things to like make it useful because obviously the power glove you know that you can see so that's our hashtag of the day what so our hashtag the day is TD power and oh the question is if you could MacGyver any old product into something useful today right what would you do okay you go first I think I would use a viewmaster remember the view masters where you put the thing and I use it as a VR headset I wanna be able to slide my phone in I'm like the viewmaster yeah okay I would definitely no I would definitely I would definitely do the power glove power glove I like the power glove cheating you already seen like this egg this guy using it you gonna pick you but I don't make stop motion like there's a million other things that I could do like maybe I could you wipe okay or maybe like I could repeat zja get a robot they like pets my cat for me and I don't have to leave the couch wow that is super duper lazy that's right yeah I mean there's a whole bunch of stuff oh boy I turn into a pit boy there you go from sobs sorry I'll turn it out but there's got to be a lot of different stuff I'm sure like Rob or like what's some other old tech just anything I mean you get bit yeah who is skip it what could you do with this I don't even want to know anyway so yeah TD power what what would you repurpose what would you repurpose into and what would you reverse it I ain't talked down on me for wanting to repurpose power good well yes guys only scratch the surface alright so and that's why everybody's excited is know it's super cool by the way I do have an issue with this and that is that have you ever tried a power glove on there has an adult there they're pretty made for kids yeah and so let me see Archer is Alana like this look at my hands it's really sad it's footballs yeah pama basketball whatever you know slap people like in Everlong and the music better Dave girl gets a big hand that's me that was me I was a stunt guy alright last thing we have for headlines is lab-grown muscles i'll keep this pretty brief this is awesome we've seen lab-grown muscle fibers before but the reason these are so particularly interesting is because they actually not only respond to electrical stimulation which has always existed including inside the human body but they also respond to drugs so a muscle relaxers or drugs designed to make muscles do something in particular what about steroids probably their drugs drugs drugs so drugs are drugs so this is from Duke University and the Searchers showed this off on video and like I said the important part of this whole thing is they can respond to drugs as opposed to just electrical stimulation and they put these slightly developed stem cells into a scaffolding and then grew muscle fibers they like coax them into growing as muscle fibers and the cool thing about this is that say for example you go to the doctor and you're like you know I'm having this muscle issue whether it's a disease or maybe you're just having a general problem they're like okay you problem yeah me and they say okay well we're not really sure if this like this trial drug is gonna work for you and might respond very badly to you so we're gonna grow your muscle fibers in a lab and test them so you're your own you would be your own tests up there get muscles yeah yeah kind of so I was like that's kind of just a really neat thing it might also help like human trials for muscular drugs because the thing is is you're not putting people at risk so it's just for testing in your body potentially for testing yeah this isn't a thing where it's like hey we're gonna grow you some muscles and then implant them like it's it's not like that but it's like gastón yeah exactly do I eat four dozen eggs so that you're roughly the size of a barge um yeah no this is really cool and I just I saw and I thought it was so fascinating that when I'm doing stuff like this and that and that it's actually these fibers that are not connected to anything else are able to respond to drug treatments which is super weird but cool they did they say how long it took to grow the muscles I didn't see that in the couple articles I looked at I would imagine it takes a little while you know cuz it takes a while to grow things like skin grafts and other other stuff in a lab I mean god they're growing organs in a lab now which is bizarre does that accidentally grow human one of these days it's just gonna there's gonna be like a little sentient liver that's like hey guys like it's gonna be so bizarre alright on that note we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back it's time for another round of Intuit when we come back which we have some good stuff this week and and then we have your user feedback and our phone time for the day so don't click away tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we're back where we're still you always look like you're looking at things and this I'm looking for you you're supposed to be over there anyway the walls are literally right on the other side of this so it's like this is just the wall and like it always looks like we're looking around as it was a giant cavernous room it's the way I I'm a YouTube guy so I'm looking at all the related videos usually something over to the related videos a lot of sense that makes a lot of sense okay it's Thursday we haven't done this in like three weeks it's time for into it alright so kale yeah you are we were into some very specific things this week which I think we all are yeah so go ahead well television is back it's been you know everybody took the holiday holiday break but I'm more excited about that right now the comedies are the ones that are making the big like the early returns there is Parks and Rec it's coming back for its final season first two episodes we're all right but it's just exciting to like watch a show get it's like final season but man I love I love comedies because those are the ones that you're like I'm cooking dinner okay broad city I had a pretty great return its first episode was like like yesterday or something like that really fun if you haven't checked out broad city it's really fun it's about these two you they just got renewed for a third season whoo great show broad city Archer is more my favorite show Archer is back there there they work for the CSC is CSI they were CIA now this show is always great some of the best voice actor on television Kriegers my one of my favorites Kruger amusing so yeah and then yeah so it's always sunny always I don't think we have a match for that always saying is is is back and yeah it was imagine that they go excited yeah genera Belov yeah all these comedies are back these are really great for like selling home after work and distressing and and unwind and I always cook a steak I don't know what I cook a lot of steaks and chicken chicken and steak Couser Couser at hashtag is steak so you break fabric thank you break alright cool so what are you into I'm into this is really exciting I saw say Elon Musk tweeted and I quote we'll be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods most likely in Texas Hyperloop Hyperloop okay so in Hyperloop is a technology that Elon Musk has discussed but we haven't really seen an action there's this great video over on Weis puppet where they explain exactly how it works he had mentioned originally that he would have a Hyperloop that would go it's a super high-speed rail I know so uses this technology it goes the speed of sound SuperDuper fast in gold pods if I think they said six people and so the concept idea for this is kind of a thing that some people have said I don't think this will ever happen some people have said this is a great idea it's almost like he knows like weird vacuum capsules at the bank like old timey like old school banks stuff where you put on capsule in it sends it via vacuum or the the tubes from Futurama yeah sure yeah totally like that so this is how it worked this video super green I highly recommend anybody watched it if you're not sure what Hyperloop is so and then it would it would push things really really fast so you'd be able to go I forget what the time frame was but it was it's like it's like 45 minutes to go from here to San Francisco it's super duper fast yeah and he was saying like relatively safe because the thing is this is not on Rails like a traditional commuter train why would you say relatively well because we it's it's never been tested this is it doesn't exist so so yeah he's saying now that they are officially looking into building a straight-up Hyperloop test track which is really exciting for anybody who loves superfast travel and the future because this seems like a very Jetsons II idea this is very the future very exciting and very cool I'm really looking forward to what's going on that I'll be keeping a very close eye I mean we'll probably be 76 by the time it comes out but like I always feel like the day after I die all these great things are gonna happen like we're gonna cure cancer we're gonna find immortality the secret to immortality and uploading our consciousness to like some sort of virtual reality simulation we're gonna have these flying car super high-speed you know maglev like whatever super high-tech travel teleportation like we're just gonna fear all this stuff out the day after I'm dead you want to be immortal I think in a computer simulation I would yeah in a computer simulation like the matrix like the matrix yeah yeah I think I would yeah I think I would do it um but yeah so so that's we're into which now it's time to get into what you're into which is your user feedback you're into your user cuz they're they're into their opinions I trust you you're much better transitions I just no no absolutely not so um yesterday we asked you guys use the hashtag TD Nintendo and Louis what you got or didn't get or wanted to see from the next Nintendo Direct did somebody say f-zero I mean I don't want to no not yet we only got one piece of feedback on Twitter about this so maybe YouTube Kael didn't look at YouTube so you can blame kill for not listening to you guys but Hector wrote to us on Twitter and said the next direct needs to showcase an amiibo specific game I haven't been impressed with amiibo basically giving you DLC which you know kill obviously is he's super what do you why do you look like that for I don't want any more amiibo stuff he's over amiibo that looks that shot is insane by the way it looks hilarious I'm waiting for I'm actually I actually fully agree with him because I was he's saying I want you to do something a they need to have a purpose fair enough yeah totally fair I think that's I was hoping when I bought the amiibo and and obviously nobody's excited about it because nobody tweeted us but I want the amiibo to save my Super Smash Brothers stats okay I saved like oh how many of this and this and then you can take it something like level them up somehow like that because you unlock moves and stuff if you're deceived nobody cares alright alright fair enough um and then we got another we got an email from Ron and Ron wrote to us he's a longtime fan and he says in episode 110 kale seems to have given all the credit for house of cards to research done by Netflix technically not true house of cards the new Netflix version was based on the earlier version of house of cards done on the BBC back in the 1990's starring Ian Richardson again available on Netflix and apparently hysterically funny just saying good show good stuff last week from CES you to keep up the good works however however okay however I did some research on this you're both right you're both right yeah take that Ron we're both right on HuffPo I looked up an article I did some research I looked up an article about how house of cards came to be and at the time there's a gentleman working for one of the development guys at Netflix he said their wealth of data on user viewing habits proved there was a large audience for David Fincher Kevin Spacey and political thrillers so that was definitely a thing but they chose to license house of cards from the BBC because of that data and because they wanted to make it a thriller with Kevin Spacey but they wouldn't have bought house of cards if they dad had they not had that dad so you're both right you're totally both right and also because I did this research house of cards is actually a novel so before even that show it was it's based on I hope they do a house of cards novel now this is just yeah it's gonna come up but that just means that Ron and I should be hosting I wish it does together we complete the information it's trail Ron call me call us I'm ordering pizza and then call me so I really like that you guys were both right so there there you go but I think the research I was like okay I'm gonna look this up I actually like the rebuttal stuff you had people usually people like doing comments of like your dumb railroads aren't purple or something really just like yeah angry and very polite it was like he did say I was wrong constructive crime yeah he kind of like gave us an M for me he gave you a little massage and then told you you're wrong yeah so that you felt kind of good some youtubers are on point others that just want to punch people in the face I just want to watch the world thank you Ron and yeah but I'm a big researcher so I was like okay I'm gonna look this up and then finally it's time for our phone time for the day our delightful fan Corbin wrote to us today are you crossing your fingers that it's your new favorite holy crap okay is that Disneyworld yes yes he says hi my name is Corbin my mom took this picture in Disneyworld on the monorail with a Nexus 5 and then did some editing in the gallery app so obviously it's the colors have been enhanced the contrast has been you know boost it a little but super gorgeous still and the fact that it came from next back we've been seeing a lot of Nexus 5 pictures I guess a lot of people have Nexus fives which is pretty cool I'm kind of interested in what he did but like as far as like touching it up yeah I have some beautiful resorts but the fact that she was able to get this one and get the entire resort is really impressive super great I mean really really good yeah Corbin's mom I guess we're gonna pen down yeah Corbin trying to hear about right there reviewer your mom is though your mom is our favorites the show very impressive though thank you super good and if you guys want to submit your phone tog Rafi to be considered for the show please email us tomorrow at cnet.com and of course you can send your user feedback tell us about what you wanted project ara what kind of modules yeah so tell us tell us what you want to see again te power what old-school device would you re Commission and turn into 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