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on today's show Google is growing human skin in a lab but I promise you it's not for the reasons you're thinking of a robot learned skiing and hockey and just better than us in a lot of ways yeah and NASA I got it's snapped up into the sky this weekend if you don't know what ass map is we're gonna tell ya kale to sera daily greetings citizens of the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best ski talk show in the known universe I'm your host Ashley skele and join these always in a fantastic t-shirts mr. Kalin onymous this t-shirt is so loud it's so loud and so gravers came over and we're like turn it down hoot are yours yours I love this I love this shirt turning my spirit animal it's a pretty the belcher pretty great sure yeah anyway so it's Monday and we have again a little bit of housekeeping but this is sad housekeeping oh ya um a couple of our colleagues industry friends passed away this last sort of few days I guess look at last week or so and it's a really big bummer but we wanted to tell you a little bit about them so I will let you start with Monty ok first off Monty Oum of roosterteeth fame has passed away he was use a part of roosterteeth he was one of the one of the people that kind of took the art of machinima to the next level machinima is is making movies in a gaming world but but he was a he was one of the people from my past and he's inspired a lot of people that were created that that couldn't make stories and anything else they didn't have any ability to and he was able to do that and he was a really inspiring hard-working guy and he was 33 years old so yeah really really sad so our thoughts go out to the friends and family of monte and the people at roosterteeth so and then and then also we lost a great video gaming journalists andrew yoon some of you might know andrew from weekend confirmed from shacknews joystick he was at use over on joystick for a while great guy i had never met him personally but honestly was one of those people legitimately I never heard somebody say a bad thing about him it was just it's super rare to hear about people like that in the industry because everybody has bad days and it just seemed like every time someone talked about Andy Yoon it was so positive like he just seemed like a really enthusiastic guy he loved video games love technology and and passed away at the age of 29 again way too young and a tragic accident last week and just really shocked a lot of people and so we're we're bummed we're super bummed and we hate to start the show on such a low note but we felt was really important sort of honor those those friends of ours and the rest of the industry's because everybody's just really bummed out today so we're going to try to give you a good show we're going to try to entertain you but but you know hug hug someone you care about today is what we're saying so what's at the headlines okay so Google is growing human skin in a lab all right I'm out of here yep let's all just pack it in guys it's not for cyborgs it's not 14 1,000th don't worry it's not quite yet enjoy for to send back in time to save John Connor it is synthetic human skin but they are they have used real human skin so this actually comes from Google X labs and the Atlantic did this really great profile on them they are Google X Labs is trying to create a wearable that can detect diseases impending events like heart attacks and even cancer in people and so here's how they are thinking they might be able to do it so you would take a pill with nanoparticles in them and these nanoparticles would have markers on them that could attach themselves to cancer cells or different types of markers that they would be looking for and nothing else Wow so the wearable would then detect those nanoparticles and the cells that they're attached to via the light emitted by the cell so this your cells emit light and since that means it would have to see this very very faint light through your skin they have been very seriously researching skin which is super fascinating to me they have been growing really lifelike skin because they need to make sure it works on different skin tones and different skin thicknesses and different just all kinds of stuff so they're also they're also using actual human skin that's been like donated through science like when you when you die you can donate your organs while your skin is actually the biggest organ in your body it's like most large surface area so you can donate your skin and a lot of people kales like I will not I will not be doing that um but yeah so apparently google x wants to make this like crazy wearable that if you wear it it can detect and say the monitor you like all the time you have these nanoparticles and i'll say hey something's wrong you need to see a doctor but I mean obviously no real world testing or anything like that like they haven't made some like crazy medical breakthrough but I just thought it was super fascinating that they're like growing synthetic skin in a lab and like testing out this wearable and they want to use nanoparticles which is crazy early take a pill these little particles in it they can attach themselves to go crazy I just think that's so neat it's such a testament to how far we've come in in medicine in like 50 years or even like 10 it's just really unbelievable so I just thought that was that's definitely one of those tech that you put on the list that in five years like everything's just gonna be completely crazy yeah i'll have like nail technology yeah just like Oh in a headset instead of having to do anything it's just always something wrong with you here have this pill it's got nanoparticles in it and look for that specific thing to be wrong with you weird yeah it's pretty soon this shows me hosted by Ashley button caillebotte yeah we're actually just made of more about than human right that's really exciting and Google's behind it so you know they're not gonna give up apparently they forward quite a bit of money into this medical like a lot of advanced medical research so there you go tell me about this robot okay so let's talk about Jennifer Jennifer is a robot that is just having a blast and then she is skiing to call her jen know you can have a name Jennifer Jennifer is a skiing robot but yeah she does both skiing and skating she is made by none other than Canada so Canada of course Mickey manitoba canada in the autonomous agents laboratory i was like an awesome lab now she's been playing hockey since 2012 so she's she's actually been playing sports but the skiing is Brandon Ruger doors and why didn't they have heard a Super Bowl commercial no they've created robots like this before that play sports and have won competitions prior to creating this robots okay so they what they're doing so the goal here all right what's the gall so the goal here is to use the tech here to pave the way for robots that do firefighting and rest as always it's always something about rescue Alan and the reason is because the robot second play sports have the ability to complete multiple tasks and adapt to changing situations and environments okay so yeah like I mean obviously this jennifer is out you know and with the snow it's changing the ground changes so I would imagine this would be really good for researchers to sort of test how well it can do in an environment where it needs to sort of adapt to you know to its surroundings pretty quickly and as and constantly changing so right and this seems to be a theme with people that are creating robots is that they have them adapt to some sort of sport jennifer is actually gonna compete in may of this year at the International Conference know in a national conference of robotics and autumn thought ama AMA automation sorry automation Wow there you go our best of luck to jennifer and bring home the gold look forward to seeing Haneda what other sports that she picks up so robot well who knows volleyball but it seems like cuz it's Canada it's gonna be mostly poutine making oh and hockey and maple syrup I don't know something like then um maybe she'll be Mountie she could be a cop yeah I'm aware Canada jokes in yeah yeah I got lots more tell you know your hashtag of the day you've been waiting for those Canada jokes as always you're like who's that world my mustache I put on my snidely whiplash cape I was so excited to be evil oh I knew you were gonna bring out the cabbages it's true historisches I think they're so polite timer so nice yeah i know many canadians i just love them are so delightful um ok so our hash tie today is TD teach mm-hmm and the question is what fun thing would you teach a robot to do if you could teach you to do anything ok so it has to be like a sport or something fun I feel like I would teach my robot to walk my dogs and that's not fun well it's fun for the dogs or I guess it is gonna be fun for the robot I would teach the robot oh fun for the robot hmm that's a good i'm gonna go first i thought oh my god sunbathing you teach her on to just just some then I'll sunbathe and it came and it would be a solar-powered oh so it'd be like this why just collecting in and it would just it would use the energy to stay like this I think they have those are called solar panels I think it's just a piece of metal layer panel laying out in the Sun I think we've already invented that um I mean I would really like to see robots surfing I think that would be really fun yeah but yet have some good I've it guess who this is something but I think I get way down there Skye that's actually terrifying I via get in the water scuba diving road blackpool super cool alright so and then lastly I we we were gonna talk about this on Thursday but then they delayed the launch so we had to push the story back and make sure they launched it into the orbit good call that and and we could actually talk about it so NASA JPL launched their SMAP satellite this weekend it was a successful launch here's some of the video this stance map stands for soil moisture active passive and it's a satellite observatory so this is kind of crazy because you would imagine that if you wanted to study soil you would have to do it on earth but that is not so so what's map is out there doing is it's it's up in orbit it's checking out the earth and it's designed to monitor the earth soil moisture the top two inches of our soil on earth day and night it can see through clouds you can see through some vegetation like medium amounts of vegetation so it can it can measure the moisture in our soil from space like all it's insane so it blows my mind that's even possible it's a three-year mission and the point of this mission is to monitor the earth soil moisture and track the effects of drought so what they're saying is they will be able to make these sort of unprecedented soil maps from space they're going to have these like crazy detailed maps that we've really never had before that are global so to be able to track everything and they're saying that these maps would hopefully in a perfect world be able to improve climate and weather forecasts monitor droughts predict flooding crop yields and famine so if they say like well hey like we're noticing this pattern here and this is going to be a good crop yield or bad or you know this is what we've seen over the last three years but super fascinating and if you want to follow them on Twitter you can go over to twitter.com / NASA SMAP sm AP and look at the updates and I actually got to see this the snap at NASA JPL before the end of the year last year I got to go and see it while they were working on and getting it ready to like launch so it's really cool i guess like look down into the into the lab and like everybody's in these crazy you know all white outfits with like they're totally free of contaminants because they don't want to send that up and it's oh my gosh it was so cool it was really really cool what wait how long is it gonna be up there three years three-year mission so and there it's going to monitor like it uses radar and radio meter a radio radar and radiometers to check the level the moisture level in the surface the top two inches of soil it's only two inches and and then and it's over the entire planet right and they're gonna be monitoring the entire planet earth it's gonna help everybody should I mean hopefully it will I think this is just super fascinating for me I mean the fact that we can we can monitor that yeah space click in orbit so good job now yeah that'll definitely help us out so that's good yeah so on that is it for our headlines will be right back we have a back at her hackett that's for the for the phone tog refers out there oh and and we also have your user feedback from last week and of course speaking of our phone toggle for the day so don't click way tomorrow daily welcome back welcome back to the show we have returned with a monday edition as always of back in ER hackett hackett you're just right up front I hate this thing what am I talking it's called print with a why print with a wide for those us Millennials so like the spell things going to see on the end Prince um no it's print and it's a phone case but it's a special phone case that is a photo printer so you drop your phone in there pop it in there and it doesn't work via bluetooth that actually uses your connector so your power and then and you print out little pictures on your phone you can just print out like a little polaroid camera man turn your smartphone into basically you know the equivalent of what a Polaroid cameras are just pretty awesome that's quirky it's super twee it's a little bit you know it's a little hipstery but um but they make a good point in the video like they were talking about how like oh maybe you're all out on a night you know night on the town with your friends and it's a good keepsake it's funny like you know maybe you I don't know maybe there's some rom-com some sort of meat cute you know it's just I can write on your little pictures make a little bored I don't know good get physical with it let's note its adorbs it is a slightly adorable um I just thought it was really interesting that it's compatible with both iOS and okay uh Android oh that's great usually it's like it's only one or the other I I have to know this looks kind of expensive okay so it is ninety nine dollars which is that's that's not that expect terrible no um I was expecting it to be like 199 because that seems to be like the entry a little price point for everything on Kickstarter that's like technology face however I'm sure that the printing paper or whatever is expensive in fact you do in fact need to buy printer paper um so you get 10 sheets so it's basically like buying a printer at home you get like starter yeah like starter ink and like but it doesn't use ink which is nice or cartridges it's like almost like a Z ink or whatever you know Polaroid hazards ink um so this is uh it's all done in sides you don't worry about anchor cartridges but you do have to buy the special paper so two special paper that is I think they said $25 for 50 sheets that's not bad all right fifty cents of sheets kind of expensive I mean when you think I mean when you break it down but I mean if your print if you like to if you only need 15 50 might last somebody a really long time yeah so poor in my last somebody like three weeks I don't know what I don't know what your photographer like day one you'd go nutso and then and then you then ain't really I wouldn't be so the rest of the 11 months in the area be like high school you like it the guy I like you know exactly there's the treat you know oh look here's my breakfast cereal um but yeah the other thing that I really liked was this the app the print app has a really awesome feature it's called it's a augmented reality scanning so let's say you have your your print and you hold the picture up the physical picture that you took you hold it up to the app and it will show you the few seconds before you snap the picture as like a living photo wait hut how does it do that it's a it's augmented reality so what when you take that picture it takes video of like the few seconds before you take the photo and then you when you put when you hold the printed picture up to your app in the camera it looks like the picture is animated looks like it there's a little video of it I was on board till that and then your I don't I don't like it what is because usually people are like okay hello alright well it's just many people like this yeah it's it's I I mean I I'm not sure I'm not sure that's as cool as it sounds it sounds cool but like people aren't like yeah fireworks wash and then they're like it supposed picture I get it but it's not if it's like an action shower you're out you're at a party or something then it's great it's really granted to look very lifelike and funny and you can always relive the moment or whatever you know like camera picture enthusiasts like to you know real at the moment like everybody likes that so um teacher it's cool feature I don't know that I'd buy it so I'm gonna say hack it it's not for me how much was $25 for the things yeah it and a hundred dollars is the fee went like once it's up completely to kick-start it 99 bucks how much is it what you print I don't know how much it'll be when it actually like really probably retail no I think he'll be like probably 130 150 probably 150 something like that but the earliest oh man I wish I would have gotten in on the lowest level backer like the early early bird they only had 20 of them they like put aside 20 earliest birds and it was like 30 bucks or 40 bucks or something it was super cheap or maybe 50 but is under fifty dollars and then after that it was like oh it's 75 and then I I am going to speak for myself and not others and say hack it okay what I me too I definitely I definitely think some other people like my sister wouldn't love it 100% I know lots of people love this me personally I don't see myself using it a lot and also it's not so far I did not see any compatibility for phones like the note 4 or the iphone 6 plus its kind of smaller ish phones so I saw like the galaxy s5 like when I saw saw the iphone 6 but I didn't see the the note 4 was not in there or the or the 6 plus so there you go cute cute adorbs like it like I said great for other people maybe not for us double hacks double axe it's terrible all right you guys let's let's try to start a cheer everyone up with some user feedback oh wow you're really putting this on the users to cheer everyone up and you're going to because they were really good so last week we asked you guys to use the hashtag TD unreal to tell us what old retro game they'd want rebuilt in Unreal Engine 4 ok um so Frank wrote to us and said I would love to see half-life two remade yeah using Yui for and maybe fallout 3 to the wasteland done in ue4 would be awesome Kayla greece's yeah did I not say that did it was that you mentioned you wanted to make me play fallout but I don't think that was I didn't say fallout 3 alexander otras is at how about pong no I think if you did in a real like real life scenario it would be kind of food are we really tough away uh Stefan 7 rotisserie minecraft might not be that old but a super realistic recreation of it would be awesome but then is it really minecraft you're in Minecraft right now technically yeah you go out more insulation right now no I mean just go out to the forest and it's just really high res minecraft true that's Stefan right yeah III just a pile of stuff what would that look like yeah Stephanie got elaborate yeah you gotta maybe give us a visual visual cue of what it would look like maybe with something called Photoshop what do you got next hey-soos wrote to us and said I'd love to experience a remastered system shock 2 oh my god if the rights issues could be resolved and even tagged IG Levine like that wow that's a blast from the past yeah yeah totally and then Rob emailed us and said number one Jedi Academy number two star citizen oh wait star citizen isn't that being rendered in a real bore I don't know it's well it's pretty looks gorgeous anyway PS i would like to see if these fort i would like to see these four Series in this game be developed using Unreal Engine on oculus rift I would like to see the beat Resident Evil series Silent Hill series Assassin's Creed series and dying light Mandy wants to see a lot of horror stuff yeah you like survival horror rob we get it good looks super good choices yeah really good choice upper pong all right now you thrown any he ran up in the air but there you go all right I think you've just doused Alex and haterade just like poured it over him I'm sorry I'm sorry hopefully its horn yeah pong um okay guys it's time for our last piece user feedback which is of course our photog refer of the day you know Kylie I wrote to us and I thought this was really interesting he didn't say quite what phonies but said we got some new we got some awesome new lenses for our telescope and I couldn't resist the opportunity to use them to once again show how phones can be used to take great photos please enjoy my attached photo no way that's our moon that's fantastic so I'm assuming he just you know put his phone through this yeah yeah put put the lens right up there on the eyepiece and snapped a snap to pick the moon just pretty cool that's pretty great yeah I totally dig that I saw and I was just like oh that's delight ingenuity is allowed during the phone tog refer totally true saw the drone photo which cheated but still was amazing but what's a great job yeah you're definitely my favorite beers yeah very creative um really creative maybe like a 90 on a scale of 100 so not quite my favorite not quite yet but if you'd like to be in contention for my favorite photographer today or if you'd like to be Kayla's favorite phone card today you can email us tomorrow at cnet com you can also send it to your user feedback there or if you absolutely hate email you can find us all over social media we're on twitter facebook Instagram snapchat and tumblr as tomorrow daily and then we're on google+ as tomorrow daily TV hey if you want to see pong made an unreal engine I don't forget you and you like YouTube don't forget to subscribe like and leave a comment and also if you're listening on the on the podcast hello everybody we're checking your base our radio 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