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on today's show Google introduces us to a brand new robot that terrifies us apparently some sheep are going to get Wi-Fi I'll tell you more in a second and your future hearing aids might actually be worn in your mouth it's not how ears work no it's not tomorrow daily creating systems to the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe it'll think you're massaging an invisible person I'm your host Ashley sceva join me as always kill anonymous what's wrong just release your emotion here oh you're all tense in the back I mean you got to work the thumbs it's always the thumbs that you got to work on the on the back on the I'll be yeah that'll be on tomorrow daily massage edition so looking forward to that we're gonna that's gonna be a separate video on demand release you know that Mod Squad we're gonna have a massage squad massage squad there there's an actual show to this right like we're I think there is a real show so let's hit the headlines okay so in late 2013 googlebot blossom dynamics which is that robotics company that's had like PETMAN and big dog and all those really terrifying robots that they show that can run really fast okay so they just introduced their newest robot google has introduced this new robot it's called spot so this is this is spot these are all of the wrote these are a lot of the robots they're working on the four-legged ones they're spot right there it's gonna start moving and walking about inside Boston Dynamics office building so here's the thing that's interesting about that is that in fact it is working inside an office building so all of the other bigger robots are gas power so what two things two prongs of that it's electric way that guys kicking a dog ice kicking a robot dog is that okay to kick a robot dog I don't think it is but a lot of people do it all the time but look at it recover that's really scary right so um and I also like that they travel in packs like they have a couple of them that walk around together in a second so it's it's electric powered now instead of gas-powered meaning one everyone who works with these things doesn't need to have hearing protection because the gas-powered one sound like a thousand chainsaws being blown around by a thousand leaf blowers like it's so loud and then the other thing is that it can go indoors because it's not releasing fumes it's electric so it can actually go inside oh my god it's so cute usually I'm scared by this stuff but like this one it's smaller it's cuter yeah it's not running really fast like the other ones it's about to go faster can go a little faster than what's what it is in the video but not much faster and the other see it's a control oh look at it so it's about the size of a large dog so you can see the guy running next to it you got four skated like this is what I want are they are they're jogging yeah the robot horse dog okay dog you want a robot horse a pony dog that's fantastic okay so great okay so have they what is busting dynamics like what are they aiming to do with these robot dog things I mean like it seems like you could do a lot of things but what are they so likely projected they rescue funny that you mentioned horses because one of the reasons they're developing these things like big dog one of the things they're developing is allowing like either soldiers or people to put heavy equipment or packs or things like that like supplies on the backs of these yeah and then have them if you need to walk somewhere if you need to go somewhere without taxing yourself you can actually put them on on these dogs these Robo dogs yeah Wow all right so really cool the money is paying off oh well so before it's this is actually just an interesting little side note about that video so before whenever Boston Dynamics would show video they would put funded by the US government because they used to be funded by DARPA and so now they're not they're owned by Google and this is the first time we've seen a video that hasn't annotated where the funding for that robot came from so it's very possible this might be an entirely Google funded robot so it's really interesting to see kind of how that companies sort of morphed in the last year they're progressing so fast these crazy why do them like like big dog how long ago was that that was like a few years ago yeah I feel like the really scary one that like popped back and forth was pretty they keep updating them so you're like yeah like cheetah bot is the one that runs really really fast and then pet man is like the one that looks like a person and it can like squad and like to pivot and something that for you all that makes me I don't like that but spot looks pretty cool and I feel like I might I might like that in my house someday maybe like a little helpful robot yeah running around robot carrying your other dogs carrying all the other speaking of animals you I want to talk about a Wi-Fi sheep okay good I'm sorry no minutes hours for that terrible joke I I want to talk about Wi-Fi sheep okay okay so it's really hard to get internet and areas yeah there was Project loon that Google put on but Gordon Blair is a professor from Lancaster in Lancaster Lancaster University who is using a sensor equipped sheep to create hot spots Wow okay also this is stuff like this has been done before last summer a UK cell service company EE put these sensors in like cow statues okay I had a music festival alright so give people like hot spots at the festival yeah so apparently it's really easy to put these sensors on say a caller so they're gonna want to put colors on these sheep and you know provide a little bit of Wi-Fi hotspot for b-roll by the way can I just say really quick our b-roll for this has absolutely nothing to do with the story it was just sheep just relax of sheep because that was all I could those are Wi-Fi see if those are normal sheep those are disconnected and cushy they're disconnected okay please continue now I just want to want now even so up okay so a lot of people are doing a lot it okay first of all this technology can do a lot of things unravel that okay and then I'm gonna quickly tell you how this is being used with other animals - okay Fran's anemia is using reindeers they're potentially gonna use reindeers with this technology that's amazing so some of the things that this tech can do if you put it on your shape if you're at home and you want to put this on your sheep it can I can help you figure out a gregorio also note if there's flooding pollution where your flock is yeah good GPS you're located where the flock are they and then air quality and and lots of other stuff Austria may use the ear tags as hotspots for Wi-Fi like identify the sheep they would also be able to put sort of a little sensor in there and actually find out if they're under attack like I'm telling you there's a lot of stuff if this isn't just Wi-Fi sheep but that's the cool interesting yeah it sounds like when you're saying whether I could track pollution and stuff that they would be able to also put those sensors in like stationary places or around their farm so like if you had like a tree or whatever you can actually put yeah our scarecrow or whatever you could place these sensors around to help track your farm and all of the things happening around and in it yeah I mean so apparently we're a few years away from it but I mean it totally makes sense I love that good job farmers yeah use your animal it's just some like you but like is there a sheep around here I'm not getting a wife Isis IDF kill and I going out in the middle of nowhere and like New Zealand it looks like we just can't find any Wi-Fi queers near slaughter sheep it's I think that's I think that's I think it's a really cool tech on especially the whole like it senses the air I mean this this is farmers need this information so that's terrible don't tell don't tell the sheep that you they don't know no they can make you clothes but I really like this because if you have a farm and you're like Scandinavia has this tribe that lives up in the northern like northern Scandinavia and they literally like travel with their reindeer flocks this is like permanently like that's how they live and so for them to be able to have connectivity is something that really they've never had you know access to you before so that's pretty cool that they're you know working all this type of stuff so crazy that your reindeer can give you on Facebook yeah your reindeer will be able to log into Wikipedia so that you can look up new names for your reindeer you can find cool new names your and your name of cool stuff on Wikipedia that brings us to our hashtag of the day which is hashtag TD sheep what else could we do with animals in technology if we combine them I mean we've seen the robot dog we've seen Wi-Fi sheep I mean what are other things that you guys can come up with that we could do with technology and animals you know 5050 when I went it's my turn to do the TV it's either like ridiculous or I gave a little bit of thought and it's still ridiculous and stupid but do you remember twitch twitch plays Pokemon and then they did fish plays Pokemon yeah I want to see more games where we're having animals play video games play video games for like just like GTA sheep oh yeah she plays GTA would be remote mouse plays plays Grim Fandango something I like that we're so like running around in a maze or something how can you call of duty be by a cow so the cow of Duty Oh cow of duty I'm sure there's a lot of other puns if you hashtag TD if you have a pun please yeah please please just send well what about you I think for me with animals I I really like the idea of I really like the idea of navigation so like seeing-eye dogs I like the idea of having like sensors in the collar that would help a blind person get around even better oh my god that's brilliant yeah like I'd like I think that would be really cool so how would it feed back into the human well I think you could do it via smartphone via like either you could do Morse code or you could do some kind of notification with the with the vibration or like a earpiece or an earpiece or something like that where it was like you know like for example a dog could technically go across the street but then maybe the sensors can sense if there are you know like obviously these dogs are really well trained but I would say just an added enhanced layer of like extra things that it could sense in the environment that the dog necessarily couldn't or wouldn't be able to do as well as like an actual technological sensor right I think it would be really cool it also helped to know where your dog is if he's in your house and he's walking around or your dog jumping off a gate and running running away in your front yard like like what happened this morning was my dog I'm gonna freak out I actually I actually think I'm just gonna be a hard one to beat your TD so we can see you're really gonna have to beat hers or beat my pun yeah meet a good pun um okay so I have to tell you about this hearing aid because I saw this video and I thought it was the craziest thing I've ever seen okay uh so obviously when we think of hearing aids we think of those little bits they put in your ear and then you know you can turn it up or down based on a little pack and stuff like there's kind of a you know that's kind of the basis of it that's the only thing you really think of well not anymore because this engineer named John Williams not that John Williams is saying it's totally possible to hear through your tongue okay so okay I don't even know where to begin with this but I will try so he's building this device that sends sound impulses it sends impulses into your tongue like electrical impulses in your tongue and he is hoping to teach the brain how to translate those impulses and decode them into something you'd be able to quote unquote hear so um this works a lot like Braille so this is the this is what I have like the understanding I have of it is it works a little bit like Braille so when somebody goes blind yeah and they need to use Braille they have what called sensory what is it called sense substitution sense substitution right and so they get better at things like feeling things and understanding Braille you're hearing better your senses heighten right right exactly like daredevil like daredevil so we went blind and now you can hear it right I understand look at that so it's a sense substitution so it works similarly to that so this object would basically allow you would have to train your tongue and your brain to decode those impulses into into actually hearing but it would you would basically train your your mouth to hear like as opposed to your ears doing it and how long does it take to train your tongue so they're not sure yet so here's the thing is it's they're using like what they're saying the hearing aid would be like a retainer that you would just pop in just like a retainer just all day I'd like you you'd wear it during the day like you would a normal retainer and and then you would like press your tongue up against it if you wanted to hear like like you press your tongue up against it for those impulses so you wouldn't be getting hit all the time with like just crowd noise and stuff like that there's only things you choose to sort of listen to but the one thing they have to do is they have to map out all the nerves in people's tongues because they're not sure if they can make one device that is sort of a one-size-fits-all type thing because everyone's nerves are sort of mapped the same yeah or if everyone's nerves are mapped just a little bit differently causing it to be like a custom build situation for every single patient I don't know that well that's what they're working on right now so there so they built the prototype like for one person and now he's like okay now that we've built this prototype like now we can move on and see if this works the same with every person and so then we'd only have to build one thing or would this be more like a prosthetic where it would have to be custom-made for each individual person all right totally crazy that's yeah never would have thought about hearing for my tongue and apparently this potentially could be way cheaper than a cochlear implant which is like they can run up to like a hundred thousand dollars once you have like testing and implanting it and all that other stuff so and it's also a lot less dangerous because you're just popping a retainer in your mouth instead of you know having surgery inside your ear to implant something so pretty cool that's crazy yeah I I saw this I saw the headline today and I was like no no that's wrong like that can't be right guys that's not to wrap my brain around that one that's still so brain wrapping these okay great let's take a quick break and try to wrap our heads around that and we'll be right back with our experience at the marvel explosion yeah we've been talking about this we talked about last week we finally have a video for you we're excited to show it to you and then we also have your user feedback and our photogra for the day so don't look away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show Oh kale still trying to figure it out okay so here we go we finally get to talk about the Marvel experience we do I'm really excited so it's been a big question mark that's been in the air so anybody that's like a nerd knows that there is this this traveling show that Marvel is putting on it's like a traveling circus but not quite yeah it's it's got and the reason we're covering it because not only we have covered nerd centric stuff but it also has a lot of cool technology but it's his traveling show that's been going around people have been like well okay so the deal what's in there what is it like is it cool like I want to see a little bit of it so producer Logan here you go thank you for this okay so stage one we're going to the recruitment staging area we just put our information and to get our shield badges so heroic yeah this is this is stage one so we're gonna go in there and check that out so let's let's do it wants to push every button over here so as you already know it's all contained in a dome but there's there's a whole lot of effects going on whether it be sound light so it's pretty cool it's not just you know like a room with stuff including interactive video experience where you stand infront of the Kinect and then you can summon your favorite Avenger by just doing I brought an Ironman series alright so we're here with Rick CEO of hero ventures the the creator of this entire thing right this is your baby this is my baby and no one's more excited to be here than me how did you go about choosing what you were gonna put in each dome you know there's so many different types of media there's so many different ways to to present the content we wanted to keep ratcheting it up a level with each new dome so you start with a screen you go to a dome projection you get to this main dome with a dozen unique interactive elements and then there's a 360 degree holographic dome coming up that you haven't seen yet Cale there's a motion ride there's a there's a Hulk moment that I'm not gonna spoil for you and a bunch of other things that are a lot of firsts here at the Marvel experience alright guys and that is it for us from the Marvel experience it is touring its going to a town near you hopefully you can check it out online Kayla's gonna go buy all of these action figures and we are going to we're going to continue shopping so I we don't we don't have the budget for that so that was our that was our marble experience two hours by the way okay so we'll break down the Ruby way some facts do it like shotguns so it's not like we don't draw it out so yeah shot it's it's around 35 bucks like depending on peak hours and holidays and stuff it's anywhere between 29.95 and 39.95 if it's like you know that's the price range for adults over 12 so you have to be 13 plus it's between 29 and 39 dollars to go it's to our experience you can go to the Marvel experienced or calm to check out more about it if you want to learn more there were seven domes plus a gift shop technically three domes definitely three big domes and then like fuse other like sort of staging areas where they had some cool interactive stuff like a Spider Man safety video that made us all very entertained and we laughed but it was cool like I thought it was interesting that they went with sort of more of the comic book characters it's not cinematic universe like you're not gonna see don't go expecting cinematic universe you're not gonna see anybody from any of the movies you see any clips from the movies you're not you're not even hear the voice of anybody from her it's completely separated imagine it's just a Mart like Marvel property comic books GAC all they like imagine an animated Marvel you know special but like but they but an interactive experience so and then one of the big domes is like a training area where there's all kinds of AR and like the stuff that you saw and then there's a full 360 excuse me 360 degree video which was really cool cool and then there was also the last thing was a theater that you sat down and had the chairs that moved and everything and it was sort of a Star Tours esque Sauron so every single dome has something completely different and honestly the way I feel about it is if you super love Marvel or you just like are a child at heart you have to go as a child at heart then you'll enjoy it you have to go to child at heart don't go as your grumpy internet self yeah don't go don't go so grumpy internet Gus go as a child and enjoy it for what it is because and don't expect it to be like the whole of Disney's Tomorrowland turned into the stark Expo because that's not what it is this is a traveling tour so obviously they got to keep it easy to travel with I mean you keep all of your expectations in check I think it's really fun and I think you would have a good that's the thing is occasionally I slipped into grumpy internet mode like hmm maybe better this isn't the movies I would've done this somebody I don't like okay be the childlike kale that you usually are and I had a good time and I think that we both agree that if they had done we would have liked to have seen if we could offer improvement we would like to have seen a little more set dressing outside although I heard it's a lot cooler at night yeah they they project stuff onto the dome I would have liked to see it in costume characters so I could have like taking a selfie with like Captain America spider-man or something or even you know what about your old representation whether it be someone in a suit like these I'm only suggesting things that seems a little immersive yeah a little more immersion what I think alike wouldn't it coin gently your baby yeah I am like nothing like that just like easy just hire a couple of couple of actors but overall we had a good time yeah we had a good time I got a cool she-hulk shirt out of it I wore it on Monday I got although there was only Thor Stanley bought Thor statues I wanted to buy each other yeah no I picked up I bought one in the gift shop I was like oh they got some good stuff here so that was the Marvel experience you guys can check that out online it is it is pretty cool if it comes your hometown and traveling all over the place I think the next stop is San Francisco so if you're up in the Bay Area you might want to take a look but it was really cool that we got to break out of the studio though we did we is awesome yeah we got our footage we're gonna have like a much longer experience we even ran into a fan hey Brian yeah hey bro and so it's gonna be extended you'll show the entire unit of what it's like you'll see an extended you'll get to get a bigger feel of what's going on if you're still trying to decide whether to buds even though we had a great time though producer Logan maybe not so much where's that's his picture through the show he did get to have as much fun as we did cuz he was really really busy working the camera that's how easily Haley looks right now while he's doing this it probably is alright guys it's time for your user feedback all right it is time for user feedback on spider-man we asked you guys use the hashtag TV Spidey to tell us who you wanted to see where are the tights next get the web slinging power many people said Donald Glover nobody really Paul wrote to us and said how about some diversity in the Marvel hero set make spider-man Asian Peter Park instead of Peter Parker hahahaha I'd like to even add the man I know what about Mexicans spider-man Peter Park Cole Paco Parker done you're welcome Paco Parker I'm in find me a burger I like it Fabio wrote in to us and said Logan Lerman from Percy Jackson seems good I like that choice all right yeah I thought that was very good choice ally wrote in and said the kid from boyhood Ellar Coltrane he's about the right age she he is he's like isn't he like 17 and 18 so I think they're looking for about that age early age his agents probably you know chomping oh man I'd be lobbying so hard if I was his agent Rick wrote in and said how about Patrick Jay Adams aka Mike Ross from suits as spider-man how old is this guy I was gonna say he might be a little bit on the old end of the Spider Man's dad spider-man's older brother and then Joey wrote in and of course told the answer that we all think which is actually you're just giving up kale secret identity as spider-man they notice I do this all the time and he shoot webs out like hey um you guys had some really good news man I really enjoyed it but of course it's time for a very last piece of user feedback which is always our phone talker for the day so Dave wrote in to us and said I took this pic with my now out-of-date iPhone 4s it finally rained here a couple of days ago and this is the little creek that runs through a yard of a nearby house which means you're trespassing and then comes out about a block away in a local park the little bridge really makes this photo you'd almost think it was the idyllic British countryside but it's a couple of blocks from where we live in seabass two-pole California Sebastopol a little town about 50 miles north of San Francisco Charles Scholes used to live in Sebastopol and I hear that Norman Greenbaum's spirit in the sky Fame lives up the road in Santa Rosa tech connection o'reilly the patek book publisher is in town love the show grumpy old man Dave of the data yes he's right it does look like a charming look it does it looks like a little a little countryside that bridge is delightful yeah yeah I totally dug this I thought it was really really well composed very beautifully taken yeah well listen you grump at least you live close to something like that yeah exactly maybe that'll cheer you up you grumpy old man that's all I'm saying maybe I'll just bring you a little cheer or make him even more grumpy don't make you bring a little cheer I hope we I hope hopefully we also do the same thing we bring you make it cheer you up a little bit after a long day of being grumpy watch our show or make you more grumpy maybe maybe I want to leave an impression of some sort some sort yes um but I I duggan i thought was gonna picture um if you guys want to submit your picture to be featured for photogra for the day you can email us tomorrow at cnet.com feel free to send over user feedback story ideas if you see something on the internet that you feel like we should cover send that over and if you absolutely hate email that's fine too because we also use social media we're on tumblr snapchat facebook twitter instagram or tomorrow daily on all those things and tomorrow daily TV over on google+ but i don't really check that very often so please try those other social 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