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on today's show scientists are working on tiny little robots they work inside your body and then dissolve a brand new themed hotel in Japan so you know that you're gonna want to see it be good and a kinetic sculpture that can probably play violin better than I can unless you're a robot that plays the violin in which case actually this story is probably about you tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily and the best geek talk show the known universe I'm your host Ashley skellige enemy as always kill anonymous hold on when I open my eyes you better be there okay you're there that's me are you we're Alison Rosen er yeah not mod or Kim or or Alison I'm just me just they're about to get a homeless guy off the street we were running out of justice I assure you that at this point I should not be gone any more that is a planned absence so unless there's like an emergency I should not be gone there you go they're getting their stitches out on Friday so it's hopefully we're gonna die at this point okay all right there would be out of the cone zone that we have stitches free Friday I'm very excited the little one has decided the code is nail weapon he knows how to he's weaponized the cone oh yeah so he likes to swing it into the other dogs and he runs into our the backs of our legs and so it's like I have all these little like cut marks on the backs of my legs yeah he's a brat so but anyway I cannot wait to tell you about this first story and actually all of them are pretty good so let's hit that point okay so you're gonna have to stay with me a little on this one okay put your science hat put your lab coat on and let's be scientist all right so this is from John Hopkins University so there are these tiny biodegradable micro grippers that they have designed to go to specific places in your body complete a task and then dissolve and that's what they look like that's them right there smaller than a penny is what they were very tiny yeah they're showing for scale they should smaller than penny okay so before you're watching these things and they're kind of they look like flowers blossoming okay and then like contracting or starfish or starfish yeah so before they made these micro groupers that were very similar to this but they were metallic and they used them in a live pig to get bile duct samples but the problem is is that and then you they would like use a magnet to guide the micro grippers out of the pigs body but the thing is is that there's no guarantee that they could get all of them like it's kind of difficult to get all of them so they realized really the way forward was to make them biodegradable so here's how they did that this is insane I can't believe that we're talking about this being like a thing that's we're gonna experience this in our lifetime this is crazy so we've seen hydrogel on the show before I remember they have cube of it's like one of the lightest materials possible think it's 99.7% air create extremely like it's extremely sure it's transparent you can see through okay so they made these little my robot micro grippers out of hydrogel and a polymer like a stiff polymer it had to have a little bit of shape so they had to put this like stiff polymer on it to be able to like contract and expand otherwise it would just be like this little floating aerogel in your body and they had to be able to attach some magnetic nanoparticles to that that stiff polymer okay so now that they have this magnetic stiff Palmer and the hydrogel together they're able to send these things in through a catheter if they're small enough when they're cold they ball up so they send them in through a catheter because they're super super small and go in your body and then using magnets they can direct it direct it to the location it needs to be at okay and then it gets their hand and then it gets there and it warms up and it opens and then it can flip backwards on itself to collect whatever it is it needs to be collecting so let's say you have some kind of a tumor and they're not sure they want to biopsy it well now in the future hopefully soonish you're gonna be able to go in and surgeons are gonna be using these nano like micro grippers send them in your body get get material bring it back out of your body and then test it like without having to cut you open at all these little like nano - that's really cool awesome like I saw the story they obviously made it so they after they grabbed the thing they do what so they can there's a couple of things like you can extract them this the polymers you can extract if they're magnetic you can extract them or you can have it send data like you can pull them or you know somehow get them out or they have but they don't just did great in your body well the hydrogel means that yes they can it can but they don't they face there's a mistake and one of them is in there I think the way exactly there's no guarantee that they can get them all out cuz I think that the idea here is that they would send like many in to you like because they're tiny so it's like you'd send a whole bunch in there and then you know maybe you get a few of them out with like the right amount of biopsy material whatever it was that they wanted to go get they're saying that even like at some point you might use this to like attack tumor or I mean this is like crazy futuristic medicine at its finest to the John Hopkins University people are just so that's so impressive and I just thought it was so so cool and the goal and like I said is to have have these be able to perform surgical actions like collecting tissue for biopsy in a very non-invasive way so that's the whole entire point of those micro grouping things so yeah if you're if you're a kid watching this show like when you're an adult and you need to go to the doctor a whole bunch cuz you get old like us yeah they're gonna put starfish in your body you're gonna put tiny robot starfish in you that collect your stuff instead of having to cut you open which is pretty awesome so yeah that's super cool I just thought that was so awesome in the video was just so weird and creepy and yeah I just love it so tell me that all right oh okay where we go all right so meanwhile and Japan that's mine that's why I'm like a little just small graphic meanwhile in Japan they've decided that they're going to make a hotel and a movie theater themed after Godzilla Godzilla cuz even of course the guess who's making it of course the creators of Godzilla so it's not gonna be just some fan it is Toho the studio behind Godzilla oh my god there's a bill that a movie theater yeah these are these are renters these aren't real they're building they're building a movie theater that is going to have a Godzilla's head popping out is going to glow it's going to roar every now and again oh boy see it's popping out it's pretty big that's a huge head and it's gonna look over at that little square okay so it's gonna look over directly at a hotel which is going to have Godzilla themed I love this renderer it's like he's like hey guys that's the that's the low-end room there's two rooms okay the low-end room is like around like a hundred and two hundred dollars the high-end room the Godzilla room is 300 $334 there are days you got a big hand get a big Godzilla claw a big Godzilla clock awesome ready to smash you into a million pieces it's really awesome there's also a yeah that's that's so there's the cheaper one is the expensive one this is gonna come out in April this is actually right around the time as a new Godzilla movie that uh it seems like really good timing yeah it's pretty cool so yeah again it like lights up the the one in the movie theater like lights up it roars like you're sitting there trying to sleep in the hotel in every like hour it's just like yeah and you're just like oh Godzilla I mean if you're a big Godzilla fan it's pretty awesome yeah pretty great I'd stay there I'd stay there it's a very popular area so it would become just kind of cool to just stay there I would totally stay there so okay how about $34.00 hashtag of the day teeny hotel if you could have if you could stay in any themed hotel what hotel did you stay in like and what kind of been and what kind of amenities would it offer okay do you want to go first I know I've said is yours a sad one great okay mines fallout oh it's really sad because it'd be like skeletons everywhere and be super dirty everything be rusty and then like the guy working the front desk would be a ghoul yeah it'll be bad and their beer ads like I'd get radioactive from going there they'd have to pay with bottle caps that's the upside do you pay with bottle caps that's the upside my kid all right what do you got um the fallout hotel it's like you have to actually fight for your room like you knock on the door and someone opens it like who are you and then you have to just like kill them and then it's going to back go talk to them I would say for me if I could pick any universe I feel like this is gonna tie into tomorrow show but I feel like I would stay in a replication of I like the gold saucer from final fantasy 7 oh I think that'd be really fun and I'm bad at this yeah Lars and there should be like chocobo racing you embed on and stuff and roll a wagon I would totally stay in that hotel and they could do that in Japan and I guarantee you there's Square Enix listen if you want to make some extra cash I'm just saying this is a really good opportunity for you you're welcome yeah but I would say the gold saucer would be really funny you just call it the gold saucer pretty amazing I feel like all of ours are video games always video game related yeah although I mean I could imagine somebody saying like oh I'd love the same like Battlestar Galactica themed hotel where it's like you're on the you're on the ship we run out of food and water yeah and you have silent that and then while you're sleeping you hear all along the watchtower no they just pump that through the entire hotel so that no that's the right answer most annoying they're all annoying Hotel ideas so what is it TD Hotel seedy Hotel TD hotels thank you I think you guys are gonna come up with some really good ones for that okay so last story of the day we have talked about this violin bought this is really cool there's a guy out there named Seth Goldstein he is a retired mechanical and bio engineer and he's got free time on his hands he's retired he's not like he likes to tinker with stuff and he's really good at tinkering with stuff so in his spare time he makes these kinetic sculptures and this is one of them it is called Robo Bo w boom he's probably dad it might be a little bit of dad okay this is a full-sized violin that this robot is playing and it's kind of crazy how it works so the bow is being pushed by an arm by real like a robotic arm and then you can see the violin is tilting back and forth to take sort of mimic the way that you would do it if you were holding it on you're holding it up to your chin so it uses mechanical fingers to pick the frets and that this is kind of a neat part so he made this custom software that enables him to play notes on a keyboard what and then it translates that meaty information into instructions for the little mechanized fingers from the fret you teach it notes this so he's playing the piano and then the this is it's not teaching it but it's it's translating that into movement on the fret board of the violin so that's how it's able to play Wow like in it so if you can play the piano you can play the violin okay you can now play the violin with a giant robot as long as you can actually make the robot and also the software program that was customized to be able to do that so you have jobs so here's those are the those are the little mechanized sort of actuators here so it's like he'll play and then it takes a note and then it okay right I need to be pushing this this part of string or whatever really impressive and he did it all by himself that's the thing that blows my mind like there's the software program just you know whatever as you do is separate do we know I don't know but I think you should marry us the show like just we'd like to read now kiss the show tomorrow Daley Goldstein that's fantastic I wonder if he's going to tackle any other instruments or if that's just like the one thing he did so he did he did at this kinetic sculpture a while back and I forget what the name of it was but it was basically a robot that just tied a tie over and over again like a tie knot and it was like it just would tie it and tie it and then retie it but it was like the fact that he does this by him salt like for fun he's just tinkering this is like pretty remarkable and impressive I mean he's kind of like the Chinese farmer who made the horse no no way way more advanced he's not like the Chinese farmer that didn't nobody is maybe someday that snowfoot that's true he is one of a kind scene one of a kind robo robo nice job on that pun more so alright guys we're gonna take a quick break and then we are gonna come back with Mod Squad there's really a couple there's a really good one we have this week and then we have your user feedback for your extra senses now you guys have some really good ones oh and then of course there are phone target for the day so don't cook way tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we've returned we've returned it's Wednesday which means it's a kind of a grab bag of segments that we have but this time around with Mod Squad I feel like graphic like served like the monster like 1960s sort of mod I don't know you're gonna rip off somebody see that get that like that especially to Brian tongue it's go straight right to be cheap so this week I'm odd squad I found a couple of modern consoles that I thought were really cool and there are older consoles which to me makes it a little bit more interesting so if you've ever wanted a toaster that doubles as a console you are in luck because that now exists um actually I'm sorry the toaster does not work so I should clarify but the console in the toaster does work this is the nin to stir and this is made by a Finnish artist named Jarno Kutta oh boy Kota Luo Pio Kotov whoa Pio he mashed together a 1950s toaster and an NES and this is not a mock-up this is actually a working console you can put the cartridge in one of the toast slots like as if it were a piece of toast oh and does it go down what do it watch you'll see him put in ducktales so when you pop through his console and then he presses that in and then up there you go and that's how you turn it on oh wow and then then the controller goes into the other toast the toast lot so that's that's how it works that's super awesome yeah way to go I totally love that I just think that is so free cool and I so he's done a few different versions of this before he did this it's an Knin toaster 2.0 and other people have done mods like this but I think that one wins style points like for days style points like the 1950s toaster is really good yeah some people have done with newer toaster ok that was a cool toaster and then the second one is from Miko mod make a lot actually he's pretty like famous on the internet for doing console mods ok and this one in particular is actually 10 years old like this has been around for 10 years B just put up on eBay and sold it and I'm having a final fantasy kick I feel like this week's and be final fantasy week for you guys for me he made this PlayStation he made Midgar oh wow on top of a Playstation works working PlayStation lights up got to blow it up man Midgar lights up it's really really cool looking and he did a really good job so he sold this thing on eBay for the 10 year anniversary of it being like in existence and he ended up getting like I think was 860 bucks for it not bad yeah so for an original ps1 I'd say it's a pretty good school yeah a little bit of an upgrade so really cool really cool mods that I saw this week over and just out and about around the internet but but now it is time to talk about what you guys think so it's time for you our user feedback okay so we asked you guys our mod and Cale asked you guys what extra sense yes would you why and I like that you said sense of humor I'd like a sense of balance sometimes I feel a little clumsy maybe I could just be a little bit less like a like a dying giraffe yeah sometimes I'm almost 6 feet tall you guys I'm really weekend cold so people falling over um tillie wrote in to us and said the I would like the ability to see Wi-Fi signals yeah I like that well which ones are locked as well yeah which was safe secure Wi-Fi maybe blinded it it's all Wi-Fi everywhere um Neil wrote in and said I would like to be able to sense what a woman is really feeling when she says no oh man this guy's a stand-up comedian like that guy that made me that made me laugh yeah that's good I like that shawn rhoden and said I want to be able to smell and taste colors aquamarine looks delicious it does what do you think aquamarine would taste like I feel like it would taste like a macaroon blueberry blueberry like real I say I feel like really lightweight like kind of sweet kind of a like a cookie a really nice could go for cookie yeah something like that um and then hey soos wrote in and said an honor of Carl Sagan a spidey-sense for the detection of the immense amounts of baloney on the end I like that that's real good sense baloney a lot of baloney on the internet and then Tim wrote in finally and said I just want people to have common sense oh listen Society humanity you're gonna need some cream for that sick burn Tim just put on you just FYI all right thanks for joining us on tomorrow daily we'll see you guys one weird from this burn yeah I'm gonna need to go to a burn unit immediately these are some pretty smart ones like this really good yeah nobody was just like I want to know where a teddy bears are you know like they were actually really good so I mean that would be like a maybe like a four year olds know we're teddy bears yeah I'm like we're teddy bears I'm really lonely all the time oh boy it's time for a very last piece of user feedback it's our phone tiger for the day all right so our phone tartar for the day is Troy which is a really cool I thought there's a cool name Troy yeah it seems really strong yeah I don't know anyway he wrote in and said I'm sorry I was just a little tangent rodas at friends and I were in Vegas for New Year's took a panoramic pic with iPhone 6 time to our ride perfectly so as to be at the top as the Sun was setting oh yeah love your show you guys crack me up petroi yeah it's a really good picture that is the biggest ferris wheel in the world it even is bigger than the London Eye is it really a ferris wheel yeah I have an innate and honest fear of ferris wheel sure why I won't rhyme because neither will terrify the one at Disneyland that has like the oh the things it doesn't slide down nope yeah definitely not yeah there's something wrong with Ferris wheels and I'm sorry people who like Ferris wheels they're not okay we are not okay with the ferris I know that's weird that's I didn't believe that I didn't know that we both had a fear of Ferris wheel here today I don't like that entertain Heights in a moving bucket just seems like why it's not necessarily the actual ride it's falling to my death inside that bucket that makes me say I had a nightmare about one recurring nightmare I like how this turned into fear share yeah phobias what's your fear tog refer of the day your feet ographers great lots of color panoramic yeah Troy you're braver than us way to get into that giant Ferris wheel and take that picture because I would garrote us this is the scariest episode that we've ever had I feel a little bit of vertigo looking at that picture so thanks a lot yeah jerk if you want to be considered for 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