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on today's show Stanford University researchers show off a battery that recharges in less than a minute and soon you're going to be able to watch television for free on your xbox one I'll tell you how in just a second hold on and a UK company is growing furniture like literally growing furniture out of the ground and we'll explain how sera really creating citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best ski talk show in the known universe every co-host Ashley Scott join me as always kill anonymous I totally picture you having to grow the furniture and then put it together like IKEA he's like yeah you grow the parts the little allen wrench and then you have to put together with your friends good I can buy the seeds now forgetting you can't even buy a flower back that's not like you I presume it's cooler than that it is it's pretty great okay we got some good it's weird but it's really cool all right do it number one complain about most smart phones batteries battery life yeah running out of battery right okay so researchers at Stanford University showed off this video this week which made me so happy I almost like turned into the Willy Wonka blast elevator just shot right through my ceiling they showed off this aluminum battery that recharges in less than a minute so this is the battery right here and this is a prototype aluminum battery and like we said that can recharge in about a minute it's powering an LED right there you can see it they little green LED here's some facts about aluminum a bendable not like lithium-ion batteries which would make super flexible smart phones and things a possibility well there it is powering a smart phone I think they had a couple of them are a few of them altogether so a little bit about aluminum batteries I guess this has been a material that researchers have kind of had their eye on for a long time like they've been interested in making batteries out of aluminum but the biggest hurdles have been voltage and also getting it to the point where it can have multiple recharge cycles so being able to plug it in over and over again and have being able to use the phone so now they're saying that this is has no recharge decay over hundreds or even thousands of recharge cycles which is pretty awesome because with lithium-ion they over time they decrease so there's that they are inexpensive they are fully bendable and they are made of aluminum and graphite so they're saying that now that they've made this a loom battery or if I was Johnny I've caught aluminium now that they've made this aluminium battery they're saying that the goals are from this point forward a making it scale up so finding ways to scale up the battery technology increase the capacity obviously because you want to be able to power things that are bigger than an LED light and then they also want to get a low cost electro electrolyte material so they're working on sort of developing this battery and moving forward with it but it is a great interest I think to a lot of people to everybody a lot of people's batteries yeah batteries are big business and the thing is is I think I think really that's kind of been the the big gate on new technologies I mean for me is battery because really there's only so much you can do when you need to have a little block of lithium ion inside a device or you need to have a small watch battery or you know whatever that is this is flexible it's it's totally bendable you saw it in the video they just like bent it right up so I think this is really cool it could be really exciting I know we're kind of also waiting on graphene that's a another battery technology that has the potential to be pretty amazing but yeah so aluminium and and and graphite I think we can all get behind this I am behind it 150 percent that's a little too much nice work Stanford I'm looking forward to the future of this battery I'm keeping my eyes on it I want this for summer how can i watch Xbox TV alka watch TV on my xbox for you said free yeah you can oh my god yet okay but very very soon because this was announced today so one of the best reasons to own a console whether it be Xbox or Playstation is because it's also a media device yeah do you watch TV movies use apps and stuff like that well they added a feature that has been actually available outside of the US and Canada they added it to to to us u.s. and Canadians can now get this feature which is that we can now stream television from television signals so it's for free so these are okay these are local stations like oh yeah like Fox CBS NBC and so on this is very very simple that's why this feature is so cool all you have to do is buy this little attachment adapter and then put an antenna up and you can stream all of this stuff through your Xbox but not only that you can also pause the live TV because this is a live feed but because you're using it on this Xbox one you can pause that's really nice unbelievable feature one of the other things that Major Tom shows off over here is that is that you can also stream it to your tablets so I can watch my life my live stream get content on there while you're playing I don't know infamous - Xbox exclusive but yeah so I so there are some limitations to this you have to find out what you have in your area as far as broadcasts and you can go to Como who comm / Xbox to find out what's available in your area if you out your an xbox pre preview program member you're gonna get this earlier than everybody else apparently it's coming to the rest of us very very very very soon a lot of people are saying this ship they should pair this with something like Slingbox link TV yeah HBO now well because this is free subway sling TV is that it didn't include all of all of broadcasts like over your local broadcast networks and so this would be a way to get that for free I mean even though you have to make an investment with an Xbox one and which is not cheap and then the antenna and everything but still to be able to have broadcast TV where you're able to pause it like you're saying I can get pause you don't get DVR it doesn't have DVR right no DVR no pausing it is something because you know otherwise you just like life you should sit there yeah obviously isn't gonna blow anybody away it's not gonna sell Xboxes but if you've already got an xbox and you live in the United States or Canada at least now you know you have that capability it only cost a couple of bucks to get like I'm sorry that's it's probably about five dollars to get like the adapter and the antenna I bought my antenna for like three dollars yeah the HDTV antennas are really I think I think there is like a box that they said like I think he was saying something along the lines of it being there was like a the adapter was the more expensive thing but there are options like you don't have to worry about like oh it's gonna be like $200 for this like adapter whatever so so if you're if you're a cable cutter and or you're tired of watching stuff on your cable service you can watch Family Guy you can watch last man on earth you can all watch all that stuff through your xbox and pause it whatnot that's save it but there you go still keep an eye out you got to keep an eye out again inside out yeah just keep an eye out and just look for it when it comes out and even get all your friends to it yeah and they can all come over to your house so I gotta tell you about this furniture this furniture oh yeah they grow your own furniture yeah okay so um there's a company in the UK called full grown and the guy who sort of founded it his name is Gavin Munroe he decided to figure out an alternative to the standard way of making furniture which is like chopping down a lot of trees and then you have to use fossil fuels to run the bulldozers and chainsaws and yeah as I said there's a lot of manufacturing kind of waste of that and wood waste as well because you're you know basically taking a tree trunk and you're whittling it down to like a leg on a table so this guy I love this story decided to figure out an alternative here's where it gets weird he uses a special plastic frame to coax trees made out of willow oak ash and sycamore into the shapes of specific kinds of furniture so the tree that's the tree that is the tree there's no extra wood that was cut out of this he taught the tree to make a shape so here's yeah this is what it looks like when they're there twice everything and they have to kind of guide the tree into growing in a very specific fashion and they grow it into chairs tables frames and lamps and when the tree matures fully it's a complete piece of furniture there's no wood waste it's just a chair or a table or whatever it's pretty clever that's how they do like the like art and like animals like the shrubbery yeah I got llama in the shape of like like a tree in the shape of a llama yes this is similar to that only the entire there's no trimming or pruning it's just the tree has grown into that shape so does it make what does it makes chair chairs tables frames there's like mirror frames and lamps and okay so there are about 400 trees at their farm and what they do when it's done is they just buff it out and they add some like they're doing this right now for like the flat side of the chair and stuff so they'll sand everything and you know stay and seal it stain it if they want to you like whatever but you get this completely original one-of-a-kind chair because it's a tree I want this okay okay okay so mind you it takes four to eight years oh yeah I can of it cuz you know just grow a chair so but look at me I mean it's so cool that's the order now you can order now and you get okay so so he is saying oh look at this diagram is so cute um so it's like he's calling it organic 3d printing so it's like organic 3d printing so there they are like take taking that one out like in the wintertime they like harvest all the Jer how much all right so first round of chairs will be ready in 2017 so you got a couple more years to wait and it's gonna cost you 3700 so we're we gonna sit in the veinte on the grounds that's pretty cool pricey chair better it's a price you get that turn you put it in your house you better be like when people walk in like hey hey everybody come I appreciate it lamps the lamps and frames will be ready in spring of next year but they didn't have prices on that you you have to click an Inquirer button on the website which means it's not gonna be cheap if I'm guessing probably like 2,000 but it's still really cool still of the idea of Catan and it brings me us to our hashtag of the day which is TD tree and the question is what would you want to grow from organic material if you could grow anything like what's the thing that you would want to grow out of organic material so this guy's making furniture out of trees which is pretty awesome okay what would you do if I could I would love some way to build a car out of like I guess it would sort of like seashells I guess like I like the idea of like having serve a developed cuz it like I don't know I I think it would be awesome or or a boat out of seaweed where it's like a floating like a nice this is a very bizarre question of the day it is a weird question of the day I picked it because I want you guys get a little bit weird about it I guess I would want a suit of armor uh-huh made of rocks I like that or just iron that just naturally created its own actually can hire man but I can't go anywhere in it I like I I dig okay I see strange I think they'll have some fun like a suit made out of like palm tree leaves it just grows into a suit and they you just walk into it kind of like that yeah I think that they had that in like in hook yeah yeah that they were throw out there and their heads were coconuts or something like that have fun with that you guys we're gonna take a quick break and we will be right back with a really really cool Mod Squad straight of Star Trek and we also have your user feedback and our phones are good for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily oh and check this out welcome back to the show I love that tars cosplay it's so cool yeah it's like how they made it in the movie to look a guy just behind it just straight-up went for it and looks amazing do you see that he like had a camera like a camera built into it so you could see from the back what tars is seeing in the front oh yeah very very good genius I love it I hope it comes to comic-con maybe he'll bring it to comic-con and we could see it in person I'm team tars I am a team tars all the way to okay so it is Wednesday which means we like to kind of find cool and crazy mods all over the internet this is Mod Squad what is there a graphic doing there did you so nice looks amazing well done okay all right so this week's this week's Mod Squad comes from Christof Koch and roll Schwartz which sound like awesome Star Trek names actually I was just thinking about that and they made a Wi-Fi access point USS Enterprise and there's video of it so here's the process they took it all apart they used a ubiquity ap Pro access point and they reassembled it inside the USS Enterprise model this is the original enterprise from the the og Star Trek television series okay so not next generation nope no TNG here this is all oh gee Star Trek and so what they did was so the would base they made one that looks like the the logo and they put the plug in there and then they have some LED lights in there and everything and so there it is they're working on putting this access point inside they got all the cables wrapped up and then they put the lid on it and boom it is a beautiful at Wi-Fi access point that you never even know about because it just looks like a model of the USS Enterprise so it lights up then - as will you yeah it's got some LED lighting on the board that looks like wouldn't you see the middle of it like when it's dark it looks like there's activity going on inside the ship which is pretty cool this is kind of my favorite Mod Squad kind of it's so it's so fun and such a simple concept but it really nailed it in terms of execution I mean you could I would never be able to tell that there was a Wi-Fi access point in there I wonder what the password to their Wi-Fi hotspot is I'm gonna guess it's something engage in Klingon Oh or maybe make it so make it so yeah but that's I know it's TNG but you know they did a little reddit AMA about it like they were answering questions about it over on reddit and I was reading some of their answers and one of the questions a lot of people had was does it get really hot so they were expecting it to overheat cuz it's inside a really tight case they're like no actually it's not that bad so it's pretty cool I thought that was super amazing and I'm a I love clever mod so I thought that was kind of a win it was a big-time win for me I don't know I don't know Wi-Fi has begun before exactly going Reneau Wi-Fi a galaxy far far away nope wrong one but speaking of that speaking of that sever user feedback that was a great catch that was a great catch I got reflexes like a cat you I can hear you laughing at reflexes like a dead cat alright dead cat okay so I have to say I'm feeling very vindicated today because many of you wrote in and put episode 3 ahead of Return of the Jedi so we asked you guys to use the hashtag TDS W and to rank six Star Wars films I gotta tell you some surprises but more than anything I would like to say that I am proud to be wrong with the rest of you because clearly Cal says that I'm incorrect but I'm happy to be wrong with all of you as opposed to right with kale because I picked I put three above six I'm saying Ryan wrote in kills like I don't care I don't really care Ryan wrote in and said number one Empire then Jedi then safe new hope phantom and clones three and four and five and six are close could go either way I'm surprised people put phantom above clones but a lot of people did a lot people really don't like it I think they like that podrace though the podrace is awesome and the other thing though is like I was thinking about Attack of the Clones cuz I'm like what are they talking about attack of clones are so cool but it's really only in the last like 15 minutes of that movies cool because the rest of it is like the hills are alive with the sound of Jedi where Anna hands like running and they're like yeah rolling her I remember yes and it gets everywhere yeah Stanley wrote in and said Jedi Empire hope Sith Phantom Menace clones so he put Return of the Jedi first and then Empire than a new hope then Vader wrote in and said he walks ruined six oh he says four five three six two one which was that was close to my order I said five four three Jar Jar and bad acting Anakin ruined two and one may the force be with you James Roden had a message for you is that first off kill anonymous that t-shirt has inspired your green Power Rangers as 40d SW list for me is for three five six one two all of the lightsabers in three so he put a new hope Revenge of the Sith and then Empire Strikes Back here's the issue never turn the Jedi which here's the problem we know we're gonna have you're gonna have to be killed here's the problem we have here once again we're forgetting that the prequels for the most part especially three had a lot of had a lot of support because of four or five and six yeah you know you had you basically already had the story but I think most people are giving three credit because of the fight scenes and because of the cool action or whatever and that's that's air we're talking about terrible story awful writing and garbage direction I feel like that about episodes about about for sure to the Jedi though like a lot of it is really bad like I I mean I guess I'd like that's I look at it I'm just like this is just as bad but I mean that was back when I guess the time ago it's not exciting man my father came out in the 70s but now with like gazillions of dollars and then we have I would argue we make more terrible movies now than we do back like yeah sure but you know not not behind like amazing franchise okay fair enough maybe maybe we'll see so about Batman V Superman der to go there's not really been a great Superman recent a good franchise um but now we're just now we're just opening wound I know everywhere God what does this show becoming I know Neil wrote in and said Empire Strikes Back and you hope return Revenge of the Sith Return of the Jedi Attack of the Clones The Phantom Menace that was my choices return it a Jedi would have been higher but he walks come on that's what he said people don't like Ewoks ma'am I'm with you I got you Rick wrote it and said I'm gonna go with the unpopular opinion episode six five three four two and I'm gonna pretend that Phantom Menace doesn't exist like that he just completely dropped that one obsolete producer Logan you're the only person that's on my side how do you feel about everybody putting three up there and that's what I'm saying is it just it doesn't belong there guys are all along I loved three of all of one two and three I loved it I thought it was great it was somebody but it was only refreshing after one and two I don't know just like this is better that ends expenses all right um it is time for our very last fees user feedback it's time for our photogra for the day I'm really enjoying all this inner rage that we're having it's so fun I'm I I have I have a present for you this is a phone talk refer her that using note 4 at festival season oh yes okay this is from Aang and he wrote it and said hey guys long time watcher this photo shot with my samsung note 4 I shot this photo of my significant other of 13 years at a music festival and with much luck I got a sunset in the background he also said happy birthday to me so thank you and get out of here look at this picture it's amazing he's at Wonderland he's at he's at like one of the insomniac events I think it is yes that is awesome first of all it looks like it belongs in like a magazine it looks like it should be like an ad for festival season like it's just go see a festival look at the delights that you're going to encounter this guy is totally this guy is totally my kind of guy I like going house using the note 4 which Dutch angle tolling Dutch angle and he watches tomorrow daily which that's where we differ I don't watch tomorrow daily now kale does not but look at that picture it looks amazing and your signature lady is delightful I'm assuming that's a lady right well he said it's of his significant other oh so angry lady is literally gorgeous and that is a stunning picture and she should be a festival season model just for all the festivals they bring her out for free I should fly both you guys out and just have you guys take pictures yeah and you should take her to more festivals yeah there I just wanted to like screw off right now you have to go to every if you guys want to submit your phone tog Rafi you can you can email us your phone tog Rafi tell us what device you took your picture with tell us a little story about it or you can send us story ideas feedback for the show whatever you want to tomorrow at cnet.com and we also are on social media where tomorrow daily on snapchat tumblr facebook twitter instagram and tomorrow daily TV over on google+ and if you're watching on youtube don't forget to like favorite subscribe and also if you're listening on itunes don't forget to rate review and also if you're on twitter don't forget to follow us on twitter at kilometer and I'm at Ashley's gala that's it for the show today we'll be back tomorrow with a whole new dog weird wonderful science fact meeting science fiction all that good stuff but until then think of humans don't see you guys next time bye you