Gadgetory

on today's show Disney research and Carnegie Mellon are working on a way for you to control your smartphone with sound there is a drone fashion show coming to town that we're gonna tell you all about and a wetsuit you can wear to your wedding thanks Japan tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best ski talk show computers I'm your host Ashley skellige enemies always my co-host kale anonymous the man of mystery I'm not that oh cuz of a not the anonymous not a messy anonymous they gave me my card for the office today like they gave me a little new entries card and they put their like we made a mistake in your name we put anonymous kale I was like all right yeah sure whatever that's the least offensive mess up anybody's ever made of anyone's name is usually people are like this is not your real name yeah give us your real name no they're the like your first name is anonymous now your last name scale so that's cool so why don't we just get him headlines do that I really hope we don't fall off the rails earliness this time I guarantee only wednesday so this is a meanwhile in japan story like that because uh this this story is coming from quicksilver japan none of you know quicksilver but they make aquatic gear for the ocean and they have decided that everybody would really like it if they had a wetsuit that wasn't only a wetsuit god i'm waiting for the video to catch up to me I know waiting to catch up wait there they're creating a web suit a wetsuit that's not only a wetsuit but is also a business wetsuit that you can wear into the ocean so this is a see he's wearing a suit in this video so much he's just about to jump straight into the ocean so this season this is uh this is called so true wet suits were developed with the boardroom and surfboard in MA look at this this is amazing look at this guy please so you guys are missing it if you listen it's this story is purely a visual the visuals is definitely a visual story you see this guy in a business suit on the button as he hits the way he's like ah yes so the shirt is made with dri-fit which is a fabric that usually that's actually water repellent now some it's a the jacket and pants or neoprene yeah the same material as a regular wetsuit so that so you got neoprene and dry fit that's the shirt yeah this your Dreyfuss sure it's dry fit wow these are these are details you need so let's say you want one of these right let's say oh it's okay yes i'm in well good luck with that how much so these are made-to-order so you know they're going to be expensive cars just three hundred thousand yen and that's two thousand five hundred dollars in US currency a lot of money and they take about it takes about two months to arrive they come in they go you make a little noise after everything that's a yes so the two comes in two colors navy and black business suit or tuxedo style the tuxedo style seems like the way to go it's going to get James Bond yeah so yes there you go now available um can I just say this is like the perfect formal wear for Southern California yeah I mean cuz after a meeting you want to jump right into the after that meeting for your screenplay you jump right into the ocean yeah you go surfing you probably are really warm in that suit until you get into the ocean I I tell you what though if you want to send us one was it myself yeah a quick summer you want to send this one will try it out producer Logan will try it out I'm gonna have producer Logan wear it even though he's a drone as we described it yeah but will they custom fit ok custom fitted yeah we loved up beginning it loves adam on it but that brings us to our hashtag of the day what is it it is hashtag TD suits so we want to know what kind of shoot do you need and what's the second function what second function would provide so what what would your suit yeah but it has to actually look like a suit you can't be like I would have iron man suit that's not a suit yeah I guess that's yeah that's a good caveat okay so what's yours I feel like I feel like I would this is gonna sound really weird I feel like I would want an edible suit made out of like I don't know like chocolate and then that way it's like if my blood sugar got low or if I got sad i could just like take a little piece off of it and i eat it eat the sleeves so if i wanted it i would go for like a chocolate made chocolate suit and then that way it's like i'm wearing my suit and during the day I keep eating like the sleeves until finally it's casual and then I can like go out at night I can change it into a different thing no I'm saying like in a like this is special neoprene and dreyfus bro technology where the child feel like you're forgetting a lot of stuff okay like that i live in california's 91 degrees like it would be technology where I wouldn't melt ocial chocolate oh that would be the second feature yeah it doesn't matter it would not be cool okay and I could just take little blinds not any better no these are terrible no mines magnet knowing isn't gonna be any better mine um i just bought the cuff it would be a little bit of an inflatable suit it would fill in with uh with helium so that i could go up in the air and the second feature would be that it there would be like fans built-in or like some sort of propulsion saw her so that i could fly to locations because it takes me a half an hour to get to work when it should take me five minutes how's the belly traffic now it's why not just be the Bubble Boy and float over every 30 little baby max you'd be like a little big man yes I was look I would look like pain acts it was a good way around and people would market but be early to everything you would never be late to a meeting that's what is this fun check on that all right quick sell chocolate suit baymax what is yours hashtag TV suit okay section suit alright cool okay I got to tell you about a coup struments all right so uh this is really weird but it's kind of awesome so Disney research and Carnegie Mellon have been working on this for a while and these are low-cost powerless you don't have to power them low-cost powerless plastic mechanisms that use acoustics to input commands on smartphones so you can see they're kind of in a circuit like either they go around like they kind of go around the phone or there's like a little circuit underneath the phone like at the bottom so what they did was they thought about things like the slide whistle and they were like that changes the sound wave so why can't we teach a phone to have an input based on changing sound waves so here's how it works so there's a little plastic piece that is 3d printed and it has a continuous ultrasonic path running through it ok so you attach that to the bottom of your smartphone and then there's another part that plugs into the microphone so you can't hear that ultrasonic path the frequency but your microphone in your smartphone can so that means you can add these little tiny 3d printed attachments like dials and switches and you actually control the input on the smartphone without needing any power at all and also I for very very very cheaply and here are all the different options they came up with right yeah those are all the different options so they'll show a few of them so like some of the ideas they have here like rocker switches multi turn knobs like volume or you know different things like that they've balls out so you can like shift through stuff you can swipe so one this could be really great for somebody with a disability of some kind they might be able to develop accessories but the big thing is is they were saying that the kind of point of this is is you can make even even bigger things so like an alarm clock so here is this little alarm clock they made and it's an end user application and obviously you know yes you have an alarm clock on your phone it's very simple but this has like so you hit the toggle turns it on and you have this like little lock screen and then there's a little button inside the box where it interrupts that ultrasonic frequency and you're able to you know snooze it and then they also show this like smart case where depending on how you're gripping the smart case it knows exactly what you want from it so if it's on the table and not being gripped it knows that if you pick it up it's in your hand oh I know that too or if I'm using it as a camera like I'm interrupting the frequency holding it in different ways then they have these like little toys and stuff like that but they're all again powered by your smartphone and they're really low-cost so they were saying this could pave the way for cheaper mobile accessories all different kinds of mobile accessories and and also mobile accessories that don't require power to use and would also take up less of a carbon footprint they would easier to recycle because it's plastics that is so clever super it is incredibly weird yeah and really weird like really ingenious like it's really smart way if you like the sound waves and the microphone yeah I've seen it I've seen it you like use your phone as an ocarina and like how much you blow on it stuff like that but creating its own noise and stuff like that isn't that's incredibly we're totally inspired by that they were like we were inspired by instruments and so that's why they're called a coup strument so it's like accessory and instrument put together so the up that supports go wit ago this portion is all right I got to tell you about Silicon Valley Fashion Week now we heard about Silicon Valley comic-con which is going to be smashing together deep pop culture and technology which we love here but I also am a lover of fashion and technology and this sounds like the fashion week for me as opposed to LA or New York Fashion Week this is Silicon Valley Fashion Week being put on by beta brand and they're using things like drones as supermodels to walk the run to fly the runway as it were I'm glad my god gizelle retired just in time she's out of a job anyway yeah this bronze thinner anyway so you know and they eat though just about the same backstage which is nothing this is nothing um so yeah this is a really interesting kind of event that they're doing beta brand is putting this on I'm sure there'll be other designers there who do future stuff maybe cute circuit which is one of my favorite futuristic designers that I like to keep tabs on it kicks off on May twelfth so it starts next week so this is not actual footage from it this is them practicing so this is beta brand footage of them practicing for next week they had some other crazy stuff like they have so they have this like space kind of like NASA looking jacket which I thought was kind of cool like space kind of a space-themed jacket and then they also have like this disco thing that was super weird so here's the disco thing so that obviously it's being fluttered around in the air from the drone like the the copters on the drone right it doesn't seem perfect science just big jobs just being like flapped around all over the place and then they're gonna land it and it's just really bizarre like these are it's just so strange but it's so weird that I love it yeah and and I I totally want to go and I wish I could but I just I don't have time have time to get up there so I've got like I'm gonna have to check out videos and sup its Silicon Valley Fashion Week like you can like supposedly your you're able to go so it's this is like a thing that you can attend but we can't like a they're gonna walk it down the runway just like that walk a little walk a little drawing right all right hi guys meet oh there it is it's very interesting sure yeah which I just love it so much that's it for the headlines we're gonna take a quick break we're gonna be right back with an Avengers inspired Mod Squad and of course we're going to have a continuation of our user feedback with our Konami feedback oh yeah and then our photogra for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow dealing welcome back to the show we've returned it's a wednesday and it's also the wednesday before the avengers age of ultron launches oh that little thing yep I'm that tiny indie movie as we all know we don't know if it's gonna make any money it's gonna be close may not ever see another one uh but yeah it's a we want to do a really cool kind of Avengers theme Mod Squad and there was a perfect candidate so let's hit it worked on my graphic I really really really did um are you familiar with Patrick freeze on YouTube the laser guy he's like a super laser enthusiast he's gonna burn stuff with the lasers to a lot of times he okay yeah maybe Mia easy well there's a lot of us and said if I was a lot of laser dudes you know what is this thanks guys okay so Patrick priebe is kind of a popular youtuber I've seen his videos before and he was really excited that age of Ultron was comin out and so he built this Iron Man hand that has a laser in the hand and it's a really really strong laser it's actually got two lasers on board so he made a cool working replica of an Iron Man glove unfortunately we won't be shooting any missiles out of it or anything like that so it has sound effects and it has lasers from in the palm and on the top of his wrist like so you do that so there's the laser right there he's like okay cool as soon as he opens his hand up its pops the laser it's made of aluminium the firing mechanism is brass and there's two lasers on board the red one that you're seeing right now out of the top of his hand is a 300 millet red laser and then the one on his palm on the other side is actually really powerful as a 700 milliwatts I mean that one he uses to pop balloons and also etch would he was like hedging a designer we have put it to that oh my god oh yes Larry is doing that so yeah he's action etched in some would probably drawing a picture of robert downey jr of course as one would do with the laser to with that orange i probably you burn a hole right through it find a guess but yeah so he's he's got some great stuff over on the laser gadgets youtube channel which is pretty neat he sells a lot of his create on his website there he goes with the orange yes he's a burn a hole right through that orange you're like a whole Julie pull wall of blues and stuff um but yeah so cool and it's a he said it took three weeks to make but he bug he's real I mean this is like this is what he does so he's got that whole website where he sells like little contraptions and things with lasers say I hear their egos Oh get it get am Iron Man its actual pew pew kill thank you kill Evelyn he says a note to self add aiming laser which I like so ya see the red one takes a lot longer obviously because it's less powerful but yeah pretty cool yeah that's pretty scary as well so I think you know if Tony Stark was hiring Marvel was hiring jeez like hire that guy yeah make really really concerns I got to take on those balloons yeah those evil balloons robot oh but that's crazy that he made the full glove yeah it's so cool so yeah three weeks pretty good nice job pat pat pat priebe um okay we gotta continue our discussion from yesterday on the teeth for about Konami so let's talk about user feedback settle in this is gonna be a Wong email you're comfortable okay this email is from nick nick has never written into the show before never last time you made up for lost time 170 episodes in today this is this is his hundred and seventy of Saudi mail I stopped talking about Konami we're wondering what's going on Konami he has some really good points bear with us cuz it's a long email but I think he makes a lot of great points first of all I love the show try to watch every day most of the time over my lunch but this is my first time responding to hashtag add a second on the topic of Konami I think you're spot on that they're restructuring I happen to be a project manager at a large bank so when you reported they were cancelling major projects letting people go D listing it immediately told me they were refocusing their efforts strategically I did a quick google and found an article explaining Japan is on the verge of legalizing casinos there it is seeing as that that is Konami home turf in a very lucrative market for them it makes sense they would revise their capital plan to focus on that without boring you with too many details US regulators tend to not like it when you completely revise your capital plan mid-year that may be one reason they delisted themselves in the US but not other markets like London london berlin tokyo exactly not to mention the firestorm that would come from the rating agencies with konami not clearly articulating why they're making the changes speaks to uncertainty in the company and what could have gotten them devalued which obviously would have hurt their plans to invest in more casinos on that topic the article I found a Reuters explain Kaname is positioning itself not only to supply casinos with machines but to become a full partner in the casinos this guy did his homework they apparently plan to make this division a subsidiary of the larger konami company this tells me they need to strengthen their brand name which may be why we're seeing them push it rather than the creator's names should be why they would take a G Moff of the site fair enough overall as long as they didn't really take anyone off tick any of their creators off they may still be able to release the cancelled games in the future actually if their casino business goes well may bolster their gaming division as well by allowing them to hire on more and more new and exceptional talent unless of course they go the opposite way and exit the gaming market altogether the focus on the casino business wouldn't that stink just my thoughts sorry it's so long I tend to be long-winded keep up the good work no you keep up the good work Nick that was real good you keep it up that's real good our new host of tomorrow daily jack thank you for trying to financial analyst on tomorrow daily viewer Nick boy that did not give me any hope at all for Konami honestly well you know if you think about it a lot of people don't realize Nintendo used to be a they used to be a gaming company like cards like they like um bicycle like playing cards yeah they used to be like these do that stuff and even before then it's the intent has been around for a really long time not to video games until the 80s but they've been around since I think the 1890s that company has been around since like the late 1800s Wow okay so they they have done a lot of stuff and this is just sort of a blip on the radar for them in terms of like I mean this is what they're known for but they've done a lot more other things before previously and there they'll probably do more things in the future than just gaming but again if they're so excited about their whole gambling area I don't see them even wanting money box anymore then want to strengthen up it looks like they're they're dropping their games once they got metal gear out they don't really need they don't need consume anymore you know they can sell out their properties or just like lease them out to have other people make them me ask you this if could you know left if kijima leaves konami yeah where does he go to make games what's that what's the gaming publisher or the gaming developer where's the game company that he should go to to make games yay I'm just kidding hahahaha as a terrible answer oh we kid around here at jokers I have no idea I would like but maybe Bethesda yeah his own IP sabbath esta like not work on current current franchise but like his own do his own thing it may be Bethesda is this good I aware that would also be good I was also good yeah those are both I think the only options uh if you want to do exclusives I could say maybe like Microsoft like a microsoft developer bungee you do bungee that could be good um but yeah I think probably those would be that's all good call so anyway alright so that was our user feedback is our only piece of user feedback and what we're gonna do TD bullets and TD suit tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow show don't double whammy but thank you Nick that was a very good at email I know where do I really did want to save it cuz it was so big and I don't want to cut any of it out all right guys it's time for a very last piece of user feedback which is our phone talking for the day jani wrote in to us Johnny Johnny I don't know if the J is silent listen I was like three different name I'll explain why rights greetings from Slovenia love the show finally some barbecue time took this picture with my iphone 6 so Slovenia is the J silent Sylvania is it Jonnie is it is it a why is it Slovenia slovenia yeah that's what he says sorry greetings from sylvania I've heard of Sylvania okay oh you haven't but he has to BBQ time BBQ time so we've got the meat patties yeah where's the after picture I hope that's cricket meat I'm just kidding um for kale kale loves crickets yeah where's the after picture I know there is no after picture I know hey listen Johnny Johnny that's what I'm gonna call it oh my god Johnny i'm gonna say Johnny like Johnny like Johnny Five Johnny Cage just so many Johnny's no listen John Jay Jay send us an after picture of some burgers the next time you barbecue because I'm assuming you've eaten them at this point I hope you have eaten them at this point otherwise they're gonna be like charcoal charcoal blocks this can be really been like two real good you overcooked them if you're still waiting so yeah that's very good yeah pretty nice uh but that's it for phone card for the day if you want to send in your phone tog raphy you can email us tomorrow at cnet com you can also send in your user feedback if you hate email you can find us on social media we're tomorrow daily over on Facebook Instagram Twitter not snapchat tumblr and 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