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Tomorrow Daily - Flushable elevator toilets, coming to a Japan near you, Ep. 191

2015-06-09
on today's show there's a new power glove in town but it's not for video gaming a brand new album that you can only listen to through trees and in Japan toilets and elevators you heard that right tomorrow daily creating citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley scale that Jamie's always kill anonymous one of the the fanciest people on the earth if I'm being honest crikey and I have to say the round of stories that we have today suck are awful but you should still listen to them they're not awful they're pretty amazing here's the headlines all right meanwhile in japan oh we're sorry okay we're starting off with a weird one meanwhile in japan meanwhile japan the government's working with the country's elevator corporations the industry of elevator making people to bring these citizens of japan toilets in elevators this is this video you're going to see is from like 2008 or something these are these little things that you can actually find now in elevators it is like toilets there for emergencies there's put them in the corner but okay let me explain emergency corner toilet emergency corner let me explain though because Sears think what you're seeing right now is something that is actually kind of important in Japan because Japan is a lot of earthquakes and they just had an earthquake about just recently they had a 7.8 earthquake off the coast and what happens when there are earthquakes is elevators get trapped you they don't work so and if you're inside the elevator and you don't get to not take the elevator down you take the stairs but people in the elevator don't have that luxury and sometimes they can be trapped in there for hours a day two days like depending on how big the earthquake isn't how long it takes workers to get to those elevators so it can get kind of messy which is really gross which you know you see the video that we were showing which is these are sort of emergency toilets but they don't really have any plumbing attached to them these are just like if you are desperate you can go and there's also things like water they have like blankets water things like that in the event of an emergency inside these elevators as well um so now the government wants to work with the elevator industry to figure out how to get running water and toilets like actual flushing toilets in new elevators in Japan it they want a full functioning in a public elevator yes which can't possibly go wrong actually you know if there's any culture I trust to take care of and use appropriate use a toilet appropriately inside an elevator or working toilet it would be the Japanese if I could find a way to make it so that it could slow down and only reach my destination when I finished I'd be down on this that seems like a really good floor hmm and it's like slow it's like yeah it's like well I have to like it goes between four and five it's like oh I noticed you haven't gotten up yet because here's the thing guys Japan's toilets are some of the most advanced toilets in the entire world like if you haven't seen a Japanese toilet or used one you are super missing out number one and number two yeah this is like they are at the forefront of toilet technology through my toilet I think a year ago they they're about a year ago we did a story about a toilet exhibition at a museum in Tokyo where there was literally like you could put on a little poo hat and slide down into a real like a huge 15-foot tall toilet as you would ya as one does um but yeah so they have really fancy toilets in Japan so honestly if there's any government or any culture or any group of people who are going to figure this out I think it's going to be Japan it is the land of tomorrow they have toilets that to me seemed like from the future so it seems like this would sort of be the next evolution of that and I feel like they could totally pull it off guys the government is approving these toilets in the elevator so they're putting pressure on the elevator industry to make music pressure in a toilet story I well I will not be like well that's a good point well made um so that brings us to our hashtag the day TD flushed where would you like to think of poop no that's not the question although that would make for some very interesting answers you can answer that question it can get segments listen guys if you want to answer that question to kale you can find him on twitter at kill anonymous or you can answer in the comments on YouTube whatever you want because I'll go read them but the question for the hashed out of the day is give us one pro and one con for toilets and elevators working plumbed toilets and well how about this I there's already a problem people farting in an elevator why would we want us to like take that to the next via con that would be gone for sure yeah how can you think of a pro like is there is there a good reason like what's what you got one con what about a pro what's a what's a good reason I would argue the pro would be that aside from you know getting trapped in an elevator I mean sometimes you know what if you get sick what if you have to throw up what if you got me you don't want to throw up all for the people in the elevator you've a nice toilet to do that in maybe you drank too much so I'm saying you know where they should put these inside the luxor in las vegas with those diagonal elevators cuz people get sick in those guys it's very specific it is really sets this very specific use case that would push it makes sense all right I'd say that's a pro it like keeping people from making a magic traveler here crappy idea get out of my studio so check check this out all right so you've heard of crazy album like people release an album a really strange way Beyonce dropped hers without telling anybody right well this guy I'm sorry this group John moose release their album only in the forest wait you can only listen to the album in the forest okay so here's how it works you download this app this is John moose app then it makes it so that it'll it'll keep beeping and you keep walking towards the forest and when you're finally deep enough into the forest it'll start playing the album that is super weird yeah it's a it's a band from Sweden uh it's it's pretty cool I think it's pretty cool it uses google maps to pick out green spots and it set your gps to the closest one much so the reason he did this is because you were they john moose did this is because the album was written pretty much in relationship with nature and so so i listen to it in nature is supposed to add to the effect i see i'm downloading it right now i'm ryan do addition or not anywhere and that's the issue this is a really cool idea i don't really want to do this because i go hiking and and logan producer looking just went hiking but I there's not a lot of forests close by necessarily maybe they'll also accept parks maybe Lex at parks cuz on Google Maps you're saying it's the green spots a lot of x parks are green parks are green too so maybe a nice wooded park yeah get away from it all and listen to John moose so the this is this is just a pre-release like you're gonna get the album normally it's not like you can only listen to it there but you can listen to it now if you download the app and then go to your nearest forest and then stand there and enjoy a deer licks your face love it yeah exactly feet so there you go John moose how much amazing go check that out it's just I guess it's just called the John moose app i looked up john Boozman in the app store it's I Oh looks like it's iphone only no iPad but you can get it on my phone droid 20 spray vibrate might be on android it probably is yeah but i just i just looked it up on the app store it wasn't for ipad i had to look it up fries so they go that is a chef john moose kind of amazing also very appropriate name I don't know if your group or a person but nicely done I'm gonna get into John moose um no Johnny's seems like a really cool band just a cool sweet is like oh that feels like a hipster things like have you ever heard of John moose I don't think so yeah I heard about their meat what do it what are you doing in there moose in it like that's really my god guys John moose the band the hate kale just gave you a great verb for your band loosen it you can't steal my verb alright what is your you got a power glove yes you know the power glove is so bad it's so bad um so I gotta tell you about this power glove it's a little bit different than agendas power glove this is from Harvard engineering so it's for medical use but it's really cool because it's helping people and I think this is awesome it's for rehabilitation it's made to help people with conditions that affect the usage of their hands so there are a lot of people out there with these debilitating diseases or injuries that prevent them from really kind of controlling the use of their hands so this woman that you're seeing on the screen right now is a patient who has been demoing the unit for them on video and she she talks about in the video like she's like I just want some semblance of control over my environment because I can't even hold me I can't hold anything I drop stuff all the time dropped my glasses I can't hold stuff and this glove is made of Kevlar and silicon and then there's actuators inside that open and closed the fingers and this is the cool part the strength of the fingers closing an opening can be specifically tailored to suit each patient's disability so like if you maybe have something if you have a disability that doesn't require as much force then you can set it to do a little bit less you can actually set it to do more depending on what you have and exactly how much damage or disability your hand is experiencing that's awesome yeah it's pretty cool so they want to try to get people to experience something close to the very natural feeling control in their hands and they made this video explaining all of how it works and they showed that prototype which is really cool looking and next they want to integrate EMG sensor so that patients can trigger the glove more accurately based on their intent so it's like oh I want to use my hand specifically do this thing and then the EMG sensors would be able to go in and like do it appropriately like enough pressure appropriate pressure which is pretty great yeah I like that it's adaptable that it can it can go to based on how debilitated you are yeah make sure you're not super reliance on it so right because if they made it all the way powerful and then you know you only have a little bit of muscle problems than your muscles with atrophy because you're using it more right if there was just the sort of one-size-fits-all setting on it it would be first of all more difficult for people with more debilitating injuries and and then also on the other end it would probably be actually more difficult for people less debilitating injuries because then you're losing control that you already had in your hands yeah so this is pretty great that you're able to hold you hold things move things around based on and custom tailored to exactly what type of disability or injury or disease you might have that could help that has prevented you from using your hand in a one hundred percent capacity this is a little cooler than the power glove it's a you know the power of love is pretty good you guys know it's so bad hey that's so true um I thought that we're making a wizard reference today ah look at our younger audience doesn't appreciate them no idea it's okay it's okay you guys you can appreciate this power glove this is much better powerful Tomatoes pokemon reference we should do that too ah you're like mudkips we're gonna go make some pokemon references we're gonna take a quick break we're gonna come right back it's Tuesday which means there's new releases and I'm pretty sure this week was tailor-made for Cail and on top of that we have your user fee back and of course our phone tog refer the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily check out watercolor Mad Max super cool mudkips lips welcome back to the show everybody we have returned it's Tuesday which means it's time to tell you about all the nice things that are going to be emptying our wallets this week it's time for new releases how excited are you Cale from lego jurassic world i'm pretty excited I actually do like Lego games they're really good and I love and and and in the ligature lego games are his best and here's the best part about Leo jurassic world i just want to mention to you guys if you can't read the lower third if you're either listening or don't feel like reading that lower third it is available today for xbox one xbox 360 playstation 4 playstation 3 wii u wii 3ds vita and pc so pretty much any platform you own like you're gonna be only coasters micrel of it and microwave ovens your car the roller skates pop yo grandma yeah your grandma can play this game well the best part about this game is that unlike many other Lego games they didn't break everything up if this covers Jurassic Park one trust part 23 and Jurassic world and then of course they cute see it up they always make it a little interesting I am I don't know how far they go into the story with Jurassic world but there is a potential for them to I'm actually kind of the trailer pretty great like there's a lot of moments from the trailer that they you can see there you get to play through Jurassic Park 1 C therefore dress park adventure are really cool I am buying this game I both during the break was trying to figure out if I should live stream this I think I'm changing my mind I think I'm a live stream I think lego jurassic world was worth it would you Logan do you think I should live stream this sure why not he's usually got it usually either yessir yeah Logan's are pretty yes or no guy he's on the fence might not be well alright well maybe do some soul-searching yeah alright that's pretty good but I don't think anything can be lego jurassic world coming out this week how about Jurassic world yes I said dress a growth is gonna be out this view hey clever girl mm-hmm thank you thank you I love being compared to a velociraptor on a Tuesday but only on a Tuesday on so yeah is this is the final trailer that came out which kill and I agree and producer Logan is the best trailer it makes the other trailers look stupid and childish it does it makes the movie it look really scary like in a good way like an old man this is like very exciting and thriller and it's it doesn't seem I don't think that this will be what the movies like but it's it's great these are all the intense moments Kevin trevara said that the second trailer was more like his Jurassic world like what he wanted to show but either way this shows that there's some intensity in the movie which you know you're kind of frayed up but there you go there's the indominus rex and kale you were saying you were trying to get tickets and like it's sold out everywhere in a lot of emails and a lot of the high population areas it sold out faster than mad max so but I mean this is an IP that's people are even it's not rated R either so it's pg-13 that's true so these silly easier to sell out pg-13 them yeah I'm very excited about this much hype I still don't know if it's gonna be good but i'm going in with high expectations which may be bad could be bad Kevin Trevorrow he's never done like an action movie don't put your acid world up on a pedestal man I put Chris Pratt all on the high everybody puts Chris Pratt on a pedestal that's fine he can handle it uh and then lastly uh just drop this like kind of brand new news today right 43 microsoft announced a one terabyte xbox one so this is a new xbox one so xbox one right now is a 500 gigabyte machine not anymore the 399 version is now I have a one terabyte hard drive built-in which honestly you guys is the way it should have been from the get-go it should have been this way from the beginning did you run out of space pretty quickly uh yeah because these games like 50 gigs if you're downloading games I mean they're huge games you get ten games in there it's over like it's done you're done you get ten major titles and it's been it was like in the growing pains of that trip like cross over there lies digital and which they should have had these you know really good SS look one terabyte SSDs in there and the thing is is they just didn't and and Sony is equally as guilty of this they have a 500 gigabyte hard drive and at least with the xbox one you could do an external hard drive like that was fine but on the PlayStation you can't so and they have a new controller so the new controller has a regular headphone jack which a lot of people are super thrilled about really yeah it's not that weird like proprietary connection it's just a normal three and a half like headphone jack so you can actually as normal people headphones on your ex seems like they're getting a little nervous and they may be gonna answer a lot of problems they've been having I that does seem that does seem to be okay so a few more consoles so now if you want to get the 500 gigabyte one it will permanently be 349 and then this new of one terabyte Xbox one is now what I've 399 my console box on my console already had two terabytes in it though which one Tara pc o your piece boom and I can edit on it not uh I'm not a console but it is I mean it's very nice you see master is it's very nice um so that's our new releases for this week which means it is time for your user feedback you don't have you don't have enough time kale you don't have time for that stop making out with the velociraptors um they are technically the size of chickens uh so well only am like you really you like not not in and and right on right on a motorcycle next to them this is like this is the new way I want to see that scene recreated with Chris Pratt riding a motorcycle with real size velociraptor a little tiny one um I things you do actual chicken actually that would also be amazing so we asked you guys to use hashtag TD WWDC 15 to tell us what you guys thought of you WC honestly by a lot of you guys agreed with us so first up we have Frank who said hashtag I fell asleep zzzzzz and then put a little picture of a baby and then galle road in and Gail said honestly couldn't care less III is around the corner with you will be telling you all about on Thursday and what we're going to be doing there nilesh wrote in and said I am so glad that the ipad has finally gotten real multitasking it's about time and that's the thing is very like some people were more excited about this than others like one feature like I bet you he or she ever was it English yeah was not like everything else was amazing just like oh man multitask on their iPad have been waiting forever Rob wrote in and said hi Ashley I have a question since absol is releasing a new paid radio service what's going to happen with iTunes radio yeah good question beats one will be the right that will be iTunes radio for all intents is Apple music is now like that is all of their music services iTunes radio is gonna be rolled right in two beats one it's just going to be served at curated content and then you're also going to have i miss i believe i saw all of the the playlist like the curated playlists and things like that you're going to be able to kind of have that sort of same radio s experience like a Pandora or Spotify playlist or whatever you'll have that in Apple music so as soon as Apple music officially launches I'm i believe iTunes radio will will go away but just they get absorbed right in a beats one makes oh yeah and then also just as an FYI everybody yesterday we were debating offline play and Apple music does have offline play so for clarification for sure offline play Alec wrote and said I would have loved to see an update to the ipod that's what kind of made them popular and all they have done to the ipod line up lately was discontinued the ipod classic sent from my ipod no was it I think it was uh but ya know a lot of people really love their iPods and a lot of people use an ipod the like have their music work out and everything but then they they don't want an iphone like so they can android device but they use but i wonder if that will change you know this braid almost feel tonight why do you even need an update why do you need an updated ipod why don't you just have like one of the older i have an older one that I use sometimes when I go running but I mean I only need it to play music it doesn't need to have like crazy features or be updated or anything but I think some people wouldn't mind having like an updated camera because it's such an old camera when you take pictures like really grainy like they wouldn't mind maybe having an updated camera okay so that seems like it'd be pretty expensive though yeah well I mean it would be I mean you're upgrading it so I i do think i will say that it is a pretty cool device once you have it connected to a Wi-Fi network yes basically an iphone just without an actual phone part well you can FaceTime audio now mean you FaceTime audio other iphone so all right it's kind of like a phone I'm just tackling the running logic yeah and a crazy thing but it is very true if you want to use it as a home device than right yeah but I mean then you could just use an iPad I don't know where's the argument here I like why don't they refresh the ipad but I actually think that Apple music debuting on Android is actually kind of a that's a way to combat this sort of new ipod thing where it's like well maybe if you have an android phone and ipod or they're they're gonna they're gonna make you either have an android phone use apple music or haven't get an iphone like that's gonna be there i think that's going to be the thing that's sort of the end game there because they're not making any money off of you if you have an ipod like that you're buying a lesser and product in apple's lineup they'd rather you buy an iphone obviously I've got like the generation 5 iPod and fine with it I can't even know what my I think I gave my ipod to my knees for a verse in it like you know obviously can't play like games on it but just listen to it for music it's yeah but in my pocket don't go around that's what it's for that's what it's for I'm a really good really good feedback you guys and that brings us to our very last piece of user feedback which is always our phone tog refer of the day totally love this picture it's from a note 3 you ready for a little galaxy note 3 photo a little one from our friend Mohammed who wrote in and said just an amazing view to wake up to took taken by note 3 from Dubai United Arab Emirates um wow what a skyline I did cool really Dubai is like one of the best I would argue like I would say man there's probably about five cities in the world where they just have like the most incredible interesting skylines and no offense to New York I mean listen guys we're from LA we have a boring skyline like our downtown is garbage but like our skyline is not very good there was a law for a really long time that prevented anything other than flat tops of the buildings with skyscrapers they just lifted that ban but it's been around for like 40 years so we're finally we might finally now have interesting buildings like tops of buildings in Los Angeles so we have a cool skyline but it's been it's going to take a while but there are some cities like Dubai like this that are just amazing like do you see buildings and they're just constantly under construction their stuff undergoing struction all the time these huge cranes and everything you have the you know the Burj Khalifa and you have all these other amazing things inside to buy that are these buildings that are incredible feats of human engineering which is super cool so thanks for the picture Mohammed yeah that's pretty good like super great if you guys want to send in your picture for our phone tog refer segment you can email us tomorrow at cnet com sendin what device you took it with tell us a story about it we like all that stuff we love the story and also tells your name because otherwise I'm just going to make fun of you and then also you can find us on social media we're on pretty much all of the good social networks we have a master grim or tomorrow daily there yeah we're on instagram but the problem is this Instagram I can't sign into multiple accounts I can't sign in to both at the same time on my phone and I can't switch I don't want to switch back and forth all the time you need a little a little iPod I do need an ipod with an upgraded camera so that I can just sign no or Facebook could just let me sign in to multiple accounts it's that easy interesting I can sign into multiple accounts on Twitter on my iPhone I could 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