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on today's show pcs that come from paper and a little tiny robot that can pull two thousand times its body weight and there is a ton of drama happening over at a major studio including game cancellations that are making a lot of gamers cries so what do we need to talk about that it's tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley sceva and Ruby's always anonymous a long weekends long weekend a lot of controversial stuff I mean the Joker thing happened this weekend's there was also a huge tragedy yep and this ah can we talk about that first really briefly so before we kick things off today we our hearts are with Nepal the earthquake in Nepal took the lives of some very so many people I think it's over said almost 4000 now yeah so many people and it's going to be more and if you can please donate to groups like the Red Cross who are on the ground helping people there we just we can't believe something this terrible happened and and it just sucks sucks we don't to bring the show down but important hopefully you're able to do something I know that we all don't have access and and hopefully if you know anyone from in that area from that area or doctor our thoughts are with you on that too yeah really I mean it's very crazy and just a sad tragedy terrible right we wanted to make sure we address that before we got started because it's super important oh so hopefully you can donate be good humans yes be good humans uh but let's let's talk about really quick before we get in a headlock oh this weekend another thing happened the heroes of the dorm uh oh yeah competition shout out to Michelle morrow she did a great job um and so heroes of the storm was broadcast on espn2 and it was this big college tournament and the winners ended up getting a college tuition for the rest of their college career amazing super awesome um so blizzard was kind enough because i was on a local radio stations weren't talking about it was kind enough to send over some beta keys for heroes of the storm for our lovely tomorrow daily viewers to to capture that's you that's you so if you're listening to this and you want one we have 10 so um the I think what email I think email cuz then that we have time stamps we can pick the first 10 oh okay I think email us email us tomorrow at cnet com and we will get you a key if you're one of the if you're the first 10 callers like for send email ours gets a beta key will create a clan and will start to team well we'll get college tuition so there you go so yeah email us you saw that you saw the lower third now send an email get it get a key code new data now it's time for the headlines no sorry so many things that happen this weekend so they did yeah what's okay okay since they're just show so all right yeah all right first off this is this about Konami all right lots of stuff is happening over at Konami it's got a lot of people scared there's been a lot of rumors or what's going on but let's just I'm just gonna get right out for the first thing is that silent Hills has been canceled no silent Hills is a continuation of Silent Hill tread tragedy uh trillith like a g-series and it was it was super exciting because Norman Reedus was going to be in it garen lo del Toro was involved and so is click today Okajima who does the Metal Gear series but and everyone was excited about how to demo out and it's been it's been cancelled officially as of this morning Konami relationally got released a statement this is this is just the beginning of the shake ups that people are worried about over there okay I Konami because there's been going on for like a month since I think I have it here as April nineteenth okay um or march 19th March 19-19 okay so couple mine so much so uh about about a month ago a you today Okajima it makes metal gear he's working on phantom fancy his metal gear yes I guess metal gear he's making metal gear solid 5 right now and so that's what he's working on with Konami okay well about a month ago uh Kojima Productions was changed to konami digital entertainment which led to rumours that he was going to be leaving ok well the Konami came up and was just like no no no we're just trying to make sure the konami's name is up front well then they canceled Silent Hill right so he'll sorry and then on Friday on Friday they took their the Konami took their their their name out of the new york stock exchange oh they delisted their company delisted the company from the new york stock exchange still in the Tokyo and London Stock Exchange this is still that's a huge shake up over there too and then uh yeah and then then some people were like then he started taking a coogi misnamed off of their website oh wow I feel like the metal gear cuz I heyday Okajima yeah on the branding and stuff like that what is going on over there and then there was like a confirmation from Koji Kojima that yes he's going to follow through for Metal Gear so there's a lot of questions about what's going on um there's obviously the about the new york stock exchange thing their actual they have like make slot machines and that apparently is the most profitable part of them i did not know that i learned something new so it's like they're thinking that like maybe there's some change ups that are gonna happen obviously they're not focusing on silent house anymore which is a huge franchise yeah a lot of buzz around it kojima is one of their is there big dog so they're pulling that out so like we have no idea what's going on what do you think is going on i think it's i think it's good i think kojima is like he's out he's dies out I think he's out do you think he wants out or do you think Kaname is sort of done being associated with him if you this is total conjecture percent speculate at this could just completely off kale speculation yeah I'm not not completely off of this i think you know they're trying to make a metal gear movie mm-hmm so I think maybe Kojima's just like I could you know like I'll figure out a way to do this myself hmm they're just good Konami just wants to have their name there instead of like if Kojima leaves that that his name will still be there another sort of deal going on over saying the gaming thing I don't know I don't know it seems like I mean a lot of times when these companies delist themselves from the new york stock exchange it means some kind of restructuring is and they happen they kept dropping that they kept saying restructuring that bitch is never a good it's like a fancy way of saying bags see it's like a bad way of saying like we're in trouble um but again this a lot of speculation just because there's a lot of things going on this is such a general term because it's all in stocks exchange and people leaving moving and but it's it's a huge tragedy that we lose silent Hills potentially in the gaming world that's a sad thing and potentially kajima I mean if he leaves Konami then like what are they wear how do you go forward without that like you were saying like that's their big dog like that's their dog in the fight it's like we have Kojima yeah and kijima has been all about like hey this is a this metal gear 5 is like a refreshing of the brand from big bosses standpoint and whatnot I'm heavily invested in the Metal Gear series that's kind of like my one of my bread and butter yeah could you so many gamers like there this is a huge this is a legendary game franchise I mean this is not small potatoes this is a big deal and gaming so but this is this is a story that is still developing oh yeah so even as weird saying this now there might have been something that happened yeah and there may be something that happened tomorrow because like I said Friday was the announcement of the of the stock exchange thing month this morning was a silent Hills officially cut crazy stuff all the shows tell us how you feel tell us i co that's our hashtag of the day is TD Konami we I want to know your unbridled conjecture and speculation what do you think is going on over at Konami and and where do you think you know what do you think the outcome is going to be is it gonna be that Konami Lee is kajima leaves is it gonna be that maybe there's something different in the cards for Kojima how you know why do you think all this stuff is going on aside from restructuring because I have a feeling we all kind of know that that's what I'm never gonna get another Castlevania to is that what we're now listen Konami just release the rights for Castlevania just somebody Simon Belmont in super smash brothers thank you yes let's do that thing cuz that's I love science Simon Belmont something I would play smash brothers a lot more I where's my Simon Belmont amiibo that's what I want stop putting me buzz all rights just sign no more me can we just do the next door okay so yeah all right help us out here I want to tell you about paper pulse paper pulse is really interesting because it is it uses conducive ink cartridges so you can actually like put it in cartridge inside a printer and print out sort of a circuit board because it's conducive ink so like here's a guy using a in playing a little game on paper with LEDs cool so to be fair these are layers like there there are layers involved in this obviously the top layer is like the fun design the game or what it is that you want to do so maybe like a business card or they had other options other things in there that as examples that you could use but so you have this bottom layer that is printed out with conducive ink and then you put these stickers to act as they're sort of like components for your for your paper they show you and the printout is really cool so this is like a drag-and-drop interface and it you tell it what you want it to do what you want the paper to do and it creates the code for you generates it automatically so you don't have to be a coder to use this and you have a you have a microcontroller so you have like a little tiny micro controller and then what happens is is you print this thing out with the conducive ink and it shows you exactly where to put all of your components including your microprocessor and then you put the top layer on it after you lay out all the stuff so see those are the those are the different layers so you attach all your components it shows you like oh yeah okay we're going to cut out the middle part and put the microprocessor in the middle and here's where all the stuff is and basically like so you build this in conjunction with that with that app so you say well here's what I want all my lights to be and then it shows you exactly what the blueprint needs to be on the second layer which is kind of cool yeah so it makes in essence it makes your paper it makes paper interactive so there's this is like a really cool thing so it generates the code for you so you don't have to do it yourself you you plug in your microprocessor via USB and automatically like sends that code to your microprocessor so knows exactly what it should be looking for it actually offers suggestions on how to fine-tune your code like let's say you only have a code for a light to go off if you press a button but maybe or like to go on if you press a button but maybe you haven't put in the code for the light to go off if you release the button so this is like hey maybe you want to put in that code so it helps you sort of like make things more fine-tuned so what they were saying is that technology like this we always like to talk about goals yeah what's the goal so goals could be really neat stuff like interactive packaging so we could go to the supermarket and there would be on your cereal box because these are very inexpensive components the ink is just about as expensive as a standard inkjet printer the conducive ink and then also all of the part of the pieces and the parts the the components the electrical components are pennies on the dime if you buy them in bulk so you can just crumple up a project and just throw it out and just keep the microcontroller which is pretty neat but they were saying yeah like maybe you would have like cereal boxes or so these like little games and stuff like that so this guy's like playing a game where you get to the top of the tower if you tap the things diet tracking cards you can say oh I've had three servings of vegetables and vegetables today and like you have this little card and these are all super early prototypes but they were saying that they are developing more sophisticated ways and more complex ways of using this tech and they're saying it so someday we might see maybe business cards I was going to say I liked your business card idea I do not like this Gangnam style card though yeah that's a little not a big fan of that but no um i like i like the business card idea that's really cool it is pretty fun so i thought that was really neat so interactive like computerized paper so kind of cool and then the second story okay so you got another story I got one more is super strong robots but they're tiny so it kind of reminds me of ants how they can care lift and carry a lot larger mass of their weight as we all learn from honey i shrunk the kids um yeah said bugs life yeah and bugs life um so this comes from mechanical engineers at Stanford University this look at that little tiny robot on the wall climbing is it's carrying all that stuff at the bottom what yeah so these are super strong robots that can pull up to a hundred times heavier than their own weight so these ones are actually going up a wall which is pretty impressive but it's a hundred times their way it's pretty awesome and how this works is they have adhesive on the bottom of the robots feet that let'em grip walls kind of like a gecko and when the weight increases the surface area of the the sticky foot actually expands so the surface area gets bigger it makes it easier to grip that's incredible yeah so they took nature was a lot they inspired a lot by nature here so these are some of the other bots that go horizontally across the surface one of them is called you tug and it can pull two thousand times its weight is this you tug right here I this might be you this is Utah this is you chug right here for this is incredible so yeah they're dragons things and then there's little tiny ones that can you that's a robot at the top and that's pulling a paperclip because it's a hundred times its weight isn't that nuts so um these robots are really cool and they were saying that they could be used in emergency situations yeah for example getting a rescue like a rope up to somebody in a burning building they could also be used in situations like I think my favorite one was construction and hauling so they're like if we needed to get some like blocks up a building we would build bigger robots I can carry heavier weights and we just send them right at the size of buildings-- crazy there are so many possibilities so many and why I think my favorite fact about that you jug robot is it can pull two thousand times its body weight cool if you don't have an idea of what the equivalent of that is for a person it would be like kale pulling a blue whale behind him that's how that's how much more weight these BOTS can pull pretty good I know you can't what you've been doing Crossfit it's what I train with a lot of blue whales but that you like that's to encourage so many so many possibilities with this yeah it's their Super sure on robots and it's just really neat i love that they're going up buildings and like across surfaces and they're basically they're saying the next step would be to build bigger versions of these robots to carry their weight yes maybe how the Egyptians made the pyramids is maybe the exact way that it was course we know aliens gave them that technology obviously otherwise they just would have never happened but uh yeah I'm gonna assume tiny I'm gonna assume tiny robots we couldn't even see help anjaneri the block you're like trying to bring in the groceries you just have your little robot thing and then pop that thing on the ground just like brings your groceries in like it yeah you need to tow your car somewhere I'll be where you imagine opening a little like first aid kit you need to tell your car somewhere it's just this robot that's like this big and you just put it in the fridge I'm saying it's small and these guys are awesome I like to do what are they going for Stanford University oh great the camp engineers at Stanford so yeah good job guys guys you should have placed should have played here as the storm try to gear tuition paid for ouch I heard it's not nothing I don't think they would have made these robot that's probably true yeah you probably wouldn't have had time to make those robots so I guess it's a win-win for everybody involved thats it for our headlines we will be right back with a round of back at her hackett something i think you will be very interested in and we also have our user feedback and our phone target for the day so it'll click away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show it's Monday which means it's time to look at a particular crowdfunding effort that we are interested in tell you if we would give our money to it or not it's time for back adore Hackett kill I'd like to tell you today about the couch 'let okay all right do you know what that is can you tell what that is based on the name the couch lit it sounds a good little couch it's a tiny little couch a little couch a couch lip well am I wrong you are wrong okay good this house done at the sound of the couch lit is actually um so you know how you're sitting on your couch maybe your binge-watching daredevil and your battery's running out of juice cuz it's the end of your day and you don't want to like usually on a couch there's no outlets really like right nearby unless it's up against a wall so kind of a beverage outlet got it yes it's a couch outlet so we have some video of this pretty interesting they did this video or they're like oh if you're laying in bed like which this is actually true for me I have to really reach for my phone and I don't get to take it very far because it's you know to third so this is the couch lit it's this little tiny device that you you can wedge between your couch cushions and it'll stay there and it's two USB ports so you can just like plug in your phone right there and you can stay on your couch or use it in your bed so they also have this like little hinge that you can flap out to make an L shape and then you just sort of slide it under your mattress so that it's stable like it doesn't like flop around or fall over and yeah see there you go so you put it in your couch cushions you stuff it in there and it's got two USB ports you can plug in your phone whatever and then it's got it comes with a six-foot-long at us because obviously you do have to plug that into something but it comes to the six foot long USB cord so you can plug it into a nearby wall outlet a walmart back it you're you're in you don't even know much it costs I don't care this is something that should have existed a long time ago I agree no I think even couches we built with that stuff in it I was talking that this oh yes just yesterday I I don't say yelled at but had had a confrontation heated yes discussion cuz my girlfriend thinks that it's okay to have the wires going from the opposite wall cutting straight through the living room and I trip on them every single time that's not it was like there is an outlet fire hazard I'm gonna get to that there's no it might be I on the couch plug it in there but anyway you're it should be more convenient it's Milton it actually should be more convenient because this is the world we live in now what do you like it or not you're getting bored you're going in your phone yeah I will say this though I am worried about fires because you definitely some sort of that Fang even with surge protectors there's chance of a surge and it being right next to a flammable material on a couch made of rubber in it can start a little fire yes from experience because I had a fire in my house as a child's burned up all my stuff that's not good it was through a surge protector Ohio it was supposed to not even do that but it started a fight in so this is a potential be careful risk but I'm still back said yeah I still take my chances to my chances um okay so they wanted thirty thousand dollars it's on IndieGoGo again couch 'let is the name of it they asked for 30,000 they currently have over 45,000 with like 40 days left so they're definitely gonna make these they're gonna go into production people love them like they're they're just like you either like I'm and I I need an outlet near my couch there it is thirty dollars 24 of them right now 24 bucks right now gets you to early bird soul free cheap Wow and then I think it's like three dollars shipping or something like that and that's one of those things your friends come over and they're like a charge my phone you're like yes Mickey it's my hair in between Lee I was just telling my husband this week and more we're watching daredevil make you know what I think I think we need like a USB hub Knicks next to our TV just as like a charging station for our friends and stuff like that feels like a thing we need to have now feel like I just want a couple of couch let's put them on each side you're good maybe I'm too easily impressed but I think this is genius pretty good idea I feel like you undersold it from the very beginning you don't understand that this is gonna change the way you charge your phone I everybody's charging your stuff alternate at home I know even last night I was sitting there with one percent I'm just like I can't I was too I can't make it to the low I'm like worried you gotta browse reddit I got a tweet wasting time I know it was terrible oh what a Logan he's in three three out of three there you go back it back it all around good find by the way yeah I go go signs you get better on Kickstarter yeah i think well indiegogo they let you keep any amount so they could have gotten less than the actual amount asked for and then they would still be able to keep it and develop it but it might take longer okay so they're saying that they hit their goal which means they will deliver by december and there you have it okay well then that's even better Chris now I'm gonna buy a buttload they had a six-pack of them for like for like forty dollars is so cheap and then they those were sold out they did that for like the first day or two but they're still really inexpensive like the tears are really i am buying it i am buying at least a hundred dollars worth of these i'm not even kidding because i know i like all my family getting for christmas they're all tech heads and i just think I'm just gonna be like the stocking stuff everybody has a smartphone so it's like that's a no-brainer or gift I mean that's a pretty easy gift I'm sorry if I'm Way too excited about this you can't on you like we're gonna be yep it's pretty cool i'm stoked on that i liked it thank you actually you're learning to this there you go yeah this is great you're welcome alright guys I we got to talk about what you think about NASA's modular robotic vehicle that we talked about last week so it's time for your user feedback okay so i know you're buying couch lay on the couch we got to talk a little bit about the TDM RV hashtag we asked you guys use less we tell us how you would use NASA's modular robotic vehicle which was so cool and a lot of you guys came up with some good answers so Neil wrote in and said automated mrv as an emergency vehicle that can get to patients quickly that normal vehicles can't reach like that yes good one yeah I'm a horse Christian wrote in and said I would like to see a pacman themed mrv chasing ghosts themed em rvs for endless autonomous fun cuz AJ's can drive themselves so you just have them like you know I just randomly like stopped it like la cienega and you're just so used to see you like your back man chasing a bunch of ever be this year's like really los angeles absolute Fauria i know i wrote in and said okay go the band okay go with the mrv would just sit be simply awesome i would love to see okay go do a synchronized to music video with for mr vs that would be amazing yeah that's create they should hire you is there a next music video creative director who director knows who creative director Noah you know uh and then also dave wrote in to us and said us an email but doesn't have to do the mrv he said hey guys thought kale could relate to this I see this on my kitchen counter at least once a day oh my god and it's a high just wrap up and splenda packet oh my god okay have you ever been have you haven't been following along there's been the epic saga of my girlfriend leaving sugar packets right next to the coffee machines for the trash can bouncing this weekend too I love getting pictures from this weekend and guess what date was his name Dave Dave Dave also found something it's an epidemic this thing is spreading like wildfire do not let this happen in your house people this is not good oh my god oh my god so I just love it he said can we pull like route can we pull it back up again Logan can be pretty sure we have the the picture again he says you actually says our kitchen is set up a little different kales you actually have to turn around and walk a couple feet to the trashcan oh hang in there Dave look at this it doesn't go make a nice to just well it's just like one little small packet I love how upset you are by it's just ridiculous it's every day it's like that's like that's so funny it's like if somebody left a little note on my desk every day that was just like I hate you you're the worst it's just a H I'm just like come on I don't leave that little note don't do that come on hang in there Dave hang in there Dave yeah solidarity splenda solidarity we're with you bro all right guys we're gonna talk about our last piece of user feedback which is always our phone target for the day so this is actually not from Scott Scott emailed us but this picture was not taken by Scott this is by Scotts daughter Scott's daughter took this picture he wrote in and said my nine-year-old daughter took this on a school field trip with my iphone 6 plus sad to say that my daughter takes better pictures than I do looks like it owned can I can I can I just suggest maybe that this is a family of pigs that are on a school field trip so that Scott and his daughter are also like sentient piglets like Charlotte's Web or babe that's terrifying no I think it's really cute babe was adorable what do you mean you want to think that far males are watching our show yeah alright fair enough I really like that you're so much stuff mostly a trap yeah I'm they went to another farm okay oh they saw their relatives how they were going to visit some relatives it really is a good I I like that she got all closing circle c and i bet you scott wouldn't i got all close and personal with it he wouldn't gotten too close up and looked louisa so I'm not taller I'm sure than his nine-year-old daughter so she's closer to like the action the faces of the pigs but she if she really got into in tune with the pig was like down there seriously and also kudos you Scott for trusting your nine-year-old with your iphone 6 plus that's a brand new phone something i don't think i would do because I'm and trustworthy person yeah so anyway if you guys want to submit your phone tog raphy to be considered to be on the show you can email us tomorrow at cnet com you can find that pretty much anywhere on the internet I feel like our email address and you can also find us all over social media we're on tumblr run Facebook Instagram Twitter tomorrow daily I'm all this thing snapshot nope not 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