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greetings citizens of the Internet this is tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe i'm jeff cannata and you are watching one of our shorter episodes every Thursday we have a longer episode where we deep dive into the stories of the week and maybe a friend of the show will stop by but until then right now let's jump into the headlines we love talking about inventions that will change people's lives on tomorrow daily but sometimes we just have to talk about things that make no sense this is one of those times this is the prank Oh phone Russian artists Dimitri more Azov is the mind behind this little contraption which is a hybrid phone / synth device meant to confuse call recipients he hacked together a phone a logic module and a synthesizer to create this odd little bit of tech for different modes allow a person to choose a number to call or let the prank o phone dial randomly and decide whether or not to let the device use an algorithm to create sound or create it manually when a person on the other end of the call picks up the prank o phone plays a synthesizer song based on the tones of the phone number it dialed morozov's says the sound message is unique for every number it reaches so if you ever get a phone call that sounds a little like this it's the francophone is prank calling still a thing I guess it's still a thing you know if you ever get called by the prank of phone you might be annoyed but you're also pretty lucky it's a random number hey you probably heard of graphene at this point but check out this graphene that can move Chinese researchers published a report in science advances this week about a graphene oxide based paper that can change its shape when exposed to infrared lasers applying heat causes the graphene to contract while shutting the light off allows it to expand again in the video you can see one tiny scrap of paper inching around like a worm and another folding of its sides like origami there's a lot of possibilities in research like this in the future as paper might be used for making inexpensive sensors that can track changes in humidity temperature and more this graphene can also be used to create artificial robot muscles so we're getting closer to Terminator robot muscles fine if you have some muscles so we house the robot they have the robot muscles you get the picture hey speaking of China check out this robot that just set a world record Walker number one just set the Guinness world record for furthest distance covered by a four-legged robot on a single charge how far did he get 83 miles 83.2 eight miles to be exact or 130 four point oh three kilometres the little robot walked around an indoor track over fourteen hundred times and his feet took 54 hours and 34 minutes to complete the previous robot record holder only walked 40 point five miles in 2011 so this is over double that it took about a year to build the robot and researchers want to put what they learn to use in areas like energy efficiency reliability and durability they feel like what they've learned will help robotics at large and we think it will considering how little energy this robot actually used over the entirety of its walking journey these researchers think that this walking robot can be deployed in places that are too dangerous for humans so you know like Walmart on Black Friday hey it's Tuesday and it's one of the biggest new release Tuesday's of the year let's get two new releases if you are a video gamer this week there's almost too much to play all coming out on one day everybody knows fallout 4 is here oh my gosh I've been playing it I got an early release copy I've already put 40 hours into it and that's just a drop in the bucket for this game it's going to be hundreds of hours of content in this post-apocalyptic world it's out on xbox one playstation 4 and PC but if that's not enough game for you how about rise of the Tomb Raider the sequel to one of my favorite reboots ever which was the the tomb raider reboot that came out just a couple of years ago this one is a timed exclusive on xbox one and follows lara croft's journey into the wilderness and becoming more of that tomb raider character that we know and love but if big action and big role playing isn't enough for you maybe you want to jump into real-time strategy Blizzard has got you covered because also on this release tuesday starcraft 2 legacy of the void hits which is the final chapter of the starcraft 2 trilogy this one focusing on the Protoss race this is exclusive to pcs there's just too much to play this Tuesday guys too much to play all right let's get to your pictures today's phone tog refer of the day is Adam who sends us a photo he took on his iphone 5s Adam rights hey guys I'm gonna miss your daily long episodes it was a great show to watch while ironing for work but i'll enjoy all the tomorrow daily i can get anyhow we had a visitor from one of the local critters i live in australia and this guy is a Python who they are harmless he says even if he does scare the wife he doesn't want to move I spent ages shaking the tree oh well he'll move tonight i used my iphone 5s with no filters and you may use it on the show if it's worthy Adam you are a braver man than I sir it is a known fact that everything in Australia is trying to kill you and just living there is taking your life in your own hands so many creatures atmosphere everything wants to kill you in Australia but thanks for sending your picture in of that terrifying Python if you want to send your picture to us you can do it all you got to do is send it to tomorrow at cnet com make sure to tell us what device you use to take the photo and give us permission to use it on the show that's going to do it for today's episode of tomorrow daily you can always keep in contact with us follow us on twitter at tomorrow daily or follow us individually i'm at jeff cannata or at ashley Esqueda at logan muy we love hearing your feedback please 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