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greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best ski talk show the new verse I'm Ashley Scott you're watching one of our short episodes because of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States will not be having an episode tomorrow unfortunately but you'll be stuffing your face with turkey if you live here so that's fine also we don't have an episode on Monday the 30th so you can check us out the first the second and the third next week we'll have a long show for you and we can't wait to tell you who the guest is but until then let's do the headlines get ready biohackers because tech tattoos are just around the corner chaotic moon is a mobile dev company with an idea they're calling tech tats tech tats are actually biosensors that rest on top of your skin as opposed to being injected underneath them like real tattoos and a small micro controller handles incoming data and storing information electro-conductive paint allows for temperature sensing while an ambient light sensor flips on an LED if it realizes it's dark out making you kind of feel like a really awesome cyborg a Bluetooth low-energy connection means transferring health data to an app is easy and since it can be placed anywhere instead of just on your wrist chaotic moon believes it might have a place in tracking for medical athletic and other applications where a visible monitor might not be an option or if the wearer wants to be more discreet they also mentioned the possibility of bio NFC which would turn one of these temporary tattoos into a payment portal that you could activate by gesture if this all sounds kind of fun I've got good news for you chaotic moon hopes to make the final product inexpensive enough to sell in packs like band-aids or other small first aid items would you wear one of these things out I mean on the one hand I am getting old but not old enough to want to know everything about what's going on in my body at all times but on the other hand I feel like it would be a really really cool icebreaker at parties ok so our second story is about NASA building a robot that's going to help with space exploration this robot is called the Valkyrie robot or the Robonaut 5 we've actually seen it before this video that you're watching is from 2013 but NASA is making a really interesting move towards getting the most out of what do they've chosen to university teams to make the robot as autonomous and dexterous as possible MIT and Northeastern University are the two schools pitting there are five robots against one another and they will show off their final designs in nasa's space Robotics Challenge next year the Robonaut 5 is already a pretty impressive robot it's 6 feet tall it weighs 290 pounds and it has an array of sensors sonar remote sensing tech and other features on board so the teams will primarily focus on improving the software for the robot when the 2013 video is released then Project Lead Nicolas Radford said quote these robots will start preparing the way for the human explorers and when the humans arrive the robots and humans will work together in a tight relationship unquote yeah until those researchers from yesterday's story show up and start teaching Robonaut 5 to say no to astronauts and then we end up with a Hal 9000 situation I'm just saying if you're still thinking about the tech cat story from earlier and you don't really want to wear a biosensor how about ingesting one that's what MIT is thinking you might want to do in the future they are again in the news with a sensor that a person would have to swallow to make it work oddly enough the main feature on this particular device is a microphone why a microphone while all the better to hear your heart and lungs functioning from within your GI tract scientists say the microphone will pick up the sound of your heart beating and your lungs working giving two pieces of info from a single sensor it's embedded into a silicone capsule that people can easily swallow and then once it's been ingested a nearby receiver picks up the signals and passes on the data so what's the benefit here well researchers think this pill could be used to help patients with chronic illnesses monitor soldiers out in the field improve athletic training diagnose heart conditions and more unfortunately if you really think about it this pill will only last for about a day or two before you have to start the process all over again so one or two days of monitoring all right it's time for Mod Squad let's go from cool sci-fi to on you tried japanese comedy website Oh Mikoto thinks it has a really good solution if you find using a selfie stick to be really embarrassing user monsoon is one such person and this is his creation ultra long fake arms for selfies it's a pretty straightforward construction he just camouflaged a couple of selfie sticks inside some plastic hands you know as one does and then added some more sleeve room to a shirt to help hide his new weirdo selfie stick arms the end result looks super natural except not at all and honestly I think it could have been made better if they were retractable arms so that you could go out and pretend that you were a real-life mr. fantastic or an Inspector Gadget pick your generation all right guys let's look at your photos our phone talker for the day today is K Vaughn who snapped this on his HTC One XL and he writes to us and says hi my name is Kay Vaughn big fan of the show great and fresh news really liking it keep up the good work these are a few photos I took with my beloved HTC One XL which I lost later from visiting Hormuz island in Persian Gulf beautiful place I was stunned and in one word colorful the whole island is made of these colorful soils red yellow green and the Sun and a lot of light and of course the beautiful sea and also some sci-fi shaped rocks the photos are untouched and I would be more than happy to give you permission to use them if you find them worthy of your amazing show kayvon yes 100% these are worthy and I agree those look like really weird sci-fi rocks I'd like to have them as the backdrop for this set unfortunately we're really expensive to ship them if you guys want to send in your phone tog Rafi to be potentially featured on the show please do email us for tomorrow Tina calm send us your photo tell us you give us permission to use it because we need that and then also tell us a little story about it because we like stories if you want to find us online you want to share the show the friend take them over to tomorrow daily calm it's that easy give the gift of tomorrow daily this holiday season and I'm not going to stop saying that until holidays are over and also you can find us online on Twitter personally I'm at Ashley's gether producer Logan is over at Logan Moy and Jeff is at Jeff kanata with 2 and one tea we're gonna be back next week on Tuesday with a brand new docket a weird science fact in science fiction I love our friends celebrating Thanksgiving in the US have a great turkey day and be good humans we'll see you next time hi you