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on today's show a German robotics company unveiled two new insect BOTS and we're gonna tell you all about them this product may seem like an April Fool's joke but remember this is April 2nd so let's I'll tell you more about in a sec very trail and we have a really cool look at an ark pen which is helping Parkinson's patients use their hands to write letters and stuff which is pretty awesome alright guys it's April 2nd April Fool's Day is out of the way tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best cake talk show in the known universe I'm your host Ashley Scavo join me as always kale anonymous you survived April Fool's Day I did you know I'm glad we didn't do anything and you survived cupcake a Palooza for your birthday I did there is a cupcake girl at this hardest time of your life so I'm glad you can make it it was yesterday was an extremely difficult day yeah thanks thanks thanks April Fool's Day but now everything is back to normal presumably back to sue we've got some good story in the blog about your stories yeah real honest stories we agree a lot of stories yesterday but everyone else did not so okay guys let's uh let's hit that once all right so I'm gonna tell you about these insect bugs okay you're like you're doing where you looking at the insect bucks do we have something oh I know I know um so this is from German robotics somebody Festo you're gonna freak out when you see these videos okay they're gonna weird you out actually a lot right there were they unveiled these two new insect robots like either early this though I know they're so creepy looking but they're also kind of stylish in their own way so anyway those are Bionic ants and the Bionic ants are inspired by nature as you're seeing on the screen rubies are these are real those are real answer um but that is the that is the robot ant and they are inspired by swarm intelligence just like regular ants and they communicate with each other and coordinate their movement based on the others so they can actually kind of talk to each other which is pretty cool they're all individually autonomous but they all have a common objective to work towards so they they talk to each other to sort of figure out exactly what they each need to do and all that stuff there's a radio module on their abdomens that lets each robot ant talk to the other and then they can kind of figure out each individually like what they need to do to accomplish this task they say Oh like well you're doing this so I should go over to this side of this thing and push this you know things like that so pretty awesome and I like I just love the concept of these sort of swarm I like smart the idea of swarm robots I think they're really fun and they all have yeah independent charging they like walk up and put their intent on that's charge and I think they they don't they don't last very long I want to say it's like maybe like a couple hours like they like moving around but um okay so why did they make us nightmare fuel well so the second bug I'll explain a little bit like once we take a look at the second because it's a little bit different so we went from the ground to the sky and these are the emotions butterflies now they look kind of small but there are 50 centimetres wingspan so they're pretty big actually they're kind of larger and also obviously inspired by real-life butterflies like he's a real butterfl those are real on the screen right now and then those are fake so you can see there they're quite a bit bigger than normal size butterflies but the cool thing about these is again they use collective behavior so they all have individually controlled wings and different types of it's really weird to watch them fly Wow super pretty there they're so stylish looking right so they're huge and they each have so they fly these butterflies in a in a confined space or in an area where they're able to put up these infrared cameras and then each one of these butterflies has an infrared sensor on it so that the cameras can pick up exactly where they are in the room spatially send that data to a master computer and then the computer tells all of the butterflies where to fly so that they don't bump into each other which is pretty awesome so you have to set up a lot of stuff to make these guys fly around yeah these ones not just like you fly you just let them kind of like a box of doves yes just amount cameras so they don't hit each other each other yeah this is sort of a more experimental kind of coordinating behavioral flight kind of thing so unfortunately we will not be able to purchase any of these as consumers these are not like things that they're working on to bring to market they're actually making these in the hopes that they will continue to sort of fuel the autonomous robot robotics development that they have going on at Festo so it's these are sort of like like promotional robots okay here's some of the stuff we're working on look at how cool this is these are all work these robots even though they're insects like they make them more interesting to look at because they have a shape or a form that we're familiar with they say one of the cool things we're doing with Thomas robots doing a collective task together so this is just created for inspiration yeah future it's not like they're like oh we're gonna have ants rescue people no it's all part of their like Bionic Learning Network so they have like a whole thing where they have like unveiled these robots and stuff they also had like a gripper that was based on like a chameleons tongue it was really weird but those two the insect bugs I thought were the most interesting hey as long as they don't make spider things I'm totally okay with that so well done I now to the second story I'm not like the best businessman or am i any sort of businessman at all what if I was a company I would not launch something on March 31st the day before April Fool's Day you know I don't know because I don't want people to think it's fake especially if it seems fake but it was something weird yeah but Amazon decided hey whatever let's just do it we're Amazon and they decided to launch Amazon - now Amazon - it takes your one-step ordering - to infinity and beyond basically it is a little tiny device that you just set to your account and you hit the button whenever you so like if it's a dishwasher detergent you put on your washing machine oh no I'm not a detergent boom you get the - and it orders more detergent for you right yeah so it's it's one step touch if you waited it that quickly I guess I guess there's a need for that I don't I don't really know so some of this stuff there's about 18 buttons available I'm some of the ones that we saw them for was bounty I ran a paper towels all the time yeah well Maxwell House of coffee Smart Water ol a Gerber glad tide and there's more in the video but again it's one touch and if you accidentally press like if you have a kid that's just like a button tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight you could be like you could cancel it on your smartphone within a little small amount of time if you lived with Cale who's literally can't help himself and just presses every button he sees yeah I like it so there you go that is that's fast ordering made easily yeah so I don't know what it's one-click ordering right now without a computer which is crazy if you want it right now again it is real and then we get Amazon Prime and they have a thing where you can just like if you have Amazon Prime you can just click that and they're giving some away for free right now it's like a demo run Amazon likes to do that kind of thing so you can go they'll only send three max to each home so I mean it's kind of a gamble to try it out I already did it I already like you're like you're in good luck let's see I think I may go I may go Brita water filters they're saying that they'll have one that have you put it on your put a water water filter will tell you when your Brita water filters yeah and bad and mine I you drink so much water that it's gonna go bad this is which is bad because they're gonna like they're gonna really cut it close part of this program is like letting manufacturers in on this like one-click sort of process or automated ordering process so you might not be able to get that right away but what they're saying is like they're letting developers into the back end of that like whole process so that they can integrate the technology into stuff like these Brita filters where it's like oh your Brita filters bad oh you automatically ordered another one it's coming in the mail like you wouldn't you just get an email on your phone say Internet of Things yeah things everybody so weird this is too much it's a little weird but I could see the coffee thing or I could see a lot of these being really useful in an office environment like it like coffees out oh we just click the button and it comes to me the next day or paper towels are tied or what or is that one guy that would hit then you just have this you know the person in the account like says oh no no this is like 18 people have ordered coffee today ha ha ha ha I wish there was some kind of notification that was like this was the last time you ordered from this button like I wish there was a tiny just LEDs where they had the last date of last order so that way if it's at an office not every person going to the coffee machine realizing that the coffee's gone is like oh we gotta order more coffee it's like then you have 18 but I'm very curious to see how how useful this actually is yes so I mean I only buy tied what once every two months so one quick button may not be necessary we'll see yeah Amazon is trying to break new grounds I totally get that it's not an April Fool's joke if you want to try it out Amazon - go stand for it while they're still doing it for free so there you go Amazon - that's our hashtag of the day - what is TD - oh so I want to know are you guys good is anybody actually interested in using this one and - what's the what's the button that you need like what's the what you Pizza button oh yes why no but I mean like urgency no I was gonna say it like you just have like with you all the time is like you need it on a keychain where you press a button and Pizza comment so we're gonna have our I run out of really unorthodox stuff like lemon juice I ran a lemon juice a lot sriracha I run out of sriracha all the time so watch a button okay good I would say but a guy in a chili pepper would have to show up and deliver like that's what's missing right stuff is that's interesting here is it's not just a delivery thing there's like it's step up like if this was one touch button and a drone came and delivered it if they started binding all their stuff see I was gonna say it would have to be for me integrated with Amazon now which brings it like within an hour yeah that's like if I could be like oh gosh I'm not a coffee I need this I need a fix within an hour because otherwise I'm just gonna get in my car go to the store cuz I'm desperate for coffee and I'm just gonna go get some coffee or honey can you pick up paper towels you know on your way home yeah exactly it's what's your one thing I would say for me it would probably be oh that's tough um good you came with a question oh I know I like I said I never actually think about the answer to these questions before we sit in these chairs and I ask it to Kail I would probably say you know I really I really I would say creamer like that's we run out of creamer all the time for our coffee and I just that would be the thing I would need like right away cuz I can't can't have coffee without creamer seems like such a boring like like device I haven't handy I haven't really needed this yet but that's what I'm saying is that maybe your gave a device where you get it you're like I can't live without this yeah cuz I remember when I got my smart phone I was like why do I need a smart phone right I can just go to the internet and now it's like if I'm go without it for what this is we'll see hey so tell us if you guys think you want this what's it what is it TV - PD - that's it yeah let's see I'm so curious I hear one thing and then what's the button that you would need to use it all the night so I'd love a programmable button where you say if I press this button I get this thing but they but it's all partnerships with all these why did they say it was like 30 18 18 of them at first I'm not sure they'll have more diapers would be another one if that's a big one or a new parent it would have a baby all right all right let's talk about the Parkinson's pen this is cool this is called the arc pen this is from a British design firm called dopa solution and they made this pen and it looks a little different than a standard pen it's it's pretty wide and it has sort of a almost like a triangular shape to it but the thing with Parkinsons is people who suffer from that disease a lot of times they have this additional disorder that is specific to their handwriting called micrographia and it means their writing gets smaller as their hand cramps up more and it just it gets tinier and more cramped as they write because it's really tough for them to grip a pen for an extended period of time especially because a lot of times pens are really thin and they're very difficult to hold on to when you have Parkinsons so they may dope a solution made this pen the ark pen that uses high frequency vibration to stimulate muscles in the hand for Parkinson's patients and it lets those users write larger and clearer characters for extended amounts of time which is pretty great so you can see the before and after like it's a pretty pretty good difference and like the video saying right now 86% of the participants to improved there were four only 14 it was a very small group of people who tested it but they 86% marked improvement they saw improvement in 86 percent so I thought that was pretty cool they very cool they're still in testing yeah they want to improve it obviously it has inductive charging which I thought was really cool it has like a docking station they want to this is the part I thought was awesome so they want to expand this type of technology this high frequency vibration for Parkinson's patients to write into other handheld tools so for example makeup brushes and artist brushes like different things like that where you would hold on a computer mice that was another thing that they mentioned oh where is where it makes it easier for somebody suffering from Parkinson's to be able to serve do these things on their own opposed to having someone else do it for them or not doing it at all so maybe somebody was an artist they get Parkinson's then they say why I can't hold a paintbrush anymore that's just terrible I can't do it well now hopefully they would be able to give that back to them and say well no now you can you can go back and do this if use these brushes or whatever so I thought that was a really cool invention really neat I love that you know companies are working towards things like this because you know it doesn't affect a large portion of the population but it is an important part of the population who needs our help and so I thought that was pretty amazing yeah I liked it I like that it doesn't just stop at the pen that they're like continuously going they want to solve all of the problems that these people face and they definitely deserve it yeah they've got something real difficult I really like that they have these like sort of really broad plans for it and I thought that was so cool so great job dopa nice work we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back we have a roundup into it because it's Thursday we're gonna tell you what's draining our wallets and then we have our a TD fold user feedback we're gonna talk to all the crazy April Fool's gags that we're going around the internet yesterday and of course our phone art for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show everybody you are so pumped right now about your Intuit that we should just go right we should just go right to the segment this is into it I don't even want to waste time I'm not into that segue but I am what I'm into this time is a Furious 7 it came out didn't it hasn't come out here yet I know come out overseas and globally they're projecting 250 jillion dollars million dollars but I'm super excited about it there's a lot of buzz a lot of positive buzz almost every outlet is like super like this is amazing everyone should see this I it's it's got that they apparently the Paul Walker thing is handled really well they're like there's tons of info about this there's gonna be this is the beginning of a new trilogy for Fast and Furious what Vin Diesel's like this is gonna be this is gonna win Best Picture at the Oscars yeah I'm very excited about this we were talking about this on Tuesday for new releases and I just like I think you're absolutely right and that you said you're like when you go see movie like this like you know exactly we're getting know exactly where you're gonna go see that's cop and if you want to have fun oh my god he brings on his cast with his muscle it's his rage on the rock there's ruffles in it he jumps a car from one and look there was a minigun and you jump SATCOM oh boy it just looks so fun and outrageous and fun like there's no I for me it's just I see these trailers I'm like that just looks like fun yeah and I'm anytime I mention it on on Twitter people are like it's amazing you're gonna love it I had friends who went and saw press screening and I'm so jealous so jealous what do you into so I'm into the rainy pot there it is okay okay so the rainy pot is what we have our lower third right now but I'll lift it up okay so the rainy pot is a little planter that you hang on your wall I got it for my birthday from my dear friend Mike he's been on the show before you guys might remember back in like August so what you do is you plant a little plant in here and you get seeds it comes with seeds and or you can plant whatever you want and and there's a little sponge inside this cloud is our video yeah we have a video of it and so you can see when it's so cute when you pour the water in there it looks like it's raining onto the plant cuz it like it spreads out the water so it doesn't look like one constant stream it trickles down and do it looks like it's raining right onto your little plant it's super cute and you can hang it on it's basically you mount it on your wall and then you have a little little planter there's it evenly distributed over time where is it just like here here's the know there's the sponge holds quite a bit of water in there like I would imagine if you don't want to just be like on it all the time like being like adding water to it but the sponge like will evenly distribute that water over a period of time like after you pour it in so it go it'll it'll dry out obviously but yeah you've probably water it once and then over time it will like you know trickle down into your that's adorable lot of stuff this is a birthday gift yes this is a birthday gift and I'm excited I didn't mount it on my wall cuz yet because I wanted to bring it into the show these are the seeds that they send I don't know what they are because the box was not clear on that so maybe it's like I don't know maybe like ulugh berries or something or no idea yeah it's super adorable I just it reminds me of Mario it's like all green wet oh why it's a piranha plant that's exactly what it is oh my god now I have to go plan it immediately because I'm excited to grow my own piranha plant but that's what I'm into shoot fire it's called rainy pot and you can find them all over there are their own how much is it I didn't want to look it up because I felt weird about looking up a gift from a friend the price good I saw I felt kind of weird about it it's for a friend it is it's priceless to me so but if you want I can't imagine it would be terribly expensive it's not made of gold or anything I mean not that we know of the piranha plant seeds though they might cost you extra not really sure okay so that being said we have to talk about April Fool's and you're a user feedback so let's let's get into that so we asked everybody on Tuesday to use the hashtag TV fool and tell us like what their favorite April Fool's joke was and I think we weren't exactly clear like we didn't recertify which we never are that this year's April Fool's Day like maybe just like keep an eye on everything and then like tell us but a lot of people send in stuff that was like from years ago like I appreciate that though so I'm like but there were some stuff I'd never heard of so for example we had Matthew Matlock write in and say Google knows from 1 or 2 years ago which is funny cuz I had like a kind of a Glee remember this and that was a really weird thing we have a little bit of video that everybody likes the Google ones remember that really likes the Google ones and Google also did that so we'll talk a little bit right now about some of our favorites that we saw I mean the ones that I saw that I really liked we're at PlayStation flow where you have the goggles and then it said like ok so you're in a game and you jump into the water and then what you do is you put on your PlayStation flow goggles and you go dive in the pool and then you can control your character like inside a pool it's really that's weird and super dumb but it made me laugh it was really weird and then Google comm turned into calm Google and everything was backwards for the day that was annoying actually it's a little bit annoying and then the last one that I really liked was at the National Air and Space Museum they put they put out this video saying now on display Wonder Woman's invisible jet and there's a guy on a lift like a mime pretending to clean the jet and it's like the funniest thing ever like it's there we go it's the extra mile that makes it totally really is they put out a whole news post about it they were like talking about there's one of the quotes on their blog the Museum of Flight had acquired the plane with help from Lieutenant Diana Prince in April 2013 since then our curator Bob van der Linden wanted very very much to display the plane at the Museum in Washington DC and they talked about like the stealth capabilities of the plane I'm like all this so I just thought that was so clever and funny and so perfect so for a museum to step up and make a joke yeah like and it's it's just a really great kind of you know it's a nod to all of us in geekdom but then also is it so like sweet and clever it wasn't like lame like I thought it was a really clever April Fool's Day joke it actually almost maybe not not like April Fool's Day it made me actually enjoy it although that's a feat that is a feat indeed so that is our that is our user feedback generally dude Jim is there anything that you were particularly blown away by I don't I don't go out of my way to see all that stuff I'm sorry I just I'll find out about all of it tomorrow or whatever it all you gonna read some roundup post yeah I'll figure it out I think we have I don't like to be played the fool we like to play fools not be played the fool already enough of we got enough of that in our lives all right so it's time for our very last piece of user feedback which is always our front Agri for the day I'd like to formally apologize to the person who sent in this picture because I'm about to completely mess up your name I'm really sorry this is from SIA Keith sigh Oh Keith sounds good guessing he took this on his one plus one at this picture is so nice he says hi I'm psyche Mullen here's a picture of my Hyundai on a desert in Colorado taken by my oneplus one during my spring break at the Great Sand Dunes loved the show keep up the good work guys regards this is ridiculous looks like an ad in a manual sits at of a magazine yeah you ripped it out and took a picture of it let's all just admit it sorry Keith we know your games we know your trickery Opie just copied and pasted that this is a copypasta but this is amazing one plus one which is the first time we've had that featured on the show pretty good pretty good done so when I Sophia Pedro has a one plus one I was little looks really good really good make it literally looks like an advertisement which who do you work for because if you work for none day shame on you but yeah pretty cool he says he's on spring break he said he was on spring break so I'm assuming he's in school in some way she was yeah College High School very cool it's probably done correctly it's probably an eight year old kid she's just so much better at photography than we are got a great future in super good um right so if you want to send in your phone tog Rafi to be 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fact science fiction everything all mashed together but until then be good humans we'll see you next time you