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A toaster that burns the daily weather forecast
onto your toast, and Rocky Mountain Oyster
Stout Beer is made with real roasted bull
testicles.
Vsauce, Kevin here. This is Mind Blow.
Digits is a hands-free 3-D motion capture
sensor you wear on your wrist and it creates
a model of your hand that responds with fingertip
precision. Microsoft Research developed this
gloveless system which uses an infrared camera,
a motion sensing chip, a laser line, and software
to detect fingertips and follow the movement
of finger joints, allowing you to control
video games, translate sign language, or interact
with a computer.
If you prefer a more tactile controller there's
this smart ball. Palla is a wireless device
that can be held or rolled and precisely tracks
movement with an accelerometer, a gyroscope,
a magnetometer, and a barometer that senses
the variations in altitude within 10 centimeters.
There are no buttons, it just uses pressure
and proximity sensors, and it provides feedback
with LEDs and vibration.
Chinese Hospitals have introduced this device,
and I'm just gonna let you guess what it does.
Say hello to Pegomastax - a miniature, plant-eating,
newly discovered dinosaur with a parrotlike
beak, fangs, and quills. It's a member of
the heterodontosaurus genus and probably weighed
less than a small house cat.
It turns out ants are like the internet. The
way they communicate with their colony is
quite similar to the Transmission Control
Protocol used to keep data traveling the internet
from bogging down. Basically, food for ants
is like bandwidth: The more food there is,
the more ants that leave and return to the
colony; the less food, the less movement,
and the ants adjust their movements based
on this flow of traffic. Like the internet.
Anternet.
Nest is a learning thermostat designed to
save energy and money. It learns your schedule
and helps optimize the temperature of your
home, all while programming itself. A small
leaf appears to indicate energy saving, and
simply changing one degree can cut energy
use up to 5%. Its adjustable while you're
away with a smart phone, and gives you a breakdown
of how, and when, you're using the most energy.
Meat Shot Glasses.
Hop is hands-free luggage that follows you
around. It connects to your smartphone and
if the signal is lost it locks itself and
notifies the user. This is just a prototype,
but I mostly just like the idea of a little
R2D2 bag following me around.
If you need a fire-fighting robot friend there's
Octavia. Developed by the US Naval Research
Laboratory this robot recognizes individuals
using facial and vocal identifiers, it understands
commands with a speech recognizer, it understands
gestures, and extinguishes fires by aiming
the hose at the brightest spots.
Finally, RainRoom is an art installation using
pressure regulators, hydraulics, and 3D tracking
cameras to allow you to walk through the rain
without getting wet.
I'm gonna leave you with a superhydrophobic
knife cutting a water droplet in half...
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as always, thanks for watching.