88: It Just Makes the Lithium Angrier
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
Nice Segue, LLC
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you look at that video I sent you last night? |
| 0:02.0 | No. |
| 0:03.0 | No, I didn't. |
| 0:04.0 | Did you know, Brad, that researchers have trained people to use a robotic extra thumb? |
| 0:09.0 | Where would you put an extra thumb? |
| 0:10.0 | Well, I just looked at this picture. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | And in between fits of revulsion. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | I guess I have to say that where they put it seems pretty sensible. I mean, it would be cool to have two thumbs. It's opposed to the other thumb. Yeah. It is literally, I mean, you know, people talk like humans evolved an opposable thumb, but they didn't evolve two opposable thumbs that oppose each other, which is exactly what this mechanical thumb is doing. I wonder if you can like pinky and ring finger and hit the two thumbs. |
| 0:40.3 | So you can pick up two things at once. |
| 0:42.3 | This looks bad. |
| 0:43.3 | I think it looks cool. |
| 0:44.3 | There's a grotesque symmetry to this hand. |
| 0:47.3 | Like literally, I mean, people, we'll put this in the show notes. |
| 0:50.3 | Like, the mechanical thumb is literally extending out of the other side of the hand opposite the thumb so that there are thumbs on both sides of the hand. |
| 0:57.2 | It is it is a symmetrical hand. |
| 0:59.6 | This should not exist. |
| 1:00.6 | It's thumb. |
| 1:01.7 | Pointy finger. |
| 1:02.9 | Rude finger. |
| 1:04.0 | Ring finger. |
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