GROWING Computers In Your Backyard? -- Mind Blow

In this episode of Mind Blow on Vsauce2: the ruins of Ancient Rome reveal interesting medical devices, a new humanoid robot learns to be just like you, scientists develop a neural brain implant that works like an octopus, Team Trees might have accidentally grown 20 million computers with wood transistors, Stone Age architectural plans reveal sophisticated abstract cognitive abilities, olfactory virtual reality now includes scents and smells, the Titanic gets 3D mapped with over 700,000 images, which may reveal clues about how the Titanic sank, and the glassy-winged sharpshooter contributes to our biological understanding of fluid dynamics with its built-in butt catapult.

Patron Thanks

BENEFACTOR
Xemboy01

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Brent Tiggelaar, Ian Fabs, Jonathan Hawk, Markus Fleischer, NullBlox.ZachryWilsn, Thomas Kaminski, Wolfgang Hutton.

*** SOURCES ***

Wood Electrochemical Transistor (0:00)

First Ever Full-Sized Scans of Titanic Shipwreck (0:49)

Roman Urine Flasks (1:48)

Sanctuary AI (2:31)

Soft Robot Brain Implant (3:11)

Stone Age Blueprints (5:04)

VR Smells (5:45)

Superfast Insect Urination (6:48)

Sony Walkman Commercial 1983 (7:55)

*** CREDITS ***

Hosted, Researched and Created by Kevin Lieber

Written by Matthew Tabor

Edited by John Swan

Fact Checking by Geoff Barrett

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[supercyberfunk]

It's great to have the series back, but it would be great to have them numbered again so we make sure we don't miss any.

[grey_aria]

I'm so stoked this series is back. I've missed it.

[CGMushrom]

i love the old outro it gives me nostalgia

[bquick]

The Titanic (owned by JP Morgan) had a twin ship the Olympic which had structural damage in the same place the iceberg hit, the day before departure JP Morgan had all of his prized possessions removed and was not onboard as planned, those who opposed the Federal Reserve Act were definitely on board. Less than half life rafts remained, emergency red flares were replaced with white fireworks, and many professional seafarers who analyzed the captain’s maneuver to avoid hitting the iceberg say he did the exact opposite of what you’re supposed to do to avoid hitting something.

[ChaTaoProduction]

Few years ago, there was a meme saying "If trees emit WiFi signals, humans will be planting them like crazy. Too bad they only release oxygen." Seems like we are getting both now...

[XenoTravis]

Could you imagine how expensive a champagne bottle from the titanic would be?

[Grauschattierung]

Well, those shoes at the Titanic ... aren't really abandoned. Human organic matter - even bones - decomposes much faster than leather. That's how you get those shoes. Always two of shoes lying next to each other... Wow this got dark rather quickly. Even so, I love MindBlow!

[deadplex]

Now we gonna make transistors from dead cells. Cool

[MetaphoricMinds]

What kills me is, they have this full 3d scan, yet people still want to visit it, or try to...

[JonnyMack]

Genius marketing from Sony there.. god how I loved my old SlimLine .. amazing engineering 👌

[HeisenbergFam]

1:45 "sniff your pee like a Roman" is my new favorite motto of life

[andrewhallock]

Love having this series back! And I'm old enough that I owned a Sony Walkman after they turned them into radios. Good stuff!

[antsote]

Imagine spending $250k to get gooified at the ocean floor when you could just vr to the model lmao

[scotianbank]

Veni, vidi, wee-wee has to be one of the best jokes I've ever heard 😂

[liamhanzmusic]

Mind blown that Mind Blown is back but also mind blown how on topic the titanic segment is?!

[chriss]

VR Smell? Someone needs to hack the scent of Surströmming into that and then spread it to all units if it ever goes mainstream.

[Kae-Lexi]

"It's been a hundred and thirteen years since the titanic went down" - we are living in 2025?! Mind blown-

[Skadders]

How did I not realize Mind Blow was back??!!?! The info in these videos is great, but I'm always here for the video style/vibe. Always love the eclectic/vintage media added, and the outros are always amazing. Very very happy to see this back :)

[Gunnahan]

00:59 "...that is life-sized AND true to scale!" amazing! how can that be?!? ;-)

[Seizure_Sam]

As an epileptic, as soon as i saw the brain sticker immediately caught my attention. I hope there is some success here.