Hey folks, Adam Savage here in my cave with a tool tip that i'm pretty excited about.
I was actually trying to think about where to begin with the story about
this tool tip but i don't think i have to go anywhere specific with that story
modern surgery is amazing the things that surgeons can currently do is astounding i have a member
of my family who as a young girl one of her legs was longer than the others and doctors were able
to lengthen one of her legs using a fixator and a few operations it was not easy on this poor
family member but oh my god what they achieved is astounding uh arthroscopic surgery where they
make a tiny incision and all the surgical tubes and stuff goes through one tiny incision rather
than opening up cracking up someone's whole chest totally amazing and one of the key pieces
of equipment that surgeons use for orthoscopic surgery is an endoscope and an endoscope is a
camera on a flexible uh wire or medium that allows it to go into a place and it's a super tiny camera
now surgical endoscopes are expensive as all get out and they should be they're
super high-end pieces of equipment um and there have been some consumer products
that are uh a little more affordable black and decker had a thing called a sea snake which
weirdly is one of the only gifts jamie heinemann ever bought me uh but it's a it's a camera on
the end of a flexible arm uh and a screen that you can look at it through and it's pretty cool
i've actually i've used it to source some problems in tiny crawl spaces in my house and very useful
but like a lot of other things the advances in miniaturized electronics and better and better
smaller cameras which has been fomented by the smartphone industry means that
there has never been a time to be a consumer owner of an endoscope than right now because on amazon
you can go purchase this endoscope which is a two meter arm
whose end is wait a second i actually haven't even measured this whose end is
exactly a quarter of an inch in diameter
that is how small the end of this camera is and this puppy is 30 bucks okay yeah no no this one
this one is exciting i've been keeping up with endoscopes and what i've been finding over the
past few years is that they've been getting smaller and thinner and better but like as late as
maybe a year ago the last time i went check they were still pretty fat in terms of the
the the business end and you know i want something to go through a very small hole uh and also their
interface was not trivial but this one um nidaj is the name of this i don't know how you pronounce it
i don't know but at any rate we'll include a link in the comments below uh this one does not even
plug into your camera uh you turn it on and uh and the light goes on and it creates its own
wireless network so i i did this this morning you open your phone you open your wi-fi and you sign
in to the network created by this piece and then you go the software is called hd wi-fi
here it is that it's opening up and oh i think i think you can see what what i've got going on here
um yeah look at that okay so it's on its side there we go there we go yeah okay so
hold on hold on there you are look at this okay here we go
okay i am not going to subject you to footage from the inside of my
mouth that would be horrifying however i am going to press record on this
yeah so now it's recording and i will take you on a journey into my shoe yeah here we go
now let's say that you are yeah here we go okay so i'm gonna
go in oh yeah this is like a nature documentary investigating a uh like the layer of a of a beaver
or woodchuck or something yeah you can see where my big toe is wow you know i'll bet a
podiatrist could tell a lot by the wear and tear on the inserts in my bloodstone boots but dude
you got to be ready for what you're going to see when you use an endoscope
i had we heard noises in this crawl space in our kitchen in our kitchen and corner
cabinets are a nightmare and sometimes your cabinet maker just makes a cabinet here and
a cabinet here but there's this whole blank space between them that no one can get to um i
stuck an endoscope in there a couple of years ago the sea snake and what i saw was two dead
rats that had totally mummified that it probably died there 20 years ago in that same little crawl
space so you got to be ready for what you're going to see but dude this is crazy great
um you can actually change the brightness of the light let's see here i think you can yep
yep you can make it brighter or you can turn it off entirely um and yeah there it is i think
i'm actually going to zoom into the camera here and see if i can't get oh yeah there we go
all right let's try and get the video effect going here
oh it doesn't like that much image processing
oh hey you know putting my face so close to my shoe it reminded me how much my feet stink today
not just today just at the end of the day it's the end of the day i've been walking around all day
um 30 bucks swear to god get the an endoscope and start exploring
the mysteries of places you formerly could not get a camera in this thing is so much fun
i can't wait to see what you guys film with this incredible tool
thanks so much for joining me for this tool tip i will see you next time i almost forgot there's one
other aspect to this uh endoscope that is super cool it comes with some attachments out on the end
it comes with a right angle mirror so you can look at right angles to where you're going which
is actually super useful uh the app for it allows you to shift the image in the app which frankly
is a huge advancement over previous consumer level endoscopes this is definitely thinner than
any one i've used before which is a huge bonus but that app feature of being able to turn the
camera because the orientation of this camera is very hard to maintain uh on an endoscope
uh and then third oh there's an attachment of a little hook on here so this is two meters long
they actually make even much longer endoscopes but let's say you've dropped your keys down a sewer
you can put the hook on this camera and you can see the hook and you can use it to poop
get your keys and pull them back out of the sewer i've just invented this whole reality once you
drop your keys in a sewer because it happened to me once yeah i wished i'd had an endoscope um
yes i wanted to make sure you knew those features before i wrap this video