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Connected temporary tattoos are both flashy and functional (Tomorrow Daily 408)

2016-08-15
hello and welcome to tomorrow daily the best beef talk show in the known universe in our last week of shows oh my gosh i am jeff kannada ashley skin is out today and we're this is our last week so the 18th is our last show we got a fun week of we got a fun week a stories coming at you starting with today's headlines last week we told you about a robot that could give you a tattoo this week we're telling you about a tattoo that can give you a robot MIT and Microsoft revealed duo skin this past weekend a gold leaf temporary tattoo that wearers can interact with the circuits can be designed in standard image designing software and then printed directly to cheap temporary tattoo paper the video shows off four ways to use them as touch sensitive input for tapping and sliding that controls an object on a nearby display a thermochromic tattoo that changes color and design of the wearer's body temperature rises a wireless communication device that can be paired with tech like NFC and a purely aesthetic tattoo jewelry necklace with light-up LEDs embedded within the designs are beautiful but they're also inexpensive and a three by four centimeter NFC tattoo costs less than three dollars I think this is idea of wearable technology is is pretty cool I mean we already have watches and headphones and stuff why not tattoos right why not we've been watching hollow lenses development with a lot of anticipation and this is a very cool new app the team behind in 3s an NES emulator that adds 3d visuals to 2d games has a fun new toy to play with in hololens they released a video recently showing off their work with the augmented reality headset and it's an alpha build of an NES game showcase with Super Mario Brothers Donkey Kong Tetris and more running on the headset it incorporates elements of n3s with sprites getting a 3d modification so when you tilt your head the game seems more than just a flat render but according to the team it's not an easy job in its video description the team says quote hololens won't run most games at full speed unquote and the alpha build was hand tuned and optimized to work for hololens in such a way that many games wouldn't be eligible for this type of conversion I'm ready for all of my retro games to be brought into the future give me VR give me a R I want them I want them in the real world interacting with me there's no reason why we have to leave all of our 8-bit sprites behind just bring them into the future with us speaking of bringing us into the future let's hit up your phone tog refer of the day today's phone tog referred the day is Geoff who took this picture on his iPhone six-plus Jeff writes dear TD here is an entry for your phone tog refer of the day segment it's a fjord and a glacier at axel Heiberg island in the Canadian Arctic taken from a twin otter Bush plane with my iPhone 6 plus it's composed of two photos that were Auto stitched together by the Google photos assistant feature I am a geologist and I was in the Arctic for some research related to Mars my job was to fly a phantom 4 drone over our field sites to map them sorry to hear that when I got back your show is ending I will miss it and of course you have permission to use this photo on your show Geoff Mersh pronounced Marsh professor of planetary science at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Tennessee super cool I want to know what this has to do with Mars and I'm sure that you can't tell us Geoff but that's a that's a beautiful photo all this week we are talking about the most beautiful photos that you have ever taken your your proudest photo and we have still a few more episodes so get those photographers in you can send them to tomorrow at cnet.com be sure to tell us how to pronounce your name give us permission to use the photo on the show tell us what device you took it on and we love little stories about why you think that is the best photo you've ever taken we will be back tomorrow Ashley we'll be back me talking about more stories heading into our final episode on Thursday so come back then until those days
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