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hello and welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk-show in the known universe I'm Jeff cañada flying solo today because Ashley Escada has the day off but fear not we still have your daily dose of headlines if you're like me when you saw the movie wall-e you wanted a little robot friend well guess what check out Cosmo unki announced Cosmo this morning a small robot that they're claiming is one of the quote most sophisticated consumer robots available today unquote Cosmo has an emotion engine and AI onboard allowing him to express emotions through voice and expressions and he can even recognize faces that he sees often if you leave him alone he even gets sad he'll work with iOS and Android devices and he looks like he could be as adorable as Anki claims hopefully this isn't just a Tamagotchi on steroids but if you want to get your hands on Cosmo unki already has a pre-order page up and orders ship this October I want one of these little guys but he is little if you see in the video it's really tiny I was kind of hoping you might be a little more I don't know r2d2 sighs but I think it's still very very cool Johns Hopkins University is celebrating and very interesting prototype this morning as well when George LaVey lost his hands to a meningitis infection he still wanted to play games so he teamed up with two other grad students and made gear or game enhancing augmented reality it looks like a simple pair of platform sandals but each one has a trio of sensors inside that can be mapped to game controls allowing someone without hands to play video games with up to 20 different specific actions the result is good enough that 80% of a small survey of around 50 viewers couldn't tell the difference between which people used gear and which didn't it recently won the grand prize in the 2016 Intel Cornell Cup and the team is already in the process of patenting and potentially licensing the concept this is fancy fasik anything that allows more gamers with varying levels of ability to play games I'm in favor of and I just think this is a spectacular achievement and making more accessibility for more people well if you want to comment on our stories you can always use our hashtag hate TD that's hey TD like you're shouting at us and then on Thursday when Ashley's back and we're hitting sitting here chatting together about the stories we will use your comments and incorporate them into our discussion I think it's safe to say Ashley would want us to talk about a little robot she's fascinated with robots as am i so I think we're probably gonna be talking about that one but you can comment on either story but using hey TD as the hashtag alright now it's time for our phone tog refer of the day today's phone geographer of the day is Raphael who took this photo with an iPhone 6s Raphael writes hi Ashley and Jeff I'm Raphael a tenza from the Philippines a long time C net podcast watcher this is a selfie of me and my family taken on my iPhone 6s on a recent trip to Hideko Japan this is my sister's last hurrah for traveling before she gives birth to her son or daughter I took this using the rear camera of the iPhone using panorama mode yes I do give see net tomorrow daily permission to use my photos also my nickname RAF is pronounced like RAF I am the one with the blue collar my sister's husband in white my sister and my sister's husband's sister this is a selfie with sage and some purple sea urchin flower in farm tomita Verano Hideko Japan RAF ah this is a great great picture I love your family it's one of if I love seeing the selfies but I have to say the only thing you told me how to pronounce is the one thing that I think I could have figured out RAF the city names your friends things all of your family I'm sure I messed up all of that stuff your last name so apologies for that if you want to be our phone tog refer we only have a few more days of our current theme which is selfies been loving those you can always send photos to tomorrow at cnet.com be sure to tell us how to pronounce anything that might be questionable in your in here email including places and names and last names also give us permission to use it on the show tell us which device you took it on and we love little stories about why you took that particular photo that's gonna do it for this episode of tomorrow daily Ashley will be back to join me tomorrow we'll have more headlines for you and then hour-long show on Thursday so be sure to head back until then be good humans see ya you