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reading citizens of the internet welcome to smart daily no that's muchacho and i'm jeff kannada and it's time for headlines with a something weird in your neighborhood who are you going to call you the void is expanding its hyper reality experience business into custom installations and this morning it announced it would create ghost busters dimensions and experience designed to replicate much of the sights and sounds from the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot you'll strap a pack on in real life that will turn into your proton pack and gun once you're inside the experience and you'll spend your time investigating a ghost invested apartment with two other players it will launch this July alongside the film at Madame Tussauds in New York City which means I will be buying a ticket to New York City I want to do this one day I know I want will the void we've talked about on the show before and it's really exciting stuff and I have seen people who have done previews of it and they are oh yeah they're converted when they come out so I I feel like I need a go I have a friend who said he experienced this and he said it's the best VR experience he's ever had so opposed idli there's one coming in Anaheim so I think we need to save me a lot of New York trip well save us a lot of cash for those of you who like to watch the show you probably know that we love robots but robots can be really difficult to get to walk on two legs without some assistance but engineers at the University of Michigan are making algorithms that can help bipedal robots particularly it's marleau robot Traverse terrain like steep inclines and even snow-covered ground Marlow is a simpler robot than say atlas but a library of fifteen different gates makes it possible for Marlow to adjust to differences on the ground without special sensors the goal here would be to gain enough information to implement this technology into prosthetics to help amputees walk completely normally without worrying about uneven terrain that's crazy to me fifteen different gates but it doesn't sense which to use it just cycle through them no I think they have two actuators that can go laterally and also this way so it's like the robot can sort of figure out what exactly it needs based on these 15 different gates and it's I mean it looks hey guys the video looks ridiculous this robot looks very stiff but actually it's because it's a simple robot but it does really really well in these tests so nice job guys amazing what do you want to talk about on everything I have a feeling I know what you want to say we are proton I think we got to talk about ghostbusters because this we got to talk about the void I think we got to talk about VR I mean this is one of our favorite topics to talk about yeah I think it'd be fun if you want to participate in this discussion yes I would love to know what you think the future of VR is these big installation destination pieces or in the home like which is gonna be the most prominent it's a really good question if you want to answer that you can use the hashtag hey TD over on Twitter yeah that's how you let us know you're talking about it and we'll incorporate your your discussion into our discussion on Thursday when we do our deep dive indeed all right and that being said let's check out our phone Tiger for the day this lovely picture was taken by Mary using her Lumia 640 yeah Mary wrote in and said hey Kumar Daly loved the show and it would be amazing to be featured on it especially because I love photography and would like to get my photos out there my name is Mary and I'm from Yorkshire in England Yorkshire not York Shire I give you permission to use my photo in your video this is a photo of a dandelion which I found growing in my garden I took it because I thought it looked very springy and it would go well with your theme I took it on a Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE I love this picture this is beautiful it almost looks like she's holding a carousel she's about to make a wish that's what I that's what I see the beautiful photo beautiful pre wish Mary I love that shallow focus stuff that's really cool me too me too and my wish if I had a dandelion would be for you to submit your phone tog Rafi to tomorrow at cnet.com yeah and my wish would be for you to remember to tell us what device you took it on to give us a pronunciation of your name if it's confusing and to give us permission to use it on the show we also like a little story as to why you took that particularly yes those are lots of different wishes definitely more than one well first I wish for more wishes okay a man roll that I got it perfect a compound wish also make sure you tell us what device you use to take your picture because I love to know that is it for today's show we will be back tomorrow with a brand new jhaggat of science fact meeting science fiction and this week our deep dive show we have a very special guest one of the co-creators or one of is it the creator the creator of honest trailers oh so if you have questions about honest trailers holler at us with the hashtag hey TD that is it we will be back tomorrow but until then be good human - good bye