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creating citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm ashley's together and i'm jeff cannata and it is time to hit those headlines start your engines ladies and gentlemen because the world drone Prix is happening this weekend over 100 teams will be competing in the world drone prix this weekend in dubai for a prize package worth over a million dollars and they will be doing it in style the world organization of racing drones or word governs the championship event if this promo video is anything to go by guys it looks like futuristic racetracks exciting races and high-speed drone crashes are on the menu for this weekend if you happen to be in dubai on march 11th and 12th you should definitely grab a ticket to the races and if you don't have a ticket it will also be streamed live on the internet so you should catch it anyway because it looks like real life rainbow road but with flying drones I'm gonna be watching that I are they streaming it like from the drones perspective because that would be rad too maybe because the thing is is they have it from the trailers and things that I've seen it looks like they have some first person there first person right flights yeah so they might plug into whatever that output is able to kind of show a point of view I'm hoping they let me choose my camera because I want to see it from all kinds of that be so rad I want world drone pre-con where I get to just like it's like a digital ticket where I can just pick whatever your racer I want to follow for the whole weekend so good luck to all the racers you can hit up a world drone pre calm if you want to check everything out hey speaking of planes DARPA has a new plane that they're working on if they can pull it off it's going to be pretty impressive VTOL is short for vertical takeoff and landing and the x-plane aims to make that happen with 24 ducted fans each with its own cell those cells are mounted on the wings and canard of the craft which can pivot from the horizontal to vertical as needed offering maximum efficiency during all phases of flight DARPA says it hopes to use this design to open up aviation possibilities quote freed from prior constraints unquote that sounds pretty rad now this is still in its concept phase but they hope to begin manned and unmanned flights by 2018 so it's not that far off yeah you might see some unmanned vertical takeoff planes in the sky which would be pretty cool they will be destroying the drone pre and 2018 ok so we out of these two stories I I feel like personally we have to talk about the drone pre come on I mean I think we're both pretty excited about that excited the VTOL plane looks pretty cool but definitely let's let's let's cue that up for Thursday talk about the drone pre and if you guys want to talk about it you can actually use the hashtag hey TD yeah all you gotta do shot at us using that hashtag on Twitter get your voice heard if we like your comment will include it in our show on Thursday when we deep dive into that story and I'm just saying you definitely want to be included on Thursday show you do we might tell you it probably tell you Wednesday but maybe tomorrow yeah some fun stuff coming on Thursday we're pretty excited pretty pretty excited anyway let's see our phone time for the day our phone talk for the day today is Desmond who shot this lovely picture on his iPhone 6 Desmond ride tasting at folks this is Gramps he loves curling up on the couch with a bowl of kibble his favorite blanket and watching your tech reviews he has no pockets so hasn't been able to save up any money but when he figures out how to overcome this short coming he's thinking of buying a drone and attaching a laser pointer he was caught in today's deep contemplation by one of his human servants using an iPhone 6 he looks like he's uh either wait yeah I was gonna say either very comfortable are really upset these upset he doesn't know pockets you need to get that cat as some clothes maybe an overcoat that seems like a great idea I like the drone with a laser pointer for infinite cat fun that seems like a Kickstarter waiting to happen Desmond if you guys want to send it your phone geography you can email us tomorrow cnet com yes be sure to tell us what device you took the picture on give us permission to use it on the show give us a little story like we heard about Gramps yeah it's a best cat name ever I'm gonna I really like the idea that Gramps told you to take that picture yeah okay listen send this over to see us like I look good okay I look great i'm contemplating things the futility of life feeling very nihilistic today take my photo hey Warren we'll be back tomorrow with more headlines tune in then and until that time make it humans see you guys next time bye you