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This chair turns your fidgets into phone charges (Tomorrow Daily 327)

2016-03-08
greetings citizens of the internets welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe i'm jeff cannata and I'm ashley Esqueda let's get right into those rapid-fire headlines the first of which involves a student who has designed something that will actually allow the disabled to create music with their eyes on dreis refs cards last project for the Copenhagen Institute of interactive design is called I conductor it uses an inexpensive I tracking device and a simple webcam in conjunction with an interface to allow a user to choose which instrument to use create a beat and make songs it's also adjustable based on how broad or narrow the users facial movements can be refs guard says quote I believe that the ability to express oneself artistically should be available to all regardless of physical disabilities or challenges unquote best part about this thing is it costs less than a hundred dollars so it really opens up the ability to as he said express yourself to anybody that can move their eyes that's pretty incredible I thought was really cool that he took it to centers where and had disabled people try to me he said there were real connections made the music which is so rad I love when people are able to do something like that for pennies on the dollar that that's the most important thing that off-the-shelf components can work yeah yeah it's really cool uh if you are a fidgety person like myself uh this chair might be the chair for you if you want to get the most out of your fidgeting movements you might like move it's a prototype designed to harness the power of shifting around in your seat move is a chair from furniture designer Natalie tubules and it has 288 piezoelectric crystals inside the frame that generate current would expose to pressure a USB port in the armrest lets you jack right into the chairs electricity and charge your phone as you fidget tinkle said she was inspired by her own personal experiences with ADHD while making this chair there's no official mass production scheduled for move but if i were ikea i would have this in every college caffeine addled college dorm room in medium this is restless leg syndrome the battery yeah exactly you can really turn that five hour energy and do energy for your actual phone here's what I want I want an entire airplane just with these seats in it deefizzy because eyes what I am on an airplane I hate sitting for hours it's true oh it's true uh what do you think we should talk about on thursday's show man I don't know these are both good again I kind of I'm kind of leaning toward the music with your eyes thing it's pretty cool and simple I like that okay let's talk about let's talk about I conductor if you guys want to get in on the conversation for Thursday show please feel free to shout at us using the hashtag hey TD yeah on on the twitters we love hearing from you and we use those comments in our discussion on Thursday so you can be part of the conversation too yes and with that being said let's check out our phone time for the day today's phone tog refer of the day is deepak who took this with a moto g2 yeah deepak writes in and says these photos were taken with my moto g2 my name is deepak you can choose any which one you like this was taken when i went for a morning walk at summer you're showing great keep it on we chose the picture that he sent with the flowers in the grass which I really love the depth of field so colorful I just there's a lot of personality in this photo yeah and man like what a great morning walk you have when you can see stuff like this on it is able to focus stuff like that just with a native moto g2 I think so yeah wow I've you have it in that video to macro mode things like that uh it really is amazing what you guys can do with phone ography and if you want to send in your pictures please do tomorrow Tina calm yeah we love getting those pictures from you just give us a little story about why you took that picture tell us what device you took it on and be sure to give us permission to use it on the show also share the show tomorrow daily com it's easy to give the gift of tomorrow daily to a friends it's the gift that keeps on giving because we do one every day even when you want us to stop so that is it for today's show we will be back tomorrow with a brand-new talkative weird wonderful science fact meeting science fiction but until then be good humans you guys next time bye you
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