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Tomorrow Daily - 119: Robot bats, real-life ad-blocking headset, a futuristic piano and more

2015-01-27
on today's show there's a robot that flies and walks like a bat and his name's not Val Kilmer and he wasn't in batman forever if you hate ads as much as me now you can block them just from your everyday life and a very futuristic grand piano that took 10 years to design it looks like a spaceship it doesn't fly though sorry tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe you're having a great day i'm your host Ashley together joining me as always the man the myth the legend the stake Kayla nog the stake you seem like you're making me I made of meat I'm very I'm very medium-rare I'm not rare no but the medium rare yeah I by the way thanks for getting me in a Kickstarter after that game yesterday something like an hour and a half on kickstarter funding a bunch of stuff that i'm not gonna get for a year you're welcome kickstart your welcome future kale yeah you're welcome with your hoverboard and whatnot you paid for the hoverboard I didn't know you had ten grand just laying around that's just how you do yeah that's pretty good i have a lot of side gigs i was gonna say any of you must have some great financial advisor name's Eva Kane it's time to make headlines all right let's make some headlines here I don't like this one I don't like this one either freaks me out a little bit um I actually really like bats I think they're cool i like they're adorable I like to go see him at the zoo I like take pictures of them good little doggie face yeah there's a real cute little like half rat half doggy faces they're kind of adorable however however this not so adorable this is a robo bat this is called dollar da lar and it stands for deployable air land exploration robot and yeah as you can see in this video it has a completely flexible little wing tips there and this comes from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology lau xanh and the national center of competence and research which I like that Center sounds funny but it looks like a little bat and it has some interesting features so as you're seeing in this video it has a foldable skeleton under its wing so it can it can retract its wings or spread them and then the tips of the wings can rotate which actually allows it to do a couple different things not only can it fly and sort of do that can also walk which this is horrifying to me to watch this thing like drag itself along the ground just like a bat would it's super weird it can go from flying to walking and back without any human adjustments it can so there it's going it's flying all around it flies very very quickly faster than a person can run so at some point these will be hunting us down and murdering us for sure anything that goes fat runs faster than a human being an average human being I just assume will be killing us at some point so here it is so there's the transition it lands on the ground and then all of a sudden up there it goes its going to get it's a little bat wing tips together and start walking a very quick turnover straight to the walk super quick turnaround so what's their goal point of this it's proof of concept right now but the point of this is maybe it's used for things like search and rescue so really always say that and they say that they were supporting it very suspicious about this whole search and rescue purpose because I think it's been used so much now that it's like oh yeah it's a I know it as a Gatling gun attached to its face but its search and rescue yes but but to their point you can fly to a place and without having precision landed and then just go walk the rest of the way and it's flexible so it can kind of I'm sure it can maneuver a little bit better than a rigid right it was durable too yeah it had the thing in the video or shockproof they were like hitting in the wings and stuff so that's fantastic and they said they were actually inspired by vampire bats oh good i'm assuming version to point out will have blood draining of human blood draining abilities yeah nightmares uh so would you rather have this flying around the drones well it seems like this is a drone that could actually really harm you on purpose so I'm gonna go with regular drug don't have the hover capability chase after you when it crashes into the ground this is actually I'm still actually really really impressed with its versatility it is super most of them are like yeah yeah it's a drone but like if you do anything but if you barely look at it the brain pieces yeah exactly so kudos on that one it's pretty cool but also a little terrifying against care settings gear sets gear siding okay please can please get this is bonkers okay I don't know if anybody has ever really had the problem of looking out the window seeing an ad or a billboard and just was like ah I wish I didn't see that yeah well check out brand kill okay this is a device that a racism blocks brand names and logos from your vision that let me ridiculous at actual brands this is a obviously this is a hack from a hackathon from for student developers it uses look it's very primitive it uses car Ward goggles webcam and a 7 inch display with a webcam feeding your entire field of view the whole fielding anything it's just what well it's it's feeding ok so the Eugene with the screen and that's at the webcam is shoot exactly such a little delayed so here's here's what it does blurs logos that are pre-programmed into your headset so the ones that they have at the only pre-programmed ones it's not gonna like sense with right here's the ones a program Starbucks and McDonald's see that a lot Facebook see that a lot dr. pepper that's awfully specific yeah and more uh do I just saw lucky charms real quick I have an issue with them blocking dr. pepper because it looks like it's delicious first of all shout at the dr pepper I general a black Dr Pepper but also it looks like motor oil so if they block out a motor oil logo and you start drinking it thinking it's dr. pepper anyway maybe sometimes you need labels guises are saying back back to the back to the jacket the science inside computing is Python and an open CV okay ready for the goal I always break the goal exactly is the point so here's their quote they want to blind consumers to the surplus of corporate branding I covered your you paused it we want to blind kazoo please if you want them it's just want to blind them we want to blind consumers to the court the surplus of corporate branding and envision a future in which consumers can augment reality to opt out of corporate influence well maybe Microsoft will buy this for hololens I was just about to say that hollow lens that can tote lisken totally totally I can integrate yeah just blur out I have a technology uh I don't really have this issue but alright yeah i mean i know some people complain like oh gosh it's like all day long constant branding in my face so I guess I mean I guess I got it but it is it's interesting enough and then I love dr. peppers yeah that's true it brings us to our hashtag the day which is hashtag TD block I love this one I want to know what you wish you could block out with technology and how that would work so my thing is is I would like a technology that would go into my contact lenses and that would blur out or otherwise remove like annoying people like if I could just you know like more specifically if I if I to be more specific I would say people who are rude to like servers people are rude people back out rude people yeah just they don't exist erase them that's like uh that's like black mirror there's an episode they block out and on the holiday episode you can block out people that are a Croma smilers no spoilers but that's interesting don't give so anyway uh my now yeah mines mines much simpler okay it's more like in the adblock space but I want to block people that have bleeding hearts on facebook just people that just complain about like I'm playing about everything went well it's just like thing fio deal with it internally and figure it out maybe talk to someone close create a real you know connection with somebody rather than just going and getting their artificial you know praise that you become addicted to when you feel like you have to keep doing and I thought about this too much I think that's already been real deployment facebook I'm doing my facebook today oh yeah but you can also share and connect true you can make clothes get party invites yeah events on them feel those yet that's a good I like that that's a good one just to get rid of all the extra nonsense I like how both of ours are we hate people just so people I got it ready boys so annoying all right well this they're not flying robot bats that's true that is very true okay sorry let's move on let's talk about this future piano cuz it is really cool looking and I can't wait to show this you guys so this is from the this is the lead designer his he's Hungarian he's a piano player name gergely blog on you Logano magana okay so we're seeing some previews hear of this piano and it's like I don't want to give it away yet because it's very sleek so this piano looks like a spaceship like I'm not I'm not even kidding you guys this piano is insane looking it took over ten years to design around 8,000 engineering hours it has over 18,000 parts it is called a bogan ye oh my god just revealed that they already oh wow yeah there it is um it is extremely attractive in terms of pianos it is gorgeous it's like the first but it's like the Maserati of it's a ridiculous like expensive Aston Martin of pianos cherry there you go wow that 10 years so it has two legs instead of this is very interesting the reason why is because um there's a hollow under the piano where a normal third leg would be like in the back they see on like grand pianos now that there's a hollow there instead of a leg that allows the sound to be conducted in a hollow that pushes it clearer it has more clarity when the sound comes out to the audience oh it has a unique composite soundboard a ma and a modified iron and wood frame so the soundboard this is very interesting is weather resistant and uninhibited by humidity or dryness and some other elemental kind of issues that a lot of pianos have so for example if you travel with the piano if you're a professional and you have a piano that you either travel with or otherwise let's say you live in an area where there is a lot of weather so New York for example and you can't necessarily fully control the room that your piano stored in uh that means your piano might go out of tune I sooner or you live in a house absolutely your pianos out of tune sooner and what they're saying is this because of the soundboard that's extremely resistant to elemental issues that it holds its tune longer and it has less maintenance as well so over time you'll have to maintain this piano less I'm sure the cost I was just about to actually there's no horse no cost yet which means we will never ever buy them but well no no but I'm sure like Lady Gaga's already like scoring one out and making like some sort of sleep chamber yeah she sleeps inside I'm sure she has one already and like sleeps in it and actually flew it here from whatever planet she came from so I okay so super fast yeah I know this is this is crazy it why did it take ten years well because he was saying it this was a whole team of like dedicated engineers designers musicians like people who came through and and works on this project to make sure that this was the most because we haven't really seen if you think about it we haven't really seen great advances in the actual grand piano in a really long time ver2 yeah all kind of you know when you go back in time they all look pretty much the same for like a certain point forward and they've just they've gotten better at different things but never are like two it's never changed this drastically since the invention of the grand PA it's it's really strange to me that it doesn't it didn't sound like it has a lot of like technology in it no I like I think that they just really worked on the design being really beautiful and sort of futuristic looking and then on top of that figuring out exactly what parts and creating new things like the sound board that would enable the piano to have the best possible sound hold its tune for the longest amount of time have the least amount of maintenance and also give the clearest and most robust sound experience to anybody listening to it which i think is awesome very cool look yeah so that's a that's the really expensive spaceship piano that I just want really bad it looks like the cars and the Jetsons huge jump in and go poop and I do a little bit I tried to teach myself once my cousin got piano lessons when I was a kid and I didn't so I was kind of jealous and so I just started like learning myself would you get hosting lessons yeah yeah when I was five it took hosting listen instead of a so said of soccer all right here on the scene where the dog is now I played volleyball that was my that was my jam sorry I tried waste your time I tried to play I tried to play piano I could still play a little bit but I never actually like formally learned how good but I can play like couple songs I don't know anyway on that on that note do you see it do you see what I did there on that note we're gonna take a quick break I know kale I know but we're going to be back with new releases and of course your user feedback and our phone tiger for the day so don't click weights tomorrow daily welcome back to tomorrow daily uh it's Tuesday which is always an exciting day for you especially but both of us yeah because well because it's the day that we tell everybody all the great stuff that's coming out oh yeah and what they should be doing so this is new releases all right first up I'm not gonna bury the lead guys you gotta go bye Grim Fandango remastered oh my god Ellis oh that's right no I find you never have to hear you'll never have to hear about me saying I'm excited it's coming out again because it's here it's out it is y ou G a point click adventures right one of the classics one of the classics are classics you play Manny calavera you're an agent and you sell like it's like vacation packages for people to go to like the land of the dead it's like a four-year journey anyway you get 4 by 3 and the yeah of course it is cuz that's how the game was made fair enough so um yeah it's uh I'm just super excited about this you got glottis I mean oh man I'm just so jazzed I can't wait to play it I already pre-ordered it it's over on over on my playstation 4 what are they what are they saying oh I want to know how they're updating it look what's what are the things better graphics the controls are a little wonky back in the 90s um and then they're also doing all kinds of stuff like they redid the they redid the orchestral the music they did I think they have like some special features i'm not sure what they are because i haven't downloaded the game yet um but all of are you gonna replay it of course yeah I already pre-ordered it so I can't wait to replay it and xbox got screwed on this one hey well the thing is is I think Sony was more willing to risk on it and so I think that they worked with Tim on sort Tim Schafer on bringing and the other thing is is they had to get permission cuz grim fandango is a Lucas arts game so they had to get permission from Disney now who owns Lucas so that was like a whole big thing so I'm hoping though that that means cuz they obviously are now remastering day of the tentacle which is huge yeah i'm really excited like that one better no I like grim fandango the best but right really like i'm gonna try it i'm gonna try it out do it it's like 15 bucks so it's it's not even in you have to play fallout again fallout 3 fallout 3 yeah there's no other fallout i'm sorry oh i'll consider these i'll consider these words oh boy i have to fight will i have to be able play it on my xbox one I don't have an xbox 360 anymore what else is what else is that ok so dying lights coming out I thought this was very interesting game I know I thought this was already have you heard about no really that's because people are already playing on the otha yeah yeah so this is okay so dying light is the first person survival horror games yes and the the thing that I thought was interesting about this game is that like apparently it's very realistic in the way that like when you start your week and you like you have like boards and stuffy it's like fight off zombies with and then you get better at actually fighting them off later and you like makeshift things that are actually cool and useful but not it not at first who's the developer on this but a pretty rough oh that's a really good question and I don't have that off top of my head oops sorry um but it's it's gonna be available it's available today the 27th on playstation 4 xbox one and steam so really it's kind of just choose your own choose your own console and I just saw I've heard good things about it i think a lot of people are hoping that this is sort of a sort of it not a substitute but sort of something like a dead rising or you know game ya know people are people are trying to get away from Daisy and h10 so much more expansive and I think this is sort of like a short jaunt uh Techland Thecla see that's why it is I don't know that is um but dying light I'm pretty decent like you can watch I'm sure she was gonna be twitch like oh yeah yeah so you can definitely check that out um and then this was also a favorite thing for me to read not necessarily new games but older games available in a new way oh yeah GOG has been releasing all kinds of Star Wars games like older Star Wars games and so now today star wars republic commando star wars jedi knight don't know you know Star Wars Starfighter are all available as of today joining joining i might add the first two waves of games which were galactic battlegrounds saga x-wing alliance x-wing vs. TIE fighter one of the greatest games of all time dark dark forces Knights of the Old Republic to the Sith Lords battlefront to Rogue Squadron 3d rebellion and empire at war gold pack so it's a pretty serious collection of Star Wars games just make another battle front please oh I really like to have another battlefront that if I was so fun don't even make the force awakens we can I just make another battlefront may cuz star wars battlefront the force awakens I give us a battlefront game set in that universe I would totally play a game George if you're listening I know you're not involved in all I know but I swear he could use a sneaky little fella he can get him now they're gonna be they should I think I shut the door and George Lucas did you already said he's like I gave my ideas to Disney I gave my treatments for episode 7 through 9 basically threw them out haha as bold Disney bulb will play they're like not enough Avengers in it they don't see I don't see iron man anywhere on this script um alright so with that being said it is time as we always do every day for your user feedback you guys came up with some really good answers for the hashtag t DVR browse to say what brat what site you'd want to look at in virtual reality they stayed away from the UK between the sexy prawns okay kept a clean Fabio wrote to us and said well the first thing I would do is probably install adblock yeah look at that he's got a futurama reference in there Leela there oh you thought that to actually use hashtag scare citing excuse adding caution wrote to us and said any high-end car manufacturers website hashtag speed for days also what would be are browsing due to hackers and hacking I'm gonna tell you right now what it's gonna do with hackers and hacking roll that footage loganville yes okie dokie battle that's that's what it looks like and that is footage you totally nailed it though nails it um can I just say that's one more like my favorite all time like it's so bad it's good Johnny mnemonic do you remember it from Back to the Future to that may have the headsets to ya how did you do all right I just said that's what it's gonna look like just FYI this FYI and if you want to see the future just watch Johnny mnemonic cuz it's I mean pretty much ok it's like one of the greatest films of all time yeah can we quote you on that put it on the poster put it I put it's a pull quote you put it right on the DVD right on the block cuz I'm sure it's not out on blu-ray it's on the DVDs on the VHS tape put my pull quote on the VHS tape rotted fish wrote to us and said hey Google Earth and Mars sites and the Vatican archives Wow Google Earth was a great idea a good call on that the Vatican archives I thought was really interesting because you're not allowed in there unless you're like a super theology historian person so and it takes like a lot of doing to get special access so i thought that it would be really cool like things that most people can't see because they're afraid of destruction of property or otherwise like harming so like a museum exhibits that was another a good one you could get up close and personal with something get really close to it put some thought into that one yeah a glenn and Stefan see said the same thing but I use Glenn's tweets and I keep it simple Google Earth and street view I'd be happy and fit if I could explore the world on demand and NVR like that yeah great great great choices I'm delay wrote to us and said tvtropes would be incredible swallow the red pill jump down the road and lastly hay-soos road Rosen said Wikipedia galaxy from a few weeks ago oh yeah and V are the most beautiful way to grasp can an interconnectedness of knowledge they like this a lot they really like this one that's pretty cool so what was someone this week uh the one that's for today yeah today's is TD block ok TV but do you want to get rid of yeah how would you do it this is just gonna be us being cranky that is everybody pretty cranky about it uh Jeff like those damn kids I would get those kids off my lawn and erase them from my lawn um all right guys it's time for our photog refer of the day I'm sorry technically it's about phone tog refer today not a great way to start it's a drone tog refer what all right so mike s room whoa really bad hey guys just got a drone wanted to share this shot with you it's not from a phone but I edited that on my iphone 5s does that count I will I will allow it I visited Vermont this weekend and found this frozen whereas reservoir perfect for some drone tog raphy love the show guys look at and you can see them right down there see a little two little dudes look they're so tiny you're like they look like pants are you blow I use your mind blown that's so amazing freaking out I can't believe we're getting photos from drones now I'll take it drone tog raphy pretty awesome and he took it with his DJI phantom that was it which is a pretty pretty good price drone they're so pretty Wow I'll see get a fancy oh cool ok cool yeah yeah definitely awesome that definitely my favourite viewer I'm gonna say close again you've gotta be kidding me Voyager this is gonna take a satellite photo it's gonna it's gonna have to be a robot that plays Grim Fandango and takes it and in the drone it is a drone it's good as incredible I is if you're gonna keep like upping the tech yeah absolutely i want to see someone do like it there's a reason XD what I'm saying something like that indeed if you guys want to submit your phone tog raphy to be considered to be featured on the show or if you want to send us your user feedback you can email us tomorrow at cnet com if you are into social media and hate email that's cool we got you covered tomorrow daily twitter facebook Instagram tomorrow daily TV google+ and tomorrow daily over on tumblr i think i actually raised my pulse blood pressure and so jacket and around time here on 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tomorrow with a brand-new docket of weird wonderful scitech robot space whatever we can find but until then vegan humans will see you guys next time bye you
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