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on today's show scientists figure out how to use lasers to make a metal surface water repellent oculus is opening up a studio to make virtual reality movies and there's there's like a lot of information I'm going to look like this and and a really cool piece of software transforms any kind of building block like a lego into a digital modeling kit oh yeah that's exciting tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the nerd universe I like that you were like are you playing a piano know that keyboard cat goes alright good I'm girl Ashley skeletron amis always kill anonymous the keyboard cat of your dreams I am excited about this oculus news is like what do you with the challah went when the hololens came out everyone's like do yours dude suckers sober they are and now virtual realities like uh hey guys what up we haven't even the conversation that happened the bit of room they're both crushing beer cans on their head it was like anyway it was like that fight in West Side Story when they just like snap their fingers that he sure and yeah sharks vs jets that's what this um so let's not waste any more time let's hit the headlines okay so water repellent stuff we've seen it it's out there a non-stick pan ducks ducks knots okay so I water repellent stuff is generally made with a coating like Teflon so you see that with like non-stick pans and stuff but the problem with that is that over time you need to either reapply that Teflon it's a coating so it wears off or you can damage it so that's why they say like we have nonstick pans you're not supposed to use metal utensils well this is awesome so check this out this is from the University of Rochester this is a surface a metal surface that they were able to make hydrophobic without coatings using lasers as you say it'll never come off a that basically it would take a very very very very very long time for this to wear down because it's metal so the point of this is so this is a one by one it's one inch by one inch but looking it's bouncing off like literally going off of the metal it's just like point one point boom I like see look at that that's amazing so the laser etches a pattern of micro and nano scale structures on the surface of the metal and then it can also absorb light so it can repel water and absorb light as well because it's really really really dark so the neat thing about this is is that in most things that are made of like they have a Teflon coating or some sort of hydrophobic coating you actually if it tilt it so if you have a pan and you put water and you have to tilt it not with this so it literally put water and it slides right off like it you don't have to tilt it or otherwise manipulate it just slides right off we just kind of me yeah that was kind of like porn just watching them bounce off your psyche oh yeah for anybody who's really into hydrophobic video this is us so that's what it looks like when you do use like a Teflon pan okay so this is totally different what else are they hoping to use it on besides pans okay so the whole point of this is is that they're saying there could be sanitation applications so yeah here they are like tilting it on it barely goes and then there's still some water left overs residue completely not the case with this you just slides right off it's crazy so sanitation applications they're saying that you could do things like making latrines out of this material and then that way they're easier to clean what about a glass water walls would that so they the really important thing about this is that it's kind of self cleaning because of the surface being so um so waterproof that if they took a vacuum bag full of dust and like poured it on to that surface and then put water in and they said it took I think it was like 12 drops of water to clean up all of the dust wow just like slid it right off so they were saying that for cleanliness or for any kind of sanitation application this would be great efficiency in developing regions we're collecting rain water is vital survival so we're rain rain water is kind of one of the main sources of water this could be really good and then also solar thermal collectors because it can absorb energy and or it can absorb light and then these guys are going to be millionaires it's pretty cool so but the problem is is that they're going to be millionaires but I don't know when because they're only it took a long time for them to make that one inch by one inch metal plates are like etch the laser pattern in there so they're saying that basically the goal at this point now that they've actually created the surface is to make it so where they can it's an make larger pieces quickly so we'll see how that goes but nice job University of Rochester way to go yeah you are going to be millionaires guys are gonna be rich okay tell me about oculus speaking of water was now rich who are currently rich oculus has announced that they are going to be making a studio to create movies for a VR space help the by world this was announced at Sundance they said they're going to be up producing VR movies with oculus headset basically movie experience they showed up with a four minute animated short called lost now the cool thing is their product commissaries oculus Dei so they're promising that they're going to have guessed directors come in oh I like that and make these movies as well as the fact that they already have 10 people on their team on their starting teams some of them are from Pixar and lucasarts so that's pretty cool those are big names yeah so I mean that I don't think we really have an idea one that one we're gonna start seeing these but obviously making fully interactive oh yeah and also they're hoping to make it so that you can actually sometimes interact in the movie but basically to sum it up their goal there's always the goal always well we like it all so the goal is to produce movies that allow first-person experience movies and even possible ability to interact in the future so we've already seen an app where you can sit in a movie theater and watch a movie yeah like a virgin cinema right yeah you sit in a movie theater like change seats and it's but you're like alone by the way throw pots really invisible people that's really like frustrating is you're an alone in the theater um but yeah now they're hoping that you're just in the movie I bet you know in a theater is the best it's like your own Mystery Science Theater so you can go oh no you did um but I've actually already been inside a simulated movie there I forgot the name of the movie i forgot the director but this guy was nominated for an Oscar I don't think he won but he was nominated for an Oscar and then he made this one and basically you're in it was like Fallujah or something like that it was these Marines rating so you're like going with them sava and and I actually I actually did it though um and then you're like dicking around and yeah it was loud like you hear gunfire over on the corner right stuff like that that freaked me out it was pretty cool we also if you didn't know we also did the interstellar experience yeah so we went through the ship from interstellar and that was pretty cool so yeah I'm looking forward to this seeing what we get out of this and that was the thing with AR it adds to your life but VR you're stepping into a completely different worlds we cannot say which one is better surely one is better at some things one is better there's I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of stories that unravel and what people want to do I don't you think I should ask other people what they would think I think we should so I think we should make the hashtag of the day oh you think about you DVR film and we should ask people to pitch their idea for a movie for virtual reality can I do one yeah okay here's my pitch all right kiddo run lola run but with VR or if you want to work with an intellectual property that already exists let's go mirrors edge oh I like so you but I mean again it cuz I could just be a game but mirrors edge but you do like a live-action Mirror's Edge all of my cuz all mine exist in your embodying the person obviously that one the one that I tried you weren't necessarily embodying someone you were following people yeah um but yeah embodying you embody someone who's doing like parkour and stuff like that I'd like to see I'd like to see a short film based on 2001 a Space Odyssey and like visiting the obelisk whoo okay just short dumb some kind of narrative somebody come up with a narrative like I'm sure they're smarter people out there than I but some kind of narratives from a cool narrative that takes us back to the obelisk that sounds like like five or ten minutes yeah of course you pick something space something cool yeah wow this is cool I think the virtual reality for me like the most exciting thing for me is going to a place that I'm not going to be able to go like at least until I'm very old and rich and I'm like Oprah but space like I mean it's you can go anywhere in the world and it won't cost you nearly as much as it will cost to go to space so for me it's that's like the exciting thing for me is that someday I might be able to put on a hollow lens or put on an oculus rift and go to Mars and be able to see it right in front of me as if it were there from the comfort of my living room I like that yeah that's what that's what you know VR is supposed to represent yeah don't know so pitches your movie ideas shortfilms long long movies whatever and will I don't know we should we pick a favorite or something tomorrow I guess we'll pick a favorite yeah well each pick a few pick a favorite I'll pick a favorite so let's talk about digital Legos because this is awesome everybody loves Legos unless you step on them which in which case I run hates them yeah but this London studio called gravity it's I think it's like for graduate students they designed Lego X which is a software system that lets you build things with blocks and then as you're building it creates a digital render of it like in real time on your computer or your iPad so this is kind of incredible like I'm super impressed with this so you can see they're moving the block around in the video and it's like it knows exactly with where and how you're moving them around it uses location mapping and gyroscopic sensors to plot the position and orientation of the blocks they're using duplo blocks here by the way like I those look a little large to be Legos yes they're duplo blocks but gravity so it uses duplo blocks now because it was easy but look at this so that's what it's rendering so it's actually running a real room oh like it's a 3d room it doesn't look like a lego it doesn't look like a lego bills yeah it'll be an architect so see how it's got like these big arrays so when it it says oh you have a bunch of blocks together it recognizes that it needs to make it one piece so that's why you saw just a simple wall going like this yeah as opposed to a whole bunch of how is capturing it so they they have a whole like system set up for this and it uses location sense like location mapping and gyroscopic sensors that are they have it like if we go back to the video if Logan can like show a little bit more of this when they're putting them down on the there's like a plate that they're putting their like landing everything down on and they were saying that you'd be able to sort of put things together in with these blocks and then export them to your favorite 3d printer software as a file and then you'd be able to 3d print whatever that was so this could really revolutionize things like architecture so they could build something with legos like hypothetically builds build a whole thing out of legos which we've seen some amazing lego builds and then you would be able to get that 3d printed and like show people exactly what your vision is as a 3d printed like mock-up of a building Lego just pretty right all right cool that was kind of my dream as a kid yeah I mean I think this is awesome and I like they do some other cool stuff this team gravity there they do some other stuff with digital design and also they do some VR development so they have some things going on with well I was like looking through their web doesn't was totally stalking you guys gravity um but yeah it was i'm just really fascinated by this and i think this is a really neat sort of step towards being able to sort of use the things that are in your house like Legos or lincoln logs or whatever it is like you know kids toys being able to use those to design something that you can then get 3d printed and sent to your house is like that's insane it's like yeah because I mean honestly not everybody has the tech savviness to build something in a virtual space and really or model something so right everybody knows how to use Legos so I mean it's that seems like a really accessible way to sort of build something incredible and then this software sort of takes what you're building and smoothes it out and you can actually use the software as well to like smooth over edges or it recognizes when you want an arch like and stuff and it automatically will adjust to that it's pretty cool so you nice build my next house and Legos this is what I'm learning to I think that's really I mean that's the goal right I love that they also combine the 3d printing element I'll just put out that up really need to export your 3d file and then to get a 3d print is awesome so uh we're going to take a quick break we're gonna be right back we have an awesome mod this week four Mod Squad and then we also have your user feedback and our phone tiger for the day so don't click wait tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we've returned Killa is having all sorts of problems are you your keyboard cat in it up today this is just me this is who I am I'm this guy that doesn't I just whenever you do that I always think of the homestar runner a song like I was here I love homestar runner and so as always you're like that boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo casio like they played cassidy that is that one that's a deep cut uh do you want to talk about skull tongs yeah to say yes just say yes look it sound excited yeah okay whoa we're going to talk about school tongs it's time for bomb squad we still don't have a graphic yet but I'm gonna act like that was it um alright so i don't know if you guys have ever seen this channel on youtube it's called sling slingshot channel mm-hmm this guy runs slingshot channel and i gotta say i love it so this is the guy right here his name is Jurgis prov nice and first of all he is just delightful he's super into slingshots like rubber propelled rubber-based projectiles like anything that could be launched with rubber bands he is into it so they started off doing things that were just like basic things and then they made this this is called the skull Tong so geez those are at the end of this if you're just listening the show you have to watch it today because this is terrifying terrifying and amazing so there's two iron balls those are too heavy iron balls at the end of this and they basically go all the way back and then swing out 180 degrees and meet together in the middle at the end of this like I guess gun I'm and with the help of and smash whatever's in the middle so um i just i love how enthused no guys so he so he bought this great so he trades with this company that makes these like zombie heads and he filled it up with wine and then he smashed the zombies he want to see if it would smash a zombie skull and so he does these slow mo cameras everything it's great so you can see they didn't quite meet exactly the same time but I it's because the way the heads built but um yeah so he built it I mean like showed what the damage was but apparently it's a lot because that look like it wouldn't really hurt somebody um so yeah he originally I guess made this thing what to call against Cole smash it's called us kiss the skull tongs cuz it were it works sort of like tongs it kills like I don't like I don't like this thing this guy scares me sale for sale but this guy like it's super enthusiastic about a ring and I just like I love his enthusiasm and he gets so like excited and just jacked about sling shots that destroyed people's head it's so great and so he cool he I guess he put up a video before showing off the skull Tom's but they were um they didn't have these gears underneath that kept the the arms even and so people were saying like oh you'll probably have problems hitting at the same time so he put some gears on there and then it kept everything like really even so that it could just like swing around and like get some momentum in and smash whatever's in between um it's cool that he's thinking outside the box you know like he's evolving his craft of slingshot so we're good to look very creepy lot like scary love was other stuff on his on his channel yeah Gatling gun sling shot where it's like hunt it oh I highly recommend going over this guy's side cuz it's his youtube channel i want to know where that started like if he started doing that in school like he just seems like he's really into slingshots so any and all of them are propelled by just rubber bands so not just the little tiny ones but the real thick ones that you see like at the gym and stuff they're like heavy-duty rubber bands but they're still rubber bands and so then he has them all rigged up and then shoot stuff it's awesome awesome so yeah that shadows what's the channel slingshot channel i just called slingshot channel okay clean channel tell them they tell him we sent you if yes over there go and make a comment say totally sent me and tell him i'm scared of him yeah kayla is terrified of him um will definitely not have that in the studio in in case it just so happens to attach itself the girls have this message we're at home yeah that's true ish probably wear a helmet alright it's time for your user feedback so we asked you guys use the hashtag TV block and tell us what you'd want Oh a race yeah this is gonna be good by the way I was driving over here and there was a guy walking down the street with a dr. pepper shirt and I got really bummed cuz I thought to myself like oh if I had that headset I wouldn't have seen that never know what it's got some joy out of that I've seen that dr. ever sure anyway alright so Stefan roaches and said everything except me in my computer lock everything Oh sis yeah computer just block out the rest of my god it's really emo of you Stefan yikes uh and then they love you Nick wrote to us and said i black out justin bieber he said believe he says believer but i'm assuming he he mixed up beaver and bieber cuz there he is a small beaver I'm pretty sure Justin Bieber is a tiny beaver so like him as a whole like his voice and everything just permanently erase it from society i know i will buy that the kardashian is also an excellent choice yes i would take i would also take in the Kardashians that would've been a good also a good answer and then we got an email from Rob who wrote to us about TD class member he wanted to make those nice helper robots and then we the other guy who wanted to make the evil robot yes yeah these because Rob wrote and said this is a follow-up to your TD class from Monday I'm gonna I'm just gonna read this angrily because it's it makes me laugh in fact I want to vote killer robots i reprogram my helping robots to real-life visions of republic aligning themselves with robotic versions of superheroes such as x-men Avengers spider-man Superman so he's like I would literally like a lie way worse I love this okay it's a battle it's about their already deciding how they got one of each other robot robot battle begins here on tomorrow daily no survivors nope take no prisoners taking on fighter robots aligning the drone was just watching aligning themselves with superhero robots and the G how the drones are gonna record it all of them interacting and then we're going to watch it on an oculus rift there we go tight at all we've brought it all back full circle um and then we have our very last piece of user feedback which is always our phone tog refer the day we have a blackberry picture day gracie breakdown open for a drone picture him no no DRO tog receipt he did send another picture and said this wasn't a picture from a drone and we mabel use that another time by mom okay so Eddie wrote to us and said he took this picture wow you see here Otis named Ellie said continuing to enjoy the show wanted to share another blackberry phone to graph these 180 degree panorama were taken in foul mouth jamaica on a blackberry z10 but using the stock camera app in an android smart launcher another cool example of how you can combine android and blackberry into a black droid or andrew Berry to unleash the best of both operating systems on the blackberry z10 so your checks in the mail from blackberry hahahahaha blackberries written you a check for that shining wonderful endorsement of the blackberry z10 no it's a great picture look at that it really it's hard to like really nail a panoramic view it really is sometimes it's a little bit of a jumbled mess but this actually turned out really and super duper kudos for including the mirrored windows so that it like so it actually looks like it goes on forever that's like it just goes and goes I love it yeah super great so you know what I'd be you're definitely my favourite viewer now cuz I've never seen a panoramic like that's for that was pretty good but I'm gonna say I've not quite my favorite not quite no I mean someday same old story just keep trying guys if you want to try to have your picture be my favorite kale is an easy first day you can email us tomorrow at cnet com you can also email us your user 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