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Tomorrow Daily 125: Drone delivery, waxy 'Star Wars' exhibit, the back of the moon, and more

2015-02-05
on today's show a Chinese company is going to start shipping products via drone or so they say there's a catch in honor of Star Wars Episode seven lucasarts is letting you step inside of Star Wars but there's a catch oh the NASA shows astronomy fans the dark side of the moon but there is a catch tomorrow daily greetings citizen to the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best speak talk show in the known universe I'm your host Ashley scale adjoin me as always is anonymous oh yeah me and our new our new robot army wind up robot hair Logan you might get a shot of this sony robot various it's very crumb trying to sell the robot I don't most adorable i just don't like cancer everybody know what he looks like cuz it's kind of small considering what we cover on this show this is the most low-tech robot I think you could possibly and I think if we get some raspberry pi 2 we get Arduino we just get some get some programming in we learn how to code then throw away this robot and feel the gum I think it could really I think you could really be so okay well we got some we got some catchy very cat you have very catchy stories today so let's have the headlines so I don't know if you're familiar with the company Alibaba like may have heard of you know what but this international company they have a online marketplace called taobao it's in China and they're saying that they are going to start delivering a specialty via drone so they released this video which if you're listening to the show and not watching it's it's a very well produced video where somebody orders this ginger tea off of taobao and then all of a sudden this drone there's a garage door opening and this drone lights up and it takes the t and it goes and delivers the tea but here's the thing as we're watching this video I'll explain a little bit this would be the first time that real customers not not test flights would be it would be receiving actual product okay so this would be a big deal if it were actually happening but there's the i agree with evan over at IE spectrum which is where i like to read a lot of robot news this kind of smells like a stunt so if you're watching this video again very well produced looks great looks great but also I think maybe is a little bit unrealistic and the drones are going to have to deal with all kinds of things like power lines and and when they land they're gonna have to deal with things like people not hitting people which you know they're not really going to be able to see a lot of that stuff after a certain range and there's some there's some translations on the website that sort of suggests that these unmanned aerial vehicles are going to have a preset flight plan with like pre-programmed you know waypoints and GPS and all this stuff to sort of avoid hazards but I think the important takeaway for everybody including us on this particular video is that I think a lot of people think that drone delivery or something like it is like going to be just all the rage this year and it's really important to remember that even though we see these things on video they can be very well produced we were still kind of a ways off from this type of technology being really emmalin's there's a lot of Hoops to jump through one of them being range you know being able to figure out how to get there saying they're going to deliver this T to customers in Gwangju Beijing and Shanghai which you know is not an insignificant distance like depending on where the original factory or warehouse is where they're going to be setting up these drones out or whatever but they say they're going to deliver it to 450 people like like right like soon or right now or whatever it is but no official word yet on if anybody has actually received something delivered via drone so I don't know I would regard this with a little bit of skepticism but it is really interesting to see that not only are we you know watching companies like Amazon say they'd like to even half jokingly get into the drone delivery game or starting to now see this like globally is like people saying oh hey like this is our plan to deliver things via drone so while it sounds really cool and I think a lot of people are really interested in it it's possible that you know it's a little ways off so I know that we get really excited about like future tech and everything but why you you're like I don't be a downer yeah you're building a huge downer no I just want I just you still get a hip in the lady I just want fans of the show to like look at things like this that they see online with a discerning eye and say well I think the internet imagine discern there's no other thing so I think it's easy to pull the wool over the Internet sadness that it doesn't seem feasible that a tea company should be doing this well no this is like a bitch already pretty just like a big market place like an Amazon ish circuit companies okay like no co and then it would ship use but it's this very specific T that is the thing that they're saying they're delivering said it is just the T 450 customers would get this this like T this ginger tea I don't know yo really interesting choice I like to you so on our way on board yeah tell me about Star Wars okay so if you've ever wanted to step inside of Star Wars you may have a chance thanks to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London they've partnered with Disney and lucasarts yes are you reacting to everything to Disney and they partnered with Disney and lucasarts on a multi-million dollar exhibit okay there's going to be 16 heroes villains from movies as well as 11 recreations of scenes from the movie that you can walk inside us so here's here's some of the ones they talked about you can hang and hang out with Han Solo in the cantina bar and she's i assume he's sitting down yeah you can sit next to Chewbacca in the pilot seat of the millennium falcon which I love that's what I want to do usually um so really in this video they're really only showing off Yoda that's the only one they really show off in the video but we can assume they we can assume they're gonna have all the popular characters you know like ig-88 salacious crumb in the gong o course you know the pub's your fema cool you have drooping module it's not so made up so if you watch the video they pretty much say everything i said but they also at the end talk a little tiny tiny tiny bit about how they make these things there's a they talk about Yoda there's 20 artists took it took 20 artists for months just to make Yoda they're saying the difficulty of his size judge him not by a size no no um they talk about the process including molding the wax and hands and then also painting on his little tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny wrinkles so yeah there you go that's Sonny Yoda wrinkles yeah this is coming out in May if you live in London it's a yeah in May so you got some time may the force be 43 that's what it is you with you that's got to be it alright so that's him so that's pretty cool I really like the fact that you can actually go inside of the day looking at it being like well that wax looks pretty neat yeah or like even just you know like have it where it's just the figure and you're just like on that so that's that's fine i guess like you take a little picture of it yeah we're like i was there but listen why how did i make wax Chewbacca he's just all hair like well I would have Majesty that would be you'd have to make a hairless Chewbacca and then like the hair is one at a time date so they're doing at the Yoda they do the hairs one at a time okay right but you don't see underneath Chewbacca's hair they started in 1977 building that wax figure just now finishing which is why this exhibit is opening finally but there you go and mol four years million-dollar exhibits so if you guys live in London and in May wilfredo just fruit won't forget but go reminded me and Senate edged your phone photographer if you remember yeah if you remember at all right no seriously you guys should go I'm still alive I'll probably just be we should put some plane tickets to London we should just go I don't we won't do that um that actually brings to our hashtag of the day TD wax that's our hashtag of the day I want to know what scene from a movie TV show or video game would you want to recreate and like a like in wax like if so if you could say okay madam sewed this is the thing that I need recreated in wax this scene right here that I want to sit in like what would it be okay you go first no I asked you first no no I got to think a little bit do you think about it what don't think just just I would say I'm gonna take your shirt as inspiration and I would say that's not fair is telling us apart can't say drives apart cuz you asked me first say you didn't let me think okay go ahead uh no i would say i would totally love to do the the science lab where they like as they're all talking about you know pulling all of the DNA out of the mosquitoes in the am burns the science lab oh yeah there's no like dinosaurs if there's like a little time I lost my temper I don't them or the kitchen scene or the kitchen scene freeze up like that that's pretty cool and then I could hide behind the thing and look really scared and take a picture I think that's pretty cool i like that i do space jam oh my god space be any and all the looney tunes and then also the one of the Monstars yeah that'd be that's spaceship Madame Tussaud call us we'll really get a whole company yeah we'll put you into bankers w out you'll have no money for a wax it's a good thing wax is cheap oh well if it's terrible they could just melt it down multi-million dollar cheap all right they just melt down all the all of those characters and they're done ok so this last story is from NASA this is really cool I just thought this was awesome because NASA is like all right well that's what you want we'll give that to you so what um I'll explain why so last year late last year nasa released this video and it was really cool because it showed all of the moon's phases over the next year like so this is what the moon is going to look like every single night for 2015 well it was just really cool so after they did that people are like this is amazing we love it but like what would the back of the moon look like like which is kind of a weird question excuse me that was all well and good but what about the back I think it's cuz it was the year of the but last year I know what everyone's like what about the moon's booty you want to shoot i need a speech the moon booty okay so um NASA is the coolest is the coolest group of people ever and they were like yeah okay we could totally do that and yeah we got that we got it we got it we got that log down and that's exactly what they did so they made this new video that flips the moon phases around and they show you the back side of the Moon take that which is pretty awesome and then they show it to you in a couple of different ways so this is as a this is all computer-generated so it's all this is in a telescopic lens so the move so the earth looks huge as you're looking at the back of the moon and then they do another version another view of it that they'll show in a second where they they actually do a wide angle lens so the earth looks really really tiny as its orbiting and you can see like basically that's kind of what it would look like if you were actually looking so it would be like much smaller because it was a little earth little tiny earth um but I just thought this is really cool it's like proof that you know NASA just does awesome things and like and they don't even need to it doesn't need to be like oh I can't we have always set a camera on that blah blah no they just they're they know exactly what it looks like they've mapped the moon so while at this point they can literally computer generate the back of it just like Melissa what the back of Lu's gonna look like for the rest of 2015 deal with it guys you're welcome internet like spoiler alert stop asking us dumb questions but now it's not a dumb question I thought that was it seems like a question like you would hear from like a kid be like we're got back of him was that look like yeah now I want to see what the back of the earth looks like i'm curious i just i'm just so care is no but that's pretty cool that they just like done i know i love how they were just so open about just like Oh back of them yeah we could do that no problem and then they just released this video so thank you NASA for showing me what the back of the moon looks like in different phases and how do we see that you're awesome uh you go over to NASA's website they've got or their YouTube channel they've got a bunch of really cool stuff over there um thats it for our headlines we're going to come back with a round of into it because it's thursday and we're about to head into the weekend and then of course we have your user feedback and our photogra for the day so don't look away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we have returned kills looking at me suspiciously which means it's Thursday and it's time for another into it I want to go first dude I want that calm is a site that I've spent most of today on and I dare you to go to this website and not find something that you want to buy this is like one of those sites where you find something cool then you end up posting on Facebook and people look I want that oh dude I want they they have okay so on the screen there's a camping donut that has everything you like you need for camping oh yeah I saw that has all the utility stuff mm-hmm you can buy any one particular like if you only like red starburst you can just buy red star ball is like cat armor um I also saw you could buy an exoskeleton a power pot cooking camper which is it's basically it boils water like if you're camping and you can charge your phone with boiling water above but you can buy a Tron book like there's so many like just weird stuff that you wouldn't expect to find like really anywhere there's like that Loch Ness monster ladle so when you put it in there looks like a large posters going it alone this um there's a little a helicopter on there I want a helicopter I'm gonna go buy a survival bike so it has like a whole bunch of attachments in case you like in danger or whatever Logan wire producer Logan why are you obsessed with the butts yeah look there's there's pinky Queen which makes us you can lighten your nipples there's a Lego strip club right there it's like it's all kinds of stuff you'll find something that you want to buy a tropical stop everything baby found a tron light cycle it's pretty cool uh what's even better about the site is you click on it and it and then it has like little by links on the bottom you don't buy it from the site is a site that like aggregates everything so it'll have a link to go like where you can buy it on Amazon right see wherever it is it's just an aggregate I've seen that similar but with like women's clothing and accessories there's like that that I'm a member up yeah this is basically SkyMall for nerds come on shirts weird stuff that yeah may or may not buy and I'm probably by half totally filling a niche because SkyMall is now bankrupt so Kailyn I are gonna buy SkyMall we're gonna start we're gonna start SkyMall uh so for me I am into better call Saul so I should I will say this so better call Saul is coming out of this sunday and full disclosure I've not finished watching breaking bad yet like kale and producer Logan no I just started watching it like maybe a couple months ago it finally got to my netflix queue the husband and I have been barreling through episodes we just started season four it's so so good and I love the character of Saul and so now I feel like I'm far enough along in the series to where I can finally like watch this show and not be spoiled because it's a prequel to breaking bad it's like the this guy's I don't want to go like for anybody who hasn't seen breaking that I want to be like oh it's the disparate but his character Bob Odenkirk character saw is a lawyer and hits his sort of prequel like his life before he ended up meeting I Bryan Cranston's character Walter way there isn't a human being alive that watch breaking bad that wasn't just a little bit worried that this wouldn't be good I know would soil the name so many people were very upset there was like a lot of nerd rage about this when it got a natural you're ruining at well there was nerd rage but there was also like oh I trust Vince Gilligan but the reviews are coming out and there's it's good and they're pretty positive they're like it even like it even gives you a reason to rewatch breaking bad because like there's like a there's like crossover an undertone resources are this is what we're doing right now I am stoked as well with the walking dead and that it's all it's all right TV it's all gonna be great sunday all the good stuffs coming back and excited about that um so yeah that's what I'm into but but now we have to talk about what you guys are into which is a which means it's time for your user feedback so yesterday we asked everybody to write in with TD vs and tell us if they whoa if they had to do mixed reality sports like we talked about oculus rift versus a real-life athlete would you be the real life athlete or would you be the virtual athlete and what sport would you know what did you say uh I think what did I say I don't even remember you realize I litter like when we're done filming the show my brain just like erases what we just did I camera you should watch the show then maybe I will know I should i do when i edit i do when i edit it and then as soon as i posted it's like it's gone it just gets right cuz i'm like a hard-driving coins every day um so Mohamed wrote in and said I would like to be a Formula One driver virtual of course and race against the rest of the f1 drivers are any racing really I like that I with all of these I'm gonna be like well you know it's much more dangerous for the other person of course well having is totally gonna tip those cut those corners like way hard and he's gonna crash and he's just gotta laugh about it yeah hahaha and rather like if I crash this very serious accident a very expensive car yeah but that would be very very cool that would be super cool Rick wrote in and said ping pong I will be a real player playing with robot on the other side imitating kill anonymous's moves what who will be on virtual reality are you game what ping pong no he would all be the real player though playing against a virtual you all right everybody's body scan terrible at ping pong I was just aggravated because that last person was like well I want to see Unreal Engine pong and I'm starting to see a theme it everybody wants to play ping pong in some way shape or fashion or form hey listen I'm gay let's go some people juggle geese let's go some people are really in a ping pong lets me practice your backhand let's get practice yeah that's really nice a caution wrote in and said I'd want to fight george george st. Pierre in VR of course and not get totally schooled in any sport from X Games in parkour and then he wrote an extra tweet and said an to add it's not V it's not vs. but it would totally help in training high-risk jobs like firefighting hashtag thinking out of the box nice job very good yeah we agree very cool that is a really good way to train people it's like instead of actually they I don't even know how to even put this without giving away like a part of my life that I'd rather not tell everyone on the internet that happened but it's just like in firefighting when you do training stuff they have like actual buildings that they burn and you can run into them and Fire regalia and like rescue a dummy but it's still kind of dangerous even though it's a controlled burn so like can you did this yes I did why is that something you don't want to share because I can't share the context of it so anyway that's enough oh alright fair enough good you are you're an arsonist that's fine again yeah that's that's definitely not it but um ya know so it's like instead of doing that you'd be able to just give if you put them put them on with the oculus and the virtuix and then you have them running like into the building and let go up the stairs and like put out the fire grabs body drag it out like that would be amazing Thanks yeah that'd be fun so the caution but you know yeah it'd be a good way to do it without potentially injuring anyone to be great unless you fall down in the virtue accident break your arm or something in which case somebody'll to it somebody will get injured I'm some doof yeah somebody named kale somebody whose name rhymes with kale anonymous well no I got the VR on lock fair enough okay guys it's time for our last piece of user feedback which is our photog refer of the day yeah are we gonna tell them what we're doing this weekend no I think we ship will should we yeah I think definitely we should so I hate writing on through the phone talk further than will tell you what we're doing this weekend it's you it's pretty cool yeah well because they're gonna want to like okay well get all right we'll get rid of it okay pretty picture this actually comes from our the person who started our reddit our subreddit no anyway Edwin my mom oh when thank you for sending in this picture of your dog he says my phone Tyra fee is you'll probably notice I'm obsessed with taking depth of field shots and my dogs all untouched aside from the one HDR on one photo but I picked this one a particularly Sun and like six pictures um this is an awesome picture of your dog my friend and he took it with a galaxy s4 I love the f4 is great the kind of saturated rich color it looks really good yeah love that little blurred out lake in the background I've been she wouldn't show this your dog's name no tell us your dog's name next time give your dog a shout out let's name your dog so what's this dog's name what does he look like to you uh he looks like biscuit I was gonna say bojangles so both babies okay so I what may be his name starts with be weird if you're making could be very very white very white the dog I like it yeah so yeah that's your dog's name now is Barry White but thank you for starting the redder as well yeah cool super awesome I see a couple guys there's two people there's like four posts got a look but you know we should have more people show up I posted a good job on was something i said i replied to one of the threads so you can find find me over there lurking around yeah you guys really a weekly well we'll come up with stuff yeah alright so that is that's our front tire for the day if you want to be our front agra for the day you want to be considered you can email us tomorrow at cnet com you can send us your user feedback and of course you can always find us over on social media we're on tumblr snapchat Facebook Instagram okcupid all the things were tomorrow daily with the exception of Google+ switches tomorrow daily TV oh I 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