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on today's show HTC announces a VR headset in collaboration with valve a composer is making music with slime and 3d printed food that grows its own feeling oh my god HTC half-life 3 confirmed tomorrow daily creating citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show the known universe I'm punching this guy i oh i know i'm your host Ashley's gonna join me as always just on the other side of the camera is producer Logan Logan Logan muy if you're if you're looking for his last name kale kale as we mentioned last week was going out to see his grandma for her birthday surprised everybody apparently his grandma was very excited to see him unfortunately kale is snowed in at the airport and they just keep cancelling his plane ticket home so we don't know it we think kayla just moved to Connecticut yeah he just lives there now he just lives there and today this morning he sent me some video footage he shot at the airport wanted us wanted me to show this to you guys so a room do we have that what's hiding there yeah people are really upset about missing their flights so come home soon kale and hopefully hopefully we're hoping to get a flight home tonight but yeah he's been trying to get a flight home for like over a day at this point so he's gonna end up being like Tom Hanks in that terminal movie yeah where he's just lives in one bad movie over and over again over and over yeah it's gonna be terrible um but on that note we've got some great stories for you today so let's hit the headlines this was a story I was bummed kale wasn't here to talk about it's a very kale story it's about very kale centric story HTC announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this weekend a VR headset and not just any VR headset they developed it with valve creators of steam and they're the first video game company to kind of get involved with the VR as a brand right like riding VR um well Sony said project Morpheus Oh the right but it hasn't it still not come to consumers nothing it out there is like really retail that are these sort of PC gaming virtual reality headset so I'll explain a little bit about this it's going to compete this is a PC gaming VR headset meaning you don't slide a phone into it to use it so we have like the gear VR where you put your phone in and then you use it and you have to pretty much have a specific brand of phone Trey use it right um so this is actually a standalone VR headset that plugs into your PC it's called the vivre or the Viva I think it's beep leave hpc 55 vibe like live live like five um I'm gonna be I'm going to take the French tactical de vivre it's the Viva so it's a partnership with valve there is HTC's Peter to showing off it again does not use a phone standalone headset use the pc they talked about at Mobile World Congress using a pair of controllers which would suggest something similar to what sony has going with their PlayStation Move where you have like sort of it looks like ice cream from camp like the sticks it seems like a good alternative to happen to buy an entire stage that you can walk in place on very true and um and so what they were saying is they promised full room virtual reality via something they're calling room scale experience so that you can actually walk around objects like they're going to scan your room that the said itself has room scanning technology in it so the headset has like a camera on the front of it guys like a scanning technology sort of like a kinect almost where it would like scan the room and then you'd be able to start yeah and then so they want to release it developer edition this month which is really soon which means they are ready to immediately get in development which is cool and then consumer headset later this year basically goes head-to-head with oculus so it's going to be this holiday season is going to be eight this is going to be the hot ticket item I think I'm calling it now it's it's not even it's like ten months before Christmas VR headset is gonna be the hot ticket item are you gonna get the first generation of consumer VR headsets I think I have to yeah I feel like I have to I just want I just want to have it I've tried the oculus rift demos I'd like it's just so cool and so fun to use and I just really enjoyed I gotta I'll buy it I don't know if I'm willing to pay twice as much as what I will pay two years from now fair um but I'll go over to your house and use yours yeah yeah you can just come over my house and you use it it's totally fine but yeah so really interesting stuff you can go over to HTC's website they have everything and then we also have some stuff on cnet that will have later this week with the the vibe which is pretty cool it was kind of surprising that they held the event on a Sunday I didn't I wasn't expecting to wake up and see tech news yet yesterday so that's a that's a mobile world congress thing so they just kind of like CES where everything kind of starts at the beginning of the week and then goes through mobile world congress is sort of press day is like that sunday and then we do all their press conferences and all the news comes out and then and then they have the rest of the conference sort of do things and a whole bunch of cnet is at is in barcelona right now and to those people I say hola and I don't know I have good luck buena suerte you have to do a little list because they're in Barcelona um yeah so good luck have it have a great trip at Mobile World Congress and and yeah so that's a that's the that's the haps over at mwc some really interesting VR stuff tell me about this professor with the slime mold because I'm you're really into music yeah so a professor / composer made is making music or making a musical duet with using fungus a bio-computer an iPad and some slime weird yeah so what happens is um so he plays he has a grand piano plays the music he plays notes on a grand piano okay so I'm the professor it is then picked up by a piece of fungus which is known to to be able to read audio signals or audio notes ok so i play my piano into a microphone microphone sense sends music my music piano music to the fungus yes ok and then the fungus much like we learned in Ghost Busters can fungus and slime can transmit electrical signals cool so the fungus then interprets these musical notes and sends it through the bio-computer which is able to interpret the the messages being sent from the fungus so as we're looking at this video if I'm not mistaken that stuff the wires right there that are coming out that's actually going down into the fungus that's ok so that's the piano obviously i'm not completely bonehead right but those go and then there's a the fungus is part of a bio-computer so the fungus is inside the bio-computer or surrounded by in some way ok and then so when when the fungus receives the musical notes it then transmits own signal out of out of the fungus through the bio-computer and then it controls it goes to an iPad which then controls these are these magnets that are hovered over piano strings mmm and so the fungus is is taking the the music from the piano interpreting it and sending it out to make its own music that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard of and now the composer rather than just control piece of fungus decided to play along with it well why would you not as one does right you have a chance to play music with nature why not we thought with it with the tree stump final oh yeah yeah the tree suppress your ok so but the music sounded very safe science fiction to you had like a lot of weird toe do we we actually have a sample of it if you want to go take a listen so if you're if you're listening to it right now which probably are it sounds like almost like out of 2001 yeah it's very very very bleak and a little depressing yeah and a little uh just very sci-fi like it has that weird b-movie sci-fi like almost like they're I mean but not but much more dinner but it sounds like a synthesizer but not at all it's all analog instruments from the the sound is coming from from the magnets which is rather than plucking a string like a piano hits hits a string and reading a response from the fungus right and then the ipad's telling saying okay here's your response and now I'm telling what the electromagnets yes vibrating the strings using magnets as opposed to actually physically hitting the string that's weird so that's what causing the more of the the synthesizer sound can we expect the mold to do a collaboration with Kanye West this year yeah but it's a surprise so you know what we can't say too much about it I won't say anything about it um so that brings me to our hashtag today actually TD duets is our hashtag of the day and I think the question is what weird musical pairing would you want to hear for me it would be I would want to hear Taylor Swift collaborate with the sounds of her digestion after she eats a sandwich I want to hear I want to use the fungus okay but I want it to play black key songs using only the white keys oh I like it I like it it's really upbeat black keys a little a minor stuff in sharp enough now it's gonna change yeah don't get your foot tapping okay guys so that is your hashtag add a hashtag of TD duets what what other weird at musical pairing would you want here so like a like a musician or person and then something maybe a nature or maybe you I don't know you want to hear it let's cover with a band name yeah I get click bit clever with it whatever you guys want to do um okay this very last story is super creepy and I but i'm also really intrigued and i feel like i would try it even though i don't even like mushrooms okay so making 3d printed snacks like we've like we saw at CES is kind of hard because when you 3d print it's a paste so really there are only a few options you can have you can make like chocolates ice creams i bleep wrote like or something that's like liquefied protein something like that something that was liquefied and then hardened and then and can be reharden okay so um this is very interesting this called edible growth it is by a woman in Chloe ruts are filled and she found a way to 3d print this sort of shell that is made out of insect flower so it's it almost looks like pastry dough and and so she says you can use a nun another type of doughy material if eating insects Laura kind of freaks you out but we've already had insect flower on this show we and it's gross EA cricket cookies and I thought they were all rights I know they're ok I didn't taste like at all but it was all its own it's I think it's into his head it is it's it's placebo so the shell is printed by specifically designed 3d printer here's what they look like they kind of look like a little almost like honey combs yeah um and so this is the crazy part so they print out this little shell and then inside they put this edible center that's made of a gar and it has seeds mushroom spores and yeast and you give it five days and it grows its own filling and then you eat it so you're just eating a bunch of spores and fungus son you're eating mushrooms and you're eating well you know and then there's like you could grow like little herbs out of there and stuff so maybe you eat like a little bit of sage or something that is growing out of there too are you eating any 3d printed material well the the the actual shell of it is 3d print oh the shells edible yeah oh yeah totally so it's a it's like it's made of insect flowers so they 3d print out that little like 3d shell that little round spherical shell and then they put the AG are the idol blog are in there and it has like spores and different things the seeds and everything and then you let it grow for five days and then you eat your snack oh well and she was saying like you could give it time to depending on how intense you want the flavor to be like that's how long you wait to harvest it so if you wanted really been tense bold flavored you wait the full five days but if not you do it like two or three days in how many of these are they able to grow at once I'm thinking mass production right now well mass production uh see the thing is is I would imagine it would probably be pretty slow to print out the little shells so I think that's sort of the barrier but she was also saying that like uh it'll be a while before we see this kind of thing come to masses obviously because there's so many different kind of problems that you have to solve before obviously like would it be so weird you go grocery shopping you just like click on a bunch of things and then they send you 3d printed like directions or prints waiting for you yeah and then you just print it out at your house with like some food printer so it's so weird like to think of that as like a thing that could happen at some point in our life time it seems like more of a hassle though to have to buy the individual types of materials to print with right but the AG are sound like I would imagine you could buy the AG are in bulk like you could buy these little edibles kind of pods to put in the 3d printed them like a cure egg or something yeah yeah you just buy the little pod and then it grows your little mushrooms maybe your snack but really weird and it'll be in a bunch of European exhibitions this year it's gonna go travel around you can see it people can taste it I think so like they have it at exhibitions like it might you might be able to taste it but they might just say like okay well we'll do one is like a demo and then do we know what this even tastes good though I mean I guess she's super her thing is basically 3d printed stuff tends to seem very unhealthy tastes like plastic and tastes like plastic e or taste chalky that's another like thing people have said I know when I tasted 3d printed chocolate at CES it was kind of cha I was chalky yeah I'm not in a chocolatey way it was chalky like a chalk way but she was saying she was she wants some healthy alternative so that was what she came up what's pretty cool all right guys we are going to take a very quick break we're going to come back with a round of backcolor Hackett and then we're going to get into your your TD hotel user feedback and of course our phone tiger for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show I can't believe somebody actually figured out how to rig an old I want to call it an old-timey printer it's terrible an old-timey printer to play the Jurassic Park theme song yeah hopefully just doesn't run I think pretty quickly though oh yeah I know it's gonna be really bad place you got to replace the toner yeah the musical toner yeah musical tone or uh that was a terrible joke which means it's time for another segment so this is back at her racquet every week we like to take a look at some weird crowdfunding thing and tell you guys whether we personally would back at her Hackett we have no skin in this game I think I have some power this week normally I don't get any decisions on the show the power this is the power kale wields every week the thumbs up or thumbs that's kind of like being a Caesar an old Roman time you can just like decide the fate of a project with just one thumbs up or thumbs down although that the stakes were a little higher than Siskel and Ebert decide the fate of a movie with a thumbs up or thumbs down okay stakes were a lot higher I'll give you that um nobody is going to be eaten by a tiger today so this is ringo and i don't mean the drummer for The Beatles this is well it's kind of a it is a kind of a bug though so Ringo is an Arduino powered robot that actually has some personality which is kind of fun we have some really cool video from their Kickstarter which shows sort of what it is so this guy his daughter helped him design this she's really into programming apparently she's under the age of five or his five and knows some programming which is crazy like she's nature she likes coding and this kind of got her into that so Ringo again arduino powered has an accelerometer gyroscope leds music chirper ambient ir light sensors it's got transmitters a bunch of other sensors on there it's good I mean it's got all kinds of stuff this is like a pretty jammed packed little little robot here it can follow light which is really cool so he's saying like you could use this as like a digital pet sort of get people into coding sure no matter what age and it won't pee on your desk it will not be on your desk or anywhere else in your house for that matter which is pretty awesome and it's he basically the goal is to get people into programming so whether you are a kid or an adult who is thinking hey I want to learn some coding this might be a really good way to get into that or if you have you know somebody who maybe has some interest doesn't know where to get started again this would be a really good place to do it and then he also said that this can scale up to some really advanced programming if you're so inclined so even advanced programmers could use it I'm trying to figure out what you would program it to do currently well obviously programmer to fetch the newspaper and your slippers and your corn cob pipe very tiny newspaper very tiny newspaper a little tiny newspaper made for bugs this is a bug newspaper of course I'm the bug daily the daily bug there's got to be a lot of tragic events that happen in the lives of bugs for daily newspaper so much murder so much tragedy that's true I don't want to read a bug news favor maybe the book I think our news is depressing it's even worse even worse than the box like giant terrorists attacks essentially happening to all their communities every second every day and this is a person's foot like it's just terrifying I they can talk to other Ringo's like you can help you can have them swarm if you want so if you wanted to create your own bug army I mean you could do that a robot bug army um so here's okay so here's my question this is what this is really where the crux of it is so it's a little pricey eighty-nine dollars for a Ringo robot and 129 if you want to be in the first round of shipments so you do have to have a basic understanding though because I don't have any understanding of programming whatsoever I would not know where to begin with something like this so part of their Kickstarter is their website when the product ships their website is going to unroll a whole bunch of video tutorials and classes on how to get started okay so that's part of it so you're you're it's like little classes to that almost seems like it makes the price point worth it because they're you pay hundreds of dollars at a college to go learn that stop trail but with this you get a little robot you get the basic like video construction then of course you'll have access to the open source community who if you want to take it a step further after you get past those like basic instructions you'd be able to have all those resources I in addition to the Internet in general that's just a giant resource dinosaur seahorse I say if this seems like a really awesome thing and you you know for a fact you really want to get into programming like I say back it but if not I say hmm yeah you have plans on it as very I'm going further than this it would be a good investment but if you're not sure what do you think yeah I don't know I can that power Logan I personally I don't want to get into programming I'm not I've never had the mind for it I could see this ending up in my kitchen drawer with all with all the double-a batteries that are half charged I see I see um so for me I'm gonna say no but I also but I do like that it is uh I'm gonna say it Hackett oh how can hang it back that one but i do like these kinds of educational toys that are getting children or anybody more interested in what could potentially be the industry of the future yeah yeah totally I like that too so I say like for the for the good of science and for the forwarding of Robotics education I say back it but I also say that if you have a kid and you're thinking about buying this for them and they have a really short attention span maybe just wait until they really show you their into robotics that's what I think yeah i'm gonna say hackett because i think you can learn a lot of stuff for free on the internet as is fair enough but you don't get a prebuilt little bug robot that's right it is safer than like tinkering with something that has a big power supply like Stottlemeyer laughing yeah see you this it does seem like a safer alternative it's kind of a prebuilt ready to program ready to code sort of things so it's kind of cool alright so now we're done with that I promised you guys last week and I'm we're so sorry we missed out to talk about your user feedback for TD hotel so let's hit use your feedback okay so TD hotel what was your answer what's that what's the themed hotel that you want to stand because we talked with the Godzilla hotel and a lot of people thought that was really cool uh-huh but a lot of people you guys had way better ideas than the Godzilla hotel I just want to say cuz they came up with amenities like activities to do in the hotel it's like crazy I want to stay in a Power Rangers command center themed room where I want a LED Zordon on the wall and like that in he can respond to you and talk to you much like Siri I like it's pretty good okay so Josh wrote to us first and said Nostromo alien hotel air-duct crawling sounds flamethrower marshmallow roasting an air vent play area for the chip for the kids which that is great and then Fritz wrote in and said Gundam theme hotel says there's a Gundam cafe already with anti-gravity hallway and room also do you get to walk around between the hallways in a Gundam I think so i think that would be the point it's like the hotel is a Gundam what if like to get into your room it's like getting into a Gundam like it is a big door opens up and you have to like essentially get into a seat to be able to flip around and get into the room that would be amazing I would love that um and then Neil wrote in and said hotel themed on cube movie the room shift every hour hashtag where the toilet go that's a scary thought that is really terrible human groom I actually thought after I read his tweet I was like man why didn't I say last week a portal themed hotels where you have the speed the speed goo and you like run really fast and like the bounce goo I would be great i thought the technology included then yeah that was testing the end of the testing but no and the turrets don't actually kill you they like they like put like rays of happiness on you massage you or whatever okay then Leo wrote in and said I would die a thousand times to sleep in an adventure time themed hotel featuring the ice kingdom and bubblegum bubblegum kingdom and you know Leo I bet you are jumping for joy this morning when you found out there's gonna be an adventure time movie yeah and kale too that's exciting new I I haven't seen an episode of adventure time but I have to get into it kill I'm sure actually might be able to fly here with his own arms out of his excitement because he probably was like this like freaking out when there was gonna be an adventure time movie Kylie wrote in and said my TD hotel would obviously be Princess Toadstool Peach's castle who wouldn't stay there that would be awesome i remember when i was playing mario kart on the n64 the track where the peaches yes I would ice would just free roam around that place just because you could roam around is really nice hustle I'm jealous yeah like she's like the coolest royal ever and then lastly jolly emailed us and wrote and said I think I'd like Hotel where every rumor floor was themed on a different movie property and then they would move you between them every day you could go out for the day and come back to get surprised with what film you were in for the night yeah I really like this this is a really good idea yeah i think that like you go in you have one room and the next thing come home at the end of the day come back to the hotel and it's like oh here's your other room we moved all your stuff now it's Indiana Jones now it's Indiana Josie your watch indiana jones oh that would be great and then you wouldn't have to decide on a theme that way because it'd be several things in one you know how you could do that jolly I've listen I'm with you projection technology oh yeah like the entire room project total room projection and it changes the theme of your room every time you go into it like when you hit the key oh it changes the theme a room that's great done you're welcome hotels I just made you a billion dollars all right guys it's time for our very last piece of user feedback which is always our photog refer the day so our photogra for the day to day is Robert he writes in and he says hi guys love the show great chemistry and lots of fun I've never submitted anything but Ashley's pursuit of her favorite picture got me hoping I could become her favorite well let's see let's see if he lives up to we'll see anyway here it is shot with a galaxy note 4 it was taken from the charleston SC aquarium it is the Arthur Ravenel jr. bridge hope you featured in The Show keep up the great work respectfully a good human I love ocean pictures that's a pretty great shot I live near the ocean and so it's always nice when a photographer or photographer is able to capture something that I don't see every day yeah I don't live near the ocean I mean quite close ish why many other people I look near the ocean in the sense that i could drive there in less than an hour right yeah I I'm with you on that um so I really like that picture every weight room can we see the pictures some more we're going to talk about it we're going to discuss this picture for a little bit ok so we got this beautiful sailboat and we have a nice bridge so low cloud and this guy this is it he took this from an aquarium so this is all very water based oh yes all very water-based took it from an aquarium I'm look like on the deck of the aquarium then or something somewhere else yeah somewhere outside a minute that doubt in the background is the Arthur Ravenel jr. bridge what if this was just the mural at the aquarium what if he yeah that's it that'd be amazing which is like I took this picture of this painting on a wall and it looks so real that i sent it in uh no i really dig this i listen it's pretty good robert it's pretty good but i don't know is it is it my favorite I mean it's so close like I mean you know maybe if there's a dolphin jumping out of the water that's what would have made a difference I think I start doing i'm gonna start telling everybody what would have made that picture my favorite if it's not what's missing I'll tell you and if you want your phone tog raphy to be featured on the show you can send it over to us to be considered to 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