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greetings citizens the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best ski talk show in the known universe these are our many episodes designed to satiate your need for tomorrow daily until our new set is built up enough of that it's at the headlines researchers working for Boeing have developed a material that is 100 times lighter than styrofoam and they're finally showing off that process in a new video home by the way that material it's actually made of metal hrl Laboratories developed this material it's a micro lattice that they compared to your bone structure so rigid on the outside but generally hollow on the inside meaning it would be lightweight but also really hard to crush the material itself is 99.99% air and the wall thickness of the hollow tubes that make up the micro lattice are a thousand times thinner than a human hair which is pretty futuristic stuff possible applications for this metal micro lattice include Boeing's own airplanes or maybe even cars because hrl laboratories works with general motors now going from earthbound travel to up in space robots may someday help astronauts aboard the ISS this robot is the best man Eila it's a collaboration between the German Research Center for artificial intelligence and the University of Bremen Eila has articulated fingers on both arms cameras in its head a short-range laser scanner in its chest and a bunch of other various features and connection abilities the idea here is to train the robot to complete menial tasks onboard the ISS freeing up astronauts to complete tasks that either require human intuition or may be a task that requires two human operators they're still working really hard on ila and they're not quite ready yet to tackle things like microgravity and how eyelid would get around but we may see a demonstration via a simulation of the International Space Station sometime in the near future going from robots helping astronauts in outer space to people who maybe saw a bug's life way too many times and said we should drink water like ants I have to of course tell you about ooh ho this is oh ho an edible water bottle that looks and like a palm-sized water balloon it was created by london-based startup skipping rock slab who says this delivery method for water is easy and cheap to make hygienic and most importantly biodegradable skipping rocks reminds us that single-use water bottles are wildly unsustainable and terrible for the environment but blue hose casing is made of brown algae and calcium chloride so once you're done sucking all the water out of that beautiful little orb you can throw it out with the knowledge that you're helping save the environment or you can eat oh no oh no no no no I'm not eating that let's talk about back into Hackett today's back into Hackett it's the perfect product for anybody who wants to grow a micro rainforest in their home this is called the BioPod this is pretty cool we're super intrigued by the BioPod this is a self-titled world's first smart micro habitat the BioPod uses an app to actually regulate light temperature humidity ventilation and even rainfall inside the unit they're a bunch of different presets in the app that you can choose from once you get your bio pod and you're ready to start up ranging from growing some Tomatoes all the way to cultivating a little tiny rainforest complete with tree frogs the app walks you through the setup planting of your plants and then lets you walk away from it as it regulates the small environment to its needs there are three models of BioPod there's the one which is the most basic model there's the Terra which is meant to be sort of a terrain and then of course the Aqua so you can actually make it a fish tank if you want if you buy that higher-end one the BioPod one starts at two hundred and five US dollars without plants so you got to populate it yourself with plants if you want the BioPod to come with a plant starter pack there are backer levels for that as well they have 22 days left and they've already surpassed their goal of 30,000 Canadian dollars by quite a bit so if you want to back it the BioPod looks like it's definitely gonna happen alright guys we've talked about crowdfunding we've talked about the headlines let's take a look at your beautiful photos today's phone talk for the day is Reese and he took this with his Galaxy s6 edge and he writes to us and he says hey Ashley love the show I love the passion you bring to the stories really gets people excited about tech love it these are a couple of photos taken on my s6 edge of Melbourne Australia this is the beautiful crown casino flames along South Bank as well as the view of the Eureka Tower during sunrise from my home of course you have permission to use these photos if I'm lucky enough to make it on the show well it's your lucky day and if they have a lottery in Australia you should buy a ticket you probably only win like two dollars but you know maybe if you're lucky enough to make it 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