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greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best week talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley sceva yesterday you watched jeff kannada we're gonna be in the studio together at the same time it's gonna be the greatest thing ever I not like Schrodinger's Tomorrow daily uh we're gonna be in a set our actual new set and we're gonna do a 45-minute show just for you we're going to talk about all the stuff we talked about this week we're gonna deep dive so let's hit the headlines oh my god you guys a real live jet pack that looks like it doesn't suck to pilot look jet pack aviation is responsible for the jb9 jet pack an actual jet pack in the sense that it uses turbine jets and a backpack to propel its pilot and it looks super duper agile inventor David Mayman took the jb9 for a spin around the Statue of Liberty you know as one does and man that thing looks super beautiful in flight which is a big time difference compared to a lot of other jetpacks out there it kind of looks and feels like a big deal the jetpacks turbine engines run on simple kerosene and can carry about ten gallons of fuel which is good for about a ten-minute flight depending on how much the pilot weighs it's well enough to stick in the backseat of a car and light enough to jog a bit with the tank full unfortunately it's not for sale he says for now he wants to be sensible about who gets their hands on the jb9 as they develop the jb 10 I gotta be honest with you guys I am terrified of heights but I would totally take a spin on this thing okay so next story on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited would you be if I told you there were flying modular holograms because there are a team at Queen's University created bit drones a series of tiny drones with some interesting capabilities this is a super early concept that you're seeing but let's imagine a lot more of these things creating shapes as you hear how the technology works so there are three different kinds of drones working here pixel drones which have an LED display for showing information shape drones which can join up with the others like it to make Kubek displays in three dimensions and then display drones which are literally a flexible touchscreen mounted on nano drone in a demo they use the pixel drones to browse files by moving the drones left and right and then tapping the desired file then they the shape drones which are flying cubes that indicate the basic markers for a 3d building model and the operator can drag the drones around to change the orientation and adjust parameters pinch the zoom using two drones and use the display drone to control the model remotely the system only supports a dozen drones currently but the goal is to scale the idea up to thousands of much much smaller drones in essence that would kind of make them like a flying pixel display that could be manipulated and changed in real time which sounds pretty fun honestly okay so our very last story Disney research is back the news they have an interactive design system for 3d printed robots that even you and I can use ETH Zurich collaborated once again with Disney research in Carnegie Mellon University to create an interesting software that enables anyone to design their very own 3d printed robot you start out with a basic foundation with virtual motors in every joint but then you can click and drag and add or remove motors adjust how the robot looks when it walks and generate 3d geometry for your robot body you can even watch how your little robot will look when it's walking via physics simulation the software lets you input what 3d printer you have and what type of filament you're using and then it will optimize the final design based on that data to make you the strongest 3d printed robot possible the team made five different types of robots each with their own gait and numbers of legs including a five legged robot which is really creepy you won't be making your robot run though since the software can't handle that yet but the team doesn't seem to be really concerned with that they actually seem to be more concerned with the creative side of the design and letting you unleash your imagination in making weird 3d printed robots with five legs honestly my favorite part of that video is when the little tiny four-legged robot waves at me high-low robot you're so cute alright guys let's talk about Mod Squad today we're gonna get a little bit of fashion Lina a song designs clothes with wearable technology inside and she recently debuted a skirt with some fun surprises the skirt is controlled by Arduino and features a microphone and LED lights when the skirt hears music it lights up but this is not a standard equaliser skirt or anything like you've seen before it actually lights up based on the musical notes it hears and creates a sort of LED visualization of the music it's hearing of course she had this idea while she was at Burning Man and she'll probably wear it there next year but the best part is she put the entire process up on Instructables including hooking up the electronics and installing LEDs in leather fabric so honestly if you need an LED kind of equaliser visualization skirt you are now covered the internet says you're welcome all right guys it's time for our photogra of the day our phone talker for the day today is yuan who sent in this gorgeous photo with his xperia z3 he wrote to us and he says hey everyone at tomorrow daily I watch your show all the time really enjoy the content I recently flew down to Cape Town from Johan s Berg in South Africa and took a few pictures with my Sony Xperia z3 in and around Cape Town Cape Town is a very cool and trendy city just thought I'd share my beautiful country with you you have my permission to use them of course keep on making geeks happy thank you greetings from sunny South Africa you on Vanderpol you on it was such an amazing picture you actually sent in a bunch of pictures from Cape Town now I want to visit I'm going to 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