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on today's show a five-year-old girl gets to throw a very special pitch we're going to take a field trip also a book that's going to help you filter water in third world countries and James Cameron thinks VR stupid thanks Cameron thanks a lot tomorrow daily fruity citizen to the internet welcome tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley scallop that's Hill nauman your back welcome back hi you know yeah I am I feel like I was here yesterday but I wasn't and it like who's super bizarre cuz i sent my identical twin in to host the show and she just like pretended to be we have enough footage of you now that we just edited you in actually was just yeah it was just like audio and we synced it you Siri twin for pickup series where yeah that was super easy pretty impressed you have to pay anybody it was amazing it was great please don't tell our boss that all right let's have headlines I'm so glad we're starting out with this one okay so we are everyone everyone has their kind of different opinions about it whether or not it's gonna be huge we don't know but everyone's excited about it except for James freaking Cameron okay because there was a wall street journal event okay we're gonna reel back there was a wall street journal event in which James Cameron had a chance to speak and he said about VR there seems to be a lot of excitement around something that to me is a yawn frankly well those are fighting words you see there James Cameron thy gates before we crack into this before we crack into how we feel about him saying okay because we could be happily could be mad if you can't tell he says that there hasn't really been a VR app that has really impressed him it's been more like you just kind of look around in an environment if you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game oh it's been around forever she's James Cameron the VR industry needs some cream for that sick burn yeah I mean seriously there are video games in VR James Cameron that's true so the the rift creator uh Palmer lucky lucky lucky is it lucky yeah okay it looks like lucky he's not convinced though he he says he is incorrect of course he would say that of course all you have to do is try virtual reality to understand that goes beyond anything you can do even on a 3d television and a 3d movie screen James Cameron he didn't add the head of the James Cameron yeah so so there you go I mean I can understand what James Cameron saying but yeah I don't know if you know anything about the way that he made a avatar but he created this new technology in which they basically made the entire setting and then he had this movable camera where he could walk though I don't know if this is footage of it but he could walk through the environment and use this virtual screen to like take different shots test so yeah so he was going around yeah they're basically doing that in this shot I was actually at this event I think yes I was at this event um Wow or this is a ricas the same place they filmed it or whatever same kind of thing well yeah they move around see there's the screen I thought I guess that's not screen anyway the point is he was using virtual reality it's good yeah like our maybe I guess it was a are maybe he thinks AR is the bigger potential of the two maybe that's what he's getting at cuz I mean obviously like he is very technologically savvy he hido for the Titanic like I mean he's really involved in new technology and he's brought a lot of new technology to film and film making so for me it's like it's very interesting that he is not interested in BR yeah I I think it's remember when we so many times when we talk about VR we always say like you have to try it you have to really see it and it's got to be the right thing to like spark your imagination because the thing is is if I threw on a video game for my mom like she wouldn't be interested but if I gave my mom like a virtual tour of like Fiji like she could go and see our like the message James James reefs in Australia yes she would be stoked yeah like she would be so jacked about that be like I get it and so maybe it's just there's not a specific thing yet that he's seen like he said that's really like opened his imagination about VR maybe he thinks that they are maybe things as they are listen James you have a lot of cool tech and you get to do a lot of crazy things in a virtual and augmented reality space okay most people do not have that most people have like a flat screen or anything like they don't get to look around at a virtual space and work in high tech stuff so I think that's what you're missing you're not impressed because we haven't one catching on in yeah maybe that's it come on man these meetings also see me kind of like an old man and not letting people want to do that but that's not we want to know what you guys think so that's our hashtag of the day our hashtag is TD yawn well well picked thank you nicely done pity on and don't take our opinion for it we want to know does James Cameron have a point does he have a point are because he fanboying too much or is he right is it kind of beyond what would you what would you point at what would you do to convince him like you if your art if you think they are is cool what would you do to convince like what's the thing either that you've seen or that should exist that would convince james camera yeah how's oh you know what I think it would be what avatar and virtual reality being able to watch the movie and hang out like in like Avatar to like doing it entirely in VR right so we know they won't have any VR rides or anything at the the new animal kingdom avatar land that there but we are out of my pipe James Cameron says what James Cameron cuz James Cameron is James Cameron that's very true very true but I like your point a lot about he is so immersed in the the most cutting-edge technology that maybe it's not as impressive to him I think that's actually a really good salen point yeah it was really so can i show an old person like a phone and they're like whoa it was like no this is i have like a generation behind they have one that just came out six months ago yeah and it but they were just blown away by no I get that so they go let us know TD yawn yawn James Cameron yawning man he basically was like yeah PR miss all right-thinking billionaires I gotta tell you about this this is really cool I saw this and thought it was actually pretty brilliant um so a lot of people in the world don't have access to clean water and one person who is a Carnegie Mellon University postdoc her name's Theresa Deng kovitch she's been thinking a lot about that and so she came up with this really brilliant idea called the drinking book this is called the drinking book and go on pages you see her like sifting through these things it's an actual book and the pages can be torn out and used to filter water to 99.9 percent purity oh wow it's so cool like I love this idea the okay so each page has two filters you can tear out a filter you insert it into a holder that comes with the book and then you pour dirty water through it and it filters it out and they were saying that like there's still some levels of silver of nitrates and other trace amounts of stuff but it's well below what the standards are for the World Health Organization and the in like EPA standards it's well well well below that so here you go slide this in a custom filter box and pour water through again the book comes with this filter box and then there's your drinkable water there you have it like isn't that incredible okay so and there's information about having safe drinking water in the book printed onto these pages filters so potentially for people that don't speak English well you can like educate people about what their what they would do with the book like and they can print in different languages and it's this is amazing to me this is absolutely incredible should they have each filter can clean 100 litres of water before being unusable so hypothetically one book would last a person about four years Oh which is amazing it comes in the box that's the filter box pretty cool it was field tested in South Africa Ghana Haiti and Kenya and it had again ninety-nine point nine percent purity when filtering water that had high bacteria concentrations from recently dumped raw sewage ninety-nine point nine percent dirty pretty amazing she wants to do more study she wants keep refining the book um it's a I just think it's a really cool idea and honestly good for you yeah that's pretty cool so Teresa jankovic is she getting it out there is it just a concept now now she's it's out in field testing she she's bringing it to country I think she's gonna try really hard to kind of ramp up manufacturing it I'm sure if we could make more of them quickly then would be a little easier to get them out to more countries but she is field testing them so they are out there and and people seem to respond very well to them so good good for you yeah I really would have liked it if she had like printed on like schoolbooks so that not only do they get this filter but they have likened they're likely the kids are like learning and also they have to read really fast because they're thirsty yeah and they're like ah why do you drink and then you wait through my pipe making fun I'm just saying like and then I get water they get a bonus out of it says well she does have like all of the pages have facts about clean water like how like how to use the book like it's all in there like basically it's the book is also the instruction manual which is pretty amazing I'm so good for you imagine if the Martian was printed on that like the Martian he makes water in the book like creates water see so much science yay okay so last last thing but certainly not least do you have your permission slip for the field trip we're about to take my dog ate it okay that's fine I'll forge your mom's signature there is a little girl she's five years old her name is hailey Dawson she is a huge Baltimore Orioles fan who also happens to have what is called Poland syndrome which I didn't I've never heard of this syndrome but apparently it causes kids to be born with abnormal or missing abdominal muscles on like one side of their body but it can also debilitate their hands and so she has a hand issue like a deformity or an abnormality that allows her to not really use it very well so her parents turn to the University of Nevada Las Vegas and they said hey could you help us make prosthetics we've talked about it they're expensive they're really expensive and of course she's growing she's a little girl so she's gonna need more as she gets older they said sure no problem engineering departments on it we got it and recently they made I believe this is her third one it is it has a Baltimore Orioles logo on it and she threw out the first pitch with that hand that 3d printed hand added Baltimore Orioles game whoa and i love it back so she's got it on its on her right arm and they're gonna hand her the ball and she's gonna throw this is her favorite player oh they're absolute favorite baltimore oriole and she's super cute and her parents were really excited about first of all the idea that you know i think they said the first one she grew out of the second one I think broke after the mom was trying to restring one of the one of the fingers and then they so they printed our new one and now they're working on a fourth one and they're gonna keep improving the hand every single time they give her one but it's a myoelectric prosthetic socio my god give her the ball give already I know this video takes a little while to get there brother sucks yeah well that might be just maybe it's the ball boy so now there we go shit this hand is able to grip and there she goes Oh threw out the first pitch yeah cutest thing ever I love that technology is being used to like help people and again that's our favorite well your and a bird is creepy very terrifying yeah now she's gonna have nightmares oh great so there you go I thought that was the best way to end this week's headlines with a really nice feel-good story about people helping other people yeah I'll be good alright guys we are gonna take a quick break but before we go we have to tell you what cnet and GameSpot are playing right now so this is play this we'll be right back all week I have been playing poly bridge because in a former life I was possibly an engineer or a mad building psychopath you'll see that it's been over 10 years since and the first game at the flash game it's been over seven years since then plus came out and plus plus now on ps4 you're a ninja you collect gold you go in the door done so I have been playing everybody's gone to the rapture it is a walk them up or lump I have been playing rare replay lately is 30 games for xbox one from rare eel developer that made perfect dark banjo kazooie battletoads which I just played for the first time because of this collection it's amazing because in addition to constructing useful things for the world I can also build hideous monsters that also help cards in across the river it's about this town that's completely empty everyone's gone and you don't know why and you need to figure out why they're all gone presuming from the name of the title they've been raptured but that's not exactly the case they're having a lot of fun with it but a lot of the games kind of don't hold up as well and you might expect others still do but yeah oh no we're having a good time with it I really like the story I think it's a really great tale of like love and science and mysticism and I really like the way the game is nonlinear and lets you unravel it at your own pace and sort of figure it out for yourself so it takes both boxes of me creating and me destroying welcome back to the show we've returned it's a thursday kale is looking very charming we got your get your wink on it's a Thursday which means it's time to tell you about stuff we like I mean we do that all week but now it's really important this is into it can I go first I'm pretty excited well I already said mine did you yeah well during that little break thing oh okay all right yeah good all right so this is called it's an app it's called VHS camcorder and it makes your video recording look like you are literally recording an old VHS tape even if you turn it it gets all that steps oh my god i want to get that right now yeah it's grace is way better than mine today so it's like god it's cold it's called VHS camcorder does it cost money no oh sorry I'm sorry yes it does i'm sorry it's four bucks way time and i'll buy them right here watch watch this so if you're if the old the old video footage like it even looks like it's zooming in on an old camera so there's my stupid face but it's so cool and you can set the date so like you can have it say 1987 and there's a in the menu you can spoof the recording date here's some footage that Anthony domanico from cnet like he recorded this as test footage um you can do black and white for a video you can do like a found footage movies chuckling short shit a whore a found footage was the first thing I thought of when I saw this app I'm like oh my gosh I want to do a little short that's found footage from the 80s i just bought you get it ok cool I don't know what I'm doing this weekend now I do yeah I'll put all this stuff is gonna be great I was thinking about that but snapchat like it's cuz it'll take your video filter and crop it or no it has both widescreen and 43 so we're three close to swear so you as long as you're okay like I think it actually has um like there's there should be enough space to give you a fully square with still the time stamp the date and time stamp on so you could you technically you could make Instagram video for this but I love it it's like so weird and just I love AV apps I got photo apps and video apps like I download them all the time so I saw this got very excited and man I just got it i'm gonna make 80s videos my life all my life yeah that's great I love both of ours are camera-based oh okay what are you so mine is also and i'm way behind the times on this one but I've been into light painting there's this week because I actually did a DIY with another company so to about light painting how to do and I just like we were just we had a new idea every single time but if you don't know what light painting is it's basically a long exposure photo that you take or you move light around and it creates crazy shapes and it basically looks like magic and and people have been doing this forever this is not new but there's not by far everything hasn't been done before yeah so like I did one where I was facing a wall and it made it look like I was peeing on the wall um I did one where I stood in one place and I made it look like I was the flash cuz i had like streaks Oh running behind me um yeah it's just a fun thing to goof around with like if you have if you think you haven't done this with your camera yet it's just fun to mess around with and you can do this with your cell phone yeah as long as you can find a way to like steady your phone so yeah it's it's just a it's just a fun thing to goof around with if you've got some free time and you're in the dark and what's gonna light that up some sort of light yeah and you can create lit it's a very DIY thing and you can like I said create really interesting like Facebook photos or cover photos and yeah just a fun thing that I hadn't tried out until this week again it's nothing new but the new for you it's a blast yeah that's cool no I dig that and I feel like if you haven't tried it light painting like kill said it's pretty easy and their apps on Android and iOS that allow you to you can get slow shutter app so you can do like long exposure I've got some slow shutter actually that's what I have to yeah I do that for like astrophotography for like stars and stuff um but yeah so that's where into let us know what you're into in the comments way we're dying to know we're being about you I want to see if you make any of the camcorder yeah send us your kids your your VHS camcorder footage or send us your light you're like photos sensual I photos um alright guys let's talk about you it's time for your user feedback yesterday we asked already use TD 20 22 say what they wanted to see at the tokyo olympics opening ceremonies yeah preston some pretty good ones by the way they say Tupac no sadly um Jeb but you know honestly he's in hiding so he's probably doesn't hang out in a place of Internet she probably doesn't watch the show he's actually hiding he's actually producer Logan yeah I don't know if you guys show don't tell anybody but Prue slogan is actually to pakka disguise um so right is that right he does say that all the time that is to park at first it's a hundred percent to buck alright so we asked you guys see 2020 and deric ruttan said I want a Japanese robot that will give me a front-row seat into every Olympic venue wait what oh yeah I like they has this robot going for him like saving him a chair like it's like oh I just saved my seat I'm asleep for ok cool i like that i like his emojis though yeah gives all the different olympic sports i was amazing you should enter the olympic games for emojis there probably will be an emoji olympics oh man uh and then Neil wrote and said have mario and sonic race Usain Bolt see who's fastest i'm guessing mr. bolt i love that it's like augmented reality races with characters from video games there would be soul mates I'll be more into it to see sonic get like destroyed and then be like depressed sand like loses his scholarship behind the behind the music yeah see him addict to smash Usain Bolt added to smash brothers that would be amazing gets dark real fast it's yeah gets so dark and then Michael wrote in and said flying toasters so that the sky can be turned into a giant screen saver an extent in the the flying toasters dancer I love that really well done why can't we have flying toasters just in general just around I kind of like I still do this day like I still want once we get really inexpensive foldable screens I'm dying to have a whole wall but that is like a screen that I can just program i do like flying toasters or just color whatever it is that I feel like that day I can just like look it up and just put it up on the wall they have that I thought you bought one well it's not about that picture frames yeah that's just canvas but like no I'm talking about i got Holt like wallpaper like you could literally connect them in like roles oh yeah and then like make your whole wall a screen that you can program it you can just put like like just active video on it or Never but like these billig nudes yeah put up your nudes whatever yeah kels takes a lot of those I'm sorry hahaha these sense of Tamia bruiser love with the new testament yeah like strangers like I mean I don't know what's going on there in the chi yeah in the comments leave your phone number yeah i'll send you kill your snapchat fancy photos no please please on all accounts don't do that um so we gotta talk did you just wink at everybody Thursday what up so my favorite all right we got to talk about our very last piece to user feedback was our phone talker for the day hi that was maybe my favorite moment of all time on the show um alright Leo wrote in he's not a lion not a real live lion um so calm down Lions can't use phones yet he sent in this photo he says there's a whole nice story with this is an amazing picture by the way hello I took this beautiful photo of my iphone 5s want a camping trip in a group in northern Utah we hiked two miles and set up camp in the middle of the night started snowing we did not expect this so you can imagine how the trip back was but as soon as I got out of my tent I chose to take a shot hope you enjoy using this photo thanks good keep in mind this is not edited whatsoever look at Mountain look at everything it looks not that looks it like a render in Skyrim yeah or like a painting that is legit that's like Bob Ross painting right I put a little tree in there exactly paints a little tree nobody on this show who's watching knows who bob ross is unless they love internet memes in which case they totally know who Bob Ross is um yeah that is an amazing picture it's absolutely amazing it looks incredible that's a place that I would like to look at in a picture but never go to cuz I don't like cold the only thing missing from this picture is Tupac like a heart like Tupac just in there holographic Tupac doing a comic you never go there you think you'd ever go there to pug for you I'm fair enough they know how to party yeah all right true all right guys have it and there you have it if you want to send in your phone geography send us your photo your device you took it on in 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