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on today's show Microsoft's new motion tracking is gonna change the way you do hand gestures google finally unveils its wireless service and we're to tell you all about it and NASA's got a crazy little car that looks like it's driving on ice all the time tomorrow daily greetings citizen to the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm Ashley sceva joining me as always the man the myth the legend oh hey so you almost did the Benny Hill song I know I can hear it in your head when you listen playing here the benefits I don't want it I don't even want to speak bitch they'll strike this video down right this video down like obi-wan's and loved ones will just die yes not cool come on get the horse head in my bed just like in The Godfather oh I didn't think we're going that dark I don't know people are really serious about copyright it is Thursday hillsong Thursdays when we we unravel yeah Thursday's an unraveling day but alright we got to talk about these headlines because they're pretty awesome so let's hit it okay so NASA did you know that nASA has a car like they're working on a car it's like a space car uh kind of yeah okay let's not let that I'm very very interested it's roaming around Earth it's a vehicle roaming around Earth this is from and I swear this is not a joke as the actual name of the department NASA's game changing development program office I like that that's modest listen game-changing that's what you have on your business card all right so this is called it's called an mr v all right and it is a fully electric vehicle that nASA says would be very capable in an urban environment here's why they each one of the wheels is independently operated so it looks like a normal little car but then here you go so now all of the independent wheels means you have zero degree turn radius so in essence this is like kind of the coolest thing ever if you needed a parallel park you would just pull up right next to the space turn your wheels 90 degrees and just drive sideways that's amazing I know I know I love it so much hey it looks like you're driving on ice a little bit because of it because the wheels can all ship they can drift this thing like look at how cool this is so it's a fly-by-wire driving system it's a like I said for independently capable wheels and they have a top speed of about 43 miles an hour look at him drifting and rise your mario kart yes like just sliding around in circles it's amazing but yeah this was developed with a John in Space Center and there is even a joystick for more advanced control like if you feel like you need more advanced controls you don't need the steering wheel look at least the impossible to play a lot of GTA like well how do I gotcha and there is also force feedback so if you for the steering wheel is equation and stuff so if you want it to feel more like a traditional car as you're driving it'll like send you know like more traditional feelings and your steering wheel as if you're driving a real car which is kind of cool but unfortunately here's the thing not in development for a commercial sale however they are working on this for future Rovers that go out into space oh good for that technology for future Rovers but also they said they wouldn't mind if like this type of technology was used in cars ago in the future so we might see this technology show up in cars in the future but it wouldn't be like hey NASA's releasing a car you can go buy at a dealership oh yeah that would be a thing but yeah so I thought that was just really fun and cool and um because I've been on a mario kart the new DLC pack is out today um which by make correction everybody i said friday it's today it's thursday uh but um so there they don't really they don't really have a goal for this car other than to improve and throw the other Rovers Rovers yeah things like that so things that end up getting sent out to like like curiosity stuff like that way this is a really good way to sort of do I hate it yes sir yeah so that brings us to our hashtag of the day TDM RV is our hashtags to the name of the car um and murph tamer um and the question is I think you guys could think of some really fun ways to sort of use this vehicle or maybe upgrade it like okay so how to use it or upgrade it you can upgrade okay grade or how would you where would you want to drive it would you want to do with it so I would so personally I would want to improve tires because we're still using the like rubber and air technology and I've seen people to do like spokes like plastic circles but like with like spokes and it's not it's not like an air base system I thought for sure NASA would be on top of that cover so their lunar Rovers didn't have to like get flat tire yeah get flat tire and what not but I mean maybe I'm not fully researched on this but I've seen a lot of like demos and stuff like that and I mean well that doesn't make a pretty standard tire i went to i did a tour at JPL and they had some stuff on the they have like a whole field that's like the mars kind of area where they kind of simulate rocks and stuff like that and they have these like really cool sort of experimental tires and things like that that they're like basically if this breaks like it this one can take over and like all right so they've some stuff like that but it wasn't it wasn't the same as what we saw in the video so I think you're right in saying like we need some better tire tech yeah TDM RV okay mr v is the hashtag what's yours um i would say i would want to take this too i would want to take this too I want to speed it up I'm gonna put in we put in turbo yeah we do some nitrous yes and I want to see this in the next fast and furious family all about family oh that's what I want to see a heist scene or chasing done with this car just like seven of them like or eight of them and then just all and then they jump it from one building to the night yeah yeah well we're and over again that's I want Fast and Furious 8 to happen in space they'll on like Europa and I want like Vin Diesel to drive this thing like a maniac through the canyons of Europa that's what i want to see it's about family listened hey that's really the only next place i could go in fat and Fast & Furious 8 NASA cars space Oh Spacey I didn't feel like space I feel like they've done everything on earth they can't really there's not much left well they're going to New York in the next one that's not as good as Europa I mean to me I guess fair enough better food in the yard better food in New York better pizza but not necessarily better driving more exciting so that's your hashtag TDM RV okay so what do you know about particle swarm optimization nothing noob all right well let's talk about what Microsoft is doing to improve the hand gesture game ok ok so we've seen technology like leap motion show how the in virtual reality in a space we can have that sort of motion gestures well Microsoft Research has decided that they want to improve the hand pose technology now try to keep up with this one because it's even tricky to kind of explain so basically they're using a connect to scan and create a 3d model the user's hand which take about like one second with this technology wow that's fast yeah there was new technology hand pose technology it's more accurate it can work from much further distance and it can work on existing hardware or even smartphones which is cool so now usually motion tracking is really slow it has to read like 30 different points on your hands and and its really slow to calculate it well they've engraved it ten times faster with their product their processor called particle swarm optimization so now you know what though it'll be SSO so this makes a trillion so usually it takes trillions of potential hand gesture combinations yeah you've gotta like calculate like all of the different ways you might move your hands yeah maybe so they've got that down to 200 logical guesses which wow look at that yeah there's it down to its closest man it's really responsive and it's really impressive detailed yeah and the guy in the video keeps talking about like a minority report yeah and how that's kind of what they're going for you want to be able to like quick I need to see ya so that's basically what they're aiming for there's no retail yet no bummer which is a bummer um but uh they said that it's gonna be about five years before they'll feel safe there's gonna be public use I bet you they'll figure it out hopefully yeah let's say lets it yeah maybe two let's say two and a half split in and say yeah well that's that's that's your tomorrow daily guess two and a half years um but yeah so they're hoping that's what they're hoping that it will improve motion judge so hand pose that's what it's called that's pretty close uses awesome uses particle swarm optimization so it's just fast it's it's not brand new technology per se but it's greatly improving okay something that was already there and they're using Kinect which is old ish technology but yeah it was technology that was beyond its time so there you go cool yeah well that's an awesome stuff from Microsoft Research so going from a one big company Microsoft to Google they're doing some pretty interesting stuff lots of people have been dying for this to happen google finally announced that they're going to get into the wireless game yeah they're gonna be kind of a cell phone carrier for you which is pretty cool love you easy it says uh this is an interesting move by Google it's called google Phi F I google fight um and this is a move into wireless service here in the US no word on any international any international you know launches or anything like that but here's how it's going to work so it's going to use t-mobile and Sprint's towers okay and as you're driving and stuff is going to it's going to optimize which towers to use or open Wi-Fi so for example if you are in an area where there is an open Wi-Fi connection that's safe then it'll it'll connect to that and it'll switch back and forth so your phone which I'll get to in a second which phone you could use um will seamlessly handoff between cell towers and Wi-Fi signals so making it a little bit easier for you to not use as much data mmm and so what they want to do is they want to charge you twenty dollars a month that's the base plan and then that's unlimited talk and text for twenty bucks a month but for data they want to charge you ten dollars for every gig so if you're using five gigs that's about like 70 bucks a month I think you might come with one gig so it might be 60 um but you get a refund if you don't you prepay for it so you say like okay like i usually use three let's say three gigs of data for gigs of data whatever so you pay your twenty dollars plus let's say it's either i think i want to say if it includes that one gig you would pay an extra thirty bucks and then let's say you only use two well they would refund you so they would refund you twenty bucks and they'd say hey you only used two gigs instead of four like you paid for so we're gonna give you that money back how is this better than a normal cell phone plan so I think the big thing is is that they want to kind of they want to kind of free people from being locked into there's no contracts at all and but there are a couple catches to this you must use a nexus 6 for this first like testing portion of google phi just to even be able to sign up to try the service you have to have a nexus 6 and Eve then like you may not get into sort of the testing yeah I know my brother signed up for this he was like I already signed up because I was like hey like you should sign up for google I'd try it out and he was just like I'm already signed up i'm dying to get in so that so yeah it's that they're saying that it's not for now they're saying it's not directly competitive with these large carriers because this is really kind of a small scale project that they're right I mean they're just start they're testing it they're seeing if it works how it works yeah if it's accessible to do on a larger scale like I would imagine in a lot of rural areas this would be kind of difficult because one you're not going to run into a lot of towers and two you're not going to run into a lot of Wi-Fi like open Wi-Fi so it seems like maybe it'll work the best in urban areas um and the one thing I did like about this is it'll it will store your phone number on google servers so you can use your phone tablet or laptop to make calls like you can just open up your laptop and make a call because it's like it's story google servers i think any of these things are really different than any other like pay service for data there are two other companies doing this it's like republic let me see I me make sure I get these right republic Wireless and scratch wireless are two companies are doing something very similar to this and we've seen carriers like um but they're kind of small regional carriers like cricket things like that or they have this sort of regional and they use the towers of another company a bigger company sort of piggyback off them so it's similar in that way but it's not quite that so it's slightly different it's just an interesting move by Google to even get into this like I don't think a lot of people works not expecting them to but they were hoping and then now they're kind of like okay well we're gonna do this officially so I don't know I don't know that I would use it I mean looking there was a really good infographic and I'm so sorry whatever website posted it this morning I'm not I can't remember what it was really good info graphic showing like exactly what the rates were for certain amounts of data and t-mobile and google Phi were pretty close and then it was like some some carriers we're a little cheaper like regional carriers and then like the big to AT&T Verizon were like more expensive so it definitely is not like a groundbreaking change and it's not going to cut your bill in like according to twenty-five percent of what it was like you're not gonna be ten dollars a month for your cell service so maybe it's not the Savior everybody's hoping for but it's definitely at least more competition which is always a good thing it's really bold to be one of the first users of this though yeah really pop in there that's I mean if you're jumping in with both feet good on you that's Google Phi so that's what they're doing with that and an interesting itself let's see where this goes I think that's what work I will be very curious to see how this kind of expands or if it does my not very skeptical mr. google call me by the way call me mr. i think that's a gift that needs to happen guys um if you want to make that a gift please do and send it to me via Twitter and ashley's gather all right guys we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back with into it we have some good ones this week and then of course your user feedback and our phone talker for the day so I'll click weights tomorrow daily welcome back to the show kills get in a groove it's got a good it's got a good base on there Scott give base line yeah we get to hear the drop you guys never get to hear that part no it's good it's really good every week we like to tell you on Thursdays the stuff that is draining our wallet so this is into it is it always training our wallet no I didn't pay for this yeah that's great for mine I didn't pay for mine either but I'm really ah this week so i guess a good maybe not maybe we're just obsessed okay i'm gonna go first okay cuz i have a show and tell this is the Samsung gear VR this is something I've been screwing around with for the past two weeks I've been working on a special project but I had a lot of time to put some put some time into this and this is the first time I've ever used it cuz i've used the oculus and if you used google cardboard but this the first time i've used what is considered portable vr okay and also consumer portable vr so you basically as you're gonna see on the screen you pop in your note for your note 3 into the into the gear VR and it automatically boots up as if it was an oculus oculus headset at so it uses all the oculus programs and you can play pretty much pretty much anything that oculus themselves put out into their into their app store um I like it I think I think it's pretty cool I don't own a note so that would be an extra purchase this cost about like I think like two hundred dollars ya its jus night it's like three hundred dollars and then you have to buy it no which is you know exorbitant so it's it's not a cheap VR set considering the oculus is is cheaper but if you or it's just not a cheap VR set now but the big Pro here is that it's it's portable I'm not trying to sell you on it's just I'm telling you what I liked about it is that it was portable yeah you can take it places no I was fun I'd take it show it to somebody what's up what's some of the stuff that you got to like do or or play or like what were some of your favorite things that you did wit using this the did I did a cooking simulator which was pretty cool I I was a little toy in like a little kids room tell me like go around and then I also was a space pilot that one that was my favorite one I was in a movie theater watching a movie which was that's weird and awesome yeah that was a very expensive movie three hundred dollars and then a note to go see that movie but I yet it's pretty cool I mean I I wouldn't own got him with my way to get one but it's ten it was a blast I would just put the headset on and sit sit next to my girlfriend on the couch and she'd be like and I'm just like in space like she's just trying to watch pretty little liars or whatever so yeah but so that's what I'm into the Samsung gear VR well don't look so cool and I like that it they worked with oculus I like that they worked with oculus on this yeah it looks good looks good it don't like it belongs there don't let second belongs there really um what are you into uh this week I am into what people are online are calling the sushi bazooka oh I got to see this sushi and something else I referring it to as oddly enough not from Japan you think it would be yep it had all the qualifiers all the qualifiers I'm even a really rad like Asian host i was at this has to be from japan no it's not no it's from New Zealand how weird is that so yeah here's how it works you're watching the video right now this guy by the way is sort of like the Asian kale and I love him like he's really energetic and fun i love you Asian kale and so you put the rice in you put your sticky rice you line it up on both sides do all something you put your feelings in gonna put your sushi and put your cucumber he's gonna put whatever else you don't put avocado may be whatever you want put in there like you do with the roll so then once you do all that junk you smash it all together so yeah okay so watch this so that's sort of loading the the push out that's like the sort of thing that's gonna push out the roll so here you go they like lock it down yep you snap it in place and then you put on the end this reminds me of using play-doh as a kid like are you have a play-doh factory yeah okay it's like that so you twist the edge here and then you very slowly squeeze out this role because it tightens the titans the tube and then now so there he goes that's your little roll and then you squeeze it out we'll all be it pushes out your little roll and then so he puts it on a bed of a bed of seaweed so we had some nori their sheet of nori so yeah put that down and then he just rolls it up and then you know you cut all your slices so it doesn't the sukkah is not the right term I would have you know it's not it's not a bazooka it's not a bit I wish it fired out of that thing like a cannon that would be the funniest thing in the universe but unfortunately it doesn't it's a much slower process um but look it out like it's very clean yeah not everyone's capable of making sushi myself included so it's it's a nice little work around how much does it cost like 26 bucks amazon not bad and they said like they also give other examples too it's not just a sushi thing you could also use it for like anything where you have a role so like um you know this is old cake like pumpkin rolls and stuff for the holidays and jelly rolls and things you yeah you could use you could use this to make that looks good so nice when you've got six bucks it's so silly but like I saw it and I was just like mad so what do you think consumer which product would you vote she bazooka Samsung VR for three hundred dollars then you have to have a note or the 26 dollar sushi not really a bazooka for twenty-six dollars that's so street please walk around like that today at the grove that would be amazing okay guys we talked about what we like now it's time talk about you like it's not freezer feedback finally a good transition I wouldn't say good I just I just said it wasn't bad not bad okay dad I'll take not bad okay so yesterday we asked you guys use the hashtag TD cons to tell us what conferences that you guys want to throw and where you guys came up with some really good ones us there's some really bad puns in here which make my whole day a better place Rick wrote in and said TD cons presenting hipster con bye-bye new style nerd glasses yeah that's like what you have today yep you learn how to use a typewriter know how to groom your hipster beard and much more I think where would you hold hipster kanpur and I were so as a hipster Moreland yeah Portland sips Turkana I think or where is uh where's not cool where's a place that's not cool but like we could pretend like it's cool oh I bet you could do like somewhere in Wisconsin yeah like the oh man everyone's like oh yeah I wish over the hips of a rash there being a hipster be very easy yeah you just know what kind of music you should be into you know what you like don't you hate know what kind of clothes you wear yeah all right good uh Frank wrote and said TD cons we should start the San Francisco villains con wha hahaha and then he made a little graphic which I really liked and had like people like Catwoman and the Joker there's like a home Lex Luthor yes yeah I like that I like that at the actual managers showing up yeah so there's a really good dogs gone um v2 prime wrote in and said TD cons give me Swan con seven species of Swan in the world black black necked Husker oba mute trumpeter tundra and Hooper hashtag Swan hype guys it's real Swan hype is real people are still enjoying that by the way nice job it nice job of it um our next okay ours our necks pc user feedback bring that up on the screen here Gail says the thing about cons is if you can think of it they've done it a magic trick con call it Decepticon hashtag puns you know who would be the guest of honor at the first Decepticon don't say a transformer no okay what Joe Bluth that'd be great it's an illusion though it's not a true usual ten illusion and then lastly schoolboy NYC schoolboy wise schoolboy see I can't read said I don't know if this exists but I would like for an 80s pop culture convention to exist in California that'd be amazing I would totally go JD's Khan there'll be a lot of fun I would be all about 80 s con that would be amazing um so that's a that's what you guys wrote in don't forget hashtag of the day date ed m the mrv it's like Merv but without the e in it TDM RV is really hard one to remember about the NASA vm I'd be impressed of people I put it in the description of the YouTube video now like I started adding the hashtag of the day into the description so people don't have to scrub through to remember you go so look at the description that's all I'm saying alright guys it's a user feedback is over except for our very last piece which is our phone tire for the day I like yeah yeah had the transitions and you lost the transitions all of a sudden no it's okay Anna this is over it's over this is all over except oh definitely a Thursday is Adam rode into US Senate send in this picture that he took with his iphone 5 and he said I would like my rainbow photo that I tweeted out to be considered for phone talker for the day the content of the tweet and the link to the photo are given below this serendipitously appeared as I was getting out of my car in a grocery store parking lot I was surprised that the relatively small size of the Rainbows arc I used the panorama feature of my iphone 5s oh it's a 5s I'm sorry to get the full rainbow from where I was standing that's a really good shot there's actually a double rainbow do you see it on the side on the left there is a double rainbow there's a double rainbow there what does it mean what does incredible that's a fantastic shot yeah so as our cover photo status it is it's really good you caught two rainbows not just one that ya know that that's why you have to send in your photos to us also where is this parking lot that is so empty I've never did notice there's not one single car in that parking lot yeah I don't know maybe on the other side there's like tons of Christ tons of cars there's a gas station anyway let's not let's not dwell on that rainbow pretty rainbow I've de pretty double rainbow so faint but it's there but Adam that was a really good picture nice job if you guys want to send in your phone geography you want to send in story ideas you want to send you your user feedback you can email us tomorrow at cnet com we're also on social media we're on tumblr Twitter Instagram Facebook and Google+ wear tomorrow daily and all those things except what about snapchat no more snapchat guys no more snapchat but on google+ for tomorrow daily TV which you know that could be the next to go we never know I don't know that you're rid of your Google+ like American Idol I just have people vote really with their 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