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Tomorrow Daily - Touchable holograms are interactive, too?!?, Ep. 279

2015-12-01
reading citizens of the Internet's welcome to tomorrow daily the best talk show in the known universe I'm your host Jeff kanata and you are watching one of our mini episodes on Thursdays we deep dive into these stories so be sure to check back then for our longer show but right now let's get into the headlines Amazon has a new video demonstrating their updated drone delivery prototype and they got Jeremy Clarkson formerly of Top Gear to help show it off Clarkson sets the stage telling the story of a future little girl who needs a new pair of soccer shoes her family places an order on Amazon and over at the local warehouse a robotic arm loads up the package into the drones fuselage for safekeeping the drone then takes off vertically and after reaching a certain height switches to a more plane like mode the video also describes sense and avoid tech on board to make sure the drone doesn't hit anything and multiple designs for varying types of environments so your precious cargo isn't ruined by a little bit of rain or heat a landing pad placed by the customer tells the drone where to land and can be rolled up and stored when the drone heads back to Amazon's warehouse but a big piece of that puzzle is the US Federal Aviation Administration deciding exactly how it will regulate unmanned aircraft for retail companies I love this idea I'm ready for this but can you imagine a sky full of drones it will blot out the Sun then we will shop in the shade it's being of shopping do you have 60,000 bucks lying around then I got a deal for you that's how much Nokia's ozo camera will cost if you want to take one home that's right Nokia is officially in the VR game with its 360 degree camera it's an orb shaped device with eight cameras onboard which record stereoscopic 3d video while integrated microphones simultaneously capture spatial audio Nokia hopes the device will be a boon for them on the film and gaming front giving filmmakers and game developers the opportunity to create high-quality content that can be viewed in various VR headsets it's a big bet for Nokia especially considering flagship headsets like the HTC vive and the oculus rift haven't hit retail shelves yet but they seem pretty confident the ozo is worth Creators time the big competition for Nokia is GoPros collaborative effort with Google The Odyssey which has 16 GoPro action cameras and is part of Google's jump hardware and software suite also it doesn't hurt that it costs a quarter of what the ozo cost and only $15,000 that definitely sounds like a lot for consumers like you and me but in comparison to something like the red camera it's actually right in the same ballpark so we'll see if this catches on now it's time to talk about Holograms touchable Holograms according to Reuters Japanese researchers at the tzunami a-- university center for optical research and education have unveiled what they're calling fairy lights the system uses femtosecond laser technology to fire ultra quick high frequency pulses in a specific shape those laser pulses can be interrupted by touch so when a person interacts with the shape it changes before touchable Holograms used laser beams that scorched a user's skin ouch but now the laser they're using is safe to interact with the lead researcher on the project thinks the tech could be used for a variety of industries like entertainment architecture and medicine currently the Holograms are very small but the team appears to want to scale the size of the laser used and the space it's utilized in overtime science website pulse headlines mentioned the possibility of a be mobile hologram keyboard and also video where the people communicating could experience their touch we all know which industry is gonna run with that idea right greeting cards you perverts come on get your mind out of the gutter speaking of entertainment it's Tuesday so it's time for new releases the videogame releases just keep on coming including Just Cause 3 just cause is the new game from Avalanche Studios about chaos on a grand scale blowing stuff up man I've been having a lot of fun with this game already also Rainbow six siege comes out this week if you want to rescue some hostages and destroy some environments this one adds a destructibility and lots of really cool online modes check that out and the Wii U is not going to be forgotten at least this week talk about epic games on an epic scale Xenoblade Chronicles X is out this week as well proving that if you want to invest lots of time into your consoles the Wii U is also there hey you want to go to the movies how about getting scared by Santa Claus Krampus is out this week which promises to add a horror element to old Kris Kringle so many games so many movies man this is the best time to be into media I'm jumping on that Just Cause 3 tip I'm exploring and blowing things up and wingsuiting around I think I might pass on Rainbow six siege it's just not really my jam but I'm very curious about Xenoblade Chronicles so I'm gonna check that out as well and Krampus can't go wrong with that speaking of not going wrong we got a new phone tog refer of the day today so let's check that out today's phone Tigra fruit of the day is John who took this picture with his Nexus 6 John says this picture was taken with my Nexus 6 at Hillcrest stables in Lolita California my daughter works with a horse there and I always get a boost when I go to this beautiful place and get to be around horses of course you have my permission to use it on your awesome show thanks for sending in that picture John you know anybody that might say that picture is not good you know what I say to them nay come on let again why the long face that was a good joke all right if you want to be our photographer of the day we'd love to see your picture send it to tomorrow at cnet.com give us permission to use the photo on the show and be sure to tell us what device you use to take the photo we love knowing that that's gonna do it for this episode of tomorrow daily thanks for watching you can always find us on Twitter and Facebook at tomorrow daily you can also find me personally I'm at Jeff kanata with two N's in one tee you can also find ashley Esqueda at Ashley Estella and Logan Moore our producer at Logan Moy thanks for watching see you next time until then you you
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