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in the world of tomorrow we'll have bacon emoji I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update the language of emoji is expanding 38 brand new icons are coming in 2016 including a symbol for bacon there's a pickle there shrugging and the facepalm what you see here are just some suggestions on how they should look many of which were created by Gawker and adopted as examples by the Unicode consortium a group that sets the standard for emoji across different operating systems but it's up to Apple Google and Microsoft to create their own art for each icon the plan is to add these new icons in Unicode 9.0 update that's in June of next year another chat news facebook Messenger is rolling out a form of caller ID when someone contacts you for the first time on messenger you'll see a large photo and details on how you may know each other which can be helpful when you have hundreds of acquaintance friends on Facebook and forgot how you even met the person let's switch gears to look to the future when the day comes that we're living on other planets and off having galactic adventures as one does in the future mankind will need some sort of symbol or flag to represent planet Earth NASA plans to put humans on Mars in the 2030s and I'm sure NASA will have the American flag all over that red rock colony but one graduate student of the Beckman's College of Design in Sweden felt we should have an earth flag and he created this flag as a project he explains that the seven interlocked circles form a flower a symbol of life on earth and it represents how everything on our planet is linked together directly or indirectly blue is of course for water essential to life as oceans cover most of our blue planet it reminds me a bit of the symbol for Epcot the theme park that was born from Walt Disney's vision of the experimental prototype community of tomorrow and part of the inspiration for the new movie Tomorrowland the movie out in theaters now is the first movie released in Dolby vision it's a laser projection technology that can deliver a whiter more vibrant color palette than anything you'll see on TV colors are richer there's better contrast even in darkest blacks you can make out more details the director used this to make a vivid contrast between the alternate realities the characters travel between it also uses Dolby's Atmos audio technology to envelop you in sound one of our CNN video experts saw Tomorrowland in Adobe cinema and says it lives up to the hype it was the best picture he's ever seen in a theater but chances are you won't be able to experience it like he did there are only a handful of theaters equipped to show Dolby cinema right now I guess I'll have to experience tomorrow with yesterday's tech that's all for this update but there's more as seen accom from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey