if you thought tiny unmanned vehicles buzzing through the sky were only for sci-fi movies, think again. we have technovations that may leave your head spinning. they navigate through windows, fly in formation, and take off and land with ease, and these tiny unmanned aerial vehicles called quad rotors are doing it on their own. this is a robot that is completely autonomous. there s no remote control in the back grnld. most of the test flights are done here at the university of pennsylvania s lab, decked out with a state of the art motion capture system. and students give the quad rotor simple commands via computer, but the vehicles decide how they ll go from point a to point b on their own. we have the bike-on system or the red lights, which allow us to figure out where the robot is. then we re able to send it commands about what we would
course. here is today s technovations. they are teeing off, then taking off on the newest way to play golf. it s the golf board. a four-wheel drive battery powered skateboard and caddy combined. a cross between snow boarding, skate boarding and surfing. riders lean to make turns. the engineers created a system of wheel mounts so the board stays flexible. this is totally proprietary for them to get on a board that is very stable. the top speed is 12 miles per hour. it s designers say it won t damage the grass on the course. if you want a golf board, it will cost $3,500. the creators plan to sell directly to golf courses so you might be able to rent one.
scoop, yes, i just said inside scoop, in this technovations. at the smitten ice cream shop in san francisco, they call it new old fashioned ice cream. it s still the sweet treat many of us love. so good. but these cool creations come from some serious science. so here at smitten, we make every single batch of ice cream to order. nothing is frozen until you order it. and we make everything from scratch that morning. the tasty technology behind it all, the aptly named burma sheen. an inventor of the founder and chief barista robin sue fisher. the gist behind is it used liquid nitrogen because it s super cold. actually negative 321 degrees fahrenheit, and a super cold freezing process has the ability to make a smaller ice crystal. a smaller ice crystal means a really, really smooth product. you can t buy a burr off the shelf. it took five years of
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friend in indianapolis, or a friend in new zealand, whatever it is, you re practicing first and then maybe you re not ready for prime time, but as we learn in this week s technovations you may already have an audience that you don t know about here. reporter: in this living room a stuffed animal on the couch. we re looking actually at a live shot of a friend s house. it s not an individual we don t know but it is a live shot of somebody s home and there are many others out there. reporter: how did we get this view? the camera you used to chat online hacked giving outsiders a window into your home. how rampant is this? i would say many, if not more than half of the ip cameras at least have an issue where it doesn t prompt the user to change the default user name and pass word or it has a vulnerability where you can bypass security and get right into the camera. reporter: it s not just your webcam, any camera connected to the internet could be