Episode 2 The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve


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This programme contains some strong language

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We're living in a new age of invention.

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Brilliant brains are no longer just holed up in leading university labs

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or research facilities.

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Today inventors are coming together in technology hubs like this

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to design - to help improve people's lives.

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It's actually working. That's so cool!

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For this series, we've brought together

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seven of the UK's leading engineers, designers

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and computer programmers...

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Ta-da!

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I'm going to make myself the guinea pig.

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They will use cutting-edge science and technology

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to build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.

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I don't know who to ask.

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Or where to go.

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In pain. Uncomfortable.

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From helping individuals who are seriously ill...

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-HE EXHALES

-Whoa!

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..to solving issues affecting entire communities...

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Someone is either going to get seriously injured and can't get aid,

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or someone's going to die.

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They'll attempt to tackle major problems

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that have so far gone unsolved.

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I think I've created something really new

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and possibly revolutionary.

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The potential of this is massive.

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Fingers crossed...nothing cracks or explodes.

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This week, they'll try to give a voice

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to a paralysed man who can no longer speak.

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To enable him to have a bit of quality of life, I'd do anything.

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They'll attempt to give a teenage boy

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the chance to ride a bike for the very first time.

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This exercise has really illustrated how difficult it is.

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If you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

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And they'll design new technology

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they hope will stop a national crimewave.

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Nine of them dead, they got suffocated.

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The police don't stand a chance.

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They've got to catch them red-handed.

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If they succeed, they could change these people's lives

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and the lives of many more.

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Yeah!

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It's life-changing.

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Our team's base is in east London.

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It's one of a national network of maker spaces

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for a new generation of inventors.

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Crammed full of the latest technology,

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it's from here that our seven leading inventors

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will attempt to create fixes for people with nowhere else to turn.

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I'm excited about what we're going to learn.

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I can't wait to meet these people.

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The team includes a director from Microsoft,

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engineers who worked at Dyson's innovation labs,

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award-winning designers who've built everything from ambulances

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to earthquake centres.

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Let's get our sleeves rolled up and get stuck in.

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I'm Simon Reeve.

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Over the next nine months, I'll be working with this brilliant team.

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Today I'm in Peterborough,

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meeting the first person who's asked for the team's help.

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It's the first floor for Graham.

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This is Graham.

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Hello, Graham.

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Fist bump, I gather?

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55-year-old Graham Bullivant has partial locked-in syndrome

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and desperately needs a better way to communicate.

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There is no rush.

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It goes whatever speed you want. Don't rush for us.

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'In 2014, Graham, an engineer and family man,

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'suffered a massive stroke.

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'He now only has limited movement of his head and left arm.'

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"In pain all the time.

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"I'm sure people forget."

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His wife Zoe has been at his hospital bedside

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every day for nearly two years.

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Graham's brain works perfectly.

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"I am normal inside."

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"If Zoe's with me, I can face anything.

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"I get frustrated."

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I bet you do.

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And technology must be a bit frustrating, as well.

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This strikes me as being a hell of a lot better than nothing,

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but a really inadequate form of communication.

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It takes Graham more than three minutes to write a sentence

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it would take just seconds to say.

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I watch and wait and then read out what he's tapped.

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"It's too slow.

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"I can see everyone watching and reading

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"out of the corner of my eyes."

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And I'm wanting to say the words and break the silence,

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while you're tapping away.

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Must be incredibly frustrating for somebody

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who is very used to conversing, talking, chatting.

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The stylus I invented,

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because we've bought so many stylus for Graham to try,

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they're either too heavy or too short.

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After an hour of writing, Graham is exhausted.

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So we leave him to rest.

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Happy with that?

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Can you face talking about what life was like before it happened?

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Before? Oh, brill.

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Oh, my God. Fantastic.

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Every day was a blessing.

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You were married, you've been married for how long?

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Over 30 years. Way over 30 years.

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I was spoilt, really.

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He did everything for me.

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Have nice times, have holidays, he took all that pressure.

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And now it's my turn.

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And, my God, it's come as a big shock.

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When was the last time you actually heard his voice?

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14 months ago.

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When Graham lost his voice and I said to everybody,

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one of the things I said to all my friends and family,

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"Get a recording of your husband or boyfriend."

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Because, my God, did I miss that.

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That, "Goodnight, I love you."

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That was horrendous!

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Not having his voice.

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So I asked everybody, "Have you got a video?"

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Nothing.

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Nothing.

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I'll do anything for Graham.

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Now I've got to. I've got to.

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To enable him to have a bit of quality of life.

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Back at the inventors' hub in London,

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we talk through Graham's case.

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What do we think, at the moment, Graham wants?

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He wants to be able to communicate like he used to.

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He's got to tap it all out and it's so frustrating.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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When you're hanging out with your family,

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you want to express yourself emotionally and quickly.

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It's what makes us us.

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With these devices, they don't have an emphasis on,

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"I would like to be sarcastic."

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So that's something that we could, you know, help with.

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Try and figure out a way to get digital voice to sound sarcastic.

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It's something very profound that we're discussing, really, isn't it?

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It's not just giving him a new voice.

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In a way, it's giving him his old voice back.

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Yusuf Muhammad is an award-winning industrial designer

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who's worked extensively with the NHS.

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Today, he's taking me to look for alternatives

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for Graham's stylus pen and iPad.

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We meet Gary Derwent, an expert in assisted technologies.

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So we're just seeing that the system is picking up your eyes.

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He's going to demonstrate a system called Eye Gaze.

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Stable signal.

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-ARTIFICIAL VOICE:

-W, E...

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Get ready to watch the orange circle.

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This is the jewel in the crown of communication aids,

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where an infrared camera allows you to control the system

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with your eyes alone.

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It's taking about 25 pictures a second of your eyes

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to differentiate the centre of your pupil

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and what they call the glint in your eye.

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When your eyes move, the glint stays in the same place,

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but the centre of your pupil moves.

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-It's looking for the glint in my eye?

-It is.

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Brilliant! I love it.

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You select letters or words

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by letting your gaze rest on them for a moment.

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-ARTIFICIAL VOICE:

-Hi...

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..there,

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how...

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are...

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And it uses an artificial voice,

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letting the user join in the conversation.

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-VOICE:

-Hi there, how are you doing?

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It feels like I'm controlling the device with my mind.

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What extraordinary technology.

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-VOICE:

-Hi, Simon, I'm doing well. I am writing with my eyes.

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The Eye Gaze could be the basis

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for a new communication system for Graham.

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But Yusuf doesn't think it will solve all of his problems.

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Fatigue is such a big, big thing.

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And I can tell, from just trying the system, that maintaining your gaze,

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I'm sure after a while it's going to be...quite laborious.

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So maybe he could use the pen from time to time,

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or he could use a switch controller.

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The next step is for Gary to meet Graham and assess him.

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So we're just going to do some calibration.

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These are the Eye Gaze cameras here at the bottom.

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There's going to be a dot that will appear on the screen

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and it'll move around.

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So your job is just to look at the dot and follow it.

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Are you finding that the dot is following your eye?

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No, it's not picking up exactly where you're looking at. No.

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Nerve damage, caused by the stroke,

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has affected Graham's eyes and pupils.

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So the camera is struggling to follow his gaze.

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Looking at what we've just witnessed...

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..might be the wrong route.

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So if Eye Gaze isn't the thing, that's fine.

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You know, it isn't right for everybody.

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I'm really pleased that you've come, so you can see how we're struggling.

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But obviously, if that's not the right angle to go down,

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-we'll try something else. I'm not giving up.

-Yes.

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It's hugely disappointing,

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the Eye Gaze system doesn't work for Graham.

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Another solution has to be found.

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Back at the inventors' hub,

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the team are getting ready for their next challenge -

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to build a bike for Oscar, a disabled teenager.

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Yusuf will lead the case.

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Why did you want to get involved with this particular fix?

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Well, I mean, I love bikes, I'm really passionate about cycling

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and I think it's the kind of extra freedom it gives you.

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We used to cycle to and from the park,

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the wind in my hair - when I had hair!

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And just the independence

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of being able to explore your local area is very cool.

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You sound like the right man for this fix, Yusuf.

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I hope so. I hope so.

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We're in the West Midlands to meet Oscar,

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who seems to be a whizz in the kitchen.

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He puts us to work.

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Chop some mushrooms, maybe?

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I think you'll find that's my job!

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We've been here at least two minutes and we haven't had a cup of tea.

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What are you like?!

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Are you a keen cooker, Oscar?

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-Yeah.

-What do you like about it?

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-The eating, or the...?

-Cooking.

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Oscar has Moebius syndrome,

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a rare genetic condition which means he was born with no hands or feet.

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I can do the same as everyone,

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-but it would, like, take me a little bit longer.

-Right.

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But there's something his friends can do that Oscar can't.

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And that's ride a bike.

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You've got two different prosthetics on your lower legs, haven't you?

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Yeah.

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And obviously, that's going to have an impact

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on how Yusuf creates the cycle for you.

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Mm.

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Are you going to perch in?

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'I learn more about Oscar's condition from his mum, Lisa.'

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So he's got heels on both.

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-Yeah.

-And ankle joints.

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So he's got sort of a third to a half a foot on this side.

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Yeah.

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-What did he say?

-Can he have a drink?

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He's off!

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He's such a lad.

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He's just about to become a teenager.

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Oh, yes.

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And for teenage boys, bikes aren't just about getting around.

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They're part of growing up.

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Without a bike, Oscar's being left behind.

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It's just kids their age, however thoughtful they are,

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-at some point they're going to want to cycle away.

-Yeah.

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And then he's left standing there on his own.

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It's impossible for Oscar to ride a standard bike

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because he has no hands to grip the handlebars.

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Yusuf needs to come up with a custom alternative.

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We've come to Oscar's school to get a better idea of what he wants.

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Oscar, which handlebars do you prefer?

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These.

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-Seat?

-This one. I want that one.

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Oh...

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-Yeah, that one goes.

-Yeah?

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-Yeah.

-What bikes are cool at the moment?

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BMX.

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-So BMXs are cool and that's what you would like?

-Yeah.

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You think he'd much prefer a sort of a standard bike. Why was that?

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Because all his life

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he just didn't want to be known as different, really.

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He just wants to fit in.

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What is the most important thing to you about a bike?

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Make it look like as normal as possible.

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-Yeah.

-I understand.

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Back at the hub in London, the team are discussing the challenge.

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-YUSUF:

-Well, Oscar's never ridden a bike before.

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Really just depends on how he takes to it.

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Isn't this a really tricky one?

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It's really, really tricky.

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If we're trying to engineer something which has two wheels,

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that's obviously a real challenge.

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If he falls off, he could get quite hurt.

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We need to think about it like,

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"Would I be OK with this guy falling off a bike that I built?"

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There's a lot of downsides to making this thing.

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I don't know, I guess if you're going to graze your knees

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and fall off bikes,

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you know, this is the best age to do it.

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If you give him the opportunity to cycle,

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he will fall off, certainly, but he will fly, as well.

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And that will change his life, I think.

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Knowing the risks, Yusuf has come up with a plan.

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So I have...

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ordered myself an adult BMX.

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I'm going to make myself the guinea pig,

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try out a couple of these things,

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so I can have an understanding of what's going to work for Oscar.

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I mean, how is he going to steer?

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I have to consider how he's going to brake.

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So what we have here is a coaster brake,

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right there in the centre of the wheel.

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All Oscar has to do is backpedal

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and the bike will brake, hands-free.

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It's down to the park to try out his first prototype.

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Pretty easy.

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You can kind of screech to a halt.

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It works fine, but it doesn't have enough stopping power.

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Oscar will need a brake on the front wheel as well.

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I've designed a new brake position.

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Rather than pull the levers,

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I've reversed the brake position so that Oscar,

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all he has to do is push down with his forearms

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and he can activate the brakes.

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Back in the park, the front brake is proving to be a problem.

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You see now... You see, I can do it now.

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Now I can use the brake.

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Now I can use that brake and feel fine.

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But as soon as I'm standing up...

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..I've got no bloody chance. So...

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Whoa...!

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BMXs aren't really designed to be ridden sitting down.

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As soon as he operates the brake standing up...

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Jesus!

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..Yusuf loses his balance.

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I think this exercise has really illustrated how difficult it is.

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On a BMX like this it's not going to happen.

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-It's not going to work?

-No.

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Adapting an off-the-shelf bike won't work.

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Yusuf will have to build a completely new bike

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from the bottom up.

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The team are trying to design a way for Graham to communicate.

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Ruby Steel is now leading the effort to find a solution.

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What's the absolute minimum effort required to make a control happen?

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She's a top design strategist.

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Through in-depth research into Graham and his condition,

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she'll decide what path the team will take.

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It's like driving a car.

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Like, you know, you use, like, your hands and you use your feet,

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so you're not putting all the emphasis on just one movement.

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After weeks of discussions and thousands of Post-it notes,

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the team decide to build Graham his own bespoke communication system.

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They are calling it the Reaction Pad.

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The Reaction Pad is about giving Graham back his presence in a room.

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The really tragic and most frustrating thing

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for Graham at the moment

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is that people are treating him like he's brain-dead when he's not.

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The key thing is that he can say just a quick statement

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whenever the urge comes across.

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So it's just really key phrases

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that will allow him to be part of a conversation

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in a way that he just can't at the moment.

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Ruby's in Peterborough to discuss the idea with Graham.

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Hi, it's good to see you. Hi, Graham. Hi, Zoe.

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This is Ross.

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I'm going to ask another member of the design team...

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Ross Atkin is a skilled designer and engineer

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who specialises in developing technology for disabled people.

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What we're proposing is an app that runs on the iPad.

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We're sort of calling it the Reaction Pad at the moment

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and it's, in essence, going to be a tablet to say things quickly.

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Their idea is for Graham to communicate

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using preloaded words and phrases.

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When you pick up the tablet, the app or whatever,

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this is the first screen you see.

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"Help" in the middle, as being the most important thing.

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When Graham pushes "help",

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he'll be taken to another screen that contains different commands.

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"In pain, uncomfortable, thirsty..."

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The app will contain buttons for quick statements.

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Things like, "Please, thank you..."

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Buttons for fast questions.

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"What, why, how?"

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And buttons to get people's attention.

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"Excuse me? Oi! Talk to me."

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The device will speak for Graham using an automated voice.

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One of the things we were trying to explore

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is what we could do that would be

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a sort of replacement of the robot voice.

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They don't tend to be very expressive

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and they don't tend to have a lot of emotion.

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We were interested in the idea of using clips

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from films and TV and cartoons.

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Good? Or scrap?

0:19:050:19:07

-Good.

-Good.

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-ZOE:

-He's smiling like a Cheshire cat!

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And Ross thinks he can improve on Zoe's home-made stylus.

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We know that you get tired operating a stylus

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and so we're quite interested in

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things that might work better than the stylus.

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We could make you a thing that was just on a bit of cardboard

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or a very, very thin and light

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and it could have little touchpads, basically, printed on it,

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so that you could touch them with your fingers or with the stylus.

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OK.

0:19:370:19:39

Thank you, Graham.

0:19:390:19:41

-See you next week.

-Yeah, take care.

0:19:410:19:43

-ZOE:

-"Have a drink for me."

0:19:450:19:49

-All right.

-Can definitely take care of that!

0:19:490:19:52

-Can definitely do that.

-Thanks, Graham.

-Thank you, Graham.

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Thanks, guys. Nice meeting you.

0:19:540:19:56

Yusuf is heading back to the West Midlands.

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The first BMX he adapted wouldn't work for Oscar,

0:20:050:20:09

so he's decided to come up with an entirely new design.

0:20:090:20:12

Just going to off-load so we can do some different exercises today.

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The first thing we can see is the seat is a bit low already.

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He's building a customised bike for Oscar

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and he needs precise measurements.

0:20:230:20:26

Pedal fast.

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OK, steer left.

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And...brake now.

0:20:310:20:33

-They're fine.

-I think we've got the makings of a bike design.

0:20:340:20:38

Once Yusuf has the measurements,

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he transfers them onto the rear of a tandem bike for Oscar to test.

0:20:420:20:46

But there's a problem...

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I'm not going on this.

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No.

0:20:510:20:52

Oscar's never been on a moving bicycle before.

0:20:520:20:54

He's worried.

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-I'm worried.

-Yeah.

-I'm worried you're going to make me fall off...

0:20:570:21:02

-Yeah.

-..and I don't really think I can ride a bike.

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I'm scared.

0:21:050:21:07

They're my worries.

0:21:070:21:08

I think it's natural to feel scared.

0:21:080:21:11

-I'm not riding it.

-It's a scary thing.

0:21:110:21:14

-I will only do it...

-Yeah.

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..if someone is holding the back of me.

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Because if I fall, I don't want to die.

0:21:210:21:23

-You're not going to die.

-It's only a bike.

-Oh...!

0:21:230:21:26

Go on, have a go.

0:21:260:21:28

If I fall off, I'm suing!

0:21:310:21:33

OK.

0:21:330:21:35

No jokes.

0:21:350:21:36

OK, so we're going to start slowly, I'm not going to pedal,

0:21:360:21:40

we're just going to go forward, OK?

0:21:400:21:43

So you pedal, you pedal.

0:21:430:21:45

You pedal.

0:21:450:21:46

Trust him.

0:21:460:21:47

Please, help me.

0:21:510:21:53

OK, now I think it would be worth giving a go without Mum.

0:21:530:21:58

-No, that's not happening!

-Go on, then.

-Fine.

0:21:580:22:00

I'll hold on if that's going to be a problem.

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-Go.

-Here we go.

0:22:030:22:04

Come on, then.

0:22:040:22:06

Mum...!

0:22:090:22:11

I'm here. I'm holding on.

0:22:110:22:12

Holding the balance, yeah?

0:22:120:22:14

Yeah.

0:22:140:22:15

Think you can let go, Mum.

0:22:190:22:21

I am letting go.

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Look up.

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Easy.

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Ready to stop?

0:22:310:22:32

Again, again, again!

0:22:320:22:34

Ready to go again?

0:22:340:22:36

Mum, you've got to hold me!

0:22:360:22:38

Ready?

0:22:380:22:39

Easy. We've got this.

0:22:430:22:45

Great work.

0:22:450:22:47

Go all the way.

0:22:480:22:50

Keep going! Keep going! Keep going to the end!

0:22:500:22:52

Keep going to the end!

0:22:520:22:54

Wonderful to see and he's absolutely thrilled about it

0:22:540:22:57

because he wants to keep doing it and doing it and doing it.

0:22:570:22:59

It's lovely.

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It's about him being the same.

0:23:030:23:06

It's just kids their age, however thoughtful they are,

0:23:060:23:09

at some point they're going to want to cycle away

0:23:090:23:11

and then he's left standing there on his own.

0:23:110:23:14

Keep going!

0:23:140:23:15

And I didn't want him to have to go through that.

0:23:150:23:18

If he's got a bike, he's able to be the same as everybody else.

0:23:180:23:22

-Thank you, Yusuf.

-Yeah, no problem.

0:23:250:23:27

-Is my hair messed up?

-No, it's perfect.

0:23:270:23:30

It's good, yeah.

0:23:300:23:31

Yusuf begins designing a bespoke BMX bike for Oscar.

0:23:380:23:43

I'd like to move the seat slightly more forward

0:23:440:23:47

and a little bit more upright.

0:23:470:23:49

What this is going to do is allow Oscar

0:23:490:23:51

to put most of his weight on his bum.

0:23:510:23:53

Changing the angle of the seat post

0:23:530:23:56

has a knock-on effect for every angle on the bike frame.

0:23:560:23:59

I'm going to set this...

0:23:590:24:02

to 260.

0:24:020:24:03

Steel tubes are cut precisely to match Yusuf's drawings...

0:24:030:24:06

..then TIG welded together to make the frame.

0:24:110:24:12

It's a long process with some late nights for Yusuf.

0:24:140:24:17

While Yusuf is building, Oscar's in training.

0:24:210:24:24

Go, Oscar, pedal, pedal, pedal.

0:24:240:24:26

He's learning from professional cycling coach Lisa Costa.

0:24:260:24:30

I think what we'll do, you've got more length that way.

0:24:300:24:33

So if we go down there...

0:24:330:24:34

Oscar's made good progress on the mountain bike,

0:24:340:24:37

but because he can't pull on the handlebars,

0:24:370:24:40

starting and stopping is proving tricky.

0:24:400:24:42

Pedal, pedal, pedal.

0:24:420:24:43

Designing the fixes is a long, arduous process.

0:24:430:24:47

Well done. Give me a high five.

0:24:470:24:49

It's three months since the first prototype

0:24:490:24:50

and only now has Yusuf been able to complete version two of the BMX.

0:24:500:24:55

So...

0:24:550:24:56

Wow! Look at that.

0:24:580:25:00

This here is the prototype.

0:25:000:25:03

A BMX-style frame, BMX wheels.

0:25:030:25:06

-What do you think, Oscar?

-Yeah, I like it.

0:25:060:25:09

What about you, Lisa?

0:25:090:25:11

Practical wise, I'm a little bit concerned.

0:25:120:25:14

-Because there's no gearing.

-Yep.

-It's quite hilly round here.

0:25:160:25:20

He'll find it difficult going up the hills with this.

0:25:200:25:22

Lisa's also concerned about the BMX's dimensions.

0:25:220:25:26

If you just want to get on the bike for us.

0:25:260:25:28

His whole posture's... It's just too forward.

0:25:320:25:35

-Yeah. And you see how high his knees are coming up?

-Yeah.

0:25:350:25:38

We need shorter cranks.

0:25:400:25:42

Yeah, we do.

0:25:420:25:43

But shortening cranks, the stems for the pedals,

0:25:430:25:47

will make pedalling harder.

0:25:470:25:49

I do really want a BMX.

0:25:490:25:51

I am super keen that...

0:25:510:25:54

..this BMX frame,

0:25:550:25:58

we find a configuration that will work with him.

0:25:580:26:01

If you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

0:26:010:26:04

I always find, as a designer, you just get,

0:26:060:26:09

people tell you it's completely wrong over and over again

0:26:090:26:12

until it's right.

0:26:120:26:13

So you have to kind of have a thick skin

0:26:130:26:16

and you have to appreciate that, ultimately, in order for it to work,

0:26:160:26:20

it's going to be wrong for a long...

0:26:200:26:23

It's going to be wrong for a while, if that makes sense.

0:26:230:26:25

So, yeah, we'll just have to roll with the punches

0:26:250:26:29

and back to the drawing board and get him what he needs.

0:26:290:26:33

The Fix Team are about to begin their third case,

0:26:370:26:41

tackling one of the UK's biggest rural crimes -

0:26:410:26:44

sheep rustling.

0:26:440:26:46

I'm in Somerset to meet Mike,

0:26:470:26:49

a farmer whose livelihood is being threatened

0:26:490:26:52

by criminals stealing his sheep in the dead of night.

0:26:520:26:54

What's happened when you've lost sheep before?

0:26:560:26:58

Can you just describe it?

0:26:580:26:59

They pinched them in two Transit vans.

0:26:590:27:01

And one of the Transit vans broke down.

0:27:010:27:03

And they left them in the back of the Transit van.

0:27:040:27:07

Then, when we let them out, nine of them were dead, they got suffocated,

0:27:070:27:11

or they were trampled to death.

0:27:110:27:12

To me, that was awful.

0:27:120:27:14

What sort of people would just leave sheep to die in them circumstances,

0:27:140:27:18

or let anything die in them circumstances?

0:27:180:27:20

Sheep rustling is one of the oldest crimes in Britain

0:27:220:27:25

and it's an increasing problem.

0:27:250:27:27

It's thought almost 100,000 sheep are stolen every year,

0:27:270:27:31

costing farmers millions of pounds.

0:27:310:27:34

How much of a problem is it around here?

0:27:340:27:36

Last year was a real problem.

0:27:360:27:38

The numbers are getting bigger.

0:27:380:27:39

Whereas it used to be twos and threes and fours and fives,

0:27:390:27:42

now it's trailer-loads, lorry-loads.

0:27:420:27:45

-Entire flocks.

-And there was one person up North

0:27:450:27:47

who had 600 pinched one night.

0:27:470:27:48

The police don't stand a chance.

0:27:480:27:50

They've got to catch them red-handed.

0:27:500:27:51

I fed back what I'd learnt to the team in London.

0:27:540:27:57

Both sides of my family are farmers,

0:27:580:28:00

so I'm kind of aware of actually what it's like

0:28:000:28:02

to try and control a rural space.

0:28:020:28:06

An enormous challenge, I imagine.

0:28:060:28:07

It's not like bolting your front door, is it?

0:28:070:28:10

The space is the problem.

0:28:100:28:12

We need to do a kind of Crimewatch reconstruction.

0:28:120:28:14

So we need to find out as much as possible

0:28:140:28:16

about how the different crimes were committed,

0:28:160:28:18

find out what was in common.

0:28:180:28:19

Because that's the only way we're going to really understand

0:28:190:28:21

where the points that we can intervene,

0:28:210:28:23

in order to prevent it, are.

0:28:230:28:24

All right?

0:28:270:28:28

Dr Zoe Laughlin and Jude Pullen have come to the farm.

0:28:280:28:31

Mike and his three sons have agreed to reconstruct the night

0:28:330:28:36

their sheep were stolen.

0:28:360:28:37

Come on, Floss, here! Fetch them on.

0:28:390:28:42

Fetch them on.

0:28:420:28:44

Zoe is co-founder and director

0:28:440:28:46

of the Institute of Making at University College London.

0:28:460:28:50

So when you're rustled, I mean, they do it pretty silently?

0:28:500:28:54

Yeah, they know what they're doing.

0:28:540:28:57

And sheep will handle a lot different in the dark.

0:28:570:28:59

Will they be quieter or louder, the sheep?

0:28:590:29:00

They'll be quieter,

0:29:000:29:02

but they'll group together more and run a lot easier.

0:29:020:29:04

So you have to be kind of a skilled shepherd to round up sheep?

0:29:040:29:06

Oh, you've got to know what you're doing, yeah.

0:29:060:29:08

It's not as simple as it looks.

0:29:080:29:09

Come on, Fern, here!

0:29:090:29:11

Here, Fern! Here, Floss!

0:29:110:29:13

-So we're going to see how fast we can get them in.

-Yeah.

0:29:130:29:16

-Under a minute I reckon.

-Under a minute?

0:29:160:29:19

Jude is an award-winning design engineer.

0:29:200:29:23

Like Zoe, he also grew up in the countryside.

0:29:230:29:25

These ones need to get going.

0:29:250:29:27

HE WHISTLES

0:29:270:29:28

Get in.

0:29:280:29:30

The rustle happens at an impressive pace.

0:29:300:29:32

Within moments, the sheep are in the trailer.

0:29:320:29:35

So, this is pretty impressive.

0:29:410:29:42

You're getting this done in a relaxed way in about two minutes.

0:29:420:29:45

-Yeah.

-And you're saying, if you wanted to,

0:29:450:29:48

if you were a serious criminal,

0:29:480:29:49

you could get this done in half that time?

0:29:490:29:51

Easy, yeah. If you were pushing, you could, easily.

0:29:510:29:54

-It's that simple.

-That's it.

0:29:550:29:58

You can't lock this road, because it's public access.

0:29:580:30:00

Yeah, this is public, so we can't lock this road.

0:30:000:30:02

Yeah, it's all too easy.

0:30:020:30:04

Sheep rustlers nearly always work at night.

0:30:060:30:08

They cut out identifying ear tags

0:30:090:30:10

and can take the sheep almost anywhere for slaughter or sale.

0:30:100:30:14

In the last ten years,

0:30:140:30:16

only a handful of rustlers have been prosecuted.

0:30:160:30:18

After the reconstruction, we head to a pub

0:30:220:30:24

to talk through the potential solutions with Mike

0:30:240:30:26

and a group of other local farmers.

0:30:260:30:28

Zoe and Jude have got some bits of tech and kit to show you

0:30:290:30:34

which, hopefully, we are going to be able to look at and pick apart.

0:30:340:30:38

First, Zoe tries an infrared beam...

0:30:380:30:40

-When something crosses the beam...

-BEEPING

0:30:400:30:43

..they sound an alarm.

0:30:430:30:44

You could easily imagine them between

0:30:440:30:46

exit and entry points of fields and that kind of thing.

0:30:460:30:49

The problem with that is, we live there,

0:30:490:30:51

and that's there,

0:30:510:30:53

which is probably about two and a half miles.

0:30:530:30:55

By the time we've got dressed, got a vehicle, got a dog...

0:30:550:30:58

Because you would never go anywhere without a dog, would you?

0:30:580:31:00

..and got up there, they could be long gone.

0:31:000:31:04

Then ultra-violet dye,

0:31:050:31:06

which is invisible until a UV light is shone on it.

0:31:060:31:08

It could be something that would be triggered to spray.

0:31:090:31:12

Criminals, you'd spray their truck, you'd spray the sheep.

0:31:120:31:15

-But then you've got to find who the criminal is to read the mark.

-Yeah.

0:31:150:31:19

Then Jude shows off a sound-activated alarm

0:31:190:31:21

which he's hoping will detect when the sheep are distressed.

0:31:210:31:25

Now...

0:31:250:31:26

-on the tray...

-What is this?

0:31:260:31:28

This device is, when the sort of bleats are at a gentle level,

0:31:280:31:33

it wouldn't really send much of a signal.

0:31:330:31:35

But when it gets too loud,

0:31:350:31:37

it would transmit through this little device via Wi-Fi.

0:31:370:31:40

And as you can see, if I check my phone,

0:31:400:31:42

-it's been alerting me that...

-Sheep alert.

-Sheep alert.

0:31:420:31:45

What do you think, gentlemen?

0:31:450:31:47

Is something like that viable? Could it work?

0:31:470:31:49

I think ewes with lambs at foot will bleat when they are distressed.

0:31:490:31:52

Yeah.

0:31:520:31:53

But store lambs, or hogs as we call them at this time of year,

0:31:530:31:56

very rarely do they bleat.

0:31:560:31:58

The farmers aren't convinced.

0:32:000:32:01

They reject all of Zoe and Jude's first ideas.

0:32:010:32:04

It's going to be a lot harder than they thought

0:32:040:32:06

to combat sheep rustling.

0:32:060:32:07

Back on Graham's case,

0:32:150:32:16

Ross and Ruby have been called to Peterborough.

0:32:160:32:19

Zoe's made a discovery that could revolutionise her project

0:32:220:32:25

to give Graham back his voice.

0:32:250:32:27

Is that what I think it might be?

0:32:280:32:30

-Are these tapes of Graham?

-Yeah.

0:32:310:32:33

Oh, my God...

0:32:330:32:35

Builders were working in the attic and found an old box full of tapes.

0:32:360:32:39

Hello. Here's me, Graham, sitting with my daughter Louisa.

0:32:480:32:53

It's the first time Zoe's heard her husband's voice since his stroke.

0:32:540:32:58

Well, seven moods, you know?

0:32:580:33:01

Shouting at me!

0:33:020:33:03

Shouting at Louisa.

0:33:030:33:05

-ROSS:

-Is this Graham talking?

-Yeah.

0:33:050:33:07

Did he just say tea-time?

0:33:070:33:09

Would you like a bottle on it?

0:33:100:33:12

THEY ALL LAUGH

0:33:160:33:18

I love it!

0:33:240:33:25

-GRAHAM:

-Ah... Let's have a big "Ah!" for Louisa.

0:33:250:33:28

You're not supposed to throw stones at the video camera.

0:33:310:33:34

-Here.

-Argh!

0:33:340:33:36

-GRAHAM:

-Whooh! Whooh!

0:33:400:33:42

-ROSS:

-That's going to be great for getting people's attention.

0:33:440:33:47

No, that's Graham.

0:33:470:33:49

That is a strong look.

0:33:500:33:52

Dad, say something.

0:33:520:33:53

I'm knackered.

0:33:530:33:55

A quick flash!

0:33:550:33:57

-I told you he was naughty.

-We can't have that.

0:33:590:34:01

He is so naughty!

0:34:010:34:02

Yay...!

0:34:030:34:05

-LOUISA:

-And it's really nice looking at these lovebirds.

0:34:060:34:09

It's just amazing to actually see what he's really like.

0:34:110:34:15

-That's wicked.

-OR what he used to be like.

0:34:160:34:18

Yeah, but he's still... He is still there.

0:34:180:34:20

-It's just he can't get it out.

-Yeah.

0:34:200:34:22

Hard.

0:34:240:34:25

Now Ruby and Ross will take the tapes away

0:34:250:34:28

to see if they can build Graham's own voice into their invention.

0:34:280:34:31

Seeing him in those videos and seeing who he was...

0:34:350:34:40

..and for him to have lost that, imagine if that happened to you.

0:34:410:34:46

And imagine if you went from who he was

0:34:460:34:49

to being in the position he's in now.

0:34:490:34:51

The fact that you would have any positivity about anything after that

0:34:510:34:54

is just amazing, absolutely amazing.

0:34:540:34:56

Anyway, I thought I needed to say that while I was thinking about it.

0:34:560:34:59

While Ross and Ruby start trawling through the tapes of Graham's voice,

0:35:010:35:05

Yusuf is making progress with Oscar's bike.

0:35:050:35:08

There's a lot more that we need to do on the handlebars

0:35:090:35:12

to make him comfortable, to make him feel stable.

0:35:120:35:16

Oscar can't grip the handlebars,

0:35:160:35:19

so Yusuf designs and 3D prints various wrist attachments.

0:35:190:35:23

But Oscar doesn't want obvious disability aids on his bike.

0:35:270:35:29

Yusuf hits on a solution...

0:35:310:35:32

If we were to use Velcro and create a...

0:35:340:35:38

..almost like a wristband for him.

0:35:390:35:41

What it would mean is that we could have a surface on the handlebars

0:35:420:35:46

that he could...clip down into.

0:35:460:35:50

The idea that he could kind of steer with it is one I'd like to explore.

0:35:500:35:54

Yusuf is getting help a little closer to home

0:35:570:36:00

from an expert he knows can manufacture a Velcro armband.

0:36:000:36:03

My mum is helping out create the armbands.

0:36:050:36:08

The Velcro pads seem to be fairly easy to...

0:36:100:36:14

SEWING MACHINE JAMS

0:36:140:36:16

What you get is a very strong grip being formed.

0:36:170:36:22

So strong that I can hold the handlebar.

0:36:230:36:26

But if Oscar is in danger, it easily rips off.

0:36:270:36:30

And with a few final tweaks,

0:36:320:36:34

it's time to put the months of work to the test.

0:36:340:36:37

I feel very responsible.

0:36:370:36:39

I don't want to put him in harm's way.

0:36:390:36:42

Also, I don't want to disappoint him. He's put a lot of faith in me.

0:36:420:36:46

-Good luck.

-Thanks, man. Thanks.

0:36:480:36:50

In a park near his home,

0:36:510:36:52

Oscar and his friends and family are waiting

0:36:520:36:55

to see if he can ride a bicycle.

0:36:550:36:57

Over the last eight months, Yusuf has built not one but two bikes.

0:36:590:37:03

A mountain bike for longer journeys and also Oscar's dream bike,

0:37:030:37:07

an incredible BMX.

0:37:070:37:08

That's fantastic.

0:37:080:37:10

The smartest BMX that you will see in Sandwell and Dudley.

0:37:110:37:17

Yusuf straps the Velcro band to one of Oscar's arms,

0:37:190:37:23

the other arm is free to push the lever

0:37:230:37:25

that operates the front and back brakes.

0:37:250:37:27

It's the moment of truth...

0:37:270:37:29

Bike trainer Lisa is there to keep an eye.

0:37:310:37:33

He's off.

0:37:350:37:36

Yes!

0:37:380:37:39

-Yeah!

-Yay!

0:37:390:37:41

Again!

0:37:470:37:49

This is really, really wonderful.

0:37:560:37:58

Once he can do this,

0:38:010:38:03

then hopefully he'll realise that he can do anything.

0:38:030:38:06

This feels to me like Yusuf has...

0:38:060:38:09

Cracked it.

0:38:090:38:10

You said it.

0:38:100:38:11

-Thank you.

-No problem, mate. My pleasure, my pleasure.

0:38:110:38:14

That's fine. That's fine.

0:38:140:38:16

Thank you. You've changed his life, Yusuf. I really appreciate it.

0:38:160:38:19

I'm really intrigued to see where he goes with it.

0:38:230:38:25

Is he going to be a Paralympic cyclist?

0:38:250:38:28

Is he going to be a BMX stunt rider doing tricks?

0:38:280:38:33

Who knows?

0:38:330:38:34

His journey cycling is just kind of beginning.

0:38:340:38:37

Hi, Malcolm. This is Zoe ringing about the sheep-rustling project.

0:38:410:38:44

Have you got ten minutes for me to ask you a few questions?

0:38:440:38:46

Having initially failed to impress the farmers with their tech,

0:38:460:38:51

the team start speaking to the police, to vets

0:38:510:38:53

and leave no stone unturned.

0:38:530:38:56

So I've come to a livestock market

0:38:590:39:01

to watch a sheep auction and really see how sheep are bought and sold.

0:39:010:39:06

Through you come.

0:39:090:39:11

Every sheep has an ear tag with an electronic chip

0:39:130:39:17

which identifies it and the farm it's from.

0:39:170:39:20

They tell me you are ear tag man.

0:39:210:39:24

Do you do chips that go anywhere else on the body or in the body?

0:39:240:39:26

-No.

-It's just ear tags?

-It is just ear tags.

0:39:260:39:29

But thieves can easily remove the tags and replace them with new tags

0:39:290:39:33

showing a different owner, stopping people knowing they've been stolen.

0:39:330:39:37

OK, come on, I wasn't wrong. £80.

0:39:370:39:39

Zoe thinks she has a solution.

0:39:410:39:43

Those tags are vulnerable.

0:39:450:39:46

So I think this fix is about making something

0:39:460:39:48

that's internal to the sheep.

0:39:480:39:50

Something that the sheep ingests,

0:39:500:39:52

can stay in there for the life of the sheep

0:39:520:39:54

but can be read by these readers.

0:39:540:39:56

So really the next step is about prototyping those

0:39:560:40:00

and looking at the materials.

0:40:000:40:02

There's a lot to do.

0:40:020:40:03

Back in London, Zoe begins planning with Jude and Ross.

0:40:030:40:07

If we can get somehow a tag inside the sheep,

0:40:070:40:10

then it couldn't be removed.

0:40:100:40:11

So sheep actually have something

0:40:110:40:13

that they already ingest if they need mineral supplements

0:40:130:40:16

and that's a bolus.

0:40:160:40:17

So this is an example of a bolus.

0:40:170:40:20

Sheep eat stones all the time

0:40:200:40:21

and part of their stomach is designed to hold heavy objects.

0:40:210:40:26

If we could somehow get a tag inside a bolus,

0:40:260:40:28

then we're looking at essentially an internal tag

0:40:280:40:31

which is much less easy to remove.

0:40:310:40:34

The problem with the current electronic ear tag

0:40:340:40:37

is it uses radio waves and needs a specialist scanner to read it.

0:40:370:40:42

Jude has a more modern solution.

0:40:430:40:45

You might want to consider one of these things,

0:40:450:40:47

which is a Bluetooth transmitter.

0:40:470:40:49

Also, a key benefit of that

0:40:490:40:51

is that anyone can read it with their smartphone.

0:40:510:40:53

We can give people an app

0:40:530:40:54

and then anyone can look out for stolen sheep.

0:40:540:40:56

So with the app on a smartphone and a Bluetooth bolus inside a sheep,

0:40:570:41:02

anyone can become a stolen sheep detective.

0:41:020:41:05

So can you get a Bluetooth chip into something this size

0:41:050:41:10

or maybe, maximum, that size?

0:41:100:41:11

-So that's about as big as it can get.

-Yeah.

0:41:110:41:13

A bolus can sit in a sheep's stomach for its whole life

0:41:130:41:16

without causing any harm.

0:41:160:41:18

It's a perfect place to hide a tracking device.

0:41:190:41:21

So we need that inside that

0:41:210:41:24

and a phone that can pick it up.

0:41:240:41:26

Yeah!

0:41:260:41:28

Jude gets straight to work.

0:41:310:41:32

He miniaturises the components

0:41:320:41:35

and uses his 3D printer to build a tiny case for the batteries.

0:41:350:41:39

Doctor of material Zoe will make the housing for the electronics.

0:41:400:41:43

Right, so, I'm going to attempt to make a ceramic case

0:41:450:41:51

in which the electronic gubbins will live.

0:41:510:41:54

So I've made some plaster blanks.

0:41:540:41:55

I can then drill holes into them.

0:41:550:41:58

So I'll just get a bit of slip in here.

0:42:000:42:02

Pour it into the mould.

0:42:030:42:05

Once it's been in the mould for a minute or so...

0:42:050:42:08

skin starts to form

0:42:080:42:10

and you can tip out the remaining liquid clay.

0:42:100:42:14

What's left is a wall and a skin of more solid stuff.

0:42:140:42:19

I'm going to put them in the oven just to slowly dry them.

0:42:190:42:23

Ta-da!

0:42:240:42:26

So that's a slip cast cylinder

0:42:260:42:29

which then needs to be fired at 1,260 centigrade.

0:42:290:42:33

And that will vitrify the material.

0:42:330:42:35

Fingers crossed...nothing cracks or explodes.

0:42:360:42:40

After 36 hours, Zoe's joined by Jude

0:42:410:42:45

and then she lifts the lid on the kiln.

0:42:450:42:47

Look at them, the little beauties.

0:42:500:42:53

Oh, I'm pleased with that.

0:42:530:42:54

And a battery-powered Bluetooth chip is ready to go.

0:42:540:42:58

Can we see if your thing fits into my slot?

0:42:590:43:01

-Boom, boom!

-That's a good idea.

-Just to kick us off.

0:43:010:43:04

OK.

0:43:060:43:07

Perfect.

0:43:100:43:11

Finally, the team dip the boluses in non-toxic wax

0:43:120:43:15

to make them easier to swallow,

0:43:150:43:17

add the electronics and seal the lids.

0:43:170:43:20

Past ten o'clock at night and I go a bit doolally.

0:43:230:43:26

A visit to the shops has given Jude another idea...

0:43:260:43:29

A way of making the existing ear tags tamper-proof.

0:43:290:43:33

I have an ear tag and I have a tamper-evident tag,

0:43:340:43:39

which you might have seen in clothing stores.

0:43:390:43:41

These things spray ink all over your stolen shirt

0:43:410:43:46

if you try and remove these.

0:43:460:43:47

Whoo-hoo!

0:43:490:43:50

I'm wondering whether that can actually be used to house the ink.

0:43:500:43:55

Here goes.

0:43:550:43:57

It's my replica sheep's ear.

0:43:590:44:01

Let's see what happens when we cut through it.

0:44:010:44:04

So, there. That's quite a good amount.

0:44:060:44:09

So any rustler that cuts through Jude's ear tags

0:44:110:44:14

will mark themselves and the sheep with indelible dye,

0:44:140:44:18

making the sheep almost impossible to sell at auction.

0:44:180:44:20

We've got the ink spike here

0:44:200:44:23

and that's both blue for the visual

0:44:230:44:26

but it also contains UV invisible dye, but is visible with this.

0:44:260:44:31

After four months' work,

0:44:330:44:34

the team have now come up with two new ideas to deter the criminals.

0:44:340:44:38

A tamper-proof ear tag and a hidden tracking device.

0:44:380:44:42

We appear to have got the prototyping done,

0:44:420:44:46

so here it is...

0:44:460:44:47

Now they need to put them to the test.

0:44:490:44:51

In London, Ross is building a replacement for Graham's stylus.

0:44:560:45:00

He's calling it the D-pad.

0:45:000:45:02

Just a very quick, very small, very light little device

0:45:040:45:08

for Graham to carry around or have with him

0:45:080:45:12

and it's going to allow him to control the app using arrow keys.

0:45:120:45:16

Ross enlists the help of his fiancee Isabel to build the D-pad.

0:45:170:45:21

It's going to have a touch screen

0:45:220:45:24

similar to the ones found on Smartphones.

0:45:240:45:26

These work by sensing tiny electrical currents

0:45:260:45:29

generated by contact with your fingers.

0:45:290:45:31

With the lightest touch,

0:45:330:45:35

Graham will be able to operate his tablet computer.

0:45:350:45:38

They make the buttons

0:45:400:45:42

by putting conductive paint on clear plastic vinyl.

0:45:420:45:45

The electric buttons will then be mounted

0:45:500:45:52

on incredibly light corrugated plastic,

0:45:520:45:55

which Ross cuts with a laser cutter.

0:45:550:45:57

Perfect.

0:45:580:46:00

Meanwhile, Ruby is on a business trip in China.

0:46:020:46:05

She's deciding the order of the statements,

0:46:050:46:08

either in Graham's voice or using TV or film clips,

0:46:080:46:11

using a computer programme called a wireframe.

0:46:110:46:14

The point of wireframe

0:46:150:46:16

is to communicate to the rest of your team how the app should work.

0:46:160:46:20

It allows you to just work out what's on this screen,

0:46:200:46:23

where does it go, what can it do?

0:46:230:46:26

Both of them are now working through the night

0:46:280:46:30

to get Graham's device ready as quickly as possible.

0:46:300:46:33

It's quarter to one.

0:46:340:46:36

The D-pad is wired up

0:46:370:46:39

and I think I've written the code...

0:46:390:46:42

..but I can't get it to upload to the board.

0:46:430:46:45

And I think maybe it's to do with the way I've wired it up, but...

0:46:470:46:50

..I'm not sure how to fix it.

0:46:510:46:53

After months of work, we are back at Mike's farm

0:46:590:47:02

getting ready to re-enact another sheep rustle.

0:47:020:47:04

But this time the farm will be monitored

0:47:050:47:07

by our team's specially-built sheep protection app - Herd It.

0:47:070:47:12

Be scared.

0:47:120:47:13

-Mike!

-All right?

0:47:130:47:16

-Hiya.

-Good to see you.

0:47:160:47:18

Oh... Nice pooey hands!

0:47:180:47:19

-These guys have been working hard on your behalf.

-Have they?

0:47:210:47:23

-Does it work?

-That's what were going to find out today.

0:47:230:47:26

So what we've got is a combination of two things.

0:47:260:47:31

A bunch of ear tags, which are going to have dye in them.

0:47:310:47:35

The other side of it is you're familiar with boluses,

0:47:350:47:38

which is what you'd use with your standard applicator,

0:47:380:47:42

but we've basically put electronics in it

0:47:420:47:44

that are going to transmit a signal like a beacon.

0:47:440:47:46

First, Jude's ink ear tags

0:47:480:47:50

are fitted in the existing holes in the sheep's ears.

0:47:500:47:52

So there we go. You can see it just coming through here

0:47:540:47:57

and there we go, clips in.

0:47:570:48:00

-Very simple.

-Bob's your teapot.

0:48:000:48:02

-To take that ear tag out...

-Yeah?

0:48:030:48:05

Oh, I see, you'd have to cut it there.

0:48:050:48:08

-You'd have to get a pair of scissors.

-I'm learning, aren't I?!

0:48:080:48:11

No, no, no, that's good.

0:48:110:48:12

-If you cut there...

-Yeah, yeah.

0:48:120:48:14

I know. Yeah, no, no. I let you off there, that's pretty good.

0:48:140:48:18

The bolus is swallowed painlessly by the sheep,

0:48:190:48:22

with the welfare of the animal monitored by a local vet.

0:48:220:48:25

She won't know anything about that.

0:48:270:48:29

-It's something that you do all the time on the farm?

-Yeah.

0:48:290:48:32

It's time to put the tech to the test.

0:48:320:48:34

Crack on with your rustle.

0:48:350:48:37

Rustle!

0:48:370:48:38

Fetch them on, dogs!

0:48:380:48:40

Get in!

0:48:400:48:41

We've got to imagine it's the middle of the night, pitch-black,

0:48:410:48:45

but the rustlers are out.

0:48:450:48:46

The lorry's off.

0:48:460:48:48

In the back of the van the first layer of protection comes into play,

0:48:510:48:54

the ink ear tags.

0:48:540:48:56

Well, let's just imagine the scene.

0:49:000:49:01

I'm, let's say, an inspector monitoring for rural crime.

0:49:010:49:05

Can see some suspicious blue on the ear of the sheep here and this one.

0:49:050:49:10

You're not going to miss that.

0:49:100:49:12

But look at his hands.

0:49:120:49:13

Proof that he's been up to no good.

0:49:130:49:15

How long will it stay on?

0:49:150:49:16

So this is developed, this dye, for banks, and so it's permanent.

0:49:160:49:20

You're rufty-tufty sheep farmers. What do you think?

0:49:200:49:23

Yeah, no, it's very good, very good, right.

0:49:230:49:26

But I still say that there's nothing tying them back to the owner.

0:49:260:49:30

Yeah.

0:49:300:49:31

As soon as sheep are off-loaded at the market,

0:49:370:49:39

it's time to see if the bolus actually works.

0:49:390:49:41

-So the minute I opened my phone it was telling me...

-Instantly!

-Yeah.

0:49:420:49:45

"Found sheep."

0:49:450:49:47

-"36846 from flock number four."

-Yep.

0:49:470:49:50

This is Mike's phone, as it were,

0:49:500:49:52

saying your sheep was last spotted at this location.

0:49:520:49:57

You just click, it opens the map.

0:49:580:50:01

So there you are, it's saying that's where we are.

0:50:010:50:03

It shows, look, they're at the livestock auction.

0:50:030:50:06

You could ring up...

0:50:060:50:08

And tell Andrew that I've caught him.

0:50:080:50:10

Yeah, you could say you've got my nicked sheep here.

0:50:100:50:14

The test was a spectacular success.

0:50:150:50:18

The team hope all farmers will use this technology,

0:50:180:50:21

meaning all their mobile phones become sheep detectors.

0:50:210:50:24

As soon as a stolen sheep turns up, phones will pick the signal.

0:50:250:50:28

They'll be nowhere for a stolen sheep to hide.

0:50:280:50:32

If the ownership of that sheep was brought into question,

0:50:320:50:34

we could find the bolus to prove that it's not the vendor's sheep.

0:50:340:50:39

We could then immediately not offer it for sale,

0:50:390:50:41

contact Mike, if it was his sheep,

0:50:410:50:43

contact the police and put it in their hands.

0:50:430:50:45

It sounds like, from what you're saying,

0:50:450:50:47

that this could really, really work.

0:50:470:50:49

I think every possibility, yeah,

0:50:490:50:51

that it could be one of the only ways of identifying rustled sheep.

0:50:510:50:56

I think it's a brilliant achievement

0:50:560:50:58

which has potential to be rolled out across the country

0:50:580:51:00

and revolutionise traceability in sheep.

0:51:000:51:02

Wonderful to hear. You've got the technology to this point.

0:51:020:51:06

What do you need to happen next to make this viable for other farmers?

0:51:060:51:11

We need to take this as evidence that the principle works

0:51:110:51:14

and take it to the National Sheep Association.

0:51:140:51:17

The Farmers' Union, government departments...

0:51:170:51:19

We need to ring people!

0:51:190:51:21

That's fantastic, really.

0:51:230:51:25

I mean, God, you know...

0:51:250:51:27

Yeah, well done.

0:51:270:51:28

Very impressive, that's all I can say on the subject.

0:51:310:51:34

I mean, you've shot me down.

0:51:340:51:36

Got to learn to use a phone properly now!

0:51:360:51:39

Back in London, the team are working flat out

0:51:470:51:49

to finish Graham's reaction pad.

0:51:490:51:51

Ruby's building four main pages into the app she's devised.

0:51:510:51:55

Attention, quick statements, emotions and environment.

0:51:550:52:00

They should allow Graham to take part in any conversation.

0:52:000:52:04

It's something that will last a lifetime.

0:52:040:52:07

For as long as he has something to say or something to react to,

0:52:070:52:11

he'll be able to use this

0:52:110:52:13

and that's what's really exciting because it's an evolving tool.

0:52:130:52:16

Working late into the night and the early morning,

0:52:170:52:19

Ross has managed to finish the control pad.

0:52:190:52:22

And to give Graham another option, in case his hand gets tired,

0:52:220:52:26

he's building him a joystick, too.

0:52:260:52:27

-Are you nervous?

-Very nervous about the hardware not working,

0:52:320:52:35

seeing as I was finishing it on the train up here.

0:52:350:52:37

He actually hasn't had any sleep.

0:52:370:52:38

-At all?

-No.

0:52:380:52:41

Do you feel more affected by the emotionality of it

0:52:410:52:44

than some of the other fixes?

0:52:440:52:46

I definitely felt a very, very strong emotional connection

0:52:460:52:49

to this story right from the second that I saw it.

0:52:490:52:52

He could be like your dad or your brother or anyone.

0:52:520:52:54

When you well up like that, Ruby,

0:52:560:52:58

and I see Ross swaying slightly with the exhaustion of the situation,

0:52:580:53:04

you've really tried and committed to this.

0:53:040:53:06

After six months,

0:53:070:53:09

they hope they've built something that will change Graham's life.

0:53:090:53:11

Hi, how are you?

0:53:110:53:13

We're excited!

0:53:130:53:14

It's lovely to see you both.

0:53:140:53:16

Are you OK with us gathering around?

0:53:170:53:19

Are you feeling a little bit excited or apprehensive?

0:53:230:53:26

"Not too bad."

0:53:320:53:33

What we've made for you, Graham, is...

0:53:350:53:38

this iPad has an app that's been made especially for you,

0:53:380:53:41

designed entirely around your requirements.

0:53:410:53:44

The D-pad with buttonhole mount.

0:53:440:53:47

-Complete with logo.

-Complete with logo.

0:53:470:53:50

When you see...

0:53:500:53:52

..the phrases in here,

0:53:530:53:54

when they've got quotation marks,

0:53:540:53:57

it means that we've used, in some cases,

0:53:570:54:00

Zoe's voice or clips from TV and films.

0:54:000:54:03

But every time you see just the phrase written as it is...

0:54:030:54:08

..we've actually found clips of you and your own voice

0:54:090:54:14

from the home videos that we've dug out the attic.

0:54:140:54:18

So that...they're actually you.

0:54:200:54:24

We went through about 50 hours of footage.

0:54:260:54:29

So it was really nice for us, actually,

0:54:310:54:34

to hear you speak and see you move and...

0:54:340:54:37

That was really great.

0:54:380:54:39

-OK.

-You ready?

0:54:410:54:42

Cool.

0:54:420:54:44

OK.

0:54:480:54:49

All right, Graham. Over to you, I guess.

0:54:500:54:53

-GRAHAM'S VOICE:

-Thank you, Zoe.

0:54:550:54:57

Thank you, Zoe.

0:55:010:55:03

That's a big smile, Graham.

0:55:030:55:05

Shall we open the door, Graham?

0:55:060:55:08

Yes.

0:55:090:55:10

Graham, do you want to get up?

0:55:140:55:16

No.

0:55:160:55:17

-No, not at the moment.

-He's otherwise occupied.

0:55:190:55:22

Graham, does this feel good?

0:55:250:55:27

Yes.

0:55:300:55:31

That, just in and of itself, must be an enormous relief to you both.

0:55:310:55:34

-Yeah.

-More.

0:55:350:55:37

More. I want you to keep pressing it.

0:55:370:55:39

OK, I don't care what you say.

0:55:390:55:42

Have a well-earned rest

0:55:430:55:45

and a drink.

0:55:450:55:47

Zoe...

0:55:500:55:51

Thanks, guys.

0:55:530:55:55

It was you speaking.

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The app has hundreds of clips of Graham's voice

0:56:040:56:07

and quotes from film and TV.

0:56:070:56:08

More can be added at any time.

0:56:080:56:10

-Is this going to help you communicate?

-Yes.

0:56:130:56:15

Hey...

0:56:150:56:16

You got that out before I could finish the sentence.

0:56:160:56:19

And he's only going to get faster and faster.

0:56:190:56:22

-SCOTTISH VOICE:

-I'm busy, fuck off!

0:56:230:56:25

LAUGHTER

0:56:250:56:26

Yes!

0:56:260:56:28

So great to hear your voice coming through again.

0:56:290:56:32

I told you to fuck off twice and yet you're still here!

0:56:320:56:35

LAUGHTER

0:56:350:56:37

All right, we'll take the hint.

0:56:370:56:39

Thank you.

0:56:420:56:44

It was kind of just even more amazing than I thought.

0:56:460:56:48

He got so quick at it so fast.

0:56:480:56:50

It was just so good.

0:56:500:56:51

Give him a week, think how fast he's going to be in a week, I can't wait.

0:56:510:56:55

Go on, have a hug.

0:56:550:56:57

The team have finished their work.

0:56:570:56:59

We leave Zoe and Graham to chat for the first time

0:56:590:57:03

since his life-changing stroke.

0:57:030:57:05

-GRAHAM'S VOICE:

-I've just had a wash.

-You have.

0:57:050:57:08

-Are you ready to go out?

-Yes.

0:57:080:57:10

Are you sorry for anything?

0:57:110:57:13

No!

0:57:150:57:16

So when I leave here tonight, you can say...

0:57:180:57:20

-See you tomorrow.

-Yeah.

0:57:200:57:22

I love you, Zoe.

0:57:240:57:25

See you tomorrow.

0:57:250:57:27

Our team's inventions are already changing lives.

0:57:300:57:33

Oscar is getting more confident on his bike every day.

0:57:340:57:38

The Fix Team are meeting farmers' unions

0:57:380:57:41

to drum up interest in their sheep protection system.

0:57:410:57:44

Graham has left hospital and moved back home.

0:57:440:57:46

Ross and Ruby have designed extra functions for his reaction pad app.

0:57:460:57:51

-GRAHAM'S VOICE:

-Meow!

0:57:520:57:53

Next time...

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I just trip over a lot and I can't stop.

0:58:020:58:05

Can the team design a medical helmet with style

0:58:050:58:08

for a young David Bowie fan?

0:58:080:58:10

HE SINGS

0:58:100:58:13

..and build technology to give a partially-sighted mum

0:58:130:58:16

the freedom to go outdoors?

0:58:160:58:19

We're here!

0:58:190:58:20

And help two brothers break the monotony of daily treatment?

0:58:200:58:23

And every time you blow, the red car accelerates.

0:58:230:58:26

I have never, ever seen this before.

0:58:260:58:29

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