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-This is... BOTH: -Absolute Genius. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:02 | |
Aaagghh! | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
Love technology? Love gadgets? | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
Love this. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
'In this explosive series of Absolute Genius...' | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
EXPLOSIONS AND CHEERING | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
'..we've looked at some of the most incredible technology...' | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
This is mind-blowing! | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
'..from the past, present and future.' | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
Stop! | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
'But in this show, it's our turn to choose the tech. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
'We're going to travel back to the dawn of technology | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
'to look at our favourite tech innovations. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
'To see how they work | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
'and find out how they changed our lives at home. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
'We've got the help of tech experts...' | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
Think Star Wars, basically. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
You're looking at your phone but this image comes out of it | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
and you can talk to it, maybe interact with it. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
'..our celeb friends...' | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
-Everyone was like... -HE GASPS | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
They're bringing a new channel, there's now five channels! | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
'..and our science buddy, Fran.' | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
True genius. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
It's genius. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
Absolute genius. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
Technology is everywhere. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
There are gadgets to clean your room. Ooh! | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
Apps where you can stream your favourite music. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
And some amazing ways to help you spend your spare time. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
Got it, ha! There is barely any time in the day | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
when we're not using some form of technology. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
But not so long ago, some of our favourite tech didn't exist at all. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
So, we're going to take you on a journey through time and space. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
On this epic journey, we're going back in time to explore | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
five of the greatest technological innovations that have | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
transformed our lives at home and meet the geniuses behind them. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
From the origins of telecommunications, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
to the birth of the World Wide Web. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
OK, shall we do a bit of TV time travel? | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
-Go on, then. -Here we go. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
The first on our list of tech breakthroughs happened | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
well over 100 years ago. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
But we still use it every single day today. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
-Ah! -So, look, here we are, our first stop in 1876. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
But what happened in 1876? | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
Well, Queen Victoria was on the throne. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
This tune was the top song of the year. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
CRACKLY MUSIC PLAYS | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
And this thing made its first appearance. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
-Yes - the telephone. -Hello? | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
In the 21st century, there are more phones than people, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
but, in 1876, there is just one, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
and the genius that invented it was Alexander Graham Bell. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
He created a device that turned the voice into an electrical signal | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
and for the first time ever, people could speak | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
to one another from a distance. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
'Hello?' | 0:03:25 | 0:03:26 | |
But Mr Bell didn't want people to greet each other on the phone | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
by saying... IN POSH VOICE: Hello? | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
He wanted them to say... IN POSH VOICE: Ahoy! | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
That didn't catch on, but the telephone certainly did. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:03:37 | 0:03:38 | |
Ahoy? | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
The telephone certainly was a genius invention, but how did it work? | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
How did it work, Belly? | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
Please leave a message after the beep. Beep! | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Oh, how very helpful. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
Well, if only we had a piece of tech | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
that could explain how all this tech works. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
-We have. -What? -The Fran App. -The Fran App? -The Fran App. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
Fran tells us all about technology. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
Brilliant. Extend your digit. Press it. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Oi! Are you ready? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
This is Fran. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
She's our scientist friend who can explain stuff | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
in a way that even we can understand. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
-Here's the magnet. -Yes. -Oh. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
And in this show, she's going to explain how our favourite tech works. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
Exactly. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Believe it or not, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
the telephone that Bell invented was not unlike my telephone here. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
It's a bit more complicated than that, Fran. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
You talk into this cup | 0:04:30 | 0:04:31 | |
and the vibrations from the sound of your voice travel along | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
the string and then make the cup at the other end vibrate | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
and act like a speaker. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
Bell's genius idea was to turn the vibrations from the sound | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
of his voice into an electrical signal. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
So instead of just travelling along a short string, the signal could | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
travel for miles, and then at the other end, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
be converted back into vibrations and played out of a speaker. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:56 | |
-That's absolute genius. -I know! | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
Bell's telephone was an incredible invention. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
And without him, we wouldn't have one of these. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
-What's that? -It's my mobile. -No, it's not. -Yes, it is. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
HE MAKES BEEPING SOUNDS See? | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
-No, it's not! -Yes, it is! -No, it's not, it's mine, give it back! | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
The first ever call on a mobile was made in 1973, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
But back then, they only worked for 30 minutes | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
and took ten hours to charge. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
When mobiles first came out, the handsets were huge. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
Nearly as big as their cost - | 0:05:29 | 0:05:30 | |
early models could cost around £3,000. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
But what were our celebrity friends' first mobile phones like? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
My first mobile phone was about this big, | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
had an aerial about this big that you could pull out. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
My first phone was that simple, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
it couldn't even keep track of the time. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
It would take hours to charge up | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
and then the battery lasted about three minutes. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
I can't tell you how excited I was when I got my first mobile phone, | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
it was huge! | 0:05:55 | 0:05:56 | |
Over time, the size of handsets began to shrink... | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
..whilst their power increased. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
And phones stopped being all about... | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
phone calls. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
And in 1992, text messages first appeared on our phones. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:11 | |
My first mobile phone, there was a feature, I remember, on it | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
that said 'text message'. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
And you could only hold ten text messages, so once you got to nine | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
or ten, you had to delete one before you could get another one in! | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
I think it was 10p a text so I used to be able to send about | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
one per day, my mum allowed me. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
Basically, all you could do was either...phone call, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
text and play Snake. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
And Snake was...I mean Snake was the bomb! | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
Everybody played Snake. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:38 | |
The legend goes that you can actually complete Snake. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
You can eat so many of the little... I don't know what they're called... | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
Pixelated apple things and your Snake can end up getting so long | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
that you just complete the game, | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
but no-one's ever actually seen it so... | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
A mate of mine says he did it once. No-one else saw it, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
I think he's lying, to be honest with you. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
The question is, what will our phones be like in the future? | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
We asked some tech experts | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
and what they have to say might blow your mind. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
Telephones will become kind of seamless. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
They'll be in our clothing, | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
they might even be kind of hard-wired in our bodies. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
Your mobile phone will look nothing like it looks today, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
in five to ten years' time. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
It'll be a wearable product. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
There seems to be a lot of excitement | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
around holographic technology, you know, think Star Wars, basically. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
You're looking at your phone but this image comes out of it | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
and you can talk to it, maybe interact with it. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
Thanks to the genius of Bell, you can now speak to who you want, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
when you want. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
The phone is one true genius idea, but throughout history | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
there have been one or two not so genius tech ideas. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
It's the Not So Genius Idea. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
Mobiles were a genius idea, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
but some early phone networks - not so much. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
One network, called Rabbit, opened for business in 1989 | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
and the phones worked great - | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
just as long as you were stood in a specific area | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
marked by a Rabbit sign. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
Great if you're in the city, but not so much in the countryside. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Not so surprisingly, Rabbit Phone only attracted | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
10,000 subscribers, most of whom were huddled | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
around a Rabbit sign together. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
And the network closed. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Definitely not so genius. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
One genius invention down - four to go. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
Our next genius tech idea revolutionised | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
how we're entertained in our homes. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
It's the TV and we watch nearly four hours of it every day. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
You can watch TV on your phones, your tablet, computer console, | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
-on demand, even on your... -What? -..TV. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
You can watch TV anywhere and at any time. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
But TV didn't always used to be this great. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
-Shall we have a look? -Why not? Press that button. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
Next stop on our Tech Time Tour is the 1920s. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
IN POSH VOICE: Back then, things were very different. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
Why are you talking like that? | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
IN POSH VOICE: Because back in the olden days, | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
-everyone talked like this. -Right. Well, stop it. -OK. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
In the 1920s, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
home entertainment was all about the radio. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
That was until tech genius John Logie Baird came along. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
Back in the 1920s, the only way to watch any kind of moving pictures | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
was to go to the cinema. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
So, lots of people were trying to bring the big screen to our homes, | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
and the person that did it first was Scotsman John Logie Baird. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
Baird's television was an incredible mechanical system. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
And very, very complex. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
The first ever TV involved... knitting needles. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
The lid from a hatbox. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
A cotton bobbin. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
The lamp from a bicycle. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
And for good measure, a coffin lid. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Somehow, Baird put all of these elements together to create | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
a spinning disc-based scanning system, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
which actually made a working television picture. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
But how did this random collection of junk actually make a TV? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
-Hey, less of the junk, you! -Sorry! | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
-Well, lucky for you lot, the Fran App's back. -Hey! | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Look, there it is! Go on, extend your digit. Press it. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
John Logie Baird's invention was incredible. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
There was a spinning disc with lots of holes in | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
and each of these holes was in a slightly different place, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
so each of them had a slightly different view | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
of what was being filmed. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:32 | |
Correct so far! | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
If the part the hole was looking at was light, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
then a lot of light would come through. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
The light was then converted into an electric pulse. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
This electric pulse was then sent on to a second disc | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
and this disc would make the picture. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
And that is the genius of John Logie Baird. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Logie Baird's television was the first ever to transmit pictures. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
And a picture looked a little bit like this. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
-Not exactly brilliant, is it? -Nah. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
That's better. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
But you're probably wondering what this is all about | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
and what this is all about. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Well, if you appeared on Logie Baird's format of television, | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
you'd have to wear yellow and blue make-up, just to be seen. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
-Don't think it's going to catch on, really. -No. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
I mean, you look like Kevin the Minion. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
Well, you look like a banana! | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
This is direct television from the studios at Alexandra Palace. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
In the end, a different way of broadcasting pictures | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
overtook Baird and a new system was developed with a far better picture. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
Early TV sets looked like this - not much bigger than | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
the size of your phone screen now. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
Back then, some people used to try and make their screen look bigger, | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
using a magnifying glass. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
But what were our celebrity friends' first TVs like? | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
My first TV was black and white | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
and you had to get up off your chair or wherever you were, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
to go and press the button if you wanted to change the channel. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
Can you believe that? | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
Get up and press the button to change the channel? | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
I got quite adept at throwing a tennis ball in the general | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
direction of the telly to try and change the channel. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
We didn't have any choice. We had a couple of channels. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
I think back when I was growing up, there were only four channels. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
And I remember Channel 5 coming out. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
-Everyone was like... -HE GASPS | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
They're bringing a new channel, there's now five channels! | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
If you wanted to watch something on a Friday at nine o'clock, | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
you had to sit in, Friday at nine o'clock. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:18 | |
Imagine - you had to race home to watch a programme, | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
and if you missed it, that was it, you missed it. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
Sometimes it was a choice between, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:27 | |
do I go in the shop after school and get a bar of chocolate | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
or do I get home to watch my favourite show? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
That's a decision no-one should have to make | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
and thankfully, now, we don't have to. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
TV has changed massively since Logie Baird's contraption | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
but what will it be like in the future? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
We asked our tech experts. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
I think, in the future, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
we're going to move towards really detailed content. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
You're going to be able to see every blade of grass, every raindrop, | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
even in more detail than you can see it now. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
We might actually be able to have things beamed small onto glasses | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
or even onto the retina, | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
so you can watch things as well as interacting with other people. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
TV is genius and it's all thanks to Logie Baird. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
Time for our next genius tech invention. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
For our next innovation, we're in the '50s. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
Now, in this decade, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
people looked to the skies. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
Our next innovation takes us to space. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
Believe it or not, | 0:13:29 | 0:13:30 | |
so much of the technology we use today is reliant on being in space. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
Right now there are about 1,100 satellites working | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
above our heads, bringing us GPS, internet connections and TV shows. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
But we wouldn't have any of that, had genius space pioneer, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
Sergei Korolev, not sent the first satellite into space - | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
the Sputnik 1. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
After that, the world went space wild and technology changed forever. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
I love space, I do. Just to think there are all those satellites | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
orbiting around above our heads. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
But how do they work? | 0:14:01 | 0:14:02 | |
It's all thanks to me. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
-Well, I don't know how it works. -Neither do I. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
Fran it. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:07 | |
Good idea. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Satellites are genius, though how they work is actually quite simple. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
They're like giant mirrors in space. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
Information is beamed up to them from Earth, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
which could be a telephone call or a TV show that's being broadcast, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
or in this case, my laser light. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
Put that away, Fran, you will blind someone! | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
As the satellite is way up in space, | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
it can see a lot more of Earth than we can, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
so information is simply reflected off them, | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
back down to Earth. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:40 | |
With one satellite covering a lot of ground. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
So this means we can not only easily communicate over the entire globe, | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
but we can also see and monitor the Earth from high above. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
I'm a genius, innit? | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
As people, we don't realise how vital satellites are - | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
for phones, for navigation. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:04 | |
They're being used so much without us even taking a second thought | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
about them, really. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:09 | |
If you've got a satellite on the outside of your house, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
that's facing a satellite in the sky that is directly above Britain | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
all of the time. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:16 | |
Satellites are amazing, | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
but with so many of them orbiting the Earth, it can cause problems. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
They do collide, they do crash into each other sometimes. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
About two years ago, an American satellite and a Russian satellite | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
crashed into each other. They were instantly vaporised | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
because they were both travelling at ridiculously fast speeds. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
Satellites have given us some top tech right now on Earth | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
but what about technology in the future? | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
Here's our genius top five future tech. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
At five - ever wanted to grow your own meat? | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
Because scientists have already artificially grown | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
a burger in a lab, but it cost a quarter of a million pounds to make! | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
-TILL RINGS -Oof! | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
At four - it's Nanobatteries. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
These mini batteries are set to be smaller than a human hair | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
and offer three times the charge capacity of current batteries. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
At three - it's telepathy. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Facebook's big boss Mark Zuckerberg | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
reckons in the future, we'll be ditching the keyboard | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
and thinking our messages from our brains. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
Good thinking, Mark. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
At two - it's graphene. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:14 | |
It already exists and is the strongest material in the world. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
In the future, it could be used to make super-thin, super-strong TVs. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
And at one - it's bioprinting. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
It will soon be possible to print parts of the human body. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
Scientists are working on tech to print fully-working human organs. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
I just hope one day they can print me a new co-host. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
Watch it! | 0:16:36 | 0:16:37 | |
Next stop on our Tech Time Tour is... | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
..the '80s. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:47 | |
It was a decade of dodgy music... | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
# Never gonna give you up... # | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
..dodgy fashion... | 0:16:52 | 0:16:53 | |
# Never gonna let you down... # | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
And a decade where the genius invention of computer games | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
went massive. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
It was all the way back in 1966 when gaming genius Ralph Baer | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
began to look at ways of creating computer games that you could | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
play on your home TV. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
A year later, he created the first ever gaming console prototypes. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:17 | |
Fast forward to the 1980s and gaming is big news | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
and there is an explosion in home computer companies | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
who all wanted to get in on the game. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Sega and Nintendo came from Japan. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
Commodore and Atari came from North America. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
And here in the UK, we were making our own games machines, too. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
Yes, in the UK, it was all about the ZX Spectrum, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
complete with games like Stunt Car Racer. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
Throughout the 1980s, gaming technology changed | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
beyond all recognition, but why? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
-Well, I'm not going to tell you. -Who is? -The Frapp! | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
Game over. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
This is a computer's RAM, which stands for Random Access Memory. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
And it's a bit like the notebook of the computer world. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
It's where the computer temporarily stores information. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
At the beginning of the 1980s, the RAM could hold just 128 bytes | 0:18:06 | 0:18:12 | |
and that meant, the games you could play looked like this. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
Oh! | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
But ten years on, the RAM could hold more than 60,000 bytes | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
and that meant the games looked like this. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
Better! | 0:18:28 | 0:18:29 | |
Nowadays, we can fit more than eight billion bytes on to the RAM, | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
which is why we've got such awesome games. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
I love RAM! | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
Cheers, Franny, but what kind of gaming tech did our celebrities have? | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
I used to love computer games. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
I had the Super Nintendo which we called the SNES. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
I had the Megadrive with Sonic on it. Loved Sonic. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
I never had a first video console. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
I had a computer. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
It was called a Dragon. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:56 | |
You couldn't buy games for it, you bought magazines, and the magazines | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
would have all the coding, line by line in basic, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
and then once you'd typed it and saved it, you had a game. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
Back then, it was a massive computer, on a table, | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
and you'd have to go upstairs into that special room | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
and fight your little brother to play on it. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
The thing is, with a lot of those old consoles, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
you didn't have any save function. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
I know it sounds mad to say it now, you weren't able to save. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
So, say, for example, if I got up extra early to play a couple of | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
computer games before school, and I got to a really far level, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
I'd hit pause, turn off my TV, go to school, come back and carry on | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
playing cos I didn't want to lose the point that I was on in my game. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
My mum started to get suspicious | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
when the electricity bills would come in, but I never told her | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
anything. I suppose the truth's kind of out there now, though, isn't it? | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
Today, gaming has become an immersive experience | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
and in the future, virtual reality technology will take the gamer | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
off their sofa and into the game. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
By the time it comes to the mainstream, gaming is just going to | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
blow people's minds. It's just going to be unbelievable. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
It's gaming that we've never experienced before, I think. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
You will be able to transport yourself into a different world | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
and all your senses... | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
..will start to think it's a different world. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
I think the future of computer games, | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
it's going to get to the point where people can actually step | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
into the computer game and battle aliens themselves. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
Imagine that, cocker, it'd be great, wouldn't it? | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
On our tech time-travelling journey, we've seen some of the biggest | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
innovations that have changed our home lives forever. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
But our last genius technological breakthrough | 0:20:36 | 0:20:40 | |
is perhaps the biggest of them all. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
Welcome to Switzerland, 1989. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
There's chocolate, there's skiing, but there's no World Wide Web. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
Where did the World Wide Web come from? | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
Oh, sorry. Couldn't help myself. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
-The chocolate was for us, not just for you. -Have that bit. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
Anyway, here's how the World Wide Web began. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
Get off. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:04 | |
Back in 1954, 12 European countries began to work together | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
in Switzerland on a project to find about the physics of the universe. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
'This is CERN. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
'The European organisation for nuclear research in Geneva, | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
'only yards from the French frontier.' | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
CERN was a big success and by 1989, the team were uncovering | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
so much information, that storing all the data was becoming a big problem. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:31 | |
So, in stepped genius computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:36 | |
who had a brilliant plan on how to share the data. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
And this is that plan right here. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:41 | |
It might not look like much, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
but this was the basic plan for the World Wide Web. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
Look at this - | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
Information Management: A Proposal. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
But Tim Berners-Lee's boss wrote at the top, "Vague but exciting." | 0:21:50 | 0:21:56 | |
And from this vague but exciting proposal, | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
Tim Berners-Lee went on to create the World Wide Web. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
And in 1991, the first website went live and this was it. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:06 | |
It looks pretty basic, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
but it went on to be something truly massive. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
The problem is, no-one really actually knows what the difference | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
between the World Wide Web and the internet actually is. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
-Fran? Fran? -Pardon? -Fran it! | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
Tim Berners-Lee was a true genius for creating the World Wide Web | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
in 1989, but the four parts that make up the World Wide Web, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:31 | |
actually existed before then. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
Firstly - the internet. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
This allowed computers to connect to other computers. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
Second - hypertext. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
This allowed you to click on a certain word | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
and then get taken through to another page of information. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
Thirdly - Universal Resource Locator, or URL. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
This was just used to name sites. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
Fourth - HTML. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Now this was a computer programming language, | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
which allowed pages to display fonts of different sizes | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
and to display colours and pictures. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
What Tim Berners-Lee did was bring these four components together, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
to give us the World Wide Web. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
After the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989, it was still | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
years until it became widely available in people's homes. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
And even when it did, things were pretty slow. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
I remember really clearly, getting the internet | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
and I remember us having a go at the internet for the first time. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
Ha! So slow. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
So slow. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
Back then it was just, right, if you were trying to get on the internet, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
nothing else goes on, you just focus on that. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
You didn't just switch on your computer | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
and get up your web browser, you had, like, connects. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
I remember the internet used to make a weird, weird noise. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
DIAL TONE BLEEPS | 0:23:47 | 0:23:48 | |
INTERNET CONNECTION BEEPS | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
THEY MIMIC THE INTERNET CONNECTION NOISE | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
HACKER MAKES HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAKING SOUNDS | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
THEY MIMIC THE INTERNET CONNECTION NOISE | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
I've no idea what that noise was, what it was for, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
but for some reason, it happened and there you were - | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
connected to the internet. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:13 | |
And then, this kind of new world popped up onto your screen. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:18 | |
Then, it would take about ten minutes for the page to load. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
And this is the worst thing, right, if your mum picked up the phone | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
to speak to your Auntie Sandra, it cut you off the internet. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
Oh, it was a nightmare. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
Nowadays, the web is huge. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
Every minute, there are a massive four million searches on Google. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
And - get this - every day, there are 1.8 billion photos | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
uploaded or shared on the Web. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
If you took all of those photos and printed them out onto a picture, | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
and then stacked them on top of each other... | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
..then, that stack of photos | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
would actually be five times higher than Mount Everest! | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
We just take the internet so much for granted. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
I can't think of a single thing that I do in my day, | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
that doesn't involve the internet. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
The internet and me, we're like that. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
There's no breaking us. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:07 | |
What a bizarre thing, to have all of human knowledge | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
in the palm of your hand. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
On my phone, I have access to anything I want to know. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
Who built Stonehenge? Who built the Pyramids? | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
What year was the moon landing? | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
I can find all of this out in an instant. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
And what do we...? We like looking at cat videos. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
The World Wide Web and the internet have come a long way, | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
but what will it be like in the future? | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
I think the next step of the internet | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
is what they say is called the internet of things. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
So not just the connectivity of computer to computer, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
but everything. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:43 | |
Essentially, it means, taking bog-standard appliances | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
and everyday items and connecting those things to the internet. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
This could be something as simple as your light bulbs. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
They're internet-connected light bulbs which you can control | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
from anywhere in the world. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
We're seeing refrigerators, ovens, washing machines, | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
all these things connected to the internet. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
Ultimately, to make life a bit more easier for you. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
So, there we have it. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
From surprising origins came a truly genius idea | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
that has transformed our lives. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
In this episode, we've learnt about five geniuses | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
whose genius technology has transformed the way we live. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
And in the next episode, it's your turn. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
In September 2015, we made a massive announcement. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
We are looking for an absolute tech genius. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
We want you to design a piece of tech for the future. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
-This is a contest like no other. -Oh, my life! | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
Eight tech fans have been chosen to take part, | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
and like us in this series, | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
they'll have to face their own genius tech challenges. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
Is this his brain? | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
From those eight, only three will get to be the first ever kids | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
to go to CES in Las Vegas - | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
the world's largest tech show. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
Not only that, they will then travel to Silicon Valley to go inside | 0:27:03 | 0:27:07 | |
the headquarters of the largest tech company on the planet - Apple! | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
There, they will get to meet Apple's Chief Design Officer - | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
the one and only, Sir Jonathan Ive. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
But, only one will be crowned the Absolute Tech Genius. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:22 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
Where's Rich gone? | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
-It's stopped! -Aaaaggghh! | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
Along the line is a... HE MAKES A BURBLING NOISE | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Wow! His head's fallen off! | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
How did you find that? 'Blew my head off.' | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
You can't end it like that! | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 |