Art Technobabble

Welcome to Technobabble.

I'm the Vlogster and I'm hungry and in the mood for a large slice

of tech with a side of babble sauce!

Actually, that sounds gross.

I'll just have silicon chips!

Coming up on today's feast of a show.

My new friend Myah's here and she's getting all arty.

Hark at her!

Kimmy-Kim-Kim is back she takes us behind

the scenes of a gaming festival.

And newbie Chai is here to show us some amazing tech hacks.

But for our first course, let's go straight to Niki and Sammy

as they show you how to prank your friends.

Boys, I can't wait for this!

Guess what?

Your smartphone or tablet already comes preloaded with the best

of pranking apps.

BOTH: The camera!

Friends, allow me to introduce you to what I like to call

"the angle of ugliness".

I like to pretend that I'm going to show a photo to my friend...

CAMERA CLICKS

When, boom! Actually, you've taken the worst selfie

of themselves they're ever going to see.

MULTIPLE CAMERA CLICKS

You didn't think we could do a video on pranks

and not include the good old "Oh, you've farted!" gag?

Well, lucky for you, Whoopee Cushion 3,000 does it all...

BOTH: For free!

It has everything from a bottom belch to a nasty parp.

Do we really need to show you how it works?

FARTING SOUND

-FARTING SOUND

-What you doing?

What's everyone's worst fear?

Smashing your phone screen, of course.

So why not torment your friends into believing

they've smashed your phone or their phone

with the Crack And Break It app?

So, those were our favourite pranking apps.

We hope you cause loads of chaos with those at home, at school,

at your nan's bingo hall.

Ha-ha-ha! The whoopee cushion!

BLOWS RASPBERRY Hee-hee-hee!

Oh, man, they are funny.

I'll tell you something that isn't funny though, my techno friends,

downloading apps without permission!

Let's try and keep laughter in our lives.

Make sure you ask your parents before downloading anything

and that includes those unfunny inapt purchases.

Smiles!

That can mean only one thing, a message from a Technobabbler!

Ugh, OK, what name are we working with this week?

Babblechat?

Vlogster, what will art be the like in the future?

At last! Something sensible. Great question, Cameron.

And I know just the girl to help us out.

-Good morning, Myah!

-Oh! Vloggy, hi.

-I was literally just thinking about you.

-Were you?

-No.

I'm guessing this is business and not pleasure?

Ooh, how rude! I just like to keep you busy.

I've got something for you to investigate.

One of our lovely Babblers wants to know what art is going to

-be like in the future.

-OK, perfect.

Can I just finish my story first?

-Absolutely not.

-All right. Let's do it.

-Good.

I'm looking forward to this one. I'm quite "drawn" to it, in fact.

Ha! Drawn to it! As in art? Oh, I'm funny.

MUFFLED: Oh, hey! Whoa! What're you doing?!

I'm sending Myah off to meet a robot called Paul.

Paul has been designed by a rather clever man called Patrick,

to draw portraits like an artist, a real, human artist!

Could you describe to me what each part of what Paul does?

His arm is a bit like a human arm,

so there are four articulations and then it only moves like that.

And then there is an eye, that moves like that

-so he can look for something to draw.

-Mm-hm.

And then, inside, there is a computer that processes information.

Images from the camera, go into the computer and then there is a

programme that reacts to what it sees

and it reacts by making movement.

-And how did you make "Paul" draw?

-There are two sides.

You have to programme it how to see, how to reacts to what it sees

and how to move. I mean, I draw what I like to draw when I was a painter.

-Yeah.

-Because I do what I like to do.

So you've programmed it to your own personality, basically? What you'd like to draw?

Yeah, in a certain way.

-Myah! My-aaah!

-Yes, Vlogster?

-You can draw, right?

Um, yeah. I mean, I'm OK.

Dare I say it, I think it might be time for a Technobabble Challenge!

Great. I'm up for that.

-Patrick, would you mind being our model?

-No problem.

Perfect.

In the red corner, he's drawn over 10,000 portraits

and is ready for his next.

It's Paul, the robot artist!

And in the blue corner, she once drew a picture when she was ten

and it was pinned to her mum's fridge for several years,

it's Myah!

BOXING ROUND BELL GOES

-#

-Double worry, double worry!

-#

Oh, I've ruined your face!

I've added glasses for special effect.

-Oh, no!

-Totally wrong!

-I went for circle ones.

BOXING ROUND BELL GOES

And that is time.

Artists, stop drawing.

Right, so, this is my painting, picture, drawing, masterpiece...

-Can I see what Paul's done?

-Yeah.

-Right, yeah, lovely.

So, Vlog, what do you think of my picture?

I mean, Myah, that's fantastic. If Patrick was a...

What IS that?

The winner of the Technobabble Challenge is...Paul!

Right, Vlogster, hold still while I draw a portrait of you.

Make sure you get my best side.

Right, let's see what happens when tech meets art.

Tech-sperts in the Czech Republic want you to stop sketching

on flat paper and start drawing in three dimensions.

To do this, you'll need a 3-D pen which lets you draw up, down,

backwards, forwards... You get the idea.

You can also solder, burn and cut with it.

Opening up loads of creative possibilities.

Brilliant, Vlogster.

But you wouldn't want to chew the end of THAT pen.

I don't have any teeth, so that's not a worry.

Next up, researchers at MIT in America have developed a tiny

origami robot that can fold itself up from a flat sheet of plastic

and then walk, swim, climb or carry a load twice its weight.

This self-folding robot only measures one centimetre

and weighs less than a gram.

But even smaller versions could be injected into the human body to

make medical repairs then dissolve away to nothing!

That is awesome.

Kind of puts my origami hat skills to shame.

Er, yeah, slightly!

If you've ever wanted to step inside a painting,

then American artist Mackenzie Corley has brought that dream one step closer.

He's transformed Vincent van Gogh's The Night Cafe

into a virtual 3-D environment

by digitising parts of the original painting into some clever

computer software, the masterpiece comes alive.

Going to an art gallery may never be the same.

That's Van Gogh-the chart, Vlogster!

Say what you want about Myah, but she's terrible at art!

I mean, could she draw this? Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?

The quality! And what a handsome subject.

If I do say so myself!

Next!

Hey, guys! I'm here at Birmingham to check out one of the biggest

gaming conventions in Europe.

It's Euro Gamer! So let's head inside and check out what's going on.

So one of the most exciting up-and-coming things

in gaming at the moment is virtual reality gaming.

So this is where it's 3-D gaming and it's all around you.

It's going to be launched next year and it's going to be a big one.

One thing you can get involved in is some competitive gaming.

So bring some friends, get down and fight it out!

A lot of video games are indie games, or independent games developed

by studios that are run by one-to-two people or a very small group of people

and the great thing is at EGX, is that you can get your hands on

the latest indie titles and even meet developers.

You can even watch Q&As with your favourite gamers

-while you are at the festival.

-APPLAUSE

-Hello!

-Kim, are you excited to be up here tonight?

-Oh, I'm so excited!

-Are there any questions that are off-limits for you?

-No.

-No?

-Except cheese.

-Except cheese.

You're not allowed to ask her her favourite type of cheese.

There's just too much to do!

I'm not used to having three buttons. But I want more!

Hello, everyone , and thanks for coming out tonight!

ONE MAN CLAPPING

Vlogster, could we make another earth?

Let me see what I can find out.

Maths-mad university students at Lehigh University of Pennsylvania in America

have already worked out what it might take

to build a death star, a moon-sized world

just like the one that Luke Skywalker blew up at the end of Star Wars.

The cost of this man-made earth would be a bank-breaking £541 trillion,

which is more than all the money in the world.

So, what's Plan B, I hear you ask?

NASA scientists have found the earthlike planet ever. Kepler-452b.

Catchy name, isn't it?

Experiments show Kepler is in a Goldilocks Zone, a bit of space

that's just the right temperature - not too hot, not too cold -

for the planet to have water on the surface

and that means it could support life!

But don't get too excited just yet.

In our fastest spacecraft, it would take

almost 25,000,000 years to get there.

Not even my batteries would last that long.

So, here comes Plan C.

Closer to home, space scientists are preparing missions for humans

to live on Mars - permanently.

Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere,

a bit like one of Uncle Alan's parties.

It's freezing, with little oxygen and lots of radioactive solar rays,

so you'd have to spend all your time indoors.

So people are working on terraforming, where you can change

the atmosphere and environment of a planet to be similar to earth.

One of far-flung idea is to fire lasers at asteroids,

making them collide with Mars.

This would release organic matter and powerful greenhouse gases,

creating more atmosphere and warming things up.

But terraforming Mars could take thousands of years.

If you're lucky, your great-great great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids' kids might be Martians,

living on an earth-like world!

Chai, take over.

As I'm sure we can all agree, nobody likes to have a phone that is

on low battery that is about to become useless to you.

Unfortunately, if you do use your phone a lot, like me,

your charger can get worn down and it can possibly even break.

Solving this problem is actually pretty easy, you can just take a spring from an old pen

and use it like this to stop the charger from bending as much.

The next smartphone hack is actually something I didn't know about before today.

And actually, I'm wondering how nobody told me.

If you're using an iPhone and you just typed a long,

long sentence, but then accidentally deleted it, there is

actually a way to get that back.

All you have to do is shake your iPhone

and then you will get an option to undo or redo what you just did.

The next trick is for people that like to fall asleep listening to music.

If you use the hidden "stop playing" timer, then you can choose how

long you want your music to play for as you drift off to sleep.

To set this one up, go to your clock

and click timer in the bottom right of the screen.

Choose how long you want your music to last for

and then click the option that says "when timer ends".

When you are at this point, scroll down to the bottom of the menu

and click "stop playing".

Then press start on your timer and start playing music from your music app.

When the timer ends, the music will fade to a stop. If you want to record something onto your computer

and you don't have a microphone, don't worry, all you need

is your headphones and then all you have to do is plug it in and record.

You should now be able to take over the world with your phone tracks!

Or a least just have something to show your family and friends. See you soon.

Consider yourselves hacked! Thanks, buddy.

Just time for another Babblebuster.

Right, pick a letter, any letter. Q is for "Qwerty".

I know what you're thinking, it's one of those overpriced, hipster tea blends!

No, no, no.

Qwerty is the layout of the keys on the top letter row of a keyboard.

Read the first six keys, left to right, and you get Q, W, E, R, T, Y.

The qwerty layout was designed way back in 1868 by American inventor

Christopher Shoals. He invented the typewriter.

But the faster someone typed,

the more the mechanical typewriter jammed.

So Shoals put the most used letters in hard-to-reach spots

and slowed fast fingers down.

Over the years, people have tried new designs.

There was the Maltron and the Neo.

But ironically, the Qwerty keyboard has stuck! Ha-ha! Get it?

Of course, you could use up my version, the Vlogster.

Much simpler, only has eight keys. V, L, O, G, S, T, E, R.

And that's me, signing off. See you!

Next time on Technobabble.

Adam's back to give you his top tips on making short videos.

A simple gag can be easily done for a short video

to make people laugh.

Frankie finds out how it rainbow-coloured lights can

give him green fingers.

This is incredible, I feel like I am in a disco!

And just for fun, Sam takes a look at some apps that are,

well, just for fun!

My favourite apps that I like to play when I'm bored,

waiting for a bus, when I'm waiting for my pasta...