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0:00:17 > 0:00:20Vlogster, what is the future of music?
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Sound question. I love music.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24# Happy birthday to you! #
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Congratulations! #
0:00:26 > 0:00:29# Celebrate good times, come on! #
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Loads of great music out there.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Marcus is me man for this.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38I'm sending Marcus to an exciting London design company,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41who've been working on a new kind of musical instrument.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43He's going to meet the top dog, Roland Lamb,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47to discover everything there is to know about their radical keyboard.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50So this is a Seaboard, then?
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Sounds pretty exciting. What exactly does it do?
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Instead of having all those old school separate keys,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59you've got this one continuous wavelike surface.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03So we took the keys of the keyboard and made it into these waves
0:01:03 > 0:01:04- of a Seaboard.- Right.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06How do you play it?
0:01:06 > 0:01:10We've come up with these five different dimensions of touch.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12- Right.- So the first dimension is how you strike.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15I can strike, like gently, or I can strike it hard.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17- Right.- Then secondly,
0:01:17 > 0:01:22you can control how you press after you've had your strike.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Then you can glide to the left or the right,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27or you can slide up or down on the key.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31And then also, how you lift off, you can change the sound.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32That is so cool.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35How does the technology behind this actually work?
0:01:35 > 0:01:39The Seaboard has, like, a huge array of sensors
0:01:39 > 0:01:42underneath this soft surface.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45So it can detect exactly how you're touching it
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and where you're touching, all those dimensions of touch.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50And then the electronics read that information,
0:01:50 > 0:01:55and they turn it into data that can be read by our software.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58And then our software turns that data into sound.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01So what does this tech mean for the future of music?
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Well, I think it's going to make it much easier for people to make,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07like, all the different possible sounds
0:02:07 > 0:02:10that different instruments can make with one instrument.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13So it makes it easier for people to, like, make music at home,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16or in their bedrooms, because instead of having to, like,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18learn all these different instruments,
0:02:18 > 0:02:19they can learn the Seaboard
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and access this huge palette of possible sounds.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24I'm really excited about this.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25- Can I please have a go?- Absolutely!
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Yeah, we have one set up in the studio,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29- why don't you come take a look? - Thank you.- All right.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33And to help you, Marcus, is a virtuoso called Marco.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Can you show me how to play a Seaboard rise, please?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Let's say we can play C.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- And so you can play. - I see what you did there, see!
0:02:41 > 0:02:44C, then G, middle.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45And then C again. So we can play...
0:02:45 > 0:02:48HE PLAYS A HIGH NOTE THAT GETS LOWER
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Every note is good.- All right.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53You do the low bit, and I'll do the high bit. Let's go.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55THEY PLAY THE SEABOARD
0:03:06 > 0:03:08I've never played an instrument like it.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- I love it. Thank you very much, Marco.- My pleasure.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13I'll tell you what, Vlogster, after all of that talk about music,
0:03:13 > 0:03:15I'm right in the mood for a bit of karaoke!
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Marcus, I thought you'd never ask!
0:03:18 > 0:03:21# Never going to give you up, never going to let you down,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25# Never going to run around and hurt you. #
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Maybe something a little bit more up-to-date, Vlogs?
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Hey, I can do modern!
0:03:30 > 0:03:33How about a piece of music you can hold in your hand?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36A company in New York has developed tech that transforms sound
0:03:36 > 0:03:40into a sculpture you can see, hear, feel and touch.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Making an object out of music?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43That blows my mind a little bit, Vlogster.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46A bit too abstract for you, young Marcus?
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Well, how about this?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Music straight from your brain.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- My brain?- Maybe not your brain.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55A slightly more brilliant brain.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57American artist Lisa Park makes music
0:03:57 > 0:04:01using a special headset that reads her brain's electrical activity
0:04:01 > 0:04:03and minuscule eye movements
0:04:03 > 0:04:06then clever computer software translates her brain waves
0:04:06 > 0:04:10into sound and vibrations to make thought music!
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I think that's awesome!
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Like, totally. - Tortilla, did you say?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Well, here's another slice of hi-tech genius -
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- music you can eat. - What?- That's right.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Dwight Chia from San Diego has taken the humble flour tortilla
0:04:23 > 0:04:26and turned it into a playable record,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28using a laser etching machine.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31It takes half an hour for the laser to cut the track's grooves
0:04:31 > 0:04:35into the tortilla, then the record will play for about 30 seconds.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38As ideas go, Vlogster, that's hard to BURRITO!
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Sorry, Marcus. Let's call that a WRAP(!)
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Marcus and I should really TACO 'bout our jokes!
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Hee-hee. Time to hear from you again.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52You know it's NACHO problem when you send in your questions.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Hey, Vlogster, is there a chance I could live forever?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Oh, deep. Let's see.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Some people who want to live forever choose to have their bodies,
0:05:02 > 0:05:07or even just their heads, frozen, using liquid nitrogen.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10This is known as cryonic suspension.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14By supercooling things down this way, bacteria can't multiply,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17so cells in the body can survive much longer.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21But as yet, no-one has ever been successfully unfrozen.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25And though the clever cooling people are hopeful it will happen one day,
0:05:25 > 0:05:28they don't think that will be any time soon.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30There's another problem with cryonic suspension.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32You need to have popped your clogs first.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35So even if you could be successfully thawed out,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37you'd have to be brought back to life too,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40after potentially a few hundred years!
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Australian scientists have been doing tests on mice
0:05:43 > 0:05:47to rebuild the broken cells and muscles that cause ageing.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49They've been able to restore a two-year-old mouse
0:05:49 > 0:05:52back to the health of a six-month-old.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55That's the same as making your grandma as fit and as active
0:05:55 > 0:05:57as she was when she was 25!
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Tests on humans are now taking place,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02and some scientists think that one day
0:06:02 > 0:06:05all you'll need to do to stop from growing old is take a few tablets.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Although that could set you back £20,000 a day.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Other life-preserving boffins from around the world
0:06:12 > 0:06:15are working on a map of the human brain called the connectome.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18By better understanding how memories are made,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21researchers hope to make a computer model of the human brain
0:06:21 > 0:06:24that can store and recall old memories.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27In the future, it might mean that your grandchildren could see
0:06:27 > 0:06:29your memories well after you've gone.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33The next step would be for people to make a copy of their brain
0:06:33 > 0:06:34on a computer.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Then, by uploading it into a robot,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39humans could essentially live forever!
0:06:41 > 0:06:46Imagine that! My jokes could live forever, and ever, and ever!
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Oh, no, we've run out of time.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Typical! Ta-ta for now.