30/07/2016 Click - Short Edition

Imagine a world where your car runs on electricity and it drives itself.

Yeah, not so much of a stretch these days, is it?

Batteries are getting better and cars are getting smarter.

The two biggest revolutions in transport are electrification

Those are the two biggest innovations since the moving

production line and they're both happening at about the same time.

And it's Elon Musk's company, Tesla, that's really been spearheading

We first took the Roadster for a spin back in 2007

and since then the electric vehicle has gone from sporty status symbol

to, well, if I'm honest, a slightly less sporty status symbol.

But dominating the conversation at the moment - not Tesla's latest

models, but concerns over the safety of its driver assist autopilot

feature, after it was involved in two crashes and one fatality.

But while the lawyers go to work on the autonomous side,

Musk is getting ready for electric to go prime time.

Now, the space beneath the floor in these things is full of batteries

and Tesla is going to need an awful lot of them.

Dave Lee has been to Nevada to witness the opening

Right now it's only 14% finished, if you can believe that,

and when it's complete the complex will cover over 3,000 acres.

This factory is the crucial part of the master plan set out

by the boss of Tesla, Elon Musk.

When Elon Musk published his latest master plan for he wants to do

with Tesla, he said he was done doing just electric cars,

now he wants to do things like lorries and buses and any type

If he wants to do that then he needs to make a lot more batteries,

The plan is to basically speed things up a bit.

Right now Tesla have to ship battery cells across the ocean from Asia.

This takes a long time and is very expensive,

and so they want to make battery cells right here instead.

They've promised that by 2018 they'll be able to produce enough

batteries for 500,000 cars each year.

And it won't just be car batteries, either.

Tesla's home and business energy storage units will also be

I believe we are on track to meet the 500,000 in 2018.

Obviously long-term it will make sense to have a Gigafactory

in Europe and one in China, probably one in India.

Very big plans, although he may want to concentrate on finishing

Tesla has missed a lot of deadlines in the past and I wouldn't be

But I went to the Fremont factory before that opened and it was kind

of a ghost yard there too, but they've done some amazing thing

there and I think they'll do some amazing things here too.

But not everything is going smoothly.

Do you have any regrets about how Tesla rolled out autopilot

We have the internal data to know that we improved people's safety,

not just in fatalities, but also injuries.

It's pretty fair to say that only Elon Musk could pull off something

like the Gigafactory and, of all the things he's working on,

it's surely this project that will make or break it.

That was Dave Lee, at the Gigafactory.

Hello and welcome to the Week in Tech.

It was the week a plane powered only by the sun circumnavigated

the globe, Apple sold its billionth iPhone and space robot the Philae

Meanwhile, 3D screenings without glasses could be coming soon

Although already possible on a smaller scale, MIT CSAIL

and the Weizmann Institute of Science's prototype could provide

the eyewear-free big-screen solution.

The technology only allows viewing through a limited range of movement,

It also needs a more practical solution to its current 50 sets

of mirrors and lenses before going on general release.

Feel your computer game characters need a bit more emotion?

Veeso is a face-tracking VR headset which hopes to recreate the way

Its built-in infrared cameras track your eyes,

eyebrows, jawbone and mouth, so your avatar can react accordingly.

And it was a good and bad week for smart home devices.

Good because an attack-mode security camera alerted a homeowner to this

fire, so the fire brigade could be called.

But bad, as some Petnet smart pet feeders were hit by a server outage,

Now, every so often the world goes crazy for a brand-new app

and in the last couple of weeks something amazing

No, this is an app called Primsa, which does something brilliant

It applies really extreme filters to still images.

Filters that make a photograph look like an illustration or a painting.

It's an app that can make your photos look

like they were painted by Picasso or Mondrian.

Well, I quizzed its creator via Skype.

Then you send a photo to the Cloud and we have several networks doing

different parts of the image processing.

Then a network will redraw your image based on a style you choose.

And then you get the result on a device.

Now, you haven't just stopped at photos, have you?

I thought it would be nice to apply this to moving

Unfortunately, this app does not support video,

But moving images are just lots of stills put together, right?

Film is just a series of still images all played

So, I took an old sketch made for Click starring Spencer

and I as cowboys and exported every single frame as a still image.

Once these images were imported back on my phone I applied the same

I used a particular filter called Heisenberg.

This created a hand-drawn effect which created a short film that

looks like it had been rotoscoped, that's an old animation technique

relying on artists tracing over footage of real human movement.

When viewed on a phone, the cells animated in a form similar

Export them into imaging software and play them one after the other

We will put the whole Ceislak work of art online but here is a brief

Prisma have plans to make its filters work on 360 degree

photos as well as working on video footage which means in the future

you won't have to go through the labourious

We are off to the Royal Institution just here to participate

So large it will make a new world record.

And those of you living under a GGI rock for the last 20 years,

I don't really need to explain the rules, do I?

And the people responsible for gathering this parade

I have invented a way for the audience to come in,

connect on a Wi-Fi network so that we can beam games at them,

To make the magic happened they need a main computer hooked up

to a router daisychained around the room.

The amount of routers depends on the amount of players.

The audience is divided into two teams.

Each player gets two controls beamed to their phones,

The votes make the corresponding slider move up or down.

It says Hello Kwek, "Please stand by."

Then the room went crazy out of nowhere.

Steve and Rob emerged like two Pong overlords hellbent

on achieving their goal as world-record holders.

The Guinness World Record adjudicators arrived and calmed

the crowd into a deep meditative concentration.

Phones flashed, people cheered, and a mighty match

But the real question on everyone's lips...

One of the greatest world records ever achieved by any single person

That's it for the short version of Click this week, thanks for

watching. You can get the full version online.