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In around ten minutes we will have the film review but now it is time

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for Click. -- macro film review. It probably won't surprise

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you if I tell you China makes a lot of stuff, but would you believe it

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makes quite this much? In 2011, the country produced

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90% of all computers, 80% of all air conditioners

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and energy-saving lightbulbs, 70% of all cellphones,

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that's just over a billion of them, and they also found time to make 63%

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of the world's shoes. And much of all of that would have

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come from this place. Welcome to the city of Shenzhen

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in the Guangdong Province. So much of the world's

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electronics come from Shenzhen. So much of your electronics

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started life here. Cases, components,

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chips, circuit boards. Nestled away on the southern coast,

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it's called the Workbench of China, Less than 40 years ago,

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only 30,000 people lived here. And that explosive growth is built

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on foundations of silicon. This week, I'm on a mission

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to find out how our things And as the saying goes,

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when it comes to electronics, This is the HAX Hardware Accelerator

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in downtown Shenzhen. Each year, teams of hopeful

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entrepreneurs make a pilgrimage to this place to plan,

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prototype and perfect their gadgets But before I show you around,

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time for a spot of lunch. We call it micro foods,

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so it's insects as the new protein. It's something that's been eaten

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for a very long time in all parts The hive is the smallest possible

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footprint of producing protein So better than plants,

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better than owning a cow? Better than plants, definitely

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better than owning a cow. You don't have to add additional

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water, they take it out What do they taste like?

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You can just try them. What do they taste like?

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They taste slightly nutty. Mostly neutral.

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Thank you. They can actually be mixed

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into any types of recipes. In this way, we just roasted them,

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so they're just roasted and crispy. But you can also make them

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into a meat patty and make It's a shrimp that came on land

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a really long time ago. Livin Farms is only one

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of the companies currently in residency, and there is no

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shortage of interesting ideas. There's the roadie auto guitar

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tuner, the skiing boots that track your skiing style,

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the orthopaedic foot insert that analyses how you walk,

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there's the internet of things farm monitor, and the remote

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control fish tank cleaner. This device takes liquid materials,

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special formulations, and it converts them into nanofibres

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using an electric field. What happens is this little spinning

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needle produces a fabric Primarily, this machine is aimed

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at researchers right now. We are looking to get

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into the market and help people bring advanced textiles

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to a commercially viable point by offering a fast,

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affordable lab machine. Shenzhen has a wealth

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of manufacturers and vendors, so for prospective in the bay area,

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there might be two CNC shops that There's hundreds, maybe thousands

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in Shenzhen, and they're quick, cheap, they respond to text

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messages, and it allows us to do work in a short amount

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of time for cheap. It's high quality work as well,

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so good for manufacturing HAX has been here since 2011,

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and over 100 companies Now, it's a little empty today

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because there is another HAX office over in the US,

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and at the moment, everyone's over there showing off their creations,

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including the boss. It's very bizarre that

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you're in San Francisco Why do you have a space

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here and a space in San Francisco? Yes, the early stage action

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is there, definitely, and all of the entrepreneurs

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in the world who go to Shenzhen and work with suppliers to build

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the best products to get to market, but after investing and accelerating

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about 145 companies in the last few years, I realised it was important

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to sell those products, and it is equally difficult to sell

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a product as it is to build it. So we have been building the next

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phase of the programme The big appeal of HAX

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is that it is within a short walk of some of the best and biggest

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electronic markets in the world. That means instant access

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to the cornucopia of components you will need to source

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if you want your thing There, I said the word

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"thing" again. The markets of Shenzhen are so vast

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that it would be foolhardy So we are at Singapore Airport

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and we're heading to Hong Kong. Andrew Huang, or Bunny for short,

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is an MIT alumnus, entrepreneur That's hacker in the breaking

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and building stuff He's also written a few books,

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including Hacking The XBox, and most recently, The Essential

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Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen. Our core product are the peel

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and stick electronic LEDs. Today, Bunny is making

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the pilgrimage to Shenzhen, I'm tagging along to find out

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what it is all about. This is where I come to do

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a lot of searching to see what is available,

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what is selling and not selling. There are these cables here,

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and these cables there. That's the whole idea

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of this market. Discounts are easily 10-1 over

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what you can get in online retail They're made here

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and then resold there. And, I'm afraid to say,

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it's not long before I succumb So far, we've only walked

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a couple of levels. So if you can't find it

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on this floor, don't worry, This guy's selling a variety

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of switches. This one's selling

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industrial controls. These are the battery

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holders inside toys. Connectors you'd find

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inside mobile phones. I could come here and ask her today,

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I want a wire that's a little bit longer,

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and she'll go ahead and make up 1,000 for me and have them ready

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for me by the next day. A lot of times when I come

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to Shenzhen, I don't even I buy everything I need as it's

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such a hassle to get Then I just leave them

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in the hotel when I leave. It's cheaper than paying

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for checked luggage. They sell soldering irons,

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diagonal cutters, development kits Within ten metres of here,

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you can probably get everything you need to take some simple project

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and bring it into existence. I've spent a decade

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here looking around. By the time you walk from one end

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of the market to the other, the beginning of the market has

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already reinvented itself. Do you shake on it or

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have some kind of...? It's a crazy thing where sometimes

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you say you need 10,000 of these parts, and it's not

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a small amount of money. A lot of times a person

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will come along and say, I could stiff them and not

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come with the money, And a lot of time they don't

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ask for a deposit. Just come back and they

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will have them for you. Rather you than me,

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if you do this regularly. Next week we are coming bang

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up to date in the UK. Thank you for watching

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and we will see you then.

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