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In around ten minutes we will have the film review but now it is time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for Click. -- macro film review. It probably won't surprise | :00:00. | :00:39. | |
you if I tell you China makes a lot of stuff, but would you believe it | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
makes quite this much? In 2011, the country produced | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
90% of all computers, 80% of all air conditioners | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
and energy-saving lightbulbs, 70% of all cellphones, | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
that's just over a billion of them, and they also found time to make 63% | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
of the world's shoes. And much of all of that would have | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
come from this place. Welcome to the city of Shenzhen | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
in the Guangdong Province. So much of the world's | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
electronics come from Shenzhen. So much of your electronics | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
started life here. Cases, components, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
chips, circuit boards. Nestled away on the southern coast, | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
it's called the Workbench of China, Less than 40 years ago, | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
only 30,000 people lived here. And that explosive growth is built | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
on foundations of silicon. This week, I'm on a mission | :01:39. | :01:55. | |
to find out how our things And as the saying goes, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
when it comes to electronics, This is the HAX Hardware Accelerator | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
in downtown Shenzhen. Each year, teams of hopeful | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
entrepreneurs make a pilgrimage to this place to plan, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
prototype and perfect their gadgets But before I show you around, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
time for a spot of lunch. We call it micro foods, | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
so it's insects as the new protein. It's something that's been eaten | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
for a very long time in all parts The hive is the smallest possible | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
footprint of producing protein So better than plants, | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
better than owning a cow? Better than plants, definitely | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
better than owning a cow. You don't have to add additional | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
water, they take it out What do they taste like? | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
You can just try them. What do they taste like? | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
They taste slightly nutty. Mostly neutral. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Thank you. They can actually be mixed | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
into any types of recipes. In this way, we just roasted them, | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
so they're just roasted and crispy. But you can also make them | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
into a meat patty and make It's a shrimp that came on land | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
a really long time ago. Livin Farms is only one | :03:40. | :03:56. | |
of the companies currently in residency, and there is no | :03:57. | :04:09. | |
shortage of interesting ideas. There's the roadie auto guitar | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
tuner, the skiing boots that track your skiing style, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the orthopaedic foot insert that analyses how you walk, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
there's the internet of things farm monitor, and the remote | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
control fish tank cleaner. This device takes liquid materials, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
special formulations, and it converts them into nanofibres | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
using an electric field. What happens is this little spinning | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
needle produces a fabric Primarily, this machine is aimed | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
at researchers right now. We are looking to get | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
into the market and help people bring advanced textiles | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
to a commercially viable point by offering a fast, | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
affordable lab machine. Shenzhen has a wealth | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
of manufacturers and vendors, so for prospective in the bay area, | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
there might be two CNC shops that There's hundreds, maybe thousands | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
in Shenzhen, and they're quick, cheap, they respond to text | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
messages, and it allows us to do work in a short amount | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
of time for cheap. It's high quality work as well, | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
so good for manufacturing HAX has been here since 2011, | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
and over 100 companies Now, it's a little empty today | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
because there is another HAX office over in the US, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
and at the moment, everyone's over there showing off their creations, | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
including the boss. It's very bizarre that | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
you're in San Francisco Why do you have a space | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
here and a space in San Francisco? Yes, the early stage action | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
is there, definitely, and all of the entrepreneurs | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
in the world who go to Shenzhen and work with suppliers to build | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
the best products to get to market, but after investing and accelerating | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
about 145 companies in the last few years, I realised it was important | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
to sell those products, and it is equally difficult to sell | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
a product as it is to build it. So we have been building the next | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
phase of the programme The big appeal of HAX | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
is that it is within a short walk of some of the best and biggest | :06:23. | :06:36. | |
electronic markets in the world. That means instant access | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
to the cornucopia of components you will need to source | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
if you want your thing There, I said the word | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
"thing" again. The markets of Shenzhen are so vast | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
that it would be foolhardy So we are at Singapore Airport | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
and we're heading to Hong Kong. Andrew Huang, or Bunny for short, | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
is an MIT alumnus, entrepreneur That's hacker in the breaking | :07:07. | :07:19. | |
and building stuff He's also written a few books, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
including Hacking The XBox, and most recently, The Essential | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen. Our core product are the peel | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
and stick electronic LEDs. Today, Bunny is making | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the pilgrimage to Shenzhen, I'm tagging along to find out | :07:37. | :07:53. | |
what it is all about. This is where I come to do | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
a lot of searching to see what is available, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
what is selling and not selling. There are these cables here, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and these cables there. That's the whole idea | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
of this market. Discounts are easily 10-1 over | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
what you can get in online retail They're made here | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
and then resold there. And, I'm afraid to say, | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
it's not long before I succumb So far, we've only walked | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
a couple of levels. So if you can't find it | :08:36. | :08:53. | |
on this floor, don't worry, This guy's selling a variety | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
of switches. This one's selling | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
industrial controls. These are the battery | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
holders inside toys. Connectors you'd find | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
inside mobile phones. I could come here and ask her today, | :09:16. | :09:16. | |
I want a wire that's a little bit longer, | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
and she'll go ahead and make up 1,000 for me and have them ready | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
for me by the next day. A lot of times when I come | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
to Shenzhen, I don't even I buy everything I need as it's | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
such a hassle to get Then I just leave them | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
in the hotel when I leave. It's cheaper than paying | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
for checked luggage. They sell soldering irons, | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
diagonal cutters, development kits Within ten metres of here, | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
you can probably get everything you need to take some simple project | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
and bring it into existence. I've spent a decade | :09:53. | :10:04. | |
here looking around. By the time you walk from one end | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
of the market to the other, the beginning of the market has | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
already reinvented itself. Do you shake on it or | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
have some kind of...? It's a crazy thing where sometimes | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
you say you need 10,000 of these parts, and it's not | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
a small amount of money. A lot of times a person | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
will come along and say, I could stiff them and not | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
come with the money, And a lot of time they don't | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
ask for a deposit. Just come back and they | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
will have them for you. Rather you than me, | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
if you do this regularly. Next week we are coming bang | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
up to date in the UK. Thank you for watching | :10:53. | :11:21. | |
and we will see you then. | :11:22. | :11:23. |