07/01/2017 Click - Short Edition

Right, let's get 2017 started in style, shall we?

Lots of people queuing for photos of a sign.

A motorcycle vest with built-in airbag?

Every January, Las Vegas hosts the massive Consumer Electronics

Show, and if you have a product to launch,

And that's why I am being followed by a drone,

specifically, the hover camera Passport drone.

First one I have seen which follows you not by tracking a signal

from your mobile phone, but instead by locking on to a face

You can tell it which face to follow by tapping on it in the accompanying

And the latest version will let you scan and upload your face

to the drone so it can find and recognise you automatically.

The theory is that you then don't need the phone at all.

The drone knows and loves your face, just like a loyal puppy.

And, with guarded blades and sensors underneath to help it steer clear

of obstacles, it certainly seems safe and light enough to fly

in amongst other people, or indeed to grab it out of the air

Unbelievably, CES is now in its 50th year, and in that time it's got

The show has spread beyond the walls of the Las Vegas Convention Centre

to the surrounding hotels, and we have seen all sorts of ideas

The event might have grown, but the technology,

The TV screens have got so thin that they blend into the walls,

so thin you can peel them on and off.

And in amongst the major companies are a number of tiny companies. Marc

has been checking some of them out. Most people understand that if I do

this with my fingers it means However, if I am wearing this strap

when I make that gesture my hand becomes part of the telephone itself

and can send and receive calls. The strap has a little body

conducting unit in here which sends vibrations down my hand

and when I stick my finger in my ear, they become

amplified sound. There is a microphone

just in the strap there, The finished thing looks

like a normal watch strap and can be Now, when you want to hang up,

that's simplicity itself. All you've got to do

is take your hand away Health is once again

a big theme here at CES. And, whilst more people than ever

are following gluten-free, dairy-free or other sorts

of specialist diets, they don't necessarily need

to be unless they've had And that's something that this

device aims to overcome by helping people create the perfect diet

for their own personal digestive Air connects via bluetooth,

and its mission is to miniaturise a breath test that

gastroenterologists have been It analyses reaction to various

forms of carbohydrate, This is based on the idea that,

if you consume a food that you can't break down, then it will ferment

in the gut, and from that point chemicals will disperse

into the bloodstream. That blood will be making its way

into the lungs, and then when you breathe

out you'll be able to analyse how So, once it learns what works

for you, it should be able to help

you customise your diet as the finished app's food database

indicates how likely So, if you find the answer,

all that's left to do is actually stick

to the lifestyle This year's big theme

at CES was cars. And, as always, it's often the most

outrageous concepts that grab Rinspeed has previously proposed

a car with its own deployable drone. Well, now it's got one that has

a space-age cockpit, with more glass

than a greenhouse, which is quite Yes, that's a garden

in the dashboard. Well, so you get a nice smell

when you're driving, of course, and you can

even take part of it Don't forget to switch the fan on,

so you get that lovely whiff. Actually, a lot of the more serious

car stuff is happening in small steps, incrementally, so it's harder

to grab the headlines. That said, Marc Cieslak has

just been for a couple There's a certain German car-maker

that boasts of building the ultimate But here at CES 2017,

most of the motor manufacturers seem intent on building the ultimate

self-driving machine. It isn't just motor manufacturers

that are showing off They're doing it with the help

of tech companies, as well. This vehicle is fitted

with a system called BB8, which has been created by NVIDIA,

a company most famous for manufacturing

high-end graphics chips. Artificial intelligence software

which learns helped by sensors have

trained BB8 to be able Here, an obstacle has just

appeared in the route that we were going to take to get

to the other end of this track. The car has decided that they'd

better not drive into that obstacle, so it's

driven around it. Driving around a car park is one

thing but how do these autonomous Electronic supplier Delphi has

partnered with driver assistance and sensor outfit Mobileye

and created a mini fleet of autonomous Audi SUVs

which are driving around There are 24 different sensors

spread out across the body of this car which allow it to drive

autonomously and what I am struck by is that you don't

notice any of them. You can't really see any

of those sensory devices. This car is an indicator,

if you like, of how autonomous vehicles will look in the future,

which is pretty much like any car Those sensors include lidar, radar,

and cameras all around the vehicle. Here, we can see what the car

sees through them. Identifying other vehicles

as well as pedestrians, and behaving accordingly,

as it weaves So, I'm a rear passenger in the back

of this self-driving car. And so far zero dramas,

apart from looking forward and noticing

that the driver doesn't have his hands

on the steering wheel. I could be forgiven for thinking

that I am actually being driven The thing is, we've been driving

around in prototype self-driving How long is it going to be before

cars like this are available There is quite a wide consensus

among the industry that 2021 is the time where the technology

will be ready, and after a number of years where society will start

gaining confidence in this kind of technology, then society would be

at the point where the driver can be With that 2021 goal in mind,

Mobileye announced that, in partnership with BMW and Intel,

it will be testing 40 and European roads in

the second half of this year. Autonomous automobiles are most

definitely on their way. Now, if you are someone who preferS

the wind to be rushing through your hair, CES also

offers plenty for riders This is surely the most fun

you can have on a beach The Super 73 is an electric bike

that can hold enough charge Its top speed is 27mph,

which on Newport Beach is certainly Don't press on it just yet

and you have the two The bike was funded via Kickstarter,

where it raised almost $500,000, and now each bike is

being carefully crafted We have every machine needed

to create an entire bike. There's some days where we have got,

you know, 30, 40 bikes being welded That's to ensure that

everything is done properly, safely, and will hold

up for a lifetime. The batteries in these things

are getting more affordable, they're getting lighter,

so it means at CES this year we're seeing a host of interesting

ways to help us get around. Chinese company LeEco

unveiled these bikes. They're powered by normal pedals,

but they have the android mobile operating system built in so you can

track your progress. And then there is things

like the Movpack. This is a regular backpack,

that with one movement you can turn it

into an electric skateboard, that's actually easier to ride

than a regular skateboard. But it's perhaps more futuristic

ideas like this one from Honda that This concept car is more

about having something that you don't necessarily own,

but you kind of just call it up whenever you need a vehicle to pop

to the shops or do some It will drive itself to you,

pick you up, and when you are done with it you can just

let it go itself. And we will have to stop Consumer

Electronics Show coverage right there because this is the shortcut

of Click. We are back in Vegas next week. In the meantime you can follow

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soon.