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their turn to take centre stage. Now it is time for Click. There has

This week we are copying and printing ourselves at a rapid

prototyping lab in London. And we ask it creating things from scratch

in our own home will be as easy as downloading the design? The net

feeding your TV set. We are in France, one of the country's

leading the next living room revolution but will it catch on

elsewhere? We will also some up the biggest

Tech News stories around the world and ask if this website can really

Welcome. You join me at a very interesting point. I am having my

head scanned so that it can be duplicated. Not so the BBC has a

spare in case of any accident but because my head is going to be

reproduced by that machine over there. A 3D Printer. 3D printing is

essentially exactly what it sounds like. Producing a 3D object by

printed yet. It is now catching on with those who need to create 3D

models quickly and cheaply. Designers who need to test the look

and feel of their prototypes can see it in the real world. Artists

wanting to bring outrage has designed to life. And architects

who need to create precision scale models of their building plans.

There has even been talk that in the future, buildings themselves

will be printed censure and by section. Recently, the technology

has become cheap enough to go mainstream. -- section by section.

UK designer models on mine and then get them printed it, packaged and

sent straight to you. You can even bring them in colour. The print is

not so different to traditional printers. But instead of flat

layers of League, these models to spend the layers of plastic,

Western or even film. One on top of the other until the work of art is

complete. The process starts with a scan and the scanner. He Ritter's.

What we have our two lenses up the top that up taking lots of photos

every second. -- here it is. The projector projects a grid onto the

subject. So I will show you what it looks like on the screen. The greed

is collecting geometric data. So 3D data about the subject that is

being scanned. -- agreed. That is then fed into the software which

essentially stages all of that together. It uses the geometric

data to form the 3D model of my head. Which again see on screen

here. It does need the human touch. This is why date is here. He built

filling the hole in my face. Once he have done that, he adds the

texture and colour back onto the head. Prices go and then that

information is sent the Print Station. -- presses go. We have a

choice of three different types of 3D printers. This one uses a power

the substance. If you look there, you can see the powder and you can

see what looks like an inkjet printer of. That is because that is

what it is. It used as a normal inkjet printer head to pump flew

into the powder but only where it needs to set that particular cross

section. Then, a whole bed of powder drops down and just the bit

for the next cross section is pumped in and said. This is the

kind of thing that this powder 3D Printer will produce. -- pumped in

and said. Next up, we have something that looks like a

microwave oven. That is because it does get very hot in there. This is

a 3D printer are using Western. You can see inside again. It is

building up their -- building up the head of layer by layer. This

printing is useful for producing injection-moulded stuff. And also a

snap fix kits. Things you would put together afterwards. This is

possibly the weird a sprinter in my mind because it actually uses paper.

It has a big dream of A4 paper and it loads the paper sheet by sheet

onto this bed, lose the previous sheet of paper and then a fine

blade cuts out dust the top layer into the shape of a cross section.

Then the whole thing goes down and wallpaper is added. You can get

some really bizarre creations like this which is made of paper but

there is no other way of coming up with something like this if you are

just making it out of paper. The data we saw that makes up my head

is sent to the computer attachment in these printers and each one will

process it in a different way because of the way it is printed.

The powder Printer only needs the model to be broken up -- broken up

into cross-sections. But there was an printer need extra information

so it can work out where to put support to keep it in the right

shape before the race and has set in the heat. More on 3D printing in

a minute and we can see the final result before we finished the

programme. Next is this week's Tech News.

The hacking group Anonymous has started to release secret documents

stolen from an Italian cyber crime unit. The files were allegedly

taken from a department which oversees Italy's critical IT

infrastructure. It was supposed to be in retaliation to the arrest of

the group Anonymous. It is threatening further attacks against

pay power and E Bay. -- PayPal. The company wants to break the

stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile world.

Although gecko is using the Google android operating system as the

starting point. And finally, five fake apple stores are being found

in China. The retell impostors were discovered in a seedy after an

American bloggers spotted the shops complete with staff wearing Apple

branded T-shirts. At least two of the stores have been closed but the

fight goes on with reports of other fakes stores popping up in

Venezuela and Croatia. My head has been scanned and has

been tidied up and is busy been printed. Meanwhile, let's talk to

the course director here. Welcome to Click. 3D Printing, is there

anything you cannot use to print quest mac there are many different

technologies out there. You can boil it down to two. Additives, so

attractive and others. You are working with an additive process we

print in 3D, you are building up layers using a liquid or powder. It

comes in materials you can use depending on the subject that you

are printing. There is a fantastic machine called the Candy Fab

Printer. You can imagine pouring kilos of sugar into a printer and

producing something that is very sustainable. And tasty? Yes.

Dissolves in the rain. Or you may be printing with titanium powder.

So that would imply that you might be making a hip-replacement joint.

Or you may need to make replacement parts for your car. They could be

printed with cobalt, for example. Subtracted technologies is the

reverse. You are taking a solid block and you are removing material

from it. So you may be working with a laser, a laved, it will, and more

and more larger projects are using powerful water jets to look remove

these blocks. -- a drill. There are cheaper alternatives aren't there?

Yes. The notion of the factory on the desktop is rising it has been

for some time. There is a concept which a doctor at Bath University

has been working on. The machine replicates itself so you can log on

to the website and learn how to build your own prototype that will

then intern build another one and another one. That is the stuff that

nightmares are made of. How to visit to build that? I would

imagine you could do that for a couple of hundred pounds. So you

are talking about making a prototype yourself instead of

spending a lot of money getting it made. And you are talking about

people halfway around the world printing the part they need. What

will that do to the manufactoring industry? It is revolutionising it.

A lot of people are out of work perhaps but essentially what you

are looking at is the ability to set up factories at a lower cost.

You can make slight adjustments to prototypes once you have made the

initial ones. And the other FX, what about the freight industry?

You no longer have to ship a component part right across the

world, you can printed right here and now we wanted. That is a very

green bean to be doing. -- green thing. If you can scan on to it,

you can copy objects as well? are right. The music industry has

been in that it severely by that during the last decade. Yes, what

we have is a situation where a digital file can be shared and

copyright infringement can occur. So that will be a big issue for the

lawyers and have to be worked out. It has not been resolved yet.

you for your time. Your thoughts would be welcome on this. It is a

fascinating subject. E-mail us or tweed asked. Later, I will be

Apparently one day all TV will be received over the internet. There

is currently a Battle Royal raging over how that's going to happen.

First, there's the all-singing all- dancing I P C D that promises to be

the future of television. And then there's internet TV, which also

promises to be the future of television. So how do we work this

one out? David Reed reports from France where at least one of these

formats is already making itself at This family here in common with

millions of other French households get their daily dose of telly from

I P t be. They get seemingly limitless channels, can hire videos,

which saves a trip to the shop, and you can play video games.

Particularly popular with Julie. Internet protocol TV is based on

the same technology as the internet, but uses a more reliable managed

network. It is called on in France partly because I P TV has been

cleverly bundled together with the internet and telephone for a modest

monthly subscription. TRANSLATION: In the end, it will replace all

other forms of television delivery. It is not strictly just down to us

as there is a global growth and that is very strong. EUR4 million

our service in France and more than 10 million use it. We have an

exclusive service that didn't exist ten years ago with strong growth.

So,' is he right? Is this French Revolution poised to spread

elsewhere? Well, it could be, but it all depends on how it copes with

the competition from internet television. Now, you will be

familiar with services already, and there's also internet TV from

broadcasters like the BBC or While internet TV is often free, it

is not always reliable. That's because the TV show you are

watching has to compete with the other traffic on the net. It means

that from time to time, it does this... I P t beyond the other hand

comes to you down a managed network. It means that it has a dedicated

fast lane. No buffering issues, more like this. It is a matter of

the reliability of reception of the programmes. That is a big advantage

but of course it comes with the cost. If you reserve a seat on a

train, you have got to pay an extra cost for preserving that seat. You

have to pay a subscription for I P TV, but not with open internet,

which you get via your normal internet service provider. Internet

TV is looking to consolidate in the future with initiatives like you

view, an online platform for British broadcasters. It is worth

bearing in mind that advertisers like both I P TV and internet TV,

both can gather data on Dewar's, both can deliver targeted at its --

viewers -- at its. TRANSLATION: What we do this is commit consumer

by consumer, subscriber by subscriber, to deliver targeted and

revising -- advertising. In Lyon are able to live advertising

relevant to what is around you. We can deliver adverts relevant to

each subscriber, rather than everyone. So there is an important

distinction between broadcasting and cable castings. You send out

all of the programme's at the same time and the viewer picks what he

wants anonymously. Systems based on internet protocol. Open internet,

and I P TV, in this case your addresses on the front of the

programme so somebody somewhere knows what you're watching all the

time. This information, is an advertiser or a programme company

can get it, can be used to help shape advertising, within what kind

of programmes you are watching, for how long and when you watch them.

This is the fact of life associated with IEP delivery services, they

are addressed. Somebody knows who is watching when and where. Perhaps

there are some future ethical issues in this area as well. Do we

want a society where this happens? Or, would we prefer a broadcast

environments that we can watch something anonymously. That is a

question for the future, I'm sure. It looks like there will be a role

in this new era of television for both I P t and internet TV. Once

again with new technology the downside of incredible choice is

creepy intrusion and uninvited David Reid on the difference

between internet TV and internet protocol TV. Got it? Good. Now, one

of the UK's leading newspapers publish as a famous rich list

containing the names of all those people we love to hate... because

they've got too much money. Working for the BBC are pretty sure I will

never make it. But, there's a good a list published by the same

newspaper that people like you and I may stand a chance of featuring

on as long as we're sociable. Kate Russell explains. I might not have

much in my savings account but there's one place I'm pretty sure

of my value, the social Web. And here, I can find out for short by

connecting my social networking accounts and let the website take

care of the rest. Being at the top of this list isn't just about

spamming your networks with drivel, shocking I know. It a value weights

the interest generated by your posts, giving you a much clearer

indication of Yorweth to the crowd. You connect with various websites,

covering the vast majority of Social media activities. Europe is

updated daily and you have to be in it to win it -- your rank. You

won't be included if you haven't signed in it. So come on, what are

you worth? Maybe your social contacts will be more valuable to

you than you are to them. That's life, I guess. And with hash Abol

.com, you can keep track of all your meaningful connections. So if

you're meeting with a friend, you Then the website will put it in

your records. They then aggregates all the cash tanks used by you and

your inner circle. So you can see who's doing what, where and with

whom. It might sound a bit trivial to some, or even perhaps a little

invasive, but you locked in with the relevant hash tag at having the

history available through the site could come in handy if your

business is all about connections - I have a very musical thumb, don't

believe me? Well check out this app. It's not free, but I think it's

worth every penny if you fancy yourself a bit of a digital

composer. The idea is that you record looks of difference some

poor old instruments, stacking them on top of each other until you get

a composition you're proud of. Oh... you might want to use your

headphones to, not everybody appreciates a musical genius. There

are loads of pre-installed samples and you can download more or even

record your own. Effects can be added and you can even control them

using the phone's accessories. Like adding pitched bend with tilt. Or,

shaking it. So creating your thumb Jan is easy and you can use the

copy and paste unction to record a session in two lots of compatible

apps. -- pace function. I still can't get it to work, though, but

the makers to assure me that the next update Pool six various issues.

If you would like to submit a website or a app e-mail us -- next

This week, the team gets an inside view on a new project by the

musician, York. Find out why her new album is violently Happy. Just

one more thing to do and that is to introduce you to my little head.