:00:08. > :00:18.More news at the top of the hour. Now it is time for Click. Left a
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:00:33. > :00:39.bit, left a bit more. Keep coming. This week on Click, live cameras in
:00:39. > :00:45.space. Just watch where you are put in them. We look at the satellites
:00:45. > :00:53.that can watch your grapes grow in real time. We will meet the daddy
:00:53. > :00:58.of all rebut cleaners to ask where robots go next. Plus the latest
:00:58. > :01:06.tech news, and if you are having trouble with clout, we have some
:01:06. > :01:09.apps to blow them away in Webscape. Welcome to click. Thanks to Google
:01:09. > :01:15.Earth and virtual earth, we all now know what our house looks like from
:01:15. > :01:20.space. You may have noticed that the satellite images used on stuff
:01:20. > :01:24.like that are often months or even years out of date. Apparently, my
:01:24. > :01:28.car is still parked outside my old house and the house I live in now
:01:28. > :01:34.has not been built yet. There are times when you do need a satellite
:01:34. > :01:39.eye view of things that are happening right now. David Reid has
:01:39. > :01:49.been taking an elevated view of the image and uses for the eyes in our
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:01:51. > :01:54.skies. -- emerging uses. Wine is a delicate blend of
:01:54. > :01:57.tradition and technology, a process that has barely changed in
:01:57. > :02:02.centuries. The part the connoisseurs rave about happens
:02:02. > :02:08.without fanfare and very slowly, though it always has, in sealed bag
:02:08. > :02:14.-- barrels. The technological bit is the chemistry and how you sort
:02:14. > :02:18.the creeps. Not all great the same. Even the same variety in the same
:02:18. > :02:20.field will have different maturities and different strengths.
:02:20. > :02:25.Traditionally, winemakers have been able to tell the different
:02:25. > :02:30.maturities of grapes and went to harnessed by taking a closer look.
:02:30. > :02:39.Thence to satellite technology, that closer look is coming from 800
:02:39. > :02:42.km in space. The satellite company has come up with a system called
:02:43. > :02:48.wind at you which analyses from space the light coming off the need
:02:48. > :02:52.to calculate the density of the vine leaves. Leaf density is one of
:02:53. > :02:57.those age-old methods wine-growers swear by to indicate what grade or
:02:57. > :03:02.strength of grapes they are producing. Thanks to these glowing
:03:02. > :03:08.snapshots, winemakers now know what they have in terms of goats and
:03:08. > :03:18.where before harvesters have even started sharpening their shoes. --
:03:18. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:26.cheers. The decision to make is how to break -- pick the right groups
:03:26. > :03:33.for the right wine. This will help the grower to make the decision on
:03:33. > :03:37.the Peking to choose good for each quality of wine. If you want a
:03:37. > :03:41.premium red wine, he will select the right parts and the orange. For
:03:41. > :03:51.an easier to drink two years wine committee would use green and
:03:51. > :03:52.
:03:52. > :03:58.yellow. -- you will use. This gives us a picture of all our clubs. We
:03:58. > :04:04.have 100 km of Bines. We need to see the character of groups and
:04:04. > :04:07.every parcel of land. Red wine used to be really subject its because
:04:07. > :04:11.unless we analyse them we had no way of knowing whether all the
:04:11. > :04:18.graves were the same on a single parcel of land. The great stone red
:04:18. > :04:25.and we harvest them. Now we can sort the grave beforehand and then
:04:25. > :04:33.harvest later. -- grapes. The helps these won -- help these winemakers
:04:33. > :04:37.are getting his thanks to satellite imagery from satellites like this.
:04:37. > :04:43.It costs one million euros and is due to be strapped into a rocket
:04:43. > :04:47.and fired off into space next year. To give an idea of coverage with
:04:47. > :04:52.just four satellites, you can photograph any point on the globe
:04:52. > :04:57.twice a day. Pretty useful if you want to know what is going on in
:04:57. > :05:03.places cut off by extremes of geography, like the drought
:05:03. > :05:08.affected Horn of Africa. Here, distances are dauntingly fast.
:05:08. > :05:11.Satellite service companies are providing imagery and analysis for
:05:11. > :05:17.humanitarian agencies desperately trying to get aid to people on the
:05:17. > :05:27.ground. It is very useful information for people in the field
:05:27. > :05:28.
:05:28. > :05:37.to provide local support, bringing food, water, clothes and medicine.
:05:37. > :05:46.Not only providing them with maps but to show them what is happening
:05:46. > :05:51.so they can plan in advance which resources they need to bring.
:05:52. > :05:55.you think this will grow even more? Exactly. These high altitude
:05:55. > :06:02.humanitarians are becoming orbiting investigators, policing the high
:06:02. > :06:06.seas. They can detect oil seeping actually from the ocean floor or on
:06:06. > :06:12.naturally from well platforms and tankers flushing out there oil
:06:12. > :06:16.tanks at sea. Doing this saves the ship's money but is a legal. They
:06:16. > :06:25.get away with it because you often only know about it when it is too
:06:25. > :06:35.late, when the ship has long gone. This is an aural slick created by a
:06:35. > :06:41.vessel. -- oil slick. It is 21 km long. And that is just of the
:06:41. > :06:51.southern coast of France isn't it? Exactly. We are very nearby the
:06:51. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:02.French Riviera. You can imagine such a slick reaching the shore.
:07:02. > :07:12.There is one leg -- level of regulation saying that kind of
:07:12. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:18.activity can't continue. This all hints at an expanded future role
:07:18. > :07:23.for satellites, detecting crimes against the environment such as
:07:23. > :07:32.pollution and illegal logging. They are in an ideal position for law-
:07:32. > :07:39.enforcement. They have this completely surrounded. -- have us.
:07:39. > :07:45.Now a look at this week's tech news. In a challenge to Apple's dominance
:07:45. > :07:50.of the tabloid market, the Amazon CEO has announced the online
:07:50. > :07:54.retailer's own a cut-price 100 dollar tablet. The kindle fire has
:07:54. > :08:00.a seven inched touch-screen in uses the Android operating system. It
:08:00. > :08:05.lacks a microphone or camera. Amazon also showed of two new
:08:05. > :08:12.kindle any readers, one with a touch screen and the other a QPAC
:08:12. > :08:17.entry level device. Prospective purchasers may have to wait a while.
:08:17. > :08:21.At the moment there are only available in the US. Facebook has
:08:21. > :08:28.changed its settings for its use a lot out process. An Australian IT
:08:28. > :08:33.specialist raised concerns after finding out Facebook was collecting
:08:33. > :08:42.data on uses online movements even after users locked out. When a user
:08:42. > :08:50.logs in, the site plans a cookie on their computer. This book says
:08:50. > :08:54.these issues have been resolved. Finally, the inhospitable -- a
:08:54. > :08:58.desert in Chile is to become a racetrack for Latin America's first
:08:58. > :09:04.rally for solar-powered cars. Students around the region have
:09:04. > :09:10.unveiled their prototypes in Santiago. The race is not exactly
:09:10. > :09:15.Paris-Dakar. Most of the vehicles have a top speed of 30mph. Their
:09:15. > :09:24.builders are confident that they can have -- cover 760 miles in
:09:24. > :09:31.three days. At least in the desert, parking should not pose a problem.
:09:31. > :09:35.If you own and iPhone or iPad, you'll know how difficult it is to
:09:35. > :09:42.watch videos on it that have not been acquired through iTunes. He
:09:42. > :09:46.will also know that once you have used up your storage, that's it.
:09:46. > :09:51.These three Apple devices are breaking those rules. They are
:09:51. > :09:55.playing videos which have not been at loaded through iTunes. In fact,
:09:55. > :10:04.they are not even stored on any of the devices. They are all being
:10:04. > :10:07.streamed and Wireless Lee from this thing every year, EC gate go flecks
:10:07. > :10:12.satellite. A portable 500 Gig Harbour Drive with a built-in
:10:12. > :10:16.wireless transmitter. This is how it works: You get the hard drive
:10:16. > :10:21.and plug it into your computer and it behaves just like any external
:10:22. > :10:27.hard drive. You can drag and drop files to it. But on. It, take it
:10:27. > :10:31.out and about and switch it on, it runs and a battery that last five
:10:31. > :10:38.hours. Switch on the Wi-Fi huts but facility. Any wireless device you
:10:38. > :10:42.have got can log on to that Wi-Fi. At that point you need a special
:10:42. > :10:47.app. That is the thing that allows you to stream the media from the
:10:47. > :10:53.hard drive and short on screen. In the best case scenario, this device
:10:53. > :10:57.has enough bandwidth to stream three high-definition video is to
:10:57. > :11:03.three different devices at the same time. It is not doing a bad job
:11:04. > :11:09.right here. If you do not own and iPhone Orin iPad, there is an
:11:09. > :11:13.equivalent Android app. This will work on in Android smartphone. Even
:11:13. > :11:18.if you do not own one of those, you can open your web browser and
:11:18. > :11:22.stream at the video through the browser to your laptop screen. If
:11:22. > :11:30.that hard drive is a little too bulky for you, you might like to
:11:30. > :11:34.consider this - a drive made by Kingston, pretty much the same idea.
:11:34. > :11:43.This is a solid state to drive, much more robust and much more
:11:43. > :11:48.expensive. This can hold the key to gig. That can hold 500 and there
:11:48. > :11:52.are roughly the same price. One advantage of this drive is it will
:11:52. > :11:59.act as a gateway to the internet. You do not have to choose between
:11:59. > :12:04.accessing a portable hard drive or accessing the internet. One
:12:05. > :12:10.disadvantage is that this does not work when it is charging. There you
:12:10. > :12:20.go. Next time your mother tells you to stop watching this media's and
:12:20. > :12:24.
:12:24. > :12:30.Still to come: What next for robots. We have a sprinkle of application
:12:30. > :12:36.magic. Robots just have not lived up to
:12:36. > :12:42.the promise of science fiction. We do have industrial robots, which it
:12:42. > :12:49.-- as simple our cars in do other repetitive tasks. But they are not
:12:49. > :12:54.autonomous beasts that can take over the daily chores. Recently, I
:12:54. > :13:00.caught up with a man who is working towards one, if not both, of those
:13:00. > :13:03.goals. Any Takao and lumbered with the
:13:03. > :13:08.vacuuming must surely at one time or another be tempted by something
:13:08. > :13:16.like this. The robot decades your floor plane while you're out,
:13:16. > :13:21.navigating the room and dodging table legs. Not that the company
:13:21. > :13:26.behind this robot cent cut to clean up. They did not expect to make
:13:26. > :13:31.money through vacuum cleaners. Founded by three artificial
:13:31. > :13:37.intelligence students, the company develops robots for the military.
:13:37. > :13:42.These reports are deployed in two dangerous environments. -- robots.
:13:42. > :13:48.So what exactly does a robot used for bomb-disposal have in common
:13:48. > :13:51.with one used for dope disposal? One of the things that you want to
:13:51. > :13:56.assure with a vacuum cleaner is that it goes everywhere in the room.
:13:56. > :14:01.We looked at the problem and book to work that we had done for mine
:14:01. > :14:08.hunting. The algorithm is in the robot started out in a robot mine
:14:08. > :14:14.hunting programme, funded by the US government. For the moment,
:14:14. > :14:19.simple tasks on five floors. When the terrain is more hostile than
:14:19. > :14:27.the average kitchen, they cannot be left on their own. They need to be
:14:27. > :14:32.controlled by humans. They can be controlled with off the shelf USP
:14:32. > :14:36.models. There are hopes that in time it will change. What we will
:14:36. > :14:42.see over the next few years is radical navigation and more --
:14:42. > :14:46.mapping. Robots that can control into an environment a creator map.
:14:46. > :14:51.Robots will start to understand their environments and understand
:14:51. > :14:56.what the kitchen is all the library, etc. That will enable a whole host
:14:56. > :15:01.of new applications. Robots are certainly much more mobile these
:15:01. > :15:05.days. In fact, having watched and adapted techniques from the animal
:15:05. > :15:10.kingdom, developers have produced reports that look almost spookily
:15:10. > :15:13.organic. Even as they negotiate the most demanding and difficult
:15:13. > :15:18.terrain, it is the sensor technology which still lets them
:15:18. > :15:25.down. Their inability to judge their environment has led to
:15:25. > :15:30.countless disastrous demonstrations of dexterity. And while living here,
:15:30. > :15:33.we have seen it attempts to increase awareness of their
:15:33. > :15:43.surroundings, it seems that the most research is actually being
:15:43. > :15:47.done by another industry entirely. It is that been a holy grail for
:15:47. > :15:51.robotics, Machine Vision. We focus on vision for navigation. The
:15:51. > :15:58.people doing the most work are the cellphone people. My mobile
:15:58. > :16:02.computing people. Every phone, every tabloid has a camera on it. -
:16:02. > :16:07.- tablet. The idea that I have a phone that can be pointed as a
:16:07. > :16:12.productive and recognise it. That is using the camera and vision.
:16:12. > :16:16.Huge money is going into it and it is good farce. Right now, with
:16:16. > :16:19.research funding feeling the at
:16:19. > :16:25.the technology inside out smartphones and Pablo its turns out
:16:25. > :16:31.to be at the cutting edge of what is possible. The mobile industry is
:16:31. > :16:36.making a tremendous amount of money. It has the effect that the leaders
:16:36. > :16:40.had some economic gravity defying characteristics. The research and
:16:40. > :16:45.development situation in the robot industry is exhilarating because we
:16:45. > :16:53.are able to go and take advantage of other industries -- accelerating.
:16:53. > :17:03.In particular, the mobile industry. We can integrate those technologies
:17:03. > :17:05.
:17:05. > :17:08.We talk a lot on his programme about the cloud. It is a great
:17:08. > :17:15.solution for the people who want access the data from portable
:17:15. > :17:19.computers. But there are some folks who do not want to let go of such
:17:19. > :17:25.control. If that sounds like you, we have a solution that lets you
:17:25. > :17:28.hold a bit of the cloud in the palm of your hand.
:17:28. > :17:32.If you're having trouble trusting the cloud, but one access to the
:17:32. > :17:38.same essential apps and tours Werribee go, or the need is a
:17:38. > :17:44.memory stick and portable apps .com. Instead of all her hosting apps
:17:44. > :17:51.online, it is a suite of three Wetzels bed fits onto and runs from
:17:51. > :17:55.August any device with almost five regiments of megabytes of space. --
:17:55. > :18:05.512. The website design looks a little last decade, but did not let
:18:05. > :18:10.
:18:10. > :18:14.it for you. It is a powerful Swede There are loads of popular apps to
:18:15. > :18:20.download, depending on the size of your memory stick. Creative and
:18:20. > :18:27.operating tours, media players and loads of gains. Because they run of
:18:27. > :18:37.a USP drive, you can access them on any computer. One really good tip
:18:37. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:44.is to use the portable apps anti- Talking of bypassing the cloud, Q
:18:44. > :18:52.search - next and large files from
:18:52. > :18:55.one computer to another. The website typically allows deaf --
:18:55. > :19:00.direct transfer of up to one gigabyte. It is all done through
:19:00. > :19:10.the browser. No sign up on farce. It has linked to the file you want
:19:10. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:23.The system uses technology called real-time media flow protocol,
:19:23. > :19:27.which basically set up a direct connection between two machines.
:19:27. > :19:32.Because it is direct, it works very fast. Precisely how fast will
:19:32. > :19:35.depend on your connection. The service is free and secured. The
:19:35. > :19:39.file you're sending never actually passes through the service. It
:19:39. > :19:44.travels person-to-person. There's also a desktop application you can
:19:44. > :19:52.download. I can absolutely see this serve as defining the way we handle
:19:52. > :19:58.a large fire transfers in the future -- file.
:19:58. > :20:02.There are hundreds of thousands of apps for your iPhone. Some are free,
:20:02. > :20:12.some you have to pay for and some you can find under the counter for
:20:12. > :20:12.
:20:13. > :20:20.a limited time. This action cases and three new paid apps per day,
:20:20. > :20:23.that are being offered three for a period of time. The app comes
:20:24. > :20:30.packaged with cutesy animations and APD date sequence to show you how
:20:30. > :20:35.much the money you have saved. I am not sure it is necessary and the
:20:35. > :20:43.animations and sound effects get annoying quite quickly. Just give
:20:43. > :20:50.me free Staff! -- staff. You have 24 hours to download each selection
:20:50. > :21:00.of apps. You might not find everything you like every time,
:21:00. > :21:08.
:21:08. > :21:13.this is definitely one apply more Yet another using innovation free
:21:13. > :21:17.designed for Facebook is imminent. It bodgers officially in the next
:21:17. > :21:23.couple of weeks. The new layout sees your page turned into a
:21:23. > :21:28.sprawling timeline stretching right back to the day you were born. This
:21:28. > :21:32.has many uses concerned about what might be buried in posts made by
:21:32. > :21:36.their friends and relatives. You'll also be ableso be ableevents
:21:36. > :21:42.information to fill out your history. On one hand, it could be a
:21:42. > :21:47.really great way to record a map of from your taste in films and music
:21:47. > :21:51.to your favourite wine and way you like to go on holiday. Privacy
:21:51. > :21:55.campaigners say this type of information will allow marketers to
:21:55. > :22:00.target users. It could even be used by criminals to establish trends in
:22:00. > :22:06.year activities. As is customary when Facebook announces any major
:22:06. > :22:13.change, it has got a lot of their 800 million users up in arms. Also
:22:13. > :22:22.in the firing line this week is a spot of five being tethered to his
:22:22. > :22:25.fa fa game. -- Facebook login. The Facebook redesign
:22:25. > :22:33.lodgers in the next few weeks. You can try it out now by following one
:22:33. > :22:39.of the many step-by-step guides you As always, the links can be found
:22:39. > :22:43.on our website. It will also find all of the reports from this week's
:22:43. > :22:49.report up there. There is also a link to our player, we can watch