01/10/2011 Click

More news at the top of the hour. Now it is time for Click. Left a

bit, left a bit more. Keep coming. This week on Click, live cameras in

space. Just watch where you are put in them. We look at the satellites

that can watch your grapes grow in real time. We will meet the daddy

of all rebut cleaners to ask where robots go next. Plus the latest

tech news, and if you are having trouble with clout, we have some

apps to blow them away in Webscape. Welcome to click. Thanks to Google

Earth and virtual earth, we all now know what our house looks like from

space. You may have noticed that the satellite images used on stuff

like that are often months or even years out of date. Apparently, my

car is still parked outside my old house and the house I live in now

has not been built yet. There are times when you do need a satellite

eye view of things that are happening right now. David Reid has

been taking an elevated view of the image and uses for the eyes in our

skies. -- emerging uses. Wine is a delicate blend of

tradition and technology, a process that has barely changed in

centuries. The part the connoisseurs rave about happens

without fanfare and very slowly, though it always has, in sealed bag

-- barrels. The technological bit is the chemistry and how you sort

the creeps. Not all great the same. Even the same variety in the same

field will have different maturities and different strengths.

Traditionally, winemakers have been able to tell the different

maturities of grapes and went to harnessed by taking a closer look.

Thence to satellite technology, that closer look is coming from 800

km in space. The satellite company has come up with a system called

wind at you which analyses from space the light coming off the need

to calculate the density of the vine leaves. Leaf density is one of

those age-old methods wine-growers swear by to indicate what grade or

strength of grapes they are producing. Thanks to these glowing

snapshots, winemakers now know what they have in terms of goats and

where before harvesters have even started sharpening their shoes. --

cheers. The decision to make is how to break -- pick the right groups

for the right wine. This will help the grower to make the decision on

the Peking to choose good for each quality of wine. If you want a

premium red wine, he will select the right parts and the orange. For

an easier to drink two years wine committee would use green and

yellow. -- you will use. This gives us a picture of all our clubs. We

have 100 km of Bines. We need to see the character of groups and

every parcel of land. Red wine used to be really subject its because

unless we analyse them we had no way of knowing whether all the

graves were the same on a single parcel of land. The great stone red

and we harvest them. Now we can sort the grave beforehand and then

harvest later. -- grapes. The helps these won -- help these winemakers

are getting his thanks to satellite imagery from satellites like this.

It costs one million euros and is due to be strapped into a rocket

and fired off into space next year. To give an idea of coverage with

just four satellites, you can photograph any point on the globe

twice a day. Pretty useful if you want to know what is going on in

places cut off by extremes of geography, like the drought

affected Horn of Africa. Here, distances are dauntingly fast.

Satellite service companies are providing imagery and analysis for

humanitarian agencies desperately trying to get aid to people on the

ground. It is very useful information for people in the field

to provide local support, bringing food, water, clothes and medicine.

Not only providing them with maps but to show them what is happening

so they can plan in advance which resources they need to bring.

you think this will grow even more? Exactly. These high altitude

humanitarians are becoming orbiting investigators, policing the high

seas. They can detect oil seeping actually from the ocean floor or on

naturally from well platforms and tankers flushing out there oil

tanks at sea. Doing this saves the ship's money but is a legal. They

get away with it because you often only know about it when it is too

late, when the ship has long gone. This is an aural slick created by a

vessel. -- oil slick. It is 21 km long. And that is just of the

southern coast of France isn't it? Exactly. We are very nearby the

French Riviera. You can imagine such a slick reaching the shore.

There is one leg -- level of regulation saying that kind of

activity can't continue. This all hints at an expanded future role

for satellites, detecting crimes against the environment such as

pollution and illegal logging. They are in an ideal position for law-

enforcement. They have this completely surrounded. -- have us.

Now a look at this week's tech news. In a challenge to Apple's dominance

of the tabloid market, the Amazon CEO has announced the online

retailer's own a cut-price 100 dollar tablet. The kindle fire has

a seven inched touch-screen in uses the Android operating system. It

lacks a microphone or camera. Amazon also showed of two new

kindle any readers, one with a touch screen and the other a QPAC

entry level device. Prospective purchasers may have to wait a while.

At the moment there are only available in the US. Facebook has

changed its settings for its use a lot out process. An Australian IT

specialist raised concerns after finding out Facebook was collecting

data on uses online movements even after users locked out. When a user

logs in, the site plans a cookie on their computer. This book says

these issues have been resolved. Finally, the inhospitable -- a

desert in Chile is to become a racetrack for Latin America's first

rally for solar-powered cars. Students around the region have

unveiled their prototypes in Santiago. The race is not exactly

Paris-Dakar. Most of the vehicles have a top speed of 30mph. Their

builders are confident that they can have -- cover 760 miles in

three days. At least in the desert, parking should not pose a problem.

If you own and iPhone or iPad, you'll know how difficult it is to

watch videos on it that have not been acquired through iTunes. He

will also know that once you have used up your storage, that's it.

These three Apple devices are breaking those rules. They are

playing videos which have not been at loaded through iTunes. In fact,

they are not even stored on any of the devices. They are all being

streamed and Wireless Lee from this thing every year, EC gate go flecks

satellite. A portable 500 Gig Harbour Drive with a built-in

wireless transmitter. This is how it works: You get the hard drive

and plug it into your computer and it behaves just like any external

hard drive. You can drag and drop files to it. But on. It, take it

out and about and switch it on, it runs and a battery that last five

hours. Switch on the Wi-Fi huts but facility. Any wireless device you

have got can log on to that Wi-Fi. At that point you need a special

app. That is the thing that allows you to stream the media from the

hard drive and short on screen. In the best case scenario, this device

has enough bandwidth to stream three high-definition video is to

three different devices at the same time. It is not doing a bad job

right here. If you do not own and iPhone Orin iPad, there is an

equivalent Android app. This will work on in Android smartphone. Even

if you do not own one of those, you can open your web browser and

stream at the video through the browser to your laptop screen. If

that hard drive is a little too bulky for you, you might like to

consider this - a drive made by Kingston, pretty much the same idea.

This is a solid state to drive, much more robust and much more

expensive. This can hold the key to gig. That can hold 500 and there

are roughly the same price. One advantage of this drive is it will

act as a gateway to the internet. You do not have to choose between

accessing a portable hard drive or accessing the internet. One

disadvantage is that this does not work when it is charging. There you

go. Next time your mother tells you to stop watching this media's and

Still to come: What next for robots. We have a sprinkle of application

magic. Robots just have not lived up to

the promise of science fiction. We do have industrial robots, which it

-- as simple our cars in do other repetitive tasks. But they are not

autonomous beasts that can take over the daily chores. Recently, I

caught up with a man who is working towards one, if not both, of those

goals. Any Takao and lumbered with the

vacuuming must surely at one time or another be tempted by something

like this. The robot decades your floor plane while you're out,

navigating the room and dodging table legs. Not that the company

behind this robot cent cut to clean up. They did not expect to make

money through vacuum cleaners. Founded by three artificial

intelligence students, the company develops robots for the military.

These reports are deployed in two dangerous environments. -- robots.

So what exactly does a robot used for bomb-disposal have in common

with one used for dope disposal? One of the things that you want to

assure with a vacuum cleaner is that it goes everywhere in the room.

We looked at the problem and book to work that we had done for mine

hunting. The algorithm is in the robot started out in a robot mine

hunting programme, funded by the US government. For the moment,

simple tasks on five floors. When the terrain is more hostile than

the average kitchen, they cannot be left on their own. They need to be

controlled by humans. They can be controlled with off the shelf USP

models. There are hopes that in time it will change. What we will

see over the next few years is radical navigation and more --

mapping. Robots that can control into an environment a creator map.

Robots will start to understand their environments and understand

what the kitchen is all the library, etc. That will enable a whole host

of new applications. Robots are certainly much more mobile these

days. In fact, having watched and adapted techniques from the animal

kingdom, developers have produced reports that look almost spookily

organic. Even as they negotiate the most demanding and difficult

terrain, it is the sensor technology which still lets them

down. Their inability to judge their environment has led to

countless disastrous demonstrations of dexterity. And while living here,

we have seen it attempts to increase awareness of their

surroundings, it seems that the most research is actually being

done by another industry entirely. It is that been a holy grail for

robotics, Machine Vision. We focus on vision for navigation. The

people doing the most work are the cellphone people. My mobile

computing people. Every phone, every tabloid has a camera on it. -

- tablet. The idea that I have a phone that can be pointed as a

productive and recognise it. That is using the camera and vision.

Huge money is going into it and it is good farce. Right now, with

research funding feeling the at

the technology inside out smartphones and Pablo its turns out

to be at the cutting edge of what is possible. The mobile industry is

making a tremendous amount of money. It has the effect that the leaders

had some economic gravity defying characteristics. The research and

development situation in the robot industry is exhilarating because we

are able to go and take advantage of other industries -- accelerating.

In particular, the mobile industry. We can integrate those technologies

We talk a lot on his programme about the cloud. It is a great

solution for the people who want access the data from portable

computers. But there are some folks who do not want to let go of such

control. If that sounds like you, we have a solution that lets you

hold a bit of the cloud in the palm of your hand.

If you're having trouble trusting the cloud, but one access to the

same essential apps and tours Werribee go, or the need is a

memory stick and portable apps .com. Instead of all her hosting apps

online, it is a suite of three Wetzels bed fits onto and runs from

August any device with almost five regiments of megabytes of space. --

512. The website design looks a little last decade, but did not let

it for you. It is a powerful Swede There are loads of popular apps to

download, depending on the size of your memory stick. Creative and

operating tours, media players and loads of gains. Because they run of

a USP drive, you can access them on any computer. One really good tip

is to use the portable apps anti- Talking of bypassing the cloud, Q

search - next and large files from

one computer to another. The website typically allows deaf --

direct transfer of up to one gigabyte. It is all done through

the browser. No sign up on farce. It has linked to the file you want

The system uses technology called real-time media flow protocol,

which basically set up a direct connection between two machines.

Because it is direct, it works very fast. Precisely how fast will

depend on your connection. The service is free and secured. The

file you're sending never actually passes through the service. It

travels person-to-person. There's also a desktop application you can

download. I can absolutely see this serve as defining the way we handle

a large fire transfers in the future -- file.

There are hundreds of thousands of apps for your iPhone. Some are free,

some you have to pay for and some you can find under the counter for

a limited time. This action cases and three new paid apps per day,

that are being offered three for a period of time. The app comes

packaged with cutesy animations and APD date sequence to show you how

much the money you have saved. I am not sure it is necessary and the

animations and sound effects get annoying quite quickly. Just give

me free Staff! -- staff. You have 24 hours to download each selection

of apps. You might not find everything you like every time,

this is definitely one apply more Yet another using innovation free

designed for Facebook is imminent. It bodgers officially in the next

couple of weeks. The new layout sees your page turned into a

sprawling timeline stretching right back to the day you were born. This

has many uses concerned about what might be buried in posts made by

their friends and relatives. You'll also be ableso be ableevents

information to fill out your history. On one hand, it could be a

really great way to record a map of from your taste in films and music

to your favourite wine and way you like to go on holiday. Privacy

campaigners say this type of information will allow marketers to

target users. It could even be used by criminals to establish trends in

year activities. As is customary when Facebook announces any major

change, it has got a lot of their 800 million users up in arms. Also

in the firing line this week is a spot of five being tethered to his

fa fa game. -- Facebook login. The Facebook redesign

lodgers in the next few weeks. You can try it out now by following one

of the many step-by-step guides you As always, the links can be found

on our website. It will also find all of the reports from this week's

report up there. There is also a link to our player, we can watch