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membership of the EU. That is the latest news from the BBC. It is now

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time for Click. 61 tonnes of fast moving metal.

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Armed with a cannon of the size of a car. And now with the ultimate

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From the vanishing tanks to airborne spy bots. This week, Click

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dons its camouflage to check out the latest defence technology. And

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we take Siri for a spin to see if the new app can be of any his

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assistance at all. And, how can you make real life even better? An

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artist with more than a chip on its shoulder. And the latest Tech News

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and from defence to attack in Webscape.

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Welcome. We feature a lot of consumer technology on our program.

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Stuff that we could buy tomorrow. But for the highest of high tech,

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you have to look to the armed forces. The kits developed for the

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military are often years ahead of anything available to us mere

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civilians. We discover the classified details behind some of

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the latest defence technology. The deadlock and stalemate created by

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trench warfare in France during the First World War gave birth to the

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tank in 1916. It weighed 28 tonnes and carried a crew of eight. It was

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an armoured vehicle designed to traverse no man's land, taking the

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fight back to the enemy. The present day Salisbury Plain. 95

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years later, the tanks still play an important part on the

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battlefield. It is a talented battle tank. It is a fighting

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vehicle. They are using the Scimitar as well. The Challenger 2

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represents the current state-of- the-art in tank technology. It is

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powered by a 26 litre diesel engine. The top speed on road is 40mph and

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it is covered in Dorchester armour. This armour is very effective, so

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its precise make-up is classified. Our job is to be able to use any

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vehicle to fight any enemy, effectively. We can then apply our

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skills to any other vehicle, as we have in Afghanistan.

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contemporary battlefield demands cutting-edge 21st century

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technology. In the case of the Challenger 2 main battle tank, that

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means computers aided by assistance and protection from nuclear,

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biological and chemical warfare. But given its size, it is not

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exactly inconspicuous. Helicopter gunships, other tanks and infantry.

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They all pose a threat to the tank commander. It is a big target but

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we are trained to use both the ground command control and a

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helicopter in the sky to conceal us from the enemy. If they cannot find

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us, they cannot shoot us. 80 miles away, this is the XL Centre that is

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playing host to the DSEi defence industry trade show. The mantra, if

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the enemy cannot see you, it cannot hurt you. It has inspired the next

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generation of tank technology which has been fitted to this prototype

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tag. It is part funded by the Swedish Military of Defence and a

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British aerospace company. You can paint hardware to make it more

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difficult to see but a whole host of modern military technology can

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target equipment like vehicles with deadly accuracy. So, how do you

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hide something as big as a tank? Scientists and engineers at BAE

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Systems think you don't just need pace, you need pixels. There is a

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growing threat from infrared systems on the battlefield. Things

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like night vision goggles and heat- seeking missiles. This technology

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makes the tank invisible to those systems. So this vehicle has been

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fitted with special panels. But it is still visible to the naked eye.

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However, when we see it through an infrared camera, the picture

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changes completely. The tiles or large pixels on this card can

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rapidly change temperature to make the tank disappear in the infrared

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part of the spectrum. And it has cameras that can look at its

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surrounding environment and try to mimic it. And there are infrared

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signatures on board so it can pretend it is something harmless

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like a car. The present system only works in infrared but there are

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plans to expand its capability. are working on extending the

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technology to work with the visual spectrum by use of a different

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display technology that will work with the tiles. And we can make

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them the radar absorbent to give them stealth across the whole of

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the spectrum. We are also looking at other technologies to make the

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tank quiet, almost silent. So when the vehicle is running on battery

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power, it is almost completely silent. While BAE Systems is

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investing millions on systems which can hide the cause or equipment, a

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team of engineers from Middlesex University, working on a smaller

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budget, are developing a device that can seek out dangers on the

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battlefield. It is basically the eyes and ears of the soldier. It

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allows him to see a position about him, to see into a building, over a

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wall, basically in context of the operation and patrol. They have

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developed a palm-sized drone that can be carried around in a backpack.

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In environments where a soldier may not want to pop his head over a

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wall or corner, it can be launched to locate possible threat. It is

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radio-controlled so we have a radio control unit that flies the craft.

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It has two cameras on board and they see the pictures through

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goggles. They have a direct link that has a certain frequency and

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does not interfere with other control aspects. Drones currently

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in use cost around �150,000 per unit. The university team are

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hoping their device will end up costing about �22,000 each. A big

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saving which will make it easier to deploy devices like this in

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significant numbers in the future. Next up, a look at this week's

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technology news. It has been another busy week for BlackBerry

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makers and not just preparing the back-end systems. After the email

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catastrophe earlier this month, Mike Lazaridis delivered a

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perfectly scripted apology. The firm is giving each user more than

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$100 worth of free apps, although it may not stretch that far and

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there is also only a limited amount available. But which exec does not

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enjoy a quick stab at Bubble Bash or the Sims 3? BBX combines the

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best features of all the platforms and the QNX platform that runs the

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PlayBook tablet. Google. Their Smartphone update was small beer

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compared to that announced by rival Google, which announced its latest

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and most significant update to the Android. Ice Cream Sandwich, yes

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you heard me right, was shown up on the flagship Samsung-made Galaxy

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Nexus. It will harmonise the look and amongst its differentiators,

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face recognition for unlocking your phone. Yeah, let's hope that works.

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And Android beams which transfers data by attaching phones together.

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Now, an eco story from Australia which could never take place in the

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UK. Speedy solar-powered cars travelling at over 100kph across a

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3,000 kilometre course from Darwin to Adelaide. The winners,

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predictably, Japan. Their eco credentials are intact.

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And finally, a group of German students have showed off this. A

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camera fitted with 36 two megapixel phone cams. It takes a spherical

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panoramic image when a shutter is triggered at the highest point.

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Sadly, it is not for sale. Now, have you heard there is a hot

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new personality in the world of tech? He or she, we are not sure,

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wants to be your very own personal assistant. Voice activated,

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intuitive and intelligent, Siri helps you do things on the new

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iPhone. Our reporter has been having a chat with him...or

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her...or it. Remind me to buy coffee when I get

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to work. This is Apple's new iPhone 4S. In the UK, Siri, the personal

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assistant, has an English accent. Yes. And he will keep asking me

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questions until he knows what he wants to do. He has put in a

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reminder so when the GPS in this phone gets close to my workplace,

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it will come up with a reminder for me to buy coffee. As if I needed it.

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And it has an American and an Australian version as well. It is

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also available in French and German. Italian and Spanish are on their

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way, we are told, probably next year. It has a few downsides. You

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have to have a connection or it will not work. The good sides are

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that it can access any of the native apps onboard and control

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them just by asking it to do different things. It is also

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intuitive because it uses a search system, an intelligent engine which

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made the headlines a few years ago, that has algorithms that do not

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just search in the search terms you say but tries to understand what to

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ask. So I could ask, will I need an umbrella tomorrow? It does not look

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like it will rain tomorrow. I did not ask for the weather

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specifically but, just in the context of my question, it worked

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out the information I needed. But it is not always as plain sailing

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as that. In this phone, I put in my calendar a hot date with Lisa

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tonight at 8pm. It knows where that will take place. But does Siri? He

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is behaving almost as if he is jealous. When is dinner tonight?

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can only look for businesses in the US and when you use US English.

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Sorry about that. When am I having dinner with Lisa? Your meeting

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today is at 8pm. Where? I do not know what you mean by where. It is

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our first date so any ideas on what I might say? Dan, mate, you really

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do not stand a chance. Why? Your cheap fragrances, bad attitude and

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dodgy sartorial sense do you no favours at all. Richard! What are

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you doing here? Sorry. Just being Siri. But that aftershave really is

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something else... It stinks. You can see the full video of Dan's

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grapple with Siri on our website. If you've watched Click for a few

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years, you will know that there are two types of reality for us that

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matter. Virtual reality, where a computer creates a different

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landscape for you to explore, and augmented reality, where you get to

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see the real world around you but the computer will add or tweak

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certain details. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Well our reporter

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travelled to Switzerland which is pushing augmented reality to its

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Artists might live in the same world as us, but they are

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determined to see it with a different set of eyes, even if that

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means they appear eccentric. Jan Torpus is exploring augmented

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reality. He has developed lifeClipper, a system comprising 3D

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goggles and apparatus that measures your breathing. LifeClipper makes

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the park into the stage for an environmental drama where climate

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and gravity morph around you. Everything is green and strange. It

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is a virtual world. When I regard it, it becomes normal and when it

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is high it connects to the trees. There is the sound of a frog. Now

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the storm comes in. It is slowly fading in. I can still see the

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ground and my hands. It early gets more and more virtual. You see the

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sand and the desert. LifeClipper is an augmented reality project where

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we add virtual elements to the real park. It is not overlaying things.

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It is like a parallel world, or something which is behind the park.

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What we consider to be real is fake and there is another world behind.

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3D has come in for stick lately. It makes some people feel dizzy and

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not just at the price. But if it has had its day in the cinema, 3D

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may come into its own with augmented reality as it allows you

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to walk into the virtual space of a park, for example. But pulling off

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this trick of endowing a 3D model with computer graphics and making

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them stick is no easy task. That is the challenge for technology that

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the 3D model with the infrared scanner can make this model

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congruent on top of the real world. It is when you walk around and the

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model stays at the same place. That is very difficult. You have to have

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a very precise notion of where the viewer is and where he is looking

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from and what he is looking at. are using an extension to GPS. That

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enhances GPS to a point where you have sub-centimetre precision. GPS

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only sees the position. It does not show you where someone is looking.

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So you need an orientation tracker. We used one which is like a compass

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on steroids. We're using old technologies which have been

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enhanced to the point where they LifeClipper's cost is cumbersome

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The GPS alone costs 10,000 euros and does not compromise on weight.

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Made for tanks. Very heavy. This system will not be easy to

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duplicate commercially, but that is not really the aim. The enterprise

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is artistic, to push the boundaries of technology, perception and

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What is really nice is that the system reacts extremely effectively

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to every movement you make. You do really feel like you are immersed

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in this other world. There is a cue from an audio effect to warn you

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that something is happening. Sure enough, a massive sandstorm is

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blowing in. Everything has become chaotic. The river is like a Monet

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painting. It has a feeling of impasto. It has now gone

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psychedelic. There is something really nice about overlaying

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virtual reality on top of the real world. You know that what you see

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is not true but part of you Theatre is described as the willing

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suspension of disbelief. For lifeClipper to work you have to

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allow yourself to be pulled into a drama in which you are both

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Now, when you were a kid I bet you spent hours on end gluing together

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plastic kits of model aeroplanes. Hurricanes, Messerschmitts, F-14

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Tomcats. It turns out that everyone on the show today was a model

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aeroplane maker. We used to watch Bring childhood passions up-to-date

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with this modern take on the Airfix model craze. Dogfight on the iPhone.

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If you do not mind shelling out a download fee you will get lots more

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planes, tanks and missions to unlock and no advertisements. The

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flight controls are very sensitive and over-steering is almost worse

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than not steering at all. The best way to handle it is just tap the

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control and release so that your dogfighter straightens up on itself.

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Once you have mastered the art of flying, there are canons to blast

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through enemy lines. The landscapes can be full of bugs in places. But

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all in all, a fun app that any classic aircraft enthusiast will

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I showed you a place to self- publish free books last week. But

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if you think you're writing is worth paying for, Kindle has their

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own self- publishing site. You can throw together the elements of your

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book and have it on sale through It works on a royalty split model

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with no financial outlay for the author. It is not possible to

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publish a free download through the site. When it comes to choosing the

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right royalty package you are better off reading the terms and

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conditions. Making the decision between 70% commission and 35%. 70%

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sounds better but there are delivery charges to take into

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consideration. It is only applicable to certain countries and

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you have to set up a minimum price There are lots of other tools to

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publish your working electronically. There is a free wiki editor which

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creates a file supported by all eBook readers. It is more

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complicated to use than the Amazon site but gives you full control of

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layout, cover image and distribution. If you're stuck for a

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good design for your cover, check out next week's Webscape when I

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will have a site that designs If you like keeping up-to-date with

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what your friends and family are doing by sneaking through their

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social media photo albums, this site has something you are going to

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love. This site extracts all the photos my friends have posted and

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wraps them up in an interface for I think that photos are one of the

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few reasons I still bother to log into Facebook. I have long since

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become bored about status updates You can choose to have the ideas

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and profile updates as well. Never mind Big Brother watching me I am

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off to see what my big brother got If you would like to suggest a

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website for a future Webscape, please get in touch with us.

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