:00:02. > :00:12.of a woman and a girl, aged eight. Another girl in the House suffered
:00:12. > :00:13.
:00:13. > :00:23.minor injuries. This is my past from the world's biggest technology
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:00:41. > :00:47.trade show. -- pass. This is the Welcome to Click. I am Spencer
:00:47. > :00:52.Kelly. While everyone is struggling back to work after the holidays,
:00:52. > :00:59.tech execs are clambering aboard planes and heading here, at to Las
:00:59. > :01:03.Vegas, for a spot of gambling. They are not gambling their hard earned
:01:03. > :01:08.wages, they are gambling their brand new products will catch the
:01:08. > :01:15.world's attention at the massive consumer electronics show. This
:01:15. > :01:20.week we will check out some new ideas around smarter TVs, future
:01:20. > :01:29.uses for your Tablet and a brand new window on the world. We
:01:29. > :01:37.discover a new way to remember all that important news in Webscape. It
:01:37. > :01:42.is quite a few. That is the Nevada desert. Here is part of the world
:01:42. > :01:46.famous Las Vegas skyline. You have these Stratosphere Hotel in the
:01:46. > :01:51.distance. Here is where Elvis performed and this is the last
:01:51. > :01:58.Vegas Convention Centre. It is here that 20 Tup is starting to take
:01:58. > :02:02.shape. They are releasing big projects. -- 2012. The small
:02:02. > :02:07.outlets are announcing innovations which may change the world in the
:02:07. > :02:15.coming months. Around 20,000 products were announced during the
:02:15. > :02:24.show at press conferences... new series nine weighs 2.5 lb.
:02:24. > :02:29.AA have done a fabulous job with this design. -- they have done.
:02:29. > :02:37.show this year, personalised tech for every part of our life - from
:02:37. > :02:41.the morning drive, to the daily chores, and the evening meal. One
:02:41. > :02:47.of the most eye-catching features of the shows are the sheer numbers
:02:47. > :02:54.of TV screens that blaze at you from every direction. Competition
:02:54. > :03:01.is fierce. Samsung claim to have the biggest LEDs screen. LG saw
:03:01. > :03:08.that and raised it. They make their 3D. They were both so thin you can
:03:08. > :03:15.shave with them. Both companies were also showing off ultra-high
:03:15. > :03:20.resolution screens was poor times as many pixels as normal high def.
:03:20. > :03:26.LG's was 3D. It you are worried that he BTEC his advancing so fast
:03:26. > :03:31.that your new set will be out of date next week, why not try this
:03:31. > :03:37.Samsung TV which comes with an upgrade slot? Does put in
:03:37. > :03:42.tomorrow's shiny new processor. The start of the show was the connected
:03:42. > :03:48.TVs. It plugs into the net and allows you to screen videos and
:03:48. > :03:55.download apse in the same way as a Tablet or a smartphone. A lot of
:03:55. > :04:00.people are making a lot of noise about their TVs. Will 2012 be the
:04:00. > :04:05.year of connected TVs? There are a lot of them being sold but not many
:04:06. > :04:13.are being connected to the internet. Lisa Montgomerie is here. You
:04:13. > :04:17.watched a lot of TV. I do. What is the problem? Right now people are
:04:17. > :04:25.trying to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. The more ants
:04:25. > :04:31.they do have, the more different they become from competitors. Some
:04:31. > :04:37.offer more than 1000. That is hard to manage. That makes it more
:04:37. > :04:43.complicated. People say, forget it. Right now we're seeing a trend to
:04:43. > :04:49.making all that content easier to find, and at the date, control and
:04:49. > :04:58.enjoy. -- navigate. We are moving away from the hard butter and
:04:58. > :05:04.remote so. We're going on to Tablets which are like a mini TV
:05:04. > :05:14.screen. That is the same as is on the big screen. You get a more
:05:14. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:18.interactive feel. The big news is manufacturers are incorporating
:05:18. > :05:24.facial recognition and for his control as a way to navigate
:05:24. > :05:31.through the content. You can go directly to your chosen service
:05:31. > :05:36.just by speaking to the TV set. could or it could recognise your
:05:36. > :05:42.face. What do you make of the actual content you get? Is it good
:05:42. > :05:50.enough? They are becoming more and more diversified. Social media will
:05:50. > :05:59.always be a hot button. Now we are seeing applications that make the
:05:59. > :06:07.TV a helper to you. It can monitor in the back grant a sporting event
:06:07. > :06:11.- monitors the noise level. -- background. If it gets crazy, the
:06:11. > :06:21.TV will lead to an tell you what Channel to turn to because it might
:06:21. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:29.be a kid to watch. -- alert to you. Apple are the king of interfaces.
:06:29. > :06:36.They introduced millions of people took iTunes. It has all kinds of
:06:36. > :06:40.But this show has more to offer than just connected TVs, more in
:06:40. > :06:43.fact than any one person could hope to see. Exploring all 1.8 million
:06:43. > :06:46.square feet would take even longer than it would take for my body
:06:46. > :06:49.would take to digest our Las Vegas breakfast, then to the tablets -
:06:49. > :06:52.big ones, small ones, some with keyboards and some sporting the new
:06:52. > :07:02.Android operating system called Ice Cream Sandwich - ooh, back to that
:07:02. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:06.breakfast again. What will the portable computer of
:07:06. > :07:12.2012 look like? With me is Rudi Aunkofer, who is an IT market
:07:12. > :07:14.analyst. Rudi, hi. We're starting to see some serious contenders that
:07:14. > :07:17.are smaller than the traditional large-screen tablets, seven, eight-
:07:17. > :07:23.inch screens, for example, the Kindle Fire. Do you think that size
:07:23. > :07:25.tablet is going to catch on? Both factors are needed. We have a huge
:07:25. > :07:31.variety of content. People have accessed nearly everywhere to
:07:31. > :07:34.online content to the Cloud. They may need smaller ones for maybe
:07:34. > :07:42.travelling. They need a bit larger one for watching some kind of clips,
:07:42. > :07:45.downloading from the web. Therefore, small as well as mid or large
:07:45. > :07:50.screen sizes are needed for the market. One of the trends with
:07:50. > :07:53.laptops now seems to be the introduction of touch-screen. I
:07:53. > :07:57.guess that's following on from the tablet to the laptop. Touchscreen
:07:57. > :08:01.on laptops - interesting? Yes, touch screen the big trend coming
:08:01. > :08:03.from the smartphone side. Touch screens making tablets so
:08:03. > :08:10.interesting, and tomorrow, every netbook, every notebook, from our
:08:10. > :08:13.understanding, will have at least limited touch-screen functions.
:08:13. > :08:17.There is a lot of talk about these UltraVox we have been hearing about,
:08:17. > :08:22.a new type of laptop. Can you just remind us, what features are we
:08:22. > :08:25.seeing in UltraVos? What is making them a class in their own? I just
:08:25. > :08:29.look at this more as a synonym for a new cool design, long battery
:08:29. > :08:34.lifetime, very thin, instant on. They're much more convenient, and
:08:34. > :08:38.therefore it's the right time for them. Consumers are looking for
:08:38. > :08:41.products which are offering an ease of use. Also packing a big punch
:08:41. > :08:43.are the phones of 2012, starting with this one - a prototype from
:08:43. > :08:53.Fujitsu packing a quad-core processor with a 13-megapixel
:08:53. > :08:55.
:08:55. > :08:59.camera and 4G capability. We expect to see more of this baby next month.
:08:59. > :09:03.As well as firsts, there was also a last. It's goodbye to Microsoft,
:09:03. > :09:09.which has decided not to attend the show from now on. It highlights the
:09:09. > :09:13.history of Microsoft and CES together. Still, at least the CEO
:09:13. > :09:20.got to them here. Thanks for a great partnership. We have decided
:09:20. > :09:24.to have the opportunity of beer tonight. Let's go get started.
:09:24. > :09:27.Although we did get to see more of its new operating system, Windows 8,
:09:27. > :09:30.it was confined to a small desk on the show floor out of reach of
:09:30. > :09:35.inquisitive fingers. Microsoft didn't mention it, but we're going
:09:35. > :09:39.to anyway. We have found someone else who's willing to talk about
:09:39. > :09:43.Windows 8. This is Jay Greene, a senior writer from CNET. Windows 8
:09:43. > :09:48.isn't here, but it is expected later this year. Why do you think
:09:48. > :09:51.we're not seeing more prototypes at least? I think Microsoft thinks the
:09:51. > :09:55.noise of CES is so loud, the volume from other companies doing things
:09:55. > :09:59.here will overwhelm the message. I also think they want to control the
:09:59. > :10:03.event. So when Windows 8 comes out, they want that message to be theirs.
:10:03. > :10:06.They don't want to have to compete with everyone else or do it on
:10:06. > :10:09.someone else's stage. And they're not going to be here next year?
:10:09. > :10:13.That's right. Microsoft have said this is their last CES. That's the
:10:13. > :10:17.reason. They want to control these events. Is there a possibility when
:10:17. > :10:22.we do see Windows 8 it will be this merge not just between tablets and
:10:22. > :10:28.the PC operating system, but also the Windows operating system?
:10:28. > :10:31.Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 both become Windows 8? That could happen
:10:31. > :10:35.a ways down the road. That's not going to happen with Windows 8. But
:10:35. > :10:40.Windows 8 will have a lot of the things Windows phone users will be
:10:40. > :10:43.familiar with. The interface - it's going to be a touch interface. It
:10:43. > :10:46.is going to use what's called "the metro style," which is a tile-based
:10:46. > :10:50.interface, so for consumers, it will have a lot of familiarity.
:10:50. > :10:52.you think it will put Microsoft back in the game when it comes to
:10:52. > :10:58.portable computing with tablets? That's the big bet. Microsoft is
:10:58. > :11:02.going to be in the game with that. It's a real open question as to how
:11:02. > :11:05.much - certainly people love their iPads. Here in the US folks are
:11:05. > :11:08.jumping on the Kindle Fire from Amazon. Microsoft is late, and it's
:11:08. > :11:12.going to be three years late by the time Windows 8 comes out for
:11:12. > :11:14.tablets. That is going to be a fight for them. It does give users
:11:14. > :11:17.some advantage, doesn't it? It means they can carry their laptop
:11:17. > :11:23.and desk-top applications through to a tablet experience. You can't
:11:23. > :11:25.run Microsoft products on Android or an iPad. That's true. One
:11:25. > :11:30.challenge is there are so many Windows applications out there that
:11:30. > :11:32.are written not for a touch-based device. Now it's hard to imagine
:11:32. > :11:37.how you would use an Excel spreadsheet in a touch-based
:11:37. > :11:41.environment. It doesn't make sense. Let's look ahead to a couple of
:11:41. > :11:44.other big trends for 2012 you have identified for us. Take us through
:11:44. > :11:48.the big things we should watching for over the next 12 months. One of
:11:48. > :11:50.things I think about it gets to the conversation we were just having -
:11:50. > :11:56.is Cloud-based computing, so that is industry jargon, but it's
:11:56. > :11:59.storing stuff on the internet. That's not new. It's not new.
:11:59. > :12:01.What's interesting is you get these tablet devices that are always
:12:01. > :12:05.connected you get your phone that's always connected. You're going to
:12:05. > :12:09.want to have access to all those photos you took of your kids on
:12:10. > :12:12.vacation. That'll be stored on the Cloud. There are going to be all
:12:12. > :12:15.sorts of devices that can really use it. What's really interesting
:12:15. > :12:18.to see in the industry right now are the behemoths are really
:12:18. > :12:21.fighting one another for this space. You have Apple, Google and
:12:21. > :12:26.Microsoft really pushing hard and butting heads to try to win that
:12:26. > :12:29.area. CES is always big, bright,
:12:29. > :12:32.colourful and pretty noisy, and as we said, it is almost impossible to
:12:32. > :12:40.see everything on show, but here's just a few of the really cool
:12:40. > :12:42.innovations of the team here CES have come across.
:12:42. > :12:47.Microsoft's connect motion-sensor controller is breaking away from
:12:47. > :12:50.its gaming roots. Ever since its launch, enterprising types have
:12:50. > :12:53.found ways to plug the connect, originally used with the X Box
:12:53. > :13:00.video games console into new PCs, finding new applications for its
:13:01. > :13:03.two cameras and its ability to measure distance. Now the software
:13:04. > :13:13.giant from Seattle has launched its own official development kit for PC
:13:14. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:18.and Connect. Microsoft research in Cambridge have developed this. It's
:13:18. > :13:21.called Connectfusion. It turns the whole idea of the device on its
:13:21. > :13:23.head. Instead of moving around in front of Connect to control the
:13:23. > :13:26.video game, you actually move the recorder to measure and record
:13:26. > :13:30.objects in 3-dimensional space, turning it into a 3D scanner. So if
:13:30. > :13:33.I show you these objects on the table here, I point the Connect at
:13:33. > :13:43.them, slowly paint in like this, and it creates a full 3D model of
:13:43. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:50.all the objects on the table. As long as an object stays still, it's
:13:50. > :13:53.possible to scan it. We're going to scan me right now. Take it away. As
:13:53. > :13:57.the device is moved around me, it generates more data, building up a
:13:57. > :14:06.more accurate 3D model. In just a few seconds, a full 3D model of
:14:06. > :14:09.myself appears on the screen. What a handsome chap.
:14:09. > :14:12.Picture the scene - you have a recipe on your tablet. You're in
:14:12. > :14:15.the kitchen following the recipe, then you accidentally spill your
:14:15. > :14:19.accompanying glass of wine all over the screen. Suddenly it's not just
:14:20. > :14:23.your eggs that are fried. Well, here' the solution,apparently. It's
:14:23. > :14:28.a tablet that has been made especially for cooks. It's called
:14:28. > :14:32.Qooq, Q-o-o-q. As you can see, the operating system has been written
:14:32. > :14:37.especially for this tablet. That's what I think the world needs is yet
:14:37. > :14:40.another tablet operating system! But seriously, you have access to a
:14:40. > :14:44.number of standard features down the right - the weather, your
:14:44. > :14:48.social networking. There is a video player there, a stopwatch there.
:14:48. > :14:51.You can actually watch videos or listen to your music on here by
:14:51. > :14:57.side loading them. There is a number of standard ports there, an
:14:57. > :15:01.SD card, for example. But as you can see, most of the screen is
:15:01. > :15:04.given over to cooking. You can download recipes and search on
:15:04. > :15:09.different types of food. You can select the recipe you want, and
:15:09. > :15:14.this will send the shopping list to your smartphone. Let's cook
:15:14. > :15:18.something. You can - the tandoori shrimp in a masala sauce - why not?
:15:18. > :15:24.You can watch the preparation by clicking on the button there. And
:15:24. > :15:27.you can follow it either in pictures or in text here. And if,
:15:27. > :15:31.for example, you already know how to do step four or five, then you
:15:31. > :15:34.can just touch this, and the video will skip to the next step, which
:15:34. > :15:42.is chopping the onions, the bit I always have problems with. Guess
:15:42. > :15:45.which country this tablet made for cooking comes from. Correct, France.
:15:45. > :15:49.You're in the living room. You want to watch the football. The other
:15:49. > :15:53.half wants to get lost in a period drama. What do you do? Probably
:15:53. > :15:56.have a blazing row about it. Well, not if you have a duel-view TV, you
:15:56. > :16:03.don't. As you can see, it's displaying both images at the same
:16:03. > :16:06.time. It looks a bit of a mess, if I'm honest with you - until, that
:16:06. > :16:10.is, you put on some active shutter specs. These specs synchronise with
:16:10. > :16:12.one or the other of the images at the press of a button so you can
:16:12. > :16:16.watch your football highlights while the other can weep into a
:16:16. > :16:20.hankie. In terms of sound, there's a couple of speakers on the arms of
:16:20. > :16:24.the glasses to take care of that. I have to say, it does sound a little
:16:24. > :16:27.bit tinny, but the real question I have is, do you want to be wearing
:16:27. > :16:29.a pair of specs while you're watching the box? I'm sure I've
:16:29. > :16:32.asked that question before! Want to hear a secret? I've got
:16:33. > :16:39.really small ears. Now, generally that doesn't cause me a problem
:16:39. > :16:46.apart from when I am trying to wear in-the-ear headphones. My canals
:16:46. > :16:51.are so small, they keep falling out. The solution would be custom ear
:16:51. > :17:01.headphones. Those are generally quite expensive, and you need a
:17:01. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:07.specialist to do them. Meet EARS. This is a do it-it-yourself in-ear
:17:07. > :17:12.head moulding kit. You take it home, in these babies is silicone. When
:17:12. > :17:18.you flick a switch, a balloon in these pumps starts to inflate with
:17:18. > :17:23.silicone. It takes five minutes to set. Once it has hardened I'll have
:17:23. > :17:26.two ear buds specially made for my canal shape. I am not allowed to
:17:26. > :17:32.talk during these five minutes, so I am going to bring in Joceline,
:17:32. > :17:36.who will explain the procedure for you. OK. You're actually going to
:17:36. > :17:40.start to feel the silicone flow into your ear and start flowing
:17:40. > :17:44.into the plug, expanding that balloon, and any of the excess
:17:44. > :17:48.flows out. You're now starting to experience all of the sound, all of
:17:48. > :17:58.the noise in the room to disappear, and you're starting to get into
:17:58. > :18:03.your quiet zen zone. Once they're moulded, it will never
:18:03. > :18:06.change shape again. There's my ears. Hello, ears. And that is what the
:18:06. > :18:11.inside of my ear holes look like, and the theory is I should now have
:18:11. > :18:15.a pair of earphones which are so tightly moulded to the inside of my
:18:15. > :18:19.ear that they provide complete sound isolation because there is no
:18:19. > :18:24.gap around, and also the sound reproduction should be - and indeed
:18:24. > :18:27.is - quite good. Oh, Adele - again. What a surprise.
:18:27. > :18:33.Some devices have more noble aspirations than others. This is
:18:33. > :18:35.the OLPC XO 3 tablet. It has been designed by the One Laptop Per
:18:35. > :18:43.Child initiative, a project designed to bring low-cost
:18:43. > :18:46.computing to developing countries. The XO13 uses a touch-adapted
:18:46. > :18:49.version of the operating version which featured in the original One
:18:49. > :18:53.Laptop Per Child computer. It has been designed to be simple and
:18:53. > :18:56.intuitive. In many cases this will be the first piece of technology a
:18:56. > :18:59.lot of the children using it have ever seen. One of the hallmarks of
:19:00. > :19:05.the programme is a consideration for power in countries where
:19:05. > :19:08.electricity isn't in abundance. You might be able to use this prototype
:19:08. > :19:12.solar cell which is fitted in the sleeve which fits around the tablet.
:19:12. > :19:17.Or if all else fails, you could just reach for the trusty hand
:19:17. > :19:22.crank. One minute's worth of cranking results in ten minutes'
:19:22. > :19:24.worth of juice in a tablet. That might seem labour intensive but
:19:24. > :19:27.it's a technological lifeline for those who might not have anything
:19:27. > :19:32.at all. Back in the day before the web
:19:32. > :19:36.arrived and turned everything on its head we used to get our news
:19:36. > :19:39.and information in these bulky, flimsy old devices, but as these
:19:39. > :19:42.things continue to become yesterday's news, the number and
:19:42. > :19:47.range of stories we need to sift through online continues to explode.
:19:47. > :19:51.Well, Kate Russell has a tool to help us all do exactly that right
:19:51. > :19:56.now in Webscape. Catching up with your social
:19:56. > :19:59.networks is much more than a lunch hour distraction these days unless
:19:59. > :20:05.you use Summerfy to help filter out the noise. Connect with your
:20:05. > :20:09.Twitter, Facebook and Google accounts and you can set the app to
:20:09. > :20:13.compile an update between one and four times a day applying certain
:20:13. > :20:17.content fitters if you want. Sharing through Facebook and
:20:17. > :20:23.untwitter can be automated but be careful you don't update your
:20:23. > :20:26.followers with excessive spam. # I have never dreamed it #
:20:26. > :20:30.Summerfy looks at what your friends are sharing and also keeps a note
:20:30. > :20:36.of what you choose to read so that it can make assumptions about the
:20:36. > :20:40.kind of content you'll enjoy, then it packages it all up in a neat
:20:40. > :20:43.little website that is easy on the mouse pointer as well as eye. The
:20:43. > :20:48.ranking process isn't as sophisticated as NewsWhip, a site
:20:48. > :20:51.we looked at a few weeks back, but for a neat little lunch time digest
:20:51. > :20:55.of what your friends are currently talking about, this is a friendly,
:20:55. > :21:01.flexible service that shouldn't be overlooked.
:21:01. > :21:06.# Dreamed a night like this # If you've ever sneaked a peek at
:21:06. > :21:09.your Facebook page while you're supposed to be working, here's a
:21:09. > :21:13.social site with a to movil focus, connecting and building
:21:13. > :21:20.relationships with your co-workers, and they want you to use it with
:21:20. > :21:23.the blessing of your boss. # Let's work together #
:21:23. > :21:28.As well as helping you find colleagues to have lunch with or
:21:28. > :21:32.maybe even set up a carpool, there is the usual swathe of badges and
:21:32. > :21:35.rewards, which your company is encouraged to personalise to
:21:35. > :21:39.recognise your achievements in the workplace. Now, I like the idea of
:21:39. > :21:44.this website. I really do, but let's step back from the marketing
:21:44. > :21:48.blurb for a second and really think about this. Is any employer EVER
:21:48. > :21:56.going to encourage you to use a social network whilst you're at
:21:56. > :22:00.work? I mean, it's bad enough with clan testine Facebook status
:22:00. > :22:03.updates and surreptitious instant messenger chats without adding a
:22:03. > :22:07.company-approvedas to time waster to the list as well. That said, if
:22:07. > :22:10.you do have the world's most enlightened boss, maybe it's worth
:22:10. > :22:13.showing them this site. It certainly can't help to have a
:22:13. > :22:18.place to connect with your colleagues especially if you work
:22:18. > :22:23.in a company with hundreds of employees.
:22:23. > :22:28.# Down a tunnel # We do so much more text inputting
:22:28. > :22:32.on our smartphones now than just sending the odd text message - e-
:22:33. > :22:36.mail, blogging, updating social networks - they all require rapid
:22:36. > :22:43.key typing and deliver equal amounts of frustration if you make
:22:43. > :22:49.a mistake, so why not make your life a little easier with Adaptxt?
:22:49. > :22:53.# The shape of things to come # And you're seeing the writing on
:22:53. > :22:55.the wall # It's based on a predictive text
:22:55. > :23:00.model that makes intelligent guesses about what you're trying to
:23:00. > :23:04.write. The developers have worked really hard to get your software to
:23:04. > :23:09.understand language use and context, and for me, the accuracy really
:23:09. > :23:14.shows in the results. This free app also learns how you write as you
:23:14. > :23:19.use it to make the results even more accurate and personalised.
:23:19. > :23:24.Once installed you can download language and grammar add-ons with
:23:24. > :23:30.an impressive catalogue of 40-plus languages casered for. It's an
:23:30. > :23:34.impressive app for people with clumsy fingers all over the world.
:23:34. > :23:39.Kate Russell, and that is it from the Las Vegas Convention Centre for
:23:39. > :23:44.this week, but we're back in Vegas with more tech from CES next week.
:23:44. > :23:50.In the mean time, you can watch this programme again through the