:00:35. > :00:40.rebuilding her life. -- Tina. Now From smart lighting to home-grown
:00:40. > :00:46.homes and offices. This week on Click we visit the living,
:00:46. > :00:52.breathing, thinking cities of the future. We stare into hi-tech eye
:00:52. > :01:00.tech. There is the smart cycling jacket with built-in indicators and
:01:00. > :01:06.a website to solve the world's problems. At last. That's in
:01:06. > :01:09.Webscape. Welcome to Click. We talk a lot on this programme about
:01:09. > :01:14.bringing your home to life with amazing technology. This week we
:01:14. > :01:18.find out what would happen if the buildings themselves could come to
:01:18. > :01:25.life. Imagine a home that had eyes and ears and could sense what is
:01:25. > :01:35.going on inside it. Or a digesting system that could make fuel for
:01:35. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:48.your car. They are not as sci-fi as you might think. By 2052 thirds of
:01:48. > :01:55.the world's population will live in cities. That is an awful lot of
:01:55. > :01:58.people. The cities will have to change radically to take the strain.
:01:58. > :02:04.I think the urban environment is going to become increasingly
:02:04. > :02:10.networked. Everything that we see around us, every object, every
:02:10. > :02:13.chair, every table is going to be filled with a sensor technology.
:02:13. > :02:18.Buildings already know how many people are in them to control
:02:18. > :02:24.climate. If a lot of what is happening in sustainable
:02:24. > :02:28.architecture today is based on the idea of a biomimicry, the signs
:02:28. > :02:32.that upbeat nature. This building in Barcelona has got a light
:02:32. > :02:42.sensitive skin that I just and inflates to protect those inside
:02:42. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.and help moderate the temperature. -- adjusts. Greenalls teeming with
:02:49. > :02:57.natural life to make sustainable development and create a healthier
:02:57. > :03:01.environment. Like this development at Stockwell Street. We have got
:03:02. > :03:07.3,000 square metres, we are going to have aquaponics up there, we
:03:07. > :03:12.will have food up there. It will be very important for biodiversity.
:03:12. > :03:16.these projects are happening today in cities all over the world. There
:03:16. > :03:26.is a growing group of Scientists and architects who believe we have
:03:26. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:38.not touched the surface. Philip Beesley envisions responsive a
:03:38. > :03:43.buildings. We are making clouds of material come up were together in
:03:43. > :03:53.very delicate ways. When we compress them together, we can see
:03:53. > :04:00.
:04:00. > :04:05.them working together as rooms, walls, that breathe. These
:04:05. > :04:08.intelligent buildings will know what is going on inside them, the
:04:08. > :04:12.furniture might recognise individual bottoms are changing for
:04:12. > :04:20.that particular person. Even responding to mood for the perfect
:04:20. > :04:25.amount of recline. Scientists like Dr Rachel Armstrong believes that
:04:25. > :04:32.one day cities will not be built at all, but grown using biological
:04:32. > :04:36.materials. It sounds far-fetched, but her research in synthetic
:04:36. > :04:46.biology has produced protocells, engineered to behave like organic
:04:46. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:52.cells. It is not actually alive, they do not have DNA. We cannot say
:04:52. > :04:57.they can reproduce. But they can divide. They do so by accident.
:04:57. > :05:07.They live in this very twilight zone between not being in that, but
:05:07. > :05:09.
:05:09. > :05:13.they are not what we would call alive. -- inert. They could be
:05:13. > :05:19.combined with traditional building materials like paints and carbon.
:05:19. > :05:24.Cleaning up the atmosphere and creating a reinforced shell around
:05:24. > :05:30.a building. It is still a long way from industrial scale manufacture,
:05:30. > :05:40.but the concept is being tested beneath a Venice, where protocells
:05:40. > :05:40.
:05:40. > :05:49.are helping to prevent the city from sinking. We designed a smart
:05:49. > :05:53.chemistry that would move away from the light-filled canals and
:05:53. > :05:58.waterways, the city of Venice stands on wood piles. There a
:05:58. > :06:03.second chemistry will kick in and take carbon dioxide and minerals
:06:03. > :06:08.out of the water and turn it into a limestone structure. This becomes a
:06:08. > :06:18.secretion technology. It forms an artificial limestone reef
:06:18. > :06:18.
:06:18. > :06:23.underneath the city. That stops thieves -- buildings sinking down.
:06:23. > :06:32.In California Scientists are working on leaving walls filled
:06:32. > :06:37.with algae that also make fuel for your car. All buildings are heat
:06:37. > :06:45.sources. When you think of an organism or a plant, you create
:06:45. > :06:51.heat and buy products. That is what living architecture is. When you
:06:51. > :06:58.see an empty building and do not know what it could be, it could be
:06:58. > :07:03.a building that you are running your car or on. These fantastic
:07:03. > :07:10.ideas are still a long way from being part of daily life. Perhaps
:07:10. > :07:18.not as far as you might think. are in the middle of a science
:07:18. > :07:28.fiction present with of these new technologies curating extraordinary
:07:28. > :07:34.things we have never before experienced. -- creating. Bacteria
:07:34. > :07:39.could produce by a gas which is methane. It could produce a light.
:07:39. > :07:46.Algae can take light energy, they can take carbon-dioxide, they can
:07:46. > :07:51.make a whole range of fuels. We will be able to make useful
:07:51. > :07:59.substances to help us reduce energy consumption. To create resources
:07:59. > :08:04.that we can actually use. If there is a way to cover all of the
:08:04. > :08:08.highways, you could create archways of algae that would absorb all the
:08:08. > :08:15.emissions of the vehicles and they would grow the fuel to run the
:08:15. > :08:20.because underneath them. What we can imagine with different forms of
:08:20. > :08:30.infrastructure, they could become mobile and no magic through robotic
:08:30. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:36.technology into the sky, into the air. -- nomadic. Well, I do not
:08:36. > :08:45.know about organically mobile cities. It would make finding your
:08:45. > :08:49.front door after a night up on the town even harder than it is today.
:08:49. > :08:53.With grave trajectories like we have, the cities of the future will
:08:53. > :09:03.have to be much more than dumb bricks and mortar if they are going
:09:03. > :09:10.
:09:10. > :09:17.to cope. Next, the lights... Facebook's 1 bn dollars is a grant
:09:17. > :09:22.application has resulted in a backlash by users, some of them
:09:22. > :09:26.have accused it of selling out to a company that is known to harvest
:09:26. > :09:33.user data. It has attracted 30 million users since it began 18
:09:33. > :09:42.months ago. Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to develop Instagram as a
:09:42. > :09:50.separate brand. Sony has forecast a record annual loss of $6.4 billion.
:09:50. > :09:56.As a result, it is cutting 10,000 jobs worldwide. This followed
:09:57. > :10:04.Yahoo's decision to cut 2000 jobs. Apple has released a Trojan Call
:10:04. > :10:09.Flasjback. The Apple Mac infection exposes computers being controlled
:10:09. > :10:19.remotely by hackers. It is thought to have infected more than 500,000
:10:19. > :10:25.Macs already. More than 50% of all robberies in major American cities
:10:25. > :10:28.involved the theft of a mobile phone. As a result, the US Federal
:10:29. > :10:33.Communications Commission has announced the creation of a shared
:10:33. > :10:38.database of mobile phone id. Carriers have supported the move
:10:38. > :10:43.and will block the activation of stolen or lost devices. New laws
:10:43. > :10:49.will make it a federal crime to tamper with fine ideas. Panasonic
:10:49. > :10:59.has begun testing a robot capable of, wait for it, shampooing a human
:10:59. > :11:00.
:11:00. > :11:09.head. This was at Nishinomiya City. The robot washers the hair with its
:11:09. > :11:19.24 robot figures. The company intends to install the robot in
:11:19. > :11:21.
:11:21. > :11:25.Here is such a neat piece of technology that has come away. -- a
:11:25. > :11:31.new piece. We looked at wearable technology last week. Cyclists
:11:31. > :11:38.among you would be interested in these. Yeah fanlights I he, you are
:11:38. > :11:43.Twilight is their -- you will find a light is there. A vibration
:11:43. > :11:47.switch turns the lights on. It gives you a chance to get around
:11:47. > :11:54.the corner with both hands on the handlebar. These are only available
:11:54. > :12:00.in the UK. The rest of Europe by autumn. There are �130. Not much
:12:00. > :12:10.more than the normal breed the ball rain jacket. It is controlled from
:12:10. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:17.a battery pack. Now, wearable and personal tech is not just confined
:12:17. > :12:20.to clothing. In the movies, everyone is walking around with
:12:20. > :12:26.these heads up displays which a superimposing extra used for
:12:26. > :12:29.information out what they're looking at. If you fancy that, you
:12:30. > :12:38.can wait until we get chips implanted into our heads, or we can
:12:38. > :12:41.have a look at these next batch of hi-tech eye tech. Many years ago,
:12:41. > :12:50.this was what she needed to experience a terminator star heads
:12:50. > :13:00.up display. That is way too heavy. We no longer require the strength
:13:00. > :13:10.of a machine from the future. Apps like Layar, relay information about
:13:10. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:18.the world. Flipper uses advertising Lobos. -- logos. Even smart phones
:13:18. > :13:22.can be is cumbersome if you want to do anything that requires more than
:13:22. > :13:27.one hand. Assuming that you are good enough to concentrate on
:13:28. > :13:33.anything but surviving as you hurtle down the hill. Skiers can
:13:33. > :13:39.get goggles fitted with GPS and senses to showed speed on a micro
:13:39. > :13:44.energy display. Even though I'm getting extra data I'm losing vital
:13:44. > :13:48.information. With the goggles on I cannot see the Crown directly in
:13:48. > :13:54.front of my skis. The screen is sharp. Instead of saying something
:13:54. > :14:02.directly across my vision, it is at the bottom. Every time I check my
:14:02. > :14:08.stats, I take my eyes of the real world. Some of the blame should go
:14:08. > :14:16.to a low-tech eyes. The human eye cannot focus at two different
:14:16. > :14:26.distances at the same time. This biological fact affects their
:14:26. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:32.displays -- headset. The real object is much further away than
:14:32. > :14:39.that. Innovega is an American out it which specialises in wearable
:14:39. > :14:49.displays. They developed Acorn's -- contact lens. Users can focus on
:14:49. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:55.two things at once. It lets light going to the middle of the pupils.
:14:55. > :15:01.Your rates now receives each image in focus at the same time. -- your
:15:01. > :15:05.retina. It will be available to the public in 2014. In normal contact
:15:05. > :15:11.lenses you're looking out to be what with a prescription. It will
:15:11. > :15:15.sharpen your focus. Imagine adding an element, to the contact lens
:15:15. > :15:20.that gives you another focal plane. Normally, for example with a camera,
:15:20. > :15:25.you will focus on something distant were a particular spot. By wearing
:15:25. > :15:29.our contact lens you easily have this multi- focus or dual focus.
:15:29. > :15:33.You are doing something that humans do not normally do. The lenses are
:15:33. > :15:37.yet to be approved for public use, and we could not test them
:15:37. > :15:44.personally. Assuming a brain scan the cipher, two points of focus,
:15:44. > :15:49.this could be it can change. Microsoft researchers are working
:15:49. > :15:54.to make these devices perform, not just as a visual aid, but as they
:15:54. > :16:02.help monitor. Receding and broadcasting information
:16:02. > :16:05.specifically about blood glucose levels. There is a small antenna
:16:05. > :16:15.that sits under the periphery of the contact lens that communicates
:16:15. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:25.with a mobile device nearby. This is akin to what you see with radio
:16:25. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:33.frequency ID tabs. A very small scaled-down version of that. Very
:16:33. > :16:38.small Chemical senses that see inside the contact lens. If sending
:16:38. > :16:41.data from the eyes does not sound futuristic enough, try a head-up
:16:41. > :16:47.display that leads the wearer control their surroundings without
:16:47. > :16:54.charge or gesture. This is a blink interface, on a very posh remote-
:16:54. > :17:03.control glasses. The can simply where these glasses which it detect
:17:03. > :17:08.your personal blink, when you in testily blink, it changes. That
:17:08. > :17:14.will be detected by a photoreflector. Simple if you work
:17:14. > :17:17.at MIT. A photoreflector measures changes in light. These are
:17:17. > :17:23.standing at sci-fi scenarios require one thing, information to
:17:23. > :17:32.why the late. Google has been working on it too. They unveiled
:17:32. > :17:35.their project class concept to be her last week. It may be moving
:17:35. > :17:45.from sites fiction into science fact. For some people it might be
:17:45. > :17:45.
:17:45. > :17:52.information overload. Do you remember doing algebra at
:17:52. > :17:58.school? I used to love algebra. Maybe you did not. I'm talking
:17:59. > :18:08.about stuff like if 8,000 divided by two to the power of x=4, what is
:18:09. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:14.next? What good would be stimulated in life? Kate Russell has been
:18:14. > :18:22.pondering peace. She think she found a universal aunts of. Every
:18:22. > :18:26.now and then someone comes up with an idea that changes the world,
:18:26. > :18:34.that's what Julius Sterling Guy Fox do. They gather the greatest
:18:35. > :18:43.thinkers of that time to brainstorm global problems with technology.
:18:43. > :18:48.They have been compared weepy TET lectures. X is a solution. A
:18:48. > :18:56.solution to an insurmountable problem. Like climate change or
:18:56. > :19:01.cancer. One that affects the world. Julius Sterling Guy Fox meetings
:19:01. > :19:08.brings together sight tests to discuss global problems using
:19:08. > :19:14.moonshots. This is to describe the fanciful ideas between sci-fi and
:19:14. > :19:18.reality. If you like your sights more down-to-earth, I discovered
:19:18. > :19:22.his YouTube Janell while researching Schrodinger's cat. Net
:19:22. > :19:32.physics takes complex theories and attempts to unravel them for the
:19:32. > :19:42.less scientific mind with his motion animation. -- Minette
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:19:46. > :19:56.Language can still be a barrier for communicating with your social
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:19:56. > :20:00.connections across the globe. The multi- life .com --
:20:00. > :20:07.themultilife.com, uses a putting translation tool and speech
:20:07. > :20:10.synthesiser. -- a built in. As well as chatting with overseas France,
:20:10. > :20:14.these platform will help those with impaired vision to get the most out
:20:14. > :20:19.of the social wed. It does not do anything fancy other than the
:20:19. > :20:24.translations. It does not have to. Just signed up, set your mother
:20:24. > :20:28.tongue and everything else happens on autopilot. It takes a few
:20:28. > :20:38.seconds for a beast speech plug-in to start playing, but it is a great
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:20:38. > :20:42.way to speak with France some other countries. -- France. The battle of
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