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give it its world premiere. Now on BBC News it is time for

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This week on Click a new lease on life, we look at how technology can

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be used to live more independently later in life.

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We meet the building that has feelings on a day-trip to Paris.

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We have a round-up of the biggest tech stories of the week.

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Welcome to Click. Let's face it, none of us are getting any younger.

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There will come a point when we are too frail to do some of the things

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we can take for granted now. At that point, what do you do? Move to

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a care home or stay in your own home? We have been looking at the

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latest options allowing you to do just that.

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Caring for elderly relatives and technology do not obviously go hand

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in hand, some devices are making enjoying those home comforts for

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longer a reality. Of course there are plenty of active, able over 65s

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who do not need looking after. As a generation who did not grow up with

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technology, not everybody is naturally at ease with the use of

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or the need for a mobile phone. Keeping it simple is a help. This

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Doro PhoneEasy allows remote configuration to add contacts and

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calendar details, meaning the user only needs to understand basic

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functionality. It stores emergency contact information such as next of

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kin, blood type and medication. It can pinpoint location using phone

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networks. An activation of the emergency alarm button can also

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pinpoint position. With 820,000 people in the UK suffering from

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dementia, for those at the point where 24-hour care can be avoided,

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a big concern is of the wandering unsafely. This wandering prevention

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alarm watch works in a similar way to some of the safety devices we

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showed you a couple of weeks ago on Click. It lets a designated contact

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keep track of an elderly relative. If they step outside a safe zone an

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alarm is automatically triggered. The idea of virtual boundaries is

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employed by the Doro PhoneEasy as well. The universal message from

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the elderly population is they want to live independently in their own

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home. We have 150,000 people going into care homes every year. Not

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many of them go in willingly. We want to keep people alive and

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successfully living in their own home for as long as possible. This

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technology offers a bridge forward. Some monitoring is good, but not

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too much. You need a little privacy. They want me to look after them.

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would be quite happy if she was monitoring me. Because you just

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never know what goes on. You need to be online 24 hours a day. If you

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do not answer your phone immediately, everybody thinks

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something has gone wrong. While alarms are not new, neither are

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telehealth systems like this one. It allows those with chronic

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conditions to update medical data such as blood pressure or blood

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oxygen levels. After taking a reading the device will

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automatically update through Bluetooth and go on to send the

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data to a healthcare professional. In the consumer market there are

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still a limited number of devices around. This GrandCare System

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currently available in the US is soon to be distributed in the UK.

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It incorporates medication and healthcare management, monitoring

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sensors around the home and easy to use internet access. It will cost

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between $100-$300 a month. The cost you could save is huge. There is a

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huge kind of potential with this technology. We will never be able

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to afford all the human help to do all the care needs that an ageing

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society is presenting. We have got to try and make this technology

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work for us. To be acceptable to the older person hoping to use it

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and their care worker. At any age remembering to take your medication

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at the right time can be a challenge, particularly if there is

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a lot of it. There could be a new way of monitoring what you have

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taken and when you have taken it. It will become a lot more hi-tech.

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A pilot scheme being launched later this year in the UK will put to the

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test this digital health check system. An ingestible sensor will

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relay information to a patch on the body. The information could be

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shared through Bluetooth on a smartphone. The Proteus System has

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been approved by the Food and Drugs Administration for use in the US.

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There are some things that no technology can help with. The use

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of technology is usually important to older people and their families.

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It has the potential to improve the quality of life and help families

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quite stressed about caring. What it cannot do is replace that human

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contact. That is where contact with family and community groups remains

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really important. It is for that reason that some may struggle to

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ever come around to the idea that we need this technology to work.

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somebody needs monitoring every day of the week, then really,

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technology can go wrong... Everybody knows that. Computers go

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down. We should not need all of these things. If we live normal

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lives and did not put our elders into homes, all this technology

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would not be necessary. I think it is a pity it has come to this sorry

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state of af state of afs being left to technology.

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Let's check the wires and see what is making waves in the technology

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news. In the midst of a court case between Apple and Samsung over

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allegations of copying designs for a touch devices, Microsoft has paid

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Apple to use key design patents in future products. These include the

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secrets of how the smooth transitions of the touch interface

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work on the iPad and iPhone. We are most likely to see the results in

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Microsoft's Surface tablet. The deal prohibits Microsoft from using

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exactly the same design. Galaxy has released its Galaxy note device. It

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is pressure sensitive. It will respond to how strong you touch the

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screen. Facebook is in hot water with a German data protection

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agency. It has opened an investigation into biometric data

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usage. Authorities in Hamburg are concerned about a database of

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photos. Tags are used to name people who are used in each picture.

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The authorities say the company should seek permission from each

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individual Facebook user or destroy the database. Facebook says its

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opt-out system complies with EU data protection and privacy laws.

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Drivers in the UK are being offered the chance to reduce their

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insurance premiums if they agree to be tracked. Aviva is asking

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customers to download a special smartphone app. Their handset sends

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back information on accelerating, braking and cornering for the first

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200 miles driven. Aviva is offering 20% off for what it interprets as

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careful driving. The US military has failed in its attempt to fly an

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unmanned aircraft at six times the speed of sound. The Mach 6 would

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take one hour to go between New York and London. It broke apart

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over the Pacific Ocean on a trial on 15th August. It is the second

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time in a row the air force have not been able to test the

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hypersonic prototype. The previous effort was also lost in the Pacific.

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A group of researchers in Singapore have been able to print an image

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smaller than the width of a human hair. The image, which has 100,000

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dots is as small as colour printing will allow. If the pixels were any

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closer together, the light bouncing Technology is wonderful. If that's

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all we have established in the last 100 programmes, then I would still

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be happy. It can tell you what your friends are up to if you are

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feeling lonely, but after a long day at work, could your house run a

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bath and put the kettle on? That would be nice. And not that far-

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fetched either. We have travelled to Paris to meet a sentient

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building. Convention dictates that we start a feature in Paris with a

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shot of the Eiffel Tower. There it is. But one slightly less

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predictable next line is to wonder aloud what the Eiffel Tower is

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A few miles up the Seine from the tower is one site structure that

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has been made to tell its visitors exactly that as part of an

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exhibition. ClickThis old opera house is host to The Building Is...,

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a combined exhibition and game to give us the impression that the

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building itself is alive and susceptible to mood swings. Players

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fill out scorecards to see of their personality is the one the building

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needs to change how it feels. There are 16 different moods conveyed to

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us using texts on floor strips, or graphics representing emotions. The

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building's mood changes depending on what the attendees do. Since

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everything is interconnected, an action in one room can change what

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happens in another. On arrival, visitors can leave an audio message

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for the building. The building is excited. It wants to hear something

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This is a giant version of an old friend from years ago, hear the

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tune, play it back. But instead of a few buttons, there is a crowd or

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48 arcade buttons that light up as you move through the installation,

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culminating in one very big button. Players are encouraged to push as

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hard as they can to get a decent score. In its desperation to see

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everything, the building begs players to use mirrors to bounce

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light into its camera, but the rather lo-fi light detection is

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provided by provided bytant. Surely light detection should be easy

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enough for a machine. We did stuff

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stuff and it was not sophisticated enough to stand up to gameplay.

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Gameplay is really dynamic and everything changes very fast. We

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maybe could have got them out with another year. But in the time that

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we had, humans were the best solution. Another game, The

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Building Smells, involves navigating a ball to a giant nose.

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The architects use a 3D software package to create a design of this

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air powered crazy golf course. It triggers a pressure pad which

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triggers a vacuum that sucks up the ball. After hearing me through its

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telephone exchanges, feeling me through its buttons, smelling me

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through its air vents and seeing me with its CCTV cameras, the app can

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evaluate whether I am worthy enough Even this simple app is using an

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algorithm to generate an effective nickname for me. I am an Angry

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Jester. What is it that they are trying to achieve? The idea of

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architecture coming to life and inviting you to play with it. That

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could go anywhere. We could have dynamic buildings that change shape.

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We could have coffee shops that charge less money depending on how

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happy the building is feeling. There are all sorts of dynamic,

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playful stuff that was in our imaginations as we were making this

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first show that we were not able to make this first time. Wiring

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throughout the installation leads to a secret room where the

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building's mood can be changed, but only a few lucky players are let in

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if they have the right personality type. The beating heart, complete

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with proximity centres, awaits the gentle touch of an Angry Jester. I

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had to put my arms inside this contraption and pluck its strings

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inside. While this exhibition is clearly about art, objects

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informing humans of their state gives a glimpse of a future where

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everything is connected to everything else. But programming

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our gadgets to appear to our standards in order to do things for

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us without being asked may require an effective synthesis of empathy,

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which is difficult enough for some What is your favourite song, right

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now? Mine changes weekly depending on the mood of what is going on,

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although the latest one from Carly Rae Jepsen is going out a treat in

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my house. Kate Russell happens to know a place where that kind of

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If you had to choose one song that reflects your life, right now, what

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would it be? That is the idea behind thisismyjam.com, a social

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platform for music lovers that delivers a different take on the

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modern playlist by asking its users to choose just one track that makes

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You can change your jam as often as you like. But you can have only one

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track active at any one time. I kind of like this limitation,

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because it means the things that you see will be people's absolute

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favourite songs of the moment. The site will also recommend people to

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follow, who have liked similar tracks to you, and there are

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popular jams to choose from. It creates a wonderfully eclectic and

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ever-changing playlist accessed through the home screen. There is

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also integration with Twitter and Facebook, and Last.FM users can

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also link to Scrobbler and have liked tracks automatically added to

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With so many ways of connecting to the internet - laptop, desktop,

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tablet, smartphone - it is no wonder services like Niv.io are

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popping up on the web. It delivers a Windows desktop directly to your

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Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux and Chromebook computers. Once

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registered, you will get an email explaining how to log on. It took

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some setting up. But once completed, you can add whichever applications

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you want to use. You get to try all the apps for free, for the first 30

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days, after then you can rent them whenever you need them. This was

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not released last month when we did our paperless office special, but

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had it been, it would have been a perfect addition to the mobile

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toolbox. I have to say this tablet is not quite as comfortable to sit

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With the desktop installed, you can choose a folder to sync to the N

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drive. 10 gigs of free space should be enough to start you off. It will

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ask you whether you want to install the Pocketcloud companion app,

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which you do not have to, but which Whatever gets your blood pressure

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up, get it off your chest with a new social platform designed with

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intelligent debate in mind, You can share your views in public

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or with a closed circle of friends, who are invited to rate and debate

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along with you. The makers tell me they picked up 5,000 members in the

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first ten weeks, which is pretty good for a new social network like

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this, especially when you are looking for quality and a real

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desire to join a debate, rather than bulk of numbers. You might

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argue that the world does not need another place for internet trolls

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to throw insults at each other, but because of the extra social

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features, geared towards promoting lively debate, the site seems to

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have attracted a very engaged and respectful community. Let's hope it

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stays that way it as it grows in popularity.

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Google Plus announced on Monday that it is introducing vanity URLs,

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allowing users to make a more memorable web address for their

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profile pages. For now, only a handful of high-end pages have the

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feature enabled, like Britney And a few top flight brand names.

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But the company says they will be rolling out the feature to more

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How many times have you clicked the "I agree" button on a website's

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terms and conditions without actually reading them? It has been

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called the biggest lie on the internet, but new website tos-

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dr.info aims to put a stop to this cavalier attitude to our privacy,

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by making a crowdsourced database highlighting the good, the bad and

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the downright cheeky, and applying a rating you can see in an instant

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whether you should be blindly All the links are on our website.

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You can also find video from this week's show up there as well. If

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