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This week on Click a new lease on life, we look at how technology can | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
be used to live more independently later in life. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
We meet the building that has feelings on a day-trip to Paris. | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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We have a round-up of the biggest tech stories of the week. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Welcome to Click. Let's face it, none of us are getting any younger. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
There will come a point when we are too frail to do some of the things | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
we can take for granted now. At that point, what do you do? Move to | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
a care home or stay in your own home? We have been looking at the | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
latest options allowing you to do just that. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Caring for elderly relatives and technology do not obviously go hand | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
in hand, some devices are making enjoying those home comforts for | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
longer a reality. Of course there are plenty of active, able over 65s | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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who do not need looking after. As a generation who did not grow up with | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
technology, not everybody is naturally at ease with the use of | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
or the need for a mobile phone. Keeping it simple is a help. This | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Doro PhoneEasy allows remote configuration to add contacts and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
calendar details, meaning the user only needs to understand basic | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
functionality. It stores emergency contact information such as next of | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
kin, blood type and medication. It can pinpoint location using phone | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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networks. An activation of the emergency alarm button can also | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
pinpoint position. With 820,000 people in the UK suffering from | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
dementia, for those at the point where 24-hour care can be avoided, | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
a big concern is of the wandering unsafely. This wandering prevention | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
alarm watch works in a similar way to some of the safety devices we | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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showed you a couple of weeks ago on Click. It lets a designated contact | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
keep track of an elderly relative. If they step outside a safe zone an | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
alarm is automatically triggered. The idea of virtual boundaries is | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
employed by the Doro PhoneEasy as well. The universal message from | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
the elderly population is they want to live independently in their own | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
home. We have 150,000 people going into care homes every year. Not | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
many of them go in willingly. We want to keep people alive and | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
successfully living in their own home for as long as possible. This | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
technology offers a bridge forward. Some monitoring is good, but not | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
too much. You need a little privacy. They want me to look after them. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
would be quite happy if she was monitoring me. Because you just | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
never know what goes on. You need to be online 24 hours a day. If you | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
do not answer your phone immediately, everybody thinks | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
something has gone wrong. While alarms are not new, neither are | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
telehealth systems like this one. It allows those with chronic | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
conditions to update medical data such as blood pressure or blood | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
oxygen levels. After taking a reading the device will | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
automatically update through Bluetooth and go on to send the | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
data to a healthcare professional. In the consumer market there are | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
still a limited number of devices around. This GrandCare System | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
currently available in the US is soon to be distributed in the UK. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
It incorporates medication and healthcare management, monitoring | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
sensors around the home and easy to use internet access. It will cost | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
between $100-$300 a month. The cost you could save is huge. There is a | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
huge kind of potential with this technology. We will never be able | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
to afford all the human help to do all the care needs that an ageing | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
society is presenting. We have got to try and make this technology | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
work for us. To be acceptable to the older person hoping to use it | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
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and their care worker. At any age remembering to take your medication | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
at the right time can be a challenge, particularly if there is | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
a lot of it. There could be a new way of monitoring what you have | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
taken and when you have taken it. It will become a lot more hi-tech. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
A pilot scheme being launched later this year in the UK will put to the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
test this digital health check system. An ingestible sensor will | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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relay information to a patch on the body. The information could be | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
shared through Bluetooth on a smartphone. The Proteus System has | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
been approved by the Food and Drugs Administration for use in the US. | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
There are some things that no technology can help with. The use | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
of technology is usually important to older people and their families. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
It has the potential to improve the quality of life and help families | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
quite stressed about caring. What it cannot do is replace that human | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
contact. That is where contact with family and community groups remains | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
really important. It is for that reason that some may struggle to | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
ever come around to the idea that we need this technology to work. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
somebody needs monitoring every day of the week, then really, | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
technology can go wrong... Everybody knows that. Computers go | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
down. We should not need all of these things. If we live normal | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
lives and did not put our elders into homes, all this technology | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
would not be necessary. I think it is a pity it has come to this sorry | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
state of af state of afs being left to technology. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Let's check the wires and see what is making waves in the technology | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
news. In the midst of a court case between Apple and Samsung over | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
allegations of copying designs for a touch devices, Microsoft has paid | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Apple to use key design patents in future products. These include the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
secrets of how the smooth transitions of the touch interface | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
work on the iPad and iPhone. We are most likely to see the results in | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Microsoft's Surface tablet. The deal prohibits Microsoft from using | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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exactly the same design. Galaxy has released its Galaxy note device. It | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
is pressure sensitive. It will respond to how strong you touch the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
screen. Facebook is in hot water with a German data protection | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
agency. It has opened an investigation into biometric data | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
usage. Authorities in Hamburg are concerned about a database of | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
photos. Tags are used to name people who are used in each picture. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
The authorities say the company should seek permission from each | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
individual Facebook user or destroy the database. Facebook says its | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
opt-out system complies with EU data protection and privacy laws. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Drivers in the UK are being offered the chance to reduce their | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
insurance premiums if they agree to be tracked. Aviva is asking | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
customers to download a special smartphone app. Their handset sends | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
back information on accelerating, braking and cornering for the first | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
200 miles driven. Aviva is offering 20% off for what it interprets as | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
careful driving. The US military has failed in its attempt to fly an | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
unmanned aircraft at six times the speed of sound. The Mach 6 would | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
take one hour to go between New York and London. It broke apart | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
over the Pacific Ocean on a trial on 15th August. It is the second | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
time in a row the air force have not been able to test the | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
hypersonic prototype. The previous effort was also lost in the Pacific. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
A group of researchers in Singapore have been able to print an image | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
smaller than the width of a human hair. The image, which has 100,000 | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
dots is as small as colour printing will allow. If the pixels were any | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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closer together, the light bouncing Technology is wonderful. If that's | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
all we have established in the last 100 programmes, then I would still | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
be happy. It can tell you what your friends are up to if you are | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
feeling lonely, but after a long day at work, could your house run a | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
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bath and put the kettle on? That would be nice. And not that far- | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
fetched either. We have travelled to Paris to meet a sentient | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
building. Convention dictates that we start a feature in Paris with a | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
shot of the Eiffel Tower. There it is. But one slightly less | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
predictable next line is to wonder aloud what the Eiffel Tower is | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
A few miles up the Seine from the tower is one site structure that | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
has been made to tell its visitors exactly that as part of an | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
exhibition. ClickThis old opera house is host to The Building Is..., | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
a combined exhibition and game to give us the impression that the | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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building itself is alive and susceptible to mood swings. Players | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
fill out scorecards to see of their personality is the one the building | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
needs to change how it feels. There are 16 different moods conveyed to | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
us using texts on floor strips, or graphics representing emotions. The | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
building's mood changes depending on what the attendees do. Since | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
everything is interconnected, an action in one room can change what | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
happens in another. On arrival, visitors can leave an audio message | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
for the building. The building is excited. It wants to hear something | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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This is a giant version of an old friend from years ago, hear the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
tune, play it back. But instead of a few buttons, there is a crowd or | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
48 arcade buttons that light up as you move through the installation, | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
culminating in one very big button. Players are encouraged to push as | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
hard as they can to get a decent score. In its desperation to see | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
everything, the building begs players to use mirrors to bounce | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
light into its camera, but the rather lo-fi light detection is | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
provided by provided bytant. Surely light detection should be easy | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
enough for a machine. We did stuff | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
stuff and it was not sophisticated enough to stand up to gameplay. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Gameplay is really dynamic and everything changes very fast. We | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
maybe could have got them out with another year. But in the time that | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
we had, humans were the best solution. Another game, The | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
Building Smells, involves navigating a ball to a giant nose. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
The architects use a 3D software package to create a design of this | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
air powered crazy golf course. It triggers a pressure pad which | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
triggers a vacuum that sucks up the ball. After hearing me through its | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
telephone exchanges, feeling me through its buttons, smelling me | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
through its air vents and seeing me with its CCTV cameras, the app can | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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evaluate whether I am worthy enough Even this simple app is using an | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
algorithm to generate an effective nickname for me. I am an Angry | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
Jester. What is it that they are trying to achieve? The idea of | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
architecture coming to life and inviting you to play with it. That | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
could go anywhere. We could have dynamic buildings that change shape. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
We could have coffee shops that charge less money depending on how | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
happy the building is feeling. There are all sorts of dynamic, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
playful stuff that was in our imaginations as we were making this | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
first show that we were not able to make this first time. Wiring | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
throughout the installation leads to a secret room where the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
building's mood can be changed, but only a few lucky players are let in | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
if they have the right personality type. The beating heart, complete | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
with proximity centres, awaits the gentle touch of an Angry Jester. I | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
had to put my arms inside this contraption and pluck its strings | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
inside. While this exhibition is clearly about art, objects | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
informing humans of their state gives a glimpse of a future where | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
everything is connected to everything else. But programming | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
our gadgets to appear to our standards in order to do things for | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
us without being asked may require an effective synthesis of empathy, | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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which is difficult enough for some What is your favourite song, right | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
now? Mine changes weekly depending on the mood of what is going on, | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
although the latest one from Carly Rae Jepsen is going out a treat in | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
my house. Kate Russell happens to know a place where that kind of | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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If you had to choose one song that reflects your life, right now, what | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
would it be? That is the idea behind thisismyjam.com, a social | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
platform for music lovers that delivers a different take on the | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
modern playlist by asking its users to choose just one track that makes | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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You can change your jam as often as you like. But you can have only one | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
track active at any one time. I kind of like this limitation, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
because it means the things that you see will be people's absolute | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
favourite songs of the moment. The site will also recommend people to | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
follow, who have liked similar tracks to you, and there are | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
popular jams to choose from. It creates a wonderfully eclectic and | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
ever-changing playlist accessed through the home screen. There is | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
also integration with Twitter and Facebook, and Last.FM users can | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
also link to Scrobbler and have liked tracks automatically added to | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
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With so many ways of connecting to the internet - laptop, desktop, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
tablet, smartphone - it is no wonder services like Niv.io are | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
popping up on the web. It delivers a Windows desktop directly to your | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux and Chromebook computers. Once | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
registered, you will get an email explaining how to log on. It took | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
some setting up. But once completed, you can add whichever applications | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
you want to use. You get to try all the apps for free, for the first 30 | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
days, after then you can rent them whenever you need them. This was | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
not released last month when we did our paperless office special, but | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
had it been, it would have been a perfect addition to the mobile | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
toolbox. I have to say this tablet is not quite as comfortable to sit | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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With the desktop installed, you can choose a folder to sync to the N | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
drive. 10 gigs of free space should be enough to start you off. It will | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
ask you whether you want to install the Pocketcloud companion app, | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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which you do not have to, but which Whatever gets your blood pressure | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
up, get it off your chest with a new social platform designed with | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
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intelligent debate in mind, You can share your views in public | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
or with a closed circle of friends, who are invited to rate and debate | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
along with you. The makers tell me they picked up 5,000 members in the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
first ten weeks, which is pretty good for a new social network like | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
this, especially when you are looking for quality and a real | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
desire to join a debate, rather than bulk of numbers. You might | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
argue that the world does not need another place for internet trolls | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
to throw insults at each other, but because of the extra social | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
features, geared towards promoting lively debate, the site seems to | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
have attracted a very engaged and respectful community. Let's hope it | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
stays that way it as it grows in popularity. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Google Plus announced on Monday that it is introducing vanity URLs, | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
allowing users to make a more memorable web address for their | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
profile pages. For now, only a handful of high-end pages have the | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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feature enabled, like Britney And a few top flight brand names. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
But the company says they will be rolling out the feature to more | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
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How many times have you clicked the "I agree" button on a website's | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
terms and conditions without actually reading them? It has been | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
called the biggest lie on the internet, but new website tos- | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
dr.info aims to put a stop to this cavalier attitude to our privacy, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
by making a crowdsourced database highlighting the good, the bad and | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
the downright cheeky, and applying a rating you can see in an instant | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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whether you should be blindly All the links are on our website. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
You can also find video from this week's show up there as well. If | :21:31. | :21:34. |