20/10/2012 Click

language towards officers he had previously denied swearing at.

Time for Click. Have a guess where we are this week.

Welcome to Click. On this programme, we have been lucky enough to visit

countries from across the technology spectrum from the

richest to the poorest, least developed and most advanced. This

week, we are at the cutting edge of the sharp end. This is Japan. This

week, we arrived at the Country pass mark if technology

extravaganza to check out the latest ultra-high definition

screens, the cars that park themselves and the other bizarre

devices that could be just a few years down the road. We also hit

the streets of Tokyo. All that plus the latest technology news and a

chance to get hands-on with science remote meet one Webscape. --

remotely. Here we go - off to the future, to a country renowned for

its love of technology. Japan lies 9,500 kilometres east of our base

in London. Time to such a laugh -- saddle up and write east. Tokyo is

a crowded capital city that looks every bit a set from Blade runner.

But it is what is going on in neighbouring Chiba prefecture that

is interesting us. This is Japan's big technology expert. As you might

expect, it is slightly more futuristic than the equivalent

shows in the US and Europe. That is because companies don't just use

this event to launch new products, they also use it to show off new

research that is still many years away from completion. Case in point,

this car that is currently parking itself. This is a specially adapted

Nissan Leaf fitted with sensors that detect the special white lines

painted on the floor. The idea is that once you have drugs and the

car to the destination, you can use your smartphone to order it to park

to its space by itself -- once you have driven the car to the

destination. You can call it back using the smartphone as well. The

company says it does not know if or when this concert will actually be

put into practice and since the senses and the working areas

treated with the reflective white paint, this will be more suited to

places like car parks than entire road networks. This is where this

amazing Expo happens. This is call one of eight. It is for great stuff.

Just as the TV is usually the centre of attention in our living

rooms, so it is taking centre stage once again. Rising from the ashes

of a lacklustre 3D Renaissance to promise a picture so we'll it has

its own its reedy quality. 4 K screens like these are so named

because they have 4,000 picture rules -- pixels along the bottom,

delivering an 8 megapixel image, as opposed to ordinary HD, which

delivers just 25% of that. The effect can be seen on a larger

screens bigger than 50 inches. This 80 inch screen it goes on sale this

month for a court �20,000. In previous years, all the buzz

about TV has been about 3D television. But there was not much

interest in that. Instead, 4 K is king. At the moment, there is not

much demand for that I said. -- Eva. You can watch YouTube on 4 K. That

is already available on the internet. It is already possible to

enjoy the content. Toshiba has two 55 inch for case screens on sale.

This small but growing number of PC games are 4 K compatible. Just as

DVDs can be improved to high- definition, so high-definition

content light of Blu-ray discs can be upgraded 24 K. The result is not

so that. Well getting hold of complete movies shot in 4 K can be

difficult, you can create your own with this for cave movie camera.

Sharpe kept things in focus with a screen technology that reduces

reflections. The glass surface is uneven and so disperses light that

hits it. The light coming through it is seemingly untouched. Away

from televisions, your phone screen may be due for an upgrade. This is

the first full hi-def five-inch display that we can expect to see

in devices next year. With 30% more pixels the chief than Apple

iPhone's retina display, you can see every detail close up. Your

phone might be looking just as closely at you with this Palmer

Scanning app. An on-board camera can identify the true owner and

unlock the device. I tried but could not for it. Just as well that

his keeper did not use his other hand. This phone users dozens of

sensors to detect where and how hard you are squeezing it as an

alternative to touch control. You just know this live-action will end

in tears. Many manufacturers believe your mobile will be the

centre of controlling your home environment as well. From

instructing robot vacuum cleaners to making a cup of coffee. This is

the $7 solution from one company - a microchip that can be added to

most home appliances when they are made to allow wireless controlled

by the new Bluetooth. It was that less energy in standby mode so it

won't drain your battery. A different technology does Newfield

communication - was found in this demonstration. By touching the

phone on the microwave, the cooker knows exactly how long to sack her

baked potato. If we actually use microwave to cook rather than heat

up one or two things, that would be useful. The final gesture to the

future goes to Toyota, which showed off a concept car called the insect.

It has face and voice recognition and will open the door when you

wave at it, thanks to the in-built Microsoft Kinect system. Once

inside, it links to its own cloud server to provide mapping controls.

Mitsubishi reached for the stars, showing off at this voice-activated

elevator that gives an ultra smooth ride. That is important, because

you will be moving at 60kph up the world's second tallest building.

That is four stories per second. Once they finish building it, that

is. First, this week's Technology News.

Eight row is brewing over whether Google is breaking European privacy

laws. EU Data Protection Commission has looked at Google's new privacy

policy, which, since March, covers all of Google's services. It was

able to compile a much wider picture of users' habits by cross-

referencing what they do with up to 60 services. The report are such

Google to give users more control. It is being viewed as a warning

before any legal action but Google insists it is not breaking any

European law. Supporters of British hacker Gary McKinnon has welcomed

the decision by the UK government to block his extradition to America.

He has always insisted he was looking for evidence of UFOs. The

extradition was stopped after fears that Gary McKinnon, who suffers

from Asperger's syndrome, might commit suicide if sent to America.

Microsoft has launched a new free music service to compete with

iTunes and Spotify. XBox Music streams tax and allows online

purchasing across tablets, phones and computers running Windows 8,

the operating system expected out in a few days. We will have a full

review of the new system in our next episode. Microsoft's is

cracking down on users playing a pilot version of Halo 4. It is

threatening and -- a lifetime ban. One of the many brilliant things

about Japan is that people in this part of the world embraced

technology in a way that people in the West just don't. Take robots

for example. They are loved here and feared there. Japanese people

seem happy to it - technology to absolutely anything, even if to the

rest of it, it makes no sense whatsoever. This bakery has all

kinds of freshly cooked Japanese produce. Potato cakes, a turnout

with a carried a kingside. -- don't out -- cake with thank you in sight.

But how will you pay for your groceries? People might be used to

standing barcodes but these checkouts scanty food itself using

this camera and software that identify as the shape and colour of

each item. The developers say that new staff

cannot always remember the name of each item and that can cause a

hauled up at busy times. Software has to work hard. Not all

wholegrain loaves look the same after all. So it has to learn

several considerations for each item. A definite match is outlined

in green. Anything the computer is not sure about is outlined in

yellow. At which point a human has to step in. At that point, the

computer adds that image to its memory, which should make it

smarter in the future. This system can be expanded to any shop.

Technology for a technology's sake, I hear you ask. At least you get

some real food out of it. Unlike his next project. I have come to

the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where researchers are cooking up

something very strange indeed. He is a cooking simulator. Yes, you

heard me correctly. Eight cooking simulator. The pan is real but if

you look at the action from this angle, the food is most definitely

virtual. It is all run from this PC, which is playing a nice sound

effects from the speakers and the image is projected from here.

These wires attached to the pan. First, they tell the computer which

way you are tipping the pan so it can make the food has lied about in

a realistic fashion. Also, the motors attached to the fires can

give the pan a little tug so it feels like the food is hitting the

edge of the pan. A virtual slice - attached to a

real handle here, means you can... And a dropped it.

This is not actually designed to teach you how to cook, it is

designed to teach you about the physics of cooking. Not only can

you see the food change colour and eventually ban, if we switch to

thermal mode, we can see how different pan techniques changed

the texture of different parts of the food. Yes, it is more expensive

than practising on a real food, but at least you won't make anybody ill

by undercutting the chicken. I thought I would show you

something that has to be... (INAUDIBLE) Japanese. Here are the

While the audience is their lunch, the performers live these use of

the discs around the floor. -- beat performers drive these huge robots

around the floor. It is an assault on the senses and something I would

We will take a virtual tour now. With buttons to push and levers to

pull, the Science Museum is one of the most into active days out in

London. Thanks to this website you do not need to use -- leave your

sofa to enjoy it. This is part of a five-year experiment. You probably

have to wait your turn in the queue to interact live, now I've told

everybody about it will probably get a bit longer. Luckily, there

are virtual options as well for all the exhibits if you cannot wait

your turn. My favourite is the sketch pot. You'll need a web

camera to take a photograph as the actors not upload a picture from

your hard drive. I also really like the telly Porter, a clever live 360

degree window to summerhouse in the world. Right and the world of this

busy bakery in Carolina. Keeping track of your cash can be annoying

especially when you have more than one bank account or credit cards

from various companies. This Act lets you take control through one

central hub so you know what is going on with your money and

whether your income matches your outgoings before you start getting

uncomfortable letters from the bank. Some of you may not feel

comfortable handing over your bank account login details to another

company. You are not storing anything on the servers. NEWLINE

organs are handled by another company which deals with some the

biggest banks in America. The security is tight. You are and the

granting read-only access to your account. Even if somebody did hack

end to your dashboard account they could not do any transactions. This

type of service is called an account aggregate of. Your bank

will not like giving it access probably. That is becoming less

common as the technology grows in popularity. You can set budgets and

extract all manner of reporting and balance are limits. The company

makes money from commission on sales of additional financial

products. Expect to get sold to occasionally when you use the free

service. Some of the best things in life are free. Like this coming

Android game which was made by a kick you. The object is to collect

as many stars as you can without getting your bubble popped. Not as

easy as it sounds. Simplicity is often the way to the heart of a

good game for me and this takes the box. It was super-fast to download

and launch as quickly and there were no dodgy looking commissions

to install it. Mainstream at developers could learn a thing or

two. The controls are very obvious. Slide to position and tack when you

see a window of opportunity. Bunce the bubble of the walls to collect

more stars. Czech and to the real world occasionally too. Look out my

boss security updated its free Android app this week. You can find

your phone even if your factory is dead. A signal pinpoints the last

location your phone was before it died. Hopefully helping you

retrieve it. That was a web skate. Before we go we have to give you a

quick whizz round the Tokyo TEC show. We have been scouting he

calls for the coolest kits. Video- conferencing may have gone mobile

over the past few years, but this company wants to make it a personal

experience. Developing a pair of concept video conferencing set.

Inside the glass I've two fish-eye lenses. Let me show you what

happens when I put them on. At the moment, what to see is a view of my

face. The only real thing is my eyes. The rest is a computer

generated avatar. Supercomputer will combine it into a moving image

of my face and look more flattering. There are different ways this

technology can be advanced. You can imagine somebody wearing these

spectacles and having the images projected onto the front. You

grandmother could wear a pair of the spectacles and have hit vital

signs monitored. And there is the Google project file of projecting

augmented reality overlays on to the real world three glasses. You

could check out the price of a handbag or project any other kind

of real world information. It could be ten years before we see these on

the market. They may never appear at all. But they look a lot better

than 3D spectacles. The very height of ocular fashion indeed, and this

is another device that relies on your eyes. Will -- I imagine you

are travelling on a packed commuter train in Tokyo and you want to use

your tablet. This is a device which is controlled by looking at it. At

the bottom of the tablets are the senses. They are monitoring eye

movement with a bit of calibration, we have to look around the screen

and it knows what my eyes are looking at. There is a pointer, if

I look around the screen, it follows my eye movement. If I open

up an application, the Web browser, we have arrows on the screen and I

can scroll up and scroll down. And left and right by looking at it. It

is not 100% accurate. It does actually work. And on simpler app

macros, the image is nice and thick. The device gives a new meaning to

the phrase look but do not touch. Proper sense we overload here. It

can get really noisy. This is where handset like this comes in handy.

It has a vibrating display which means when you get an incoming call,

you have not just sound waves but vibrations going straight through

into your ear canal. Courtesy of an electric actuator a motor inside.

To prove the point, when you put on headphones, I can hear industrial

sounds loudly, when the call comes in, I can hear the voice of

somebody transmitted and vibrating directly through my tissue into my

Ekka now, of allowing the to hear the call. It could be very useful

for those hard of hearing in future. But what I like about it is, for

the first time in a decade you can talk about voice calls on a mobile.

The open road enhanced by an open car or environment. This is a car

cockpit concept. It is invented by a Japanese company. It has few

controls. The features are driven by this glowing circle here. The

whole cockpit is designed for a minimum of driver distraction. With

displays and controls only appearing as and when they are

necessary. He hand movement over the glowing gearstick indicate

which controls they need and then they appear. As well as gesture

controls, a heart-rate monitor blending into the seat and cameras

and a steering wheel which will go the eyes of the driver. The data

from both of these combined to make sure the driver remains a lead in