:00:03. > :00:12.postponed, a key demand of the opposition. That's it from me,
:00:12. > :00:22.Chris Rogers will be here at 2 am, minute, hang on, wait, wait, wait...
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:00:36. > :00:41.This week, Click takes a ride on the bizarre bike that does stand up
:00:41. > :00:47.by itself. And saves a bit of energy along the way. We'll take a
:00:47. > :00:51.raspberry raspberry pie. Apple, Google and
:00:51. > :00:57.Microsoft all square up... Well rectangle up anyway. We will review
:00:57. > :01:06.the the latest Tech News, and how to
:01:06. > :01:11.find a hired hand at short notice in Webscape. Welcome to Click, I'm
:01:11. > :01:16.Spencer Kelly. Can you remember the first time you ever saw a segue
:01:16. > :01:20.scooter? To wield scooter, which against all odds, stands up by
:01:20. > :01:28.itself. Well first up this week we thought we would show you a brand-
:01:28. > :01:34.new vehicle which does something more
:01:34. > :01:39.more than a little odd. We have been to California to investigate.
:01:39. > :01:47.your your wildest sci-fi fantasies come
:01:47. > :01:51.to life. Sell driving cars, robots that fetch beers... And now a
:01:51. > :01:59.futuristic set of wheels that looks like it was driven straight out of
:01:59. > :02:07.a scene from Tronc, this is the C one. This working prototype is full
:02:07. > :02:12.head turner. So is it a motorcycle his
:02:12. > :02:16.his brainchild, the founder, Daniel Kim, says both are. It takes
:02:16. > :02:20.romance and the efficiency of a you motorcycle and the safety and
:02:20. > :02:30.comfort of a car. The motor that the motivation was to trim the fat
:02:30. > :02:39.in our transportation systems. So they did that. Then loaded it with
:02:39. > :02:47.Tech. Fully enclosed stealthng bouncing electric motorcycle. It
:02:47. > :02:53.gets 220 miles with charge, 0-60 in transportation. Most of that makes
:02:53. > :03:00.sense, fully enclosed. Okay, so no helmet needed. Electric, got that.
:03:00. > :03:06.bit about self- balancing? would be very hard to knock over
:03:06. > :03:09.our vehicle. I know what you're thinking, how is it possible? It
:03:09. > :03:16.uses the very same technology that is used in the international space
:03:16. > :03:22.station and the Hubble space telescope. Gyroscopes. With two
:03:22. > :03:26.Jiros, one for redundancy, it puts out over 1700 Newton metres of talk.
:03:26. > :03:31.It can withstand much more than feeble reporters who skipped gym
:03:31. > :03:39.workouts. We hook it up to an SUV, and basically test to see i
:03:40. > :03:43.fell over. We simulated a collision. motorcycle licence. Since its
:03:43. > :03:47.intended tore shouldn't be though, there shouldn't be any
:03:47. > :03:53.learning curve. And so called landing gea up
:03:53. > :03:59.right when propped. Still observers say consumers may not be entirely
:03:59. > :04:02.convinced by Kim's ground-breaking Tech. This thing balances for you.
:04:02. > :04:08.Unlike a motorcycle, if you begin to doubt it, you can't put your
:04:08. > :04:13.foot on the ground, you have to trust it. There's a great degree of
:04:13. > :04:19.faith that he is asking the purchasers to have in a different
:04:19. > :04:29.kind of vehicle. They also tread into very familiar tech territory.
:04:29. > :04:29.
:04:29. > :04:32.detect detect your phone, it could provide
:04:32. > :04:42.access to navigation apps or streaming music. Talk may require
:04:42. > :04:43.
:04:43. > :04:49.trust, but apps, those customers know and love. Samuel is one of 500
:04:49. > :04:56.people who have put down $100 for a spot on the waiting list. -- a few
:04:57. > :05:05.hundred dollars. This is his first impression. That is cool. Followed
:05:05. > :05:11.by what is it, and is this real. advanced
:05:11. > :05:16.advanced features, followed by customers like Long. Motorcyclists
:05:16. > :05:24.are looking for a more comfortable ride, as well as commuters. It's
:05:24. > :05:27.only 40 inches wide, so you can get through traffic. And the
:05:27. > :05:32.company is eyeing up countries where to Wheeler's rule the road,
:05:32. > :05:36.Countrie Countries that have enormous growth
:05:36. > :05:39.engines, incredible technology forward populations, and a class of
:05:39. > :05:45.people in tarly Thirties who are coming into
:05:45. > :05:48.That could That could be golden. But would it
:05:48. > :05:58.be the ride of choice for tight- knit families like these? A
:05:58. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:04.for two, but one, 2, three, four, five, six, baggage and two dogs?
:06:04. > :06:14.Doubtful. To make any in Rome's at all they first need to get past the
:06:14. > :06:18.being denied a test drive by protective engineers, I settled for
:06:18. > :06:21.sitting behind the wheel. The first thing I noticed, it's actually
:06:21. > :06:26.pretty spacious. I'm not the tallest person on the planet but I
:06:27. > :06:30.have got plenty of room. Back here, you notice these electronics, they
:06:30. > :06:35.are for stability control. They will be shrunken down to this size,
:06:35. > :06:40.Danny tells me. And they will be somewhere up here. Not quite ready
:06:40. > :06:45.for production, but the company has time to polish and protect before
:06:45. > :06:49.its 2014 shitting goal. It will cost $24,000 initially, but the
:06:49. > :06:55.they they can reach scale to $12,000 in
:06:55. > :06:59.the US and $5,000 in Asia thanr cheaper manufacturing. -- shipping.
:06:59. > :07:03.Almost everyone I spoke to from future customers to car tech
:07:03. > :07:13.experts agree, the cool factor seals the deal. The first time I
:07:13. > :07:20.development shop in San Francisco, intake year of breath. It's an
:07:20. > :07:30.amazing machine -- intake of breath. design that I look and say, I would
:07:30. > :07:33.
:07:33. > :07:37.customers and investors to want the same.
:07:37. > :07:45.Possibly the most stable thing on two wheels I have ever seen. What a
:07:45. > :07:49.this week's big Tech News stories. A new global alliance has been
:07:49. > :07:56.launched to tackle child porn on up of 48 co
:07:56. > :08:04.Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, and sevemerica.as well
:08:04. > :08:09.ways to reduce the availability of child porn on the Net, and increase
:08:09. > :08:14.the number of prosecutions. It comes weeks before the new cyber
:08:14. > :08:19.centre opens up at the Haye League. Amazon is launching an all-you-can-
:08:19. > :08:24.eat contents series for kids, the offers
:08:24. > :08:29.and and music from between $3-$10 a
:08:30. > :08:35.month. It will be available for Amazon's Kindle, of which more a
:08:35. > :08:38.little later in the show. Social is getting much more social as
:08:39. > :08:46.Microsoft has opened up its online con 10 sharing gallery to the
:08:46. > :08:50.public. It works a bit like... -- content sharing. It has been opened
:08:50. > :08:55.up to students in May. Anyone with sign up as
:08:55. > :08:59.sign up as the site goes head-to- sharing
:08:59. > :09:07.robot is a robot is a world record holder.
:09:07. > :09:16.San Francisco to Australia unaided. It has taken just over a year to
:09:17. > :09:20.solidity and ecosystem. Its owner has three similar robots still out
:09:20. > :09:30.at sea, although one has had to divert to Hawaii for an urgent
:09:30. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:38.how it's getting on! One of the Big Tex stories of 2012 has been not a
:09:38. > :09:44.very fast complicated smartphone, comput
:09:44. > :09:48.computer. -alled raspberry pie and it is designed to
:09:48. > :09:51.teach kids about programming and get them excited about programming
:09:51. > :09:56.computers and making the teaching of programming affordable. We
:09:56. > :10:01.covered it earlier in the year on Click. But we have brought back in
:10:01. > :10:11.Mike Powell, who is the face of raspberry pie to have a look. Hello.
:10:11. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:23.it? It is stand alone, you just need a USP, and you're away. What
:10:23. > :10:29.can this ne do that the old version can't? It is the same
:10:29. > :10:34.machine, it has got up on memory, a difference. More memory gives it
:10:34. > :10:38.more breathing space to do stuff more efficiently. It is big enough
:10:38. > :10:42.to run the Android operating system from the smartphone world?
:10:42. > :10:48.yet to see looking
:10:48. > :10:53.looking forward to it. Your app developers for Android can develop
:10:53. > :10:58.for Ras Group I? Yes. This is what you see when you start it, a
:10:58. > :11:02.raspberry p raspberry pie. Can you talk us
:11:03. > :11:08.through what we are seeing here? have got a simple text editor and
:11:08. > :11:15.we have written a simple one Line programme that says, hello, BBC
:11:15. > :11:21.click. We hample on the much longer programme and this does
:11:21. > :11:26.run Space invaders? Yes it does. I will press the key to start us off.
:11:26. > :11:32.There it is running, that is the script ill done
:11:32. > :11:36.in the python language in a few hundred lines of code? Yes. We are
:11:36. > :11:42.going back to the Eighties, because a generation of school kids miss
:11:42. > :11:45.out on programming because the PC got access
:11:45. > :11:48.into programme. Yes. Now you have got access to raw programming
:11:48. > :11:52.languages and you can see the whole thing in action, you can take an
:11:52. > :11:56.existing programme like Space invaders and you can edit it. That
:11:56. > :12:04.is just as valid as writing something from scratch. What other
:12:04. > :12:08.things have you seen being used? player, you can run it as a simple
:12:08. > :12:13.media player to play back HD movies. We have seen a burglar alarm
:12:13. > :12:21.programmed with it before as an educational exercise. And many
:12:21. > :12:31.way accessories can now be pegged into
:12:31. > :12:31.
:12:31. > :12:36.you to do? sical devices to it, lamps, relays,
:12:36. > :12:44.motors, and control them, and sense things from the physical world.
:12:44. > :12:48.Tell me about the chicken. It is a robotic chicken. It connects to the
:12:48. > :12:51.raspberry pie via this device. We have a Twitter application running
:12:51. > :12:56.on the raspberry pie that listens for a certain hash tag, when it
:12:56. > :13:01.receives it the rust replied speaks the tweet on a monitor in a
:13:01. > :13:05.synthesised voice, and the chicken flaps its wings and its feet as
:13:05. > :13:15.well. I think the tech world has been missing that for a number of
:13:15. > :13:18.
:13:18. > :13:23.Bookings in this world a safe the fickle finger of fashion and
:13:23. > :13:26.that includes technology. Not long ago the take industry was trying to
:13:26. > :13:31.persuade us that by laptop was the solution to all our computer
:13:31. > :13:37.problems and suddenly it was the smartphone and no, you need a net
:13:37. > :13:42.book. Did Ineed an ultra book. The latest trendy
:13:42. > :13:46.so so many of them around, argued
:13:46. > :13:51.shoes before they too become yesterday's news? Mark has been
:13:51. > :13:57.testing out the latest crop of tablets.
:13:57. > :14:01.For a short time, have also to the top of the tap -- at the top of the
:14:01. > :14:07.Tablet tree Tablet tree supreme while android tablets
:14:07. > :14:12.struggle to match the quality. Two years later, our whole host of
:14:12. > :14:16.Android devices which can just about match the iPad. Crucially,
:14:16. > :14:25.they all cheaper. To make things interesting, Microsoft has entered
:14:26. > :14:29.can can take on all-comers. The Surface.
:14:29. > :14:30.What tabards are great for surfing and watching a movie and TV,
:14:30. > :14:35.creating co creating co creating colt
:14:35. > :14:40.difficult to a lack of keyboard or mouse plus processing power and
:14:40. > :14:44.apps which seamlessly integrate your software you might find on a
:14:44. > :14:50.desktop PC. Microsoft's primary aim with the Surface is to address this
:14:50. > :14:55.by creating a tablet that behaves a lot like a laptop. Surface is a
:14:55. > :15:00.meaty slab of Tabard technology. Physically larger than all of its
:15:00. > :15:06.rivals. To it makes use of Microsoft's Windows eight operating
:15:06. > :15:11.system. A full-size USB port and these
:15:11. > :15:16.these magnetic cover a keyboard. These come as the next
:15:16. > :15:20.event -- expensive optional extra and in two flavours. One which has
:15:20. > :15:29.properties and this they know, which lacks
:15:29. > :15:34.which lacks keys which actually good. The flexible version, less so.
:15:34. > :15:37.It reacts slowly to keystrokes with a noticeable lack between typing
:15:37. > :15:41.and the characters appearing on screen. A lack of tactile feedback
:15:41. > :15:44.can be unsettling when trying to tie up quic
:15:44. > :15:48.tie up quickly. Surface does of course have a nice big touch-screen
:15:48. > :15:55.as well but touch and windows eight works ever so slightly different
:15:55. > :15:58.metre touch on an Apple iPad or an Android tablet. A slight on the
:15:58. > :16:05.right-hand side of the screen reveals what Microsoft is calling
:16:05. > :16:08.the charmer bar. Users can access the search tool. Something Surface
:16:08. > :16:17.as which all other tablets lack is this ability to open what is in
:16:17. > :16:25.essence a kind of desktop you would of Microsoft Office, it can run
:16:25. > :16:32.won on his desktop. This software is pretty much all you can use the
:16:32. > :16:39.kick the desktop is sparsely populated. Wait until you see the
:16:39. > :16:43.app store. Its shelves are presenting as a Soviet supermarket.
:16:43. > :16:49.I I think it's engineers did not want
:16:49. > :16:54.Surface is Surface is not a great Laptop and
:16:54. > :17:03.it is not great as a tablet for a couple of reasons. One of them is
:17:03. > :17:08.physic physical fitness to handle a
:17:08. > :17:13.Surface but it's a very heavy bit of hand-held kept. So heavy in fact
:17:13. > :17:23.if I am one, I might even consider cancelling my gymnasium
:17:23. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:36.subscription. From big to small, displays. Asus and Amazon Kindle.
:17:36. > :17:40.And it is not the size that a stronger. These are but what you
:17:41. > :17:47.would call wallet-friendly tablets. But that these machines have
:17:47. > :17:50.similar price tags. The Kindle Fire runs a skinned version of the
:17:50. > :17:56.Android operating system system. It looks different to the interface
:17:56. > :18:01.where I used to but the main focus of the screen that pushes uses
:18:01. > :18:05.towards content like music, films and Berks. hich
:18:05. > :18:09.Amazon cells. This mean that any apps you downloaded or hidden away
:18:09. > :18:14.and this option here which feels a little bit weird but for the cash,
:18:14. > :18:20.it does have an H D screen which is really rather good. The next seven
:18:20. > :18:24.is a rather straightforward tablet about. The user interface will be
:18:24. > :18:29.familiar to Android users. Slightly lighter than Kindle, the screen is
:18:29. > :18:36.not as high resoluti perfectly good for most purposes.
:18:36. > :18:42.Google Play, the android app store, is full to brimming with apps. What
:18:42. > :18:47.of Apple? They have been busy preparing not one but two new iPads.
:18:47. > :18:51.One with more powerful internals and the smaull-
:18:51. > :18:56.size iPad does that as more of that same stick this many expect from
:18:56. > :19:01.Apple products. Boasting a high- resolution retina display now with
:19:01. > :19:05.a faster processor, both the 10- inch iPad and the Mini now have the
:19:05. > :19:11.new lightning, to which means any Aldeburgh fe
:19:11. > :19:14.fitted with an adaptor to make them work. -- bullet-proof roles. It is
:19:14. > :19:18.shrunk and shrunk and
:19:18. > :19:28.backwash. I backwash. It lacks the Repton and
:19:28. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:34.is thin and light. Combine that sure to keep Apple fans happy.
:19:34. > :19:39.Mark looking at some of the latest tablets available now. Looks like
:19:39. > :19:43.Apple may have some stiff competition in 2013.
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:21:28. > :21:36.Mark Twain. But if you enjoy it, you might want to do some work on
:21:36. > :21:39.your golf swing. This website has received an iPhone app called Swing
:21:39. > :21:42.techni technique so what can be analysed
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:22:44. > :22:52.products. Office tools, where make
:22:52. > :22:58.make sure your communication has always spot-on. Spelling and
:22:58. > :23:03.grammar checkers are a great pick up
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:23:35. > :23:39.to to help people of dyslexia,
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:23:47. > :23:50.spelling. Thanks, Kate. Those Webscape links
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