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postponed, a key demand of the opposition. That's it from me, | :00:03. | :00:12. | |
Chris Rogers will be here at 2 am, minute, hang on, wait, wait, wait... | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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This week, Click takes a ride on the bizarre bike that does stand up | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
by itself. And saves a bit of energy along the way. We'll take a | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
raspberry raspberry pie. Apple, Google and | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Microsoft all square up... Well rectangle up anyway. We will review | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
the the latest Tech News, and how to | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
find a hired hand at short notice in Webscape. Welcome to Click, I'm | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Spencer Kelly. Can you remember the first time you ever saw a segue | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
scooter? To wield scooter, which against all odds, stands up by | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
itself. Well first up this week we thought we would show you a brand- | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
new vehicle which does something more | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
more than a little odd. We have been to California to investigate. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
your your wildest sci-fi fantasies come | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
to life. Sell driving cars, robots that fetch beers... And now a | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
futuristic set of wheels that looks like it was driven straight out of | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
a scene from Tronc, this is the C one. This working prototype is full | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
head turner. So is it a motorcycle his | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
his brainchild, the founder, Daniel Kim, says both are. It takes | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
romance and the efficiency of a you motorcycle and the safety and | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
comfort of a car. The motor that the motivation was to trim the fat | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
in our transportation systems. So they did that. Then loaded it with | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
Tech. Fully enclosed stealthng bouncing electric motorcycle. It | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
gets 220 miles with charge, 0-60 in transportation. Most of that makes | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
sense, fully enclosed. Okay, so no helmet needed. Electric, got that. | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
bit about self- balancing? would be very hard to knock over | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
our vehicle. I know what you're thinking, how is it possible? It | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
uses the very same technology that is used in the international space | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
station and the Hubble space telescope. Gyroscopes. With two | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Jiros, one for redundancy, it puts out over 1700 Newton metres of talk. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
It can withstand much more than feeble reporters who skipped gym | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
workouts. We hook it up to an SUV, and basically test to see i | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
fell over. We simulated a collision. motorcycle licence. Since its | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
intended tore shouldn't be though, there shouldn't be any | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
learning curve. And so called landing gea up | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
right when propped. Still observers say consumers may not be entirely | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
convinced by Kim's ground-breaking Tech. This thing balances for you. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Unlike a motorcycle, if you begin to doubt it, you can't put your | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
foot on the ground, you have to trust it. There's a great degree of | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
faith that he is asking the purchasers to have in a different | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
kind of vehicle. They also tread into very familiar tech territory. | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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detect detect your phone, it could provide | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
access to navigation apps or streaming music. Talk may require | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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trust, but apps, those customers know and love. Samuel is one of 500 | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
people who have put down $100 for a spot on the waiting list. -- a few | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
hundred dollars. This is his first impression. That is cool. Followed | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
by what is it, and is this real. advanced | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
advanced features, followed by customers like Long. Motorcyclists | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
are looking for a more comfortable ride, as well as commuters. It's | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
only 40 inches wide, so you can get through traffic. And the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
company is eyeing up countries where to Wheeler's rule the road, | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Countrie Countries that have enormous growth | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
engines, incredible technology forward populations, and a class of | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
people in tarly Thirties who are coming into | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
That could That could be golden. But would it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
be the ride of choice for tight- knit families like these? A | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
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for two, but one, 2, three, four, five, six, baggage and two dogs? | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Doubtful. To make any in Rome's at all they first need to get past the | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
being denied a test drive by protective engineers, I settled for | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
sitting behind the wheel. The first thing I noticed, it's actually | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
pretty spacious. I'm not the tallest person on the planet but I | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
have got plenty of room. Back here, you notice these electronics, they | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
are for stability control. They will be shrunken down to this size, | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Danny tells me. And they will be somewhere up here. Not quite ready | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
for production, but the company has time to polish and protect before | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
its 2014 shitting goal. It will cost $24,000 initially, but the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
they they can reach scale to $12,000 in | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
the US and $5,000 in Asia thanr cheaper manufacturing. -- shipping. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Almost everyone I spoke to from future customers to car tech | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
experts agree, the cool factor seals the deal. The first time I | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
development shop in San Francisco, intake year of breath. It's an | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
amazing machine -- intake of breath. design that I look and say, I would | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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customers and investors to want the same. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Possibly the most stable thing on two wheels I have ever seen. What a | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
this week's big Tech News stories. A new global alliance has been | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
launched to tackle child porn on up of 48 co | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, and sevemerica.as well | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
ways to reduce the availability of child porn on the Net, and increase | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
the number of prosecutions. It comes weeks before the new cyber | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
centre opens up at the Haye League. Amazon is launching an all-you-can- | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
eat contents series for kids, the offers | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
and and music from between $3-$10 a | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
month. It will be available for Amazon's Kindle, of which more a | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
little later in the show. Social is getting much more social as | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Microsoft has opened up its online con 10 sharing gallery to the | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
public. It works a bit like... -- content sharing. It has been opened | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
up to students in May. Anyone with sign up as | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
sign up as the site goes head-to- sharing | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
robot is a robot is a world record holder. | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
San Francisco to Australia unaided. It has taken just over a year to | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
solidity and ecosystem. Its owner has three similar robots still out | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
at sea, although one has had to divert to Hawaii for an urgent | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
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how it's getting on! One of the Big Tex stories of 2012 has been not a | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
very fast complicated smartphone, comput | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
computer. -alled raspberry pie and it is designed to | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
teach kids about programming and get them excited about programming | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
computers and making the teaching of programming affordable. We | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
covered it earlier in the year on Click. But we have brought back in | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Mike Powell, who is the face of raspberry pie to have a look. Hello. | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
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it? It is stand alone, you just need a USP, and you're away. What | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
can this ne do that the old version can't? It is the same | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
machine, it has got up on memory, a difference. More memory gives it | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
more breathing space to do stuff more efficiently. It is big enough | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
to run the Android operating system from the smartphone world? | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
yet to see looking | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
looking forward to it. Your app developers for Android can develop | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
for Ras Group I? Yes. This is what you see when you start it, a | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
raspberry p raspberry pie. Can you talk us | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
through what we are seeing here? have got a simple text editor and | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
we have written a simple one Line programme that says, hello, BBC | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
click. We hample on the much longer programme and this does | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
run Space invaders? Yes it does. I will press the key to start us off. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
There it is running, that is the script ill done | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
in the python language in a few hundred lines of code? Yes. We are | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
going back to the Eighties, because a generation of school kids miss | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
out on programming because the PC got access | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
into programme. Yes. Now you have got access to raw programming | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
languages and you can see the whole thing in action, you can take an | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
existing programme like Space invaders and you can edit it. That | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
is just as valid as writing something from scratch. What other | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
things have you seen being used? player, you can run it as a simple | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
media player to play back HD movies. We have seen a burglar alarm | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
programmed with it before as an educational exercise. And many | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
way accessories can now be pegged into | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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you to do? sical devices to it, lamps, relays, | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
motors, and control them, and sense things from the physical world. | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
Tell me about the chicken. It is a robotic chicken. It connects to the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
raspberry pie via this device. We have a Twitter application running | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
on the raspberry pie that listens for a certain hash tag, when it | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
receives it the rust replied speaks the tweet on a monitor in a | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
synthesised voice, and the chicken flaps its wings and its feet as | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
well. I think the tech world has been missing that for a number of | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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Bookings in this world a safe the fickle finger of fashion and | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
that includes technology. Not long ago the take industry was trying to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
persuade us that by laptop was the solution to all our computer | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
problems and suddenly it was the smartphone and no, you need a net | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
book. Did Ineed an ultra book. The latest trendy | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
so so many of them around, argued | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
shoes before they too become yesterday's news? Mark has been | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
testing out the latest crop of tablets. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
For a short time, have also to the top of the tap -- at the top of the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Tablet tree Tablet tree supreme while android tablets | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
struggle to match the quality. Two years later, our whole host of | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Android devices which can just about match the iPad. Crucially, | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
they all cheaper. To make things interesting, Microsoft has entered | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
can can take on all-comers. The Surface. | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
What tabards are great for surfing and watching a movie and TV, | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
creating co creating co creating colt | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
difficult to a lack of keyboard or mouse plus processing power and | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
apps which seamlessly integrate your software you might find on a | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
desktop PC. Microsoft's primary aim with the Surface is to address this | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
by creating a tablet that behaves a lot like a laptop. Surface is a | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
meaty slab of Tabard technology. Physically larger than all of its | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
rivals. To it makes use of Microsoft's Windows eight operating | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
system. A full-size USB port and these | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
these magnetic cover a keyboard. These come as the next | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
event -- expensive optional extra and in two flavours. One which has | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
properties and this they know, which lacks | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
which lacks keys which actually good. The flexible version, less so. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
It reacts slowly to keystrokes with a noticeable lack between typing | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
and the characters appearing on screen. A lack of tactile feedback | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
can be unsettling when trying to tie up quic | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
tie up quickly. Surface does of course have a nice big touch-screen | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
as well but touch and windows eight works ever so slightly different | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
metre touch on an Apple iPad or an Android tablet. A slight on the | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
right-hand side of the screen reveals what Microsoft is calling | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
the charmer bar. Users can access the search tool. Something Surface | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
as which all other tablets lack is this ability to open what is in | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
essence a kind of desktop you would of Microsoft Office, it can run | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
won on his desktop. This software is pretty much all you can use the | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
kick the desktop is sparsely populated. Wait until you see the | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
app store. Its shelves are presenting as a Soviet supermarket. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
I I think it's engineers did not want | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
Surface is Surface is not a great Laptop and | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
it is not great as a tablet for a couple of reasons. One of them is | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
physic physical fitness to handle a | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
Surface but it's a very heavy bit of hand-held kept. So heavy in fact | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
if I am one, I might even consider cancelling my gymnasium | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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subscription. From big to small, displays. Asus and Amazon Kindle. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
And it is not the size that a stronger. These are but what you | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
would call wallet-friendly tablets. But that these machines have | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
similar price tags. The Kindle Fire runs a skinned version of the | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Android operating system system. It looks different to the interface | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
where I used to but the main focus of the screen that pushes uses | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
towards content like music, films and Berks. hich | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Amazon cells. This mean that any apps you downloaded or hidden away | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
and this option here which feels a little bit weird but for the cash, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
it does have an H D screen which is really rather good. The next seven | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
is a rather straightforward tablet about. The user interface will be | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
familiar to Android users. Slightly lighter than Kindle, the screen is | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
not as high resoluti perfectly good for most purposes. | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
Google Play, the android app store, is full to brimming with apps. What | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
of Apple? They have been busy preparing not one but two new iPads. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
One with more powerful internals and the smaull- | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
size iPad does that as more of that same stick this many expect from | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Apple products. Boasting a high- resolution retina display now with | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
a faster processor, both the 10- inch iPad and the Mini now have the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
new lightning, to which means any Aldeburgh fe | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
fitted with an adaptor to make them work. -- bullet-proof roles. It is | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
shrunk and shrunk and | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
backwash. I backwash. It lacks the Repton and | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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is thin and light. Combine that sure to keep Apple fans happy. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Mark looking at some of the latest tablets available now. Looks like | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Apple may have some stiff competition in 2013. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Have you ever needed someone to help you with your work at short | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
notice? Thank you very much. Someone to help make the day go | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
have, have a look at Webscape now way to find | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
way to find local jobs he falls -- jobseeker's work. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
If you need help for the last minute job, take a look at this web | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
service with a free iPhone app that lets you advertise a position and | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
look for work in your immediate With no registration or payment, | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
the surface for large -- the mobile | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
mobile app. It's not massively populated as the service is still | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
knew that as it is free, or to got to lose? | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
-- what have you got. Location services have been again changer | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
for recruitment smartphone apps, letting people look for work | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
wherever they are standing. Ideal for casual part-time workers who | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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want to fill a few hours with some help | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
help you with your experience. From military work to sales work in the | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
everyday chatter of hundreds of state as a base. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
state as a e for business s a treasure- trove of use for business extras. - | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
- useful. Gulf. A good walk spoiled. This according to work quote by | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Mark Twain. But if you enjoy it, you might want to do some work on | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
your golf swing. This website has received an iPhone app called Swing | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
techni technique so what can be analysed | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
by their ow would like you to click on that | :21:42. | :21:52. | |
icon and send your video to Swing. expect to be advertised to for | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
things like golf lessons, once they have your details. Well, | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
you didn't expect to get professionanothing, did you? | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
swing were nothing, did you? Your personalised feedback will arrive | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
they have 1 they have 15 golf pros on hands - | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
backhand to process requests sea might expect them to be a bit more | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
weight once this review create a bit of a queue. If you are not an | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
English language expert, yo probably use grammar and spelling | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
checkers in your documents but what about all the other things to | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
write? Ginger is a free download products. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
products. Office tools, where make | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
make sure your communication has always spot-on. Spelling and | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
grammar checkers are a great pick up | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
pick up the new one sees of language and expression. Ginger | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
looks at the whole paragraph to draw | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
draw much better job of figuring out what you're trying to say, even | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
if you're having trouble figuring it out for yourself. As well as | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
looking for context, the app takes pronunciation into account so it's | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
a very good for ironing out spelling issues when you're using | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
English as a foreign language. And aid | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
aid to the learning process if you're studying English. It even | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
to to help people of dyslexia, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
including tolls for -- tools focusing on unusual and phonetic | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
spelling. Thanks, Kate. Those Webscape links | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
are all on our website if you details for | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
details for the programme and a link to the Click radio programme | :23:53. | :24:01. |