05/01/2013 Click

widespread anger. Much of the money is needed to pay insurance claims

for storm damage times. Those are the latest headlines. Now

on BBC News it is time for Click. It seems like everyone is online

these days. Oh, I know. This week on Click will would get hold of the

everyday objects which are hooking up to the internet to look after us

and each other. We will look at the phone with twice as much to say it.

We will switch on the board that electrify as the New York New Year.

-- electrifies. We also have the latest tech news and a very healthy

way to start 2013 in Webscape. Welcome to Click. Can I be

officially the last to welcome you to 2013. It is customary to start

each year to looking ahead to technology that may be trending in

the next 12 months. Some are saying that the next big thing could be

things. Or rather, the internet of things, this concept that objects

are not even technology get hooked up to the net. What does it means

for us? We dropped into a conference in Paris to find out

more. The internet is the world's largest

printing press. People exchange information and data across

continents. Maybe, expect while we were not watching, the Web has

become much more. They are calling it the internet of things. It is

the connected devices that measure and tell us about the real world,

sensors and that. Right now I'm carrying my own personal electronic

device, it is a good amateur that makes me aware of how I am walking.

The most interesting thing is making things visible in the world

that were previously invisible, and having this knowledge changes our

behaviour. Days where I did not have enough steps, I will get up

and I will walk about a bit more, keep more active and it is helping

Smart phones are the internet and other things. They have allowed for

lots of data transferred to happen. The thing so that we already use

today her now enabled with cellphone con activity to be able

to do all kinds of things. Nest is an internet of thing device.

Controllable at a distance with your smartphone. It also learnt

that the pattern of your life from how you have adjusted it in the

past. It does not toast your furniture while you are out at work.

We have all these senses. All this stuff happening. How do we keep the

data to make action? You do not just go to a doctor every day. We

do that because there are certain things we require. Why do not out

cars and tell us this? You break starts squeaking - that is the

symptom - we're not doing more than that. Cars can tell you when

they're sick. You can pullover and park online. What I'm going to do

is pay for parking. I had pulled up and a parking meter. I drop this

arrow into the apple. I put in mind number plate and I am now part.

it could bind to the coins in your pocket? -- could buy. It has been

on the rise for many years. Now it has been put in the palm of every

person's can. Every fund will have this capability. One of the reasons

why people do not want to give up hard currency is due to privacy. We

are also seeing an increase in what companies are doing with the

information is not as bad as once people thought - it is not an

Orwellian Big Brother sort of well. It is more - I am and reached by

having companies know what might purchasing is. It might become a

more pointed issue with an automated life. Did tell threatened

to obscure the bigger picture - how much control could run to the heart

of our relationship with technology. Once you get to the internet of

things, they have a lot of devices sending information automatically.

It becomes more of a challenge. You do not want to overload the user.

Yet, you cannot just share everything all the time either. I

think that is going to be one of the things that we will have to

figure out. And the internet of things may need to be organised

differently if and benefit from the input of a human hand. A curatorial

tool in which you and the community rather than an algorithm organise

internet content. Rather like a librarian might organise books in

different subjects. What we're doing is let you manipulate contact

and remove and manipulate content. Exactly as if this content was an

object. You organise the way you organise a room - you know where it

is. The next big frontier for the internet is democratising the

organisation of the internet itself. Not allowing one group of people

organise and make sense of things for you. It has gone from

information and data to controlling devices and much, much more. It has

been said he cannot Malin and nail on internet but perhaps we should

not be too sure. -- hammer in a nail. A look at the Big Tech News

stories. China's new year resolution may have been to reduce

its huge carbon for print as well as investing $56 billion to clear

up its guise, the government is starting to upload hourly update on

air pollution levels in 74 of its biggest cities. Greenpeace reports

air pollution in China is to four times above health standards. L G a

stake -- are so taking orders for the largest television on the

market - �6,000. The energy- efficient technology which allows

for thinness Greens, better clarity, colour and contrast has only been

available in telephones and tablets. We expect to see more next week

when we travel to Las Vegas for the world's largest Tayte show - SES. A

new camera from to Shiva - the breakthrough is in shrinking the

size of an already existing technology that allows you to

adjust the focus of the shot after it has been taken. The camera as

half a million tiny lenses which take snaps at different focal

lengths. The information can then be used to focus of the shot later.

The TEC was pioneered by Stanford University but fell to go

mainstream due to its size and price. A born to is to be made

available allowing them to act as a PC when a dog to a monitor. The new

version will be available as a file down lope to replace and roads. It

is hoped telephones with a pre- installed version will go on sale

later this year. One of the biggest problems that Smartphones

manufacturers have these days is trying to differentiate from their

rivals. One Russian company thinks Some of the organisers have phones

built in. This one is a bit different. It has a touch-screen

display on the front. It is using the latest version of Android,

Jelly bean. It uses electronic ink technology. It injects different

ink into the display to display what you are seeing. It does not

use any energy until it changes the display to update information.

Incredibly low power. What is the thinking behind this phone? I am

joined by the man from the Russian start-up behind this. What were you

thinking when you made this phone? It is fascinating. We came up with

this idea two years ago. We try to come up with some ideas as to how

people use smart phones. We look at the industry and realise that there

were more major manufacturers' focusing on tech and batteries, not

experience. The sort of experience is not so good for the user.

Drowning out the battery, things like that. This is because the

electronic display canted the image as long as you need without

considering power and trading your battery. -- can keep. It is always

in front of you and reminds you you have something important. Until you

do something with this, it stays on the electronic paper display. It

completely changes the way you can send data. Does that not make it

more distracting as a user experience? If the phone always as

information. The phone is off. It is always black. It is the fear

that something important is happening at you are not aware.

Talk me through some of these scenarios were due envisage people

using the second display. I am in London and I do not know how to get

from. A to point B grade back. I opened Google maps and start using

the smart phone. I can see the battery is at 1%. I can make one

gesture and put this image of the map on the electronic display. It

will last longer and I can still use Google Months. The image will

stay there and I can still use the image. I can use the direction as

to the point of destination. As you can not as, a little bit of Kerr.

It is slightly wedge shaped. We get it on purpose because we would like

for people to put it on the Flat. It means they can get all of these

notifications. Also, this is the first three de Coeur of display

covered by Guerrilla Glass. -- 3D mac her. So when you are putting it

down, it is not going to scratch. The big handset makers have

hundreds of millions of dollars devoted to research and development.

Surely there must have thought of this concept. Why has it not have

been introduced? I work for big companies and I saw how different

interesting ideas compete with each other to get funding. It makes it

very difficult to be fast enough to respond to the market. It has been

a pleasure and it is a very And the good old incandescent light

load has been with us since the 1870s, but it is a remarkably

inefficient way of generating light. That is why it is being phased out

around the world, and replaced with new low-technology is such as LED.

The reduction in the US was delayed, but that has not stopped some of

New York's iconic structures coming up with some bright ideas on how to

This was the midnight moment on New Year's Eve, the descending ball was

cheered on by a crowd of over one million. Every year, the event was

arguably the single biggest advertisement for LED technology in

the US, with media outlets reporting on its efficiency and

annual upgrade. The ball has shed its halogen and incandescent

history. Back then, most people had never even seen an LED light load,

and the biggest challenge for the ball's owners was to ensure that

none of the legendary sparkle, created by the combination Crystal

and light, was lost with a new transformation. Philips and

Waterford were essential in creating this. When you see a

crystal chandelier and fill it with an incandescent light bulb, it is

the same with the crystal ball. When you look at the models, and

there are a lot of mirrors a with reflectivity, it reflects with the

crystal. In 2007, the new boy showed energy efficiency savings of

90%. It was double the brightness. One year later, the brightest and

doubled again. It is so energy efficient that it can be kept lit

up day and night, 365 days of the Year at top Times Square. That

certainly was not the case with incandescent light bulbs or halogen

light bulbs. The famous numerals which are also lit every day of the

year also get an annual upgrade. The box for 2013 a 30% lighter than

one year ago. Meanwhile, the Empire State Building has just unveiled

its new LED lighting system, which can being 16 million colours. The

old way of changing colours, 1,400 feet above midtown Manhattan, in

bold circles of gel with a range of colours. 10 colours at most. It was

done this way for decades. Clearly the new technology is much easier

from a maintenance perspective. What used to take 9-10 people a

whole day to change out, now can be done with a push of a button. The

opportunity to highlight the facade of the Empire State Building was a

completely different type of colour technology will be four. What light

of manufacturers ultimately want is to sell more of their LED products.

The aim can discern phase-out means a consumers will have to upgrade.

Despite incandescent. As lighting heads into a new era, the switch it

certainly looks futuristic, like most LEDs, its life span is rated

25 years, which makes the higher upfront cost easier to bear. But

what makes this different is its silicon interior, for better

cooling. We are filling a lightbulb in -- with a liquid. We also killed

what we call the wet head, the glass globe that has the LED chips

in and the fluid. We put a backed him on the glass globe, and then

let the flu would rush in to fill the vacuum. Another interesting

development is personal why fire lighting. The ability to put wi-fi

enabled phones into existing lack finches and then control them from

a tablet or smartphone. The entire set-up can be pre-programmed by

time of day and mood, or individual bulbs can be manually controlled

with an on-screen colour palate. Or even photographed as a reference.

After decades of essentially the same kind of lighting, 2013 could

be the industry's most illuminating year to date.

With the new year comes a fresh perspective, and hopefully a change

of diet as well. Kate Russell wants to help you cook up a healthy storm

with her first app suggestion. Having spent the holidays

completely over eating, it is time to get back to a healthy lifestyle

with the help of the BBC's Good Food app on Apple and android. It

is stuffed with tips and advice and all the trimmings, plenty of free

content and more to buy. My older brother has always been the best

chef in our family, but with this app, I may stand a chance of

competing with him. My little brother is the theatrical one, and

with him I had suggestions that bring Shakespeare's classics are

right up to bait -- date. Cambridge University Press have released apps

4 weir Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, with voices from a listless. -- a

list celebrities. They are not cheap, but they certainly pack a

literary punch. You can read the play or choose how much interaction

you want. The apps used 30 years of academic notes to update it

learning experience. The Web is a great place for sharing ideas, but

he can be hard finding the best way to present them. Mural.ly is a new

service that lets you say text, images and video on a mural style

noticeboard, organising visual ideas into an attractive layout

that is really easy to share and work on together. It is hard not to

draw a comparison with interest mac, but with added features and a more

effects that are more akin to Presley, you can either make

presentations out of your content from within the mural Board, which

is useful when it comes to finalising your work and pitching

your ideas to others. Real-time collaboration makes this a great

platform for expanding on creative ideas with a team.

If you are thinking of sending a greetings card, why not make it a

bit more personal would be simple told that lets you create your own

South Park style cartoon characters. Pick a background and customise

your character before adding some text and saving to your computer.

This can be a great way to save cash and still share a bit of

festive cheer. Let's face it, it is a lot more meaningful to receive a

greeting that has been customised for you personally rather than just

a generics now we sing. You can put out your card orders even now it

over and the thing will cost you nothing. If you are feeling really

adventurous, you can even save several versions of your character

to make a comic strip, or an animated gif if you have the know-

how, and I will be revealing some tools to help you do that in the

coming weeks. One notable rallies over the Christmas break was

YouTube capture, and I was out which make shooting and shelling

videos easier than ever. With automatic stabilisation and posting

to your main social strains, eating also edit and put freak background

music and captions. It will also remind you to rotate your phone to

avoid the vertical video syndrome. Oddly, Google have not made this

available on their native android platform yet. This app competes

directly with you to's biggest rival, Vimeo, who released and app

took include easy shooting and sharing. -- to include. Again, no

android update for the same beaches yet. -- features. As usual, if you

missed any of those things you will find them on our website. If you

missed anything from this week's programme, you can watch the whole

thing again through iPlayer. Excitingly, from next week, you

will have one more chance to catch Click every week as we take up a