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It seems like absolutely everyone Welcome to the programme. I might

be officially the last to welcome you to 2013. We look ahead to a

tech that might be trending in the next 12 months. The next big thing

could be, well, things, or rather, the internet of things. The concept

of objects are not even technology get hooked up to the net. What does

it mean? David Reid dropped into a conference in Paris, known as Le

The internet is the world pass - Matt Walker's largest printing

press. People exchange data across continent. Maybe, except while we

were not watching, the web has become much more. They are calling

it the internet of things. It is a collective device that measures and

a tell us about the real world falls -- with sensors. I am

improving my personal fitness with an electronic barometer that makes

me aware of how I am walking and how I am sitting. It is making

things visible in the world that were previously invisible. By doing

this, we changed our behaviour. Sometimes, I realise I do not have

enough steps. I would get up and walk about more and get more active.

It is helping me lose weight. is an internet of things device. It

is a wide thermostat that is used with despite phone. -- smartphone.

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

these senses and things happening. How to retake the data common of

these things to make action and insights? You do not go to a doctor

every day and say, it is my six- month check-up or yearly check-up.

YouTube cars not tell us this? Your Cars can tell you when they are

sick. You can pull over and park online.

I am going to pay for parking. I have pulled up to the parking meter.

I drop these arrow into the app. I put in mind numberplate. I have now

How much we numbingly share may become more pointed with an

automated internet of things, no longer dismiss ball as a detail

that threatens to obscure the bigger picture. How much control we

have could make up half of our relationship with technology. You

cannot hammer in a nail over the internet. With internet of things

taking shape so quickly, perhaps we should not be too sure.

David Reid reporting from Paris. Next, a look at this week's

Ticketek news stories. China's new year's resolution may

have been to reduce its huge carbon footprint and investing to clear up

its spice. 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 2-4 times above the World Health

Organisation's standards. LG has started taking orders for its 55"

OLED televisions, currently the largest on the market, costing

�6,000. The energy-efficient technology

which allows for Venus Greens, but the clarity, colour and contrast is

only available for smartphones and habit up to now. We expect to see a

lot more organic LED TV screens next week when we travelled to Las

Vegas for the world's largest tech show, CES.

His goodbye to photographs, thanks to a newcomer from Toshiba. It is

shrinking the size of existing technology that allows users to

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

500,000 tiny lenses that take snaps at different focal lengths. That

the formation can be used to focus the short later. The tech was

pioneered by Stanford University but failed to go mainstream due to

its size and price. One of the biggest problems that

smartphone manufacturers have these days is trying to differentiate

their slice of black magic from rivals. One Russian company thinks

it has a solution. Richard Taylor explains.

Shall screen phones, nothing new. Think of the old Nokia smartphones.

This one is a bit different. This one has a regular tour -- read like

capacitive a touch screen. It is running jellybean. On the back, it

has an e-paper display using electronic ink, injecting three

changing voltage different inks on the display. It does not use energy

until it changes the display to update the formation. It uses low-

power. What is the thinking behind it? With me is this man. Tell me,

what were you thinking when you made this phone? It is a

fascinating concept. We came up with this idea two years ago. We

were inspired by the experience of users. Talk me through some of the

scenarios when people use the second display. By him in London

and I do not know how to get from point to point B. I open Google

Maps. Subtly, the battery is running out. I can make one gesture

and put this image of him up on to an e-paper display. It will last

longer. I can still use Google Maps. When it is out of battery, the

image can stay there. I know where to go. It has been a

The good old incandescent light bulb 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 technologies 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 is 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. That was in 2007. Back

then, most people had never even seen an LED light globe, and the

biggest challenge for the ball's owners was to ensure that none of

the legendary sparkle, created by the combination of crystal and

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

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

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

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

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

up day and night, 365 days of the tear atop 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 bulbs for 2013 are 30% lighter

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

unveiled its new LED lighting system, which can beam 16 million

colours. The old way of changing colours, 1,400 feet above midtown

Manhattan, involved circles of gel with just a small range, 10 colours

at most. It was done this way for After decades of essentially the

same kind of lighting, 2013 could be the industry's most illuminating

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