19/01/2013 Click

some areas, up to 12 inches have fallen.

Now it is time for Click. Excuse me, I ordered a diet cola.

This week on Click we will be getting out chops through some

healthy take fair, as we discover the crop of gadgets aiming to keep

you in tip-top condition. 8 million pixels but nothing on. We will find

that when we will be able to watch anything on these new Super high-

definition screens. All that plus the latest tech news from around

the world, and a chance to hear the world in Webscape.

Welcome to Click. Welcome back to Las Vegas. This week we are at a

restaurant called The Heart Attack Grill, home to the world famous

Quadruple Bypass Burger, which at 9982 calories, it comes in just

under the crucial 10,000 can the remark. We are in Las Vegas for the

consumer electronics show, which explores some of the technology

themes that are going to be big in 2013. One of them had turned out to

be health technology. A new raft of health gadgets to

monitor everything from pulse to oxygen levels is getting every

fitness addicts' hearts racing. But if you've been around the block a

bit, using tech to check your vital signs isn't anything new. Some of

the more popular gadgets are this watch, for example, that can

measure my heart rate through a strap sensor that I am wearing on

my chest, sending the details wirelessly to this screen or a posh

pedometer that use accelerometers to tell you how many steps you have

taken during the day. And FitBit, the market leader at the moment,

has moved to a strap-based solution which is going to be available from

March. And that tells me just at the glance of a few lights how

close I am to my target. No chance of that happening today!

Rather than wearing something new though, how about using what you

probably already wear when working out to keep an eye on your

progress? Monica here doesn't appear to have anything but her MP3

player turned on, but the ear buds are different. An infra-red sensor

detects blood flow inside the ear to determine heart rate, while an

accelerometer inside takes a good guess at distance travelled. This

is the first product to use the hidden technology which is due out

in spring. Of course you still have to look at your phone to see how

you're doing. OK if you're in the gym, not so handy when out on the

road. This sun visor is linked to a strap that's monitoring my heart,

that information is sent wirelessly to a tiny screen that is just on

the end of my vision. So you know your heart rate, pace, and incline

climbed. All this data, so what are we expected to do with it?

biggest challenge that we face at Polar is not to provide them with

the information, but what they do with the information, how do they

interpret it, how do they use it, I think that's the biggest challenge.

I think the companies that are here now, measuring things, are showing

them information about themselves, but how do you interpret that?

These futuristic-looking shades could be one answer, they can be

pre-programmed with different coloured lights that tell me

whether I need to speed up or slow down to hit my target. There is

also a rather incessant Aussie shouting in my ear saying pretty

much the same thing. Heart rate below target! Yeah, all right, all

right. Sometimes it's not how fast you move but simply how you move.

Xsens is a Dutch outfit that provides motion tracking to

Hollywood studios who use it to map computer animation to human

movement. And now it's produced a cut down consumer version, sporting

anything up to 15 sensors which could help runners, golfers, or

ballet dancers perfect their technique. Many of the devices I've

picked up so far are using a new low powered version of Bluetooth.

Meaning batteries could last for days or weeks but eventually one

company hopes our workouts themselves will power these devices

by converting body heat to electricity. Advances in fitness

and health care tech aren't just wireless. All sorts of tools can

now be plugged into your mobile device, like this breath tester,

which could be used to encourage kids with asthma to develop their

lung capacity, or for patients recovering from accidents. And this

finger monitor plugs into an iPad to give accurate blood oxygen

levels. A bit specialist this one, useful for mountaineers or pilots

who carry tablets everywhere they go, but the idea could in future be

introduced in clinics or hospitals. Taking care of ourselves through

home monitoring is also a big trend. The company selling these announced

a deal that may also relieve us of having to collate and make sense of

the information too. It's linked up with security firm ADT which will

start offering monitoring of you by a professional as well as

monitoring of your home by their security experts. And telemedicine,

once the preserve of developing countries, could help slash health

costs in places like America. HealthSpot has come up with these

pop up clinics where patients check themselves in and speak face to

screen with a doctor who can ask them to carry out various tests

using the onsite equipment. Monitoring what's around you could

be crucial to maintaining your health, or so thinks Lapka which

has developed the chain of plug-in testers. One is radiation, another

tells you if your food is organic by measuring the level of nitrates

present. And then there's the slightly more bizarre ideas. These

glasses induce relaxation or can spark fresh energy through a

psychedelic mixture of colour and sound. Its makers claim they can be

used to treat all kinds of ailments. Sadly I still had jet lag after my

10 minutes. But perhaps the most ambitious project at the expo was

one that hopes to create something we've so far only imagined. The

idea of a Tricorder as featured in Star Trek is the vision of Qualcomm

and the X PRIZE Foundation who are putting up $10 million in prize

money for the individual or company who can make the instant wireless

diagnostic kit a reality by 2015. Perhaps the most important aspect

of this is, beyond all the technical requirements to capture

15 different disease states and vital signs, the ability to make

cogent and intelligent information available to consumers that would

give them a clear understanding of their health status and an

understanding, directionally of what to do about what they have

learnt from their device may prove to be the most important and

significant achievement. A fragmented health and fitness

marketplace filled with gadgets measuring a myriad of different

things all seamlessly rolled into one simple device? It's technology,

Jim, but not as we know it. Yet. If you are wondering about the

outfit, this restaurant insist that all of its patients, Surrey, its

customers, wear a surgical gown. A look at this week's Ten News.

Where is the dessert menu? Facebook revealed a new social

search engine that scans the side's content, called Graph Search. It

lets users look through information that their friends find rot --

relevant, such as restaurants or music that they like. The neutral

will respect uses' privacy settings, only throwing up results that they

could find themselves by browsing the site, adding that it will not

be a competition with Google. The once big daddy of social

networks, MySpace, has been given a week that. MySpace's strands have

traditionally been musical, the face live site places a healthy

emphasis on the lot -- discovering a new music. The jukebox jury is

out on whether the pop-star's reflected glory is enough to jump-

start the social networking site. A big decision on who has control

over your images has been taking place in America, following a two-

year court case in New York, the district judge has ruled that you

do. Photographer Dan your morale took photos in the aftermath of the

Haiti earthquake and posted them on Twitter. A court ruled that two and

news organisations distributed one of his photos without his

permission, even though he had shed them on Twitter. Finally, the White

House has officially announced that the US would not be ordered a Death

Star, even though 35,000 Americans signed a petition requesting one.

In a tongue-in-cheek response, President Obama's demonstration

said that it does not support the blowing up of a planet. It has

highlighted other space projects that the US government is working

on. It also acknowledge the overriding power of the force.

Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about the latest

type of screen technology. On the hills of hi-def and 3D, comes 4K,

with four times the resolution of the new hi-def TV. I'm surprisingly,

there were a lot of 4K announcements at sea as, and a

great opportunity for Ian Hardy to find out where and when 4K will

make its presence felt. -- the consumer electronics show.

Flowers, food and festival footage. That can only mean one thing, the

newest TV technology is on display and ready for prime time. At least

that is what the electronics manufacturers would like consumers

to believe that. But it is not quite that simple. Because without

content, a TV is just a big black space. To get the most out of a 4K

or opera high-definition TV, the content has to contain four times

as many pixels as a scene on a traditional HD screen. More pixels

means a better image, and you may have already seen 4K at your local

cinema, more and more films are being shot in this format, that is

why one company is packaging a giant 84 inch screen and a media

server in one, to get the ball rolling in the home. Because Sony

also owns movie studios, we are uniquely positioned to offer

content. We are offering a video player, it will come loaded. There

are a tonne of shorts, independent movies. Also really amazing shots.

Sony's new content delivery service would not be up and running and

will later this year, when more details will be revealed. Moving 84

K video around is currently not that easy because of the higher

file servers -- sizes. Today's internet is too slow in most

countries. Delivery will become easier as band with the limits

increase, and video file sizes get smaller. The ability to cut bit

rates in half and/file sizes dramatically without losing any of

the quality is thanks to a new codec that will replace the current

one, which is caught H.264. It's squishes the BDO down to smaller

sizes. With the new codec, it is called H.265, it can save 40% of

the video a size. You can compress it down and get it to deliver it.

There are dozens of screens at the show playing 4K content. I had seen

many of them in person. It is the bed, crisp, very colourful. But if

we want to create the same content, certainly within the next he also,

it may prove to be a bit of a challenge. One of the most

affordable solutions is the go pro hero three, but this will only

record at two frame rates, 12 and 15, far below the 120 frames per

second scene in the best quality 4K footage. There is a misconception

about what this mode is intended for. It is for very specific types

of content. Time lapse is the popular one. If you absolutely

cannot wait for whatever reason to start building a 4K library, then a

top of the line DSLR From Canon Can do the job at a reasonable 24

frames per second. It also records 4K content on to two Compact Flash

Cards. Mummies and daddies with $12,000 to spare are delighted,

because they no longer have to make the agonising decision to capture a

once in a lifetime moment in either of video or photo mode. Forte can

produce great photos from individual video frames. -- 4K.

Still photography, some people have been shooting 24 frames and lifted

the frames out. I have been astonished at the resolution. You

can get a very fast burst. Photographs looked best on a 24

inch tablet which Panasonic says it will be produced later this year

for business users. As more and more video cameras become available,

such as this one from JVC, it will make it easier to collect memories.

For most of us, the technical and financial barriers of downloading,

uploading, offloading, or creating native 4K video puts it out of

reach. Not that we really need to worry. 4K television sets

themselves are also priced somewhere between sky-high and out

Las Vegas is somewhere that reminds you that this planet is an amazing

place full of bizarre sights, sounds and smells. Of course you

don't actually have to come here these days to experience the sights,

you can just go online and look at them. Now Kate Russell has found

somewhere where you can experience the sounds as well. Thankfully no

one has worked out how to share the smells yet, that could be a bit too

scary. Anyway, here's Webscape. Ever wondered what it sounds like

to stand beside a metal works on the outskirts of Moscow? Or be in a

room full of bats at night under an Indian palace. Sound around you is

a research project put together by Salford University that asks people

to capture a snapshot of sound from wherever they hear something

interesting, and uploaded to a map to create a worldwide soundscape

for everyone to explore. I never realised how fascinating everyday

sounds from around the world could be until I'd started wandering

around this map. You can download the audio clips as MP3 is if you

find something you want to keep, and don't forget to leave a rating

if you want to help others find rare gems. You can record a sound

on any device and contribute through the website, or down like

the free ioS at to make it really easy. -- Download the free ils app.

You have to be patient but Phil that time missing two other sounds

coming in. -- ioS app. Next up if you're a UK student, this could

prove really valuable. Quite literally. As a place to buy, sell

and swap books and other essential staff to support your time in study.

It's no secret that being a student is expensive these days, with

rising tuition fees, increased cost of living and economic austerity

measures pinching from every direction. Not only that but if

you're concerned about the environment, this could be a much

better way of getting rid of your cast-offs without them being dumped

in a landfill. The website only can expire with seller so there are no

commissions on sales. -- and the connects buyer with seller. Only

one thing is listed -- only connects. But this is early beta

stage so get along there and form the markets and place. Windows 8

phone owners who like to roll with the beats can download a couple of

free at that make music into the palm of their hand. Free MixTapes

Cloud pulls collections from the community at LiveMixtapes.com.

There are thousands of pre- made mix is available, although they do

seem to cater more for the dance- music John Rudd. Use the caching

feature to download tracks to your handsets. It is supported with a

premium upgrade if you like. If you prefer your beats with an Indian

vied, Dana.com is one of the leading portals featuring tracks

from popular genres in 21 languages, including Hindi, camel and Telugu.

And this week the site went mobile launching a suite of free

smartphone apps, including ioS, Android, BlackBerry and Java, so

you can now shake your Bollywood boutique to over 1 million tunes on

the go. Kate Russell's Webscape. Now over the past couple of weeks

we have brought you as much from the consumer electronics show as is

polite. Now it's time to rudely squeeze in just a little bit more.

Here's some of the call tech from the show floor that Cork Richard

Taylor's eye. -- Court. Why simply content yourself with watching

content when you can properly interact with it? Some interactions

got all touchy-feely - multi-touchy feely as it happens. Other displays

are less practical but definitely - and indeed by definition - way

cooler. This technology from Russian startup Displair bounces

the reflection of a standard tablet screen onto a wall of mist. A

Kinect-style camera in the machine pick up your fingers movements and

translates those back to the tablet. But in general tech and water don't

tend to mix too well - which is why some outfits are getting the

molecular miracle of nanotechnology to lend a helping hand. Now here on

Click we like to bring you a bit of magic from time to time. But what I

am about to show you is the real deal. And it is quite amazing

tissue here and a tray of water when I submerge the tissue in the

water, it emerges bone dry! Not a drop of water on it. Now the magic

at work here is actually on the surface of this tissue which has

been coated with a special Nano layer which is a thousand times

thinner than even one strand of hair, and its nanotechnology in

action which you can see when I pour the water on here, it is

totally water repellent. Enter the liquipod this is the machine that

could be found in a retail location perhaps the shop and which does the

nano coating of all your gadgets. You go there with your phone your

tablet, any device really, that you want to make water safe, you put it

in this chamber here- now the chamber then fills with this vapour

which nano coats your devices after about half an hour you'll be able

to remove it, it feels exactly as it did before, all the holes still

work in the normal way for charging and for putting your headphones in,

and then when you dunk your phone in water it still works in just the

same way. Now the idea here is for safety more than anything else,

rather than things like swimming, after a while the pressure of water

would start to break down that molecular structure of the nano

coating of the device. Will it take off? Well I think it depends on

whether consumers are willing to pay a premium for this kind of

thing. But one thing Is for sure right here at CES it's making quite

a splash! Tablets are squarely at centre-stage of the tech world -

and the slabs of black magic are constantly being reinvented. In

terms of hardware, if you thought the 7-incher was the new 10 incher

then maybe it's time to think again - as some companies are supersizing

their offerings. In terms of applications they're brimming with

potential, not just in the classroom, but in the workplace too.

Now as I am in Vegas and I may want to check out what the guys are

doing back at base in London well this is one way of doing it, it's a

virtual tele-presence robot, it's got a standard tablet in here, it's

got a standard game controller that talks wirelessly and I can send my

voice and motion over Skype, to the other side of the world. A pretty

awesome way of getting round the office when you are not there, love

it! Richard Taylor rounding off our coverage of C S 2013. To find out