:00:05. > :00:15.be worth �500,000. That's it from me. It is now time
:00:15. > :00:38.
:00:38. > :00:45.Connect plugged 78 to socket 35. It It turns out I have not flooded in.
:00:45. > :00:53.Anyway, this week on Click we get to grips with technology kits. From
:00:53. > :00:56.pies to boards to X two Y. Can anyone really DIY? And to doubt
:00:56. > :01:00.that news 3 D television set in Europe television room. If what you
:01:00. > :01:05.mean you do not have one? Which it in with the technology that might
:01:05. > :01:09.be about to check out. All that, plus the latest
:01:09. > :01:19.technology news, your thoughts on online piracy and you and your
:01:19. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:26.friends face to face online. We will show you how to do this.
:01:26. > :01:31.Welcome to Click. If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing yourself.
:01:31. > :01:36.At least according to people who own more than one palatal. But what
:01:36. > :01:46.about those who swap circular saws for circuit boards? Is it possible
:01:46. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:51.to do technology DIY? Technology companies generally
:01:52. > :01:58.encourage us to be consumers, not customise us. They are less than
:01:58. > :02:03.keen for us to explore if what is inside our gizmos. It is not likely
:02:03. > :02:08.can just put them back together when they stop working. Modern kit
:02:08. > :02:12.is complicated. Unless you are already pretty hot on electronics.
:02:12. > :02:17.It is difficult to know where to start. Enter the maker community,
:02:17. > :02:23.who subscribe to the following philosophy. If you do not have it,
:02:23. > :02:26.make it, and if you do not know how to make it, try it at home. Imagine
:02:26. > :02:32.you have taken the plunge and you have ordered a mobile phone charger
:02:32. > :02:36.kit. Inside this bag is a collection of components which, on
:02:36. > :02:46.their own, look intimidating. But with a soldering iron and website
:02:46. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:51.of instructions, it should take me about an hour to put together.
:02:51. > :02:56.Actually, this is going to take a lot longer. It is harder than I
:02:56. > :03:03.thought. I am going to take his home. To be honest, I'm quite
:03:03. > :03:09.looking forward to it. If anybody has made making a way of life, it
:03:09. > :03:12.is this man, who graduated from selling LEDs in his spare time to
:03:12. > :03:19.selling around 24,000 kits and components Priya through his
:03:19. > :03:26.website. His place is like a pick and mix of bits and bobs. You used
:03:26. > :03:32.to do it with a lot of hobbyists. They were into electronics. We are
:03:32. > :03:37.seeing a lot more people coming fresh into it. We had one mother
:03:37. > :03:44.get in touch who actually wanted to buy something that would turn of
:03:44. > :03:54.any television. It was so she could turn off the television whenever
:03:54. > :03:55.
:03:55. > :03:59.she wanted. The mode of charging Kidd is designed by a specific
:03:59. > :04:05.company, but the designers open source. It can be built by anyone,
:04:05. > :04:08.as long as they give credit. Benn pays a small licensing fee. This
:04:08. > :04:15.collaborative spirit that seems to permeate the maker movement has
:04:15. > :04:20.given rise to locations around the world. It is useful if you do not
:04:20. > :04:27.have it at home. Nottingham's had space is one such community. They
:04:27. > :04:35.tinker together. It is a maker's paradise. A freezing cold space
:04:35. > :04:39.full of warm-hearted advice and no shortage of tea or equipment. For
:04:39. > :04:44.the safety-conscious, who might not be up with laser cutters, common
:04:44. > :04:49.sense is welcomed here. If you are not sure how to use it, do not.
:04:49. > :04:53.Until you learn from someone who does. Help is always at hand at
:04:53. > :04:58.this 24-hour tweed station. It does not matter if you do not know
:04:58. > :05:02.everything. Do not put obstacles in your way that tell you, before I
:05:02. > :05:05.can make an electronics thing I have to learn all of electronics.
:05:05. > :05:10.Or before I programme something, I have to know everything about
:05:10. > :05:14.computers. It is not true. Most people start out by knowing nothing
:05:14. > :05:19.about what they are doing. But they become more adept at doing it. That
:05:19. > :05:24.is what this is for. Matt is an electrical engineer with three
:05:24. > :05:31.projects on the go. This is a shower timer that monitors how long
:05:31. > :05:35.you're under. Tested here with the ubiquitous cup of tea. He can
:05:35. > :05:39.actually build circuit boards himself. But here he is using one
:05:39. > :05:44.as a quick way to see if something works. It is basically the name for
:05:44. > :05:49.both the board and the software that runs it. It is helpful to
:05:49. > :05:53.think it as building blocks for a DIY computing. A way to connect
:05:53. > :06:03.software programming with hardware. He this is a little computer and I
:06:03. > :06:06.use it to programme it. I just do some power to make it work.
:06:06. > :06:12.piece of dr White take could be complete without a nod to the
:06:12. > :06:15.runaway success of the raspberry pie. It is a 25 pound micro
:06:15. > :06:19.computer that lets you connect everything to everything else. And
:06:19. > :06:29.the release of a new, cheaper model means there's a lot of making going
:06:29. > :06:33.on. It could communicate through the network into a motor. This sort
:06:33. > :06:41.of thing so much easier to do now. We are trying to get that smooth
:06:41. > :06:46.transition from day one. One that ends like it did for me in
:06:46. > :06:50.professional engineering. Google is helping to get more
:06:50. > :06:55.people interested in doing it themselves. It is your ability to
:06:56. > :07:00.do this. Eric Schmidt was on hand to oversee a $1 million donation as
:07:00. > :07:05.part of its programme to get more children interested in hacking.
:07:05. > :07:10.That is how you get Google engineers, after all. Pro Gummer's
:07:10. > :07:17.lot to fiddle with their computers. The average person doesn't. --
:07:17. > :07:23.programmers love. The average person just wanted to work. The job
:07:23. > :07:31.is to make the impossible so simple and trivial that you do not think
:07:31. > :07:35.about it. That is the great challenge. Back to my challenge. At
:07:35. > :07:39.a climate of charging project home to see if I had a hope of making
:07:40. > :07:46.something functional. I found instructions on the internet and
:07:46. > :07:51.watch the videos on how to solder. It took longer than I thought. It
:07:51. > :07:55.took three hours, but I found it enjoyable. While building the
:07:55. > :08:00.device, I unexpectedly developed a knowledge of each component and its
:08:00. > :08:05.functions. It is a side-effect of making stuff, which in turn did
:08:05. > :08:09.sink deeper understanding of the kit. I am a new member of the maker
:08:09. > :08:15.community. I can see the attraction, especially when it feels this could
:08:15. > :08:20.to build something electronic that actually works.
:08:20. > :08:26.Eagerly encouraging the self-made tech revolution. Next up, he looked
:08:26. > :08:29.at this week's tech news. Threats by the hacking connective
:08:29. > :08:33.anonymous to block access to President Obama's State of the
:08:33. > :08:41.Union address proved futile. If you do want that the President and
:08:41. > :08:50.Congress would face an army. But the speech went ahead unimpeded.
:08:50. > :08:55.The President called on Congress to bolster the nation's cyber defences.
:08:55. > :09:03.American Express is monarch icing Twitter directly. Using a specific
:09:03. > :09:07.hash added, customers will be able to order specific products. It
:09:07. > :09:13.generates a confirmation e-mail, along with a 15-minute wander to
:09:13. > :09:17.confirm the purchase was yours. And finally, you might remember
:09:17. > :09:26.that we recently reported on a kick-start a project to build a
:09:26. > :09:30.real-life Jetstar. It got over $350,000 in a week. A new rebel
:09:30. > :09:36.alliance is also using the card Funding Service to fight back.
:09:36. > :09:40.They're asking for investment for excellent fighters. Complete with
:09:40. > :09:49.iPhone integration. So far, it is a little short of its $11 million
:09:49. > :09:57.target. But if it goes planned, the next one will be a smuggling vessel
:09:57. > :10:02.for 13 million Standard credits. A couple of weeks ago we reported
:10:02. > :10:07.on the new file storage site Medard. It has been set up by this chap.
:10:07. > :10:12.Kim Dotcom. His previous site, Megaupload, has been accused of
:10:12. > :10:18.allowing people to swap a pirated movies and music. It had been shut
:10:19. > :10:22.down by the authorities. This prompted you to get in touch with
:10:22. > :10:28.us about these so-called cyber sides and about online movies and
:10:28. > :10:33.music in general. Pretty much none of your responses came out in
:10:33. > :10:38.defence of copyright owners. One person thinks that internet piracy
:10:38. > :10:44.simply gives many people a free alternative to a music industry
:10:44. > :10:48.that is greedy. Selling DVDs and CDs at 1,000 % mark up. Music and
:10:48. > :10:55.film companies, he said, had to learn that times have changed. Pop
:10:55. > :11:02.stars have to do it for the love of the music, not for being super-rich.
:11:02. > :11:06.Talking of which, for another person said that he wishes his
:11:06. > :11:12.customers would continue to pay him for his individual and creative
:11:12. > :11:16.each time they turn on a light or the central heating. He asks why
:11:16. > :11:21.any other profession should expect to get paid endlessly for their
:11:21. > :11:24.creations. It sounds like you would be in favour of artists phoning
:11:24. > :11:32.money under a new releases and then after a while giving them away or
:11:32. > :11:36.allowing them to be shared. An interesting idea.
:11:36. > :11:40.Another prison makes a similar point. After he has bought a book,
:11:40. > :11:47.he says he would read it and share it with friends. He would then take
:11:47. > :11:51.it to a sale and sell it on for 30p. He asks if his house is about to be
:11:51. > :11:55.raided by a heavily armed Swat team for a breach of copyright. I think
:11:55. > :12:00.you are safe. If you are making millions of copies of your book and
:12:00. > :12:10.distributing them for nothing, it might be worth it checking out your
:12:10. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:22.front lawn. It was not that long ago - three
:12:22. > :12:27.years in fact - that we were all been told a news 3 -- TV revolution
:12:27. > :12:33.was coming. If your television did not look like this, you were living
:12:33. > :12:37.in the wrong century. 3D cinema had been tried at least three times in
:12:37. > :12:42.the last 100 years and it had failed to catch on every time. Now,
:12:42. > :12:48.things will be different, we were told. Because 3D was coming to the
:12:48. > :12:58.home as well. How is that working out for everyone? Is there anything
:12:58. > :13:00.
:13:00. > :13:03.to see? In the winter of 2010, 3D was the
:13:03. > :13:10.buzzword. Tens of thousands of people from around the world,
:13:10. > :13:12.mostly journalists, analysts and business people, came to the
:13:12. > :13:16.International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is an annual
:13:16. > :13:21.event but that you felt special because of a multi-million dollar
:13:21. > :13:26.promotional campaign by television makers that had really started
:13:26. > :13:29.months earlier. Looking back, it was a little bit too good to be
:13:29. > :13:34.true. Three D was the most over marketed television feature you
:13:34. > :13:39.could imagine. Manufacturers' got behind it whole hog. Avatar.
:13:39. > :13:44.Everyone was talking about it. And the actual experience of going in
:13:44. > :13:48.and see in 3D movies - avatar is the exception - was disappointed --
:13:48. > :13:53.disappointing. Now we have a backlash. It is hard to believe the
:13:53. > :13:58.TV industry got it so wrong. Look around. What percentage of your
:13:58. > :14:03.friends watch 3D at home on a regular basis? Was this a case of
:14:03. > :14:07.manufacturers deliberately dressing up a sideline feature into a fully-
:14:08. > :14:14.fledged visual revolution? I don't think so. I think they had a
:14:14. > :14:20.genuine technology advancement. LCD displays. And the conductors that
:14:20. > :14:27.went inside were fast enough to be used for 3D content. And in the
:14:27. > :14:32.cinema, there was a move towards 3D. James Cameron was one of the people
:14:32. > :14:37.developing many 3D films like avatar. But the issue was not...
:14:37. > :14:42.There was not enough content for the television market and the
:14:42. > :14:47.television consumers. Even some 3D satellite services ended because
:14:47. > :14:52.they were not enough people subscribing.
:14:52. > :14:57.It is estimated that less than 120,000 homes in the UK are
:14:57. > :15:00.watching 3D television channels at any given moment. If you wish it is
:15:01. > :15:04.so low that the audience tracking companies cannot provide
:15:04. > :15:07.consistently accurate figures -- the viewing numbers. That makes
:15:07. > :15:11.advertisers are wary of running commercials, which means original
:15:12. > :15:16.3D programming is difficult to finance. At the cinema, the
:15:16. > :15:20.situation is not nearly as bad. Although market share for 3D movies
:15:20. > :15:25.in America has dropped to by one percentage point per year since the
:15:25. > :15:31.release of avatar. But some of the biggest movies like Skyfall were
:15:31. > :15:36.never released in 3D. That in turn blunts of the appeal of building up
:15:36. > :15:40.any kind of personal 3D Blu-ray collection. The latest launch of 3D
:15:40. > :15:44.in the home a couple of years ago was clearly not well thought out
:15:44. > :15:48.even at the simplest level. Much of the content was animation and
:15:48. > :15:54.family movies aimed at children. Yet the glasses that were required
:15:54. > :15:57.to seek that content came in only one size - adult. No wonder
:15:57. > :16:01.families found the entire experience challenging. There were
:16:01. > :16:05.barriers were getting even one person in the household to watch 3D.
:16:05. > :16:10.One of the main things they could have done better is to first of all
:16:10. > :16:14.get the last as things correct and make the glasses, with the
:16:14. > :16:20.television. If you sell a 3D TV, you should sell the glasses. If you
:16:20. > :16:24.cannot do that for a reasonable price, you should not be selling a
:16:25. > :16:29.3D TV. To this day, there is confusion about the different types
:16:29. > :16:34.of 3D glasses that work in different ways depending on your
:16:34. > :16:39.television set. With a less than impressive sales record, you would
:16:39. > :16:44.think the electronics companies would have given up 13 D. Not so,
:16:44. > :16:48.apparent although with so little of Tate and so little content
:16:48. > :16:53.available, they must be incredibly frustrated. -- so little uptake.
:16:53. > :16:58.Not frustrated but more realistic. We are realistic that we will not
:16:58. > :17:03.be able to change people overnight. These things take time. How long
:17:03. > :17:07.did it take high-definition to get into every home? These things will
:17:07. > :17:14.not be sped up. We are not going to be able to change people any faster
:17:14. > :17:18.by talking about it any louder. recent trade shows, the three
:17:18. > :17:22.designers are mostly gone. That does not mean 3D is a forgotten
:17:22. > :17:29.technology. One company claims it has cracked the perennial problem
:17:29. > :17:34.require viewers to stand dead centre in front of the screen. Now
:17:34. > :17:39.you can stand at any angle and get a good but not perfect result.
:17:39. > :17:44.Several other companies are working on glasses Free technology as well,
:17:44. > :17:48.especially the process of turning to the imagery into 3D. That is
:17:48. > :17:53.because everyone in the industry realises that creating more content
:17:53. > :18:00.is king. It will take many more avatars and films like The Hobbit
:18:00. > :18:04.to make 3D worthwhile. It turns out that us Britons and
:18:04. > :18:08.not a particularly talkative bunch. According to statistics, we
:18:08. > :18:15.referred to texting each other rather than pick up the phone and
:18:15. > :18:18.chat. As mobile broadband speeds increase, will the odds to open the
:18:18. > :18:24.favour of the Dio Cordon? If that is something you have always wanted
:18:24. > :18:26.to try, we have a good suggestion to start this week's Webscape.
:18:27. > :18:31.There are plenty of greater video conferencing applications of the
:18:31. > :18:36.market but not many that led to connect with up to 12 friends in HD
:18:36. > :18:41.completely free. This is impressively quick and painless to
:18:41. > :18:47.set up, giving you the options to connect through Facebook as well as
:18:47. > :18:57.downloads for Macintosh, PC, Android and ILS applications as
:18:57. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:04.well. -- iOS. This is not a new service. There are already millions
:19:04. > :19:10.of users. However, they have just launched a new update that allows
:19:10. > :19:13.you to connect up to four people over mobile. As well as live chat,
:19:13. > :19:17.there is a nice video message feature that lets you e-mail video
:19:17. > :19:27.clips or put them on YouTube with no download or registration needed
:19:27. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:35.for people to view your message. There are a growing number of
:19:35. > :19:39.interesting ways to look for work online. This is the perfect example,
:19:39. > :19:42.connecting people with time to spare for anyone who needs
:19:42. > :19:47.something done. The network caught the attention of the UK press
:19:47. > :19:55.around the time of the Olympics in London as people were trading for
:19:55. > :20:01.things like queue at the Olympics for me and I will pay you �30.
:20:01. > :20:06.It is quick and easy to sign up and start advertising with a small
:20:06. > :20:11.commission on transactions completed through the website. You
:20:11. > :20:14.can also a trade directly in cash with no fees although obviously you
:20:14. > :20:20.have to be very careful about who you meet for this and to make sure
:20:20. > :20:24.it is somewhere public and busy. Other common what jobs include
:20:24. > :20:28.waiting in for a parcel delivery or putting together flat-pack
:20:29. > :20:33.furniture. You can also sell anything from books and vegetables
:20:33. > :20:38.to tutoring services and accountancy. The addition of an
:20:38. > :20:48.iPhone act and other formats coming soon it means that TPS can help you
:20:48. > :20:49.
:20:49. > :20:56.find something local if a job needs doing quickly. -- GPS.
:20:56. > :21:00.Another way to make money with consumer technology is this free
:21:00. > :21:07.app for iPhone that is so simple it almost hurts. Up load your shots.
:21:07. > :21:10.They are reviewed by your Piers. They go on sale to the public in a
:21:10. > :21:20.photographic gallery to be made into print out posters for anyone
:21:20. > :21:27.
:21:27. > :21:31.to hang in their home. Unlike websites that list uses
:21:31. > :21:38.photos for sale is as stop images, this allows people to make money
:21:38. > :21:46.from selling photos. And print products, which opens the market up.
:21:46. > :21:52.They have worked hard to build a strong community feeling a bit like
:21:52. > :22:02.se. It is a nice way to do it but I would not get too excited about
:22:02. > :22:02.
:22:03. > :22:06.quitting your day job. Like other apps, it also suffers from stingy
:22:06. > :22:16.cups syndrome. This is more for hobbyists wanting to make a few
:22:16. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:39.Populist losing music service Spotify has landed on Windows 8
:22:39. > :22:46.this week, giving you access to your account on the move with
:22:46. > :22:51.windows. -- popular streaming music service.
:22:51. > :22:57.And a brand new Apple released this week taking inspiration from guitar
:22:57. > :23:01.hero is designed to be played with a real guitar. As you play notes on
:23:01. > :23:07.an acoustic or electric guitar, your computer's microphone picks up
:23:07. > :23:11.the sound and uses it to control the game. This is free to play for
:23:11. > :23:18.five minutes per day and you can make up to one our free play if you
:23:18. > :23:22.get other people to sign up and so on. For unlimited play, you can pay
:23:22. > :23:27.$9.99 per month subscription, which seems expensive for an internet
:23:27. > :23:37.game but when you consider the cost of guitar tuition, it becomes more
:23:37. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:52.Thank you. And if you have any suggestions for Webscape, sent us