14/12/2013 Click

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programme is Click. Is this the sound... That could save

your life? This week on Click, from lasers to

airbags, we check out the most improved road safety for those on

two wheels. Could these designs be the must have fashion item of 2014?

We will try on some wearable gadgets. The strangest way to make

your smart phone louder that I have ever seen. All that was the latest

tech news and we will find out what happens when reality gets augmented

in Webscape. Welcome to Click. What comes to mind

when you think of London? Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, those

guys in the crazy costumes at the Tower of London, and of course, the

traffic. It is not all buses, cars and lorries. More and more Londoners

are cycling around the B stays. The problem is, although it is

technically the healthy option, it is not the safest.

London has experienced a real surge in popularity in cycling, the number

of journeys has doubled since the year 2000. But this brings its own

dangers. Recently, six cyclists were killed in the space of two weeks

among the roads. It brought the total number of cycle related deaths

to 14. Nine of them involved a heavy goods vehicle. Several of those

accidents happened when the vehicle was turning left, the site furthest

away from the driver. The problem is, as the front of a long vehicle

starts to turn left around the corner like this, the rest of the

body of the vehicle gets closer and closer to the curb. If there happens

to be a cyclist, even if they stop, there is nothing they can do if the

large vehicle starts to cut across a corner. However, we have been

looking at Suntec that may just make the drivers blind spot a thing of

the past. So many people all eager to reach

their various destinations as quickly as possible. As a cyclist,

you can feel vulnerable. It is easy for me to see a bus but not so easy

for them to Sydney, and can appear on expert legal is a bad is where

the Cycle Eye comes in, created by Fusion Processing, it could hold the

key to making our roads safer. The drivers are often overloaded with

information. They can either Mr cyclist, either because they cannot

see them, because they are in the blind spot, or simply because there

is much or is going on that day attention is drawn elsewhere. The

cyclist may be coming up alongside them very rapidly and they have not

had time to notice. This prototype device uses a camera and date depth

sensing radar to detect exactly where objects are next to the bus.

That is the easy part. The really clever thing is figuring out whether

or not that indiscriminate blob is a pedestrian, a car, all in deed, a

cyclist. Using artificial intelligence and image processing,

Cycle Eye detects incoming bikes and immediately alert the driver to a

cyclist they may not have had the chance to see. Cyclist left. It can

also work at night time and in bad weather. Transport for London

recently commissioned a trial including this device. Three days of

testing, even through rush-hour conditions, proved it to be 98.5%

accurate. It only takes a few both meant in the drivers seat to

understand how much there is to keep your eyes on. -- a few moments.

Their role passengers to let on and off the bus, and of course you are

driving down a road, so I can certainly see the benefits in audio

alert to allow you to know that a cyclist is about to pass. Driver

response has been positive. They are very pleased that it does not give

false alerts, such as a big problem with previous attempts. We want to

see this on all buses, all trucks, because we believe that it will save

lives and reduce injury. While there is no replacement for a responsible

driving and cycling, this kind of technology used on buses and even

HGVs could go some way to providing safer streets aboard those on two

wheels. There are several ways that cyclist

to make themselves more visible to motorists, such as bright coloured

clothing, and how about this one? A laser project on your handlebars.

It is called Blaze, a prototype device that projects the image of a

bike onto the road ahead, something which the makers hope will alert

drivers onto the oncoming cyclist and prevent them from turning across

their path. Because it has been tested and certified as a type of

laser you should not look directly act, it has an inbuilt safety device

to stop it working. It does not come cheap. It is 125 pounds. He can do

nothing to help you if you are actually involved in an accident.

That is where your cycle helmet comes in. Although in the future,

you may not notice it is there, until it is needed. This is

Hovding, the so-called invisible cycle helmet. It is actually an

airbag for cyclists. It is the result of several years spent

studying the different types of head injury suffered. It has been

designed in response to current accident statistics, protecting the

entire head while leaving the field of vision opened. It is the

brainchild of Anna Haupt, and to raise Al sting. -- to raise Austen.

Why did you invent this helmet? It took 20% of our adult cyclist to use

hedge protection when they are cycling. It is obviously an airbag.

What if it is not as safe as a normal helmet? It has shock

absorbers that is more than three times better. The protection for

your brain and for your skull is superior. It has to inflate before

your head hit something. How fast does it inflated and you have any

evidence that something can happen faster than that? It inflate in a

tent of a second, which is very quick. We have reenacted all known

bicycle accidents with our product in corporation with the experts and

cycle accidents and goal injuries. In order to optimise the trigger

function in the product and make it inflate when it is supposed to, and

not inflate when it is not supposed to. There is something that we call

direct hit to the head. If you should go directly with your head

into a beam, or where there is no movement within your body, before

IMPAC, that is the kind of accident that it would not be able to be

protected. But it is extremely rare. Certainly one of the trends at the

moment is wearable technology. Microelectronics are getting so

Michael -- Micro that it is possible to sow them into fabric or smeared

onto a contact lens. This is the familiar face of

wearable computing, Google Glass. His enthusiasm is infectious. This

is brilliant. He has warned wearable computers since 1993 and says he

never misses a bit. To be able to get an SMS in and respond that

quickly, my students like the fact that I can. He was guest of honour

at the International Symposium on Wearable Technologies at the Swiss

Federal Institute of Technology. The institute itself is researching

smart fabric made up of flexible transistors. This armband measures

the heartbeat and blood oxygen levels, so that doctors can remotely

monitor patients and get a heads up if any change happens. One step is

this incredibly flexible membrane, which is also coated with thin film

transistors and five of a human hair. It is a new take on boldly.

Often smacked hope that it could remotely monitor crops or even

redeployed on a contact lens, and be implanted inside the body. They can

adapt to the shape. They also get to the movement of the human body.

Smart fabrics are also making stylish inroads into fashion. We all

know that technology has gotten clever, but it has gotten much

smaller and more elegant. It is so small that it can be discreetly

integrated into fashion, such as this. No, I am not going to put the

dress on. They have eliminated designs on their surface, so that

you can control it with your smart phone. The therapeutic pubs are for

smoke --/ victims to mirror their working hand to regain movement that

they have lost in the other. They mapped the movements to the affected

hand, so it gives visual feedback through these LEDs, and haptic

feedback through vibrating motors. Wearable technology can also monitor

our body's movements where we are in a crowd, when we scurry off for

lunch. Apparently we walk on the same site as we drive. The lab has

been taking a Birds Eye of crowd behaviour. Everybody who is moving

south is coloured in red, everybody who is moving west is coloured in

blue. Researchers analyse signals to create dynamic maps of visitors to

the annual festival in Zurich. Streams of humans crossed each

other. Turbulence can be dangerous because it is unpredictable and can

lead to a crush. But safety experts can anticipate these crushes to

prevent them. It will be far safer. What if I can predict within five

minutes, maybe, where a crush will be. That will have some interesting

information. What we saw when we observed the cameras and the density

maps, that two minutes, a lot of stuff can happen. Wearable computing

does throw up some issues. Are we controlling the tech or is it

controlling us? In a competitive world where everyone is getting a

performance edge, we will all have to use this. The question for the

next decade, will we have a choice overall where we end and the machine

begins? It is not just us humans who are in

love with extremely portable technology. There was the case last

week of an Australian Eagle which took a liking to a camera and flew

off with it. Wildlife rangers set of the camera to film crocodiles, but

the Eagle picked it up, took it for a trip, and then abandoned it, but

not before taking what could be the world's first heard a selfie.

Next up, time to take a look at the other tech stories.

Microsoft is warning owners of this new Xbox One of an internet prank

that could rule on their consoles. The fake advert on the 4Chan website

claimed a hack could enable the console to play games made for its

predecessor, the Xbox 360. Microsoft said the new device will not play

older games. It uses followed the bogus instructions, you could stop

their consoles working. Intelligence agencies are reported

to have in full trade online games played by millions of people. They

have been trying to identify terrorist threats. The revelations

by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shows documents that agents

infiltrated games such as world double craft.

Spot a fight is to join a growing number of music apps in offering a

device to mobile users. They will be able to build playlists, that will

only be able to build them -- play them in random order. It is also

dropping its ten hours a month usage count.

Google has announced new tools to create 360 degrees tours of a

location using an Android smart phone. Earlier this year, they

dispatched teams too hard to reach locations with backpack mounted

cameras. Now go public can get similar results by capturing several

photosphere is on their Android phones and then uploading them to

Time for Christmas present ideas. If someone in your life is always

boasting that their smartphone can do anything, they're clearly haven't

seen this. Peripheral manufacturers see smartphones as a blank canvas on

which to plant their own vision of mobile phone perfection by creating

devices that plug into a bolt onto them in order to improve a feature.

A dedicated hand-held games machine like Nintendo 's three DS or the

PlayStation beat is always going to trump a smart phone as far as games

are concerned, mainly because of buttons and pads and analog sticks.

These are more responsive and accurate than matching your fingers

against the touchscreen. -- mashing. That's where this comes in.

Plugger phone into the shell and it adds buttons and shoulder bumpers.

It also acts as an additional battery, extending the phone 's

power reserves. However not every iPhone game will work on it. At the

moment about 45 games are compatible, but that list is set to

grow. When you do find a compatible game it does a pretty good job of

transforming a telephone into a hand-held games machine. This

controls are responsive and feels like your playing a game iPhone.

Smartphones can also play music and there are many docks and speakers

which phones can plug into. The HTC one has these speakers mounted on

the front. Combined those with this 3-D printed contraption called a

gramahorn. It's basically like old-fashioned gramophone speaker.

Old School technology with a cutting-edge 3-D printed twist. And

a pricetag of ?999. They are not cheap. However, if the 3-D printed

versions aren't cutting it for you they are available in steel for the

princely sum of ?4999. Ouch. At this time of year it's not uncommon for

to overindulge. But while eating too much simpler leads to an expanded

waistline, 22 much alcohol can have more immediately dangerous effects,

especially for anybody considering getting behind the wheel of a car.

Well, android and IOS smartphone users who are not sure if that had

won too many can this device into their phone. Download the app that

goes with it, plug this box into the phone by the headphone jack and blow

into it. In a few seconds, the box analyses the user is priced to

measure their blood alcohol level and an on-screen readout. It can

also keep track of users blood alcohol over the course of the night

and monitor is it's going up or down. And if the alcohol level was

too high, it is user will definitely need to get a cab or sober

designated driver. Next week mark will be looking at

Christmas present options for the three printer fan in your family. --

3-D. As well as that, another trend we expect to see more than 2014 is

augmented reality. That's when your view of the physical world is

enhanced by computer generated content of some kind, such as

graphics or sound. This year, the amount invested and

augmented reality out will be the same as it would cost to make 5000

of the original angry bird games. And what better used to put this

cutting-edge tech than entertaining children? Colour outturns for

colouring book on its head with a collection of printable drawings

that can be coloured in and when viewed through the app they will

spring into life. I love that the augmented reality scene in use as

the actual colouring in job that you did on the paper. It's incredibly

clever. It really makes you feel connected to the animation.

Colouring in as carefully crazily as you like, and then watching your

creation life. Another great range of augmented reality toys comes from

this company. They have impressive collection. What's especially nice,

given the target demographic, is that they are all open-ended,

non-competitive and non-violent. The apps are not free but once purchased

there are no nasty in app surprises. I favourite is helicopter taxi. What

little kid won't love flying a helicopter around the home, making

zooming engine noises along with the apps. I love a good presentation and

there is really no excuse to bore your audience to death with a plain

death of slides. This website lets you spice up your visit all is using

a range of premade templates -- visuals. You can insert video and

images and change the elements as you go. Once finished, you can play

the presentation from your account page or downloaded as a stand-alone

file that will run on any computer as an HTML file. Do forget to make a

private if you don't like their default public setting. The platform

supports all languages and right now is free and in beta. There are hints

of an annual subscription fee once they are fully open. You can also

invite others to collaborate on a presentation from your dashboard.

This company has now launched an online app allowing low-cost calls

to mobiles and landlines. Costs will vary, but they claim there will be

significantly lower cost than the competition. The role that the

Philippines last month to aid relief work in the aftermath of the

devastating typhoon. It is now available through Android, ILS and

desktop apps. There are over 1 billion profiles now featured on

Facebook. That's an insane number of faces. This applet in the wall on a

single webpage for you to explore. It's a fuzzy mass of coloured pixels

when you load it up, but one click and you zoom straight into a page of

thumbnails from some of the 1.2 billion profiles which is now in the

system. And you can go all the way back to where it all started,

patients zero. Mr Zarco berg. Back before he was a multibillionaire. --

Zuckerberg. The faces are delivered in chronological order and no

private information is stored, so it's just a pastiche of personality

stretching back for Facebook 's timeline. If you want to find out

where you enjoy friends appear on the timeline, just sign in with your

Facebook account. If you can find my profile photo

amongst all those pictures, you really need to get out more. All

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