:00:00. > :00:00.no indications the ceiling had been unsafe. There will be more News at
:00:07. > :00:27.2am. Now, click Chris was special. -- Christmas.
:00:28. > :00:36.This week, Click gets festive as we bring you some tech crackers and
:00:37. > :00:39.some turkeys. There is some Christmas magic from the robot bird
:00:40. > :00:47.that can read your mind. 3-D printers, we will ask if they are
:00:48. > :00:52.the future of fab or a fad. And the gripping tale of the robots you may
:00:53. > :01:02.not trust with a knife. All that plus some seasonal web treats.
:01:03. > :01:07.Welcome to Click. Welcome to the Click Christmas party which we're
:01:08. > :01:12.having what we are working. The whole team is here and we will try
:01:13. > :01:17.to keep it together. Talking of which, it is time for the first
:01:18. > :01:19.present. I have brought to this wonderful
:01:20. > :01:24.present and have wrapped it carefully. It is the ultimate
:01:25. > :01:28.Christmas jumper. I got it in your favourite colour. If you open it, I
:01:29. > :01:34.will show you how it works. There is an amazing surprise. If I put my
:01:35. > :01:39.phone in their, there is an app you can download. I have a fireplace
:01:40. > :01:46.jumper. That is truly wonderful. Do I have to wear that? Is a magical
:01:47. > :01:47.time of the year and we thought we would start the programme with some
:01:48. > :02:24.real magic. I have been here as a magician in
:02:25. > :02:29.residence for two months and I have been exploring the relationship
:02:30. > :02:34.between magic and technology. I.e. Introduce myself as a research
:02:35. > :02:39.magician will stop I researched new ways of making magic. I am hoping
:02:40. > :02:43.the audience will take away a new understanding of how magic can be
:02:44. > :02:47.shown to audiences but also take away some interest in the amazing
:02:48. > :02:57.technological marvels we have around us. The match is the combination of
:02:58. > :03:02.a key projects at this media studio. The aim was to get to magicians
:03:03. > :03:11.working side by side with technology researchers to create magic 2.0.
:03:12. > :03:17.We're hoping to demonstrate today a telepathic headband. I could -- I
:03:18. > :03:19.was interested in making mind reading robot birds. There is a big
:03:20. > :03:48.chance it will not work. I want to introduce you to how the
:03:49. > :03:52.pendulum works. I want to look at the motor response which is the
:03:53. > :03:55.response you get when you think about something. If you hold a
:03:56. > :04:00.pencil and think about the pencil moving, the Pentagon will move and
:04:01. > :04:04.it won't feel like you're it. You get these micro- muscle movements
:04:05. > :04:11.and I want to measure is exactly and see what I can tell and on with it.
:04:12. > :04:23.This is a bird which is a hand-held device. Nothing? That is a yes! Can
:04:24. > :04:32.you imagine that ten macro to bird is shaking her head.
:04:33. > :04:35.Hide that endeavour to anyone in the already -- audience, we will make it
:04:36. > :04:49.harder. Over the last few months, it stood
:04:50. > :04:57.as being perfecting a electronic device that he calls the Idio bird.
:04:58. > :04:59.It seems to measure the motor response and answer questions they
:05:00. > :05:11.don't know the answer to. Like being able to find a ring by picking up
:05:12. > :05:23.cues from the audience. Is on the side of the room?
:05:24. > :05:38.The principles that guide magician work will always be there. The frame
:05:39. > :05:50.we used to talk about magic, that needs to change. We don't talk about
:05:51. > :05:53.ghosts or spiritual this any more. What I'm going to show tonight has
:05:54. > :06:00.genuinely never been seen by anyone. It is the left -- telepathy. I'm
:06:01. > :06:08.going to try with you, if that is okay. We are trying, genuinely, the
:06:09. > :06:16.night is read from one brain to another brain. This is really funny,
:06:17. > :06:20.if it was at university I would go to ethics committees. Because it is
:06:21. > :06:27.entertaining, or we don't have to. It would not be a magic event if we
:06:28. > :06:29.do not try a magic trick. He has prepared some headbands which
:06:30. > :06:33.apparently allow him to control the volunteer's mind by selling left or
:06:34. > :06:40.right instructions which steer him to the right point. Need to run your
:06:41. > :06:52.finger forward and backwards. I am trying to send it to you now. What
:06:53. > :06:58.did you go for? The king of spades, right? One thing written on the back
:06:59. > :07:08.of the comment you need to do what is said on the card. It says? Go
:07:09. > :07:13.crazy. Yes! Was this a revolution in mind reading technology or more of a
:07:14. > :07:18.modernisation of an age-old trick? It is not really clear where the
:07:19. > :07:27.technology ends and the magic games. Maybe, that is the idea.
:07:28. > :07:36.Time for another present. She has a present for me. You have spent no
:07:37. > :07:44.time wrapping that! Good. What is that? That is a Bluetooth enabled
:07:45. > :07:50.fish detector for your smart phone. I know that you wanted it and I got
:07:51. > :07:54.it. Please explain. You put this in the water and it will detect the
:07:55. > :08:03.proximity of fish and tell your smart phone. It so happens the BBC
:08:04. > :08:06.tech people took this out for a test to test fish and if you want to find
:08:07. > :08:12.out how they got on, go to the website and find out. I will take up
:08:13. > :08:18.fishing when I have run out of every other interests. Plenty more to come
:08:19. > :08:46.from Click. For the person who has absolutely
:08:47. > :08:56.everything in their life, this is the animated gif player. He is a
:08:57. > :08:59.final present run. 3-D printing. If you believe the hype, in five
:09:00. > :09:04.years time, you will probably be watching this on a 3-D printed
:09:05. > :09:11.television, sitting on a truly printed so far, linking a 3-D
:09:12. > :09:15.printed cup of tea. It is undeniable that 3-D printing has exploded, it
:09:16. > :09:18.is not just architects, designers and other creative sort are getting
:09:19. > :09:23.their cravats in a twist about the technology that some people even
:09:24. > :09:27.have in their homes. For the uninitiated, three printing is the
:09:28. > :09:31.process of creating 3-dimensional solid objects from a digital model.
:09:32. > :09:34.Normally, if you wanted to make something out of stone, you would
:09:35. > :09:40.start with a big block and hack away the. 3-D printing start with nothing
:09:41. > :09:43.and adds material, layer by layer, to create the exact shape you want.
:09:44. > :09:49.Using this process, you could create nearly anything, from space rockets
:09:50. > :09:55.to Christmas ornaments. We have got 33-D printers to put to the test to
:09:56. > :10:02.do exactly that. The VisiCalc original, betrays its maker
:10:03. > :10:06.community roots. Is designed maybe not for everyone but it has a
:10:07. > :10:12.backroom shakes to it. That's rocker chic.
:10:13. > :10:19.It very accurately lays down melted plastic layer by layer until the
:10:20. > :10:23.almost always object design appears before your eyes. Coming in at just
:10:24. > :10:27.under ?1000 it is the cheapest we are looking at. The old tea maker is
:10:28. > :10:37.already calibrated before it leaves the factory. 3-D printers are
:10:38. > :10:45.operating of a tiny distances. Even a 10th of a millimetre in variation
:10:46. > :10:50.could leave your print in a mess. We printed a test so men. 30 minute
:10:51. > :10:56.later he emerged, freshly printed and ready to spread festive cheer.
:10:57. > :11:00.The space age form one is the slickest looking. A huge success on
:11:01. > :11:03.kickstart. It works slightly differently to other printers,
:11:04. > :11:14.rather than printing in plastic, it uses lasers. The form one uses a
:11:15. > :11:19.laser. Whether the laser hits, it's a into hard plastic. Do this in a
:11:20. > :11:21.few thousand times and you have got yourself another Christmas tree
:11:22. > :11:26.ornament. It does not require any calibration. Once you plug it in and
:11:27. > :11:30.download software onto your computer, you are ready to print.
:11:31. > :11:37.The software is the best we have tried. Printing the snowmen took two
:11:38. > :11:43.hours, this time transparent. Wanted done, it is a postprocessing stage
:11:44. > :11:47.involving rubber gloves and rubbing alcohol. While the process is slow,
:11:48. > :11:52.it produces smoother looking models in finer detail. Coming in at ?2000,
:11:53. > :12:15.this is the most expensive printer we tested. That likes the LT maker,
:12:16. > :12:31.the awkwardly named, be the first is expensive. We found it a bit clunky.
:12:32. > :12:37.-- Ultimaker. B the First was very easy to use. This is only a small
:12:38. > :12:43.selection of 3-D printers. These are for enthusiasts. But in the near
:12:44. > :12:50.future devices like these will become more commonplace. I have made
:12:51. > :12:58.good use of the 3-D printers and make you your very own gear. That is
:12:59. > :13:05.for you. That is your 3-D printed moustache. This is what happens when
:13:06. > :13:15.you don't calibrate properly. That is also yours to keep. Marvellous.
:13:16. > :13:20.We better move on. We are heading to New York State to meet our robot who
:13:21. > :13:31.may be baking your turkey in the near future. -- bagging. The grocery
:13:32. > :13:39.checkout lane is likely to be one of the first places we will see future
:13:40. > :13:47.generations of intelligent robots. PR to his ways smarter than his
:13:48. > :13:53.factory like cousins. These robots are clever. Robots need to act in
:13:54. > :14:00.environments when the situation changes. Robots that think for
:14:01. > :14:06.themselves. There is nothing science fiction about them. They won't try
:14:07. > :14:11.to kill you. Well, only by accident. Students are teaching Baxter to use
:14:12. > :14:19.common sense when handling a sharp instrument. Every time Baxter makes
:14:20. > :14:28.a wrong move, his human hands recalibrates the arm. It learns to
:14:29. > :14:37.distinguish between different objects. It will learn to move a
:14:38. > :14:43.screwdriver differently to an air carbon because eggs are fragile.
:14:44. > :14:49.Getting out robot to recognise everything it sees is still a
:14:50. > :14:54.challenge. It was best with high colour contrast. While machines have
:14:55. > :14:59.been able to grab predetermined objects for decades, they need
:15:00. > :15:08.better sensors to interpret random items. We have 3-D cameras we can
:15:09. > :15:13.mount on the head. But they have not been miniaturised and the put on the
:15:14. > :15:20.end of an arm. Sonar does not work well. This robot has been in
:15:21. > :15:25.development for two years. He is anxious to learn how to write. His
:15:26. > :15:31.family tell me if he is a good lawyer then one day he will master
:15:32. > :15:37.writing. Robot researchers have recently focused on anticipation. It
:15:38. > :15:44.is something humans do every few minutes. But it involves huge
:15:45. > :15:51.calculations for robots. Robots in this lab have achieved a 75% success
:15:52. > :15:55.rate determining what will happen in the next three seconds of activity.
:15:56. > :16:03.But anything longer and the success rate drops dramatically. We need to
:16:04. > :16:09.collect our lot of date of humans performing activities. It learns
:16:10. > :16:16.from that. For example, somebody using our cup. Will robots ever take
:16:17. > :16:23.over the world and try to wipe out humans? Yes, probably, but not in
:16:24. > :16:29.our lifetimes. It is more likely they would be integrated
:16:30. > :16:33.harmoniously into specific settings. Helping people stacked supermarket
:16:34. > :16:39.shelves for example. As they become more affordable, the rate of
:16:40. > :16:45.research will increase. Here are robots picking up a different kind
:16:46. > :16:51.of speed. Google has snapped up Boston dynamics, a military
:16:52. > :16:57.contractor. Google is adding autonomous robots to its cave of
:16:58. > :17:04.curiosities, right next to self driving cars and the worldwide web.
:17:05. > :17:10.This one can gaze yet tough to rain. It can even survive being kicked.
:17:11. > :17:17.Even Usain Bolt would need a head start to outrun this robot. And
:17:18. > :17:21.finally this humanoid robot has just taken part in a challenge trial,
:17:22. > :17:30.testing robots to help humans during disasters. This one can understand
:17:31. > :17:34.-- handle artwork from a ?20 weight. We will give this to Mr Michael
:17:35. > :17:45.Connelly, how hard-working cameraman. -- 20 pounds. This is a
:17:46. > :17:48.writ for your iPhone which allows you to attach our proper
:17:49. > :17:55.photographic lens and Flash. You can get serious about smart phone
:17:56. > :18:02.photography. But it is as unwieldy as a full size camera. The you fancy
:18:03. > :18:18.using this for the next show? Now we had to web scape. Here is Kate
:18:19. > :18:23.Russell. -- head. Nearly 30% of UK adults will have two travel at least
:18:24. > :18:28.100 miles for Christmas at their childhood home. If you are driving
:18:29. > :18:34.home for Christmas, augmented reality sound specialist Hardgate DJ
:18:35. > :18:42.will bring you more childish pleasures. This iPhone app gives you
:18:43. > :18:49.a pension at new soundscape. Instantly turning your family
:18:50. > :19:02.hatchback into a V8 musclecar, at Tank or go back to basics with just
:19:03. > :19:08.one horsepower. -- a tank. This iPhone app lets you vent your
:19:09. > :19:15.frustration by blowing up traffic in front of you. Just mount it on the
:19:16. > :19:17.dashboard. You don't need to lift finger to see the traffic in front
:19:18. > :19:32.of you destroyed. If all that talk of driving has
:19:33. > :19:39.given youth travel like but you have no petrol, check out this mash up
:19:40. > :19:48.which combines Google Street view to take you through a tour of the world
:19:49. > :19:53.on your computer screen. The object is to put up in in the map where you
:19:54. > :19:59.think the Street view image you are seeing is based. How well do you
:20:00. > :20:07.know your geography? Some are more obvious than others. The Swiss Alps
:20:08. > :20:13.are more recognisable than the featureless interior of Kazakhstan.
:20:14. > :20:20.His game gets five vistas. Your score is dependent on the distance
:20:21. > :20:24.you are out by. You can wander around before settling on a guess,
:20:25. > :20:30.exploring the roads around you to see if they offer clues. Then share
:20:31. > :20:44.your score or trout -- challenge others. How well do you know the
:20:45. > :20:52.world? As we race into the festive season, if you forgot to send cards
:20:53. > :20:55.last minute, try portable North Pole website which allows you to send a
:20:56. > :21:05.personalised message directly from the centre. Hello, Spencer. If you
:21:06. > :21:13.want to follow Santa 's progress, there are several ways to track him.
:21:14. > :21:22.This centre tracker is becoming a Christmas classic, which lots of
:21:23. > :21:27.content to explore. Sponsored by the North American Aerospace defence
:21:28. > :21:33.command, the site has a military field, which has caused controversy.
:21:34. > :21:45.Child advocates complained about the depiction of a military escort.
:21:46. > :21:50.Thank you, Kate. Just one more thing before we go. We have said that 3-D
:21:51. > :21:56.printing has been a big trend of 2013. Even if it is our little early
:21:57. > :22:05.to change the world, for some children this year it will change
:22:06. > :22:10.Christmas. Recently I popped down to our pop-up shop in London. For two
:22:11. > :22:17.weeks its windows were full of 3-D printers creating plastic toys.
:22:18. > :22:23.Passers-by were invited to donate Monday -- money by text to their
:22:24. > :22:30.charity. In return they could choose which design was printed next.
:22:31. > :22:35.Gimlet explain the harsh reality for Christmas of the children had
:22:36. > :22:41.charity tries to help. Some parents have special needs and can't get it
:22:42. > :22:45.together to put dinner together. Some parents are very depressed.
:22:46. > :22:50.They can't even manage to put Christmas Day together. Some parents
:22:51. > :22:58.are very high risk. They might actually harm the children. Once the
:22:59. > :23:03.toys are printed they will be collected by a certain someone in a
:23:04. > :23:09.red suit and taken to a Christmas party where 4000 vulnerable children
:23:10. > :23:13.will spend Christmas Day in safety. That means that for many of them
:23:14. > :23:21.this year for the first time ever they get to unwrap a Christmas
:23:22. > :23:28.present. That is what it is all about. That is it for the Click
:23:29. > :24:01.Christmas party. Thank you for watching. Merry Christmas.
:24:02. > :24:02.After artwork and went deep night we are