Christmas Special Click

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This week, Click gets festive as we bring you some tech crackers and

some turkeys. There is some Christmas magic from the robot bird

that can read your mind. 3-D printers, we will ask if they are

the future of fab or a fad. And the gripping tale of the robots you may

not trust with a knife. All that plus some seasonal web treats.

Welcome to Click. Welcome to the Click Christmas party which we're

having what we are working. The whole team is here and we will try

to keep it together. Talking of which, it is time for the first

present. I have brought to this wonderful

present and have wrapped it carefully. It is the ultimate

Christmas jumper. I got it in your favourite colour. If you open it, I

will show you how it works. There is an amazing surprise. If I put my

phone in their, there is an app you can download. I have a fireplace

jumper. That is truly wonderful. Do I have to wear that? Is a magical

time of the year and we thought we would start the programme with some

real magic. I have been here as a magician in

residence for two months and I have been exploring the relationship

between magic and technology. I.e. Introduce myself as a research

magician will stop I researched new ways of making magic. I am hoping

the audience will take away a new understanding of how magic can be

shown to audiences but also take away some interest in the amazing

technological marvels we have around us. The match is the combination of

a key projects at this media studio. The aim was to get to magicians

working side by side with technology researchers to create magic 2.0.

We're hoping to demonstrate today a telepathic headband. I could -- I

was interested in making mind reading robot birds. There is a big

chance it will not work. I want to introduce you to how the

pendulum works. I want to look at the motor response which is the

response you get when you think about something. If you hold a

pencil and think about the pencil moving, the Pentagon will move and

it won't feel like you're it. You get these micro- muscle movements

and I want to measure is exactly and see what I can tell and on with it.

This is a bird which is a hand-held device. Nothing? That is a yes! Can

you imagine that ten macro to bird is shaking her head.

Hide that endeavour to anyone in the already -- audience, we will make it

harder. Over the last few months, it stood

as being perfecting a electronic device that he calls the Idio bird.

It seems to measure the motor response and answer questions they

don't know the answer to. Like being able to find a ring by picking up

cues from the audience. Is on the side of the room?

The principles that guide magician work will always be there. The frame

we used to talk about magic, that needs to change. We don't talk about

ghosts or spiritual this any more. What I'm going to show tonight has

genuinely never been seen by anyone. It is the left -- telepathy. I'm

going to try with you, if that is okay. We are trying, genuinely, the

night is read from one brain to another brain. This is really funny,

if it was at university I would go to ethics committees. Because it is

entertaining, or we don't have to. It would not be a magic event if we

do not try a magic trick. He has prepared some headbands which

apparently allow him to control the volunteer's mind by selling left or

right instructions which steer him to the right point. Need to run your

finger forward and backwards. I am trying to send it to you now. What

did you go for? The king of spades, right? One thing written on the back

of the comment you need to do what is said on the card. It says? Go

crazy. Yes! Was this a revolution in mind reading technology or more of a

modernisation of an age-old trick? It is not really clear where the

technology ends and the magic games. Maybe, that is the idea.

Time for another present. She has a present for me. You have spent no

time wrapping that! Good. What is that? That is a Bluetooth enabled

fish detector for your smart phone. I know that you wanted it and I got

it. Please explain. You put this in the water and it will detect the

proximity of fish and tell your smart phone. It so happens the BBC

tech people took this out for a test to test fish and if you want to find

out how they got on, go to the website and find out. I will take up

fishing when I have run out of every other interests. Plenty more to come

from Click. For the person who has absolutely

everything in their life, this is the animated gif player. He is a

final present run. 3-D printing. If you believe the hype, in five

years time, you will probably be watching this on a 3-D printed

television, sitting on a truly printed so far, linking a 3-D

printed cup of tea. It is undeniable that 3-D printing has exploded, it

is not just architects, designers and other creative sort are getting

their cravats in a twist about the technology that some people even

have in their homes. For the uninitiated, three printing is the

process of creating 3-dimensional solid objects from a digital model.

Normally, if you wanted to make something out of stone, you would

start with a big block and hack away the. 3-D printing start with nothing

and adds material, layer by layer, to create the exact shape you want.

Using this process, you could create nearly anything, from space rockets

to Christmas ornaments. We have got 33-D printers to put to the test to

do exactly that. The VisiCalc original, betrays its maker

community roots. Is designed maybe not for everyone but it has a

backroom shakes to it. That's rocker chic.

It very accurately lays down melted plastic layer by layer until the

almost always object design appears before your eyes. Coming in at just

under ?1000 it is the cheapest we are looking at. The old tea maker is

already calibrated before it leaves the factory. 3-D printers are

operating of a tiny distances. Even a 10th of a millimetre in variation

could leave your print in a mess. We printed a test so men. 30 minute

later he emerged, freshly printed and ready to spread festive cheer.

The space age form one is the slickest looking. A huge success on

kickstart. It works slightly differently to other printers,

rather than printing in plastic, it uses lasers. The form one uses a

laser. Whether the laser hits, it's a into hard plastic. Do this in a

few thousand times and you have got yourself another Christmas tree

ornament. It does not require any calibration. Once you plug it in and

download software onto your computer, you are ready to print.

The software is the best we have tried. Printing the snowmen took two

hours, this time transparent. Wanted done, it is a postprocessing stage

involving rubber gloves and rubbing alcohol. While the process is slow,

it produces smoother looking models in finer detail. Coming in at ?2000,

this is the most expensive printer we tested. That likes the LT maker,

the awkwardly named, be the first is expensive. We found it a bit clunky.

-- Ultimaker. B the First was very easy to use. This is only a small

selection of 3-D printers. These are for enthusiasts. But in the near

future devices like these will become more commonplace. I have made

good use of the 3-D printers and make you your very own gear. That is

for you. That is your 3-D printed moustache. This is what happens when

you don't calibrate properly. That is also yours to keep. Marvellous.

We better move on. We are heading to New York State to meet our robot who

may be baking your turkey in the near future. -- bagging. The grocery

checkout lane is likely to be one of the first places we will see future

generations of intelligent robots. PR to his ways smarter than his

factory like cousins. These robots are clever. Robots need to act in

environments when the situation changes. Robots that think for

themselves. There is nothing science fiction about them. They won't try

to kill you. Well, only by accident. Students are teaching Baxter to use

common sense when handling a sharp instrument. Every time Baxter makes

a wrong move, his human hands recalibrates the arm. It learns to

distinguish between different objects. It will learn to move a

screwdriver differently to an air carbon because eggs are fragile.

Getting out robot to recognise everything it sees is still a

challenge. It was best with high colour contrast. While machines have

been able to grab predetermined objects for decades, they need

better sensors to interpret random items. We have 3-D cameras we can

mount on the head. But they have not been miniaturised and the put on the

end of an arm. Sonar does not work well. This robot has been in

development for two years. He is anxious to learn how to write. His

family tell me if he is a good lawyer then one day he will master

writing. Robot researchers have recently focused on anticipation. It

is something humans do every few minutes. But it involves huge

calculations for robots. Robots in this lab have achieved a 75% success

rate determining what will happen in the next three seconds of activity.

But anything longer and the success rate drops dramatically. We need to

collect our lot of date of humans performing activities. It learns

from that. For example, somebody using our cup. Will robots ever take

over the world and try to wipe out humans? Yes, probably, but not in

our lifetimes. It is more likely they would be integrated

harmoniously into specific settings. Helping people stacked supermarket

shelves for example. As they become more affordable, the rate of

research will increase. Here are robots picking up a different kind

of speed. Google has snapped up Boston dynamics, a military

contractor. Google is adding autonomous robots to its cave of

curiosities, right next to self driving cars and the worldwide web.

This one can gaze yet tough to rain. It can even survive being kicked.

Even Usain Bolt would need a head start to outrun this robot. And

finally this humanoid robot has just taken part in a challenge trial,

testing robots to help humans during disasters. This one can understand

-- handle artwork from a ?20 weight. We will give this to Mr Michael

Connelly, how hard-working cameraman. -- 20 pounds. This is a

writ for your iPhone which allows you to attach our proper

photographic lens and Flash. You can get serious about smart phone

photography. But it is as unwieldy as a full size camera. The you fancy

using this for the next show? Now we had to web scape. Here is Kate

Russell. -- head. Nearly 30% of UK adults will have two travel at least

100 miles for Christmas at their childhood home. If you are driving

home for Christmas, augmented reality sound specialist Hardgate DJ

will bring you more childish pleasures. This iPhone app gives you

a pension at new soundscape. Instantly turning your family

hatchback into a V8 musclecar, at Tank or go back to basics with just

one horsepower. -- a tank. This iPhone app lets you vent your

frustration by blowing up traffic in front of you. Just mount it on the

dashboard. You don't need to lift finger to see the traffic in front

of you destroyed. If all that talk of driving has

given youth travel like but you have no petrol, check out this mash up

which combines Google Street view to take you through a tour of the world

on your computer screen. The object is to put up in in the map where you

think the Street view image you are seeing is based. How well do you

know your geography? Some are more obvious than others. The Swiss Alps

are more recognisable than the featureless interior of Kazakhstan.

His game gets five vistas. Your score is dependent on the distance

you are out by. You can wander around before settling on a guess,

exploring the roads around you to see if they offer clues. Then share

your score or trout -- challenge others. How well do you know the

world? As we race into the festive season, if you forgot to send cards

last minute, try portable North Pole website which allows you to send a

personalised message directly from the centre. Hello, Spencer. If you

want to follow Santa 's progress, there are several ways to track him.

This centre tracker is becoming a Christmas classic, which lots of

content to explore. Sponsored by the North American Aerospace defence

command, the site has a military field, which has caused controversy.

Child advocates complained about the depiction of a military escort.

Thank you, Kate. Just one more thing before we go. We have said that 3-D

printing has been a big trend of 2013. Even if it is our little early

to change the world, for some children this year it will change

Christmas. Recently I popped down to our pop-up shop in London. For two

weeks its windows were full of 3-D printers creating plastic toys.

Passers-by were invited to donate Monday -- money by text to their

charity. In return they could choose which design was printed next.

Gimlet explain the harsh reality for Christmas of the children had

charity tries to help. Some parents have special needs and can't get it

together to put dinner together. Some parents are very depressed.

They can't even manage to put Christmas Day together. Some parents

are very high risk. They might actually harm the children. Once the

toys are printed they will be collected by a certain someone in a

red suit and taken to a Christmas party where 4000 vulnerable children

will spend Christmas Day in safety. That means that for many of them

this year for the first time ever they get to unwrap a Christmas

present. That is what it is all about. That is it for the Click

Christmas party. Thank you for watching. Merry Christmas.

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