:00:00. > :00:00.Somerset Levels. The chief of the Environment Agency has denied claims
:00:07. > :00:20.he has let people down. Time for Clicks. -- Click. Your puny steam
:00:21. > :00:37.train won't stop me, human! World domination is mine! EVIL LAUGHTER.
:00:38. > :00:46.This week on Click - toys, toys, toys! We'll try out the games that
:00:47. > :00:49.combine play with learning. And if you thought school was monstrous,
:00:50. > :00:54.wait until you see what's going on in this classroom. We are in Munich
:00:55. > :00:57.to see how the cars of tomorrow will be built and how the same tech could
:00:58. > :01:03.help you fix yours if you break down. The car, that is, not you. And
:01:04. > :01:07.we'll find out if it's possible to play music with your mind. All that,
:01:08. > :01:18.plus the latest Tech News and the hottest picks of the week - all in
:01:19. > :01:24.one place. As it says on the helicopter,
:01:25. > :01:29.welcome to Click. I'm Spencer Kelly. This week, it's playtime. We've
:01:30. > :01:35.swooped in on London's biggest toy box. This is the toy fair at
:01:36. > :01:38.Kensington Olympia. It's a 22,000 square metre playground, where the
:01:39. > :01:40.big kids Hawk their latest top-secret creations, and the new
:01:41. > :01:49.intake pitch their newest game-changing ideas. Some will
:01:50. > :01:55.conquer the world, some will fail to bite. A growing trend with many of
:01:56. > :01:58.the innovations here is the focus on education. Toys are supposed to be
:01:59. > :02:02.fun, of course, but slipping in a bit of learning here and there is no
:02:03. > :02:04.bad thing. Whether it's building your own telescope, microscope and
:02:05. > :02:07.binoculars by combininheee!g different lenses, a solar powered
:02:08. > :02:16.boat, or a self-balancing robot, we all learn better through play. --
:02:17. > :02:19.combining different lenses. This is designed to get kids interested in
:02:20. > :02:24.electronics and building electrical circuits. We're going to do exercise
:02:25. > :02:27.number 67, which is building a Frankenstein-style police siren.
:02:28. > :02:47.Here we go. Ready? It's alive! How do you make
:02:48. > :02:51.old classics like chess and puzzle games appealing to kids of the
:02:52. > :02:55.tablet generation? With lasers, of course. This single-player laser
:02:56. > :02:59.maze game challenges kids to solve a variety of logic puzzles by bouncing
:03:00. > :03:03.a laser off a series of mirrors. Although, I'm pretty sure I already
:03:04. > :03:08.have an app that does the same thing. It's all well and good having
:03:09. > :03:12.these educational toys at home, but the worry is that when your child
:03:13. > :03:16.goes to school, learning is going to be a lot more boring. That's the
:03:17. > :03:20.problem that Richard Taylor has been looking into. He visited a project
:03:21. > :03:30.that aims to gamify an entire classroom. These nine-year-olds are
:03:31. > :03:35.used to unconventional classroom management. For San Jose school
:03:36. > :03:39.teacher Ari Weiss, it's essential to get it right.
:03:40. > :03:44.Classroom management is a huge time-suck. As a teacher, I spent the
:03:45. > :03:47.first six months of learning how to be a teacher dealing with my
:03:48. > :03:53.classroom, and I'm still learning how to do that.
:03:54. > :03:57.But now she has another tool in her arsenal. Class Dojo is software
:03:58. > :04:05.which replaces the carrot and stick with points and monsters. When
:04:06. > :04:08.teachers sign up for Class Dojo, it's free. They then pick the kinds
:04:09. > :04:12.of behaviours they'd like to award or build. When the teacher sees
:04:13. > :04:18.something positive happening, they can then say, Johnny, that's a great
:04:19. > :04:21.example of teamwork! The two Brits who released the
:04:22. > :04:26.software here in San Francisco last year are now seeing the fruits of
:04:27. > :04:29.their labour. Today, Class Dojo is in 120 countries, influencing 17
:04:30. > :04:35.million students, including those of Miss Weiss. All the points generate
:04:36. > :04:41.lots and lots of data, which experts say can be extremely valuable in
:04:42. > :04:44.tracking pupils' progress over time. Bo Thompson finds the points system
:04:45. > :04:50.useful for managing his class of 12-year-olds with special
:04:51. > :04:57.educational needs. He'll encourage good behaviour but where necessary,
:04:58. > :05:00.he'll mete out punishment too. With these students, there are lots
:05:01. > :05:03.of different problems with focus. They like to move around a lot,
:05:04. > :05:06.there is a lot of hyperactivity. Just redirections don't always work
:05:07. > :05:10.and the fact that I can now start implementing points - I've warned
:05:11. > :05:14.you two times to stay in your seat, if you continue I'm going to have to
:05:15. > :05:27.take a point away - that means a lot more to them.
:05:28. > :05:31.I think of it as a competition. I really like it because we get to
:05:32. > :05:37.have competition with other kids. It's fun and at the end we win
:05:38. > :05:44.prizes. Everyone is kind of competitive. We get the picture -
:05:45. > :05:50.it's competitive. But is it healthy? We've chosen not to focus on making
:05:51. > :05:55.it a competition. There is no ranking, no leaderboard, no swapping
:05:56. > :05:59.points for toys. We don't do those things because they're not helpful.
:06:00. > :06:06.But, clearly, teachers are using the software as they see fit and in many
:06:07. > :06:10.classrooms, points do make prizes. At the end of the day, if the class
:06:11. > :06:16.is good I will say I'm opening up the store. Students can exchange
:06:17. > :06:20.their points like money. Five points is equal to one fruit snack. At 20
:06:21. > :06:23.points, and I thought this wouldn't be bought into but has been popular,
:06:24. > :06:30.is a positive phone call home with a fruit snack. Students have been
:06:31. > :06:33.saving points just for that. It's like with anything - if you put the
:06:34. > :06:36.power into the hands of the user, that power comes with the
:06:37. > :06:46.responsibility and the knowledge base that needs to go with it. Back
:06:47. > :06:49.at the toy fair, a fairy that hovers above your hand - or anything else
:06:50. > :07:01.that its infrared sensor detects directly below it. I have still yet
:07:02. > :07:11.to take my fairy driving test! Miniature flying devices have been a
:07:12. > :07:19.trend at the toy fair this year. Take a look at this - this is the
:07:20. > :07:22.Ravel nanoquad. It's the smallest quadcopter on sale in the world. It
:07:23. > :07:30.weighs just over 11 grams and fits in the palm of your hand. Tiny toys
:07:31. > :07:34.like this owe their Lilliputian dimensions to advances in smartphone
:07:35. > :07:38.technology. The miniature motors powering it from four blades started
:07:39. > :07:41.out as smartphone vibration motors. The lightweight digital gyroscope
:07:42. > :07:44.that keeps it stable in the air is also used to stabilise your photos.
:07:45. > :07:47.One tech that hasn't caught up is the battery. Half an hour of
:07:48. > :07:52.charging gets you a measly five minutes of fly time.
:07:53. > :07:55.Next up: This week's Tech News. Google has promised to make
:07:56. > :07:57.significant changes to the way its competitors appear in European
:07:58. > :08:02.search results, following a three-year investigation by the
:08:03. > :08:07.European Commission. Google had been accused of giving favourable
:08:08. > :08:10.treatment to its own products. They have promised to now give prominent
:08:11. > :08:15.placement to other companies in some searches in order to avoid a
:08:16. > :08:17.multibillion-euro fine. Microsoft has announced that company
:08:18. > :08:26.veteran Satya Nadella is its next chief executive. The outgoing exec
:08:27. > :08:28.Steve Balmer had seen Microsoft's fortune decline during his 14-year
:08:29. > :08:31.tenure, with the company losing out to rivals like Apple.
:08:32. > :08:34.Video footage of Britain's top-secret drone project has been
:08:35. > :08:37.revealed. Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is said to be
:08:38. > :08:44.the most advanced aircraft ever built in Britain. This video shows a
:08:45. > :08:47.test flight of the drone in a secret location. Taranis uses the latest
:08:48. > :08:51.stealth technology and is capable of launching precision airstrikes in
:08:52. > :09:04.hostile territory. It can be operated via satellite link from
:09:05. > :09:08.anywhere in the world. North Korea 's homegrown operating system seems
:09:09. > :09:12.to have had a makeover. The latest version of the software has
:09:13. > :09:18.abandoned the old Microsoft Windows style, opting instead for a design
:09:19. > :09:22.that looks suspiciously similar to Apple 's operating system. Hopefully
:09:23. > :09:32.Microsoft will not be too upset by the apparent snub. We have been
:09:33. > :09:36.looking at educational toys at the London Toy Fair. The next thing I
:09:37. > :09:40.found is taking a bit of getting used to. While I get my head around
:09:41. > :09:43.the controls, LJ Rich has been using nothing but her head to produce
:09:44. > :09:45.something that sounds very sweet indeed.
:09:46. > :09:48.When you think about it, all compositions start in someone's
:09:49. > :09:51.brain, but as any composer knows, there are quite a few steps between
:09:52. > :10:00.your mental musical musings and the finished performance. What better
:10:01. > :10:04.way to short-circuit the creative process than to stick a brain cap on
:10:05. > :10:13.your head and use technology to help extract the magic? We have some
:10:14. > :10:17.electrodes that will be placed on your scalp. They are bit spiky. They
:10:18. > :10:28.will measure the electrical activity in your brain. Lovely. The main
:10:29. > :10:31.electrode is at the back of my head. It's going to pick out the
:10:32. > :10:35.electrical activity in my visual cortex. The brain cap is on quite
:10:36. > :10:37.tightly to make sure that the contact is constant. To start
:10:38. > :10:43.performing, I have to compose my thoughts before composing my
:10:44. > :10:51.thoughts. The idea is to choose one of four chequered patterns to
:10:52. > :10:54.concentrate on. They all flicker at different rates. When I concentrate
:10:55. > :10:56.on a particular pattern, my visual cortex should create a sympathetic
:10:57. > :11:01.electrical signal which will be picked up by the brain cap and sent
:11:02. > :11:05.the computer. My chosen pattern corresponds to a musical phrase and
:11:06. > :11:10.this is sent to a screen in front of Jane, our professional cellist. She
:11:11. > :11:16.will then play it. It sounds difficult because it is. OK, I'm not
:11:17. > :11:23.composing individual notes - I'm choosing from ready-made phrases.
:11:24. > :11:27.But it still feels fantastic, like I'm using the Force to make music.
:11:28. > :11:36.Professor Eduardo Miranda has been working on what he called music
:11:37. > :11:40.neurotechnology for over a decade. He plans to mash up a string quartet
:11:41. > :11:42.with four extra brains to perform a piece called Activating Memory at
:11:43. > :11:45.this year's Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival. He
:11:46. > :11:59.enjoys composing consciously too much to let the brain take over
:12:00. > :12:02.completely. Humans like to manipulate things, to
:12:03. > :12:05.craft, and I think there is something very special in that. I do
:12:06. > :12:08.not wish to eliminate that. I want to enhance, to create tools that
:12:09. > :12:14.will help composers to achieve that in different ways.
:12:15. > :12:17.It normally takes a few days practice to crack the mystery of how
:12:18. > :12:21.to play the phrases, but once I calmed down, I was able to control
:12:22. > :12:26.the system with just a couple of hours under my belt. Right at the
:12:27. > :12:30.end, I finally got the hang of what I was expected to do. It's a really
:12:31. > :12:34.odd feeling because if you get too excited you lose the signal that you
:12:35. > :12:37.are trying to convey. Musical performances aside, there's obvious
:12:38. > :12:40.potential here - not least for people with mobility problems. The
:12:41. > :12:46.system actually works better the less you move. My lifelong wish for
:12:47. > :12:50.a precision, direct, high-speed composing device still looks to be a
:12:51. > :12:55.long way off. For a start, this rig costs around $14,000. Not to mention
:12:56. > :12:58.the difficulty in mapping the composition process. But even a
:12:59. > :13:02.taste of elementary brain control is a truly mind-bending experience. LJ
:13:03. > :13:11.Rich there with quite possibly a prelude to a brain symphony. Back
:13:12. > :13:17.here at the London toy fair, this is the Thames and Cosmos Concept Car.
:13:18. > :13:24.It's a game in three stages. First, you build one of eight vehicles with
:13:25. > :13:26.the same parts. Next, you learn to control your ride via the
:13:27. > :13:31.accompanying app. That's when things get really cool. Viewed through your
:13:32. > :13:34.mobile device, the app recognises each of these augmented reality
:13:35. > :13:40.markers as a different 3-D model of a building, creating a virtual
:13:41. > :13:43.cityscape for you to navigate. Using the programming feature of the app,
:13:44. > :13:47.you can design a route for your vehicle around the city, and sit
:13:48. > :13:55.back and watch it navigate on its own. Of course it might require a
:13:56. > :13:58.few tweaks. Augmented reality isn't just been used by the creators of
:13:59. > :14:01.toy cars. It is also being employed by the actual car industry, to
:14:02. > :14:06.create the next breed of actual cars. Dan Simmons was given rare
:14:07. > :14:12.access to Audi's prototype garage in Germany. Although, I'm not actually
:14:13. > :14:33.sure he made it there. Even new cars need a bit of tender
:14:34. > :14:36.loving care now and again, and the oil indicator has just come up that
:14:37. > :14:40.tells me that I need to do something. That wouldn't ordinarily
:14:41. > :14:53.be a problem, it's just that I don't really know how to do that. Yeah,
:14:54. > :14:56.yeah, I think it's the oil. Yet, it could be the carburettor. Short of a
:14:57. > :14:59.car manual in a glovebox, I'm now left with two options. To call
:15:00. > :15:10.breakdown services and talk them through the problem. Or I could use
:15:11. > :15:13.a pair of these. Munich-based Metaio is developing this app for the
:15:14. > :15:18.forthcoming Google Glass eyewear. It identifies what's under the hood,
:15:19. > :15:23.and explains what needs doing. We're using a phone screen to show you
:15:24. > :15:28.what I can see. In this case, it's a straightforward or oil top up that's
:15:29. > :15:31.needed. The app positions the relevant graphics in the eyewear,
:15:32. > :15:34.leaving my hands free to complete the job. This tech could be useful
:15:35. > :15:36.for changing the wheel, diagnosing more serious problems, or training
:15:37. > :15:39.mechanics to more accurately timing their tutting and sharp intakes of
:15:40. > :15:52.breath before quoting a three figure sum - without the VAT! But augmented
:15:53. > :15:56.reality isn't just handy for drivers - I'm back on my way to visit the
:15:57. > :16:02.company who is leading the way in using AR. Welcome to Ingolstadt,
:16:03. > :16:08.known as Audi City. 35,000 people work here, and it is Audi's research
:16:09. > :16:13.HQ. It's so secret that our mobile phones have been confiscated. We are
:16:14. > :16:20.not even allowed to show you what's inside. OK - we can show you a bit!
:16:21. > :16:26.Inside, building T32, engineers are using their new toy. They need to
:16:27. > :16:30.know this demonstration model is going to work. Not just when they
:16:31. > :16:34.fire it up, but in five or ten years time. They're checking that the
:16:35. > :16:42.design plans match exactly what they can see. That's where augmented
:16:43. > :16:47.reality comes into play. Overlaid on top of the car parts is where things
:16:48. > :16:50.ought to be. The system relies on 18 cameras to calibrate the position of
:16:51. > :16:57.the whole car, in virtual space, to within a few millimetres. A special
:16:58. > :16:59.camera then identifies what it's pointing at, and the computer
:17:00. > :17:06.overlays precisely where things should be. Green shows all is well,
:17:07. > :17:10.but the red cable isn't following its designated route. It could be
:17:11. > :17:14.faulty, or be touching another engine part, leading to excessive
:17:15. > :17:22.wear and tear. That could result in failure, or even cause an accident.
:17:23. > :17:26.The system is also useful for previewing design updates, like a
:17:27. > :17:33.new front bumper. Very vorsprung durch! It's really great. Another
:17:34. > :17:42.department of Audi was jealous - they want to have a system like this
:17:43. > :17:46.as well. Envy isn't a bad thing. When this RH racer was first built,
:17:47. > :17:50.it would have been checked by eye. Now, for the price of five of these,
:17:51. > :17:58.Audi says the new system halves the time it takes to get the prototype
:17:59. > :18:05.on the road. Before I return the rental car, I want to show you a new
:18:06. > :18:08.app for drivers that also uses AR. Really handy if you're hiring a car
:18:09. > :18:17.and you're unfamiliar with the buttons inside. Ooh, horn selection!
:18:18. > :18:29.SOUND OF VARIOUS HORNS Dan Simmons isn't the only one who finds driving
:18:30. > :18:32.a challenge. Hello there! This is the scarab bee - it's a car that is
:18:33. > :18:35.remotely controlled using your tablet. It talks to the tablet
:18:36. > :18:38.directly through Wi- Fi. It can get up to speeds of 15 kilometres per
:18:39. > :18:42.hour. More interestingly, it can stream the footage from the video
:18:43. > :18:46.camera on its nose to the tablet, so you can see where you're driving.
:18:47. > :18:49.You can even take photos as you explore. You might want to upload
:18:50. > :18:56.some of those photos to the web using this first website this week.
:18:57. > :19:00.Here comes Webscape. That would make a pretty good
:19:01. > :19:04.animated .gif, Spencer! You could even become an Internet meme! Surely
:19:05. > :19:08.every tech presenter's dream! If you want to have even more fun browsing
:19:09. > :19:11.the latest viral images, head over to Imgur - a fund social community
:19:12. > :19:22.of commenting, posting and voting on all the hot pics of the week.
:19:23. > :19:25.Keeping tabs on all of the must see memes of the week is an
:19:26. > :19:43.impossibility without the help of a database like this. From crazy dog
:19:44. > :19:49.photos to an animated .gif teaching the correct way to moonwalk! The
:19:50. > :19:51.only theme on this site is popularity, which often means
:19:52. > :20:11.complete hilarity, but might not always be to everyone's taste. The
:20:12. > :20:19.comments are unmoderated so expect bad language and trolling in
:20:20. > :20:23.buckets. Getting around on public transport
:20:24. > :20:27.is hard enough on home turf. In a strange city, it can be a nightmare.
:20:28. > :20:31.Hopstop is a fantastic solution, with a browser-based tool, and apps
:20:32. > :20:37.for iPhone, i-Pad and on most other handsets through the mobile web
:20:38. > :20:42.application. It has the public transport information for over 300
:20:43. > :20:48.of the world's busiest cities. With an attractive, simple interface to
:20:49. > :20:53.plan your journey. The stop by stop itinerary can be texted, e-mailed or
:20:54. > :20:56.even Tweeted to you. You can plan your journey while you're on a Wi-Fi
:20:57. > :21:08.connection, and not eat up expensive roaming data allowances abroad. I
:21:09. > :21:11.was in New York and I used it to find my way around the subway, it
:21:12. > :21:18.gave me confidence to go out and explore the city without relying on
:21:19. > :21:20.expensive taxis. Last week, Google announced a cunning ploy to sap your
:21:21. > :21:23.productivity, by partnering with Lego to create a completely
:21:24. > :21:43.addictive virtual playground, in the form of Build with Chrome. You will
:21:44. > :21:46.need to log on with a Google account, and then you can take a
:21:47. > :21:51.plot of land anywhere in on the planet, and start constructing your
:21:52. > :21:54.Lego masterpiece. Whether that's a tower, a castle, or just a herd of
:21:55. > :22:03.plastic cows - the world is literally your toy box! Head over to
:22:04. > :22:07.the Build Academy if you want to sharpen your engineering skills with
:22:08. > :22:11.a set of tutorials. You can also check out what others have made, in
:22:12. > :22:13.order to get a little inspiration. Apparently there are 915 million
:22:14. > :22:35.different ways to combine six Lego bricks. I wonder how long it would
:22:36. > :22:39.take me to try them all? A different type of games - the Winter Olympics
:22:40. > :22:42.start this week in Sochi, Russia. You can catch all the BBC's live
:22:43. > :22:45.digital coverage, including radio, statistics and live commentary on
:22:46. > :22:56.the dedicated website. There will also be 650 hours of live video from
:22:57. > :22:59.up to six simultaneous streams. That's Kate Russell's Webscape. All
:23:00. > :23:05.of those links are available at our website. If you like to get in touch
:23:06. > :23:09.with us about anything you've seen today, we'd love to hear from you.
:23:10. > :23:14.We are on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. That's it from the London
:23:15. > :23:27.toy fair. Time for me to head off into the sunset, and safety first!
:23:28. > :23:31.After all, this is a go-kart that can drift like this. Woo hoo! Thanks
:23:32. > :23:50.for watching and we'll see you next time.
:23:51. > :23:57.A very powerful jetstream and one that has been stuck for weeks on
:23:58. > :23:58.end, it has been responsible for the spells of wet and windy weather