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I ordered an e-reader with an extra large font. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
I think I'm going to need to buy a bigger case. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
Never mind the function, feel the form. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
This week on Click we'll look at some of the device designs | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
we could find in our hands, our homes | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
and on our roads in the next decade. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
But whatever we touch, we definitely will leave our mark. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
We're with the police force using the latest technology | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
to get much more from the scene of the crime. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
And if you really want to make that mark, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
why not use it to build an electronic circuit | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
with some rather unusual paint? | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
We'll also have a trip inside the world of The Game Of Thrones | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
courtesy of virtual reality. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
All that plus the latest tech news and a chat about chat in Webscape. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
Welcome to Click, I'm Spencer Kelly. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
Welcome to the Design Museum in London for an exhibition | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
showcasing the finalists for the Design of the Year award. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
There are plenty of weird and wonderful creations | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
including a machine which reads text, sends it into a website | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
and prints it out using good old pen and paper. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
That is a theme we are seeing amongst some of the exhibits this year, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
this merging of digital with good old analogue. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Take this Lego calendar, for example. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
Yes, that's right, a Lego calendar. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
You arrange your team's time using real coloured blocks but then, | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
if you take a photo of it, an app analyses the image | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
and syncs it with your digital schedule. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
Talking of blocks, here's a concept smartphone | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
where the components are swappable and upgradable. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
Want more memory or a better camera? Well, just plug it in. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
And then there's the eye exam smartphone app that should help | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
prevent the onset of blindness in the developing world. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
These awards are all about selecting products that take | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
a fresh look at existing problems and solves them in a better, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
or at least, a unique way. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
Ever got the feeling you weren't getting enough from your piano? | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
This one has gel keys to helps your fingers feel something | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
closer to the sound that they produce. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Sounds like Chopsticks, feels like jelly. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Mm, squidgy. More from the Design Awards later, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
but now we turn our attention to crime, and specifically, solving it. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
For the last 100 years, one of the main methods | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
to catching criminals has been the fingerprint. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
Although this is a fairly rudimentary technique, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
scientists are now hauling it into the 21st century. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
Rebecca Morelle has been finding out how mass spectrometry | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
can tell you more about the owner of a set of prints than just who they are. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
As the night draws in, criminals start to go to work, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
and so too do West Yorkshire's Crime Scene Investigators. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
POLICE RADIO CHATTER | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
Yeah, if you can show me the file to log 538, please. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
A break-in nearby has been reported. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
Chris Barley is on his way to investigate. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
The burglars have forced their way into the house | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
and it's upstairs where they've caused the most damage. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
We believe the suspects were probably looking for jewellery, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
that kind of thing, but they have torn open every drawer, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
suitcases have been opened, cupboards, contents thrown out, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
so we've had a very messy search. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
Amongst the chaos, it is the CSI officer's job to find any clues | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
the suspects have left behind. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
Finding a fingerprint could be the key to cracking this case. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Something's been thrown under the bed, there's two mobile phones. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
It's quite possible they've been handled. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
They've seen the model. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
This place has been completely ransacked. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
The CSI team behind me are searching for any scraps of evidence | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
that they can find. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
Despite all the advances in technology, central really | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
for the last 100 years has been the fingerprint for identifying suspects. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
A new technology promises to bring this to a whole new level. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
These scientists from Sheffield Hallam University have joined forces | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
with the police in the first trial of its kind. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
They say a fingerprint reveals far more than just a person's identity. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
It can provide vital clues about the suspect's activities | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
hours before the crime took place. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
The samples are analysed here in the lab. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
They're looking for any trace, no matter how small, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
of substances hidden within or on the prints. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
They use a technique called mass spectroscopy. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
It helps them to find out what these chemicals are by seeing | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
how they behave when they're fired through a magnetic field. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
To make it easier, let's imagine we have a ping pong ball, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
a football and a cannonball, and the field is a steady stream of wind. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
If you throw the ping pong ball, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
the gust will have a big effect on its path through the air. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
The heavier football's journey is less affected | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
and the cannonball is pretty tough to move. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
By studying how these balls travel and where they end up | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
can tell you a lot about what the objects are. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
It's the same for molecules and atoms. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
This was a crime scene mark found on a laptop. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
So we analysed it. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
The software enables you to see the molecules distributed on this mark. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
What we think it is here, is cocaine | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
because the weight or the mass-to-charge, more technically, | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
would correspond to that presented by cocaine. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
We can distinguish males from females or we can understand | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
whether or not a person has dealt drugs or taken drugs. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
We can detect in just substances so we may be able to reconstruct | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
what that person has been eating just before committing the crime. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
Back on the road and the forensic squad have been called to another break-in. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
This time, a television has been stolen. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
More prints have been left, helping the team build a profile | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
of the person that's committed this crime. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
We've got to use all the tools at our disposal to try and identify | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
and solve crime. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
Criminals are getting better at doing what they do | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
and we need to keep up with them. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
This is just one way we might improve the way we use fingerprints | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
and ultimately prevent and detect crime. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
POLICE RADIO CHATTER | 0:06:49 | 0:06:50 | |
The calls from police HQ keep flooding in. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
The work is never done, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
and any new tools for this CSI team will of course be most welcome | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
to help with their ongoing fight against crime. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
Rebecca Morelle. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
So at the sharp end, spectrometry can be used to detect fine details | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
and chemical traces in things like a fingerprint. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
But just because you're not a member of the team at CSI West Yorkshire | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
doesn't mean you can't do a spot of analysis on your own at home. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
In this envelope is one of the nominations here at the Designs of the Year exhibition | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
and it is a Do It Yourself spectrometer for your smartphone. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
Step one - Take out, fold up and stick together the premade template, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
or you can download the PDF and print one for yourself. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
Note the slit, very important. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
Step two - Vandalise a DVD. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
Taking just the transparent layer, you can create a quick and dirty diffraction grating, | 0:07:43 | 0:07:49 | |
perfect for splitting light into its constituent parts. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
Step three - Stick the whole thing onto your phone's camera, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
point it at a light or shine a light through something, | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
and you'll get a spectral fingerprint that unique to its chemistry. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
This was developed to help identify environmental pollutants, | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
which means step four, where you upload the image | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
to the online spectral workbench, will then attempt to analyse | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
the object's chemical composition and spot contaminants like crude oil. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
How illuminating, chemically speaking at least. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
Next up, a look at this week's Tech News. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Another month, another shopping splurge. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
Facebook has announced it will buy Oculus VR, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
a start-up specialising in virtual reality head sets | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
for a cool 2 billion. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
But not everyone's happy about the kick-starter success | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
selling to Facebook. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
Minecraft creator, Markus Persson, | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
donated to the kit's development back in 2012 | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
alongside more than 9,000 other crowd funders. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
Following the news, Persson cancelled plans to create | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
a special VR version of his game, saying Facebook creeps him out. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:55 | |
The US Department of Justice has made the first convictions | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
against distributors of pirated mobile apps. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
The two Americans have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
criminal copyright infringement in the case | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
that involves more than one million downloads | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
worth more than 700,000. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
The Appbucket Group offered its own version | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
of the Android market place which could be installed | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
on a user's smartphone until it was seized in 2012. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
Apple has said it wants more ethnic diversity | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
in the basic range of text messaging emoji icons. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
While dozens of icons appear to show white faces, | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
only two are specifically Asian and none are black. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
The icons are based on a standard list agreed | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
by a consortium of tech companies. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Previous petitions have lobbied for the addition of everything | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
from hot dog to tacos. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
And for tech-savvy fashionistas, one company, Iconomy, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
has developed a smart mannequin that can tell you what it's wearing | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
via a transmitter and an app. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
Inside the model is the so-called VM beacon which works | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
even when the store is closed. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
Shoppers who've opted into the system are given the must-have | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
item's location in-store or a link to the online shop | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
if they can't be bothered to carry their bags home. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
One of the reasons I never do any gardening | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
is because I can't use my tablet while I'm wearing heavy-duty gloves. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
The touch screen doesn't work. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
But fortunately, my azaleas need suffer no more, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
because I have discovered this. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
It's a tube of conductive paint. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
What you do is just slap a dollop on each fingertip like that. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
Whip out your hairdryer, give it a couple of minutes... | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
And then... | 0:10:42 | 0:10:43 | |
The magic should happen. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
This is not the only use for this kind of paint. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
In fact, it could have some pretty serious implications | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
for the future of electronics. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
Dan Simmons has been getting hands-on and hands off again | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
with some of the latest inky innovations. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
Getting kids interested in the classroom can be a tricky business, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
but to be able to paint instruments and then play them, | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
that suddenly makes things much more fun. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
PIANO NOTES | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
By hooking up painted circuits to a single Arduino board | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
and speaker, a range of instruments can be created. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
You don't even have to touch it to play it. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
Each of these circles has its own electro-magnetic field. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
When my hand comes close enough to each one, it breaks that | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
and sends a signal back to the circuit board. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
That then plays the appropriate sound. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
This prototype only plays certain MP3 sounds all at the same volume. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:52 | |
But by turning the paint into a sensor, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
the different levels of resistance can be measured | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
so you could alter each note's volume or pitch. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
You've got to remember to take your hands away. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:06 | |
The company behind the paint, Bare Conductive, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
says music isn't its only forte. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
It could also be fine tuned for interactive books, door bells, | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
hidden sensors and everyday light switches. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
These could be covered with wallpaper or painted over with regular paint, | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
so you don't even have to see them. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
One of the exciting things is giving it to a much wider audience | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
and they come back and say, actually it's really amazing | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
for this application, or I really want to make this book or a poster | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
or something else, that we would never think of, because we are doing | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
other things, but also it's just collective brainpower, effectively. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
You do need to wait for each circuit that you've painted to dry | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
before you can test it out. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
Painted circuits is all well and good for amateur enthusiasts | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
but for professional engineers, much faster and more precise use | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
of conductive ink is being investigated. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
At the University of Tokyo, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
researchers are using desktop printers to do something similar | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
which, they say, could revolutionise the electronics industry. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:18 | |
Traditionally in a lab, prototype circuit boards are sent for centring | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
and take a number of days before being returned for testing. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
But Professor Kawahara and his team have printed out | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
working flexible circuit boards in a matter of seconds using photo paper | 0:13:29 | 0:13:34 | |
and a special ink that contains silver. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
The fact that all this is flexible and can be printed and folded | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
means we could create our own 3D objects using a 3D printer | 0:13:43 | 0:13:48 | |
and put those paper circuits inside | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
so they can be a little bit more interesting. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
Here's a torch that we made | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
and sensors, this one for example, has an antenna built-in, | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
and this detects how much rain is falling on it. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
These could be, perhaps, planted across an entire field, | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
hundreds of them, and then they'd biodegrade | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
so they wouldn't be around after they were needed. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Once the circuits are printed, the electrical components, | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
like a battery or LED light, can be attached by hand. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
It's fiddly and takes a while. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
And that could be a problem for more complex prototypes. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
So, this research has been taken further by Microsoft's R&D centre | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
in Cambridge. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
These stickers make things easy by combining components | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
with adhesive to cut down production time. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
The simple and instant fusion of stickers with the circuits | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
means that components can be easily recycled, perfect for prototyping. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:50 | |
Making electronics this simple | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
could lead to a new era of product creation. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
You can print out the functionality a working circuit, | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
print out the form factor and combine the two. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
So you can imagine in future there being a machine, a printing machine, | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
which prints working devices, it doesn't just print empty shells | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
of space invaders but maybe a space invader with interactivity. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
Whilst you can buy electronic devices that have already been imagined | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
from the high street, these new DIY circuits open the door | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
to anyone with a printer to create simple gadgets, unique to each of us. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
Dan Simmons there, always on the lookout for new toys. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
As we heard earlier, the big news story of the week | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
has centred on Facebook's purchase of virtual reality company, Oculus. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
It's certainly left a lot of people wondering | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
what the future of VR might be. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
In the past, we've associated it mainly with gaming, | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
but virtual reality could change the way we view | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
other forms of entertainment like TV and movies, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
as LJ Rich experienced recently in Texas, | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
or should that be on the North Wall of the Kingdom of Westeros? | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
This is a virtual experience that promises to put viewers | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
into one of the world's most popular television shows. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
The Oculus Rift visor allows you to see what many characters | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
in the show would see and there's even a wind machine to create | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
the breeze that you would experience if you were to look over | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
the seven kingdoms. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
Facebook says its acquisition of Oculus will change the way we work, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
play and communicate, but I don't like strangers poking me | 0:16:32 | 0:16:36 | |
in the real world, let alone the virtual one! | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
I found the whole thing rather convincing. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
Not surprising really as it's backed up by serious processing grunge | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
from the same company who produced the Oscar-winning effects in Gravity. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:50 | |
We've literally got ridiculous-sized power machines | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
which we've custom-made, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
3.3 gigahertz monsters feeding each machine. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
You're seeing stuff being rendered at 4K at 60 frames per second. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
There's no latency as you look around which make it super smooth. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
Given the average life expectancy of a character in Game Of Thrones, | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
it's no wonder the experience is quite short. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
And even though you follow a selected path rather than explore the world | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
freely, it's impossible not to feel impressed at this simulated world, | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
particularly when looking over a cliff edge that drops 700 feet. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
I feel like I'm just on a tiny platform at the top of a cliff. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:32 | |
It's quite vertiginous even though I know this isn't real. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
It is a little worrying. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
It's an odd experience, because of course I know | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
I'm not ascending the wall at Westeros, | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
but the feedback that you're getting from at least three of your senses | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
feels pretty real. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
It's cold, it's sort of rattly and you're looking at something in 3D. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
I'm glad I've done it but I don't think I want to do it again. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
Now the thing is, we take this to directors that we work with | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
in the film world and say, fill your boots. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
This is for you to write now, it's a whole new set of tools | 0:18:08 | 0:18:13 | |
about nonlinear storytelling for you to learn. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
I don't think we're too far away from starting a project where | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
it will be a properly led film directorial effort. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
LJ Rich. And despite what you may think, winter is coming. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
That's a Game Of Thrones reference, although a bit pirate if you ask me. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
Never mind. Anyway, Facebook isn't just buying goggles. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
It also recently forked out 19 billion | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
for the instant messaging app, WhatsApp. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
Which chat client is best for you? | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
That's one of the big topics of the year so far, | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
and here's Kate Russell with her thoughts in Webscape. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
With so many chat apps vying for your attention, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
how do you choose the right one? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
You'll obviously be swayed by how many of your contacts you can reach | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
with a platform, and smart voice mail service Libon just added Open Chat | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
to its free apps which lets users send text messages, pictures, | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
audio, location data and more to any of their contacts | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
no matter what messaging service they use. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
# Did you get my text..? # | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
This open system has the big bonus that your contacts | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
won't be plagued by sign-up requests from the service | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
in order for you to message them. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
They can even see it in a web browser if they don't have a smartphone. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
For contacts also using Libon, you'll get free HD voice calls on 3G, 4G | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
and wireless, although do remember your service provider | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
might charge you for data when not on Wi-Fi. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
There are so many other options in this space | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
we could be here all day, so I'll just pick out the highlights. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
With Facebook forking out over 19 billion for it recently, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
WhatsApp has to get a mention. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
It lets users send free text, image, voice, video | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
and location data to other WhatsApp users. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
As with all of these app-to-app services, | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
it will trawl through your contacts to identify people | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
you can connect with when you first install it. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
# Will you follow me to London...? # | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
The king of the multimedia chat apps in Asia is Wechat, | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
with around 250 million users. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
Again, free on all leading platforms with similar features to WhatsApp, | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
but including voice and video calls already. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
This app also uses QR codes to add contacts | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
and set up group chats which is an important feature for those | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
writing in Chinese languages, which use thousands of characters | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
rather than the Latin alphabets the Western QWERTY keyboard | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
is optimised for. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:57 | |
Another popular cross-platform service is Kik, with features | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
similar to WhatsApp and Wechat. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
One big difference, though, is you don't need to | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
share your personal details to send a message, | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
like phone number or e-mail address. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
Instead, you create a username, so it's perfect for connecting | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
with people you might not want to be in contact with for ever, | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
like on holiday or through a dating site. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
# A message to you, Rudy... # | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
For an alternative in the private messaging line-up, | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
there is also BBM now available on IOS and android | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
as well as BlackBerry handsets. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
You share a PIN number rather than your personal information. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
As well as the privacy benefits, | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
you might also find a lot of your friends are using this app | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
as it had over 75 million users before BlackBerry ran into troubles | 0:21:52 | 0:21:58 | |
a few years ago. | 0:21:58 | 0:21:59 | |
If you're a total privacy freak then Telegram Messenger | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
is one app that's been gaining a lot of traction lately. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
Messages between users are free and private, | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
and because of the distributive server setup, they're fast too. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
# Hear a secret message to you... # | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
It's early days for this app, so only the IOS and android versions are official, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
and the likelihood is none of your contacts will be on it yet. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
But as it is an open API project, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
meaning the source code to build compatible apps and add-ons | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
is freely available for other developers, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
there are a lot of unofficial builds coming online for other smartphones | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
and even a desktop client. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
You can also initiate a secret chat which heavily encrypts messages | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
user-to-user with the unique key to avoid interception | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
by hackers or government snoops, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
and prevents the other chatter from forwarding messages. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
# Me and you... # | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
Thanks for those wise messages, Kate. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
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