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This week on Click, we'll try to navigate the cities of the future, | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
and find out how to design buildings and whole areas that are easy to get to | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
and safe to be around. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
We're also meeting the new smartphone which is hoping it's hip to be square. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
And meet the people you don't know who are offering to wake you up first thing in the morning. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:43 | |
All that plus the latest tech news, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
and apps for snaps in a photography flavoured Webscape. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
Welcome to Click, I'm Spencer Kelly. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Around the world, more and more people | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
are moving to the cities. | 0:00:58 | 0:00:59 | |
And as a result, the infrastructures of those cities | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
are starting to struggle. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
This week we're at a place called Transport Systems Catapult in the fairly young city of Milton Keynes. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:10 | |
This place is showcasing different ways of tackling urban transport planning issues. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
For example, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:17 | |
this is the city of Manchester in 2010. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
A lot smaller than I remember it but there you go. This is a visualisation | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
of how the traffic flowed around the city four years ago, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
the blue blobs are busses, the white blobs are cars and so on. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
First of all, you can dial forward 10 or 20 years to see how the congestion will increase. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
But you can also dial up the amount of investment that there has been through that time in public transport | 0:01:36 | 0:01:42 | |
to see whether, for example, you can reduce the number of cars on the road. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
And then you can see how your design will be influenced | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
by accidents at various points on the map. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
And, of course how it copes with a spot of bad weather. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
Now, it is all very well helping existing cities adjust, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
but if you have the luxury of building something from scratch, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
you can use the latest technology and simulations to help get your design right. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
Over here is a simulation of how different | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
parts of a pedestrianised area would get congested as you open and close different entrances and exits. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:16 | |
And Neil Bowdler has been finding out how this can be used to predict | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
how buildings affect people before a single foundation stone has been laid. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:25 | |
The London headquarters of the engineering group Arup, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
at its architectural division Arup Associates. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
This is how architecture used to be done, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
physical models of proposed buildings to give the planners and | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
the general public a better idea of how a scheme will look and impact on its environment. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
Models like these are still built here at Arup and elsewhere, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
but it is 3D digital visualisation which has now become the most important tool | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
engaging with clients, city authorities and the public. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
This is a fly-through showing how the finished Olympic Park will eventually look, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
created before much of the park was built. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
It is the work of a whole team at the company's visualisation department. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
Heading up the team is David Edge. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
We created a co-ordinated model, a visualisation model of the Olympic Park, back in 2007. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
And using this model it helped communicate to a number of different audiences. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
We published it into a real-time engine, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
so that helped people experience what the vistas of the Olympic Park were going to be. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:31 | |
The team's latest project is the Garden Bridge, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
the new proposed river crossing for London's pedestrians. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
Look at this video and you'd think it was built already. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
This is before. We can click on year one | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
and then we can actually bring in what the bridge is going to look like | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
on the first year after it's been built. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
And then we can go to year 25, summer, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
and you can see start to see what the vision of Heatherwick Studio and Dan Pearson Studio is, | 0:03:54 | 0:04:00 | |
with the treeline reflecting the piers in framing the views of London. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
David doesn't just want to create pretty videos, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
he wants to put you in or on the buildings or structures | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
before they are built. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:12 | |
No office is complete without a shed, but this is one with a difference. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
It is a visualisation shed. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
Step into it and I can transport myself to the River Thames. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
Inside the shed we have a fan to represent the wind, we have | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
leaves to represent the foliage that will be on the bridge and the aroma | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
that they will give, we even have the sound of birdsong and the distant hum of traffic. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
What we're missing are the pictures. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
Put on these glasses and I can really put myself on the bridge. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
Visualising future projects isn't just about informing the public, though. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
It is also about the public informing the design process. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
Arup's Alvise Simondetti builds virtual realities of unbuilt buildings, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
so they can be tested before the foundations are built. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
This is a planned station upgrade for Hong Kong. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
We want a 21st century station, | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
which translates into the fact that we want to ensure that | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
passengers can go from anywhere, any position, any place to any place in the station | 0:05:13 | 0:05:20 | |
within a maximum amount of time. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Which is around a minute and a half. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
So I am wandering around this simulation now and I must admit I am a bit lost. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
It is not surprising, given how big it is. There are four train lines, eight platforms, | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
48 escalators, I'm tumbling down one now. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
And the whole point here is the signage. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
I'm trying to get from A to B within this station using the signs that are available to me. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
If I get lost or the signs don't work very well then that information | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
will be fed back to the developers of this simulation | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
and the engineers and architects can redesign the signage before the station's even built. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
The plan is to put this virtual reality online in the near future, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
so the general public can feed back data in their thousands. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
Down by the river, David Edge is using his latest visualisation tool | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
for clients, using augmented reality. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
Technology probably won't ever be able to predict entirely how a building will function, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:17 | |
a physical world has hidden depths after all. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
But there is no doubting it can dramatically improve our sense of how a building will appear, | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
and sit in its landscape before it's built. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
It might even lead to better buildings. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
Neil Bowdler. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:35 | |
Now, you can't go far in the UK without coming across a CCTV camera. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
They are intended as a security measure, | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
but cameras do have a shortcoming. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
They only offer a limited view of the surrounding area. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
But now, one US company has developed a way of monitoring an entire neighbourhood | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
using technology originally developed during the Iraq war. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
Sumi Das has visited the firm that is now looking to bring the surveillance system to urban areas. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:03 | |
This summer, so called "ghost robbers" plagued Dayton, Ohio. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
No arrests were made, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
but a potent crime fighting tool may have made a difference. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
Cameras mounted on planes thousands of feet overhead. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
We get a fallen location where there was a camera, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
that did see their face, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
we could have identified them and solved this crime. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
From it's high vantage point, this rig of 12 high-res cameras | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
captures things that escape lenses on the ground. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
The technology, made by Persistent Surveillance Systems, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
is called Hawkeye 2. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
Our camera systems are 192 million pixels but that doesn't mean that we have | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
tremendous resolution down on the ground. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Our objective is to cover as large an area as possible | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
so we see as much crime as we possibly can. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
Persistent Surveillance System's own software stitches images from the 12 cameras together. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:03 | |
The company engineered a 600 megabit per second downlink | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
to transfer files from the plane to a command centre. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
It is fast enough that police could track crimes in progress. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
The most effective use of this technology? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Steady crime statistics. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:19 | |
Find out when and where most crimes occur. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
Then fly a plane over those hotspots | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
during peak periods. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:26 | |
Hawkeye 2 can cover up to 25 square miles, | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
though people are reduced to grainy spots. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
At one pixel per person, I can't tell if someone is a man, woman or child. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:39 | |
They are just a dot. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
The only reason I know they're not a bush is they tend to walk along the sidewalk. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
The only reason I know they're not a dog is they tend to get in a car and drive. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
If I had 9 pixels per person it wouldn't tell me any more information about it, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
but I'd only cover one ninth of the area | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
and see one ninth the number of crimes. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
Persistent Surveillance Systems has witnessed 34 murders using its technology. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
They captured this one in Juarez, Mexico, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
near the US border, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
while surveilling for illegal crossings and contraband smuggling. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
This right here appears to be your victim coming out there, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
right there appears to be the shot, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
and then what we're going to do is, we're going to follow the shooter out. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
Analysts painstakingly examine each image and log | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
the suspect's movements. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
Using Google Street View, they identify which house to investigate. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
Surveillance technology is bound to raise privacy concerns and questions. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:36 | |
Who is watching me? These analysts can't look at any video they wish, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
they can only review footage directly related to a crime that's been reported | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
or an ongoing police investigation. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
But privacy advocates remain wary. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
A particular concern is that the technology is used | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
without public knowledge. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
This raises serious privacy and first amendment concerns. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
Because it allows for law enforcement to know whether, for instance, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
a person has left their house and gone to a psychiatrist, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
gone to a mosque or even gone to an abortion clinic. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
To date, Hawkeye 2 has been used to assess damage following the BP oil spill, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
gather data for traffic studies and help with recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:23 | |
But no police departments are using it. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Public opposition and the nearly 2,000 per hour cost are among the reasons. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:31 | |
But police still see the value. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
Technology is a force multiplier in the era of austerity. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
The only way most of those of those departments are able to maintain effectiveness | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
is through the use of innovative technology, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
and this is just one example of such technology. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
And judging by the rapid development of sensor and imaging technologies, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
there will likely be many others. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
Sumi Das with the eyes in the skies above Ohio. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
Next up, a look at this week's tech news. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
Apple has been forced to apologise | 0:11:09 | 0:11:10 | |
after an update to its mobile operating system | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
left some owners of its new iPhones unable to make or receive calls. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
Users who had installed iOS 8.0.1 on their iPhone 6s also complained | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
it caused problems for the handset's touch ID fingerprint facility. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:28 | |
The update has now been pulled and Apple has advised affected users | 0:11:28 | 0:11:32 | |
to reinstall iOS 8 through iTunes. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
India has successfully sent a spacecraft to Mars | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
and is the first country to have done so at its first attempt. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
The Mangalyaan, which means Mars Craft in Hindi, | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
safely arrived in orbit and will now take pictures of the Red Planet | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
and study its atmosphere. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country had achieved | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
the near impossible, and what's more, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
it completed the mission for just 74 million, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
substantially less than it cost to make the film Gravity. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
And, finally, the world's first 3D printed band | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
has shown off its chops at Lund University in Sweden. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
All the instruments involved in this tri-dimensional performance, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
the drums, the keyboard and a couple of guitars, were 3D printed. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
Well, as much as they could be. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:17 | |
Forget heavy metal, this is heavy plastic. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
Of course, the main news on social media this week is... | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
#bendgate. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
Yep, those photos that surfaced of Apple's new iPhone | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
which seemed to show the phone might be prone to bending in your pocket. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
Apple said it's received just 9 complaints in the first week, | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
claiming the problem is "rare" during normal use. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
But, of course, we can't take Apple's word for it. We've asked Marc Cieslak to investigate. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
Now, the 6 Plus is the larger of the two new iPhones and its back | 0:12:52 | 0:12:57 | |
is made of aluminium, which will bend if forced. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
But just how tough is Apple's latest? | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
I'm now going to perform a completely unscientific test, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
which I like to call "sitting down", | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
with the 6 Plus in my front and back pocket. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
For the record, the surface I'm sitting on is soft. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
And let's have a look at the result. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
Seems pretty flat to me. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
OK, time now to try it with a chair that has a hard surface. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
Pop it into my pocket. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Let's have a look there. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:35 | |
It's worth noting I wouldn't normally put my smartphone in my back pocket, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
for fear of damaging the screen in the first place. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
This is still looking reasonably flat. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Time now to test if the iPhone will bend after leaving it in my pocket for an entire day. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:53 | |
A day which involves extreme activities, such as getting a hair cut. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
eating lunch and working at my desk. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
I've had the iPhone 6 Plus in my pocket all day | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
and the result of all the standing up and sitting down that I've done? | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
Well, the phone itself remains... | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
completely unbent. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
This massive thing is called the Sentiment Mapping Tool. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
it's looking out for tweets that contain keywords relating to public transport, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
train, bus, tube and so on. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
And then it is trying to work out the sentiment of those tweets. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Basically whether the people tweeting are happy or not about their train journey and their bus ride. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:38 | |
Working out the mood of tweets is a big thing right now, but it is not | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
as easy as it sounds, it is not just a case of looking out for happy and sad keywords, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:47 | |
because, in the UK at least, we have this thing called sarcasm, | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
which is very easy for computers to work out(!) | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
Anyway, right now I can see the buses are making people very happy, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
the tube seems to be on track and the trains have just recovered | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
from a period of making people very, very miserable. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
Your next travel update in half an hour. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
Now, I'm not sure what smartphones these people are using | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
but I think it's safe to say most of them aren't using Blackberries. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
As smartphones have moved towards bigger touchscreens and better cameras, | 0:15:12 | 0:15:17 | |
the once mighty Blackberry has fallen out of favour. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
But the company is not out of the running just yet, | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
and it is now pinning its hopes on something it has been known for since it entered the mobile market. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
Its keyboard. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
Dan Simmons has been looking at how Blackberry is reverting to type. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:35 | |
It looks like an ordinary keyboard, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
until you swipe it. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:40 | |
Embedded beneath the keys is a capacitive touch sensor | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
that allows the whole surface of this new device to be used | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
like a touchpad. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:49 | |
For browsing, | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
text editing, | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
and revealing menus. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
There's a lot of people who find a huge amount of value in a physical keyboard, | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
and so we are just taking what we have always been really good at | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
and we're upgrading it. And you will see that in the devices coming out in the future. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
This is the Blackberry Passport, | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
and it is not for teenagers. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
This is a phone for the business professional. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
Blackberry have got all serious on us. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
This screen isn't ideal for watching movies but it does make documents much more easy to browse through. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:23 | |
The Blackberry 10 OS doesn't support as many apps as others, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
but we are now told this works seamlessly with your office software. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
And this new touch keyboard makes bashing out that e-mail super quick. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:36 | |
One way the Passport focuses on work is how it stores all those | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
sensitive documents on the handset while allowing them to be edited on the laptop. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:46 | |
The key is, nothing leaves the Blackberry. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
You do the editing using the PC power | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
but then it's sent through the Blackberry | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
and it is from the Blackberry that all the security is enabled. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
So the security is on the Blackberry, nothing is left on the PC. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
The Passport takes its name from its dimensions, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
but it does feel chunky, and while its size may be its biggest plus for some, | 0:17:02 | 0:17:08 | |
it may not be BB's breakthrough device. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
It's niche because it's got a large screen, 4.5 inches square, | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
it's not the typical format. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
The one coming out after this, the Classic, which is a return to form, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
a return to the Blackberry Bold style keyboards, | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
that I think will be the one. This will be rather niche. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:28 | |
For now this is a square phone, aimed squarely at square people, | 0:17:29 | 0:17:34 | |
but it might just help Blackberry boldly turn a curve. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
Dan Simmons with the device which may, or may not, wake Blackberry from its slumber. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:46 | |
Talking of which, and you're going to love this link, | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
until I became a dad, getting up in the morning was the worst thing in the world. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
If that is still you, have you ever wondered if it might be easier to get up | 0:17:54 | 0:18:00 | |
if you are woken by a complete stranger? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
I'm saying nothing. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
Well, believe it or not, that is the idea behind a new app called Wakie, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
and Stephen Beckett has spent the last week bedding it in. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
ALARM BEEPS | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
If you are already clawing for the snooze button | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
maybe you need this. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
I've got a Wakie. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:22 | |
'Good morning!' | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
Hello? | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
This is Wakie, the idea is to get strangers to wake you up, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
a bit like a hotel alarm call. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
Each stranger is randomly chosen from anywhere in the world, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
and has just one minute to get you out of bed. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
That was very weird, but I am, technically, awake. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
The app is the brainchild of Armenian entrepreneur, Hrachik Adjamian. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
This idea came to me seven years ago because it was my own problem. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
I just noticed that when someone is calling me I am | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
waking up pretty fast. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
I cannot just snooze a live person. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
And once you are awake you can return the favour to other so-called "sleepies" around the world. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
We are currently looking for sleepies. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
I've got a sleepie! | 0:19:08 | 0:19:09 | |
Wake up! | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
What are you going to have for breakfast? | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
-'Probably just a coffee and a bagel.' -Cool. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
'Hello?' | 0:19:16 | 0:19:17 | |
# Wake up, it's time to get up, yeah! # | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
What do you think? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:23 | |
'Good job waking!' | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
They hung up! | 0:19:25 | 0:19:26 | |
Sing, sing for them, they always thank you after that because | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
even if your voice is horrible, they always think of it as | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
a really nice way of waking up, instead of | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
the random "good morning" wake up. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
The app claims to be anonymous, keeping your phone number private from the person you are calling. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
That is all well and good providing they actually answer the phone. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
'You have reached the voicemail of 7192..." | 0:19:46 | 0:19:51 | |
Another voicemail. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:52 | |
And now I've got their mobile number. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
Wakie say they are working on a fix for the problem, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
but until then you might want to think twice before inviting the world into your voicemail. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:02 | |
Bizarrely, the app also tries to match you with someone of the opposite gender. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:07 | |
It makes you become more nice than your gender, we just noticed that. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
I see it as an entertainment tool. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
Since I live alone I use Wakie often at night after work | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
instead of watching TV I'd rather use my Wakie and wake up random strangers all the time and just meet | 0:20:19 | 0:20:24 | |
random strangers for a second. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
There is no denying Wakie is a pretty strange idea, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
as evidenced by the reaction we got when we asked people what they thought on Twitter. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
But, weird or not, Wakie already claims a strong following with Russians, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
boasting 1.5 million subscribers. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
And with apps available for Android and Windows smartphones, | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
and iOS in the pipeline, | 0:20:45 | 0:20:46 | |
it could soon be bedtime for the snooze button. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
The Stephen Beckett alarm call. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
Thank goodness he didn't get his trombone out. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Anyway, this week we have a photography themed Webscape for you. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
Some people prefer the point and shoot simplicity of smartphone cameras, | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
but for others the art of photography is a serious business, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
and Kate Russell has a little something for everyone next. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
If you are serious about photography, it becomes a blend of art and science. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:19 | |
Understanding the best composition and knowing | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
how the light will fall on your subject at any time of day and night. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
The photographer's ephemeris is the ideal companion for outdoor photography. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
with a map-centric sun and moon calculator, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
so you know what to expect from the light and shadows. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
The app is quite pricey, £6 on iOS and £3 on Android, | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
but there is also a desktop version that is free to use. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:50 | |
Another great example in this genre is Photo Pills, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:55 | |
which is only in iOS right now | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
and again, quite pricey. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
but the interface is beautiful and really easy to get to grips with. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
The interface is very intuitive, letting you select a date and location | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
and then slide the dots on the bottom part of the screen | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
to see direction and times for the sun and moon. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
# It's a kinda magic...# | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
As well as telling you how the world will affect your photos, | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
here is a raft of ingenious gizmos to help perfect that shot. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
69p Anticrop on iOS uncrops your image, using cloning technology to fill in the gaps | 0:22:29 | 0:22:36 | |
if you want to reframe a little wider. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
it works like magic on | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
scenery and vistas, | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
but as soon as you add people and fine details, the cloning goes a bit haywire. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:48 | |
Instaface Eyes Morph is free on Android and lets you | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
monkey around, morphing portraits into a combination of human and animal hybrids. | 0:22:53 | 0:23:01 | |
As you do. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:02 | |
One of the downsides of digital sharing is that you don't get to see | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
the reaction of the person you are showing the photograph to. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
Sharing the sharing of the sharing of our captured memories | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
can bring a whole new level of fun and personal interaction. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
Reactor for iOS and Android does exactly this, | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
using the recipient's camera to capture their reaction on opening a video or photo you send. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:31 | |
They will need the app installed too, | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
and then they can choose whether they want to send the reaction to you. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
Kate Russell's Webscape, and if you have any Webscape suggestions | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
please do give us a shout. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
And you may have heard that we finally have our own YouTube channel, | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
which, of course, we'd love you to subscribe to. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
Blimey, we'll be getting our own MySpace | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
and Bebo page next if we're lucky. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
Anyway, that is it for now. Thank you very much for watching. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
We'll see you next time. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:11 |