07/11/2015 Click

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This week we are going around the bond with lazy yoga, a laser

hairbrush and submarine photography. Have you heard? Bond is back. Go,

you have, sorry. It maybe last week's news here in the UK, but

Spectre has only just been released worldwide. James drive so fast,

shiny car, where a tux, and blows things up a lot. But if undercover

spies were to do that in real life they would very quickly become over

cover, and deceased. Normal spies are of course a lot more like you or

me, completely blending in, not looking suspicious at all, while

doing normal things. Clearly I am no special agent, well, not yet,

anyway. Quick! To the soup are secret spy shop. If you don't have

access to Her Majesty's credit card but fancy doing a bit of spying

yourself, you may come to a place like this. A small man in a

submarine... Emergency soup, emergency water. Every spy needs a

hairbrush. I don't know what this is... Maybe that is what you need is

the Falcons to make its escape. -- if the Falcons starts to make its

escape. There is your Bluetooth beanie... Word is a position has

become vacant for a new OO. We sent our top man over to Berlin, and it

is fair in a brand-new spy Museum where the interview is being held.

We think he is being tracked by another agent, a dangerous operative

plotting to grab the top position herself. We just hope he makes it

out alive. Hi, I am Dan, I mean, not Dan, I am W. I am T, who with these?

IM F. I have filled the building behind me with the finest spy tools

ever invented. Whoever gets the best material has the job. You have won

our. This shiny new spy Museum has just opened its doors to the

public. It features more than 200 touchscreens while behind the

scenes, 300 computers run the show. Early in's history of close public

surveillance by the Stasi is a big thing here, so you often feel like

you're watched, where the know it or not. -- Ian watched. This corner is

designed to see what it feels like to be watched by spies who could be

anyone around you. I failed to spot that it was activated by and a

laconic tripwire. This installation maps and recognises your face. With

cameras now in our TVs and game consoles, it is hard to know who

could be watching. Of course, today we freely share our location and

personal information in many ways. This display shows how there are

many applications that can track at all. Enough snooping, back to

picking useful gadgets used by the real spies who chose to accept their

missions. I am not too worried about T's discovery, the shaft of this

pipe twists to prime it for firing back. Soviet operatives had a far

less obvious means to kill. A poison pellet fired with a single jab of

this umbrella was used to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident in

broad daylight on the streets of London. And now, T's has got one. I

have gone one better. Don't get jealous, it is a world's most

popular spiker. -- spy car. Spies didn't use Lamborghinis or Ferraris

to do their spy work, they didn't have the money and they were too

conspicuous. They used these, which had cameras located pretty much

anywhere on them. They also had infrared cameras to spy on people in

the dark. With the power almost up, I felt I had done enough to secure

the new job, but it looks like T has found a secret section. How did it

go? Did you get the rocket launcher? No... Did you get the DV nine? No.

Once you have got the helicopter you have got it, right? Time to take it

up a gear and put on the tux for the final showdown. So long.

Their job is yours. But what is going to happen to W? We have given

him some more everyday home work to do.

That was Dan Simmons and we haven't seen him since. It takes more than a

tux to make a spy, as you have seen. Me, I think I will blending

perfectly. How many pieces of spy equipment could you spot about my

person? Yes, all of them. Or can you? Here is a plug adaptor that you

can phone up and listen to the surrounding noises. As you can with

this extension lead. I have a pen clipped to my tyre, the cut which is

a camera. As is this thing on my shoulder, and perhaps. As is the

tissue dispenser. Would you like to borrow my copy, which is a great

watch but not a good read. This is only possible because cameras have

shrunk to such a small size. Lara is going to show us what happens when

you cram 16 of them into a space small enough to fit in your pocket.

Smartphone cameras are pretty good these days. Come on, Percy! But

sometimes you just missed the moment. Especially when snapping the

unpredictable characters at London Zoo. That is nice, that is nice with

the water! Are taking these pictures could be made a whole lot easier by

what I have here in my hand. With 16 lanes is, 16 sensors, and 11

mirrors, this prototype is no ordinary camera. You can also see it

is not much bigger than the size of a chunky smartphone. Once you are in

position and ready to take your picture, the camera will choose ten

of the lenses that are going to take that image best, then with a clever

software algorithm it will fuse together those images to create a

snap of up to 52 megapixels. But it is what happens after that that is

where it really gets interesting. While this model doesn't actually

work yet, I'm going to be using a working prototype to take the

picture. The idea with the finished product is that you just hold it up

and take the photograph, which will appear on the screen, and then you

can change depth of field, focus or length of shot. Five of the lenses

are similar to those you would find in a smartphone, the others work

more like mini periscopes. The makers say what they have created

should excel at shooting in low light as there are ten sensors

rather than one to catch the light. But with a price point at $1700,

this isn't likely to be something for the casual user. When you think

about what this is replacing, up to $6,000 worth of photographic gear.

It could go into a cellphone and at one or 200 dollars to the price of

it. Why so expensive? Because we know what we are competing with.

There are people who are willing to spend a lot of money on camera

equipment. Smartphones are already getting in on the game. Just

released in the US, this has two lenses that work together to allow

users to refocus after they have taken the image. But however things

work out for the light fell 16, we may have just had a glimpse of the

smartphone cameras of the future. Hello and welcome to the weekend

technology. It was the week the UK government proposed a law that would

force internet providers to store the website address as we visit. If

passed, the bill would let police and intelligence services be the

names of the sites without a warrant. But not the specific pages

browsed. It was also the week researchers at MIT developed a super

autonomous drone that can fly through forests without crashing,

and that up to 30 mph. Another teenager believed to be part of the

Talk Talk hat was arrested, and Twitter changed its favourite button

from start to a heart. Lovely. It was also the week that Google

offered to write your e-mails for you. Its new smart reply Gmail

feature will read your messages and offer up three appropriate

responses. Handy for an unwelcome invasion of privacy from the data

harvesting giant? Finally, if he needed further proof that the

Japanese can't get enough of robots, Toyota has unveiled a companion hot

it can do so many things. He can sit next to you while you are driving,

talk to you when you are feeling lonely, or just simply hang out with

you. This man is being tracked through a

wall using just Wi-Fi signals. Those blobs are faint reflections created

by the signals when a a body. By looking at the shape of the body the

system can work out where you are, what you are doing, and even who you

are. Right now, it can recognise 15 different people with 90% accuracy.

At a high level it is using a simple principle, that wireless sync tools

reflect off our bodies. It is using these low-power signals, sending

them and observing their reflections through the wall, and we get the

silhouette of a person. That silhouette has something about our

height and build, and some people have round structure, some people

more elongated structure, depending on the bone structures in their body

and the structure of their body. That is enough to distinguish

between people. This is the first idea that researchers are using

Mitac four. The Emerald system is going to track elderly people as

they move around their homes, detect if they fall, then call for help.

You can imagine how technology that allows you to see through walls may

have less altruistic motives. I think any society must develop

policies so technology is used for the best interests. One that is used

for surveillance must be used in a good context.

If you want to do some underwater spying, you will need your own

submersible scooter. You might be wondering what we could possibly

follow this within the programme, well, would you believe Richard

Taylor is in another personal submersible?

It is a craft quite like no other. Enter the Dragon. Belying her racy

looks, she is a battery-powered marine voyager capable of cruising

the deeper for six hours on end. She has grown like capabilities thanks

to a combination of Wombourne sensors and software nestled into

her friend. -- on board centres. All in all it adds up to a quad copter

like invention that its inventor says is a gamechanger. Anybody can

take this craft safely down and fly it and that means that before that

time submersibles were a big deal. Expensive with a professional pilot.

Still expensive but you don't need a professional pilot, so we are

getting there. Yes, about that price. At a cool $1.5 million, she

is designed as a plaything for the super-rich to house on the super

yachts. But today, yours truly, just shy of that status, is hitching a

ride. As I buckle up, I'm ever so slightly apprehensive. This

prototype was finished literally just days earlier. But no time for

regrets. A quick reminder to the Mrs... The money is under the

mattress! And we are loaded into the lake Tahoe. Graham and I keep comms

over Bluetooth. He is in constant radio contact with the shore as

well. The other was exposed in oxygenated bubbles at a constant

pressure. It feels comfortable but I think six hours down at its maximum

depth and I might feel a bit claustrophobic. And if I think

really hard about it, safety issues do arise despite the fact there is

on board 24-hour reserve oxygen supplies. Imagine being 120 metres

down. It is twilight and you have been creeping around and you have

sharks overhead and having a great time. And suddenly it fails. What

happens? It does not think. It just goes back up. It has failed but no

problem. This is the only thing I will get to see and it is kind of

ridiculous because we are only in about eight feet of water and you

would not do this in anything else. The Dragon is not a speed beast,

maxing out at only five mph. The adrenaline comes in controlling it

really personal underwater capsule. We are just a couple of feet

underwater here and it is a slightly odd sensation because for the first

time I'm breathing normally underwater, it feels very normal,

and there is no scuba or snorkelling gear. It is literally just me in

this hemispherical globe, if you like, which is allowing me to

experience the underwater world in a completely different way. And then

it is my turn to take the helm. I'm at maximum downward thrust. I'm

going pretty quickly. I can feel this. I can see the surface

receding. Steering is remarkably straightforward thanks to the

so-called deep flight manager. One lever for downward thrust on the

other to control my direction. I take her to 70 feet but then it is

time to head back home. Price aside, the Dragon will not be for

everyone. Scuba divers will scoff at the idea of being cooped up in a

cockpit rather than being truly free in the ocean. But for me, it was

perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. It looks a bit sci-fi but

this is actually an armband that I'm using to control the drone with

gestures. It is quite difficult to get the hang of. You have to be very

subtle and the wind is interfering quite a lot today. But with a bit of

practice and some patients, -- perseverance, you can nail it.

Inside this band there are eight electromyographic pods and they will

pick up the electric activity from my muscles and translate that into

movement. And in one of these pods, this one, there is Bluetooth and

motion sensor and a processor and that will send all of the

information about the gestures I'm making back to the app on the phone

or whatever it is you are trying to control with the band. In addition

to flying the drone, it can be used for three categories of consumer use

today. The first one is presentations. It works with

PowerPoint or Keynote. The second category is enough and keyboard at

on your computer. You can point at links and even enter text. And the

last category is fun and entertainment. Games and apps. You

can download more applications to work with the armband. The benefit

of these is you can be anywhere, behind the device if you want, and

if there is visual interference around you, it is not going to

interfere with your control of the vehicle. Flight of the bumblebee 's

plays. Let's give it another go. I broke it. As gesture technology

matures and inevitably gets smaller and more powerful, it could replace

the mouse and keyboard for the next generation of computers, allowing

interaction with smart glass, augmented reality and virtual

reality all with the click of -- flick of a wrist. Now, covert

operations to just involve keeping yourself secret, they also involve

hiding things away. If you were to burgle my house, we would you look,

cold hard cash? -- where would you look? This is my absolute

favourite. It is not a bottle of water but another safe for storing

really small things. Next, mind control lasers. If it is not enough

to sit back and enjoy a light show, why not control it with your mind?

Yes, laser light and sound show made especially for one person using

input from their brain. This installation is part of a yearly

festival in London. Today, my job entails connecting my brain to those

lasers behind me and I cannot say that I'm not excited because I am.

The system is measuring my EEG from this might headset. Actually, you

can buy these for around $100, which makes the wonder if I can make this

at home. Which bits are doing what? This is how much attention I'm

praying... They are both doing it. It is the measurement between these

points that will give us the reading that is going to reward me if I

concentrate with beautiful music and visions. Yes. Time to get up close

and personal with my own personal light show. The more I pay

attention, the more I get rewarded by more complex sounds and visuals.

The resulting light show is oddly rewarding. It feels like I'm

finishing levels in a computer game where the visuals change. We are

taking this attention value that comes out of the headset, how much

you are concentrating on something, and then we map that different

musical scales. How you are playing a directly -- different musical

instrument is directly connected to your attention. Let us little behind

the curtain and this is where I realise that I really cannot make

this in my house. For starters, I would need at least 80 metres of

space and scaffolding to make a huge tunnel as well as a powerful 13

watts laser, 10,000 times powerful -- more powerful than a laser

pointer. Plus the whole thing has to be made safe to stare down. I would

also need to computers running copious programmes, the computer at

the front running the EEG signals on the headset and running the music

and sending the data required for the second computer to control the

laser. What I do in my day job is put together big spectacles for

bands and events and things like that, so this is taking some of the

scale, technology and far from the big concert shows and producing an

experience for one person. Well, I don't quite a lot went into that and

as an artistic periods, I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, if you will

excuse me, I might have another go. That was LJ and that is it from us

apart from one last thing. I have to show you this voice changer should

you wish to place on us while you are on the phone to someone. There

are two settings I want to show you. I will let Bob tell you that... DEEP

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