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This week, walking around the world for Wonga. Quantum computers and | :00:00. | :00:8.9 | |
light Sabre, action. | :00:8.0 | :00:11. | |
How would you like to earn money just by doing this? Walking about. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
But, very soon, it may become a thing. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Dan Simmons has been given exclusive access to a new global currency project | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
which is backed by some big investors and means if you can walk, you can earn money. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
You can simply make money by walking. Step goes up, step goes up, | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
I make more money. It's a big change in life. Do you | :01:24. | :01:42. | |
believe it? I believe it because it is happening here. The temptation to | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
make walking a day job. Where will they walk to? Currently they are all | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
walking to work. So we had that crazy idea that | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
since we are walking so much, And since we didn't find anyone who | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
actually does that, we decided to create an app that allows anyone to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
generate money by simply walking. It is a crazy idea | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
from two crazy guys. Last year's project, a $7 USB | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
stick that acts like a computer, went from one school in Nairobi, | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
to now being used in 87 countries. Now they have schmoozed $10 million | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
from Japanese investors to create Unlike bitcoins, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
the bitwalking dollar won't be mine It will be generated | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
by human movement. Like today's wristbands and fitness | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
trackers, the go app counts the steps you take, shows how many | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
bitwalking dollars you make and By now you have probably had | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
the same thought is me. It uses GPS tracking, | :02:54. | :03:12. | |
motion type and speed sensing, and it caps what humans can | :03:13. | :03:26. | |
reasonably do, limiting earnings to But you will be able to buy extra | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
bitwalking dollars to make that big And depending on who you buy from, | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
that could make a huge impact. We have come to show you the | :03:36. | :03:54. | |
bitwalking app. We are walking and making money. Individuals will come | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
to you with their phone and you will see they have a balance. They have X | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
amount of bitwalking dollars, right? Now, you would be able to sell these | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
dollars, OK, on the international market and then they will send you | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
real currency to a PayPal account, your back account will set that up. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
They build then use those bitwalking dollars to top up their account, so | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
they can purchase something in the market. OK. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Malawi stands on the verge of a food crisis. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
The average rural income is $1.50 a day. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
And the President's platitudes were swiftly followed up by a 10% tax | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Nobody is suggesting that bitwalking will sort this out any time soon. | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
A growing but still small number own smartphones here. | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
But for those few it could make a difference. | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
This is how most people make their money in Malawi, through | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
agriculture. But we think we have found somebody making money through | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
IT could double the amount they earn. There is the possibility of | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
earning $26 a month. Salim walks two hours a day to teach | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
technology in the local school. We take walking is as simple | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
as nature. But this time it will change | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
my life because as I will be walking Creating a new currency is | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
a careful balancing act. If the money behind it runs out, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
it falls over. But bitwalking will start | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
in just a few countries. It has a big partner in Japanese | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
electronics giant Murata, whose staff actually do this | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
exercise every morning. They are also making | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
a bitwalking bracelet to do away And there's evidence that you do not | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
too much cash to get people on Japan's largest convenience store, | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
Lawson, has a scheme that pays workers | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
just $50 a year to keep fit and eat Like this scheme, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
bitwalking dollars will only be initially be able to spent | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
in one store, an online one which Crucially, giving employers, | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
sports brands, health insurance companies, or anyone who has | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
an interest in getting us moving, to join this scheme and accept | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the dollars will be the real test. But let's not forget the wealth | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
of information a project Retailers want to get to know | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
us personally more than ever. Details about our daily routines, | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
well, that could be And one of the main reasons that | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
bitwalking may actually succeed. Concerns around privacy and security | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
are being taken seriously. Whether | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
a currency that can be endlessly printed by walking can succeed will | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
make this an interesting experiment, as it launches this weekend | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
across several countries, including Dan, please tell me you did what all | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
the way from Japan to Malawi OK. | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
Sounds like an exciting scheme. But I have to wonder what really is | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
in it for the backers, for the people pouring loads | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
of money into this? Yeah, it's about being part | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
of something that will probably be The project is about environmental | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
beliefs, it's about social equity, A lot of the companies thought to be | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
backing this scheme, who will come on board, will be insurance | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
companies, They'll want to be associated | :07:42. | :07:42. | |
with something like this. And it will be in their interest | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
because we will maybe buy more Well, if we're walking we're going | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
to need more trainers, right? The other thing that strikes me is | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
that at the moment bitwalking dollars can | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
only be spent on the online store. This thing lives or dies by | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
which companies are willing to give Yeah, it's whether people want what | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
is on the store and whether there is enough of these products to satisfy | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
demand, depending on how quickly people start earning | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
these bitwalking dollars. These are the early days | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
of a new currency, a new idea. We're not sure it's going to get | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
off the ground or not. If it does, great, if it doesn't, | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
that will be an Achilles heel. Can you fake it? Yes, we tried. Some | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
of the earlier versions you can. They say they will look at the speed | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
in which you travel, the location, where you have gone to and from and | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
also you can't have multiple accounts. So we won't have an army | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
of people all walking and pain in Bitwalking dollars? We spoke to a | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
farmer. They had about 25 cars. If you put one of these on each cow | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
they could all be earning at the same time! There is an idea! You | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
would need 100 smartphones. In Malawi that's a tall order. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Cheers. Ta-ra. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Time for a quick tech news round-up. This is the week a zone project shut | :09:09. | :09:22. | |
down. Talking, the company behind it, raised ?2 million, promising | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
back as a small smartphone controlled zone Dull on. But it only | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
fulfilled some of its pre- orders. -- controlled drone. I beat you wish | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
to your phone is charged quicker. The latest phone battery tech has | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
been unveiled. It charges your mobile to nearly half its power in | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
under five minutes. That's ten times faster than current smartphones. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Music streaming is being streamlined. Many companies are | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
slimming down their music offering. Pandora has bought RDO. Microsoft is | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
laying its player to rest and a Apple has shut down its music | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
player. This phase with tears of joy is the year's most used emoji in the | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
world. I am feeling very emojinal about that. That's round off the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
week with a successful crowdfunding story. Would anyone invest in the | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
speakers? $3 million says yes. Cat ears aside, it's a speaker- | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
headphone combination, something rarely seen on sale, perhaps for | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
good reason. It does look rather heavy. In the UK it has been anti- | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
bullying week this week. It is a sad fact that as our online activities | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
grope, so do the opportunities for cyber bullying. We have been looking | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
at some of the ways we can help protect our kids from it. As a | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
parent of a three-year-old I can already imagine the concern when my | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
daughter gets online. And, with over half of UK children saying they have | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
experienced cyber bullying, with 8% saying it happens so many times they | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
have lost count, it seems with good reason. IMT can look at some of the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
latest tech that could come to the rescue. -- I am taking a look. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
This application has-been released this week. Once a school signed up | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
to using it in either a parent or a child can anonymously report any | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
incidents of bullying. It could be something that happens at school or | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
out of school, including cyber bullying. Once reported, a mental or | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
will be the details and will either send it by themselves or reported to | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
a teacher. Of course it is not just about reporting problems. In an | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
ideal world situations would be seen early enough that you can prevent | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
issues. A new tool called Online Them could do that. It keeps across | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
social network use, so parents can spot if there's a problem by being | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
presented with an alert. It isn't a matter of watching everything the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
child is typing, it still gives them freedom and privacy, it should let | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
you know if there's a problem. Twitter described their service as | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
not directed at children under 13 and Facebook and Instagram have a 13 | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
plus policy. So I'm sure there are plenty of times Mum or dad want to | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
know what's going on. The website fully launches later this month. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
First, a child must accept an invitation for access, then it will | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
alert parents to any questionable activity, so worrying trigger words, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
new friends they might not know in the real world and time spent online | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
will all be available for parents, both in real-time alerts and through | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
monthly reports. It will also create alerts if a child changes their date | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
of birth or is talking to someone in a different geographical location, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
which could seem strange. I am now joined by the company's CEO, James | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Blake. One of the biggest challenges is getting the child to agree for | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
you to look into the account. What we find is if you have those | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
conversations and you give children access to social media on the --, | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
then they are more willing to engage with you. Surely the child willing | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
to give access to their parent is the child in my talk to their parent | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
anyway? That's a good point and that's why we are keen to spread the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
word on this. A lot of parents to think of social media as a threat, | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
at that happens now. This is currently UK only and will cost ?5 a | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
month. Internationally, quite a few products include ways for parents to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
keep across their kids' social media better and of course many like a | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
closer look at all their kids' Web access. Using parental control | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
software that can also block unsuitable content. This is a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Bluetooth device. It connects this to this. It is not always the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
parents who want to do something. This group of 11 -year-olds at a | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Dublin school created this Bluetooth wristband. If a pupil feels | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
bullied, a simple press send an alert to the teacher's phone and it | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
will record the time and date of the incident, so it can be discussed at | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
a suitable moment. For now it is just a prototype that they do hope | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
for funding to launch it in the real world. | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
Unless you have been living in a galaxy far away you should know | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
there is a new Star Wars movie on the horizon... What do you mean you | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
don't have one of these? Not only is the about about to a weekend but | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
there is a brand-new video game coming out. This has made me a very | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
happy nerf herder. Fire up your light Sabre. -- lightsabre. Dispatch | :15:00. | :15:12. | |
rebels gun. I used to do this in the playground as the six-year-old. Now | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
I can do it from my living room. In Battlefront you can assume the role | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
of soldiers loyal to Palpatine. Or, if you are on the side of the good | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
guys, you can join the rebellion. This game is more about combat on a | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
huge scale. You can play against AI opponents, but that isn't as fun. It | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
is better to play on line with up to 40 players. One minute it is all | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
kicking off on Hoff and the next you are underneath a transport as it | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
powers overhead. Classic locations from the Star Wars universe provide | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the battleground, but they aren't the only familiar thing. Heroes and | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
villains from the movies appear as well. Crucially, you can play as | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
then. There is something undeniably fun about deflecting blaster bolts | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
using the lightsaber or taking to the skies with a jet pack. Just | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
letting loose with the dark side of the force is fun as well. | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
(LAUGHING). That almost makes up for the Phantom Menace. Why, George, | :16:57. | :17:08. | |
why? Almost. It falls to the dark side with the lack of locations. It | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
is likely there will be more in the future, but only Yoda will be able | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
to predict if the downloadable content costs more to purchase. The | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
player can also take charge of vehicles. Like this ferociously fast | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
speeder bike which takes a bit of getting used to. Or, you can have a | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
spacecraft battle. While it may be easy to get cocky after early | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
victories, aerial combat is nothing like dusting crops back home, and | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
truly takes a while to master. And, as this is essentially a game | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
without a story, it keeps things interesting by introducing a myriad | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
of different game modes, like capture the flag and allowing for | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
customisation of the character. You get more things to customise with by | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
completing tasks. The rebel bombers have pinpointed your location. While | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
I enjoyed playing the characters from the movies, encounters with | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
them can be difficult. The force is strong with this game. It is fast, | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
frenetic, and full of style, that will impress Jedi and Sith alike. It | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
comes to consoles and computers. This grown man could not be happier | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
that I can play with my friends in the comfort of my living room. 100 | :18:43. | :18:57. | |
years ago, this week, Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
of relativity. One of the most groundbreaking, spacewalking pieces | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
of thinking ever. He studied and later returned to work here in | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
zero, at the Swiss Fred rural Institute of Technology. I have come | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
to see some pictures of the man before he was a legend. -- Federal. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
This was a picture of him graduating. What is most amusing is | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
that in the third year, in practical physics, Albert Einstein scored a | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
one, that is often. -- bottom. The theory is not that he was bad and | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
physics by that he did not want to turn up. That is a bad haircut. He | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
was a contrarians spirit. I think he did not like to be told what to do. | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
-- contrarian. People told him, it is a closed science, we know almost | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
everything. Almost. That is the magic word. There were very funny | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
things people could not explain, like an experiment that shows that | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
light travels in the same speed no matter the direction. Esau in that | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
the possibility that everything we knew was wrong. -- He saw in. There | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
was a tiny crack and he took a tool, opens that crack, and opened a new | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
horizon for humanity. That is the most important thing. What are the | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
theories of special and general relativity? I would love to put them | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
in a nutshell for you but to do so I would need to accelerate at close to | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
the speed of light. Science joke. Maybe it is enough to say they have | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
shaped our understanding of the universe, of the calls, of the big | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
brain. -- blackholes. -- bang. He didn't stop there, he developed | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
quantum physics, a weird world, where things can be two things at | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
once or be in two places at one. But he himself found the whole area far | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
too weird. So I wonder what he would have made of what is in this | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
laboratory. This is a laser table. You expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
I expect you to die. That felt weird... Was that supposed to feel | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
weird? Was that my mind? And I do it again? What does it do? -- can I. It | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
changes the shape of an atom. This is the tool we use to control | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
information. Why do we do it? Why? We like playing with quantum | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
mechanics. This is a quantum computer. Believe it or not it is a | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
very basic one. Quantum computers deal with data in a different way to | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
normal computers. Instead of using its that are either zero or wine, | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
these use quantum bits, they are both zero and one at the same time. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Weird... What kind of problems with a quantum computer be able to deal | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
with that a classical computer could not? One of the extent of problems | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
is cryptography, big numbers that you cannot process in a computer. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
Some algorithms in a quantum computer can break into these | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
numbers in a way that a classical computer can never do. And these are | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
quantum bits. They are calcium atoms that can each be in two shapes at | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the same time. See, I told you this was weird. A chain of these canned, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
in theory, solve a problem extremely weekly by considering all possible | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
solutions at the same time and jumping to the correct answer in one | :23:01. | :23:15. | |
step. -- can. -- quickly. How close are we? This whole laboratory | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
operates a quantum transistor many times. We need a million of them to | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
get to a quantum computer. You need to shrink this down. Quite a bit. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
OK. What would Einstein have made of this? She did not like the basic | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
laws of one to mechanics. And we have them here in this laboratory | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
under control. -- He. -- quantum. It may have set him at ease or made him | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
more uncomfortable. Would you like to come in so you can say, look at | :23:49. | :24:02. | |
this. -- him to come. That is enough quantum for Click, I think. I still | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
have not found Schrodinger's cat though. MEOW. | :24:10. | :24:46. | |
Some of us might have had some wintry weather overnight. | :24:47. | :24:49. |