19/12/2015 Click

Have we got a present for you? There will be bouncing, bracing, knitting,

shaking and... It was the week before Christmas and

all through the house that team assembled at the click of a mouse.

Presence were shared, opened and praised to a great festive special

many a glass was raised. -- presents. Hello and welcome to the

Christmas special! Everyone is here, all the outfits and colours are

here. If you are wondering where LJ Rich is, she is here! Listen, apart

from the beautiful playing you have something else that will introduce a

vote of festive cheers? It is this. The a cappella app. That is truly

amazing. That is a beautiful thing. All singing in harmony. It is quite

fun to do. I know six people who would like to have a go at that and

be awful at it. Shall we? Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the

way... Babababab, jingle bells, jingle bells. ALL SING.

That is pretty special. You know who would be really good at that? It is

a shame he is not here. Dave Lee. Who is all the way in San Francisco!

But, fortunately, he is here the magic of technology! Come here.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Look at you! I am loving your wheels. Thank

you very much. I've lost a bit of weight. Earlier this year we all

went to South Korea and Dave, as well as your cutting edge tech

journalism, you did something extra special for our Christmas programme.

Tell us about it. I don't know if you have ever heard of Muck Bang, it

is about getting on camera, eating lots of food and generally being

crazy. I went to Korea and I did some of that with one of the guest

webcam stars in Korea. We had a lot of fun and an awful lot of bad food.

Yes, this is what happened. Good. Let's do it. Three, two, one.

Hello. What are we going to cook? That's a big sausage. This is going

in? Now we're talking. That smells very strong. No!

LAUGHS. Oh, no! What's happened? OK. OK, Dave. Dave! Brocade. I'll try

that. -- OK. You try some. Oh, God... I don't know how you

could possibly lose weight, having done that. You will notice that I

didn't exactly eat much of the food, kindly prepared for me by BJ

Biryong. Watching that back reminds me of how awful I felt that morning.

It was... Yeah, it wasn't particularly tasty. I'm not sure I

would make a very good Korean Muck Bang star. If I was, I might go for

something like a bacon sandwich. Something easy to eat. And maybe not

bouncing on a trampoline straight afterwards after. Thank you! Merry

Christmas! That's Davey, everyone! OK, reverse. Now, that's made me

thirsty. Fortunately... He can't see how far he is going back. Let's give

it a moment. There we go! Good. Right, who fancies a drink after

that? Fortunately, Mark has been mixing something special for us over

there. What I'm going to do is the perfect festive tipple with the aid

of this, which is a very posh set of scales which plugs into a tablet.

All you do is select the drink that you want to make from this enormous

list. You've got the ingredients. Make sure you've got all of those

before you start. Build. Basically, it tells you how much of an

ingredient you need to add. As it's a scale it is measuring how much of

any one of the liquids I am pouring in. This is the clever bit. If I

pour too much of any of the ingredients in, the app recalculate

and figures out how much of the other ingredients I need to add so

that the drink is absolutely perfect. It can even suggest drinks

based on the information you tell it about ingredients you have in your

cupboards. I might not be a cocktail palm and to do at least now have the

perfectly measured drink. -- barman. There you go. Get your laughing gear

around that. Fantastic. Thank you. Ah, yeah. I detect a hint of irony.

Thank you. Just a dash of sarcasm on the side. Spencer, stop what you're

doing. I've got a present for you. It is just underneath this. I.e.

Ready for the big reveal? I wondered what that was. You might be shocked.

What does it do please? If you could place the hearing. Ho, ho, ho, I

have a treat for you. Merry Christmas. See you next time. Love

you. It reads out tweets? That's right. It is looking at Twitter and

taking any tweets from the BBC that says Merry Christmas and reading

that out. Fantastic. Powell? Internet is a recipe pie. -- how? It

is connected to the internet. Did you write the code? Yes. That's

proper dedication to something so freaky. If you like it that much,

you can get your own recipe pie. It cost four quid and it will let you

make one of those. The same functionality. Fantastic! I am

flabbergasted. Let's keep it switched on and see if anyone tweets

us. Spencer... I've got a present for

you. I hope you like it. Here I go. Stop looking. You still don't know

what it is. It's a white box, thank you so much. This company aims to

use ethically sourced materials but instead of having to replace your

phone every couple of years because it has separate components that you

can easily change you should just be able to replace parts when they

break. Wow. You can easily open it, see you can see how they come apart.

You have to slide the two Bluebeard at the bottom. The screen comes off,

the battery can be easily changed and you can even replace the camera.

Why don't you try and take a photo? Let's do that. Say cheese!

Beautiful. Well, it is the holiday season, so everyone will be snapping

away. You've been away recently, Dan? Yes. I've been to Africa.

Testing some new camera kit. Before we do that, we do a version of this

programme in Farsi. We thought we would have a bit of a competition

while on safari in Malawi. To see who has the best camera gadgets. We

didn't really want to carry bulky cameras. And we want to see who has

the best shots. But gay. We won? BOTH: Me! -- OK.

Monkey! We've taken to the water to see who can take the best wildlife

shot with a smartphone and we've both those in some top gadgets to

help with that. First up, the DXO1. You just plug it

in. It fires up, click the lens hood and you are ready to shoot with all

of the options of a larger camera, including full manual control. I can

zoom in, in manual mode, and I've got full control of the shutter

speed, I get a low depth of field, really professional style shot. The

DXO1's Twenty20 is -- megapixel shots are stored on a USB card,

while a smaller version is said to your mobile for sharing. It features

a three-time optical zooms I can get closer without losing any

resolution. And the shutter speed can capture any fast moving action.

You didn't tell me how much it costs. $599. Almost as much as the

phone! OK, it's a little bit pricey, but three times zoom. If you are

after zoom, I've got something that will give you great zoom and it

works with any phone. She has found a snap zoom. You will need a pair of

binoculars for this. Just snapped them on to one side and fix your

phone onto the other. Now she has got the equivalent of a dig, Elke

telephoto lens. -- big, bulky. I just can't get close enough. I've

got the perfect shots. That's your full shot. Mine is

better but I'm further away. Very nice. But is that a screwdriver

you're fiddling with? Yes. It's awkward and fiddly, isn't it? It's

cheap, just $50. While you've been fidd well that, you've missed all

the wildlife. You've hardly taken a shot. Actually, no. I already 100

shots of the beautiful wildlife. Uh-huh.

This is the lesser-spotted snapcam. Snap it once for a photo and twice

to start videoing. This connects wirelessly to your phone so you can

easily feed your hungry social media accounts. Live streaming to YouTube

is expected next year. Supereasy to use. You can be busy

doing what you're doing and just take the shot. But the only thing is

all of these shots are quite wide, so the wildlife that we're out here

to see, you can't really take a picture of it. Well, that's the

choice you've got to make. Do you want to be present in the wildlife

and occasionally capture the memory on this or do you want some

artistic, decent shots? Both the snapcam and the DX 01 seemed

power-hungry, lasting just a couple of hours. So I've brought along the

world's thinnest solar charger to power up for the last chance at the

perfect shot. Time to agree on who has won.

Look at that. I mean that's a great shot of the elephants. That's an

amazing shot. Yeah, that's nice, but you couldn't zoom as much as I did.

Look how lose I got. It's just a bit of plastic there. It's just $50!

# Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer # Had a shiny nose

# But it was hard to text on... That's a sick outfit. I was a bit on

the sleeve but you can't tell. Your jumper is delightful. Thank you. I

designed it myself. Really? Well, sort of... I didn't want to risk

having the same jumper as you, so I went to customise my clothes just by

moving the mouse. It uses the same concept as 3D printing so it's as

cost effective to make 100 unique designs as it would be to make 100

of the same jumper. It's connected to industrial knitting machines in

Central London where the pattern prints out in a matter of hours.

Knit wear is delicate work and you still have to do the finishing

touches by hand and it's finished! At ?200 for a marino wool jumper, it

might not be for everyone, but you do get a custom label.

# Ork, the weather outside is delightful

# But the fire is so delightful # And since there's no place to go

# Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Ho, ho, ho, merry Christmas, Spencer. Merry Christmas. A hessian

sack. I haven't seen one of these since I jumped about in infant

school in one. Proper presents! Look at this! Unwrap! Unwrap! Incoming

present! Present is Dalek. Present is Dalek. Exterminate! One thing you

need to be able to do on Christmas Day is exterminate your relatives!

That's marvellous. I'll tidy that up later. That's beautiful. Because you

got so excited about this last week... Right. Not that I want to

spoil the surprise for you, I had a word with Santa and he managed to

find this very, um, sought-after... BB-8, everybody. I had a real one

last week and a toy one this time. That's the best reaction to a

present I've ever had. What? The raspberry? Inductive charging base,

trade wear, skill wear, hardware! It's got it all. And it's

app-controlled. I tried it out and I have to say my cat loves lifting its

head off by theary corral. She thinks it's the best one in the

world. That's fantastic. Look at this. It's got three modes. It's got

an explore mode, so you set it off and it explores and maps your areas

on -- area on its own. Have you to block off stairs and things like

that because it's not terribly intelligent about not going down the

stairs. It's got the drive mode where you can basically control it

and drive it your your smartphone app and it sends a holographic

message. No way! Like, "Help me, Spenley-wan-clickobi! You're my only

hope!" I'm so glad we rehearsed that. So this moves. That moves.

Race? Only one way to decide. Robot race. Race!

3, 2, 1... Go! On the south coast of England, the

royal citadel, a military base with a very unusual recruit. My job is to

hunt it down, dramatically. Overdramatically! Yes, it's a Dalek

that lives with the army. And not just any home-made Dalek, a Dalek

that was made by the Royal Citadel's vicar for a children's holiday club.

Now where would I find said vicar dressed as a Dalek? Ah... Finally,

we meet. Hello. Hello. You are in there? Yep. Can I help you off with

this? You most certainly can. OK. Here we go. I can't believe I'm

doing this. Wow. E! Oh! That's better. Oh, my word. What a...

Beautiful thing. Oh, my goodness. It's a mobility scooter that you've

modified. Absolutely. I'm counting on this in my old age, yeah, yeah.

You have actually weaponised this, haven't you? He fires a lethal dose

of carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher. How you fit that in

there, I don't know. It is a bit of a problem. It did get me in trouble

once, actually. I was reading lines from inside the Dalek with a torch

and so on and I exterminated somebody with the CO2, and then

reached for my line but unfortunately the whole Dalek had

filled up with kids. The padre has done Davros proud. The thing really

zips along. But mind your ground clearance, vicar, are you might --

or you might lose your skirt. Ooh! That's gotta hurt! We're grounded!

Here it is - our exploded Dalek. The shell is made from MDF sat atop that

scooter with the shortened wheel base. Now we're going to put this

back together and then I'm going to get my Christmas wish. I'm going to

drive the Dalek. Front, back, front, you've got the front. Right, I only

need one more thing to become a Dalek. A chair. There you go. In you

go. Ha! Ha! I am a Dalek! I am a Dalek! I am a Dalek! Wow! Woo-hoo!

Wow, this is quite terrifying because all I can kind of see is

grey. Maybe this is why they went round exterminating everyone. They

just couldn't see properly and they needed things out of their way.

Right. Time to find out what the human soldiers here at the Citadel

make of their wheelie new recruit. Do not exterminate me. I am your new

recruit. Sorry. I was trying to extend my

plunger. Oh, well. Time for a good

old-fashioned briefing and a nice group hug.

After that, we'll be split into three sections... Looking forward to

going out on manoeuvres. I'm getting quite good at reverse. Have you

quite finished? Oh, I can't see. The vision's impaired. Pay attention to

the brief. Thank you. # I'm gonna spend my Christmas with

a Dalek # And hug it underneath the

mistletoe... Hairy toun! Did I miss anything? Sorry. Oh! Is that it? Are

we finished? Good. Right. End of programme. Thank you so much for

watching our Click-mas Special. On behalf of all of us, have a

brilliant festive season, goodbye and we'll see you in 2016. Merry

Christmas! Merry Christmas! # Hope you don't have to do the

dishes # Fa-la-la-la

# May your batteries last all day # Have a lovely holiday #

Fa-la-la-la-la! Ho-ho-ho, merry Christmas. You're

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Hello. Some rain around through Saturday but the main thing is the

Hello. Some rain around through Saturday but the main thing is the

temperatures. It is crazily mild out there. Where is the cold air? Coming

down from