09/01/2016 Click

This week, big tax funds with three web geeks. Bouncing my goggle eyed

guinea pigs. And they crash proves a salad

spinner. Scrub that, it's just a salad

spinner. And it's a happy New Year from

everyone here at click. 2016 can now properly get started now I've

finally got my new smart umbrella. Yes, it's the umbrella, a brolly

with a chip in it which measures the weather where you are and tells

everyone else by uploading and information to a website. It also

pays your smartphone if you walk off without it. Silly! Yes, this is

where text goes large. It's the annual consumer Electronics show. In

Las Vegas. It's here, it's over here and it's all the way over there.

They do, isn't it? This is a serious affair. Where else could you be

woken up not by a sound but by a smell? With this olfactory alarm

clock. The sense of weight claims to rouse

you within two minutes by blowing air through a cartridge full of

balls. Choose from a variety of smells including... Toast.

Chocolate. Cough is. Mints. Grass. Holidays. It's kind of smells like

suncream. What about the smell of money? Dispensed by an ATM using my

locks, iris recognition technology. This is a company advancing

biometrics into new areas, including unlocking your car.

This seems like a decent concept, maybe even adapting the driving

variants depending on who is being identified as being in the driving

seat. Cars are big screen this year. Bring

on the concepts which the car-makers hope will show they're not just

using tactics with all those emissions tests.

Who even needs emissions when you got the future, an Internet

connected electric concept car with a smartphone dock and the top speed

of 200 miles an hour and arrow tunnels through the body to reduce

drag and cool those batteries? The chassis is modular and you

easily add more batteries or change the outer shell for a different

look, to turn it into a pick-up truck, for example.

No, I think I'll keep my like this. Going to cover auto technology in

film next week but I did manage to catch up with Ford's CEO, Mark

Fields, who invited developers to work on ideas for cars and drones

and how they might interact. And more realistically how your car

might connect to your home, your phone and the rest of the world.

We are bunch of geeks on this programme. We love to talk dirty.

Would you mind talking dirty for a few minutes?

Sure. In ten or 15 years, I can control my car, control my home.

Check the status of my car without leaving my house. What sorts of

things will we be able to do in the future?

When you look at your car, your car will be able to control a lot of

elements of your life. For example, as you are driving you will be able

to control elements in your home, whether you are approaching

homeowners want to shut off your security system or turn lights on or

unlock doors, you can use your vehicle to make your life easier in

terms of where you are travelling to, your next appointment, and the

vehicle will be able to sense the traffic conditions, re-route the

vehicle. Why not just let the smartphone be

the brains? Let that be the brains of the operation? Why bother trying

to make cars independently smart? For a couple of reasons. When you

are in a car, what's important is destruction. We don't want... Our

approach is to keep people's eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. If

you need to do things while you are in your car, that's really hard if

you're going to be looking at your phone and it's pretty dangerous. Our

approach is how to integrate the smartphone into the car to allow you

to do it safely, productively and also, at the same time, responsibly.

Let's talk about driving. Do you think we are close in any way to

having a world where also list driving as part of everyday life?

I think we have to put autonomous driving into perspective. The term

is being thrown around a lot in the industry. There are five levels of

autonomous driving as defined by the Society of automotive engineers. The

first three levels require the driver to always be able to take

control. For example, level one is cruise control. Level two is traffic

jams. Level three are things like Tesla's autopilot. We are choosing

to level four. Level four is autonomy in a defined area where the

driver does not have to be ready to take control. That's what we're

aiming for. Defined area meaning a physical

space? Yes. Level five is the ultimate,

where the vehicle can be fully at tournaments with no driver

interaction in any location or any weather situation. By the end of the

decade, we think there will be a vehicle on the marketplace with red

literary environment updates. It may not be asked because our approach is

when we come out with an autonomous vehicle, we want to make sure it's

safe, it works and is intuitive. Most importantly, it's accessible to

everyone not just people who can afford luxury cars.

No announcement from Ford unexpected time. Google's car division may come

at this week's show. I'm fed up with me so that hit the

show floor. These are the augmented reality

glasses. Inside, they have these lenders which project images or

graphics in front of the vision of the wearer. When I put them on, I

can see an image which looks like it is a couple of feet in front of me

but I can still see the real world behind the graphics on screen. These

are totally self-contained. It supposed to have the confusing power

of eight tablets. I have this little ring controller which reacts to

gestures as well as having buttons as controls. The designers imagine

it will be used for playing games, designing websites. Augmented

reality has a heap of potential for people that want to view 3-D models

from every conceivable angle. One of the big trends is 3-D

printing. What's amazing is how far the personalisation of products has

come along. My entire outfit was made on a 3-D printer. It was made

on a very small printer. It used one kilogram of filament and took 70

hours to make. In 2016, a whole

... You need specialised 360 degrees camera rigs, which is exactly what

this is. It's called a gyro optic and it is a 360 degrees camera. It

captures video in surrounds using three lenders.

From this vantage point, we can see the MGM Grand hotel, Excalibur as

the New York, New York hotel and casino in one shot, as well as Nick

on the camera. Crucially, what this camera does is

stitch is together all of the images it shoots itself, so that everything

it shoots is immediately viewable in 360 degrees on sites like YouTube.

Welcome to two is starting to take new orders for its handset. With a

price tag of $599, we will see how much your it's really want virtual

reality. HTC's headset won't be far behind.

It was due to launch last month but was delayed due to a major

breakthrough. What that breakthrough is is this front facing camera that

means when you're totally lost in a world of virtual reality, real-life

objects will still be seen through this. I'm walking across the

shipwreck. Oh, suddenly, on top of the shipwreck, I'm seeing a great

which is what is the real wall, I think. I'm not going to bump into

anything. At the moment, I feel like I'm bumping into a lot of things

that aren't real. There is a well just there!

The moment of coming back to reality is even more weird than the moment

you start in the virtual world. I now feel really odd how I've been

behaving, what I been doing. Throwing my Arms around and telling

you about what's been happening. The bonus is that you can't bump into

things. Wearables are big screen here. Fitness has launched what they

refer to as a smartphone is watched. It's called the blaze and they hope

it's going to take on the likes of Apple and the android watchers out

there. The blaze provides notification

alerts, allows you to control the music on your smartphone and has

interchangeable straps. A 200 -- at $200, it is less costly than most

smart watches. Like all other devices from this brand, its main

focus is on fitness. It can track sleep and workouts and automatically

detect a range of activities, including tennis, football and even

is that. With competition getting fierce,

many of the trackers are upping their game. This is misfit Ray. As

well as sleep and activity tracking, it can take self 's and control

lights and music. It still looks like an activity

tracker. This is an automatic -- -- it can

identify activities like swimming. It looks simple but it's waterproof.

The battery will last up to eight months. Plus it can also be worn

like this if you want to conceal it under your clothes.

But I know first-hand that data collected from activity trackers can

vary massively. So maybe these under are smart

sneakers could solve that problem. They have a chip embedded inside

them that accurately measures your distance.

The shoes can store approximately five runs locally before needing to

be synced up to its app. Four years, CES was all about who

had the biggest TVs. These days, is also about who has the bendy is. LG

wins for me this year with a prototype of a roll-up displays that

one day might mean our computers greens and televisions could be

unrolled only when needed, to save cluttering up the place.

Four K and eight case greens are in full the facts. This year, there's

also a lot of talk about something called HDR, high dynamic range.

These are screens that can show many more levels of detail in the

brightness of the picture, which means Jen's sequence should look

more fabulous. Here is the boss of streaming

service Netflix announcing that he will be streaming HD content to HDR

Eddie screens later this year. He also told us that he has just

expanded Netflix to an extra 130 countries. Meaning he now serves

nearly the whole world. With one big exception, China.

What do you have to do to get into China?

We know to great role models for us or Disney and Apple. They have been

incredibly patient at developing their Chinese business and working

on the relationships first and the business second. Those are our role

models. We're not in any hurry. Getting to know the partners,

government officials, consumers. In the rest of the world, like the

Philippines, have been great for us. Korea, Singapore, India, Russia,

Poland, Turkey. Lots of people will be phased by the

choice of buying a new TV. Four Kaoru HDR? Which is more important

in the viewing experience? When people see HDR, they will be

ready and pressed. HDR will be on top of four K so you will eventually

get both. I think that's a great insight. The big wow will be HDR.

How important is it for a streaming service to have exclusive content?

Is one path to success. The part we are choosing to have great content

but only on Netflix. I'm sure other panthers accessible to.

We are starting to see people make programmes in 360 degrees. It's a

very different viewing experience. You're not just looking in one

direction. You interested in experiments in virtual reality and

360 shooting? Would you shoot one of your programmes in 360?

Than you can only be seen on a VR platform. We are really focused on

these big smart TVs and HDR. We are focused on incredible movies and

incredible TV shows, not so much on BR.

Do you think innovation in stringing services is done now? Have you got

it nails or is there more to be done?

There is so much work at hand. Think about now when you click and get a

little buffer. That is awful. That has to go away.

Ready you stand on net neutrality? Do you believe all streaming

services should be treated equally? You are competing and in a

commercial environments. Do you think you should be able to talk to

ISPs and pay for extra speed, paper quality of service?

We want to invest so that everybody gets a great experience. And as long

and the BCI player, everybody should get a great experience. No one

should try to block anybody else. It has to be said that the UK

in January It is one of the reasons

we like coming to Las Vegas for CES, Do we really have to film outside

in the rain at night? Yes, we said we would do a piece

on solar-powered tech. That is why I brought

these things out. These are made for

the developing world. The idea is you just light them up

and use them as lanterns. Press your buttons, ladies

and gentlemen, and you will see either a change in colour

or a change in luminosity. Now that you mention it,

I am wearing a patch The sun emerged for a couple

of hours so I raced out and put It is a UV patch designed

to monitor your intake It uses a dye that changes colour

from blue to white depending on how much sun you have taken

in It is perhaps the most thin and flexible way of monitoring UV

exposure that we have seen. It is waterproof and can

be worn for five days. Loreal says it will use

an app in the future. But you have to take a photograph

everyday to get a more accurate The company says it will give away

this patch later this year for free. Well, I found an alternative power

supply for one of these. A situation that battery

hungry smartphone owner One solution for smartphones

with dead batteries is this, a hand crank built into

the smartphone case. Simply pull it out,

turn it around... Five minutes of cranking should give

you about 20 minutes of talk time or an hour's worth

of smartphone usage. Now, there's lots of handcranks

around, but this is the first that's At the moment it only works

with the iPhone. That means you will not have

to worry about your phone running out of power,

but you still might have the problem Because, I have been

cooking our dinner all day on this, I loaded it with a banana

in for an example earlier These reflectors absorb

the heat and keep it in. It is the same thing you get

in solar-powered water heaters On a sunny day it can get up to 300

Celsius. And it keeps the heat

for a really, really long time. With the weather from today,

anything in there will be Well, actually, even today,

with maximum cloud cover, The company is working on a version

that will work at night because it I forgot to put

the proper food in. I have come to the world's largest

pinball museum to play a few games. This is The Fly, a uniquely

spherical personal flying robot. The same weight and

shape as a football. It's Kickstarter campaign says

it is is the world's safest drone. And it might be the

world's cutest, too. So, what makes it different to other

drones that we have seen is the single propeller,

which encased in foam. That makes it safe to interact

with it for humans. But luckily, this prototype has

easily replaceable Nothing a bit of tape

and glue won't fix. It did have the benefit

of demonstrating the safe design I wasn't afraid it was going

to hurt me. The finished robot will have

more robust plastic. And its many sensors,

including sonar, and gyroscope, will allow it to fly autonomously

through an app on iOS and Android. Just push a button and pick

what you want it to do. The E-Hang 184 is a

whopper of a concept. The idea in this mockup is it

will carry a person from A to B while being piloted

autonomously by an app. All the real drone demos

this year were inside. That is because of new rules from

the Federal Aviation Administration In a nutshell, you now have

to register your drone before flying You tell the FAA who you are,

they give you a registration number, and you have to display

it on your craft. Then, if you crash it or cause

mischief, witnesses can report your drone

and you will be fined. Yeah, so, one of the main concerns

with drones is they might crash. So, next is Mark, with

some drones, crashing. So, you have learnt to fly

with your drone, you have taken What else can you with your

quadcopter? In the case of the Combat Drone,

it can engage in aerial combat. It is fitted with sensors

on the front and rear. You try to take out your

opponent by shooting them. It is kind of like laser tag

with drones, I suppose. So, when the LEDs flash like that,

I've let off a shot. A volly of infrared,

flying low-level, under I am really glad I have tried this

out inside a massive net. When you score a hit,

the LEDs flash. Then the engines go out

on your opponent if you hit them. My robot has been

challenged by James. We have more in next weeks's

programme, as well as more In the meantime, if you want to know

how we make a show like this about a show like this,

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and we will see you next week.