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cope with another financial crisis. The ECB said the World Bank for more

resilient, but more work was still needed.

This week, cartoon cowboys. Futuristic funerals. And... And

enormous battery farm! And a lovely lie down.

Imagine a world where your car runs on electricity and it drives itself.

Yeah, not so much of the stretch these days, is it? Batteries are

getting better and cars are getting smarter. The two biggest revolutions

in transport are electric occasion and autonomy. Those are the biggest

innovations since the moving production line and they are both

happening at about the same time. -- electrification. It is Tesla that

has been spearheading the drive to electric. We first took on for a

spin in 2007 and since then the electric vehicle has gone from

sporty status symbol to a slightly less sporty status symbol. But

dominating the conversation at the moment, not Tesla's latest models,

but concerns over the safety of its driver assist autopilot feature,

after it was involved in two crashes and one fatality. But while the law

is get to work on the autonomous site, they are getting ready for a

electric prime time. The space in the floor is full of batteries and

Tesla is going to need a lot of them. Dave Lee has been to Nevada to

witness the opening of the Gigafactory. Welcome to Reno, in

Nevada, which if you have never been here is like a less glamorous

version of Las Vegas. They call this place the biggest little city in the

world and soon the city will be overrun I these things. Tesla are

building what will be one of the biggest factories ever made. Say

hello to the Gigafactory. Right now it is only 14% finished, if you can

believe that, and when it is finished the complex will cover over

3000 acres. This factory is the crucial part of the master plan set

out the boss of Tesla. When he published his latest Idlib master

plan for what to do with Tesla he said he now want to do things like

lorries and buses. -- latest master plan. The do that he need to make a

lot more trees, which is what this place is for. In total the plant is

expected to cost around $5 billion to build. We were given a sneak peek

of what was inside. Most of the factory was sadly off-limits to our

cameras. The plan is to basically speed things up a little bit. Right

now Tesla have to ship battery sales across the ocean from Asia, which

takes a long time and is very expensive. Do they want to make

battery cells right here instead. A promised that by 2018 bid will be

able to produce enough batteries for 500,000 cars each year. And it won't

just be car batteries. Their home and business energy storage unit

will be put together here. I believe we are on track to meet the 500,020

18. Long-term this will make sense, to have a Gigafactory in Europe and

one in China and probably one in India. Very big plans, although he

might want to concentrate on finishing this factory first. Tesla

has meant a lot of deadlines in the past and I would be surprised if

something is slipped. I went to the Fremont factory before it opened and

it was a ghost yard there as well, but they've done some amazing thing

there and I think they will do amazing things here as well. But not

everything is going smoothly. Do you have any regrets about how Tesla

rolled out autopilot? No, I think we did the right thing. We have the

internal data to know that we improved people's safety, not just

in fatalities but also injuries. It is pretty fair to say that only Elon

Musk could pull off something like the Gigafactory and of all the

things he is working on it is surely this project that will make or break

it. That was Dave Lee at the

Gigafactory. Along with electric and self driving cars, and other trend

which is quietly chugging its way towards changing the world is 3D

printing. It is still niche but already the variety of things that

can be 3D printed is impressive. Just this week Food Ink bought its

3D printed restaurant in London, where diners could tuck into 3D

printed food, while using 3D printed cutlery and 3D printed chairs. They

told me it was fish and chips but I was very curious how it looked like.

I think it is the future for the restaurants, yes. Almost anything

you can imagine and anything you can put into pure a form or paste can be

moved so elaborate leap right 3D printed, and then it can be further

improved or solidified by other manual steps later. We are already

developing such printers that can combine these steps in one, so the

next step will be printers that have a built-in microwave or offered and

some of these steps chefs won't have to manually. But here is a useful 3D

printing that I wasn't expecting to hear about any time soon. In China,

the most important ceremony of your life is module verse and not your

wedding, it is your funeral. Dan Simmons has been to Shanghai to see

how some new ideas are being brought to those final moments.

This is such a sacred moment in Chinese culture that we've not been

allowed to film the open cofffin. Here, seeing the dead body

face-to-face is a fundamental part of saying goodbye. But what happens

when there's nothing left to say goodbye to? These devastating

explosions rocked a port city last August. Hundreds of people died

horrifically in one moment. What was left of the bodies bore no

resemblance to the victims when they were alive. And there were far too

many dead for the traditional model is in China to recreate the faces in

good time for all of the funerals. The disaster was the reason one firm

turns to making 3D printed faces of the dead. More lifelike than party

and cutting the waiting time from one or two weeks to a single day.

One Shanghai funeral home claims to be able to reconstruct a face to

within 95% accuracy. And the impressive part is that they don't

need videos on seven clean shots of the person from several different

angles, they just need one good picture of the person who has died.

The masks, if you like, are cut from blocks of compressed powder, before

a top layer of powder is added and bake storm. 2-D eye it looks like it

should have the texture of rubber. I think it looks pretty

photorealistic. This is a hard shell, it isn't a soft surface, but

from almost any angle it just looks an movingly real. -- unnvervingly.

What do you think? Pretty good. The chief technician used himself to

perfect the system. He is building a database to speed up the process.

The basic service costs around $1000, but touchups to make the dead

look their best are also possible. TRANSLATION: We are trying to make a

person who say died at the age of 70 looked the way he did on his wedding

day when was perhaps in his 30s. But the lead engineer with the

service doesn't want to stop at creating a perfect match.

TRANSLATION: In the future we are looking to make the 3D printed head

be able to talk at his own funeral using voice analysis to speak his

last words to his descendants and even plant the deceased's head on

his tomb so he can speak his family from the grave when they come to

visit him. Even if it proved popular, reanimating the dead is

likely to be a long way off. But having more control over how you

look, regardless of how you died, is for people here now and affordable

reality. Welcome to the week in tax. It was

the week of playing powered only by the sun circumnavigated the globe.

-- Week in Tech. Apple sold its new iPhone and an emotional farewell

from this lander. The while, 3D screenings without glasses would

come to a cinema near you, although already possible on a smaller scale,

MIT's prototype could provide the eyewear free big-screen solution.

The technology only allows viewing through a limited range of movement,

so best sit still. It also needs a more practical solution to its many

lenders before going on general release. Feel your computer game

characters need more emotion? This is a face tracking VR headset which

hopes to recreate the way you are feeling in virtual reality. The

built-in infrared cameras track your eyes, eyebrows, jawbone and mouth,

so your avatar can react accordingly. And it was a good and

bad week for smart home devices. Good because a security camera

alerted a homeowner to this fire, so the fire brigade could be called.

But bad as some smart pet feeder is working to buy a server outage,

meaning some hungry dogs and cats. -- feeders were hit.

Every so often the world goes crazy for a brand-new app and in the last

couple of weeks something amazing has hit our phones. This is an app

which does something brilliant two pictures. Mark, you've been playing

with it. Explain more. It applies really extreme filters to still

images. Filters that make a photograph look like an illustration

or a painting. It is an application that can make

your photos look like they were painted by Picasso. How does it

work? I talked to the creator on Skype. You take a photo on your

phone. Then we process it on a device. Then you send a photo to the

cloud and we have several people doing different parts of the image

processing. Then we redraw your image based on a style you choose.

Then you get the result on your device. You haven't just stopped at

photos, have you? I was playing with it and thought, this is Click and we

tend to take technology to the extremes and push stuff to the age

so it gets a nosebleed. It would be nice to apply this to moving images

as well. Unfortunately this application does not support video,

only for still images. But moving images are just lots of stills put

together, right? Film is just a series of still images played in

sequence very quickly. So I took an old sketch with Spencer and I as

cowboys and exported every single frame as a still image. Once they

were imported back on my phone I applied the same filter to each

individual frame. I used a particular filter called Eisenberg.

This created a hand drawn effects which created a short film that

looks like it had been rotoscoped, an old technique that traces over

footage of real movement by artists. Then it is animated similar to a

flip book. Exporting them into imaging software and playing them

one after the other and you get a short animated film. And it looks

like I have turned my phone into a flipbook. That is brilliant. How

long did that take you? Nine days. Full marks for perseverance. We will

put the whole worker Vaka on line. Here is a brief taste of what it

looks like. Prisma have plans to make its

filters work on 360 degrees photos as well as working on video footage.

That means in the future you won't have to go through that process that

I just had to. PIANO MUSIC. Did you know we get up to two hours

less sleep a night than people did in the 1960s? Well, distractions

from our gadgets and even the specific wavelengths of light from

our mobile devices are taking some of the blame. But at the same time,

technology to help that our sleep has upped its game. If you share a

bed with someone who gets up at a different time to you then these

earplugs could help because they mean that the alarm goes off only in

the years of their wearer. At the same time they should block out any

unwanted noise. They can also play soothing sounds as you go off to

sleep. Even though I don't normally wear earplugs I could get used to

the feeling of them. The only issue is that I need to wake up when my

three-year-old does. But if you would rather cover your eyes then

your tea is then you may be interested in this, this mask. --

ears. It has been a long time in the making and I first got my hands on

it at The Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. It has these

electronic lights to help you go to sleep and will give you advice as to

when you should go to sleep to get the best results. It may add buys

you to take a power nap in the day and to make sure you don't get into

too deep a sleep. It claims to recalibrate your sleep pattern by

using sunlight to trick your body into a new routine, useful for shift

workers or those in different time zones. My real issue with it was

that it wasn't very comfortable so it actually is stopped me from

sleeping well. It isn't just about wearable devices. This aims to track

the room you are sleeping in to monitor the sound, light, and

temperature to make sure you have the perfect environment for a good

night's sleep. If it is green you have an ideal state. Otherwise,

opened the application to see what isn't right. -- open. There is an

appeal in the precise numbers for data lovers. At the same time, the

coin sized device will wake you. For a more drastic solution, this is the

Beluga interactive smart bed. It tractor asleep and the way you are

lying down to take the real-time data to make the bed more

comfortable. -- tracks your sleep. The firmness of each part can be

changed manually or a light on the algorithm to change areas too soft

or hard. And you can switch into the masse Jamon as well. I feel like I

am on an aeroplane wing. -- massage mode. It also tracks snoring, so it

will change the height of your head ever so slightly too hopefully make

you stop. It also knows to wake you at the perfect moment in your sleep

cycle, has temperature controls for air, and also a motion sensor

activated light for getting up in the night. That is nice if you are

willing to change your actual bed. Ironically, testing the wearable

device has left me more sleep deprived than normal. But it is

probably good to be more relaxed when you and reviewing then. And I

did manage to get some sleep while actually filming. It just so happens

she isn't the only one who enjoys a little bit of a lie down on the job.

At this laboratory in Switzerland at there is a bed that will rock you to

sleep. -- Switzerland,. This is the SomnoMat. The idea is to use rocking

movements to get to sleep and shorten the time of sleep onset and

to improve quality during the night. What works for children also works

for adults, though little is known about which rocking techniques work

best. That is what the team here have been studying. What have you

discovered so far? What is the best rocking method? That is a good

question. We found there is one best movement. A rocking movement like

now you see. But there is a different preference for each

person. That makes a challenging to make a product for the people. Can I

have a go? Of course. The bed is actually a classic example of how

research sometimes accidentally creates a new invention. The team

needed to study different rocking movements, so they built a bed that

could do different rocking movements. GROANS. And they needed

motors that were quite enough to sleep on top of. So they invented

them. -- quiet. It is smooth. It was challenging to develop that smooths

movement without any sound. -- smooth. Carry on talking. And the

sound level is below the level suggested by the World Health

Organization which is very silent. Keep talking. Boquete...

LAUGHING. We can now stop the rocking movement. So, in summary,

your closing thought, your closing thought, a pithy comment, and now we

will end to the next item. We are off to the royal in the two and two

participate in the world largest game of Pong. -- Royal Institution.

So large it will make a new record. Or those of you living under a GGI

rock for the last 20 years, this is Pong. I don't really need to explain

the rules, do I? And the people responsible for gathering these

players? It is a way to connect on a Wi-Fi network so that we can beam

games at them. Welcome to Wi-Fi Wars. To make the magic happened

they need a mean computer hooked up to a router daisychained around the

room. The amount of routers depends on the amount of layers. The

audience is divided into two teams. Which team am I on? BBC Red. Each

player gets an up and down arrow beamed to their phone. That makes

the corresponding slider move up or down based on votes from players.

Please stand by. De Vroome went crazy. And Stephen emerged. There

were two world-record holders that appeared. Just in the neck of time.

APPLAUSE. The Guinness World Record adjudicators arrived. They needed

concentration. APPLAUSE. You have to hold it. Hold

it down. Down! Up! Yes! APPLAUSE. Come on! Come on! Phones

flashed, people cheered, and a mighty match of long was played. --

Pong. But the real question... Have we broken a record of a with a total

of 286... You have! APPLAUSE. We did it. One of the

greatest world records ever achieved by any single person in the world.

That is me. I did that. It was all me!

LAUGHING. Always game for a laugh. That is Nick. That is it for this

week. At Twitter we are live at BBCClick. That is it. See you soon.

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