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This week, DNA crimes. Keeping you save on the streets and flying

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high... Oh, no! Drone down! Drone down!

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From a drone that can deliver blood, to one that can balance a stick and

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throw you a ball, there does seem to be no end to what this tech can do.

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But for as long as we've covered drones there's always been one major

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shortcoming, battery power. But all that could be about to change if

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researchers at Imperial College London have their way. This Roman

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doesn't fly very high and it really isn't going to go very far, but it

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is still very impressive because it has no battery. -- this drone.

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Whatsoever. It is getting its power wirelessly from the power transfer

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pad underneath. So there's no battery and so I can stick that

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underneath just to prove there are no wires. That is wireless charging,

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or wireless power transfer. The breakthrough the team here have made

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is being able to transfer the power wirelessly over much larger

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distances than that used in say phones or electric toothbrushes. One

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of the things that we targeted straightaway was the fact that we

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wanted to get large distance. So we weren't just trying to do the phone

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charging where you are in contact with the charging pad. Fundamentally

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to do that you needed to upgrade the system at a higher frequency. But to

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get the system to be efficient you have to go up in frequency by a

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factor of up to 100, which is a challenge. While you wouldn't really

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want a drone that doesn't have a battery, being able to charge on

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wirelessly on promote charging stations could mean a lot more

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flying time. One of the things that will make a huge difference for

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people is the ability to recharge medical implants using this

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technology. We are especially interested in the pumps placed in

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the heart, if you have a weak heart muscle. At the moment they require a

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wire through the skin to provide power. The data we can transform

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wirelessly, but the fact that we can now transfer power means any

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infection that could transfer through the puncture in the skin can

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be completely avoided. But in the new -- near future Paul can see it

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being used for military surveillance, recharging from base

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stations or even in the air, like other larger drones. That is, as

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long as they can actually stay airborne. And actually it turns out

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that there is already a use for autonomous drones that can fly

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steady distances. To explain more, we have to go to Australia. A couple

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of years ago we met Outback Joe. He needed water to save his life and

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drones came to the rescue. Now our flying friends are back. Just

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outside Golby, in Queensland, the world's toughest drone cop edition

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is about to kick off. -- Dalby. Ten teams are competing for the price

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and this year the challenge is more complicated. Their drawings must

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take off, locate Joe, land, collect a blood sample for his doctor to

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analyse and return safely to base. All autonomously, all in under one

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hour. Our reporter on the ground was there.

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Here he is! Joe, the man himself, standing tall and he is supposed to

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be standing cossies meant to be someone capable of placing at blood

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sample into a drone and arming it for takeoff. -- because he. But it

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is much more difficult to see from up there. And that's just one of the

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many complex aspects of this treacherous challenge. The big

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difference between this challenge and other drone challenges is the

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great distances involved. The teams are flying about 23 kilometres to

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get to this site. It is very challenging because it's a very

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cluttered environment. Joe is deliberately in a rough area, there

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are big trees around, there are farm buildings. That makes it extremely

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difficult and then they have to fly another 23 kilometres to get back.

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To be in with a chance, teams have come up with all shapes and sizes of

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winged warriors. So, as the race begins, let's cross to Nick.

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First up is this Canadian couple who hoped to fly to victory with their

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custom drone. It seems to be drifting on the wind. But there hope

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is shortly to, as one of their drones comes tumbling down. From

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this point on it is about returning to base. So it is in the truck and

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off to track down the wayward plane for a manual landing. This year,

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teams are allowed to enter not only on but a secondary communications

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relay aircraft too. Great for maintaining a to base, but the rules

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stipulate that if one goes down the other must return directly home.

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With the circulating planes safely landed, the judges call an auxiliary

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support to locate the crashed aircraft. We are just going to have

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a bit of a look, see if we can have a view from above. It is in a nice,

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big, green field, so an eye in the sky will give it a help. But even

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from the sky the drone was impossible to spot. Back at base,

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this Thai team prepped their custom topper for takeoff and it soon blast

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off for Joe. Using a video games controller they scan the screen for

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visible Bell possible sightings of Joe. They have found Joe, but then

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disaster strikes. Smoke! It's coming down.

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We found Joe. We tried to get to him but smoke was coming out first and

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it crashed. One of the differences between this challenge and other

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drone challenges is it is incredibly realistic. We've chosen a place

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where it really does flood, we've chosen a realistic farm, we've

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chosen a totally realistic to rein and there are tall trees, uneven

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ground and the distances are about the same sorts of distances that you

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would get between a cut-off area in a flood and town. So it is the

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realism we are after and getting teams to develop the technology, so

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they can actually solve the problem in the real world. And being cut off

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from healthcare is a real-world problem. The drone takes developed

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here would one day be life-saving. -- drone tech. As part of the

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challenge teams have also had to invent novel blood carrying

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components, with detailed instructions on how to use them.

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Again, just slide it in and there is a click mechanism inside. Now, they

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say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, for these guys that

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meant creating this beauty - heil the delftocopter! This can take off

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and land vertically but upon reaching altitude it transforms and

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can repel itself forward like a plane. It's especially designed

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broker can control pitch during the transition. The team also built

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custom auto software and took things to a new level using an elevated

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platform to get the signal up and above. Its special downward facing

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200 degrees cameras means that when flying horizontally it can still see

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the ground and having two of them did depth perception as well. --

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gives. Like an invincible Phoenix, there are fixed wing flew and

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then... Terminate. The judges say to terminate, you are in a tree. Oh!

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The Australian gum tree. The tree was 22 metres high. You need luck.

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Bad luck for Mav Lab and the losing streak only worsen. To Nick for more

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in the ground and in the air events. With so many crashes, a storm is

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brewing. It is such a difficult task, with ceremony criteria to be

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met, that even a little wind can make all the difference between

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success and catastrophic failure. So what of the reigning champions,

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Canberra? They won the last challenge and have returned with a

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souped up version of the fixed wing plane Felix. They've added Virtual

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takeoff and landing with eight independent props, making sure it

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stays airborne if one of them blows. And a chopper to being signal back

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to base. The team captain, Andrew, developed the autopilot software

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that most of the teams are using, meaning they have a keen upper hand.

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It is a complex butterfly type pattern. That's how we approach Joe

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from every angle. And he is off! On board, they've developed a special

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Joe detection system, that analyses photos for any unusual objects. They

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then do a visual study on each. But he is soon feeling the heat. No

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moving the truck please. I need the shade. I've got Joe. Yes, they've

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got him! It is now a race against time to get back. Touchdown! Mission

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complete. In the end, Canberra's chopper didn't return home but a

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winner was still announced. The winner is Canberra UAV. Everyone

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that got up flying is a winner. It was a tough challenge and we didn't

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finish the mission but as a team I think we did very well and I think

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all the teams who got here did very well. This event has been absolutely

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amazing, so thank you so much. It's a great achievement but they're

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still clearly a lot of work to do before drones can autonomously

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perform such complicated tasks. So, what for the next drone challenge?

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Welcome to the weak Intech. It the week that Uber's self driving truck

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made the world's first autonomous truck delivery. And if the

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recipients wanted to raise a glass to celebrate, conveniently it was

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transporting 50,000 beers. It was revealed smartwatch sales last

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quarter only resulted to 2.7 million, less than half the number

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sold in the same period last year, and it was also the week that

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Microsoft announced an update to Windows ten, featuring 3D creation

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and editing tools, does a range of the art headsets to get your... Head

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around what you create. The Samsung note seven saga continues, as it

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reveals one third of Europeans haven't returned their devices. But

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we will get an update that prevents the battery from getting over 60%

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fall. No, not Laura, Lara. As in Lara Croft, but less adventurous.

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Sorry, I've got to go! It is also the forgive anniversary of people

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spelling my name right, or the launch of the first to grade again.

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The hit franchise turned 20 this week. -- Tomb Raider. And if you

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felt the world was short of aerobatic Caterpillar powered by

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light, fear no more. -- robotic Caterpillar. This is made from

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liquid components. It can squeeze into small spaces and move objects

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ten times its size. Maybe it needs its own activity to the next.

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Welcome to Somerset House in London. This place is home to over 300

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artist and makers from a wide variety of disciplines. Bursting

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with creativity, every turn revealing something inspiring. I've

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come to see a small exhibition that celebrates the opening of a new

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studio space. A lot of the works on display here feature some kind of

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tech, a real testament to how technology is shaping our lives and

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inspiring artists to think about its impact on society. In this short

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film, creators visualise a time when drones are constantly monitoring the

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city, and where these networks of flying machines influence our

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decisions. It is a future where we are monitored by flying security and

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traffic cameras, and shouted out by airborne advertising. -- shouted at.

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I'm watching is the London-based musical duo Patterns' latest video.

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It is on show here because of the way it was created. Instead of lots

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of computers rendering the scene of the several hours, this is a

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videogame's engine to render it in real time. Shadows, reflections,

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rain, all done in one take. This is a testament to how good video

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graphics cards have become, at creating pretty realistic images on

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the go. I caught up with the creator of the work, Tom, who told me about

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a theory that sounded frighteningly familiar. There is a philosophical

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thought at the moment that is being bandied around about simulation

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theory, which is the speed technology is moving, with more's

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law and the singular Arti and all that, our future ancestors, when the

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technology is there, why wouldn't they start to Sydney late history?

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So there are some people who think it is more likely we are living in a

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simulation right now than we are living in what would be deemed as

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reality. And one of the reasons, one of the items people have, is the

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speed that games technology is moving, because that is just a

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simulation of a train carriage, but with a lot more compute in power you

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could simulate this room, this building, this country, this world,

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this universe. Now onto another type of tax that has also been made

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possible by real-time graphics. Augmented reality. By projecting

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graphics on top of the real world, we have seen it the inn used to show

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people how to fix things, or give them a taste of walking on Mars.

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Microsoft is currently experimenting with a our with Kholo Lends. --

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experiment in with AR. But the big players are not alone in combining

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to remake and wearables. This is the headquarters in San

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Francisco of a company called OD G. Here, it manufactures and AR headset

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called the R seven. At the moment, this device is primarily a tool for

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the workplace. The grasses are a soft contained had warned computer,

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running a version of the Android operating system. But while lots of

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industries recognise the potential of AR, the technology has had

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difficulty training -- gaining traction with mainstream consumers.

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That was until only this summer, when a lot of people went to pocket

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monster mad. Pokemon Go and Snapchat have shown that the consumer is

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ready for augmented reality. We just have to present the right platform.

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Holding a phone, a mobile device, makes our hands tied. You do it once

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in a while and then it loses its charm. But augmented reality

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immerses you. It blows your reality with the digital world. So once a

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platform exists, the people will adopt it. One of the developers here

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thought, why not adapt Pokemon Go, a game designed to work on

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smartphones, for this headset? After about an hour fiddling with the

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code, that is exactly what he managed to do. And it is exactly

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what can see right now. -- what I can see. Where are you? Sneaky

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Pokemon, where are you? There you are! Got my ball. That's it! Looking

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for Pokemon inside an office is OK, but the real test of this bit of kit

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is to take it outside. Now, of course, all of the game's visuals

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are on the headset in front of me, which means I've got far less chance

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of actually walking into anything. Pokemon Go on this headset is a bit

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of fun, really. At just over ?2000 they are not cheap. But that is

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because they are designed for industrial use. This does prove,

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though, is the potential of augmented reality technology for

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consumers. If you will excuse me, where is that Jigglypuff?

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Ever feel vulnerable when you are walking alone? Well, I've been

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taking a look at some of the latest devices that are hoping to keep you

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company. Students at this college in London's Brixton have created ICE,

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as in "In case of an emergency", a connected panic button with big

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ambitions that has recently gone into crowdfunding. This is what the

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finished product will look like. To avoid false alarms you need to

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unlock it before pressing the buttons. At the point it has been

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activated it will send an alert with your location to the emergency

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services, and also, not just your contacts of choice, at the contact

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closest to you at that point. It will also send an alert to other

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people who are on the platform, who are nearby at that time. Who,

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hopefully, will have phone signal and internet connection in your

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seconds of need. An alert can also be activated through a smart watch,

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by simply using a SafeWord. Asparagus! We have got several

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ambitions for the future. One is that when you see somebody needs

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your help, on your phone, as you arrive close to where they are, the

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map on your mobile phone will dissolve and your camera will turn

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on, so you will start filming of the incident, where you are, and will be

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streaming back to the police. Another short-term ambition for ICE

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is that we want to make this as common as possible, because the more

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people that have it, the more people can come to your rescue. So, for us,

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we are driven by how cheaply can make this, or make it free, so that

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we can put it in as many people's hands as possible. The most recent

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figures for England and Wales suggest adults have a one in 33

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chance each year of being the victim of a violent crime. But despite the

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fact you are on likely to ever need to use a gadget like this, just

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knowing it is they may give you that extra peace of mind. If you are

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walking home alone or going out on a date and you want to feel that

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someone who cares about you is watching over you, well, the "Follow

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me" function on the React app could come in handy. They will be alerted

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to keep an eye on you and track your GPS location for your chosen

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duration. Hopefully they will not be a problem, and once you have arrived

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at your destination they will be able to see where you are, fast you

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can actually tell them that you are fine. Alerts to contact your

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friends, family or even the emergency services can also be

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activated at any time by pressing this red button on the app, all this

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physical button. This is called the Reaction Sidekick, and sinks with

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the app. On first testing it seemed picky glitchy, but then it became

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apparent I needed to have the settings right, which were not

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obvious. You must accept the option to track your location even when not

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using the app, and you also need to make sure that your chosen contacts

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are stored with their international dialling code. So with this, and

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indeed all these devices, it is probably wise to do a test run

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before you start relying on them. While these products may all have

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their unique talents, some of the technology is actually pretty

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simple, as in, just a button that connects to your smartphone. Click

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is a customisable smart button. Connected to iPhone and you choose

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the function for a single click, a double-click or a hold of the

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physical button. You can take selfies, change the lighting, or

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even turn it into a personal safety device. From there, it can send

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alerts with GPS location to your chosen contacts. Last the devices

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may do what they say on the tin, they are still only as good as the

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discipline you have been keeping them charged up and to hand, in case

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they do ever need to be called upon. Now, just before we leave you for

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this week, we have something very exciting to tell you about. On the

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14th of November we are going to be recording a very special episode of

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Click in front of a live studio audience. It is going to be at the

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BBC's radio Theatre in London, and as you would expect, it will be

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filmed with amazing guests and amazing technology. If you would

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like to be in the audience, then here is the link you need. That is

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where you can apply for tickets. We are really looking forward to it and

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we would love to see you there. In the meantime you can follow us on

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Twitter. That is it from Somerset Houseful stop thank you for

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watching, and we will see you soon.

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