Xmas Special Click

what they got up to, in the Click-mas special.

This week, a Click Christmas with digital jumpers,

hatched technology and tie fighters.

Hello and welcome to the annual Click get together.

Cue Christmas cheer.

And enough.

We have everyone here, Jen, Steve, Nick, Laura,

Mark and Kate Russell.

Hello.

Hello.

I have sought out a little Christmas gift for you.

Thank you very much.

It's an egg.

It is an egg.

Right.

Inside it is a hatchable, it's the latest robotic, interactive toy.

It's got loads of sensors and it's for ages five and up and your child

basically has two nurture the ache in order to hatch it and then it

breaks its way out of the egg and then you teach at games.

You care for it, basically.

We have to feed it.

You're going to be a daddy.

Thank you very much.

I shall name you later.

Better put it somewhere not on the table so we don't

accidentally eat it.

We have had some adventures this year.

We have been all over the place and Click is a 52 week a year

production, so it is difficult to get the whole team in one room.

This is the kind of thing we have been doing this year.

I am so Luke Skywalker.

My bad.

Half a billion pixels on display here.

Some of the most extraordinary athletes you will see this year.

Say hello to the Mega Bot Mark II.

The world's highest glass walkway.

This is absolutely stunning.

This week we are going to look back at some of our best bits from 2016

and we start with a really positive story in a place that you wouldn't

think there was any positivity at all.

Earlier in the year, Jen went Jordan, to the border

with Syria, to look at some of the innovation happening

in Syrian refugee camps there.

That's right.

I went to Zaatari, the biggest refugee camp in Jordan.

There are 80,000 refugees living there and it's actually

a community of makers.

I was fascinated to find out and they are making some incredible

technology out of some very rudimentary things in the camp.

The main street here in Zaatari is called Champs Elysee.

It is a play on two things, the Champs Elysee in Paris

and the word Syrians refer to Damascus by,

Cham.

There are several hundred shops lining this street and you can find

everything from bridal dresses to vegetable shops,

barbershops and even quite a few mobile phone shops.

Technology here is being used in inventive ways to ease

daily life here.

The camp is a community of makers and one of the most innovative

people we met is Safwan.

Three years ago Safwan fled the violence in Syria

with two family members.

They all have disabilities and struggle to get around

on the unpaved roads.

He wanted to have more independence and designed an electric bike around

spare parts he found.

The brakes.

Giving refugees access to technology and education is the focus

of a group called Refugee Openware.

One of its start-ups is focused on fabrication technology,

including 3-D printing.

Assam was an ambulance driver in Syria and lost his leg

in a bomb explosion.

As well as customising his prosthetics he helped a young Yemani

boy, named Zain, who lost part of his hand in a fire.

They were able to include elements of Zain's favourite cartoon

character, Ben 10, in the design, all for just 75 US dollars.

Assam also helped develop a 3-D printing system using haptic

feedback for another Syrian refugee named Ahmed.

He was blinded by a sniper shot that went through his eyes.

The echolocation system helps guide him to walk around unaided.

They are planning to open fabrication labs in a refugee camp

in Turkey and in the North Jordanian city of Irbid.

It is a small but positive step to harness the talents of people

forced into exile and help integrate them into a new country.

Brilliant.

That was Jen and for the next part of the programme I have had to clear

the room because there is a serious danger to human life

in this next item.

Is that not right?

It is exactly right.

The last few years, one of the biggest gift people have been

getting is, of course, drones.

Now, for the next few Christmases a Star Wars movie will be

released as well.

As it should be.

Exactly.

Combine the two and what do you end up with?

Star Wars drones.

Now, there is something special about these drones,

isn't there Spencer?

They are not just drones we can fly about, we can actually

engage in combat.

They are armed with infrared guns which means you can fly them

about and then press the fire button.

You are going to get your best Anakin Skywalker on,

well it would be Luke Skywalker because you have the X-Wing

and I have Darth Vader's Tie Fighter.

When a shot is registered we get a rumbling in the controller

and you have got three lives there as well.

Feel the force.

The force is strong with this one.

Talking of which, you met an amazing flying man this year.

A man who flies like a bird.

His name is Yves Rossi.

He has an apprentice now called Vince who is based out in Dubai

and he is the Jet Man.

He has built and designed this enormous jet wing that allows him

to fly in excess of 100 mph at about 5,500 feet.

It is really quite remarkable.

We went for a flight with him and saw what he does.

Jet Man's training centre is based at this hangar in the desert outside

Dubai.

Today, I am going to watch him do his jet powered thing up close.

How are you feeling?

Good.

Charged.

Ready to fly.

In this hangar, Yves and his team maintain the jet wings

which are capable of flying at 189 mph.

You are not flying solo anymore?

No, that is the big advantage now, to have a friend with me in the air.

Vince.

Vince has plenty of airborne experience as a three-time

world champion skydiver.

As a kid I would watch the magazine and I would see what Yves was doing

as a pilot and as a pioneer of wing shooting and flying.

I would see who he was.

Outside the hangar, things are getting a bit noisy.

This is why we got up early.

Our ride has arrived.

With the chopper on the flight line, it is time for Yves to become

the Jet Man.

No flight would be complete without an inspirational soundtrack.

I notice that as well as lacking doors, this particular helicopter

lacks seats in the back as well.

OK, 20 seconds until launch.

That is without a doubt the most bonkers thing I have ever seen.

So, we can just see Yves in the distance.

He is flying formation with the helicopter.

There he is.

He is going to fly parallel with the helicopter right now.

Oh, my word.

You will believe a man can fly.

He has got about eight minutes' worth of fuel on board that.

Here he comes again.

So, we are just coming into land now, but Yves is going to land

by a slightly different method.

Just in the distance out there, you can see him.

His parachute is deployed and he will land right back

at his hangar.

Truly incredible stuff.

As you can see, we have reached that part of the Christmas dinner now.

I will crack on, though.

My most memorable moment of the year was when I visited Cern

and the Large Hadron Collider and had a jolly good cry.

Having a moment.

We were really lucky to be able to see inside the collider

and the CMS experiment because they they had opened it

up for cleaning.

Even better, we filmed the whole thing in 360,

so you can take a peek inside.

Welcome to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

Right now, you are standing inside Cern, the European Organisation

for Nuclear Research.

You have got a view that very few people will ever see.

We are about 100 metres beneath the Swiss-French border

and above you is just one of the experiments

at the Large Hadron Collider.

Itself the largest machine in the world.

In a few minutes we will head up there.

On that cherry picker, to see what happens when you smash

particles together at close to the speed of light.

Before we do, let me show you what kit you need to get things

going that fast.

So, here we are walking along part of the long circular tunnel that

houses the LHC.

That is it next to you, that is the Large Hadron Collider.

That collection of magnets.

It is a 27 kilometre long loop.

There are four experiments on the LHC and ten accelerators

in the complex which, together, accelerate bunches of particles

to close to the speed of light.

This cavern contains the CMS experiment.

Although there is nothing compact about it, if you ask me.

This is one of the places that helped to discover the Higgs Boson.

So, that big shiny pipe above you is connected

to the tunnels that we were just in.

When the beams of particles are going fast enough,

tiny adjustments are made to bring those two beams together until,

right here, they collide.

In an instant, the particles are smashed to pieces

and it is these even smaller particles that the CMS can detect.

It is an enormous sensor that looks pretty fundamental building blocks

of the universe.

By using even higher energy collisions, the Cern scientists hope

to find other particles and explain mysteries like dark energy and dark

matter, which makes up 95% of the matter in our universe.

This is big science performed on the tiniest of scales.

That was Cern in 360, and this is the Clickmas

table in 360.

Everybody wave at the camera.

The brilliant thing about filming in 360 is you can do really weird

things with the picture on normal TV, like this.

You can also feel like you are genuinely sitting in the middle

of our table on a candle.

If you go to the link on the screen, you can see us surrounding

you, about to eat you.

The man behind the 360 show is this man over here.

Steve Beckett, who is wearing the beautiful augmented

reality Christmas jumper.

Why?

What do you think of this?

It is a little bit scary. It is a little bit scary.

Terrifying.

From one engineering marvel at Cern and to another engineering

marvel now that spans two mountains in China.

Dan Simmons went to the oldest national park in China.

Tucked away on the edge of this World Heritage site,

someone has decided to build a bridge from the middle of nowhere

to the middle of nowhere.

Unlike me, they hope, the thousands of visitors

who will come here will not be too scared to look down.

300 metres through the highest glass walkway in the world.

These are the final days of construction for this three-year

project, more than 300 engineers have worked through all weather

conditions to build what is also the longest glass-bottomed bridge

in the world.

A breathtaking 430 metres.

Crossing the Chinese Grand Canyon.

The walkway itself is just 60 centimetres thick,

so the challenge to keep everything stable has required

some fresh thinking.

70 glass balls are to be positioned on the springs along the walkway.

They have been designed to move to counter any swaying.

These curved railings will persuade up to 800 visitors

to keep changing direction.

Offsetting the resonance caused by hundreds walking

at a constant speed.

Our hosts were keen to show just how safe I was.

Each panel of the walkway has three layers of toughened glass

held together by glue.

Here goes.

SHOUTING

It looks like you can see the top glass has shattered here.

SHOUTING

We're OK.

LAUGHTER

Do you know what, I think this might be safe.

OK, guys, we get the point.

That has to be the finest shot that anyone in this programme has

shot in forever, surely.

OK, fair enough.

One of the other amazing things we saw this year

was in Zurich when we went to see the first bionic games.

That was brilliant.

It was incredible to see the latest in robotic arms, prosthetic limbs,

motorised wheelchairs, brain controls, an amazing day.

It was also a competition for the people who created the devices.

66 teams from all over the globe have been designing,

building and training for this very unique competition.

Disabled athletes, known as pilots, will be competing using

advanced assistive devices.

It is the brainchild of this man, Robert Reiner, a professor

for sensory motor systems at ETH Zurich.

It is an event for people with disabilities who are allowed

to use any kind of technology.

That technology helps them to better perform in daily life activities,

so we are focusing on the challenge of daily life and allowing

technology to help people with very severe disabilities.

Each of the six disciplines will have qualifiers in the morning

before the grand finals in the afternoon.

How do you win?

Simple, get round the course or through the obstacles

in the shortest time while incurring the lowest number of penalties.

The powered arm prosthesis race is not just about power,

it is about precision and reliability.

The teams need to come up with the best ideas

to help their pilots grip, twist and balance their way along

the obstacle course.

The race is designed to test how well pilots can work

with their prosthesis to complete tasks that would typically be

challenging for them.

Yes, this is the race where the mightiest tech

in the world can be foiled by the humble clothes peg.

What is the next challenge you feel you could reasonably overcome

to better the product?

The next thing that is a big technical challenge that

would improve the functionality is the touch sensitive

nature of the fingers.

There is no feedback at the moment in commercially available hands

for getting the signal back to the body.

The ultimate victor was a group of biomechanical engineering

students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Together with their pilot, Bob Ridoce, himself an expert

in prosthesis, they went for a slightly more established

body-powered approach.

This means that physical movements like reaching forward

or lifting your shoulders are used to control the device.

While this gold medal idea might have won the day, in the end,

just crossing the line was enough to send most teams home happy.

The wheelchair final was a much closer run thing for the four

finalists, and again you can really see the variety

of ideas and designs.

The Hong Kong team went for these caterpillar tracks,

which made short work of the rumble strips.

That is not a wheelchair, that is a wheel tank.

That lack of suspension really gave the pilot a rocky ride

on the uneven ground.

And balance was the big issue as these chairs

arrived at the stairs.

The climax of the event, with three pilots all reaching

them at the same time.

As the Hong Kong pilot had to endure being thrown about,

Florian Houser showed off the clever weight-shifting feature

of the Swiss chair, which ensured that he did not topple over.

In the final seconds, the Swiss team came from third

place to beat Hong Kong by just five seconds.

MUSIC PLAYS

CHEERING

Now, that was a tiny snippet of what was a really special show.

If you missed it or would like to watch it again,

it is still on iPlayer.

Just scroll back to October.

It is nearly time to go.

First we have to check on our hatchling here.

How is it doing?

It has hatched.

There it is.

It is a beautiful thing.

Wake it up.

Wake up, little hatchling.

Oh, dear.

Now it grows up and you teach it things and one of the fun things

you can do is teach it to speak, so you can say happy

Christmas, Spencer.

Happy Christmas, Spencer.

Joy, the world has just become a better place.

It is for ages five and up, and the side-effect of it hatching

is these tiny bits of plastic do break off, so if you have young kids

around, obviously be very wary that you shouldn't leave them

to their own devices.

These are a choking hazard.

Take care, but otherwise it is cute.

Delightful.

One more world first that we took part in this year.

This year, Kate and I hosted Click's first live show in front

of a studio audience.

Is there anybody there?

That was interesting.

Are you ready?

Yes.

I said, are you ready?

Yes!

Let's go.

CLICK THEME PLAYS

Now, if you were not lucky enough to be in the audience, don't worry.

We recorded the whole thing, and we will be showing highlights

and behind the scenes stuff from the show

on the programme next week.

Thank you very much for watching our Clickmas special.

There is only one thing left to do, which is the word's first 360

degrees cracker pull.

Merry Clickmas.

I am the winner.

Oh!