:00:00. > :00:43.This week, mice, madness, and... Mario? It's a me, Mario! Woohoo!
:00:44. > :00:51.Driving stateside can be a liberating experience. Wide roads,
:00:52. > :00:57.big trucks, massive cars, but add egg desert bottleneck like Las
:00:58. > :01:20.Vegas, it can be frustrating. -- at it. Come on. BEEPING. But today I am
:01:21. > :01:24.driving an Audi with more brainpower under the hood, sorry, bonnet. There
:01:25. > :01:28.is extra information about the speed limit and it also is telling me
:01:29. > :01:38.there is a red light that will turn green in about 30 seconds up ahead.
:01:39. > :01:44.Three, two, one. Green. The car is connected to Las Vegas's traffic
:01:45. > :01:50.management centre over 4G. It reports its position and be centre
:01:51. > :01:54.tells them how long until the next light turns green. It informs me
:01:55. > :02:03.about the left light if I turn left instead. And around we go. One of
:02:04. > :02:08.the advantages, says Audi, is that it is a bit of a stress and tension
:02:09. > :02:12.relief as you know you have some time before the light goes green so
:02:13. > :02:16.there is no point getting impatient. At the moment, this is only
:02:17. > :02:21.available in certain models of car, and only in Las Vegas, because this
:02:22. > :02:27.city has just one traffic management centre that handles all of the
:02:28. > :02:30.lights. Some cities have more than 100 different authorities in charge
:02:31. > :02:34.of their signals. So, one obvious use for this in the future is to
:02:35. > :02:39.feed into an autonomous driving system. If the car knows when the
:02:40. > :02:44.lights are going to go green in front of it, it can make a better
:02:45. > :02:50.driver itself, if it has some kind of backup data signal from the
:02:51. > :02:54.traffic management centre. It should get it right more if that happens.
:02:55. > :03:02.Which is a good thing. It is judging that I will not make these lights.
:03:03. > :03:10.Oh, and it is right. The car was right and I was wrong. Now, I do not
:03:11. > :03:15.know much about the car industry, but what I do know is getting into
:03:16. > :03:22.it when you are a new player is really tough, and complex. And
:03:23. > :03:25.expensive. Faraday Future is a company that heard all of those
:03:26. > :03:31.warnings and said, let us try anyway. How is that going for them?
:03:32. > :03:35.David investigates. Faraday Future, a new car company that promises to
:03:36. > :03:41.beat Kessler at its own game. Last year they showed us a scale model of
:03:42. > :03:48.a car they had no intention of making. This year they promised
:03:49. > :03:53.something more real. Introducing the FF91. They are pretty proud of it
:03:54. > :04:08.and say it can do zero to 60 very quickly. It can even mark itself.
:04:09. > :04:18.Just press a button and... RECORD RIP. It is being lazy tonight. It
:04:19. > :04:22.can park on its own. This is a 3-point turn. One of the reasons we
:04:23. > :04:27.do that is because we want to make sure all of the censors in the car,
:04:28. > :04:31.of which there are many, can get a full view of the empty spot to
:04:32. > :04:36.verify there is no one there. -- sensors. Look at that. Spot on.
:04:37. > :04:40.Straight. Quite impressive. It is all well and good, but it will be
:04:41. > :04:46.sometime before you can do this yourself. Each and every car park
:04:47. > :04:50.will need to be approved by Faraday Future before it will work. And
:04:51. > :05:09.there would need to gather data on the system so it is less chicken and
:05:10. > :05:13.egg and more chicken and a very expensive ar. They have promised it
:05:14. > :05:17.will be ready by 2018. There is a lot of potential but it is hard for
:05:18. > :05:21.them to deliver. It is our lot of dirt at this point. The factory. To
:05:22. > :05:24.build its car, they have planned a huge plant in the Nevada desert
:05:25. > :05:30.planning to become possible to make the cars next year. There are
:05:31. > :05:34.reports the factory is on hold because they are running out of
:05:35. > :05:38.money. It looks ready for construction but there is no
:05:39. > :05:44.equipment, no materials. And if they want this place ready by 2018, it
:05:45. > :05:51.doesn't look like they are making much progress. We are resource
:05:52. > :05:57.limited at sometimes. Things like this need to take priority.
:05:58. > :06:02.Construction of the factory has stopped for some point and it still
:06:03. > :06:07.looks like it is stopped. It will start since. Was it because of
:06:08. > :06:10.financial restrictions? It is a matter of keeping the cash flow
:06:11. > :06:16.balance between the projects we are trying to do. Not too encouraging.
:06:17. > :06:21.But the good news is if they ever release a car it will blow your
:06:22. > :06:29.socks off. Let us go! Oh my god! That is so quick. Oh my god. This is
:06:30. > :06:34.now the fastest production vehicle in the world. And we are just
:06:35. > :06:42.getting started. Well... Well it is not gritty useful on a school run,
:06:43. > :06:49.is it, really? -- very. That was David. Cars were certainly be big
:06:50. > :06:54.theme of last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We
:06:55. > :07:01.went to testdrive some of the projects on show. I have arranged to
:07:02. > :07:08.meet Richard of Bosch, not to look at a washing machine, but a car.
:07:09. > :07:14.Wow! It is pretty science-fiction. It does. They have a rich heritage
:07:15. > :07:19.with cars. They invented the spark plug over 100 years ago. You and
:07:20. > :07:22.your facts. What does this card do that we haven't seen before besides
:07:23. > :07:28.look different? The personalisation feature is not too far down the
:07:29. > :07:32.line. The idea is it can pick up my facial features and know who I am
:07:33. > :07:35.and personalise the experience. It will adjust my driver's seat, the
:07:36. > :07:41.mirror, the colour scheme, the entertainment system, everything.
:07:42. > :07:44.That is pretty cool. Once you are driving is there anything it can do
:07:45. > :07:49.to make it more safe? You obviously want to keep your eyes ahead. What
:07:50. > :07:54.can you do? Gestures. In order to make gestures recognisable, what
:07:55. > :08:02.they have done here is introduce what they call ultrahaptics, this
:08:03. > :08:06.panel here, it is emitting ultrasonic waves I can feel tingling
:08:07. > :08:11.against my hand to see where I can gesture. Once I do my gesture like
:08:12. > :08:15.this, and I can programme a number of them, it will come up on the
:08:16. > :08:20.screen in front of me, a number of different options. Looking at a
:08:21. > :08:24.screen takes away from that idea of looking ahead, I have to say.
:08:25. > :08:30.Slightly worrying. But don't worry, I will sort out the music. That is
:08:31. > :08:34.even more worry in. If I move this around I am getting haptic feedback.
:08:35. > :08:39.Their risk vibration on the screen. In three different sections, that
:08:40. > :08:42.feels totally different. So it is almost like having physical buttons
:08:43. > :08:46.because you can actually feel what you are touching. But I still would
:08:47. > :08:51.not want to do it while driving. Is there a self driving mode? Is only.
:08:52. > :08:58.As it happens, this particular vehicle has won. All I have to do is
:08:59. > :09:04.press my thumbs against the panels for three seconds. Automatic driving
:09:05. > :09:14.engaged. There we go. Once I put this down, fold it down... Here we
:09:15. > :09:18.go. Amazing. Now we can relax! Yet, while Bosch are more about creating
:09:19. > :09:23.parts, the car manufacturers themselves have some similar ideas.
:09:24. > :09:32.Unlike the Bosch car, this BMW vehicle also uses haptic feedback.
:09:33. > :09:35.As a press my finger, I am moving towards a hologram being projected
:09:36. > :09:40.through this mirror on the panel here on a little projector. It is
:09:41. > :09:44.giving a futuristic appearance to things like text messages or even
:09:45. > :09:49.video calls coming in. It is a very narrow field of view which means the
:09:50. > :09:53.driver can see it only, making it a personal experience. It is not just
:09:54. > :09:59.about the driver, though. The entire car has been thought about. Even in
:10:00. > :10:03.the back there is more space in this car and it really is comfortable,
:10:04. > :10:07.giving a living room kind of feel. In fact, let's play some music. The
:10:08. > :10:11.best thing is everyone can play their own music so you don't have to
:10:12. > :10:19.contend with other people is dodgy playlists. -- people's. Meanwhile,
:10:20. > :10:26.the Ota's concept car wants to get to know you and find that your
:10:27. > :10:33.interest. -- Toyota's. The upcoming roads are flat. It will answer
:10:34. > :10:37.questions. It is beautiful out and a perfect day for a drive. It will
:10:38. > :10:42.track your emotions to try to learn how to keep you happy. Great. You
:10:43. > :10:47.seem very happy. Why are you speaking to him and not me? And more
:10:48. > :10:53.importantly, it will provide warnings of any hazards on the road
:10:54. > :10:59.hazard. Activating guardian system to avoid accidents. So, this is the
:11:00. > :11:03.connecting home part of the whole connected world from the connected
:11:04. > :11:08.car we will look at the connected fridge and... The only thing they
:11:09. > :11:10.have in common is that your car can be a truly connected part of your
:11:11. > :11:21.truly connected life. Hello and welcome to the week in
:11:22. > :11:25.tech. It was the week Facebook announced it would start trialling
:11:26. > :11:28.ads in the middle of videos, and Norway became the first country in
:11:29. > :11:33.the world to turn off its analogue radio signals. It was also the week
:11:34. > :11:38.the US military released footage of a test in California where it
:11:39. > :11:43.launched a swarm of 103 mini drones into the sky from fighter jets. The
:11:44. > :11:47.young man aerial vehicles were deployed to operate autonomously and
:11:48. > :11:52.it's thought the system could potentially be used to carry out
:11:53. > :11:56.surveillance in the future. And with AI system is one of the hot at the
:11:57. > :12:02.moment, it was only a matter of time before something went a bit wrong.
:12:03. > :12:06.Amazon's E went rogue and started ordering dollhouses. A TV station in
:12:07. > :12:11.America covering the story about a young girl using the device to
:12:12. > :12:14.purchase a house was inundated with complaints after viewers' own
:12:15. > :12:21.devices apparently overheard the network reporters saying Alexa, buy
:12:22. > :12:25.me a... Better not say. And for years we've been hearing all about
:12:26. > :12:30.the wonders of grapheme. Well, engineers at MIT have decided to
:12:31. > :12:35.kick off the year by actually doing something about it. Using the 3D
:12:36. > :12:39.printer they fused flakes of grapheme into a spongelike object
:12:40. > :12:43.and in doing so have created one of the strongest 3-D materials ever.
:12:44. > :12:52.It's thought the newfangled product could be used in the construction of
:12:53. > :13:05.aeroplanes or buildings. Hello, I'm Charles and I'm the voice of Mario!
:13:06. > :13:14.And Luigi too! And Wario! And baby Luigi and baby Mario! Let's go! And
:13:15. > :13:21.that was Charles, the voice of Mario, Nintendo's most famous
:13:22. > :13:26.character. And he's helping us to introduce Minty's brand-new games
:13:27. > :13:31.console. It's a little bit different as you might expect and Marc has
:13:32. > :13:35.been trying it out. Nintendo Switch is an unusual games console because
:13:36. > :13:40.it does a couple of different things. Firstly it's a portable
:13:41. > :13:44.machine. It's got this tablet like touchscreen with a seven 20p
:13:45. > :13:48.resolution, it can be played out and about on the move and when it docks
:13:49. > :13:54.in this little station here, like Mario after he has chowed down on
:13:55. > :13:58.those power boosting mushrooms, it supercharges the machine graphics
:13:59. > :14:02.capabilities up to ten 80p full HD and can be played on a normal
:14:03. > :14:07.television becoming a home console. The controllers which Nintendo has
:14:08. > :14:11.dubbed joy columns can fly off the side of the portable unit and they
:14:12. > :14:15.can be configured in a couple of different ways. The individual parts
:14:16. > :14:19.can be used for multiplayer and when it stopped, the player can use a
:14:20. > :14:24.separate controller or plug them into a battery pack, turning them
:14:25. > :14:29.into this beast. Now be enjoying cons have a number of different
:14:30. > :14:33.motor control features that can be demonstrated in this mini game here
:14:34. > :14:37.called QuickDraw and weirdly what it does is it pulls the player away
:14:38. > :14:41.from the screen and towards one another, and to that end I have a
:14:42. > :14:45.cowboy opponent here and we're going to have a shootout. So let's load
:14:46. > :14:51.our weapons, let's get ready, this is where you get your best thing
:14:52. > :14:56.he's wood on. And I live to fight another day! -- Clint Eastwood. But
:14:57. > :14:59.what that shows is that the designers are thinking differently
:15:00. > :15:07.about the kind of games that can be played using this device. As far as
:15:08. > :15:12.games are concerned, in the works is a new title for the portly Italian
:15:13. > :15:16.plumber, the real world set Super Mario bodice and The Legend of
:15:17. > :15:20.Tarzan Zelda, breath of the wild. The last console had a bunch of
:15:21. > :15:25.issues from day one. There was an additional controller for their
:15:26. > :15:30.already macro we console but it was a brand-new console. With the Switch
:15:31. > :15:33.they have the same issue again but this time they have to nail down the
:15:34. > :15:39.third-party support and getting more of the core gamer back on board with
:15:40. > :15:45.their product. Perhaps the biggest hurdle for the Switch is its price.
:15:46. > :15:51.At ?279, the Switch might have a tough time against its rivals from
:15:52. > :15:57.Sony and Microsoft. We will find out when it is released on March the
:15:58. > :16:01.third. @BBCclick, here we go! Everybody, Meech Archibald.
:16:02. > :16:05.Archibald, meet everybody. Archibald is living in a box for a
:16:06. > :16:13.couple of days to help demonstrate a phone attachment that can see
:16:14. > :16:17.through walls. This is Viar, which translates from the Hebrew to see,
:16:18. > :16:23.and that's what this Israel company is helping us to do. It has taken a
:16:24. > :16:28.large radar system originally used in breast cancer screening to shrink
:16:29. > :16:32.it into a tiny box. Using an app to tiny up the image, its ability to
:16:33. > :16:35.see through walls might stop you accidentally drilling through a pipe
:16:36. > :16:40.when you're trying to put up a picture. In fact, it can detect more
:16:41. > :16:45.than just pipes, it can actually detect people who may be approaching
:16:46. > :16:49.on the other side of a wall. Viar is pitching this as a single sensor for
:16:50. > :16:55.the Smart home, which can sense very subtle movements and detect which
:16:56. > :17:00.direction they're coming from. Up there on the ceiling there's an
:17:01. > :17:04.array of 20 antenna which are scanning the room for movement in
:17:05. > :17:08.great detail and crucially they can detect movement in different parts
:17:09. > :17:12.of the room. For example on that bed over there, if she was to stay
:17:13. > :17:17.really still copy you will see her craft on the left go very quiet.
:17:18. > :17:27.While I'm making it go completely crazy. If I now hold my breath...
:17:28. > :17:33.You can see how this type of sensor could alert someone if someone else
:17:34. > :17:36.stops breathing. Hence this is being pitched as something that could act
:17:37. > :17:41.as an alert system for elderly people, although it can also monitor
:17:42. > :17:44.the quality of anyone's league by measuring how active you are during
:17:45. > :17:49.the night. As we move towards a world where we want to monitor
:17:50. > :17:53.everything, this is an interesting alternative to putting up cameras.
:17:54. > :17:57.Today the world is going towards more connected living so we have
:17:58. > :18:02.connected houses and cars but people don't appreciate having a camera
:18:03. > :18:08.inside their bedroom or bathroom, so it doesn't provide a visual image
:18:09. > :18:10.like a camera does and it is applicable in privacy sensitive
:18:11. > :18:15.situations. That directional nature of the censoring means a system can
:18:16. > :18:19.detect when a high thing like a person standing up in the shower
:18:20. > :18:25.becomes a low thing, like someone who has fallen over in the shower...
:18:26. > :18:29.At which point, it sounds the alarm. As well as preserving privacy, this
:18:30. > :18:33.system has other advantages over a camera. The radar can see through a
:18:34. > :18:39.steamy bathroom and even in the dark. Although if you're showering
:18:40. > :18:43.in the dark, well, you can expect to fall over sooner or later. Lara
:18:44. > :18:47.would have been much more careful. I would have put down a nonslip shower
:18:48. > :18:53.mat for a start, but mind you there is plenty of things at this year's
:18:54. > :18:57.EES looking to make the home a safer place. This home robot even wants to
:18:58. > :19:03.become part of the family. I love you! For a start it's creators told
:19:04. > :19:09.me in no uncertain terms that he must be called he or she rather than
:19:10. > :19:13.it, I'm going for she. She is part Nanny and playmate because you could
:19:14. > :19:16.use her to keep an eye on the children but at the same time she
:19:17. > :19:21.could entertain them. She has four microphones around her head, so she
:19:22. > :19:29.has directional sound, she also has a high-resolution camera in her left
:19:30. > :19:37.eye, she has ... She knows about it if she bumps into things. Look at
:19:38. > :19:41.this! Hey, can you read me a story? And as well as never tiring of
:19:42. > :19:52.rereading the same bedtime story, she can do this. Hey, Curry, go
:19:53. > :19:58.hide! One, two, three, four, five... All a bit of fun if you put aside
:19:59. > :20:03.the idea that parenting would be a rather worrying drop for robots to
:20:04. > :20:09.take over. And four when there's no robot nanny around, here's a way
:20:10. > :20:13.keep things safely out of reach. I just need to unlock the covered.
:20:14. > :20:18.That's it. This smart block connects to a mobile phone app which means
:20:19. > :20:22.you can decide who has access to the covered as well as opening it and
:20:23. > :20:25.closing it via your phone. It also means you can keep things safely
:20:26. > :20:28.away from kids or any visitors if you don't want them getting their
:20:29. > :20:32.hands on something in your cupboards, and if anyone who isn't
:20:33. > :20:42.meant to open the cupboard does then you will receive a tamper alert on
:20:43. > :20:45.this. It can also be set to simply unlock whenever you're in the
:20:46. > :20:49.vicinity. But what can be a tricky issue to overcome is how to keep the
:20:50. > :20:52.whole family safe online without blocking out the things they need.
:20:53. > :20:57.This is the prototype of a Wi-Fi route that aims to bring together
:20:58. > :21:01.powerful Internet antivirus and parental controls across the whole
:21:02. > :21:05.network. Each member of the family will have their own profile so it
:21:06. > :21:09.means for kids you can choose what times of day they can or can't get
:21:10. > :21:13.online so at home work time they can't be tempted to go online if
:21:14. > :21:17.they're not meant to, and you can also pause the Internet so if you
:21:18. > :21:21.want to get everyone to the table, it might be a little bit easier. If
:21:22. > :21:25.a child tries to look at a website they shouldn't actually be looking
:21:26. > :21:29.at then it will come up with this page. From there they can make a
:21:30. > :21:32.request to look at the page if they think it's important to them and
:21:33. > :21:36.then that request will go to the parent who can make a call on
:21:37. > :21:40.whether it is suitable. There's also a crowd ranking function which is a
:21:41. > :21:43.way of parents saying they find the website appropriate or not and that
:21:44. > :21:48.will be shared with other users as well. Meanwhile, with so much talk
:21:49. > :21:54.of Alexa and other virtual assistants at this year's EES, this
:21:55. > :21:58.prototype was... It isn't very functional heart the moment but when
:21:59. > :22:03.ready it aims to provide a cloud based virtual assistant as well as
:22:04. > :22:08.full control over your Smart home. But not everyone can walk into the
:22:09. > :22:12.room to operate it. To add a bit of safety into the mix it has to know
:22:13. > :22:14.you and it will either recognise you using this camera for face
:22:15. > :22:20.recognition or know your voice before it carries out any commands
:22:21. > :22:23.you request. It can create scenarios like when your activity tracker
:22:24. > :22:27.knows you've just done a run, the heating will be turned down. OK, I
:22:28. > :22:33.get that's not ideal for other people in the house! While all this
:22:34. > :22:37.may make it appear gadgets can safely take control of our gadgets
:22:38. > :22:38.and our homes, it does beg the question of whether we actually want
:22:39. > :22:50.them to. That was Lara and I've been out of
:22:51. > :22:55.bed for precisely the length of that report. About time I turn in for the
:22:56. > :23:00.night but oh no, I've forgotten to make the bed. Fortunately I've got a
:23:01. > :23:06.smart duvet, which means that from anywhere in the world I can click
:23:07. > :23:10.the app and the thing makes itself. It's got an inflatable sheep inside
:23:11. > :23:15.and the idea is you programme it to do this at any time you want on any
:23:16. > :23:20.day you want. Yes, it is a bit noisy but the idea is you're not meant to
:23:21. > :23:24.be here when it does it. It might scare the cat mind you. But that's
:23:25. > :23:30.not the end of the story. If you're a slaw or you sleep with a snorer
:23:31. > :23:34.then pay attention because tonight I am sleeping on Nora, which is an
:23:35. > :23:38.anti snoring device you put under your pillow. If this microphone
:23:39. > :23:43.detects the sound of snoring during the night, it will activate this
:23:44. > :23:48.silent fan which inflates Nora, moving the pillow and your head just
:23:49. > :23:53.enough to reactivate your throat muscles, open your airways and stop
:23:54. > :23:57.you from snoring. You can track how many times it's been activated
:23:58. > :24:01.during the night on the app if you want, or you can just have a good
:24:02. > :24:05.night's sleep, safe in the knowledge that whoever else is in the room
:24:06. > :24:07.with you is also getting a good night's sleep.