:00:00. > :00:00.seeking immunity before testifying. Now it is time for click.
:00:07. > :00:14.This week: adventures in sound with posh cams, invisible speakers and
:00:15. > :00:49.cloning Brian Eno's brain. Today I am in the lead of the wizard
:00:50. > :00:59.who likes decibels, who likes to write a book or two, a wizard called
:01:00. > :01:10.Brian Eno. Do not know if should show you how this works. Let's just
:01:11. > :01:19.find the... These are just not bits of speakers, they are working
:01:20. > :01:26.speakers? Yes. On my gosh. And it is sound that these man is best known
:01:27. > :01:32.for. Big sound. The former member of Roxy Music has added production
:01:33. > :01:40.sounds to the biggest acts in the world- U2, Coldplay and some chap
:01:41. > :01:50.called Bali. He is a self-proclaimed non- musician who uses technology to
:01:51. > :01:57.make his art. There it is. Sir this essentially never repeat in billions
:01:58. > :02:03.of years. It is constantly generating new images. I mean,
:02:04. > :02:09.sometimes it does things that are so baffling fantastic you think, I
:02:10. > :02:16.never would have thought of that. It is Love of Brandon, generative art
:02:17. > :02:21.that has brought us here. His music is very atmospheric and at the wheel
:02:22. > :02:26.and his regarded as 'The Godfather' of ambient music and his new work,
:02:27. > :02:31.reflection, it is rather unpredictable. It is a generative
:02:32. > :02:38.music app which follows rules defined and we find by Brian Eno but
:02:39. > :02:45.which plays differently every time. 14% of these notes, random, will be
:02:46. > :02:57.pitched down by three semitones. The second is 41% on an octave. Can I
:02:58. > :03:02.just said... Scientist. I would go further, quantum scientist.
:03:03. > :03:07.Probabilities. Brian Eno has spent weeks, months, tweaking these rules
:03:08. > :03:13.and probabilities which when combined course of these sounds to
:03:14. > :03:28.bounce, transform or not play at all. These are different types of
:03:29. > :03:33.scripters. I like them. Who doesn't! Actually, these rules can be applied
:03:34. > :03:39.to any type of music. Something more pacey, there are effects become
:03:40. > :03:50.immediately obvious. We will make that a tedious loop. A lot of music
:03:51. > :03:56.is based just on things like that and it goes on for ever. Now I will
:03:57. > :04:14.put in some scripters. First a way of reducing the number of beads. --
:04:15. > :04:20.beat. It is Ali playing 80%. Already it is a pretty crappy drama.
:04:21. > :04:35.Actually, this is way more interesting than the original
:04:36. > :04:39.drumbeat. Will introduce some roles. Traditional music, Hugh have a piece
:04:40. > :04:45.which locks down but you are not blocking it down. You are taking
:04:46. > :04:53.these and locking that down, the process. I do not mind so much if
:04:54. > :04:59.the piece changes every time. It is a good way of explaining it. I am
:05:00. > :05:05.trying to make a version of me in the software, my taste, if you like.
:05:06. > :05:13.I interested in the edge of buying taste envelope and randomness is a
:05:14. > :05:18.way to find out. Mixing things up is something Brian Eno is known for.
:05:19. > :05:31.The legendary oblique strategy cards, the imposing a a rule, you
:05:32. > :05:39.reduce the possibility to solve it. If you are working with other
:05:40. > :05:44.people, you get information and derailment. If you are working alone
:05:45. > :05:51.you can easily get into a rut. Working at a different speed. That
:05:52. > :05:55.is a useful one. That could mean a lot of different things. It could
:05:56. > :06:02.change the speed or do things at different speed. Work very very
:06:03. > :06:11.quickly all very very slowly. Take a minute to get to that guitar. Pick
:06:12. > :06:16.it up. Put it on. Plug it in. Have you thought of a way to copyright
:06:17. > :06:22.the music that comes out? If you sell the app, do they own the music
:06:23. > :06:30.because they have constructed it. All the bits I never the final
:06:31. > :06:37.construction is that there is. It is not easy to make a case for saying
:06:38. > :06:44.it is my music because it sort of is in a modern sense of what composing
:06:45. > :06:50.means. We spent about an hour with Brian Eno and in the next few days
:06:51. > :07:02.you can see more inside Brian Eno's brain on online. The week in Tech,
:07:03. > :07:06.Elon Musk started yet another company. The company which aims to
:07:07. > :07:13.implant a ait technology onto the human brain. Does this guy never
:07:14. > :07:19.watch sci-fi films and that it never ends well. And was on the head
:07:20. > :07:27.honcho showed the interior space tourists will see in his origin
:07:28. > :07:35.spacecraft. The second richest man in the world with a net worth of $75
:07:36. > :07:40.billion. $10 billion behind Bill Gates, though. How about turning any
:07:41. > :07:45.surface into an interface without the need for a screen? A host of
:07:46. > :07:57.devices that like speakers, lights and thermostats can beat all the
:07:58. > :08:15.remote controls. , in France, a host of teams will outline vehicles built
:08:16. > :08:21.with less than a number of parts. 99 nanometres per hours they will
:08:22. > :08:32.travel. 37 million years to travel a single mile. Not exactly Formula
:08:33. > :08:37.One. This week, Samsung launched its latest mobile phone. Just a few
:08:38. > :08:41.minutes to go until the launch start and there is an incredible level of
:08:42. > :08:51.secrecy here but there is a lot at stake for some after the Indee Park
:08:52. > :09:05.all sat we're waiting to see why the S8 has in Seoul. Cold hard facts-
:09:06. > :09:14.phone... Well, two phones were born. S8 and S8 plus. Not that large
:09:15. > :09:19.because of the screens on both of them curve over the edges. A lot of
:09:20. > :09:25.hype about these. It does not feel like a big deal, personally but it
:09:26. > :09:31.means you get a screen which is bigger on a smaller size. A
:09:32. > :09:36.fingerprint scanner. Iris and facial recognition meaning you should not
:09:37. > :09:42.need a password that still achieved all the security you want. An
:09:43. > :09:52.invisible home button. At as you press it, you can feel some
:09:53. > :10:00.sensation. One thing we have had a lot of talk about is the launch of
:10:01. > :10:05.this... When fully functioning, the system aims to make interact in
:10:06. > :10:11.easier. Interacting with apps, controlling other devices and using
:10:12. > :10:17.artificial intelligence to land your habits and suggests what you might
:10:18. > :10:20.be looking for next. Naturally, I wanted test this new personal
:10:21. > :10:27.assistant that there is a substantial problem. It is currently
:10:28. > :10:32.only available in Korean. It will be released in American English in
:10:33. > :10:39.many. It may well be great but I cannot tell you about it. In the
:10:40. > :10:48.meantime, the image recognition function is in action. It has
:10:49. > :10:55.varying success. So the head brushing shot -- hairbrush. It
:10:56. > :10:59.thinks my hairbrush is a fork. I have been asking around to see what
:11:00. > :11:08.others think about it. Very impressive screen. 18.5 buying nine.
:11:09. > :11:15.That is a big screen in a very small phone. I plan ait inches and I can
:11:16. > :11:23.fit my hands around it. The court experience has not changed a lot. We
:11:24. > :11:32.have not got the dual camera. Users standard Samsung apps. I do not
:11:33. > :11:36.think everybody once to speak to standard apps. For the amount of
:11:37. > :11:43.time they made us wait for these perhaps under delivered on standout
:11:44. > :11:49.features we have not seen elsewhere. The phone will be released this
:11:50. > :11:55.month from $650. The company believed they will see explosive
:11:56. > :12:09.sales but let's hope not exploding phones! Now to cyborgs and when
:12:10. > :12:16.Hollywood imagines them look way too futuristic to become a reality. They
:12:17. > :12:24.did not save your life, they stole it. But are they? A special
:12:25. > :12:40.appointment with a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan.
:12:41. > :12:52.I have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me into
:12:53. > :12:57.some sort cyborg. It is the first time a camera crew has been allowed
:12:58. > :13:08.in to see the process happen and it will take place through this door,
:13:09. > :13:13.he asked. -- here. They have come up with a thin as organic circuit,
:13:14. > :13:18.lighter than a feather, they could be worn like a second skin.
:13:19. > :13:25.Monitoring the body all as the display. We gain to introduce the
:13:26. > :13:32.electronic functions on the surface of the skin without causing any
:13:33. > :13:38.discomfort. This is human and machine coming together. The display
:13:39. > :13:41.they are putting on has taken three days to manufacture serve the
:13:42. > :13:49.research team are being very careful. Two to three micros in
:13:50. > :13:58.thickness. The magic is controlled by transparent electrons and conduct
:13:59. > :14:05.us. They are surprisingly resilient. They can scrunch them and on rubber
:14:06. > :14:11.even stretch of them. It still works and that is something I have come to
:14:12. > :14:16.put to the test. The professor has used schemes to measure heart rate
:14:17. > :14:21.and oxygen levels. Could we use these out and about was make can we
:14:22. > :14:37.go running with it? It doesn't cause any failure. It is
:14:38. > :14:43.flexible. Would you expect us to change this every two or three days?
:14:44. > :14:52.Yes, that's another possibility. If we can manufacture everything very
:14:53. > :14:58.cheap, so after you go to the shower and said delaminate your skin and
:14:59. > :15:06.put the fresh one. I expected that to break by now. And it's still very
:15:07. > :15:13.much alive. This is just a single digit display today, but what could
:15:14. > :15:21.this be the future? The second step will be much more digits and then,
:15:22. > :15:28.going to the high-definition display. So we could have baby 1000
:15:29. > :15:34.pixels? -- maybe. Yes, that's technologically possible. Now hand,
:15:35. > :15:40.so we could, what, talk to people now had? Yes. This could be a
:15:41. > :15:44.picture of my mum, for example? She would appear on my hand? Yes, that
:15:45. > :15:52.would be possible in the future, maybe four or five years. But
:15:53. > :15:58.lifetime will be the biggest issues. This is the start of the rise of the
:15:59. > :16:14.cyborgs. That was Dan, wearing some pretty
:16:15. > :16:19.advanced technology on his person. I've got my own piece of advanced
:16:20. > :16:23.technology here. These are the Sennheiser new headphones and would
:16:24. > :16:32.you like to take a guess at what is special about them? For a start,
:16:33. > :16:41.they cost ?54,000! Fire up, One Direction. No-one Direction? OK. So,
:16:42. > :16:47.I'm not a real audio expert. I used to work in the radio so I do know
:16:48. > :16:52.about sound. But I'm also 43, so I think I'm slightly deaf. But these
:16:53. > :17:01.are certainly sound very expensive. Very, very nice. What's interesting
:17:02. > :17:06.is that aren't boys counselling -- cancelling and I can actually hear
:17:07. > :17:10.other stuff in a broom. And I'm not sure whether I would expect that or
:17:11. > :17:21.whether I would expect to be shut off from the room when I put this on
:17:22. > :17:26.so you can just hear music. Wow. For people who are in love, or should I
:17:27. > :17:32.say obsessed with sound quality, it seems that nothing is off-limits.
:17:33. > :17:36.But when those people are in Japan, off-limits hits a whole new level.
:17:37. > :17:41.We are used to seeing unusual things in Japan, so we were not surprised
:17:42. > :17:44.at all to hear about group of people who would think nothing of spending
:17:45. > :22:00.the whole lot more than the price of these in search of audio perfection.
:22:01. > :22:06.It seems some people don't care what their place looks like, as long as
:22:07. > :22:10.it sounds amazing. But if you are into your high end audio but you
:22:11. > :22:15.also want something a bit more inconspicuous, then we've come here
:22:16. > :22:21.to London's smart apartment to see some options. These speakers are
:22:22. > :22:26.made by Lynn and will cost ?12,500 for the pair. They come with a
:22:27. > :22:30.choice of fabrics. You can choose whichever one blends into your decor
:22:31. > :22:37.best. The fabric apparently has been specially developed so it doesn't
:22:38. > :22:40.dull the sound. But metre tall speakers are always going to be
:22:41. > :22:47.quite attention grabbing. What if you want your speakers to be heard
:22:48. > :22:53.but not seen at all? So, can you spot the speakers in this room?
:22:54. > :22:56.Well... They are actually up there. There are lots of little speakers in
:22:57. > :23:01.the ceiling next to the light fittings. They were installed before
:23:02. > :23:05.plastering, so that they can sit flush with the ceiling. This is what
:23:06. > :23:09.they actually look like and the cost there's quite a few of them they
:23:10. > :23:15.don't have to be that loud to filter the sound. If that's still too
:23:16. > :23:22.conspicuous for you, this room has invisible speakers in that they are
:23:23. > :23:27.in the walls. You can fill them by the vibration here and here. You
:23:28. > :23:30.can't see them at all of course. These ones have been wallpapered
:23:31. > :23:34.directly over. If you are plastering the ball you can get away with two
:23:35. > :23:37.millimetres past only, apparently. And if you are worried that your
:23:38. > :23:41.speakers going wrong, the manufacturers have told us that
:23:42. > :23:46.within 15 years they will come and not only repair the speakers but
:23:47. > :23:52.also make good your decorations. And that's it from the smart apartment.
:23:53. > :23:55.Follow us on Twitter if you would be so kind will stop with plenty of
:23:56. > :24:00.this kind of stuff throughout the week and there's more coming from
:24:01. > :24:23.Brian soon. Thanks for watching and see you soon.
:24:24. > :24:27.This past week has seen some really varied weather