Merry Clickmas Click

from Click for their

Christmas special.

It was the night before Clickmas and

all through the smart home of the

gizmo was wearing, not even a drone,

the stock is full with gadgets

galore with virtually realities

primed to explore.

The very next day, you gave it away.

This year, to save you from tears. I

will give it to someone special.

And

welcome to the Clickmas special!

Thank you very much to John the

excellent rendition to start us off,

would you believe it, the gang is

all here, the are decked with nifty

gadgetry that it is time to get this

party started. That! This is the

Lyric Speaker, it streams music from

your smartphone from Spotify and

also picks up the lyrics from

Spotify and displays it on screen

you to have a sociable conversation.

And if you do want that, you can

talk about the fact this cost £3600.

Does it play Mariah Carey?

Technically it does but let's not

test that.

I tell you what, I have a

Christmas present for you, Spencer.

You've always wanted to be a Jedi

Knight, I know this, you have always

wanted to have a light sabre button

but with this augmented reality Star

battling headsets, you can.

Fabulous. Can I try it? Yes, but you

have to go over there because I know

you and your waiting arms, you will

something over. -- waving.

While I

get lost in a galaxy far, far away,

Dan is getting lost in his favourite

videogame.

Come on, come on, come on. I have

just crushed it! It is a stunning

game, I would love to tell you it is

just like driving the real thing

but... I cannot just yet. This is

the Nissan GT-R, it is 4-wheel-drive

traction control system, it lays

down almost all the 550 horses from

the engine to the tarmac. It is a

top speed that would make your nose

bleed, and goes 0- 60 in under three

seconds. I am ready to go again!

Sorry?

(BLEEP)! Are (BLEEP)!

Oh my god! You want to be a little

bit... So we've played the game,

we've driven the car, so how

about... We do both. This is a

full-sized fully expect

rent-controlled Nissan GT-R C, it

has been made by the team at JLP

design and is driven by a standard

PlayStation controller. Four Baz

control the transmission, staring,

throttle and the brakes. The six

number crunchers in the Brutt couple

of my adjustment is 100 times per

second. So just to be clear, I'm

going to be driving that car with

this while Rob chases it in the car

we are in. We don't lose contact,

obviously. I know. Bonkers. This is

£100,000 worth of sports car and I

have to say it is twitchy. Just like

a Grand Prix, a bit of break, there

we go, Indigo, there we turn. Just

take a little bit of. He has gone

around the corner, he hasn't

smashed! Sports car! This car has so

much power and are literally have to

just dab a finger and it moves, I

mean, it really does. Incredible.

Wow! Just be able to control

something as powerful as that is so

much responsibility, actually, but

once you get into which you get

focused on the car, it is just

incredible. We should all have one

of these Christmas, shouldn't we? Oh

well. Nice to dream.

Dan, it's looked amazing. Pointless.

But amazing.

And terrifying.

Absolutely terrifying, Spencer. I

think we created a new OG.

I say!

Well, good. In an attempt, moving

on, in an attempt to add some

substance to this Christmas debacle,

we have decided to cross to a

familiar friend who is a powerful

telepresence, Dave Lee in San

Francisco.

Robots things. -- sings.

Dave, nice wheels! A serious upgrade

of the old telepresence box, I

suppose you are now a serious news

corresponded.

Thank you, finally the

rubber to grade I have feel like I

deserve.

Tell us about your 2017,

you are in the heart of it all in

silicon valley San Francisco, what

is this year be like for you?

I feel

like this year, the things that made

the big companies really good and

profitable and rich is now the same

thing that is giving them serious

headaches. We have seen algorithms

fightback, causing all sorts of

problems. Fake news, propaganda from

the Russians, various issues that

faced -- Facebook and Google and

YouTube and all of these companies

are suffering from and this year has

been am trying to deal with but I

did they have managed it all,

frankly.

Over here in what I call

the rest of the world everyone is

looking at Silicon valley and it

almost looks a bit large companies

could topple because of these kind

of scandals. What is the feeling

like in Silicon Valley? Are people

worried or are they getting on with

the next new crazy service?

I think

they are more grumpy about this than

worried Comey I think Silicon valley

field but when Washington has a go

at them about fake news or when the

rest of the world thinks they are

not doing a good enough job they

think they are being picked on, is

the sense I get from many companies,

they feel like it is the thing that

isn't their fault they will be able

to fix it but it may take some time

or indeed we may just have to learn

that these networks are going to be

perfect all the time. That is the

sense I get. I think they hope that

as we going to Christmas and the new

year we might move on from this

issue and stop talking about it

quite so much. But I don't think

people will forget, I think people

will be talking about is well into

2018.

Or, horror, hope, Mary

Clickmas!

This is my friend, I felt

she would bring some fun to the

table, it recognises me. A low! It

is a robot who can say phrases and

play educational games and it can

even do that. But look at what it

does on the table. Don't worry, it

will not eat your chocolate coins.

But its mind or bitcoin?

It mines

for chocolate coins.

Team, the food

is nearly ready, 15 minutes. What is

this?

I know you said not to bring

you anything and this is no

criticism to your cooking but this

is some 3-D printed Christmas dinner

while we are waiting. But looks

delicious. Beef, brussels sprout,

cranberry.

Seriously, they are

different flavours? Yes, that is

beefy, oh, God, why do sprout exist,

and...

I am nervous like it is my

own cooking and I am worried about

what it tastes like. Should I?

I

think you should try that. That is

just the consistency of beef. So,

what you think? That is the sprouts,

actually. They do look pretty

similar. That is definitely the

cranberry. So this... Must be... The

beef. Yeah.

How is it?

I mean, it is

genius because it does taste kind of

like what you described, the

consistency not really and it is

stone cold.

OK, well it was freshly

prepared for us by dovetail who

prepared home 3-D food printers so

you could even create something like

brussels sprouts a taste of

chocolate. Or you could do with the

others wait based on nutrition.

Not

struck up a taste like brussels

sprouts, that would be ludicrous.

I

think it may have consumed a few

calories here, probably literally a

phew, just in case you want to burn

off those three calories, here is my

present for you. Happy Clickmas, it

is a smart skipping rope.

Oh, a

smart skipping rope.

It will shall

skip that every time you jump this

light flashes. Oh, my goodness!

So

people can see all around how hard

you are working.

Thank you so much.

Maybe you could go and have a skip

and in the meantime you could take a

look at how your Christmas groceries

would be heading to you very soon.

This this is a cargo's Hatfield

fulfilment centre, a place where

humans work alongside a process that

already looks ready automated. But

the robots are coming. Wow! This

grocery picking robot is being

tested here and early next year she

will be making an appearance at one

of the warehouses to do the job for

real. It has been trained to

identify 2000 of the company boss

and 50,000 products using computer

vision and as long as those products

are nonporous, basically anything

that would be damaged by being

picked up by this vacuum, and it can

take them out of the picking box,

take them through the scanner, and

place them in the baking area. But

this isn't the only robot being

tested here. I am off to meet a man

called panels and an arm called

slammer.

Hello. I don't know who's hand shake

first. I will go for yours. OK, so

while this robot looks like its

purpose is just have the human

touch, it can pick things up without

damaging them, it does also have

another skill. What is this what

have been taught to do is the same

thing a human would. So to put your

hand on it, and do that. Can you

help it demonstrates, please?

Of

course.

The movement is quite

something, it has a few elbows

there. But it has grabbed it and it

has picked it up successfully.

It

can put it down.

Thanks, happy

Christmas to you, too.

get a sneak peek behind the scenes

to find out a bit more about how you

try to make a hand seem more human.

Zach who has been working on this

project for a while, what are the

challenges you face?

One of the main

challenges is to actually get this

handle glove to sense the forces

that a human concerns. We as humans

have a very delicate sense of touch

so we can handle objects like

apples. So we have tried to

reproduce that by having a sort of

electronic skin.

So this Apple,

apart from being a bit squashed, has

obviously been approved as being

good. I don't think I need to do any

shopping this week, I am

disappearing with all your products.

Well, seeing as the robot couldn't

join us for Clickmas lunch, I

thought it was only ferret out a

cracker. Let's see what it makes of

it. In what country will you not

find a vegetarian? You don't know?

Turkey. Cue laughter. Does it not do

laughter?

Well, I have to say, you get a

greater view of London's West End

from up here. We are on the roof of

John Lewis at the moment. These

aren't any old binoculars. These are

made by IQ, and they are basically a

combination of a lens strapped to a

smartphone strapped to a viewer.

They allow you to record what you

are seeing so you can watch it back

later and share it with friends.

Nice. I'm freezing. I say, Bahman.

Well, hello, Spencer!

If it is

intelligent's Nick Kwek.

How are

you?

Cold. Can you give me something

hot?

Here you go, a lovely hot

chocolate. I say hot, because

actually that is a smart mug you are

holding. It connects to your mobile

phone with an app, and that works

like a thermostat. You choose the

delight -- desired to bridge of your

drink and that keeps it warm all day

long.

All day long!

At least until

your smartphone's battery dies, at

which point the power in the month

goes.

I will drink it, then.

That

will be £80.

£80! What's that,

production? I needed back in the

hub.

Spencer!

I hope you are enjoying the show.

Good to be back inside. Kate, what

are you doing with your hand?

I am

making sweet, sweet music. Can you

not hear it? It is wonderful. This

is the remedy digital music glove,

and the way that it works, it

connects to an apple in your phone

and these four stencils here turned

on and off loops. -- sensors. And

these four sensors initiates apples.

So you can choose lots of different

musical styles that you want. Drum

and bass, hip-hop, EDM. Electranet

dance music.

Yes, I know.

You can

even put a bit of flange on. This is

what somebody who with absolutely no

musical ability whatsoever, I am

sure you can tell, can create.

Kate

Russell, everybody. Fabulous. Now it

is time for my Christmas present to

you all. And indeed you at home as

well. Now, you might remember, last

week I got to talk Art with

performance art superstar Marina

Abramovic, and during that chat, we

talked about how we immersed

ourselves and technology every week

and sometimes it was difficult to

tear away from the table of what

used to be called a normal life.

Well, this was Marina's answer to

me. I think this is her Christmas

message to us all.

You have to do

come to my world, which I create

some ring called the Abramovic

method. You can do it in your own

home. You decide, one day a week,

that you take your phone and your

computer and switch them off and you

don't put them, you don't put any

electronics around. You do nothing.

Doing nothing is being yourself.

Because all that you do is look

inwards. When you are surrounded by

entertainment you're not being with

yourself alone, in silence.

So if I

was to do that, I can tell you, I

would sit there and then I would...

Just wonder what is going on. And

then I might get bored.

Being bought

is important.

It is?

Yes, because

the board is a sign that something

is wrong with you. You have to get

bored. You have to go beyond the

board. Sit for six hours and do

nothing and see what happens to your

boredom. The board goes away. You

start seeing that actually, you are

nervous, you are hysterical, your

breathing is raised. Go another four

hours. You start breeding more

slowly. You start relaxing. You

start getting to the centre of

yourself. It takes time. It takes

effort. To relax, that is huge work.

I really use technology to help make

life more efficient. Which means

that messages come in here and I can

deal with these messages while I am

walking somewhere else. So I am

conscious that I've lost that piece,

I've lost the peace and quiet of

having a walk.

The thing is, every

email you write, you have done all

the work, you write all the emails

that you have in your computer in

the morning. You can double back,

every email is not important. And

then what are you doing next week?

That is the problem, if one person,

like me, tries to do it differently,

the rest of the world still operates

at a much higher pace and are still

get those messages back, can you do

this, can you pop this in here.

Can

you imagine if you have three days

to live? You would ask all these

emails? No. Why don't you take every

day like the last day of your life?

I wouldn't get paid, though.

This,

again, how much we need of this to

live, how much supercity can we

have? It is so important to question

everything, how we can create our

life in a minimal way and how many

things we need to adopt. It is

incredible. That questioning, only

when you really put your life, it is

so important to question everything.

Question how we can create our life

in a minimal way. You know, my

generation is Telegraph 's and

Xerox. -- telegrams. The young

generation, the kids who were born

with the computers in the

videogames, these are the people who

can actually do something about it.

This is the target. That is the

future.

That was Marina Abramovic

telling us to throw away our

technology, which is a bit of a

downer, especially for Ross, because

that's all we know.

Well, Spencer, I

think I've got something that might

cheer you up. Technology isn't

always that bad. We've been going on

about a hour all the, and Kate, if I

could get a hand from you. -- going

on about AR.

What witchcraft is

this?

This is the AR air measure

app, creating a painting in AR. You

can paintings, measured things, all

with an AR.

And you stick that

anywhere in space, and it's not

really there. It's not really there,

everybody! If you are wondering,

this a photo of the Quick team after

we finished our live show in thought

of a live studio audience. -- flange

team. You can see that on TV in a

couple of weeks. Here is a sneak

peek of the end of that show. This

is the spectacular Star Wars ballet

from Propel. In true Click style it

ended in a fight to the death. The

lone survivor from the audience took

home one of the Star Wars drones.

And that reminds me. It is time for

our Clickmas elfing. Sticking with

the team of AR, will be adding a bit

of augmented reality to the photo

year. We have the Into photo printer

attached to a smartphone. I will

need some help here, down. Could you

take the selfie, please? You are in

a better position than me. When need

to put it on video mode.

This is a

video selfie?

It is. You will find

out why in a moment. All I have to

say right now is that when Dan

presses the button, make sure you

move and make some noise. Happy

Clickmas, or something is

appropriate.

Happy Clickmas! More

moving, more moving...

Move in a

really unnatural way of all stock

the more you move the better it will

look. So, now we've got a steel that

looks like that, which we can print.

That's unfortunate.

It is not a bad

picture. Let's print that out.

Hurrah!

There you go, Spencer.

Your

memento.

I like the way you framed

it.

I am sure that is what it was

designed for.

I am going to have to

take a selfie of that.

That's it for

this week. Thank you so much for

watching. On behalf of the whole

team, Mary Clickmas! -- Merry

Clickmas.

The rooftop sees Santo,

who is laughing with glee. He is

trying to fit robots down the

chimney. He finished the job and the

gifts were delivered, around

Rudolf's next, the GPS triggered.

And on Santa's step counter the

total was high. Three Mac Clickmas

to all. Now where's my mince pie?

Guys, I think I've fallen over. And

it told me there was a step. --

nobody told me.