0:00:00 > 0:00:01Islamic State says it was behind the latest attack.
0:00:01 > 0:00:05It is just after half past midnight. At this festive time of year it is
0:00:05 > 0:00:12time to join the team of Click had a Christmas special.
0:00:12 > 0:00:192017, the year of curious cat 's, haunting holograms, and trigger
0:00:19 > 0:00:27happy trackers.
0:00:44 > 0:00:50Hello. It is time to look back on the year in tech. As 2017 fades
0:00:50 > 0:00:54away, we could tell you about all the technology news that has
0:00:54 > 0:00:58happened, at the hacking, be launching, the automatic driving,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02but that would be just like last year and, come to think of it, the
0:01:02 > 0:01:06year before that. So we prefer to share with you some unforgettable
0:01:06 > 0:01:11memories from our year on Click as we travelled far and wide to bring
0:01:11 > 0:01:16you some extraordinary moment is. And we start with a personal
0:01:16 > 0:01:21highlight for me. Back in October we travelled to Japan and we got rare
0:01:21 > 0:01:26access to see how robots are helping with the dangerous task of cleaning
0:01:26 > 0:01:33up the bookish EMA nuclear power plant after a 's meltdown in 2011.
0:01:33 > 0:01:57-- Fukushima. Scary? No. I have worn a plenty of protective suits in my
0:01:57 > 0:02:01time, but they have always been to protect the environment from my
0:02:01 > 0:02:19body. This time it is different. We are going inside unit five, which is
0:02:19 > 0:02:23identical to the units which were wrecked by the explosions. As you
0:02:23 > 0:02:30can imagine, it is really hot inside this tube. It is a confusing jumble
0:02:30 > 0:02:33of walkways and machinery, it is to be built to appreciate that someone
0:02:33 > 0:02:42in here is a seven story Sankai of water called the primary containment
0:02:42 > 0:02:49vessel, the PCV, it is time to go right underneath the reactor. They
0:02:49 > 0:02:56think what happens after the meltdowns is that the molten fuel
0:02:56 > 0:03:00just burned through the bottom of the Fukushima and came to adhere to
0:03:00 > 0:03:04the pedestal. That is where they think the fuel is now. -- PCV. It is
0:03:04 > 0:03:08difficult enough getting through this place on foot, now imagine
0:03:08 > 0:03:13trying to remote control a robot through this after the whole place
0:03:13 > 0:03:22has been mangled by an explosion. Oh yes, and do it in the dark. This is
0:03:22 > 0:03:28a scorpion, its mission was to hunt for fuel in unit two. Time is of the
0:03:28 > 0:03:32essence for any Fukushima robot. The radiation will eventually damage and
0:03:32 > 0:03:35disable its cameras, rendering it useless. The entire mission can also
0:03:35 > 0:03:45be upset by something far more basic. This is service hatch letter
0:03:45 > 0:03:51X six, they were hoping to set a scorpion robot down this ramp to
0:03:51 > 0:03:55fuel the -- filmy molten fuel at the bottom. It never made it. They did
0:03:55 > 0:03:58not get any footage or evidence of where the fuel was. In unit three
0:03:58 > 0:04:03the water is much higher, so they had to think of another way to get a
0:04:03 > 0:04:09robot in. That is where the miniature fish came in. That is
0:04:09 > 0:04:17where it came in. Built to fit through this 15 centimetre Pipe, it
0:04:17 > 0:04:22is a tiny underwater robot with by propellers, two cameras, and for
0:04:22 > 0:04:29human operators. 300 kilometres away from Fukushima I came face to face
0:04:29 > 0:04:37with the star of the investigation. After two months of practice and
0:04:37 > 0:04:42that of the flooded at a still, it was successful in finding melted
0:04:42 > 0:04:51plums of material that could be in unit three. The commissioning the
0:04:51 > 0:04:59site could take up to 40 years and it could take 8 trillion yen. Those
0:04:59 > 0:05:05little robots have a lot riding on their tiny back.
0:05:15 > 0:05:25Ever wondered what get up to when no one is there? -- cats. Meet Roxie
0:05:25 > 0:05:30and Zara who seemed agreeable in taking part in some gadget testing.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35Sorry. If you have ever wanted to watch, talk to, or even play with
0:05:35 > 0:05:42your cat is when you are not with them, then this could help. Once the
0:05:42 > 0:05:46device is connected to your home Wi-Fi you can log in via the Apa
0:05:46 > 0:05:52anywhere you can get your phone online -- app. There is a laser game
0:05:52 > 0:05:57to play, snacks at the tap of an icon, and a function to make and
0:05:57 > 0:06:07share videos and cat snaps. This rather unusual looking setup works
0:06:07 > 0:06:12in quite a similar way. There is a camera so you can see the cats
0:06:12 > 0:06:16remotely, also the ability to give them food wherever you are. Plus
0:06:16 > 0:06:20this toy, which is apparently something that might like to play
0:06:20 > 0:06:30with. -- cats. Zara and Roxie were possibly slightly intimidated by the
0:06:30 > 0:06:34jolting of the battery thing and the app was extremely temperamental,
0:06:34 > 0:06:41making set up a tedious experience. -- feathery. The Pepe smart goal has
0:06:41 > 0:06:45been around for quite awhile and is available for and dogs. It allows
0:06:45 > 0:06:51owners to keep an eye on Tevita, pulse, breathing rate, heartrate
0:06:51 > 0:06:56variability, and even the positions the pet is in, it can be particular
0:06:56 > 0:06:59beneficial if there are health concerns or an injury to keep an eye
0:06:59 > 0:07:06on. Meanwhile, there seems to be a game of cat and mouse going on. The
0:07:06 > 0:07:11latter played by a remote-controlled rodent. Although it actually
0:07:11 > 0:07:16consists of the mouse chasing the cat, which probably says it all
0:07:16 > 0:07:22about my day's filming. That was Lara with some pretty
0:07:22 > 0:07:26disinterested interviewees. You can't win them all. You know us, we
0:07:26 > 0:07:30will report from wherever we find a good story. There have been semi
0:07:30 > 0:07:35great ones. Semi successful ones in Africa this year. Back in June, Dan
0:07:35 > 0:07:39Simmons went to Tanzania to see the first stages of what could be a
0:07:39 > 0:07:55global revolution in education. We are travelling a long way from
0:07:55 > 0:08:02any town or city to visit some of the 200 children in this village in
0:08:02 > 0:08:09northern Tanzania. We are beating up the Tablet, the first one. The whole
0:08:09 > 0:08:15programme is in sight Healy so the local children can understand. I
0:08:15 > 0:08:24think they are going to need more tablets. This is one of about 150
0:08:24 > 0:08:29villages in Tanzania chosen as the testbed for the global learning X
0:08:29 > 0:08:35prize. Within a few months 4000 others will be given out, the
0:08:35 > 0:08:39challenge to teach 7- 11-year-old to read, write, and do maths over the
0:08:39 > 0:08:46next year. The most effective app will win $10 million. The price he
0:08:46 > 0:08:51will be much more valuable. Older children can walk up to four hours
0:08:51 > 0:08:54to get to and from school, for younger ones like this
0:08:54 > 0:08:58seven-year-old that is too far. She has been lucky, she is one of those
0:08:58 > 0:09:03who has been chosen to take part in the challenge. At the start she has
0:09:03 > 0:09:07not seen a tablet before so she is not used to touching screens. When
0:09:07 > 0:09:12it comes to reading, she does not know more than one or two words in a
0:09:12 > 0:09:15sentence. But John, who was with the project, thinks The Tablet will
0:09:15 > 0:09:24eventually to read fluently.The problem is that there are about 60-
0:09:24 > 0:09:28100 million kids who have no access to school because it is too far.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32Then you have 250 million more to go to school and to leave without ever
0:09:32 > 0:09:39having learnt to read or write a word. They are in Botswana, Boston,
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Brighton, it does not matter. Could go to school all over the world and
0:09:43 > 0:09:47they go and do not learn. Why is that? That is the question we are
0:09:47 > 0:09:52trying to address. In our greatest desire, every single child on planet
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Earth has access to a world class education in the palm of her hand.
0:09:56 > 0:10:01We are hoping to be back next you to see how the teams get along. For now
0:10:01 > 0:10:04it is time to say goodbye. We have brought some biscuits to say thank
0:10:04 > 0:10:08you. And suddenly the difficulties the team faced when they arrived
0:10:08 > 0:10:11became clear. We just 20 or so tablets per village, there simply
0:10:11 > 0:10:16won't be enough for everyone to take part. To reduce potential jealousy,
0:10:16 > 0:10:21the tablets will be locked to only run the educational software, but
0:10:21 > 0:10:26everyone wants one. A village of mamma has been chosen to settle any
0:10:26 > 0:10:30dispute. In the skin's partners, UNESCO, will be asking some other
0:10:30 > 0:10:36important questions about tablets as well -- scheme stipulate we are
0:10:36 > 0:10:40doing assessments of the social and emotional impact of such learning,
0:10:40 > 0:10:45because we expect some criticism from that site. We are engaging with
0:10:45 > 0:10:48the psychologist, anthropologist, educationalists, to try to
0:10:48 > 0:10:53understand what does it do to the child?Is it an option that is
0:10:53 > 0:10:56ethical because children go to school, they are socialised also, it
0:10:56 > 0:11:00is not only the community of learning, it is learning to be part
0:11:00 > 0:11:06of the group.It is just like back at home. Now they have all got
0:11:06 > 0:11:16tablets. They are not really talking to anybody.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21That was down in Tanzania. Next, we are off to Germany with K2 has found
0:11:21 > 0:11:31an elevator that goes sideways -- Kate. This picturesque town in
0:11:31 > 0:11:39Germany, home to this and dogs, chocolate box buildings, and a 246
0:11:39 > 0:11:44metre tower holding the tallest observation deck in Germany. But
0:11:44 > 0:11:49this tower is not just about great views. Built by an elevator company,
0:11:49 > 0:11:53it has wild lift shaft running inside it. One is used to transport
0:11:53 > 0:12:01passengers to be top, the other to test the latest in technology.It is
0:12:01 > 0:12:06in the core of the tower. Only a few people really have the chance to see
0:12:06 > 0:12:11what we have built and what is running Bear. An elevator without
0:12:11 > 0:12:18any ropes. -- running there.This is revolutionary. The cabin is carried
0:12:18 > 0:12:25by linear motors, it is the same technology that creates Japan's will
0:12:25 > 0:12:28train. As well is eliminating the speed and height restriction of
0:12:28 > 0:12:32today's technology, this allows passengers to travel sideways as
0:12:32 > 0:12:38well as up and down, just like Willy Wonka's fantastic elevator in
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Charlie and the chocolate factory. Behind the scenes, behind the car,
0:12:41 > 0:12:49we changed this. Get prepared for the horizontal movement. As soon as
0:12:49 > 0:12:57the doors close we can go sideways to the next shaft. And this is the
0:12:57 > 0:13:03most important thing that we come back to a circulating system.
0:13:03 > 0:13:09Reinventing the Paternoster.Using this circulating pattern means a
0:13:09 > 0:13:14lift shaft could hold ten or more caverns, much more efficient than a
0:13:14 > 0:13:17single up and down right that today's elevator is our limited to.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22And this will only become more important when we start looking at
0:13:22 > 0:13:31elevator is reaching perhaps 1000 or more metres into the sky.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36That was Kate going sideways. And so are we. We are off to the place
0:13:36 > 0:13:42where China makes the world Tech, the city of Shenzhen, where last
0:13:42 > 0:13:46month I got exclusive prelaunch access to see how when you smart
0:13:46 > 0:13:52phone is born. -- how when you smart phone. They
0:13:52 > 0:13:56make loads of different types of phones in this factory, so to keep
0:13:56 > 0:13:59the secret from other workers, everything happens behind the blue
0:13:59 > 0:14:09shroud of secrecy. Are you ready? Thank you. Come in.
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Welcome to production
0:14:10 > 0:14:10Welcome to production line
0:14:10 > 0:14:11Welcome to production line 27.
0:14:11 > 0:14:17Welcome to production line 27. The phone starts life as just a tiny
0:14:17 > 0:14:22camera, there and it is gradually assembled around this you shaped
0:14:22 > 0:14:26production line, which means by the time it gets to the end it is a
0:14:26 > 0:14:34fully featured phone. Just about there. This is the reasons China has
0:14:34 > 0:14:42come to dominate technology manufacturing, a disciplined
0:14:42 > 0:14:50workforce, each person has one particular job which has precision.
0:14:50 > 0:14:55A single speck of dust and a single phone will be rejected. What I found
0:14:55 > 0:15:01most surprising about this is it is all people stop it I would have
0:15:01 > 0:15:05thought with this kind of high precision job the stones would have
0:15:05 > 0:15:12been built solely by machines but it is pretty much all humans. This is
0:15:12 > 0:15:16where an unlucky few phones are pulled off the production line to
0:15:16 > 0:15:27check extreme tolerance. Elsewhere, other test phones escape that a
0:15:27 > 0:15:32plunge but instead are drop 5000 times each. Others have their
0:15:32 > 0:15:37charging point whittled and buttons pressed 10,000 times. With the
0:15:37 > 0:15:44launch over, one class will nervously await first reviews and
0:15:44 > 0:15:48more importantly, the transporters. They will decide whether these
0:15:48 > 0:15:58people will be joined by hundreds more or not. A fascinating points
0:15:58 > 0:16:03behind the curtain in China. And now it is time to leave Earth entirely
0:16:03 > 0:16:07for a few minutes to remember how the click crew explore the final
0:16:07 > 0:16:11frontier in VR.
0:16:16 > 0:16:22Virtual reality game Star Trek Bridge crew brings together up to
0:16:22 > 0:16:26four players, each taking a different role on the bridge of a
0:16:26 > 0:16:36starship.That is brilliant. Incredible!Oh my goodness, Mark!We
0:16:36 > 0:16:47are walking everybody.Way owl!
0:16:47 > 0:16:50-- Wow.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55We don't have time to sightseeing as we received a distress signal from a
0:16:55 > 0:17:01stricken vessel.Engineering, can you transport the survivors back
0:17:01 > 0:17:05here?I don't know.LAUGHTER
0:17:05 > 0:17:09you transport the survivors back here?I don't know.LAUGHTER.It is
0:17:09 > 0:17:13at this moment that the action takes a turn which will appeal to Star
0:17:13 > 0:17:24Trek super fans.It has defied one cruiser. It is a Klingon D5 cruiser.
0:17:24 > 0:17:37OK, target it!Target to sure it! -- destroyed.It feels like VR at its
0:17:37 > 0:17:42best.Adjudication is a must, you would complete the mission.Rate to
0:17:42 > 0:17:49ten building.A couple of sticky moments but only think we managed to
0:17:49 > 0:17:56keep it together as a crew and the result was a successful mission.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01Now, one thing we love to do on Click is to look at how things might
0:18:01 > 0:18:05change significantly in the future. One area that we think is about to
0:18:05 > 0:18:09pop onto the scene and possibly on to many people 's plates is lab
0:18:09 > 0:18:17grown meat. I am talking burgers, steaks and fish. Got a taste for it?
0:18:17 > 0:18:22Back in July, Cap Hawkins visited the cultured food capital, San
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Francisco, to see what is cooking. I have come to this lab in the heart
0:18:27 > 0:18:31of Silicon valley to visit impossible to. They claim to have
0:18:31 > 0:18:35invented food of the future on a completely meatless meat made
0:18:35 > 0:18:43entirely of plants. Impossible foods found that the key ingredient that
0:18:43 > 0:18:48gives meet its characteristic taste is a molecule found in most living
0:18:48 > 0:18:53things and especially in animal must. It luckily, it is also found
0:18:53 > 0:18:58in plants.This is your magic ingredient, your plate -based blood.
0:18:58 > 0:19:04Right and it provides the explosion of flavour that you get, it is the
0:19:04 > 0:19:10different between white meat chicken with a beef burger.The company has
0:19:10 > 0:19:15recently flipped the switch on its meatless meatpacking factory as it
0:19:15 > 0:19:18rents up reduction. This will eventually make 4 million burgers
0:19:18 > 0:19:26are months and the next aim is to move into chicken, pork and lamb.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29But it is one thing being a scientist who is enthralled by food
0:19:29 > 0:19:33tech and another to be a chef using the ingredient produced on a
0:19:33 > 0:19:38carefully crafted menu.I think we eat way too much meat in general, so
0:19:38 > 0:19:42it is a good way to be as close as possible to meet that looks and
0:19:42 > 0:19:47tastes.The impossible burger is now the only one Rocco has on his menu
0:19:47 > 0:19:51and he sells 250 of them are weak. It seems like at this stage it might
0:19:51 > 0:19:56be a novelty for Silicon valley diners, but of course, as always,
0:19:56 > 0:20:13the true test is in the tasting.OK, it is about to happen. It's really
0:20:13 > 0:20:23good. The texture is just like meat. It doesn't taste like Vince beef. A
0:20:23 > 0:20:27little bit like mushrooms, but I know there is no mushrooms in there.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33-- mints. What comes across as important is that it is important
0:20:33 > 0:20:41that the flavour tastes close to meet while being ethical. What if
0:20:41 > 0:20:46you could serve up animal flesh without the single creature being
0:20:46 > 0:20:51harmed? That is what this company is working on. They plan to grow actual
0:20:51 > 0:20:58fish from stem cells. Phyllis Booth takes a small sample of cells from a
0:20:58 > 0:21:03real fish and conjures it up. One cell can theoretically come one ton
0:21:03 > 0:21:07of fish meat but they are not there yet.Will be on the market in three
0:21:07 > 0:21:11years with products that are a new version of fish that people haven't
0:21:11 > 0:21:16had before and in five to six years we will have steaks and fillets,
0:21:16 > 0:21:25just like the fish you normally see in the ocean.Cap Hawkins reporting
0:21:25 > 0:21:29back in this summer. From California to the Netherlands where Nick
0:21:29 > 0:21:39witnessed a dense with a new hologram effect. -- VR. Today
0:21:39 > 0:21:42choreographers and dancers are working with a new medium for
0:21:42 > 0:21:47artistic expression. They are taking to excerpts from so-called stop
0:21:47 > 0:21:53ocean and are adapting it to include holographic projection is.It is a
0:21:53 > 0:21:59really, treaty, almost an IMAX type experience of. -- dance. Every
0:21:59 > 0:22:05detail has been carefully crafted. They are projecting a fall in the
0:22:05 > 0:22:09white giant and dust onto a black back drop playing with the themes of
0:22:09 > 0:22:13light and dark and destruction. Technology needs to embrace the art.
0:22:13 > 0:22:19But not be sticking out all by itself. It needs to help, it is like
0:22:19 > 0:22:24a glove to the art to expression. The holographic elision is created
0:22:24 > 0:22:28with the help of two very high end projectors and a special lightweight
0:22:28 > 0:22:34mesh screen. -- illusion. By playing out videos on the front mesh and
0:22:34 > 0:22:38back will it creates an optical illusion of 3-D depth.For the
0:22:38 > 0:22:42performers it is actually really good, they can see the projections
0:22:42 > 0:22:46on the side while they are on stage performing. With other systems, you
0:22:46 > 0:22:53don't really get that same wall. Dancers into position, standby
0:22:53 > 0:23:03lighting and music, Kew projection and action! -- cue.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09MUSIC PLAYS.
0:23:12 > 0:23:12APPLAUSE
0:23:12 > 0:23:14APPLAUSE.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27After all that globetrotting, I have to say there is no place like home.
0:23:27 > 0:23:33There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place
0:23:33 > 0:23:40like...Guards!Yes, banks, voting systems and the NHS were not the
0:23:40 > 0:23:45only ones to have been under attack in 2017. Even in my own castle I
0:23:45 > 0:23:50have my hands full with this lot. We even lost our first guest on the
0:23:50 > 0:23:59show. Sorry can. And in 2018 we will be going back into battle again,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02reporting from wherever we find the best technology from around the
0:24:02 > 0:24:11globe and home. We will see you next year.