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At this festive time of year it is

time to join the team of Click had a

Christmas special.

2017, the year of curious cat 's,

haunting holograms, and trigger

happy trackers.

Hello. It is time to look back on

the year in tech. As 2017 fades

away, we could tell you about all

the technology news that has

happened, at the hacking, be

launching, the automatic driving,

but that would be just like last

year and, come to think of it, the

year before that. So we prefer to

share with you some unforgettable

memories from our year on Click as

we travelled far and wide to bring

you some extraordinary moment is.

And we start with a personal

highlight for me. Back in October we

travelled to Japan and we got rare

access to see how robots are helping

with the dangerous task of cleaning

up the bookish EMA nuclear power

plant after a 's meltdown in 2011.

-- Fukushima. Scary? No. I have worn

a plenty of protective suits in my

time, but they have always been to

protect the environment from my

body. This time it is different. We

are going inside unit five, which is

identical to the units which were

wrecked by the explosions. As you

can imagine, it is really hot inside

this tube. It is a confusing jumble

of walkways and machinery, it is to

be built to appreciate that someone

in here is a seven story Sankai of

water called the primary containment

vessel, the PCV, it is time to go

right underneath the reactor. They

think what happens after the

meltdowns is that the molten fuel

just burned through the bottom of

the Fukushima and came to adhere to

the pedestal. That is where they

think the fuel is now. -- PCV. It is

difficult enough getting through

this place on foot, now imagine

trying to remote control a robot

through this after the whole place

has been mangled by an explosion. Oh

yes, and do it in the dark. This is

a scorpion, its mission was to hunt

for fuel in unit two. Time is of the

essence for any Fukushima robot. The

radiation will eventually damage and

disable its cameras, rendering it

useless. The entire mission can also

be upset by something far more

basic. This is service hatch letter

X six, they were hoping to set a

scorpion robot down this ramp to

fuel the -- filmy molten fuel at the

bottom. It never made it. They did

not get any footage or evidence of

where the fuel was. In unit three

the water is much higher, so they

had to think of another way to get a

robot in. That is where the

miniature fish came in. That is

where it came in. Built to fit

through this 15 centimetre Pipe, it

is a tiny underwater robot with by

propellers, two cameras, and for

human operators. 300 kilometres away

from Fukushima I came face to face

with the star of the investigation.

After two months of practice and

that of the flooded at a still, it

was successful in finding melted

plums of material that could be in

unit three. The commissioning the

site could take up to 40 years and

it could take 8 trillion yen. Those

little robots have a lot riding on

their tiny back.

Ever wondered what get up to when no

one is there? -- cats. Meet Roxie

and Zara who seemed agreeable in

taking part in some gadget testing.

Sorry. If you have ever wanted to

watch, talk to, or even play with

your cat is when you are not with

them, then this could help. Once the

device is connected to your home

Wi-Fi you can log in via the Apa

anywhere you can get your phone

online -- app. There is a laser game

to play, snacks at the tap of an

icon, and a function to make and

share videos and cat snaps. This

rather unusual looking setup works

in quite a similar way. There is a

camera so you can see the cats

remotely, also the ability to give

them food wherever you are. Plus

this toy, which is apparently

something that might like to play

with. -- cats. Zara and Roxie were

possibly slightly intimidated by the

jolting of the battery thing and the

app was extremely temperamental,

making set up a tedious experience.

-- feathery. The Pepe smart goal has

been around for quite awhile and is

available for and dogs. It allows

owners to keep an eye on Tevita,

pulse, breathing rate, heartrate

variability, and even the positions

the pet is in, it can be particular

beneficial if there are health

concerns or an injury to keep an eye

on. Meanwhile, there seems to be a

game of cat and mouse going on. The

latter played by a remote-controlled

rodent. Although it actually

consists of the mouse chasing the

cat, which probably says it all

about my day's filming.

That was Lara with some pretty

disinterested interviewees. You

can't win them all. You know us, we

will report from wherever we find a

good story. There have been semi

great ones. Semi successful ones in

Africa this year. Back in June, Dan

Simmons went to Tanzania to see the

first stages of what could be a

global revolution in education.

We are travelling a long way from

any town or city to visit some of

the 200 children in this village in

northern Tanzania. We are beating up

the Tablet, the first one. The whole

programme is in sight Healy so the

local children can understand. I

think they are going to need more

tablets. This is one of about 150

villages in Tanzania chosen as the

testbed for the global learning X

prize. Within a few months 4000

others will be given out, the

challenge to teach 7- 11-year-old to

read, write, and do maths over the

next year. The most effective app

will win $10 million. The price he

will be much more valuable. Older

children can walk up to four hours

to get to and from school, for

younger ones like this

seven-year-old that is too far. She

has been lucky, she is one of those

who has been chosen to take part in

the challenge. At the start she has

not seen a tablet before so she is

not used to touching screens. When

it comes to reading, she does not

know more than one or two words in a

sentence. But John, who was with the

project, thinks The Tablet will

eventually to read fluently.

The

problem is that there are about 60-

100 million kids who have no access

to school because it is too far.

Then you have 250 million more to go

to school and to leave without ever

having learnt to read or write a

word. They are in Botswana, Boston,

Brighton, it does not matter. Could

go to school all over the world and

they go and do not learn. Why is

that? That is the question we are

trying to address. In our greatest

desire, every single child on planet

Earth has access to a world class

education in the palm of her hand.

We are hoping to be back next you to

see how the teams get along. For now

it is time to say goodbye. We have

brought some biscuits to say thank

you. And suddenly the difficulties

the team faced when they arrived

became clear. We just 20 or so

tablets per village, there simply

won't be enough for everyone to take

part. To reduce potential jealousy,

the tablets will be locked to only

run the educational software, but

everyone wants one. A village of

mamma has been chosen to settle any

dispute. In the skin's partners,

UNESCO, will be asking some other

important questions about tablets as

well -- scheme stipulate we are

doing assessments of the social and

emotional impact of such learning,

because we expect some criticism

from that site. We are engaging with

the psychologist, anthropologist,

educationalists, to try to

understand what does it do to the

child?

Is it an option that is

ethical because children go to

school, they are socialised also, it

is not only the community of

learning, it is learning to be part

of the group.

It is just like back

at home. Now they have all got

tablets. They are not really talking

to anybody.

That was down in Tanzania. Next, we

are off to Germany with K2 has found

an elevator that goes sideways --

Kate. This picturesque town in

Germany, home to this and dogs,

chocolate box buildings, and a 246

metre tower holding the tallest

observation deck in Germany. But

this tower is not just about great

views. Built by an elevator company,

it has wild lift shaft running

inside it. One is used to transport

passengers to be top, the other to

test the latest in technology.

It is

in the core of the tower. Only a few

people really have the chance to see

what we have built and what is

running Bear. An elevator without

any ropes. -- running there.

This is

revolutionary. The cabin is carried

by linear motors, it is the same

technology that creates Japan's will

train. As well is eliminating the

speed and height restriction of

today's technology, this allows

passengers to travel sideways as

well as up and down, just like Willy

Wonka's fantastic elevator in

Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Behind the scenes, behind the car,

we changed this. Get prepared for

the horizontal movement. As soon as

the doors close we can go sideways

to the next shaft. And this is the

most important thing that we come

back to a circulating system.

Reinventing the Paternoster.

Using

this circulating pattern means a

lift shaft could hold ten or more

caverns, much more efficient than a

single up and down right that

today's elevator is our limited to.

And this will only become more

important when we start looking at

elevator is reaching perhaps 1000 or

more metres into the sky.

That was Kate going sideways. And so

are we. We are off to the place

where China makes the world Tech,

the city of Shenzhen, where last

month I got exclusive prelaunch

access to see how when you smart

phone is born.

-- how when you smart phone. They

make loads of different types of

phones in this factory, so to keep

the secret from other workers,

everything happens behind the blue

shroud of secrecy. Are you ready?

Thank you. Come in.

Welcome to production

Welcome to production line

Welcome to production line 27.

Welcome to production line 27. The

phone starts life as just a tiny

camera, there and it is gradually

assembled around this you shaped

production line, which means by the

time it gets to the end it is a

fully featured phone. Just about

there. This is the reasons China has

come to dominate technology

manufacturing, a disciplined

workforce, each person has one

particular job which has precision.

A single speck of dust and a single

phone will be rejected. What I found

most surprising about this is it is

all people stop it I would have

thought with this kind of high

precision job the stones would have

been built solely by machines but it

is pretty much all humans. This is

where an unlucky few phones are

pulled off the production line to

check extreme tolerance. Elsewhere,

other test phones escape that a

plunge but instead are drop 5000

times each. Others have their

charging point whittled and buttons

pressed 10,000 times. With the

launch over, one class will

nervously await first reviews and

more importantly, the transporters.

They will decide whether these

people will be joined by hundreds

more or not. A fascinating points

behind the curtain in China. And now

it is time to leave Earth entirely

for a few minutes to remember how

the click crew explore the final

frontier in VR.

Virtual reality game Star Trek

Bridge crew brings together up to

four players, each taking a

different role on the bridge of a

starship.

That is brilliant.

Incredible!

Oh my goodness, Mark!

We

are walking everybody.

Way owl!

-- Wow.

We don't have time to sightseeing as

we received a distress signal from a

stricken vessel.

Engineering, can

you transport the survivors back

here?

I don't know.

LAUGHTER

you transport the survivors back

here?

I don't know.

LAUGHTER.

It is

at this moment that the action takes

a turn which will appeal to Star

Trek super fans.

It has defied one

cruiser. It is a Klingon D5 cruiser.

OK, target it!

Target to sure it! --

destroyed.

It feels like VR at its

best.

Adjudication is a must, you

would complete the mission.

Rate to

ten building.

A couple of sticky

moments but only think we managed to

keep it together as a crew and the

result was a successful mission.

Now, one thing we love to do on

Click is to look at how things might

change significantly in the future.

One area that we think is about to

pop onto the scene and possibly on

to many people 's plates is lab

grown meat. I am talking burgers,

steaks and fish. Got a taste for it?

Back in July, Cap Hawkins visited

the cultured food capital, San

Francisco, to see what is cooking. I

have come to this lab in the heart

of Silicon valley to visit

impossible to. They claim to have

invented food of the future on a

completely meatless meat made

entirely of plants. Impossible foods

found that the key ingredient that

gives meet its characteristic taste

is a molecule found in most living

things and especially in animal

must. It luckily, it is also found

in plants.

This is your magic

ingredient, your plate -based blood.

Right and it provides the explosion

of flavour that you get, it is the

different between white meat chicken

with a beef burger.

The company has

recently flipped the switch on its

meatless meatpacking factory as it

rents up reduction. This will

eventually make 4 million burgers

are months and the next aim is to

move into chicken, pork and lamb.

But it is one thing being a

scientist who is enthralled by food

tech and another to be a chef using

the ingredient produced on a

carefully crafted menu.

I think we

eat way too much meat in general, so

it is a good way to be as close as

possible to meet that looks and

tastes.

The impossible burger is now

the only one Rocco has on his menu

and he sells 250 of them are weak.

It seems like at this stage it might

be a novelty for Silicon valley

diners, but of course, as always,

the true test is in the tasting.

OK,

it is about to happen. It's really

good. The texture is just like meat.

It doesn't taste like Vince beef. A

little bit like mushrooms, but I

know there is no mushrooms in there.

-- mints. What comes across as

important is that it is important

that the flavour tastes close to

meet while being ethical. What if

you could serve up animal flesh

without the single creature being

harmed? That is what this company is

working on. They plan to grow actual

fish from stem cells. Phyllis Booth

takes a small sample of cells from a

real fish and conjures it up. One

cell can theoretically come one ton

of fish meat but they are not there

yet.

Will be on the market in three

years with products that are a new

version of fish that people haven't

had before and in five to six years

we will have steaks and fillets,

just like the fish you normally see

in the ocean.

Cap Hawkins reporting

back in this summer. From California

to the Netherlands where Nick

witnessed a dense with a new

hologram effect. -- VR. Today

choreographers and dancers are

working with a new medium for

artistic expression. They are taking

to excerpts from so-called stop

ocean and are adapting it to include

holographic projection is.

It is a

really, treaty, almost an IMAX type

experience of. -- dance. Every

detail has been carefully crafted.

They are projecting a fall in the

white giant and dust onto a black

back drop playing with the themes of

light and dark and destruction.

Technology needs to embrace the art.

But not be sticking out all by

itself. It needs to help, it is like

a glove to the art to expression.

The holographic elision is created

with the help of two very high end

projectors and a special lightweight

mesh screen. -- illusion. By playing

out videos on the front mesh and

back will it creates an optical

illusion of 3-D depth.

For the

performers it is actually really

good, they can see the projections

on the side while they are on stage

performing. With other systems, you

don't really get that same wall.

Dancers into position, standby

lighting and music, Kew projection

and action! -- cue.

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After all that globetrotting, I have

to say there is no place like home.

There's no place like home. There's

no place like home. There's no place

like...

Guards!

Yes, banks, voting

systems and the NHS were not the

only ones to have been under attack

in 2017. Even in my own castle I

have my hands full with this lot. We

even lost our first guest on the

show. Sorry can. And in 2018 we will

be going back into battle again,

reporting from wherever we find the

best technology from around the

globe and home. We will see you next

year.