the consumer electronics show now takes place across the city in hotels like this and also in the massive las vegas convention center. this is where we get a taste of the tech trends to come for the new year. and over the years we have seen it all here. autonomous cars going up and down the strip, even a flying one on the sidewalk. so what's going to be big this year? it is time to find out. the self—proclaimed most powerful tech show on earth truly is global, with companies from around the world battling for attention and some splashing out to make a real spectacle. there's even a mini theme park in one of the halls this year with a hydrogen powered train that goes all of a few meters. so lovely of them, to name it after me, too.

i think that's a different desk. okay. but after a year of tech hitting the headlines, often for the wrong reasons, there's no existential crisis here. the buzz is back. the party's pumping and siesta to scramble of people, products and predictions for our future lives. everything you could ever think up appears to fill these seemingly endless aisles where incredible innovation collides with absurd apparatus, allowing you to take the mike. go for a ride on the news or shoot some hoops. honestly, i don't know what all the fuss is about. it's easy talking of hoops. even next year's drone soccer championship has a stand. although it's more like quidditch, if you ask me.

there was a time when ces would feature a deluge of tvs, each one bigger, brighter, sharper, smoother and thinner than the next. they are still here, including the occasional whopper. but tv picture quality is improving much more incrementally these days, and the real screen innovations are happening elsewhere. got to hand it to lg, the company always puts on a display, and this year that display is transparent. these oled screens look astonishing. although, come to think of it, you probably wouldn't really want to see through your tv screen at home. you'd want blacks to be black, wouldn't you? so i feel this is probably more for use in eye catching advertising displays. oh, and even though it says wireless, that's not quite true. you still need a power cable, which does beg the question, why not run the hdmi cable into

it at the same time? transparency does seem to be a thing this year. through too. now, the video actually comes from a normal projector, but whereas that projection would go right through normal glass or plastic, this so—called nano optic material catches more of the image. it really does look quite bright in real life. so in theory, with this material, any window could become a display. this is a mesh of led pixels, but between the pixels, instead of there just being black fabric or even glass, there's holes. so you get this transparent display effects that's much easier to manufacture, especially at size than normal led or lcd panels. here's something the first caught my eye a couple of years ago.

the looking glass display is the best glasses less 3d display i've come across, and it's now available in a big and a small version. as you move your head, it's lenticular screen really does allow you to see the images from different perspectives. unlike traditional 3d tvs here, the background really does emerge from behind the foreground as you move from side to side. well, one of the first things that many of us do in the morning is look in a mirror. so if you're not wearing numerous health trackers like i do. how about the idea of that mirror being able to tell you how your health is doing? lindsey, let's have it go. tell me about the technology, first of all. absolutely. so this is our newest product. it's our magic mirror.

and what it does, it does a 30 second video selfie, and we're actually measure over 30 vital signs and risk of disease parameters. so everything from heart rate, breathing, blood pressure to actual risk of cardiovascular disease, risk of stroke, risk of fatty liver disease, many different parameters. how on earth do you assess all of that from looking at someone with a camera? yes. so how it works is we're actually measuring the facial blood flow patterns underneath your skin using reflective light patterns. so we use a process called transdermal optical imaging. and so what happens is we take a 30 second scan, we analyse your facial blood flow patterns, and then it gets sent up to the cloud for processing. and so we output all these calculations. 0k, brilliant. well, so we try to have a go. let's try it. sit still. and it's it's already begun the scan. so we'll have your results quite shortly. make sure you're in the right spot and it'll be done in 30 seconds. i'm doing well on most of these things, which is great. my risk of heart disease, stroke all incredibly low. but some of these things, it's hard to imagine how they would be calculated when it comes to something like type two diabetes risk. how would earth could it assess that?

so in the background, we have a population of about 40,000 patients where what we've done is we've taken their demographic info all their medical history. so this number you see here is the percentage of users with your facial blood flow patterns who are at risk of developing type two diabetes. great, if it's not going to get you in a panic when things aren't right. and there was one little niggle in my brief experiment. whilst the differences are pretty negligible, i've already done the scan a couple of minutes after doing it the first time and the figures are just slightly different. it tells me i'm 36. apparently i was 38 a couple of minutes ago. same face, but i'm happy to go with this one. meanwhile, plenty of wearables being launched here, and many of them are pretty compact, too. in fact, there's a whole trend for smart rings with a few new ones. launching the aura has been popularfor a while, but this is ultra human. this goes beyond tracking your daily activities and giving you a readiness score, though it actually acts as one big data

platform, bringing in information from blood tests and also if you wish, for a continuous glucose monitor. so for example, you could see how the sugar that you've eaten has affected your night's sleep by having all of that in one place, much hype about it in tech circles as the company has high hopes. initially, the blood function will be india only before expanding and an air quality monitor to also think the conditions you sleep in is coming. here's a bit of a different way of being able to assess your heart rate and how stressed you may be. these are my mic now, they work as regular earbuds. you can listen to music, talk on them, but they also are listening within your ear, like your ear becomes a speaker to your heart. it is very buzzy here, but i'm feeling quite zen.

it's just a couple of minutes it's told me my heart rate was 57, my heart rate variability was 51. and apparently i have well in the rest of digest category, not fight or flight. these devices do also seem to incorporate our mental health too, in particular stress. from concept cars to electric figures via bikes lifted straight out of tron vehicles. and now big news in vegas. but it's notjust the cars themselves vying for attention, a major theme coming from many of the companies focused on what the marketing speak labels as the in—car experience. it's essentially using tech to make you, the driver the star of the show so naturally. of the show so naturally, one car company brought in a star of their own to demonstrate their latest big idea. imagine a car that's creatively bold.

now imagine a song conducted by the road. wil i.am to create sound drive and your foot on the pedal. means it's time to jam. it takes telemetry and information from a range of sensors, including acceleration, steering and gps, to dynamically change specially produced tracks in real time. baseline running. how do you simulate gravity pushing down on the engine where you have those subtle oscillations? there's like some subtleties that happen when you you feel that you hear that if you pay attention. and because i'm an audio nerd, i pointed that out and i told them, hey, i think i could solve that. if you give me sensors, i could point those sensors to an audio generation engine and i could oscillate gravity pushing down on an engine. i could simulate that. and then i said, "hey, but i think the future "of electric vehicles is more

than a vroom, vroom. "if you if you if you let me just, like, go free fly, i think i could come up with something truly transformational. " and so they were like, yeah, try it out. i'm like, are you serious? and so they were like, yeah, try it out. i'm like, are you serious? naturally, i wanted to give it a go. to sample that in my experience for myself. this is wild. it's undoubtedly impressive from a tech and music perspective. wow. i really feel that rise up with the acceleration. so what this system is doing is it's collecting information from all of the sensors in the car. so that's accelerating, braking, steering, and it's using that information to dynamically adapt the music that's playing. it's pretty cool. but it will be user an industry take up that determines whether it goes beyond a very fun gimmick. and that's it from vegas. for the short version of the programme, full length show

can be found on iplayer. and we'll be back here next week. you do not want to miss it, so we'll see you there. see you there. hello. i think we've seen the last of the widespread cold, frosty days. on friday, there was plenty of blue sky and wintry sunshine for many of us, as was the picture in dudley. but things are changing now. we've got milder air moving in in time for the weekend and also much windier weather. in fact, the met office have named storm isha. that's on the way, particularly late sunday into monday bringing severe gales and disruption to travel power perhaps is likely. but let's have a look at saturday. first off, this band of rain will affect central portions of the uk,

perhaps southern scotland, northern england into wales as well. there'll be some sunshine across much of the midlands, south—east england and east anglia and some brighter skies across the north—east of scotland too. temperatures around six or seven in the east, but we're back into double figures towards the west — ten degrees for the likes of belfast and glasgow, for instance. later on saturday, heavier rain moves in from the west. the winds are going to pick up as well. that system sweeps its way eastwards into the early hours of sunday, followed by more showers. it isn't going to be cold and frosty as we start sunday morning. we've got too much wind and the showers around from the word go. but let's take a look at sunday in a bit more detail because here is storm isha developing in the atlantic, sweeping its way in. just look at all these isobars across the uk between the warm front and the cold front. that's where we're going to see really strong gusts, perhaps 70 or 80 miles an hour. so for sunday, some rain initially for northern ireland sweeping into other western parts of britain. there could be a little bit of snow just across the very highest ground for scotland. still chilly air in the far north of scotland, but much milder, 12 or 13.

but the real emphasis on sunday, particularly later, is going to be the strength of the wind. we've got amber warnings for storm isha across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, western parts of england and wales and the south—east as well. gusts 70, 80 miles an hour, enough to cause some significant disruption. big waves, i think, around the coast with this storm system as well. now heading on into monday, we've still got the brisk winds at first. they should ease a little bit through the day, but it is going to be another really windy day with heavy showers rattling in across the north and the west. should be mostly dry, i think later on in the south, in the east and temperatures somewhere between about six to 12 degrees for this stage — not quite as mild as sunday. but things are looking unsettled through the week ahead, often pretty windy, showery rain around at times those temperatures much milder than they have been. bye— bye.

live from washington. this is bbc news. the leaders of the us and israel speak about gaza for the first time in weeks, amid differences over the issue of a two—state solution. actor alec baldwin faces a new charge, over a fatal shooting on a movie set in 2021. he has long denied any wrong—doing. and with women's reproductive health a key issue in the us 2024 election, anti—abortion activists rally in the nation's capital. i'm helena humphrey. we begin with a look at the growing divide between two allies over the future of gaza. us presidentjoe biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on friday, theirfirst talk in nearly a month. mr biden re—affirmed washington's commitment