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2019 starts with the consumer electronics show in las vegas. this is where you come to see all the big new tech. the crazy new ideas and the occasional polar bear. anything to get attention, basically, which is vegas all over. but what does it all mean? what will the coming year look like? what is the important tech that you need to look out for? the big screen technology here is oled, and lg display is the only company making large oled screens. the tech has several advantages. it can be curved, it can do really black blacks, or it can be transparent. it can also be very thin,

and of course it can be 8k, which is all the rage here, four times the resolution of 4k. the simple structure of oled also means you can attach these things called exciters to the back of the display. those are really really thin things that turn the whole display into a speaker. there are about five exciters on the back of this screen, and i have to say, it really does sound like the audio is coming from the right part of the picture. and that is basically because it is. and finally this year, we have seen actual practical uses of possibly oled's coolest feature — it can be bendy. if you have been meaning for a while to getting around to having an eye test but have not had time, the solution could be this. this device attaches to a smartphone and you can test your own eyes.

what you do is, you look through one eye at a time, there is a green line and a red line, and you need to get them to move closer together. just tap this button on top to do it, and... there we go. i hope i'm not going to learn anything surprising. repeat the process on each eye and from there if needed, you will be told your prescription, so you can order glasses online. but you will probably also want to know what the numbers it comes up with actually mean. this one means you have slight nearsightedness. 0k. not too bad, but you might want to go to the eye doctor and just check out your eyes. ok, so the job hasn't totally been done with this. no. at least it is a start, and each time i tested the device it did come up with a consistent results. a new year, a new me.

around this suit are various sensors that are analysing my motion, and the idea is they will tell me if i am using the correct posture or not when using various exercises. so if i am not doing my lunges correctly, they will give me a ruddy good telling off. phone: ankle too shallow. accelerometers, gyroscopes and e—compasses inside the racefit suit measure what i am doing, and how i am doing it. which allows its accompanying app to suitably berate me. phone: hip position too high. arm angle too deep. argh! you have to wirelessly charge it up, but it is machine washable, thank goodness. well, there is something we can't unsee. self driving cars. and we are nowhere near having fully autonomous cars on the road yet, but here is a demo where i can use an app to make a fairly autonomous car reverse out of its parking space and drive

to a preprogrammed pickup spot. you have to have driven the route first, so it can learn it, but it can deviate from the route enough to avoid hitting things or people. there is loads of self driving car tech here at ces, but there are other exciting things going on in—car too, and dave lee is one of them. here he is. so audi thinks it has come up with an idea to keep us more entertained while we are travelling in the back of a car. i'll check it out. how are we doing? alright, enjoy the ride! this vr system was made in collaboration with disney, and it monitors data from the car's actual movements. so when i pull away, i really feel it, because the car is moving. what we have created basically is a completely new category of content, because it is the first time that it is something that works best in the car. i'm shooting in the game, i'm looking around, obviously

the movement is determined by where the car is moving. so i don't feel in control of where i am going, but it does make it feel very physical. but i don't know, something about the combination of virtual reality and whizzing around a racetrack didn't feel too good. truth be known, i'm not a skilled boxer — more into unboxing, if you know what i mean — but although the botboxer here is successfully dodging most of myjabs, it is letting me land the occasional hit. its infrared sensor keeps track of me and its reaction times can be set to match the skill of the opponent, along with how

tired it gets over time, and how many mistakes it makes, to give one a fighting chance. now at the moment for some reason they have got this set to amateur mode, but... you can turn the sensitivity all the way up — at which point they say no human can actually punch fast enough. so let's do that now. ok, now it is impossible to hit, even in slow motion. all right, let's get a professional in here. this is alex thiel, middleweight champion and marginally better than me. he is playing the botboxer in knockout mode and is doing all right. johnny tocco's gym has been here in las vegas for 70 years, and the most famous boxers in the world have sparred here.

george foreman, muhammad ali, mike tyson — and maybe alex will be among those names, one day. we've asked him to try out something that is on show at ces for the first time, something that helps to detect a massive problem in boxing and in sport generally. concussion. eye—sync uses a modified vr headset to track how accurately alex's eyes can follow moving points. same deal, follow the target positions. the system can then tell whether there might be an underlying brain injury to be concerned about. here, the results show that alex's left brain responds better than his right. nothing to worry about at the moment, but something which can be worked on. it's in use already by the golden state warriors basketball team here in the us, and eye—sync‘s creators say the system could also help look for early signs of dementia. meanwhile, nick has met a different alex, who has created something

to prevent injuries in the first place. not in boxing, but in cycling. today we know the main areas that are impacted during an accident are the head, the thorax and the neck. so this is why we decided to develop the b'safe airbag vest, which protects those areas. ok, let's put it to the test. ouch! let's see that an instant replay. embedded sensors follow the rider's motion so when the speed or angle doesn't add up, it inflates in one tenth of a second, cushioning the impact. now, does this act as a flotation device?

health tech is always big at the show, but this year there are a few companies offering medication—free pain relief. hypnovr is one, with what they describe as medical hypnosis, although the pain i was subjected to testing it was pretty minor. that didn't really hurt, but i'm not sure how much it would have hurt if i didn't have these on. there's no doubt that was relaxing. the idea is that some procedures could possibly be done with local anaesthetic instead of general anaesthetic if people were feeling calm enough. it's hard for me to judge, because obviously all i had to do was lie here. nothing was being done to me, apart from somebody pinching my hand — thanks for that.

but hey, i feel relaxed. how clean is your drinking water? here we have six cups of america's finest filter water, and if i get the testdrop pro, i can move it slowly towards this plastic cup and it gives me a blue light, which tells me it's ok to drink. the accompanying app gives me a chance of contamination of a0%. if i do this to each of the other cups, we can see that that one is clean as well. what it's actually doing is measuring the differences in the electric field for water that is contaminated and is not contaminated. now, what we haven't told it is that this last cup of filtered water has been spat in by the boss. and look — red light. yeah, so, there's a chance of contamination, 90%. it feels a bit like witchcraft, doesn't it? but it does seem to work. and we have two stock the short

version right here with the big clappers who are from japan. in the full—length version of the programme we have set ourselves the challenge of summarising ces 2019 by bringing you 20 bits of technology in 19 minutes, to see how we get on, check out iplayer right now. from the short version, see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. an outcry from politicians and the public after an mp verbally abused during a live interview. is it time the bbc moved its broadcast back indoors? and question time returns with a new presenter. how did fiona bruce go down with the audience? at the start of a crucial and dramatic week of parliamentary debate, afternoon live decamped on monday, along with some other news channel programmes,

to the bbc‘s temporary presentation spot on a patch of grass outside the palace of westminster. among simon mccoy's guests there was saffron cordery, the deputy chief executive of nhs providers, responding to the government's ten—year plan for the health service. crowd shouts. we've got 100,000 vacancies across the nhs. that's not just nurses. that's doctors, that's healthcare assistants, that's other healthcare professionals. we really have to bridge that gap before we can deliver those services we need to see. i was hoping not to mention the b word but obviously brexit overshadows all of this? absolutely. it's quite... in every way. audibly overshadowing our conversation today. well, some viewers objected to that audible overshadowing, including chris morley, who e—mailed: we discussed on this programme before christmas

the noisy disruptions of live broadcasts outside parliament, but since then, protesters for and against brexit have become more numerous and more distracting, as we saw elsewhere on monday's programme. what does the irish backstop mean? man shouting. this is central to theresa may's problems, at the moment? it's meant to be an insurance policy. a lot of reassurance in the words there but the trouble is it doesn't alter the fact that the backstop is still there in the withdrawal agreement and there is no unilateral exit. i should make the point, they are not shouting at you — they are shouting at colleagues not far away. but, unlike with correspondent chris morris there, the offstage comments heard during an interview with anna soubry, conservative mp, and passionate anti—brexiteer, were most definitely directed at her. this could go on for a while. that's the other thing

that now has got to happen.