tv Click BBC News January 13, 2019 3:30pm-4:01pm GMT
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web red frost—free, quite a web red phosphor scotla nd frost—free, quite a web red phosphor scotland first thing on monday. that colder air and started trickle as we felt through the day on monday so definitely a chilly feel to proceedings. hopefully a bit of sunshine, some thicker cloud in the east and the cloud thickening in the west. our temperatures down on the weekend, just 4 degrees there in aberdeen. hello, this is bbc news with julian worricker. the headlines: theresa may has warned mps preparing to vote on her eu withdrawal deal that a failure to deliver brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy." the head of a scheme designed to help problem gamblers says she is "deeply concerned" after an investigation found people were able to cheat the system. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has referred herself to a standards panel over her actions during an investigation into alex salmond. greater manchester police are continuing their investigation into a hit—and—run accident in which an 11—year—old boy died last night.
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parts of germany, austria and sweden are suffering exceptional amounts of snow, with a number of ski resorts and mountain villages having to be evacuated. now on bbc news, it's click. this week, the big hitters for 2019, starring bed rockers, skintight suits, the new click intern and queen... # we will, we will rock you... # well, sort of. 2019 starts with the consumer electronic show in las vegas.
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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? we're going to try and tell the story of ces 2019 by bringing you 20 bits of tech in 19 minutes. blimey, that's a lot of stuff in not a lot of time. we better crack on. quick tip — ces is always a mix of big trends and stuff and nonsense. i'll leave you to work out which is which. so reset the counter, reset the clock, and we'll start with something that is always big here — tvs. the big screen technology here is 0led, and lg display is the only company making large 0led screens.
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now 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, with four times the resolution of 4k. the simple structure of 0led also means you can attach these things called exciters to the back of the display. now those are really, really thin things that turn the whole display into a speaker. now there are about five exciters, i think, on the back of the screen. i have to say it really does sound like the audio is coming from the right part of the picture — and that's basically because it is. and finally this year, we've seen actual practical uses of possibly 0led's coolest feature. it can be bendy. flexible displays, what will they think of doing with them next?
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anyway, good, 0led is off and running. here comes lara with number two. well, if you've been meaning for a while to getting around to having an eye test but haven't quite had time, the solution could be this. this device attaches to a smartphone and you can test your own eyes. now what you do is, you look through one eye at a time and there is a green line and a red line. and you need to get them to move closer together. you 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'll be told your prescription so you can order glasses online. but you probably also want to know what the numbers it comes up with actually mean. this one means you have slight near-sightedness. 0k. not too bad, but you might want to go to a doctor and just check out your eyes. ok, so the job hasn't actually been
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totally done with this? no. well, at least it's a start and each time i tested the device, it did come up with consistent results. a new year, a new me. # let's go... # so around the suit are various sensors that are analysing my motion, and the idea is that they will be able to tell me if i'm using the correct posture or not when doing various exercises. so if i am not doing my lunges correctly, it gives me a ruddy good telling off. front leg angle too shallow. accelerometers, gyroscopes and e—compasses inside the suit measure what i am doing and how i am doing it, which allows its accompanying app to suitably berate me. hip position too high. arm angle too deep. you have to wirelessly charge it up, but it is machine washable. thank goodness.
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well, there's something we can't unsee. right, number four. 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 pick—up 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. 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'm going to check it out. how are we doing? all right, enjoy the ride. i'm ready. this vr system was made in collaboration with disney,
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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 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 am looking around. obviously the movement is determined by where the car is moving, so i don't feel in control of where i'm 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. it said it wouldn't make me nauseous. that was a lie. but it's ok because on the ces show floor i found a different approach. this is a effort by intel and warner brothers to imagine how we might entertain ourselves when cars are self driving. hello, sir.
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here we go. the monitor is coming up in a very, you know, dramatic fashion. this is very futuristic. yes. there's also this safety tablet which displays data on what is happening around the car, back in the real world. that was dave in a car, now how are we doing? five down. plenty more to go but we are going to stop counting for a few minutes to bring you some of the big announcements from ces this year. this place is full of weird and wonderful stuff. some you may think is slightly over—engineered, though. everybody needs a smart lightsabre, obviously. definitely. you can track your success on a smartphone. yeah. every year thousands of companies, big and small flock here to show off their wares but usually the big three are notably absent. google broke the tradition last year, though,
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attending for the first time, and this year it really went to town. unveiled here is the google assistant‘s new interpreter mode. 0k, google, be my french interpreter. je parle un petit peu de francais. i speak a little bit of french. first—time! i will speak to myself. ok, maybe it doesn't get it every, time, but it is pretty slick. merci beaucoup, au revoir. thank you very much, goodbye. amazon is showing off its echo auto, making alexa available to most cars. meanwhile, apple may not be here, but it is still making some noise. we are thrilled to share a true first. samsung customers in over 100 countries will be able to enjoy itunes movies and tv shows. this itunes app tie—up
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is unique to samsung, but other manufacturers are also getting something apple, and that is airplay, which would be built into some lg, sony and vizio tvs. and as usual, the stands are full of bright tv. samsung is showing off a micro led display which delivers extra high colour definition. the screen is made up of many tiny micro leds tightly grouped together which can light up independently. this feature allows for very high—contrast and extra—bright images, and it is modular so extra bits can be added to change its size and make for different viewing experiences. here is a 200—inch one. most tvs on show here are 8k, but most of the content we have isn't,
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and this is where ai comes to the rescue. manufacturers are building artificial intelligence into tv sets to up—res the content they receive. and it's all about al in these halls this year. beyond voice activation for everything, even your toilet, ai is featuring in many smart devices. and i no longer need to worry how much energy my smart devices are using, because i found a treadmill that will harness the power of my work—out. i mightjust need to go a little bit faster. that was lara, and now time to restart the clock, and it turns out nick is not the only one who has been to the gym recently. i'm facing up to a very unusual opponent. truth be known, i'm not a skilled boxer —
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more into unboxing, if you know what i mean. but although the bot boxer here is successfully dodging most of myjabs, it is letting me land the occasional hit. its infrared sensors keep 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. 52. 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. 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. step back.
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yeah, shut up. this is alex thiel, national middleweight champion and marginally better than me. he's playing the bot boxer in knockout mode. and he's doing all right. johnny tocco's gym has been here in 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. eyesync uses a modified vr headset to track how accurately alex's eyes can follow moving points. same deal, follow those target positions. the system can then tell whether there may be an underlying brain injury to be concerned about. here the results show that alex's left brain responds better than his right, nothing
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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 eyesync‘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 impacted during an accident are the head, the thorax and the neck. so this is why we decided to develop this where it is able to protect the thorax, the neck and the back. ok, let's put it to the test. ouch.
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let's see that in instant replay. you all right? yeah. 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 impact. now, does this act as a flotation device? what do you mean? thank you. health tech is always big at the show but this year there are a few companies offering medication—free pain relief. hypno vr 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 would have hurt if i doesn't have these on. there's no doubt that was relaxing.
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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? well, here we have six cups of america's finest filter water, and if i get the lishtot testdrop pro and move it slowly towards this plastic cup, it gives me a blue light which tells me it's ok to drink. the accompanying app gives me a chance of contamination of 40%. but if i do this to each of the other cups, you can see that one is clean as well. what it is actually doing is measuring the differences in the electric field for water that's contaminated and not contaminated. now, what we haven't told it
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is this last cup of filtered water has been spat in by the boss. and look. red light. the app says the chance of contamination is 90%. feels a bit like witchcraft, doesn't it? but it does seem to work. 0k, next up it's chris fox who has been out in the sun, cheers. this is no ordinary suncream spray — my body and the droplets have been electrically charged to give me a flawless coating. here i am putting on suncream by hand in front of a uv camera. the suncream absorbs uv light so it shows up black here and makes it easy to see if i have missed a bit. could electrically charged spray offer better protection? so here's how it works. 0n the spray bottle there are two metal pads, and when you squeeze them, it puts an electric charge into your body. the droplets it sprays are attracted to your skin. it is a bit like when your hair is attracted to a balloon
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with static electricity. the company that has made this is called wagner. they're a german company known for their industrial sprayers so they are more used to coating car parts. the prototype sprays factor 6 and factor 10 suncream, so it doesn't look as dark on camera, but when i pull back my top i was really surprised, it did give me a smooth coating of suncream. there are still a few problems to iron out with the prototype. one of them is that after using it, if you touch anyone, you give them quite a nasty static shock, and the second one is you are not really supposed to use it on your face. the company did warn me that those statically—charged particles will stick everywhere on your skin. they find their way up your nose, they go into your ears, the find their way into your eyes, even if you have got your eyes closed. now it's notjust for suncream. the company also plans to offer things like body oil. you can appreciate the applications where this might be useful, as with the suncream, or perhaps with a spray tan. where getting an even coating is absolutely crucial. despite the surplus
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products on show, there has been a lot of talk about sustainability this year, and that includes how we run our smart homes. what i have here is a smart socket. the idea is you can charge your devices through this, and as soon as they are fully powered, it will automatically switch itself off. not only does this make things safer, but it will also mean that you should use less electricity. the one right here is the european version, so it looks a little bit messy with all of the adapters we have attached, but later this year, there will be versions released for the rest of the world. whilst right now the main use of this may be for laptops or for phones the company hopes that in the future people are going to be using it for electric bikes or cars. 0r there is this smart home switch, which once it is set up, doesn't need any leads or any recharging, and with the touch of a button it can operate your sonos or your phillips hue lighting. this has energy harvesting
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technology which claims to provide enough power byjust doing this to make it work. but for those who are more interested in convenience, this infrared charging transmitter is hoping to help. the light signal is transmitted to the wide charge receivers that can either be in the form of plug—in chargers or actually embedded in the company's home devices. but whilst this kind of charging may prove less energy—efficient, the company does hope it will be used as part of an ecosystem which makes it simple to turn this off whenever it is not in use. ok, that is sustainability. item 12 of 20 done. right, let's rattle through some more. now, if you do come to ces, don't forget to check out eureka park. this is where all the new, new ideas are being formed, including this, a fully customisable keyboard.
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with an electronic ink display, behind which means you can have qwerty, you can go azerty, chinese, japanese, whatever you fancy. this is also where you will find your new companion robot, another big thing this year. this one is on the japanese external trade stand. in the french area, you can have a drink and a snack from the butler bots known as the fresh geoffrey of france. that's the fresh geoffrey of france. this is a desktop dishwasher. you don't need to plumb it in, just fill it up with a gallon of water, hit the button on the remote control, bosh, does the dishes. the bumpy roof looks cool, but it also disperses the water for a more even clean. next, take some coloured plasticine, make a model, scan it with the clone app and then hit the ar animate button to bring it to life and rejoice as your monstrosity hops its way across the floor. that is augmented reality, number 16, done.
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pretty cool, eh? not as cool, though, as nick. away from the show floor, i'm going subzero to test out a nifty new wearable. better crack that up to 11. this is the embr wave wristband and acts like your own personal air—conditioner unit but instead of air it uses a thermo—electric module acting as a heater. it sends you regular pulses of heat to apparently change your body temperature, up to five degrees. i certainly need it in this baltic environment. ok, so it's not really suitable for such harsh conditions. it is intended more for the sudden temperature changes during the morning commute or to improve your individual temperature in communal areas. heaven forbid you should open a window or put on more clobber. it may be warming up my wrist but my toes are absolutely freezing. time to get a little warmer,
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me thinks. getting a bit too hot now. that's better. the show floor can get really exhausting. i think i need a lie down. wow, that feels a bit strange. there is a motor inside moving it from side to side, and actually this was the creation of someone who had been on a cruise and enjoyed the rocking movement so much they wanted to recreate it, and then hopefully you'll sleep like a baby. it's weird. it feels awkward when i close my eyes. it feels better to have my eyes open, which is no use whatsoever for sleeping. maybe the bigger problem right now is that it is a bit noisy to sleep round here, but luckily i have got these, some active noise cancellation
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earbuds which are specifically for sleeping. so you put them in like this. the microphone in them will pick up the sound around you and will create some anti—noise so it feels like you can't hear anything in them as it drowns out the other sound. now, of course i can still hear. there is something going on here because this is a very loud environment. 0bviously no—one is going to sleep in a noise like this. but it is definitely quieter. sound feels a lot flatter. but the question is, can you get used to sleeping with these in your ears, and are they going to stay in? let's have a little fidget around to see. and a huge round of applause for lara with number 19. the big clappers here make it 20. we've done it and that's worth a big hand, too. these things are from japan, enough said. and that is ces 2019 all wrapped up, 20 things in 19 minutes. these are the only things you need to bother about in the next year. unless i'm wrong, in which case
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we'll see you next week. is hello. we definitely seemed a lwa ys is hello. we definitely seemed always more in noel sunshine across the uk today than yesterday, but as the uk today than yesterday, but as the skies cleared, we've also imported some chillier air, so it has felt pressure, despite the brighter weather. the reason it's turned a little chilly is a cold front has sunk its way south across the uk, not producing much in the way of rain but allowing some relatively cold air in. behind this
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band of showers working its way south there is cooler air still. we have had a windy day, those winds will gradually ease through the night, the weather feature will gradually ease through the night, the weatherfeature kind of fizzles out in terms of bringing many showers as it makes its way south, certainly the cold air does speed and behind it, a frosty start for scotland on monday. further south nous li—sd, typically frost free apart from one or two isolated spots. for monday the story is of a fresher day for most of us, but then temperatures will bounce back up for tuesday, then towards the end of the week they will tail back down to below average values again, so a fluctuating story in the next five days. monday, largely underthe influence of high pressure, the tail end of that weather feature in the east on monday may be giving us isolated showers, a warm front trying to come into the west.
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essentially a dry day, a pretty bright day for many, but with a fresher feel, just four degrees in aberdeen. but remember this area of cloud and drizzly rain, as i said, it isa cloud and drizzly rain, as i said, it is a warm front which will run across us into tuesday, so back into milder atlantic air, a different feel for tuesday, because it will feel for tuesday, because it will feel rather like the weekend, certainly on the mild side. for many, some sunshine, the better chances further south and east. scotland, this weather front will grind toa scotland, this weather front will grind to a halt through tuesday and wednesday, somebody persistent rain here, totals in one or two spots up to 100 millimetres, but typically 30-40 to 100 millimetres, but typically 30—110 where the rain lingers across the islands. by the middle of the week, we will start to see those weather feature slipping away south once again, clearer skies, weather feature slipping away south once again, clearerskies, dry weather feature slipping away south once again, clearer skies, dry up for thursday and friday, turning noticeably colder. this is bbc news, i'm julian worricker. the headlines at apm. theresa may warns mps — a failure to deliver brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable
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breach of trust in our democracy." the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn, spells out what labour will do if theresa may loses the vote on tuesday. we will table a motion of no confidence in the government at a time of our choosing but it is going to be soon, don't worry about that. a bbc investigation reveals gambling addicts were able to sign back into existing online accounts by just making minor changes to their personal details. greater manchester police continue their investigation into a hit—and—run accident, in which an 11—year—old boy died last night. emergency services continue to battle the snow in europe — with a number of ski resorts and mountain villages having to be evacuated. and coming up at 4.30pm— what happened to brazil?
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