hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show christmas comes early for moscow's young innovators. and novel animation up brings films to the big screen. a moscow state university gives a whole new meaning to wearable technology but first media may still be a couple of days off but they've already been plenty of festivities this month. on something the line. no spark nano technology sensor was officially opened in the town of troy just south of moscow. aims to become a launch pad for high tech startups by bringing together all the facilities and know how to develop and produce innovative goods all under one roof while the town's strong research base made it the natural choice of location the poc received

a large investment from ross nano and the company's chairman was there to make sure the money had been put to good use that he about twenty five startups could already be created this year there are twenty five startups alone in the year the center was set up then i expect tens or even hundreds of startups to emerge out of here in the near future and today you see in the creation of these innovation powerhouses with your own. lasers are a key direction for techno spark so we went to a fest of projects which is also part of the regional innovation cluster to see what's cooking the family run business has been producing ultra short pulls lasers for fifteen years it's emerged out of the birthplace of the laser believe it to physical institute and they continue to work closely together. in leases already frequently used for increasing and cutting to from glass but the full spectrum of after cations for this type of laser is only just. being realized however it's hard

to imagine exactly how short a bento second day is. then to a second this one four trillion millionth of a billionth of a second there are way more potential seconds in a second then yes the universe has existed so to put it into context it's takes around three hundred million femtosecond photos of blink. if you are travelling at the speed of light you would only move north points between michael b c one ten to second which is about the size of a virus for such a miniscule amount of time the potential for this technology is immense. but the main benefit of second lasers is the low level of heat transfer almost no heat is transferred to the surrounding areas the material is removed through a process known as cold ablation in other laser systems remove material by melting it evaporation or micro explosions this is a completely new process because the intensity is so high at the focal point of the material turns into

a plasma under spasm it disappears instantly from the desired location this takes place in such a short amount of time so that he does not have time to diffuse into the surrounding areas the second advise that follows on from the first is this method can be used with any material transparent or not no matter how hard or what its composition was. so what about diamonds one of the hardest natural materials known to man beauty and exceptional solidness is what makes him prized by jewellers with his these properties that made them hard to keep secure all. the crystal production corporation has been producing fine diamonds from the rough stones for fifty years once the jas have been cut so any of the dozens of sizes to choose from each is polished to a sparkling shine the company uses a second laser to etch a unique id onto each stone to prevent it from being counterfeited or return it to the owner if stolen but this form of marking has a. limitations because. so the company.

institutes for a more permanent solution. traditional strength in a fundamental science. of creating a unique mob deep within the diamond. is so fine that it's can't be seen with the naked eye. to avoid damaging the surface. unfocused but is then intensified hundreds of thousands of times inside the diamond this provides the concentration of energy required to turn the diamond into graphite although still a form of carbon block providing the contrast required for the id and the only way of removing it would be to split the diamond into smaller stones which would trust

the overall volume up locations of. far beyond jewelry. we have researched corrective eye surgery with this laser in cooperation with the central clinical hospital. running a series of projects to examine high energy physics. and others in our labs here. pinpoint precision of. makes them ideal for grafting prosthetics directly to bone. chips makes them indispensable in the computer industry. because christmas came early for some of the. and of course. the main award

ceremonies held this month. focal point by convention two thousand and thirteen got thought of buying in moscow's belmont university on the fifth of december the all singing all dancing and you'll event recognizes bush's most talented young scientists and at the end of the day the joy of experts pick the best projects in green and biotechnologies materials i.t. and engineering but despite the exterior design he can project has very commercial goals so it is that. there are no specialized events for young engineers or inventors in our country at the moment. we don't want people involved in high tech development just three million dollars for a fifty percent stake in the company. want them to make billions just like tony stark and. after such a rousing words i was eager to meet the future find men and women of the barman university in the exhibition area. the stones not only gave finalists the

opportunity to show off the fruits of their labors but also network and meet potential investors the highlights included the universities formula students car and printable solar panels that can be attached to pretty much anything meanwhile lurking in the depths the uni's entry for the student robel so competition boasts a three d. camera and is floating its way up the leaderboard and of course no technology show would be complete without augments of reality play display here brings two d. images from books take is a must to life and then lets users interact with the big three d. to reveal the information embedded inside. elsewhere in moscow that in a start two thousand and thirteen final was held at the center of modern design and innovations later that evening over three hundred students submitted their projects for consideration so one of the top three prizes and those who made it to the finals had to present their ideas lie and was subjected to a grilling from the jury those who didn't quite make. in the final it was still on

hand to show off the entries which included a unique. facial tracking technology which only requires a standard low resolution webcam to track movement making the technology less of a strain on the pocket back in the main hole the jury had come to a decision the winners of this year's in a star included a radical rethink of moscow a super green roofing material and a device to make sure you never get stung on your electricity bill is one thing receive an award for your innovation but once you spend your prize money you should go to tech crunch to try and find an investor or not. change. tech crunch moscow two thousand and thirteen was held at the digital october center guests of the event by the tech news websites of the same name range from startups to industry leaders as always tech crunch is stossel ali was just packed with people. vying for attention and hoping to get a spot on the hollow district stage participants have three minutes to present

their idea a chart to investors and move on to the next round however one name that crops up in a presentation about the messaging up stood out from the rest. is the founder of the film production company and if that doesn't ring any bells he's also the director of the hollywood film wanted and many of the star studded flicks with the path from concept to big screen is no walk in the park and pre-visualization plays an important role in getting the movie off the ground action parts modern pitches require more than the traditional to teach charcoal sketches three d. animations give a frame by frame idea of how the finished product should look pre-visualization is also help directors tweak camera angles stage direction and lighting and in an industry where time costs lots of money they help everyone know who's doing what where and when on set despite saving money even the previews are very costly and time consuming affair. when i read all sorts of images

and pictures appear in my head and i thought it would be great if you could write a text and then have a computer to automatically turn it into an animated cartoon because. it would understand and use the same language used by all still makers when they're telling a story just from images on a screen. so the guys at the studio got cracking to make the most fun to see a reality the company developed a universal text animation scripts this compatible with prepared to take three d. characters and animals you simply put in your text complete with stage directions and the application source of the dialogue movement gestures and camera angles it was easy to see how it was coming useful in the film industry so while director such as he was busy with his next screenplay i wanted to find out how such a specific piece of software made its way to the mass market. where we took the

professional version which supports lots of features and gradually began automating the whole cutting them out altogether introducing defaults at such a sort of this product could be used by a wider audience in the future. we even had a trial where you made a t.v. series for a cable channel that took the three d. backgrounds and characters that were left and created an online version of the program which could be accessed through a browser. so anyone could visit and see the interface it has a stage these two robotic characters and a text input box. would have all the text. the text is then uploaded to a server to be animated the whole process only takes around fifteen second but leads to some rather peculiar videos online twenty eighth and it's an awfully people in their thirty's and forty's complaining and they should because their

lives are almost over twenty sucks because it's the end of fun or at least society thinking it's ok to have fun when you turn twenty eight you and your fun friends start partying and start having addictions that's what they call it you can get hammered on monday night without raising some eyebrows other may seem like a lot of nonsense to get it is a lot of users online a chance to express themselves and it caught on surprisingly quickly are. still there with having created these robots and the spy the fact that hughes had created videos which had been viewed over one hundred thousand times. early on but only five six well less than ten percent of our audience could create their own screenplay. so we decided to go one step further and simplify our application even more. to the world of s.m.s. and takes communication. in a world where people show how they're feeling with smiley's social network of

contacts which also happens to be russia's second most visited site was the perfect place to test out the technology the simplified film pre-visualization software only requires text and smileys for the characters to interact most messenger's ease of use and logical progression from current communication trends mentality to must over seventeen thousand users in the first three weeks alone was the evolution of this once nice software doesn't end here. we plan to launch a mobile application sometime in the summer of twenty fourteen. and probably be released at the same time as a film it's taken about the. of the characters and images in it. although we currently don't know what film it will probably be a big budget animation or adventure franchise but.

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welcome back let's take a quick look at this month's tech news. bites. sales of the yota phone kicks off on the fourth of december as gorky park in what's proved to be a day of firsts is the company's first foray into hundred held markets and it also happens to be the first bush in design small phone and the world's first l.c.d. and screen mobile. display promises to. display information even when the phone is not out of battery and under the device also has wide implications for rushing innovation. we show that we can do it because three years ago a few people who believed that russian startup can bring this idea to the commercial product and get this type of success and interest we have around the clock we can create innovative products we can do something can consume electronics

and we can be competitive russian environmental monitoring service that unveiled the latest addition to its fleet of flying locks on the sixth of december the heavily modified yacht forty two deep boasts over seventy instruments for monitoring pollution and radiation levels as was particles it can even in rainfall in dry areas. a million martian meeting was held at the cosmonaut six memorial museum in moscow on the. cost of the mars one project the. permanent human colony on mars by two thousand and twenty three and so far as received over two hundred thousand applications for. this project. all the people that are already involved. and. getting on the.

training the end of last month the robots to join the crew on the international space station early next year controlled remotely from the ground by. the robots human like. on the exterior of the station. the line between technology and biology is becoming increasingly blurred so let's focus on state universities latest developments in wearable tech. green. wearable technology has been billed as the next big thing i'm not talking about. one of the way. braving the cold outside the moscow state university. through its paces the. first. meaning it requires no external.

to carry loads hundred kilograms. of cold i headed inside the institute of mechanics where i found rather unusual roots. ventured into robotics way back in the so. on this balancing unicycles and pikes made for quite a spectacle they used a gyroscopic stabilization system which kept them upright even when they were standing on the spot having impressed audiences around the world the researchers shifted their attention from wheels to walking machines having already created one of russia's first anthropomorphic by people robots love was on a roll so why stop at just two likes. meets mushers the walking robot she was built at the time when computers filled entire rooms but despite her ripe old age of forty the old girl can still still says stuff with the best of them she's the results of the institute's work on mimicking nature in an attempt to find

alternative transport means each leg has three axes of movement provided by a total of eighteen perfectly coordinated electric motors she was refined over the years to improve her awareness of the surrounding environment and before her retirement she could climb stairs and adjust her gait according to incline and the institute of mechanics had big plans for much of two point zero but. if there was talk of using marcia as a mars rover or the thing is though the moon rover before her run on wheels now martha but if it came across an area on the surface of mars that was either uneven or covered in rocks it's unlikely that a wheel based machine would have coped with it. and this is where legs would come in. which will be. in the one nine hundred seventy s.

during the cold war humanity had set his eyes on concrete in other worlds and russia was looking towards the red planet the institute of mechanics propose sending a beefed up version of masha to mas the giants yellow muscle called translated literally as miles walker would help clear the path for human settlement just like mush the. it would have been able to adjust its gait depending on the surface and obstacles in its path however unlike musher the muscle horse featured a scoop or claw at the front and open bed at the back for building clearing rubble and collecting samples there was even talk of creating a version that offered the speed of wheels but the off road capabilities of legs was all that remains is a solitary like. it has to be said that as well as carrying out experimental work into a two legged and six legged walking robots we also conduct a theoretical research we developed algorithms that allow the robots to walk and our experience with watching robots came in very handy when we were developing the

eggs or skeleton. all these experiences meant that the exo athletes made it from turing ball to prototype in just two days it was developed jointly with the emergency situations ministry and received funding from the ministry of education in science weighing in at just twelve kilos it can help the operator carry loads of it to one hundred kilograms while it's lack of but she electronics means that it requires little if any maintenance in the field naturally these advantages caught the attention of the russian defense ministry to see both ready to go the eagle eyed a monkey may remember the xo athlete from a news piece we did back in august where it was demonstrated that the russian defense ministry innovation day the russian armed forces saw his potential for assisting troops loading heavy i mean mission crates and supply use as well as carrying heavy duty military combat shields such as this one but it wouldn't be that easy to fight in on the idea was shelved. the uni's also working on

hydraulic and electric versions this battery powered hydraulic suits weighs twice as much as the passive one and has an operation time of around two hours but this was a trade off the team were willing to make for the added power and mobility it gives the user senses on either side of the knee pick up the operator's intention. swing the leg into action. i had to try one on for size it was a strange feeling pinstripes so securely to the exoskeleton and it felt like learning to walk again as i started slowly forward but it didn't take long to get the hang of it pressure pads at the bottom of the exoskeleton takes when the foot is touching the floor unlock the leg at the knee ready for the next step. toward there is a motion detection system installed industry which uses video cameras to help us see how a person moves in the exoskeleton and work out its economic. because this is one of the methods are used to deal with the irregularities of the human

body. we can gather statistics to see how people walk then use this information to customize the exoskeleton. including the speed and movement of the joints the rigidity and shock absorbing properties of the excess skeleton a much more we get to work obviously pavel wasn't quite as happy with my performance as i was i thought i could do with some extra assistance. of plaistow with waning interest from the military the medical is the one they're currently looking to explore the potential of the exoskeleton helping people walk again or recover from injury not to mention the psychological benefits that come with it is immense the exoskeletons lack of complex electronics means that it would be perfect for people living in remote areas it can also be used to help take some of the load off those who carry heavy objects as part of their daily work as i work with. the

war room in creating the exoskeleton we're hoping to be one of the first players in a market that's only just forming. so we'll have a chance to find our own each and meet the expectations that people have told us about the new computer. and provide them with the exoskeleton they really need. gaining popularity through hollywood blockbusters developments such as the one from moscow state university mean the skeletons are no longer confined to the realms of fantasy potential in the real world with an engine is looking for ways either to restore people's mobility and strength. might just be the way. they used range from helping people get back on their feet and building strength to helping the world. and making light work of heavy lifting so it looks like. a.

technology this year. two thousand and fourteen. bring in the new year enjoy the ride. these locals count sow here braving the elements in order to stand up so u.s. oil giant chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines.

that it's a. busy street interested. strategically you should try. a longer covert team of journalists trying to release which leads documents about zero united states is growing. more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our to the burley and social science center just published a study suggesting that key thirds of muslims in western europe hold their religious rules of the laws of the countries that believe that if you read the

bible if you get if you go into christianity you find the sentence that you should obey god more than caesar. means religious schools more important and more convincing those of. it's in the very same thing that is now referred to the muslims and. the beginning of a long politic night moxon the fades from island life. and up temptation. the dog has lost for six months. more polar bears the people. and it's as easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so in a space of there are no indigenous people but there are all those who do choose

this frozen life. this is this could be right about if you. believe. and. and.

in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. you know it's not just these telephone calls these. if you walk down the street cameras follow you if you drive along main roads your car is registered because the cameras pick up your registration plate your son can be traced your mobile phone can be traced your use of the cards can be traced all of this can be traced with just a few computer algorithms away from the society were bureaucrat could type in my name already one's name and get up a whole farm or those actually have you know be told precisely where we are but

a moment. syria an international chemical experts converge in moscow to discuss how damascus can get its toxic arsenal out of the country a condition that prevented an american strike in the war torn state. saudi blogger and activist faces execution for rejecting islam after already being sentenced to seventy years in prison and six hundred lashes we talk to a human rights campaigner about his case. and the british economy could the one pass a sluggish jurors like this germany within the next two decades say a new forecast but for those who are not part of the plan to leave there is little cause to celebrate.