and this innovation friendly environment makes it the ideal place to start. on our first evening in the city we were met by a pair of young intrapreneur is keen to give us a demonstration of their road. as well as providing all the features of a traditional dash cam stop also uses computer vision technology to identify road signs and display them on screen it's also remembers the speed limits of the road you on and politely remind you if you gets a bit heavy on the accelerator the following day we went to i.t.v. parked right in the hearts of cars on this business district builds in two thousand and nine with the sole purpose of the sting bushes i see industry the parks business incubator is a hive of activity it provides all the infrastructure and support necessary to help putting business men and women in the idea it's a fully fledged company so it was the perfect venue for the russian starts approach shows stopping because the abends organized in parts by skolkovo will pass through

twenty seven cities by april this year giving and total of around three thousand stocks hopes the chance to pitch their ideas to about five hundred investors and we arrived just in time to see the guys from bodog say to the stage. of stalls already pretty crowded with not endorsements and reality software offering functions ranging from turn by turn navigation voice and text charts say overlays and geo targeted advertising the only problem is none of them awful all of these features are wants and this is where it's going to dominate them all not only will the op combine all these functions but future updates will introduce a on obligation audio advertising and instantly all data knobs for the first time. just. currently our competitors are updating their maps manually therefore delays are inevitable they can take from a couple of months to half a year whether we expect our maps to be updated every. they are two at the initial

stage well our user base is relatively small but once we have the same number of users as our competitors will start updating the maps within one or two hours of the change offering the drivers latest information the road on to belive has our conveniently base to tie tea party in their office upstairs they monies to write to the complex recognition algorithms capable of running on smartphones in just three and a half months but it's not just a labor of love the op will be available for free in around a month push the developers plan to commercialize the data they collect as well as work with insurance companies to lower drivers premiums with such potential it's no surprise they were voted one of the three witnesses at the end of the day back downstairs the event was still in full swing with startups taken it in turns to try and impress the jury it was pretty tense so we took a breather and cultivar the v.i.p. with a very personal interest in the event. and i'm also an angel investor by myself and i have told everybody to be more credible with the story that i invested last year

to seven or start ups and russia and all of those are from the regions so do i think do i believe all the regions then i guess so if i put my own dollar for real speaker has already received no small amount of investment it's allows writers bloggers all the downright bone idle to enter text into a computer by simply dictates and it's the application currently supports thirteen languages ranging from english and spanish to check in chinese so i wondered how it would fare of mine north and why we are on the south of the n.c. . full stop i didn't see the real seat and. all saw each bright star every say. so hopefully it will make it easier for me to write scripts for technology updates full stop. real speaker uses a microphone webcam and internet connection it's much is the audio input from the microphone with the speakers lip movements from the webcam all this information is

sent over the internet to the server is then processed in real time and sent to the user as text. the project is relatively well known in russia but total funds we've raised around four hundred thousand u.s. dollars we have investments both from the foundations and private investors the company is a resident of the. skolkovo innovation center the company is also registered in the united states and we've already applied for u.s. patent and right now are looking for a strategic investor to help us turn a promising technology into a commercially successful product. unique jewel channel system the accuracy of speech recognition as well as helping me to write is the technology may be used to control domestic appliances in the home of the future. because one is already one of the country's innovation leaders but if it's going to stay there it's going to need

a constant supply of young talent so the next stop of. many universities to meet some of the city's future innovators. in something like. national research technological university can trace its roots back to eight hundred ninety . one of the. universities in the country with over twenty six thousand students studying here it's also the largest technical university in russia one of the strengths of biochemistry. inspired by a speech made from carrots extracts to students. has developed a unique starch based formula for making biodegradable carrier bags in containers. stronger than only sacrifices five percent of the. under materials and. if you want to try to dust during the manufacturing process as well as solving the scourge of plastic bags worldwide the technology might also pave the way for edible

wrappers and containers the formula can also be adjusted to prolong will shorten the decomposition time from a matter of seconds to a couple of months. down the corridor we came across another eco friendly technology. phosphates nitrate and other unsavory substances are commonly found in detergents and fertilizers they destroy the natural balance of aquatic ecosystems once they make their way into water so finding a way of removing them effectively and cheaply is of utmost importance in the industrial technology department testing a new product to remove phosphates and other pollutants from waste water the product. and it's produced by an austrian company based on russian technology like all the products on the market because impurities to precipitate the bottom for removal however unlike the rest works in record time and can be used in conjunction with the microorganisms known as. the technology has huge potential for such a small bottle. scores the first high the certain rates this is the active sludge

separates from the treated waste water. which naturally speeds up the entire wastewater treatment process increasing the production rate of the waste water treatment facilities which is one of the advantages of this product. bio cut it is based on nano flog but customized for the russian markets it's improved sedimentation rate of biosolids reduces the energy required during bio purification by twenty percent but it still has to pass through many other stages before being returned to the environment water first flows through metal grates remove any debris is then filtered to remove sun solidified the chemical agent is added to the water in the first storage tank is then treated with microorganisms creating sludge which also needs to. removed bio cut can be added directly to the active sludge reducing the number of treatment stages. of the well known professor and member of the academy of natural sciences professor gruber conducted the

research it was he who invented nano magnetite. in two thousand and seven a professor sued during design to technology for producing it on an industrial scale. and then in two thousand and nine two thousand and ten mr krueger who's the head of our company in austria came up with a way to work nano magnetite into polymer elements. no particles in bio cut are attracted to the surface of the phosphates in the water causing them to stick together and sink in a process known as flocculation the unique ratio of ingredients and now technology means that bio cut works two to three times faster than anything else on the market . of course we intend to set up a production facility in russia this will be much more efficient because currently we have to take the magnetite outside russia incorporated into poly was abroad and

then bring it back here which is naturally quite costly. as the world's population grows so does demand for fresh water and flocculation plays an important part in meeting the man and the next time you have a glass of water it might be best not to think about where it came from. which is everything when building aircraft and composite materials often beatable strength to weight ratio but using them requires a completely new manufacturing process and the similarities with baking uncle me. check with tight restrictions on emissions and more people flying than ever before aircraft manufacturers are being forced to lose some weight never want to get left behind bushes and missed twenty one you'll be the fourth plane in the world with almost entirely carbon fiber or black wings when it takes to the air. two thousand and fifteen. in cassandra was only open six months ago i'm tired as you may have guessed from the name it's money fighters compas it's

components for the aviation industry it's already produces compas it's been passed to the sukhoi superjet and is getting ready to launch production of parts for the m s twenty one. passenger plane complex pieces of their main parts include leading edge flaps brakes spoilers. and trailing edge flaps originally made from the number of components made from compass it's vary from model to model but he's always on the if we're talking about the twenty one all these parts will be made from composites cereals but in addition the wing skins. will also be made to create a black wing. well if we're talking about the situation today the proportion of compass at materials is something in the order of twelve percent for all planes. planes like the super jet but for the m s twenty

one which will have a cold as it weighing the ratio will be a lot higher of course. each wing plane components starts off life on a roll of president impregnated cloth pre-press like many greedy as the prepaid must be stored in a cool dry place to prevent it from going off when the time comes each layer of the components is cooked told by the automated cultist razor sharp knife a bit like cutting shapes also. some parts contain up to thirty layers of pre-paid so that each stamped with a unique id to make sure they don't get mixed up. the protective film is removed to reveal the black carbon fiber below once every two or three layers have been put down there put in a vacuum bank to remove any stray pockets of air and as with any kitchen hygiene is king. any small bit of fluff which may seem insignificant in our daily lives becomes very significant in al line of work because if for example small

strand of hair accidentally fell into one of the parts that could change its characteristics. this sealed process then ready to go into the oven to kill the giants play feets the components to one hundred eighty degrees c. the temperature rises a couple of degrees a minute to ensure that no cracks appear in the final product just like a conventional oven the also clip is fun assisted to distribute the heat evenly however unlike the domestic appliance vacuum pipes set such to each component to squeeze out any excess resin which is so by the felts layer on top of the pressure inside the autoclave features three to eight kilograms per cubic centimeter forcing out any remaining air between the layers the whole process is carefully controlled and monitored and up to eight to sixteen hours the wing positon to perfection. unfortunately we couldn't wait that's long so here's one we made earlier. we're

going to got to get them we're doing he wouldn't today we use imported materials to produce parts. but at some time in the future we'll have to switch to russian materials. is doing a very important job in my opinion as far as i can tell they're doing it very well judging by the results of our work together with. the materials and samples of the final product tested its head office in moscow these samples were prepared according to the exact same recipe unfitness as the ones used in. the first impact tested under much higher spirits under normal operating conditions the sample is then scans with ultrasound to assess the. test its destruction to see the maximum take in the highly unlikely events the.

flight after all the proof of the pudding is in the. we all hope that one day we're going to use russian materials. because i think all future depends on this. we like working with the materials because we get to work not just with some test equipment but we work with real equipment used to produce real parts of the finished product is then assembled in these custom frames which have been tailored to each part leaving no space for human error and this is well. comes to an end. it's already producing parts for a jeep and has ice set to international markets. thanks to its black wings and this twenty one promises to become the most aerodynamic plane in the world when it's the skies. that's just the end of the first half. after

the break. you know there's a new game in town it's called the hunger games housing games plus congar equals longer games while a user on my website named andy perry calling the phrase it was david cameron who invented the brutal game in which there are no housing games without hunger pains. as a rule when i close my eyes i see people in mosques who so. you know sometimes i think that you're a model in itself is a face covered by most. people in most on both sides of the barricades we can watch . it with you

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do it for our children for future what is the country will solve. welcome back to our top tossed on special. economic zone is located right in the hearts of western russia it was only set up eighteen years ago but it's already become the biggest and most successful in the country is wide range of incentives

an ideal location in that many of the world's industrial heavyweights of concepcion and sets up shop. focal point stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see the scale of a law book is hard to grasp its container terminal hundreds around forty thousand containers a year the whole site was a massive twenty square kilometer and there are plans to double this by two thousand and sixteen thirty seven companies have stakes their claims with a total of three billion dollars on the signs and nine already up and running the ultimate build industry is one of the lobbies q directions and we made a house call on one of the residents and said set and misspent designs and produces exhaust systems for russian and c.i.s. ta manufacturers the company only became a resident of the special economic zone fairly recently investing one hundred sixty three million dollars in this facility. one of the company's main products is this sizable exhaust system fifty years old on petrol kamaz lorry engines on the company

has come a long way from its money speed jennings almost twenty years ago. it stopped off in ninety five when two engineers to doesn't improve exhaust for the zil fyfield once it was officially founded three years later becoming the official supplier for the conflict you said it's open to first touch in two thousand and two in two thousand and five it became the main supply for a sense of a dedicated production facility for thomas in two thousand and ten the company became president of the law in two thousand and twelve. we designed this system together with the engine manufacturer the engine and the exhaust gas is to one unit if this unit works well you will be able to meet your zero four and zero five standards you're one of. the five three currently occupies an area five thousand meters square all the machinery and has facility has been custom designed and made to meet a specific requirements once the consulate to convert has been installed the external

casing is welded encrypts to make it at its height the company makes extensive use of robots to ensure consistently high quality it's also means they can produce a car exhaust in this little is four minutes. noise is a key factor that needs to be taken into consideration when meeting zero four five standards on the exhaust systems at shoots and set set and this has head office in moscow. computer simulations show the path of the airflow inside the exhaust and the frequencies of the sound produced engine is then used as information says just the size and the shape of the device accordingly and one of the main challenges is to optimize the speed on pressure of the day it's in the consulate to. the main trick in designing the sound of a car exhaust is to find chewing the vote so that the high frequencies are muffled as much as possible within the output spectrum that will give you

a relatively simple and efficient set up. and said say it can produce around. three hundred thousand exhausts and one hundred forty thousand catalytic converters and yeah there are grand plans for expanding the company's sites in a lot because three fold and opening a high stakes are in the sense of what's in the meantime one look at drive will have this exhaust system for the technology of date seal of approval not only is located just forty kilometers down the road from a lava the city is based around commerce which is best known for its record number of wins in the dakar rally with a choke manufacturer producing well over fifty thousand h.g.v. easy good it's easy to overlook some of the smaller five cheese which are also specialists in their own rights. frames overbroad. based in the calmest on spots on impulse is testament to navigation that shelly's station as an ultimate sci fi powerhouse named after the explorers of old there's no way the company's

biking all terrain vehicle tonto. on the road because one hundred forty six faces held to twenty months to a respectable ninety kilometers an hour that's what it likes in speed on the road it's more than makes old fall off road. the vikings jumbo wheels provide performance on the polish trucks which we don't churning up the terrain below. the big alist been over ten days in the making during which time the developers money to plan for every possible the bench while it's. at them was although we live in a northern country we had no idea that there are thirty seven different types of snow and now we do there are four or five types of snow that are impossible for any vehicle to drive across people including snowmobiles and even reindeer get stuck that is why we used ultra low pressure tires on our vehicle to enable it to traverse this kind of snow. we can also increase the vehicles ground clearance from

thirty to fifty five centimeters by raising this is spencer and you can roll back a bit and then move forward pushing. way through the snow and onto your destination you got. the pressure of vikings tires can also be lowered and raised from within the caliper to lower the pressure to lodge the footprints the most critical has the vikings extremely low sense of gravity also makes it difficult to follow even the steepest of slopes. as most i like getting thrown around in the but there's no way i would so i thought drive idea of all the fun yes most of the us can have a go of course. listening essential driving position to heights driving the bike use like any other big cold feet i felt confident enough to open a little bit and see what she could do i think i did absolutely across the snow it

was easy to get through on a frozen slope as well then it was all of us it will go up off the might be we're looking into making the vehicle transportable by helicopter with an external slink away so that it can be inserted or evacuated by air so instead of driving the vehicle some five thousand kilometers or so to its operational location you can just bring it over with a helicopter and get to work with what you know it's full of bikes he said been assembled by him so far that currently being used in st petersburg the fun north and by the emergency services the company plans to make twenty five because they see it affects the manufacturing process and shift to mass production by two thousand and fifteen making between one hundred and one hundred fifty a.t.v. is a good one just like his ancestors the viking is no lime jello but it's also a fully i'm phoebe a spiritual musician you know what rescue services asked us to develop a vehicle could pass through water that's full of debris the kind that you have to

deal with if you have to move around in an area devastated by a flood. we contacted some people in the shipbuilding industry and had a four bladed propeller with a one hundred twenty percent overlap designed especially for us it is essentially a screw. console in polls he's still testing and improving the bike in his design it's also working on a six wheel version and custom models for the various images he says he says the founders of the company cut their teeth working for commas and even including national champion the vikings custom compass if the fella spends a full thousand r.p.m. giving us a maximum speed of fifteen kilometers an hour also. the funking centrally mounted engine and points construction make it the scene with the as any longship it's also the only off road on previous vehicle in the world this completely both legal notice but for a small fight tree from an opposition. to an

end we were keen to get something to remember our trip by so just before heading back to moscow we took some time out to stop some of the sights. to. be headed by some mighty talking to get a hunk from some of the president's. fun from me specializes in making video gifts for friends family and business especially occasion whether it's be a wedding day old psychometric. buza simply send in their photos choose from one of the many templates on the phone from you guys to the rest with a little help from adobe after effects they hope to automate the service in the near future but it's already least some pretty weird and wonderful clips. naturally i chose the below my template because the guys to put the tech up spin on it and i think you'll agree it's turned out quite well but i'll leave you to watch it in peace and until next time enjoy the ride.

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