hello and welcome to technology updates this month we left the hustle and bustle of moscow and went to tatarstan which is one of the country's innovation hot spots on today's show we meet some of cousins young scientists. we find out that making plane parts is a bit like baking a cake. and we can face to face with a modern day viking. cook first cousin has been pegged to become mrs capsule so it was the perfect place to kick off our trip. to san is the capital of the republic of tatarstan the city's historic sites running back centuries of very modern metropolis and this innovation friendly environment makes it the ideal place for startups. 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 bodog. as well as providing all the features of a traditional dash cam top 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 get a bit heavy on the accelerator the following day we went to i.t.v. parked right in the hearts of cousins business district builds in two thousand and nine with the sole purpose of boosting bush's i.c. industry the park's business incubator is a hive of activity which provides all the infrastructure and support necessary to help putting business men and women in the idea into a fully fledged company so it was the perfect venue for the bush and starts approach shows stopping cars on the bench organized in parts by skolkovo will pass through twenty seven cities by april this year give. and social 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. currently our competitors are updating their maps manually therefore delays are inevitable they can take from a couple of months to half a year before that we expect our maps to be updated every day or two at the initial stage while 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 bell appears are conveniently based its high tea party in their office upstairs they monies to write 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 driver premiums with such potential it's no surprise they were voted one of the three witnesses at the end of the day but downstairs the a bench was still in full swing with start ups 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 of a can russia and all of those are from the regions. do i thing do i believe on the

regions then i guess so if i bought my own dollar from a real speaker has already received no small amount of investment it's allows writers bloggers or the don't write bone idle to enter text into a computer by simply dictating it's the application currently supports thirteen languages ranging from english and spanish to checked in chinese so i wondered how it would fare of mine north and why we are on the south side of n.c. . full stop i am testing the real c. consult. each bright star. to 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 back

to the user as text. the project is relatively well known in russia the total funds we've raised around four hundred thousand us 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 for the accuracy of speech recognition as well as helping abby to write is the technology may be used to control domestic appliances in the home of the future. because he's 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 must his students. has developed a unique starch based formula for making biodegradable carrier bags in containers. stronger than poly but 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 across ecosystems also 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 products. produced by an austrian company based on russian technology like other products on the market because as impurities to precipitate the bottom for removal however unlike the rest no flood 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. hired

a certain race to the active sludge separates from nutritious waste water through 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 project. bio cut it is based on nano flock 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 a metal grate through me of 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 active 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 the 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. through magnetic nano particles in bio cad 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 with 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 to be the fourth plane in the world with almost entirely carbon fiber or black wings when it takes to the. two thousand and fifteen . couple compazine in cassandra was only open six months ago i'm as you may have guessed from the name it's money fight just compass it's components for the aviation industry it's already produces compass 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 kit main parts include leading edge flaps brakes spoilers. and trailing edge flaps originally made from minium the number of components made from compass its 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 compas at materials is something in the order of twelve percent for all planes. for planes like the super jet about 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 pre-paid 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 prepared 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 autoclave heats 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 at such to each component to squeeze out any excess resin which is so by the felts lay on top of the pressure inside the autoclave features three to eight kilograms per cubic centimeter forcing out any remaining 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. 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. their first impact tested under much higher spirits under normal operating conditions the sample is then scans with ultrasound to assess the. stents which the internal structure. the carbon fiber is then test its destruction to see the maximum load the brain can take in the highly unlikely events that and the cracks appeared during flight after all the proof of the pudding is in the sink when we feel my

dear 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 v.l. 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 has been assembled in these custom frames which have been tailored to each part leaving no space for human error and this is well underway analogy comes to an end compazine is already producing parts of the os just bust a cheek and has its ice firmly set on the wider 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 we'll continue with. after the break.

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fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across a semi-colon we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. too . much to. welcome by tossed on special. economic zone is located right in the hearts of

western russia it was only set up eighty years ago but it's already become the biggest and most successful in the country is wide range of incentives an ideal location when the many of the world's industrial heavyweights of concerts own and sets up shop. local 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 are around forty thousand containers a year the whole site's code is a massive twenty square kilometers 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. on the signs and nine already up and running the ultimate bill industries one of the lobbies key 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. tamani five trips 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 companies main products is this sizable exhaust system fifty one pitch will come as lorry engines and the company has come a long way from easy money speed dating is almost twenty years ago. it stopped off in ninety five when two engineers develops an improved exhaust for the zil fyfield once it was officially founded three years later becoming the official supplier for the cottage you say it's open to the touch in two thousand and two in two thousand and five it became the main striper got a sense of a dedicated production facility for thomas in two thousand and ten the company became a resident of a law in two thousand and twelve. we designed this system together with the engine manufacturer the engine and the exhaust ga system are one unit if this unit works well you will be able to meet your zero four and zero five standards. the factory

currently occupies an area five thousand meter square all the machinery and headset and this 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 encrypted 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 chutes 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 engineers then use these informations as just the size and the shape of the device accordingly and one of the main challenges is to optimize the speed and 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 output 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 with him and said said and this 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 science into law because three fold and opening a high tech r. and d. sensor puts in the meantime one look at drive will have this exhaust system for the technology obeyed seal of approval not only is located just forty kilometers down the road from. the city is based around commerce which is best known for its a record number of wins in the dakar rally with a truck manufacturer producing well over fifty thousand h.d. v.z. good it's easy to overlook some of the smaller fight cheese which are also specialists in their own rights. brains over broad. based in the calmest

ponds out on impulse is testament to navigation. station as an ultimate power house named after the explores of old there's no way the company's viking altering vehicle hans go. on the road because one hundred forty six horses pellets to twenty months to a respectable ninety kilometers an hour but what's it like to speed on the road it's more than makes old fall off road. the vikings jumbo wheels provide performance on the pa with trucks which we don't churning up it's a range below. the big oil has been over ten days in the making during which time the developers money to plan for every facet. well the french well it's. done with 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 your way through the snow and onto your destination you go. into. the pressure of viki's tires can also be lowered and braced from within the caliper to lower the pressure to launch the footprints the most critical has the vikings extremely low sense of gravity also makes it difficult to follow even the steepest of slopes. that's most i like getting thrown around in the back there's no way i'm what sets i drive on yes i'm on the phone with us most of the ask and i have a go of course for. the

team essential driving position driving the bike use like any other vehicle seen i felt confident enough to open a little bit and see what she could do as she glided absolutely across the snow it was easy to get through on a frozen river slope as well then it was all of us who grew up off the wagon 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 functions have been assembled by com so far that currently being used in st petersburg found no. and by the emergency services the company plans to make twenty five vehicles this year it's perfect for the money factoring process and shift to mass production by two thousand and fifteen making between one hundred and one hundred fifty a.t.v. easy good and just like his ancestors the viking is no lime jello but it's also a fully i'm phoebe a speckled yeah. 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. so 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. ups on impulse is still testing and improving the bike in its 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 could they teach working for commas and even including national champion the vikings custom compass if the fella spends a full thousand r.p.m. commutes a maximum speed of fifteen kilometers an hour on. the funking century mounted engine and points construction make it to see with the as any longship it's also

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