Who has died at the age of 80. The comedy actor, who became a household name on the russ abbot show, is described as a huge comedy talent les dennis said she was a funny, lovely friend. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week alone angry man tries to open e mail. Hologram takes on human form. And the x factor reaches a new low. Ive had enough. Enough of old tech. Its all going obsolete, or so it seems. Even the days of Desktop Computers are numbered. Right. Lets see what theyve got for us this year. The Consumer Electronics show in las vegas is the place to find out. Its where the new products and concepts are launched for 2018 and some of them might just change the world. One of the highlights of ces for me is always finding out how bendy lg is. Previously, they have been slightly bendy and then quite bendy. This year, i think they have nailed it. Its a 65 inch rollup 4k display and the image quality is really very good. And it does roll completely up into an admittedly fairly chunky box. Its an 0led display, the only display tech that can be fully flexible. The circuitry is built on a segmented back so it is a bit like a retractable garage door. You can actually choose how far the screen rolls out as well as a widescreen tv, it can be used as a thin notification bar, a widerformat 21x9 cinema screen and of course nothing at all. The argument is that you can make use of the space behind it when youre not using it. And in south korea, a lot of people live in high rise blocks. Can you imagine lugging a 65 tv up the stairs or into a lift . Much easier if you can roll it down into a handy tube. Elsewhere, plenty of other things to see and play with here at ces. Here is a telephone from Chinese Company vivo that does not have a fingerprint scanner on the back, because it has one built into the screen. The 0led display shines light onto your thumb and an optical scanner buried underneath registers what it sees. Here is the link flow fit 360. A necklace with three cameras that together live stitch to make a 360 video. You can record a true first person view so others can feel like they were truly there too. Now, its important to catch the eye at shows like these which is hopefully what this thing is doing. This is the hypervision display by kino mo and is capable of projecting life size images high above the show floor. All right, sexy, thats enough from you. Here is the science bit. We have 2a rapidly spinning led strips. They are flashing different colours as they go around. It gives you the illusion of a persistent image. In the flesh, i have to say, it does really look rather good. Dont build up your part. Oh, good grief. Enough flimsy flimflam from me. Lets get Lara Lewington now with some of the big announcements from this years show. And what a week it has been with news from techs biggest players. Including the likes of intel saying it will release Software Fixes to repair Security Issues surrounding its chips. Good morning, dave. Weve had press events that have gone wrong with disobedient robots from lg. Chloe is not going to talk to me, she doesnt like me evidently. And sonys robot dog wasnt that responsive either. Aibo is an autonomous robot and will quickly become a member of yourfamily. Right . He ignored me. Meanwhile, a lack of female keynote speakers has caused controversy amongst attendees. A situation which has led to raised eyebrows, compounded by the inclusion of robotic pole dancers at a strip club near the event. And on the show floor, as usual, tvs were everywhere but this one really stood out. Samsung wall is 146 inches wide and can be made even larger by adding modules. And finally, toyota has unveiled its new autonomous e pallete vehicle, to be used for ridesharing, deliveries or even a moving storefront which comes directly to you. That was lara. Now one of the big things at the moment in wireless charging. That normally means putting your phone on a pad but it is also is possible to send power through the air. One of the problems with wireless power is that that power is sent in every direction at the same time so wherever your device is, it only receives a tiny fraction of that power. Well, here is a system that gets around that by sending focused beams of power to one particular point. The power transmitter can be built into ceiling tiles, walls, tables or parts of the furniture. All it needs to know is which direction to point the power in. Here is the science bit. To work that out, the device needing the power sends out low power signals in all directions, most of which are blocked by nearby objects. But the signals that do bounce around come and reach the transmitter come in at particular angles. By sending the power back at exactly the same angles, that power bounces about and eventually gets back to the device. The makers told us they can achieve 2 watts of power from a distance of one metre which is impressively about half the power of a smartphone charger. Im using this light to detect the power beams between the transmitter and the blackbox transceiver. Think about your home where you have smoke detectors. It starts beeping at night when it runs out of battery. You can charge it remotely, you never have to charge the battery again. But with high power beams lancing around your home, you have to wonder if it is safe. This technology is entirely safe. We look to get fcc approval for safety, that certifies the technology as safe. If you have accepted wi fi into your home, accepting this technology would be the same. In the future, the power receivers could be made into any shape including that of a aa battery and that means ordinary devices could be converted to wireless power without any modification at all. For a long time, bricks and mortar shops have been trying to keep up with online retailers who have the added benefits of keeping track with customer habits as well as providing very easy ways of paying. Here is one way that we could see some of those features brought into the real world, by retrofitting existing stores. Aipoly uses off the shelf cameras, one up here to track customers and one to take a look at the products and the customers interactions with them but the real work is happening here in the ai algorithms were it is recognising all the products off the shelf and their customers interactions with them. But the ai is using the main camera here to keep track of customers. It can recognise faces, identify clothes and follow their movements. Through the combination of the customers being recognised, and the products they pick up being identified, when they get to the checkout, they dont even need to scan the items. Theyjust need to pay. And if they agree to be remembered for next time, then all they need to do is go and pick up their products and take them away. Im having my nails done. 0ne one thing which isnt making such a big noise this week is Virtual Reality. Is it in the last chance . Billions have been poured into Virtual Reality, but the headsets are not selling in the way the companies hope. There are multiple problems. Setup is too difficult. The content is not compelling enough. And unless its treated very carefully, the Virtual Reality can and has made me feel sick. The manufacturers are not giving up. The manufacturers are not giving up. The oculus rifts is coming out in march. It will be around 200. Atc announced here that they are to release the vive pro later this year, a three k headset which will keep the product ahead of the field. While oculus allows three degrees of movement, which is. That way, that way and that way, atc has just released its vive focus in china, which allows 6 degrees of movement, which allows 6 degrees of movement, which is that, that, that and three dimensions of movement in space. That is using inside out tracking, which means there are no sensors on lighthouses telling you where the headset is. The headset works out where it is in the environment. This is the next level for Virtual Reality. Still, with magically releasing its product later this year and tonnes of activity here, a cheap flatpack way of building your own headset, Virtual Reality continues to face a tough battle with augmented reality, whichjust seems a bit more ready to make its mark, if you ask me. I feel better for that. Time to move on. Here comes lara with some high tech ways to stop thieves. At this years show, a few anti theft devices have been lodged, andi anti theft devices have been lodged, and i got my hands on some of them. And this is a prototype burglar prevention system. It aims to replicate what the house looks and sounds like when your home. Through the app, you can preset it with the way you live your life, when you will play music, watch a film, talking in the kitchen, and when the lights will go on and off. 0r talking in the kitchen, and when the lights will go on and off. Or you could simply. The this technology can be used in bigger, stronger safes, and this could be good for putting medicine injust something you could be good for putting medicine in just something you want to keep away from kids. How it works. Of course, it connects via a smartphone app, which means that you can remotely open the safe, should you wish to actually do that. And youll also receive an alert if anyone tries to tamper with it. Lets set it up somewhere where it can remain ina it up somewhere where it can remain in a steady place. This particular model has wings that extends to hold it into place, so if i put it here at the back of the shelf and do this. Let me try and tamper with it and see what happens. At least its quite firmly attached. A little bit more force and i could pull it out. There we go. Im off with the safe. It looks like it could be quite easy to open as well. Anyone got any ideas . 0h, quite easy to open as well. Anyone got any ideas . Oh, dear quite easy to open as well. Anyone gotany ideas . Oh, dear let quite easy to open as well. Anyone got any ideas . Oh, dear let me try and find something that might be a bit better for security. Its and find something that might be a bit betterfor security. Its not just about the home, though, this bag aims to keep your belongings safe when you are out and about, so if youre on a plane or a train and you have had to leave your bag somewhere else, you might want to activate this tamper alert which uses this rfid card to turn it on and off, so if anybody tries to open your bag. Alarm sounds. It sounds like that. If the issue is you forgetting things, this Loss Prevention device aims to come to the rescue. Now, you can attach it to any given night, and the companys to any given night, and the com pa nys software to any given night, and the compa nys software will learn to any given night, and the companys software will learn your habits are so what time and where you take that item, and if you do something that seems out of the ordinary, they can send you a reminder before youve even had the chance to forget it. Eventually, they even hope to do things like accessing travel details through your e mails, so you could get a reminder to pick up your passport without running the risk of leaving without running the risk of leaving without it. The device does seem a little big right now, but they are trying to get a smaller version ready ahead of launch. Great if it works, which was generally the theme with most of what i tested. That was lara, and this is the. Is we are co nsta ntly lara, and this is the. Is we are constantly reminded that the future of transport will be amazing here, but there was no guarantee that that is true. Case in point, remember the Faraday Future electric car . No . Thats show business. While faraday gets its business in order, enter this start up from some pretty impressive people who have come up with basically a computer on wheels. Dave lee was given exclusive access to it before and during the show. Ill be honest, this wasnt the most thrilling test drive of my life. Worried about being spotted before the unveiling, the team behind this car only let us drive slowly around an unmarked warehouse just off the las vegas strip, but it was very interesting. The company has created what is essentially a mobile supercomputer. They say it has more in common with your smartphone than it does a typical car, and i agree. For the first time, ive been impressed by a car not because of its performance on the road but because of its operating system. The vision behind this is that we want to be the Company Bringing into the market the first real smart car. The vehicle has been designed and created by a suitably qualified team made up of former bmw and apple engineers. Inside, you will see the dashboard has been completely reimagined. The gesture control system reimagined. The gesture control syste m d oes reimagined. The gesture control system does look a bit imprecise and quite fiddly, not ideal when you are driving on a motorway at 70 miles an hour. This looks like a really distracting driving situation, so isnt this quite dangerous to have this in front of you . The key is about customisation. When you are in drive mode, we will actually disable certain features. You wont be able to get in to watch videos, for instance. We want to build a platform where, when there is autonomous driving, all occupants in the car, including the driver, have the car, including the driver, have the ability to. Some of the most exciting features will be disabled until we live in a world of fully autonomous driving. Perhaps think of this vehicle is bridging the gap between our dumb driving past and oui between our dumb driving past and our smart driving future. Of course, you cant reveal a car here without an expensive, lavish launch event. This one went off without a hitch, and people seemed impressed. This one went off without a hitch, and people seemed impressedm this one went off without a hitch, and people seemed impressed. It is and people seemed impressed. It is an interesting idea but they are trying to targeted at an affordable price point. 45,000, half the price of the model less. They are hitting all the right marks and adding this Cool Technology in, so i think they have a cool message here. Cool technology in, so i think they have a cool message harem Cool Technology in, so i think they have a cool message here. If this seems a little familiar, you are right. This is the scene at last yea rs right. This is the scene at last years show, when i covered new car company Faraday Future. They told us everything was going swimmingly and that there are big new factory would be built soon. In less than a year, the factory in nevada has been scrapped, and while the company insists it is still pressing ahead, Faraday Future is in serious danger of becoming a thing of the past. So what will happen to the new company . The biggest challenge for them is to do with charging. Tesla has 8000 superchargers for its cars dotted all over the world. This new company has none. They think tesla should share theirs. When it comes to making the car, the company is building its own factory in china. They have promised their car will be put into production by the end of 2019 and will one day cost 45,000. I guess we willjust have to wait and see how that goes. That was dave lee, and there will be 20 more transport on next weeks click. In the meantime, im having my nails done. This is the 02 nails printer. Choose any image and they will print it onto your nail. Of course i chose a picture of myself. 0k, Richard Taylor and nick kwek, beat that refreshing this device is actually creating a vacuum in my mouth. As its sucking at my gums and at the same time circulating a flow of water around my teeth. Its intended for users with reduced mobility or people who have difficulty brushing their teeth. It replaces the need to brush and floss too. The guys are working on integrating sensors into future devices so that oral hygienists or dentists will be able to diagnose and treat for gum disease. And its quite tickly too. This is near, and it is being marketed as a baby feeding monitor. You put any bottle into the device, and it has a Temperature Sensor to make sure the milk is the right temper. It has a motion temperature, which flashes red if you are holding the bottle at a ridiculous angle, but it is wi fi enabled. If there is a nanny feeding the baby at home on the money is at work, the results of baby feeding the uploaded to the mums smartphone at work so she can tell exactly how much the baby has drunk. You are seeing a magical chessboard here that allows players to play with each other, regardless of where they are in the world. Right now, my friend is playing it on his phone, and a magnetic arm under the board is dragging the correct pieces to the correct square, free killie. Ina the correct square, free killie. In a freaky shuai. In a freakish way. Ces can really take it out of you and i for one am already pretty sleep deprived. So what i have in front of me here is a device thats packed with all sorts of technology and the claim is it will provide within 20 minutes the equivalent of 2 5 hours sleep. There will be some electrodes that are put behind my ears here, ill tell you what, richards got the right idea. Walking around here, im absolutely exhausted. Im definitely feeling more relaxed than i was, like, 26 minutes ago. Of course i dont know how relaxed i would have felt with just a 26 minute power nap, but im ready to rock n roll ah, vegas. Home to world class talent, and singing superstars. And then theres Richard Taylor and me. This karaoke box uses professional autotune on your voice, which, frankly, makes you sound a bit like cher on a bad night. Sweet home alabama. Next stop, caesars. Lord im coming home to you. Flying above the famous bellagio fountains, the Unmanned Aircraft dance in sync with the waterjets and music. We caught up with the boss behind this madness on the eve of the performance. So there are few challenges with this space. Its a very tight space. We were only. Were only allowed to fly within the fountains and we actually created a two layer geo fence, so that if the drones were to ever go out the motor stops and the drones fall into the water. Wow, that was a pretty spectacular way to end the show, dont you agree . Dont forget, we live at bbc click on twitter. Is hello. The grey and cloudy theme that has been with us for several days now is sticking around through the weekend. There will be glimpses of brightness around here and there. This was sent in from the isle of wight, shoving the extent of the cloud there. We will keep with cloudy conditions, some rain around, in the north west in particular, later today. The radar shows that rain working into western parts of the country. The east has been dry and will likely stay dry for much of the day. The reason for the east west split is because High Pressure holds on across scandinavia, keeping things largely dry, and this front is bumping into that area of High Pressure from the west. It is not making progress further east. There will be Western Areas through the afternoon, whereas further east, you are likely to stay dry still cloudy grey, and it is breezy wherever you are. Temperatures up to around 5 9dc. If youre heading to premier League Football matches, most places are staying dry. Rain in the west, top temperatures seven celsius. This evening and tonight, the breeze dies away, and this rain fizzles away towards the west. With a combination of lighter winds and clear spells, it could be colder than last night. Temperatures are low enough for mist and fog to form on sunday morning, perhaps the odd frosty patch too. A dry day for many parts of the country, lots of cloud but some brighter spells during the afternoon. Things will turn wet and windy in the far north west later in the afternoon. 4 9dc on sunday. Things change into the new working week, as we see the blue colour is returning to the mat, much colder conditions moving in through the week. Monday, we see that front heading south and east across the country, with a spell of wet and windy weather, followed by clear spells with sunshine and showers. Temperatures starting to turn colder from the north west later ron on monday. A different theme to the weather next week colder, unsettled and fairly windy, and watch out for ice and snow. Good afternoon