Accessible togs. And surgery goggles. Welcome to dubai, the desert kingdom where theres no such thing as too much. This city has spent more than a decade making a name for itself for the outrageous buildings that its created. Well, now it seems it wants to be known for technology too. A while ago, i paid it a visit during its drones for good challenge and met some of the local innovators who dubai hopes will contribute to its new tech power image. But drones are not the only things taking to the skies. This hover bike designed for the police force may one day be whizzing Police Officers to the scene of a crime. Copper chopper anyone . The officers can be using the hover bikes across the city to provide the service in the right spot and even a fast response. And these werent the only high tech additions to the force. Back in may, the dubai police got some new recruits and these werent your ordinary newcomers, these guys were made of the hard stuff, and kate russell went to meet them. Like so much of dubais over the top ambition, the police force wants to be seen using the latest crime prediction and Surveillance Technology to watch over the people. We have our cameras, our drones, our robots. We are going to live in a Science Fiction movie. Artificial intelligence based predictive crime systems, autonomous patrol vehicles, and unmanned police stations are just a few of their futuristic initiatives. Robot i am a humanoid service robot. Planned to be built in all of dubais neighbourhoods are the worlds first smart police stations, which will be completely unstaffed. Citizens can pop in for a safe driving lesson, a quick coffee, or even to report crimes. They can also meet dubais own robocop. I am the latest incorporation into dubais police department. But unlike the movies. Hello. Hell kill you with kindness. You have really pretty eyes. I think im getting hit on by a robot. Do you think im beautiful . Yes. I love talking with you. Thank you. You are absolutely astoundingly gorgeous, but its the least interesting thing about you. My sensors detect the paparazzi among us. Guess who it is . Its him. Flirting aside, the head of Artificial Intelligence for dubai police sees the future with al and robotics very much at its heart. Behind it is the Artificial Intelligence, so it can see you, it has a facial recognition so it can identify the person in front of them and send all the live feeding to the command and control system. We do have a project what we call the dubai eye, where we have integrated all the cctv cameras across the city, and on top of that, were going to build a smart system where it has a facial recognition. Its so difficult to monitor more than 10,000 cameras in the city, so we have an Intelligence System that can analyse live feeds from those cameras, and it can predict also and identify all kinds of activities, especially the wanted people. Although this unmanned facility currently still needs a human on Conference Call when it comes to reporting a crime. So i would like report a crime. There is a robot here and hes stolen my heart. He stole your card . My heart. Your heart . Weve recently seen chicago pds crime predicting algorithms and now dubais police are turning their focus to preventing crimes before they even happen. This application analyses past crime and tries to predict where and when the next crime in that zone could happen in the future. Another one of the Smart Services offered to citizens in dubai is the ability to register if you have a history of cardiovascular problems. You can see on the map there represented by hearts. Now, this means that when an ambulance is called, it will instantly know that it could be attending a heart attack victim, and they say that this has allowed them to reduce the number of fatalities by more than 50 . Thats an impressive statistic, but is this widespread surveillance reminding anyone else of a certain sci fi film . People are going to equate this to minority report, what kind of protocols do you have in place to make sure the data is used in ethical ways in the future . We dont predict who would commit a crime, we predict where it could happen and when it could happen, so we can prevent it and reduce the rate for the crimes. With one in three crimes being successfully predicted this time last year, the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence are, well, predictable. Whats more surprising is that the drone team here in dubai would like to see it taken even further. They believe they can use drones to spot a potential criminal by analysing a persons vital signs. Like so many of dubais big plans, all this stuff seems to have one foot in ambitious reality and the other in well intentioned fa ntasy. Its a place worth keeping an eye on, though, and you can be very sure theyll be keeping an eye on us. Now, weve all been hearing about the dangerous effects of nox, the nitrogen oxide thats spewed out by diesel cars, and we do now know that some big Car Manufacturers have been lying to us for years about how much pollution their cars actually produce. Its a subject that was back in the limelight last week when a new Netflix Documentary reminded us all about the lengths to which vw went to cover up its rigging of emissions tests, that included commissioning a study that subjected monkeys to diesel fumes to try to improve their vehicles green credentials. It has since been revealed humans were also deliberately exposed to toxic exhausts. Translation i condemn the emissions tests on animals and people, which were, according to the available information, initiated by the automotive industry. I dont have any sympathies for this, these tests were apparently solely aimed for pr purposes of the car industry. We are not going to accept this. As the German Government and the manufacturers involved all tried to distance themselves from the toxic study, we all have to live with the diesel cars already on our roads. But kat hawkins has been looking at some tech which might help us to produce less of the killer fumes. Im driving around Central London with lincoanopp. But instead of sitting back and enjoying the incredible city skylines, i cant quite rest easy because the app were using for navigation is also telling us how much Carbon Dioxide and nitrous oxide our car is spitting out in real time. Its called air. Car and lincoln is part of the team behind it. Nox is a silent killer. Its far worse than c02, and everything we can do in order to reduce the amount of nox people emit into the air is good for the nations health, good for the environment, and we think that we can help people to reduce the amount of nox they produce as they drive. The app works by plugging in a small diagnostics device into the car. This takes data points from the engine and runs algorithms that have been designed by scientists at Imperial College london. What were looking at here is essentially an engine that you would find in a car . Thats right. So, its a relatively old Diesel Engine by todays standards, but its been updated with a lot of technology to measure whats going on in detail, so we have lots of sensors dotted around the engine. And its got this external unit here, which you would never find on a car, and thats to modify the turbo boost pressure. What were doing in the calculation algorithms is taking a whole load of engine data and using Machine Learning techniques to understand and be able to calculate what the nox emissions would be. This comes at an important time for the streets of london, with decisions being made at city hall to try and combat how much pollution the once named big smoke produces, and cars, said to be responsible for a quarter of Global Energy related Carbon Emissions, are the target. Last october, the mayor of london sadiq khan brought in a new charge, meaning that more polluting vehicles now have to pay twice the amount to drive in Central London. This means that cars registered before 2006 or that fall below the minimum Carbon Emissions star gets now have to pay £10 to drive into that congestion zone, and thats on top of the £11. 50 already in place. What tantalum say is that this piece of tech could be a fairer system for drivers. I always think of. My daughter, when she was growing up, had to go to great ormond street hospital on a number of occasions, and it was a number of repeat visits, and it was right in the centre of london and we had to drive. There was no alternative solution that we could have taken. I think people who behave like that should have the opportunity for paying less. Tantalum thinks that this is the future. Drivers being encouraged to drive more efficiently by being given financial incentives for doing so. This could be done by changing gears at the right time or actively not driving in sensitive areas, such as near hospitals or schools. And at the moment, theyre using the Data Collected from the tests done at imperial to come up with an estimate of how a charging system could work. Lincolns shown us today that hes a very considerate driver, who actually thinks about the nitrous oxide his cars producing, but he did rev the engine a couple of times just to show us how the technology works, so whats happened now is he has a charge of around £5. Its a lot less than the £10 would be. Still £5 when he leaves the congestion zone today. As governments grapple with lowering emissions and creating cleaner streets, it will be apps like air. Car that will be able to capitalise on the decisions being made. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that facebook announced its banning all ads for cryptocurrency. The word ransomware has been added to the Oxford English dictionary. And amazon has patented a wristband that could keep track of workers movements. Itll also provide haptic feedback to alert the wearer when theyre reaching for the wrong inventory bin. Meanwhile, fitness tracker app stravas heat maps have caused some major security alerts. It turns out military personnel around the world has been sharing their exercise routines on them, inadvertently highlighting Foreign Military bases in countries such as syria and afghanistan. And just ten months after its release, the Nintendo Switch has already outsold its predecessor the wii u, a sign of relief for nintendo im sure, as the wii u was considered a commercial failure and discontinued. Engineers at caltech have built a fully autonomous robot that mimics a bat in flight. Bat bot b2 has a new flexible wing design that apparently makes it more Energy Efficient than other flying robots. And finally, Elon Musks Boring Company unveiled a flamethrower, insisting that at 500, its the perfect weapon for a zombie apocalypse. Great idea or will it go up in flames . Now, fashion week season is upon us. New york next week will kickstart the most important month in a fashionistas calendar, as i well know. But there is a group of people who dont often see themselves reflected on a catwalk people with disabilities. London fashion week last year made some progress when two disabled models opened the show for one of the designers. Now, a new york Fashion School is hoping to continue that, combining tech and fashion by designing bespoke clothes for people with disabilities. Paul carter visited them. Buying clothes is something most people take for granted. You like the look of it, you try it on, you buy it. But what if your choices are much more limited because of, say. An impairment or disability . Ive come to a fashion lab here in new york who are using tech to make fashion more accessible. Open style lab was established to make clothing for disabled people thats both functional and fashionable. Operating in partnership with Parsons School of design in manhattan, they pair student designers, engineers and Occupational Therapists with disabled people to tackle real world clothing conundrums. Our goal pretty much and our vision is to make style accessible to people of all abilities, whether its disability or those who have injury, or those who are facing ageing, by 2025, through design and technology. About a year ago, i was looking for a coat i could put on without the use of my arms. Seven years ago, my arms became paralysed and i needed a coat for the brutal new york city winters. A friend referred me to open style lab and i was actually one of the participants for a semester. I fell in love with open style lab and became a board member this year. The team has access to a wide range of tech, such as 3 d printers and arduinos, to assist in both the design process and in the clothing they create. I went to meet some of the people on the receiving end of this fashion innovation. Im an adult survivor of Paediatric Cancer and it used to be called a quartermain amputation, i think so they take part of your arm, the shoulder, a little bit of the collarbone. Theyre designing a bag, i guess, that doesnt carry exactly like a backpack and that doesnt destroy my shoulder. Jason da silva has multiple sclerosis and has difficulties with speech. His design team were creating a shirt with an integrated microphone and loudspeaker to amplify his voice. Theyre creating a sensor system, so i can talk louder than i would normally. Its a speaker system for other people to use. Its pretty good, actually. They are trying to integrate back into my wheelchair. He has an armrest with speakers, and we are looking at options extending from the body. An emerging area in Fashion Design being utilised by open style lab is conductive fabric. This is material that can be stitched into clothing to create working circuits within garments. This allows for switches to be contained inside clothing, which can in turn be used to operate inbuilt items such as lights, heaters and even electric motors. This one, i havent looped it on, but what its doing is using a microcontroller chip and ive pretty much asked it to do the same bait switch, because its got conductive fabric inside, and so when you touch one of the pockets, itll send a signal and i did it for the microcontroller to send a signal if its left or right, and these were some of the prototypes that were made for a woman with Breast Cancer to see her range of motion. So this is one of my first iterations ofjust putting on the chip and then using conductive thread to figure out how a circuit live inside a garment. Completed projects created by open style lab in the past include a waterproofjacket shaped to fit a wheelchair user and a seamless top for a young girl whose autism made her hypersensitive to stitching. The work being done by open style lab shows what can be done when technology and lateral thinking meet a social need. With a little bit of luck, fashion of the future will all be designed with this much style. The trend for home monitoring devices to help us feel safe as houses has evolved over the past couple of years. We have seen them upping their game, adding facial recognition and customised alerts. But ive met a company adding Artificial Intelligence to the mix. Each member of the house will be represented by one of these stick people, more high tech than usual, their body proportions and skin colour, the way they walk, all of those factors built in to differentiating them from everyone else. Now, most of the time, they will be carrying out similar activities. They will become the normal things for them to do so anything out of the ordinary, that is when the alerts will start. Like when an elderly relative falls or that well known issue of when someone trips over the dog. Cherry home aims to track people and pets movements using cameras and sensors. Also, employing Artificial Intelligence to interpret that data into information on what anyone is doing at any given time. Sound creepy . Then it could prove useful for controlling the smart home. To start with, though, checking all is well in your house but not spying on your partner seems to be a reasonable place to start. Now, recently, we have seen a couple of interesting ideas one was a pill sized sensor, which can be swallowed and gives real time information on the gas content of your digestive system. Excuse me. Two years ago, i watched the worlds first vr surgery where medical students are invited to observe the operation in action. The main selling point of this immersive Virtual Reality is it puts you into places that you would rarely get to experience. Unless youre scrubbed in, youre not touching the patients. Youre in another room, looking over the surgeons shoulder but with this, you are looking on top of the patient and seeing what the surgeon is doing. What he is kind of getting into. Since then, surgeon in charge shafi ahmed has moved on to the new lens. The data from the patients scans is also overlaid, allowing them to consult on the operation. Researchers at Imperial College, london are looking at the vr, to enhance the surgeons ability to visualise some of the harder to perform operations. The team used medical scan results to create visualisations of bones and blood vessels and muscles. Surgeons with headsets can see these schedules overlaid on the patients in the theatre. The first time i used this device, to be honest, it blew me away. Its an extraordinary new way of seeing the world around you and interacting with the world. We were acutely aware of wearing the headset. Its a heavy device to use for a long period of time, so some of the feedback, maybe its just selected components of the surgery. Not all the time. There might be that one moment where you need that level of precision. At the moment, it is still being trialled in research hospitals. The hope is this sort of visualisation tech will improve precision and overall patient recovery time. There is always a lot of initial excitement about this technology, but what we really need to show is that it saves time, it gives Better Outcomes for the patient and, ultimately, is something that we cannotjust do in specialist centres, but we can roll out to other hospitals. And you can check out our website on Facebook Page for more short films on new tech. Thats it from us for now. Dont forget we live on throughout the week on facebook and on twitter at bbcclick. Thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Hello there. For many places, the day ahead will bring a slightly different feel to the weather something just a little bit milder. Yes, many of us starting the day under cold air. But this wedge of milder air in the atlantic beginning to show its hand. This is tied up with a weather system in the atlantic. You can see the cloud here on the earlier satellite picture. That cloud is going to bring some outbreaks of rain as we go on through the day. A real split in temperatures as we start off the morning. Perhaps as much as 5, 6, in the south east. Temperatures generally above freezing for Northern Ireland and northern scotland. This is how the day starts off, at 8 00am. Where we have the coldest weather in east anglia and the south east, thats where well have the brightest weather. A lot of sunshine to come. The south west, wales, Northern England, thick clouds, outbreaks of mostly light and patchy rain at this stage. A lot of cloud into southern scotland. But for Northern Ireland, northern scotland, something more bright. Sunny spells returning. A rash of showers up towards the north west, but because of the slightly milder air, most showers falling as rain rather than anything more wintry. Now, as we go on through the day, we take this band of cloud and these outbreaks of rain further south and east. Do you see the deep blue colours . That indicates the rain will turn more heavy for wales and Northern England into the afternoon. Clouding over in the south east, after the bright start. Remaining chilly here. Scotland, Northern Ireland, where we have sunshine and a few showers, temperatures getting up to 7 8 degrees. Thursday night, we push this band of at this stage quite heavy rain eastwards. Showers too, wintry showers. As we get into friday, the air will be turning more cold. Temperatures dipping away. Seven in cardiff. Some rain, sleet, and snow perhaps in the south east for a time. A few wintry showers elsewhere. But generally speaking, its High Pressure thats with us for the very start of the weekend. A cold and frosty start to saturday. Another frontal system. Perhaps a spell of snow in the north. Then some rain. Then a wedge of milder air, and then, for the second half of the weekend, you guessed it, back in the cold air. Things are very much up and down through the coming days. This is the weekend. It will often be windy. Well see rain at times on saturday. Something more bright and cold for most on sunday. There could be double digit temperatures in places. But with some outbreaks of rain, on sunday, it will feel colder, but it should be brighter. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. My names mike embley. Our top stories preparations for north koreas massive military parade and pyongyang says there will be no talks with the United States during the olympics. 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