When we were all holding him to the ground, the guy wasjust constantly screaming, get off me, get off me. But we wanted to make sure he is never going to do this again, hes not going to harm another single person. In other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 more for rail tickets in the new year. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week long jumps, a soft landing, high fives. High five a blind girl high five . And squeaky toys. December 3 marks the Un International day of persons with disabilities. And each year on click we use the occasion to look at some of the latest technology thats helping to change the lives of disabled people. This is the beazley designs of the year exhibition at the Design Museum london, which feature some great examples of Inclusive Design. This is mysleeve, silicon grips that make crutches more comfortable. Theyre also magnetic so they snap together and can be held in one hand. Thisables is a 3 d printable add on that makes small buttons bigger and more accessible. And the canguro is a concept mobility robot which can carry your shopping for you. One area of cutting edge design and research which is playing an ever increasing role is prosthetics, particularly in the world of sports. This is paul carter. Hello. Youve been looking at some of the latest prosthetics for us, havent you . I have. And you started in a place that seems pretty non obvious to me. Thats right. They went to reykjavik in iceland and i went to see the manufacturing process and the story behind the iconic running blade, the prosthetic running blade which is now synonymous with paralympic sport. And what people might not realise that there is a huge amount of research and design which goes into making the blades, but also developing them and testing them to make them faster in the future. Right, and youve got a pair of blades yourself. I do. Im very much a non paralympian. Im not really built for running. So i decided to leave this one up to the professionals. Here at the headquarters of Prosthetics Company ossa in iceland. Theyve gathered a team of serious paralympic athletes for some even more serious testing. These athletes have a stack of medals, world, and national between them. And theyre all major contenders at the 2020 Paralympic Games in tokyo. Theyre providing ossa with feedback and data about the performance of their prosthetics, which, its hoped, will lead to better performing blades in the future. Were going into a lot of biomechanical analysis. Were looking into different ways of applying the carbon fibre techniques and trying those out. Its a bit of trial and error, obviously, in all of it as well. First invented in 1976, blades have been commonplace in paralympic sports since the mid 90s. And theyve come a long way. So ive got a selection of running blades here on the table in front of me. And different iterations through the years. And the one thing that really strikes me is, really, its kind of been evolution more than revolution. I mean, this was the original design which is now about 20 or 30 years old, and its kind of got that classic sort of c shape that you can recognise. I mean, these are the blades that i personally have at home i need to wear them more than i do this is the flex foot. Which, again, was a slight moderation on the original design. And then from there we progressed to this one, which introduced this bend in the back side which spreads the load, when youre actually pushing down it spreads the load. I mean, they dont actually look that flexible, because im not Strong Enough to bend them, but these actually take quite a lot of force and all of that force is distributed along the back here. And fast forward all the way up to todays cheetah pro, which is this one, its not i million miles away, but its come through quite a few iterations to get there. But i couldnt come all the way to iceland without actually seeing how theyre made. And the design and manufacturing process is more involved than you might think. Wow. Im used to hospital workshop, which are kind of usually one man and an allen key. This is insane. So this is sheets of carbon fibre fabric. You can see it on this machine here being cut into strips. Its actually mind blowing to believe that these really thin little pieces of fabricjust here will eventually turn into one of these. Whats amazing is that you can actually see the process, following it all the way through. Youve got the start of the process here and youve got some moulds on the left, which were not allowed to show you. This is essentially a giant oven and once theyre laminated and pressed together and covered in the resin, they go into one of these, which applies temperature, but also pressure, which is really important because thats what condenses these and gives them their solidity. I wouldnt much fancy getting inside one of these things. Id probably end up with the bends. I was fitted with a blade in five minutes and i started running on the hallway in 0ssa for the first time in, like, 13 years or something, 12 13 years. And it was a day that i will always remember. How did that feel running for the first time . Running for the first time after the amputation was like finding the wind in the airagain. I have to, like, be honest. There were tears there were tears. Each blade is customised to every athlete. Taking into consideration their physical attributes, running style, and forces theyre applying, as well as this sport that they participate in. Were dealing on the biomechanical side with the most advanced gate laps that are available. So were talking about vicon systems, force plates, that are basically telling us, objectifying what it is that the athletes are trying to tell us as well. Theyre telling us what it is the foot is or isnt doing, to make sure we understand where we can potentially tweak. The design process draws parallels with that of motorsport, where changes are being considered that can shave fractions of a second or add small distances to performances. And what was that transition like to having something thats been kinda personalised to you . It was really nice to have, because i could give feedback about how i felt and what i would like to feel. It really felt like we had the room to search for something that fits my personal running style and its different for everybody, so theres no, like, one golden rule regarding blades and its fun to realise that and that you can reallyjust, you dont have to do what the Paralympic Champion is doing, because that might not even be the best for me. So its good to have the opportunity to search for the right blades with a team of people around me. I switched blades two months ago, category wise, i went a full category different. So were still not well, im sure now that i have the right blades, but its only been two months. So within the four years ive been doing this now, weve been changing, weve been adjusting the alignment, and the alignment in winter training is different than during races, so its a constant change and development. Its never done. The new ones, theyre helping the athletes a lot. The times are getting better, people are getting faster. So it has something to do with the prosthesis and also people are getting more professional in the paralympian world. Blades are essentially springs. They cant return any more energy than is put into them, but concerns have been raised about just how far development can take us. Is there a risk we go beyond merely the physical capabilities of the athletes . A carbon fibre blade is not able to provide active positive energy. And that is what the human leg does. So if you look at itjust in that simple manner, youre always going to be slightly underperforming if youre reliant on a blade that is not able, like a muscle, to produce 200 300 of the power if youre contracting it in a sports activity. Could we potentially integrate structures that could make a higher level of propulsion . There might be an opportunity for that. At this stage thats not at the order. Were not looking for that. Were looking to get people to maximise their performance, with a device that supports them as well possible. That i would say is definitely giving them the fair opportunity to compete. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that ride hailing firm uber was told it wont have its london license renewed due to what transport for london called repeated safety failures. Uber is appealing the decision. Google fired four workers known as the thanksgiving four, over what it calls Data Security and employee safety. Other employees accused the company of punishing them for speaking out. Spot the robotic dog has been working alongside massachusetts state police. Boston dynamics a Legged Friend has been trialled for the past three months, helping with live incidents as well as training runs. Staff at nasa have been busy bees. They have released the first astrobees on the International Space station to help astronauts keep the place clean. These worker bee robots clean the air and will seek out a charging station when theyre exhausted. And, finally, the royal navy will be flying a different kind ofjet from the deck of hms queen elizabeth. This jet pack, made by british firm gravity, allows the wearer to fly up to 32 mph for 5 10 minutes. Im guessing youd want know if it was going to be five or ten minutes in advance, though, wouldnt you . Earlier this year, at click live at the hay festival, maisy was a part of one of our most memorable moments. Maisy, are they working . Yeah. I can see your microphone. And i can see that youre smiling. And i can see the buttons on your shirt. Take a look at the audience. Yeah. Theyre waving. I can see theres a lady in the front with a red jacket. The guy next to her is wearing stripes. Oh my god, its so amazing. Following that episode, many of you got in touch to ask whether maisy got to keep the givevision glasses . Well, were happy to say that she did. And we asked her what shes been up to since that show. So what have you used the headset for since . I suppose the most exciting thing for me was going to see my favourite singer, pink, live in cardiff. I bet she looked epic. It was the most incredible night ever. I cried so much and danced so much and just had a fantastic time. Its so amazing what technology can do for us blind girls, isnt it . Its incredible. It really is. We wanted to get maisy back on click so we teamed her up with journalist lucy edwards, whos also blind, to take us on a tech tour of blind life and to test some new innovations along the way. I lost my sight seven years ago. Navigating the world can feel like a huge challenge, even with my gorgeous guide dog, 0lga. I usually use my guide dog willow to get around, but today were trying out a new device wewalk smart cane. I think 0lgas a bit confused with the cane. The device has a round sensor to detect obstacles. Ive paired it with my smart phone and airpods to send me directions. So my airpods pick up the information from my phone and the Navigation System reads it out to me. When we got there it said, starbucks now on your right. And, yeah. By then we could smell it anyway, couldnt we . When i was using the cane it was always vibrating. Thats buzzing a lot. Is it . Yeah, the buzzing got really quick. So i new that i was in front of something that was quite a large obstacle. This might be an improvement for some cane users, but personally ive found the feedback slightly overwhelming. I could imagine it could probably get quite difficult to detect whats important and whats not important. I was excited to show maisy an app named microsoft soundscape that uses 3 d sound to point you in the right direction. You can hear the sound as if its around you and its like youre in the software almost. Phone facing southwest along world piazza. When youre tuned into the app it will name nearby shops and restaurants. It even highlights whats on the pavement. Is there bike parking in front of us . 0ne useful tool is the ability to set an audio beacon, say, if you want to find your local supermarket. 65 metres west. Its making this tip tap sound. Tapping sounds help guide us in the right direction, although we did manage to walk past the shop door. I think you dont quite believe its to the right of you. At least we had our guide dogs to help us find the entrance. At home, some of the simplest tech can actually be the most useful. But big tech companies, like apple, google and amazon, are also trying to make their Technology Better for people like me. Most of the time i use my smart phone and apple watch. Its great that it can connect to my apple tv and you can get it to play your favourite moments. Lots of smart speakers now have audio books services. One new and particularly unusual audiobook is called unseen, its the first ever audio comic book. When you hear this sound. That is so cool. The word unseen in bold letters. 0h, amazing. No one ever does that, the typeface. Describing the pictures and each panel, which is the big part of comic books. I cant wait for unseens creator, chad allen, to release the next segment. I do not know who the hell you are. I do not know who the hell you are i was also excited to try a new device from Bristol Braille technology. This device i have in front of me is called the canute and this is the very first ever ever several line braille display. It sounds like a typewriter. Using buttons at the base of the device you can upload books, pdfs and documents. The multilayer is great forfeeling diagrams, is an easier and quicker way to read. Thats nice. You can use Something Like this and not have audio on, constantly all the time. Are we reading braille . Yes. I was even more impressed with the next device we tried. A pair of 0rcam smartglasses. These use a camera and Artificial Intelligence to read the text around you and you can use touch, voice and gesture commands to change set its setting. So i have a magazine and if i point ata line. I always say that there are. Its reading it we surprised maisie with a book from one of her favourite authors. Kaitlyn dunnet. Cool the 0rcam tells you the time. The time is 3 29 pm. And can name who is standing in front of you. Of course, i wanted to see if we could get it to recognise maisie. The device does this by remembering the unique points of a persons face, a bit like a map. Maisie. Oh, yeah high five, blind girl high five. We also tried a new feature, the ability to scan food product barcodes. This was a hit. Remember to hold your item about a foot above the counter top. Alexa, what am i holding . I was really excited to test the new amazon echo show feature. You hold a food item in front of the screen camera and move it around until the device tells you what the item is. It was difficult knowing whether the item was Centre Screen and this threw up some less than accurate results. Show me another side. It looks like vanilla coca cola. Oh, my god. Thats cool. I have done that so many times, like ive picked up cherry diet coke by mistake. We also have been told that wasnt vanilla coke, and just regular coca cola. You would have to really nail getting your snapshots correct to find this useful. It was so great to try all the technology throughout the day. The wider the choice of tech, the better for everyone. Not everything today was a complete success but the impact that blind technology can have continues to surprise me. I am really excited about the future of accessibility tech. Some fantastic innovations there. One thing becoming clear in this programme isjust how much is out there enabling people to be more empowered and to live more independently. And for people with learning disabilities, for example, there are plenty of innovations to help them do just that. Paul has been to meet someone for whom the internet is helping to make life just that little bit more easy. This is adam. Adam has Downs Syndrome and lives in his own home, which includes some specially designed technology to allow him to live more independently. Here he is using a tablet that contains a range of bespoke applications to help him with tasks in everyday life. In this instance, cooking. Can you show me what youve got on here, adam . Sift three cups of plain flour into a big mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre of the flour. It shows step by step instructions with pictures but the Technology Goes much further than just recipes. Its part of a project called connected living a partnership between the learning disability charity, mancap, and telecoms company, vodafone. The platform utilises a range of technologies bundled together under one roof, literally. From smart home devices and iot based sensors to more simple reminders, to do lists and instructions. A lot of the elements in adams house, all on iot, international things, things that are connected, machines that are connected to each other, that provide long term connectivity. A lot of it is stuff that people are familiar with. Smart lighting, smart locks, not particularly new concepts, but what we have done is we have packaged it all together and put it into this user interface which has been tailored very specifically so it is user friendly and it is intuitive to use. We started off with a very long list of things, these can be quite small things, things that people might want to achieve and then we gave the list to vodafone to find technological solutions. We whittled it down to the things we felt and we heard were most commonly going to be of importance to people. Technology is in all our lives at the moment nowadays and will continue to be so, so we want to make sure people with learning disabilities are not disadvantaged by not being able to access technology. It is designed to be customisable to each individual user, with the hardware and software tailored to their needs and personal abilities. The platform blends smart Home Technologies with things adam can use outside the home too, such as video calling a support worker if he needs assistance or as a communication aid. What would you do with the options on this screen . So you can tell them where you want to go. Which are your favourite . What do you like to do the most . Lets go to the pub. Sounds good to me. Do you like that . Laughter. We like tech too. There are 1. 4 Million People in the uk with learning disabilities who could use this but also there are wider applications if you think about people who go into homes as they get older, they still want to be independent, they still need their flexibility and this can help them. You and i, we want to be independent, we want to do our own thing and actually if technology can help people to do that, then it means that you have greater control, you are feeling more independent and the amount of confidence that is really increasing in people is fantastic. Most importantly of all though, how does adam feel about his smart connected home . Supported, yeah. That was adam and his mum. Truly lovely. And we will continue to keep across all of this area of Inclusive Design and technology throughout the year, as we always do on click. In the meantime, you can contact us with your thoughts about what you have seen. We live on instagram, youtube, twitter and facebook. So get in touch with us and you can find us there all throughout the week. Thanks very much for watching and we will see you soon. Hello. For a large swathe of the uk it has been a cold, crisp saturday, although temperatures in places have struggled to get above freezing, rural scotland also where the fog has been slow to clear. This area of low pressure has brought some rain, bringing more cloud into the isles of scilly, devon,, the bringing more cloud into the isles of scilly, devon, the channel islands, may be the odd spot of rain. More cloud across southern parts of the uk, through the ceiling on overnight, fog will reform through the midlands, east wales and into northern england. Meanwhile our area of rain will start to pull away, taking the gusty winds with it, but still quite a breeze blowing across the southern part of the uk, frost not as sharp, either. Further north, one or two showers clipping northern and eastern parts of scotland, and another cold night, quite breezy as i mentioned, particularly for the southern half of the uk, so that will tend to keep things mixed up. It is still a cold night, a touch of frost for many, sharpest across northern england, Northern Ireland and scotland, where temperatures in places across northern scotland could get down to minus nine celsius again. This area pressure building from the south, building across much of the uk, and the fog should lift more readily thanks to the breeze, and for many of us it is a dry, bright day, good spells of sunshine, but still on the cold side. We are looking at 3 9dc tomorrow. As we go into monday for most, a cold and frosty start with a good deal of sunshine, the exception being the far north of scotland, outbreaks of rain turning persistent and heavy for the northern isles, elsewhere a good deal of sunshine, after that cold and frosty start, temperatures rising to between 6iodc. Temperatures rising to between 6 10dc. For the week ahead, this area of High Pressure is extensive across much of the uk, but notice more of a breeze across the northern half of scotland, and also some fronts just starting to come through at times, particularly towards the end of the week, some of that rain could be heavy. For most we are seeing wet weather recently, things looking dry and cold at first, while the later. This is bbc news. The headlines at lipm cambridge graduate jack merritt has been named as one of the victims killed in yesterdays attack on london bridge. The 25 year old was working for one of the universitys education initiatives. The Prime Minister visited the scene of the attack earlier, saying people convicted of serious violent offences shouldnt be released early from prison. The attackers been named as usman khan, out on licence after being automatically released from prison, despite a terrorism conviction. The practice of automatic early release, where you cut a sentence in half and let really serious, violent offenders out early simply isnt working, and i think youve had some very good evidence of how
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