Now, click gathers around the virtual Christmas Tree to explore the best tech the season explore the best tech the season has to offer. Ho, ho, ho, mary clickmas we are going to look at some very mixed reality, traditional ta bla mixed reality, traditional tabla playing, and some festive flying. There you are come on in. Welcome to clickmas 2020, i hope you are doing 0k. Its a bit different this year, isnt it . Normally we would be getting to get around the table, having a laugh, cheering, having a good time. Well, pretending to have a good time. Filming in clickmas party is the most stressful thing in the world. Just because we cant all be together doesnt mean we cant all be together hello everyone chris, loving thejumper hello everyone chris, loving the jumper candles atjens place. That must be a musical rainbow. Christmas furby, i see, and paul with his christmas dunk, a well known symbol of the christmas season. The duck is brilliant and spencer your house looks so festive you have totally outdone me with your decorations once again, not to mention the out that. How is your clickmas going so far . Costly on the atrocity front, they have to say. But guys, im really missing is ijust want to get in the same room as you again. It has been a tough all year but we are so grateful that we have stayed on your screens, and today at least we can have a get together, albeit 2020 style for the last show of this year. Thats right, and for this show would be unable to go out and about filming just a little bit and if santa had asked me what would either like to do for christmas, if they could do anything at all what wadeye say, i would say, i wa nt to what wadeye say, i would say, i want to be like you, big guy, and fly. Its pretty early in the morning, ive been told to meet my driving instructor richard here and he has told me that my need to wear these. Dont know why. dramatic music . Yeah, so it turns out richard is not in a fiat panda. Hes arriving goodwood speed week in style, as the chief test pilot gravity industries, the start up that believes theyve finally nailed the jetpack. I hatched this idea in 2016 is, could you reinvent flight 2016 is, could you reinvent flight by just adding 2016 is, could you reinvent flight byjust adding them minimalist amount of equipment and using your brain and body to fly. No logical reason, just an interesting idea. So, im going to have a go on this . Any tips . Well actually, its like watching a child learn to ride a bike because if you describe a bike because if you describe a bicycle to somebody who has never seen one, a bicycle to somebody who has never seen one, it sounds very clever and complicated and difficult to learn but our experience is that when you let the inner balance brain ta keover the inner balance brain takeover it is remarkable how well that collaboration between machine and human works and this is the same white right, s0 this is the same white right, so were going to put the harness on. That will do a good job of connecting you to the suit as well. If you stress and overthink it, its very hard. Walking and standing up is much more complicated than learning to fly this, so just relax into the jet suit is daunting and although it is also pretty heavy, theres not that much to at. Two turbines on each arm and one at the back and well, thatis and one at the back and well, that is at. See the trigger . When you are up there, when you squeeze it and you can feel the engines gradually ramp up. This finger will actually nudge the power up, finger will actually nudge the powerup, and finger will actually nudge the power up, and this one manages the powerdown. Each nudge gives you a couple of kilos more thrust. You are learning about lateral stability and location and it will still shove you around a bit but once you get your weight of the top of it your weight of the top of it you will notice that it is really not very much. I mean, its really scary because they can feel the power and i can feel the heat all around me. The diesel fuel lasts for up to ten minute. All of which, for me, will be spent at most, a few centimetres off the ground. What the helljust happened . that was honestly really good. That was honestly really good. That was honestly really good. That was incredible i dont know whether that is adrenaline 01 know whether that is adrenaline orjust share terror or excitement or what. The main application, richard thinks, is an entertainment. Imagine seeing jetpack races across la kes, seeing jetpack races across lakes, for example. But in september 2020, richard lakes, for example. But in september2020, richardjoined the Great North Air Ambulance Service to show how paramedics might quickly get to casualties in the rough terrain of the la ke in the rough terrain of the lake district. The great north airambulance lake district. The great north air ambulance reached out and said that there appears to be a large cluster of cases where, if they could move very quickly, and the end result was that i got there in a few minutes. He broke the world record of fastest speed and a body controlled jet power suit twice they are noisy, impractical and expensive. But, jet packs are now real, which isa jet packs are now real, which is a good enough Christmas Present for this little fan boy. 0k, present for this little fan boy. Ok, i have questions how long is it going be before you arejet packing all over long is it going be before you are jet packing all over the place like jetpack richard . Lets try never. You need really good core strength and really strong arms as well to stop the jets from throwing your around like this. You what, though, richard gave me two challenge coins being a good learner and getting just slightly off the ground so that is something. 0h, spencer, thats brilliant now, i have Something Else exciting for you. A present is about to arrive now. Goodness me how wonderful. 0h about to arrive now. Goodness me how wonderful. Oh my goodness, is this. . Its not atv goodness, is this. . Its not a tv studio in a box, is it . It is i hope you like it, it should help you be able to make atv should help you be able to make a tv show from home. Thats a ludicrous idea, wed never pull it off. Look, though, its got a lightand it off. Look, though, its got a light and its got a green screen. If you are not familiar with green screens on tv, what we do as we get the green and we do as we get the green and we replace it with Something Else, maybe, idont we replace it with Something Else, maybe, i dont know, a cat. Im sure that you will find something very useful to do with it. Ive actually been using some of the kit over the past few weeks to make click, i did have to actually put into the test. Ive also been trying other tech which will help us make better social media videos. Unless you are an actual professional influencer, then the chances are that any photos and videos you put up on social media are quick self shoots after a few takes of checking your hair looks all right. But im not averse to upping my instagram game so im testing a few simple things that could make a big difference. This set by gabe spencerfor difference. This set by gabe spencer for christmas is a sign of the times. Ache it for children, or anyone, so they can mimic their favourite youtube stars. But it is a cheap and cheerful way of covering the basics, and this phone grip attaches to the middle of the ring light. When you film through the middle it produces hopefully flattering lighting and you can also change between daytime white and warmer tones. Of course, it is not the quality of professional kit, but considering the price, i cant really expect the earth, and i have been testing the light as pa rt have been testing the light as part of my click home set up. It worked well but it could do with being a bit taller. Right now it is the right height for a two year old by think you got to be at least five to be dreaming of being a youtube. It also comes with a green screen. And at like chrome of that here can help you edit video to create the illusion that you are anywhere. Like being on a beach or doing the weather stopping for a full convincing effect you do need to make sure that the screen is evenly let. The green screen at will highlight any hotspots or creases s0 highlight any hotspots or creases so you can highlight any hotspots or creases so you can fix them before you film. Lighting can make a real difference and these colour changing lights can run through the colours of the rainbow or you can set them to just the rainbow or you can set them tojust one. The rainbow or you can set them to just one. They can help at a spot of creativity to what you are doing. Things have come a long way since the southeast deck. These days they often double up as Something Else as well like a tripod or in this case, a gamble to stabilise your shots. You just click it to your phone and whether you are taking a selfie or filming some fast paced action, it will a lwa ys some fast paced action, it will always keep your shot nice and steady. If you want to get a bit more fancy and show your full surroundings, you could try a 360 camera. This camera comes with an invisible selfie stick. It disappears from your shot, letting you create drone style footage without a drone. And here is a tip that can make your videos more engaging and accessible. The free apple clips app can automatically subtitle your video as you record at. There are similar apps available for android too, like auto cap, although sometimes you really need to annunciate those words for it to understand. Now you have all the ingredients you need to just let your creativity run wild 0h, just let your creativity run wild oh, i just let your creativity run wild 0h, ishould never have given spencer that green screen what is he doing . given spencer that green screen what is he doing . I am doing everything, lara, and i will be doing it for the whole of 2021. What a great present. Anyway, whats that you got there, jan . That looks divine. It isjust a traditional clickmas dinner, made mostly from vegetables because i am a vegetarian. They wouldnt happen to be vegetables from the syringe powered greenhouse you went to . Funny you ask, the harvest there isnt actually ready yet, but had to go back to see how they are getting on. Five months on and a lot has changed here at. Last time we put uplands for using wastewater, now the pipes are in place and the water is being diverted. This is called a wet well and it was purpose built for this greenhouse. It is diverting water from the Treatment Plant into this Heat Exchange building. So this is the Heat Exchanger building and theres two types of pipes and has not be the silver pipe is taking the affluent, so the clean water from the Treatment Plant, putting it into these Heat Exchangers and the heat is taken Heat Exchangers and the heat is ta ken off, put Heat Exchangers and the heat is taken off, put into these red points which pumps it 2. 5 kilometres down to the greenhouse. These red pipes. Herod norwich, at the greenhouse its 94,000 square metres, and they just greenhouse its 94,000 square metres, and theyjust hanging the gutters. We are providing the gutters. We are providing the climate computer that is controlling the roof ventilation, the screening, the heating, the c02, the evaporators, but also the irrigation. Each plant grows out of these gutters and will be 1315 out of these gutters and will be 13 15 metres long, trained along the way as. These wires stretch up to the roof. Its designed for high wire crops like newcomers, tomatoes and peppers. Hell undertake to grow a cucumber . It takes about 18 days, it is difficult stopping asa days, it is difficult stopping as a whole plethora of different actions that need to be taken at the correct time. It depends on the sunlight as well, the quality of the water. Everything has to be done correctly and once you get to your 18 days, theres thereafter another 18 days you are getting about 200 cucumbers per square metre. In this one greenhouse, 18 million cucumbers will be grown every year, thats about 3 4 of the uks annual consumption and robots can also be deployed here. These heated rails will warm the plants but can also hold the machines. How might different robots Work Together in this greenhouse . A robot might go down each and every row, collect the data from every single plant and then determine, send that data back toa determine, send that data back to a computer which will then determine how best to, where different pesticides are required or what fertilisers are needed where, and that granularity of data is something that a robot could fundamentally change the way greenhouse operates. That data would be transmitted to this irrigation room where the recipe is kept. All the water running through the greenhouse is pumped through this irrigation room and sterilised with uv lamps. This includes rainwater, recycle from the roof. That was fascinating thanks for that. We will be back in the spring to see everything growing, a gift that keeps on giving. Talking of gifts, who wants to give us a gift next . Who is up . I have a present, except my present is a gift for all of you, not just present is a gift for all of you, notjust one. Thanks paul sweet what is it . I will be the ghost of christmas past and ta ke the ghost of christmas past and take us all back to the 1950s, specifically, to a jazz club in vancouver called the palamar. Thanks to the magic of live motion capture, and an incredible singer called jill barber and her band, she has recreated it for one christmas only, so grab a drink, sit back and lets go back in time. The weather outside is frightful, but the site is so delightful. Since weve no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. It doesnt show signs of. I snow. It doesnt show signs of. , the lights are turned way down low, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. That was jill barber and the phantom jazz band. After the performance, i managed to catch up performance, i managed to catch up with her at the bar. Jill, to start with a can you tell us about where we both are . Sure, you and i are sitting at the palamar supper club. Its a clu b palamar supper club. Its a club that was demolished in 1955. How are we doing that . I am actually sitting in front of am actually sitting in front of a green screen in a film studio in vancouver british columbia, canada, and you are 7600 kilometres away at a studio at the bbc in london. But through the bbc in london. But through the magic of cross reality technology, we can be here together at the palamar. Show, the Company Behind the performance, created as virtual venue using the unreal engine, a platform created for gaming. With the performers in motion ca ptu re with the performers in motion capture suits shot against a green screen, they can be transported to the 50s while maintaining their intricate human movements. I quit pretending. Historically, motion capture and virtual production techniques have been used in the creation of blockbuster films, in big budget videogames, but with cinematic quality Computer Graphics that can be rendered in realtime, we graphics that can be rendered in real time, we are starting to really explore the use of these things and live performance. Jills first palamar concert was broadcast online in november, but unlike many other performances we have all watched over the last year, for me, something about this really sta nds for me, something about this really stands out. Is more than just you performing in a space. You have created a back story and a feeling around it. Tell me about how that came about, and for example, why the palamar . The palamar has this incredible history of hosting the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and the mills brothers mobility holiday, and i thought how cool to continue that legacy and perform on the same stage that those artists graced back in the day. Hang on looks like my gift has arrived in time. Wow a present this is so exciting i wonder what could be . |j a present this is so exciting i wonder what could be . I got you an electronic tumbler because i know you love your music, you love your tech. Because i know you love your music, you love your tech. Do you know how difficult it could be to make Something Like this . There is a reason that people dont. Im sorry, i have to try it out, thank you, thank you so much right, ive got work to do. This is an electronic version of a hand drum set from the indian subcontinent, the electric one is the only one of its kind in the world. This one has sensors underneath here, 3d printed controls, and its pressure sensitive, and who better to help me learn then the inventor behind the device . Hello, lovely to meet you thank you s0 lovely to meet you thank you so much for your time. Im really excited to learn, but i also know the best way to learn is on also know the best way to learn isona also know the best way to learn is on a real instrument. Lets doa is on a real instrument. Lets do a quick lesson and i will show you how to play a simple rhythm. A thousand times yes its so satisfying the gentler you hit into the more you get out of it, its like a breath. Gah woop ping ping. Plays drums. Its incredible you actually learned a rhythm and pleaded really well. Maybe we should move to electronic version. I would wager a bit of money that you could play that exactly the same. There we go. Plays drums. This is amazing the amount of work that will have gone into creating a machine that can just do that, iam astounded. Machine that can just do that, i am astounded. It depends on how much surface area your finger is setting. They will measure geography about exactly where your fingers measure geography about exactly where yourfingers are, measure geography about exactly where your fingers are, plus, the amount of pressure that you are applying. No longer took five years to make so what drove you to create an version . The traditional is really bulky and heavy, it goes out of tune, these blackspots in the middle really fragile, and the other reason i think this is more important, is the attitude, so i really wanted to open up the sounds of it to the rest of the world, and no reason why these beautiful sounds cant appear more in pop and regular music. You may recognise the sound in this Missy Elliott track. He aims to make these to order for around £1200 a piece. Around four times the cost of a traditional tabla. That was absolutely brilliant thank you s0 absolutely brilliant thank you so much for your time. Im literally going to be sitting in front of the television practising this. Lets meet up and some more lets definitely do that. By that is so brilliant, but im afraid that it for our special clickmas special. Italy back to normal next year. Show that follows clickmas normally is a look back to our last 12 months, but who he wants to look back to 2020 . Instead who he wants to look back to 2020 . Instead we who he wants to look back to 2020 . Instead we will bring you a special live show where we look back at the past 20 years of click. Thats right until then you can find us on social media, youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter. Spencer, are you 0k . Yeah i am, imjust taking it all in really. This truly has been a special day. We didnt think we would be able to do it, but we posted a gift to each other, got eve ryo ne gift to each other, got everyone together, and when i say everyone, i mean everyone its been a challenging year for us all but we have done our best to bring you your weekly dose of click. And everyone on the team just wanted to be here to say thank you. Thank you for watching us, thank you for being part of our click family, s0 being part of our click family, so until next time, its goodbye and merry clickmas merry clickmas hello there. Wednesday brought another wet day, particularly to england and wales. And at one point, we had over 50 flood warnings in force. Now, im sure as the rain eases off, the number of flood warnings through Christmas Eve will gradually begin to drop away, but still the potential for a few problems. There is the rain bearing cloud, then, we had across england and wales, but my attention right now is being drawn to this area of cloud just running in across the north of scotland, because this is going to bring some of you snow. Yes, there could be a few centimetres lying on the ground in places, along with the risk of icy stretches as we head into the first part of Christmas Eve. A few showers also running down north sea coast, the irish seacoast, as our main band of rain continues to edge out of the way. It will be cold, mind you, a cold start to Christmas Eve, a widespread frost certainly for scotland, northern england, probably northern ireland, and perhaps into the north midlands and north wales as well. Now, it will be a cold day for Christmas Eve, these chilly northerly winds diving their way southwards and bringing showers down north sea coasts. They will continue to fall as snow in land across parts of scotland, perhaps over the north york moors, might even see an odd flake mixed in with these showers across Eastern England at times. But away from the east coast where it will be windy and cold, should be plenty of sunshine, but those temperatures way lower than they have been for a number of days now, 3 4 in scotland, may be 4 5 for parts of Eastern England. And as we head into christmas day, there will be a widespread and sharp frost, so certainly a chilly start to the big day. That might be quite a nice sunrise to start the day. Best of the sunshine across england and wales, but cloud will quickly building across the north west, and ultimately, we will see some rain move its way into northwest scotland, where it will be turning milder, as south westerly winds eventually pushing in, highs of 9 in stornoway. Best of the sunshine, then, hanging on across parts of southern and Eastern England, but cold, 4 5 degrees celsius. Beyond that, boxing day, and sunday, the second half of the weekend, weve got this area of rain pushing southwards across the country. Given that the ground is saturated, that rain is likely to lead to further localised flooding with wintry showers following the main band of rain through. Its notjust rain that could cause issues, its also going to become very windy, gusts could reach 50 70 mph, maybe Even Stronger than that. So there is the potential for some disruptive winds as well this weekend, and beyond that into monday, still windy for northern ireland. Further east, a mixture of rain, sleet and maybe some snow. Fundamentally change the way greenhouse operates. A very warm welcome to bbc news, our top stories a brexit deal within striking distance the signs from london and brussels point to an agreement now on the table, with an announcement expected on thursday morning. 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