Today, im in the lair of a wizard. A wizard who like decibels, who has won grammies, who writes a good book or two. A wizard called brian eno. I dont know if i should actually show you how this works, really. Lets just find the. So these are notjust not of speakers, they are Working Speakers these are Working Speakers . Theyre Working Speakers, yeah. Oh, my gosh. And it is sound that this man is best known for. Big sound. The former member of the band, roxy music, has added his unique production sound to the biggest acts in the world groups like u2, and coldplay and some chap called david. He is a self proclaimed non musician who uses technology to make his art. There it is. So this essentially never repeat in billions of years. It is constantly generating new images. I mean, sometimes it does things that are so baffling fantastic you think, gosh, i never would have thought of that. And it is his love of random, so called generative art, that has brought us here. Eno, whose sonar music is very atmospheric and ethereal, is regarded as the godfather of Ambient Music and his new work, reflection, is also rather unpredictable. It is a generative music app which follows rules defined and refined by eno but which plays differently every time you listen. So 14 of these notes, a random 14 , are going to be pitched down by three semitones. The second is 41 of them are going to go an octave down i2 semi tones. Can i just say. Scientist. I would go further, quantum scientist. All about probabilities here. Yeah, it is probabilities. Brian eno has spent weeks, even months, tweaking these rules and probabilities which, theyre all when combined, cause these sounds to randomly echo, bounce, transpose or not play at all. So these are all different types of scripters. And then theres a whole lot of other stuff. Buried maths. I like my chains. Who doesnt actually, these rules can be applied to any type of music. In something more pacey than ambience, their effects become immediately obvious. We will make that a tedious loop. Music beat loop a lot of music is based just on things like that and it goes on for ever. Now ill try putting in some scripters. First thing im going to put in is a way of reducing the number of beats. Beat changes so its only playing 80 of the beats. Now, lets have it hit some other drums, occasionally. Already its a pretty crappy drummer, i have to say. Well, no, i have to say, actually, this is way more interesting, with the greatest of respect, than the original drumbeat, isnt it . It makes it sound human. Now well put in some rolls. Traditional music, you have a piece which you lock down but youre not locking that down. Youre locking down a kind of process. Its almost like youre taking this, part of it, and youre locking that down. This is how i want the piece to be but i dont mind so much if it changes every time. Thats a good way of explaining it. Im trying to make a version of me in the software, my taste, if you like. Im always interested in what is at the edge of my taste envelope, if you like, and randomness is a way of finding out. Mixing things up is something that brian is well known for. He developed the now legendary oblique strategies cards, a box of Creator Suggestions which, by imposing a seemingly limiting rule to your problem, encourage lateral thinking. Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them. Thats not what a computer would do. Im working alone a lot of the time. If you are working with other people, you get a lot of information and derailment from the fact there are other people there. If you are working alone you can very easily get into a rut. Work at a different speed. Yeah, thats a useful one. That can mean a lot of different things. That can mean change the speed here but also it can mean do things at a different speed. Work very, very quickly or work very, very slowly. Take a minute to get to that guitar. Pick it up, put it on. Plug it in. Have you ever thought about whether you can copyright the music that comes out of. . Thats an interesting question. If you sell the app to somebody, do they own the music that comes out of it . Because they have constructed it, in a way. All the bits are mine but the final construction is that theirs so. What did you conclude . I dont think its very easy to make a case for saying its my music because it sort of is in a modern sense of what composing means. We spent about an hour with eno and in the next few days you can see more inside brians brain online. Look out for the link on twitter. Welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that serial entrepreneur elon musk started yet another company. A company which aims to implant Ai Technology onto the human brain. Does this guy never watch sci fi films . This sort of thing rarely ends well in them. And from one Tech Billionaire to another amazon head honcho jeff bezos showed off the interior Space Tourists will see in his blue origin spacecraft. It was also announced this week that bezos is now the second richest man in the world, with a net worth of 75 billion. Hes still 10 billion behind bill gates, though. And how about turning any surface into a control interface, without the need for a screen . Weller plans to control a host of devices like speakers, lights and thermostats, by users waving their hands around in front of a sensor. Meaning you can ditch all of those remote controls, if you havent lost them all already. Next month, in france, a host of teams will race vehicles built from less than 100 atoms in a nano car race. While these nano scale vehicles may someday drive around the human body performing medical procedures, for now, teams will race them at speeds of up to five nano metres per hour that means it would take these micro machines 37 million years to travel a single mile. Not exactly formula one. This week, samsung launched its latest mobile phones. Just a few minutes to go until the launch starts and there is an incredible level of secrecy here, but i guess theres a lot at stake for samsung after the note 7 debacle. Were just waiting to see what the s8 has in store for us. Soon the hype turned to cold hard facts, out of this samsung unboxed event, a phone. Well, two phones were born. So here we have it the s8 and the s8 plus. My first thought . Not even the plus seems to be that large thats because the screens on both of them curve over the edges. Theres been a lot of hype about this. Personally, im not really sure it feels like that big a deal, but it does mean you get a screen which is bigger on a smaller sized device. A few of the features that weve been told about today theres a fingerprint scanner, as well as iris and facial recognition, meaning you should not need a password but should still be able to achieve all the security that you want. Theres also what theyre calling the invisible home button. Its part of the screen there. As you press it, you can feel some sensation if youre missing the original kind of home button. One thing we have heard a lot of talk about is the launch of bixby. When fully functioning, the Virtual Assistant aims to make interacting with your phone easier. Interacting with 10 samsung apps, controlling other samsung devices yes, there is a theme here and using Artificial Intelligence to learn your habits and suggest what you might be looking for next. Naturally, i want to test this new personal assistant but there is one substantial problem bixby is currently only available in korean. It is not until may that it is going to be released in american english, and then after that some other languages are going to follow. It may well be great but i cant tell you about it. In the meantime, the Image Recognition function is in action. You photograph an item and it aims to find it for you online, with varying success. So well put the hairbrush in shot. So it thinks my hairbrush is a fork. Ive been asking around to see what others think of it. First impression of the screen very impressive with the infinity display. 18. 5x 9, thats going to be a huge trend in phones this year. Thats a big screen in a very small phone. 5. 8 inches and i can fit my hands around it. Obviously the Core Experience of using the phone hasnt changed a lot from the galaxy s7. We havent got the dual camera we are seeing elsewhere. It only works with the standard samsung apps. So google play music. I dont think everybody always wants to speak to standard apps, they want to speak to all their apps. I feel that samsung, for the amount of time they made us wait for this, perhaps under delivered on standout features we havent seen elsewhere. The phone will be released this month with a sim free price tag from 650. The company believe they will see explosive sales, but lets hope not exploding phones now to cyborgs. And when hollywood imagines them, they look way too futuristic to be anywhere close to becoming a reality. They did not save your life, they stole it. But are they . Dan simons has a very special appointment with Professor Someya at the university of tokyo injapan. I have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me into some sort of cyborg so its very unusual. It is one of the first times a camera crew has been allowed in to see the process happen and it will all take place through this door, here. This Research Team have come up with the worlds thinnest organic circuits, lighter than a feather, they could be worn like a second skin. Either monitoring the body or as an e skin display. We can introduce the electronic functions directly on the surface of the skin without causing any discomfort. So this is Human And Machine coming together . The display they are putting onto me has taken three days to manufacture, so the Research Team are being very careful. Its thickness is just two to three microns. The magic is controlled by Polymer Semiconductors and transparent electrodes, with organic semiconductors and diodes firing up the display. And theyre surprisingly resilient. They can scrunch them and, on rubber, even stretch them. The circuits still work and thats something i have come to put to the test. Professor someya has used this e skin to measure heart rate and Oxygen Levels in the blood. Could we use this out and about . Is it robust enough to go running with, for example . Yeah. So, first, please move your hands. Something like that. And. It doesnt cause any mechanicalfailure. Its flexible. Yeah, thats truly flexible. Would you expect us to change this every two or three days . Yes, thats another possibility. So if we can manufacture everything very cheap, so after you go to the shower and then delaminate your skin, and then put the fresh one. I expected that to break by now. And its still very much alive. This is just a single digit display today, but what could this be the future . So, the second step will be much multiple digits and then going to the High Definition display. So we could have maybe 1,000 pixels . Yes, 1,000 pixels, thats technologically possible. So on our hand, so we could, what, talk to people . Yes. On our hand . This could be a picture of my mum, for example . I could say, hi, mum, and my mum would appear on my hand . Yes, that would be possible in the future, maybe four or five years. But lifetime will be the biggest issues. This is the start of the rise of the cyborgs. That was dan, wearing some pretty advanced technology on his person. Ive got my own piece of advanced technology here. These are the Sennheiser He1 headphones and would you like to take a guess at whats special about them . Well, for a start, they cost £54,000 right, fire up One Direction. No One Direction . 0k. So, im not a real audio expert. I used to work on the radio so i do know about sound. But im also 43, so i think im slightly deaf. But these certainly sound very expensive. Very, very nice. Whats interesting is theyre not Noise Cancelling and theyre not sound isolating, which means i can actually hear other stuff in the rroom. And im not sure whether i would expect that or whether i would expect to be shut off from the room when i put these on so you can just hear the music. Wow. For people who are in love, or shall we say obsessed, with sound quality, it seems that nothing is off limits. But when those people are injapan, off limits hits a whole new level. See, were used to seeing unusual things in japan, so we were not surprised at all to hear about a group of people who would think nothing of spending a whole lot more than the price of these in search of audio perfection. It seems some people dont care what their place looks like, as long as it sounds amazing. It seems some people dont care what their place looks like, as long as it sounds amazing. But if youre into your high end audio, but you also want something a bit more inconspicuous, then weve come here to londons smart apartment to see a few options. For starters, these speakers are made by linn. Theyll cost £12,500 for the pair. The deal is, they come with a choice of fabrics. You can choose whichever one blends into your decor best. The fabric apparently has been specially developed so it doesnt dull the sound. But metre tall speakers are always going to be quite attention grabbing. What if you want your speakers to be heard, but not seen at all . So, can you spot the speakers in this room . Well. Theyre actually up there. There are lots of little speakers in the ceiling next to the light fittings. Now, they were installed before plastering, so that they can sit flush with the ceiling. This is what they actually look like and because theres quite a few of them they dont need to be that loud to fill the room with sound. And if thats still too conspicuous for you, then this room has invisible speakers, in that they are. In the walls. You can feel them by the vibration here and here. You cant see them at all of course. These ones have been wallpapered directly over. If youre plastering the wall you can get away with two millimetres of plaster only, apparently. And if youre worried about your speakers going wrong, the manufacturers have told us that within 15 years they will come and not only repair the speakers but also make good your decorations. And thats it from the smart apartment. Follow us on twitter, if youd be so kind, with plenty of this kind of stuff throughout the week and theres more coming from brian eno soon. Well tweet you when thats ready. Thanks for watching and see you soon. Hello there. The Weather Story is pretty quiet for the next few days. A lot of dry weather, variable cloud, some sunshine, and generally light winds as well. It is all because of High Pressure. Now, during the course of the night, most places will be dry, maybe a little bit of light rain across the north west of scotland. More of a breeze here. But where you have the cloud, relatively mild, 7 9 degrees. Where the skies clear, cool, perhaps with A Touch Of Frost in some rural places. So a quiet looking start to thursday. Most of us will be seeing light winds, but across the north, High Pressure, in towards northern and western scotland, more of a strong, north westerly breeze. That will fit in quite a lot of cloud to the northern isles. West scotland, some drizzle, with the east of scotland potentially seeing some shelter, so a few of you could be seeing some breaks and some sunshine. Variable cloud, maybe a bit of sunshine for northern england. I think much of wales and england, variable cloud and some sunny spells. I think probably the best of the sunshine in south wales, in towards the south west of england, where we could make 15 or 16 degrees. On friday, a similar story. Light winds for most, variable cloud, also some sunshine. The High Pressure is with us for thursday and friday, but it moves position as we head towards the weekend. This is pretty crucial, because we then start to pull a southerly wind off the near continent. It is drier air, and eventually it will be warmer air, particularly as we head on into sunday. Notice the blue colours behind me, though. This is an approaching Weather Front, a cooler mass of air, which will arrive across the far north west of the country as the weekend wears on. So i think, for saturday, probably a greater chance of seeing more sunshine around. Temperatures up just that little bit. 15, 16, maybe 17 celsius. More cloud, though, across the north west of the country. It is looking pretty good for the grand national, as well. Aintree, on saturday, a lot of dry weather, temperatures around the mid teens celsius. Now, on sunday, that Weather Front approaches northern ireland, western scotland. Strengthening winds, and feeling quite cool, outbreaks of rain. But for england and wales it is looking much sunnier, because we are pulling down to warmerand drierairoff the near continent. It is going to be really warm, with temperatures in the low 20s celsius. We could make 23 degrees across the south east. So the main message for the next few days because of High Pressure, it is going to be largely dry, with light winds. There will be some sunshine around. It is going to get warmer this weekend, especially on sunday. But, like i mentioned, that Weather Front with the colder air behind it spreads its way southwards during monday. So a cloudy, cool day generally. Temperatures in the north struggling to get much above eight or nine degrees. Still fairly mild in the south east. A very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in North America and around the globe. My names mike embley. 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