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with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week going out without getting too close. Dressing lara without going to the shops. And cheering on your team without going to the match. Welcome, welcome, come on in. Welcome to click. Laras here as well. Welcome, how are you doing, my friend . Im good, thanks, although i had a bit of an incident filming and im covered in glitter, so anyone with a good tv set may be able
to see that, and you will find out why later. But anyway, how are you, spencer . I am fine, thanks. This week, ive been trying out some stuff that might help you if you are sat around the house using a phone or tablet or laptop more than usual. There is a lot of that going on at the moment, if you hadnt noticed. So, if you are using a phone or tablet and you are sick of holding it up all the time, i am trying this. It is called the slick pillow stand. It is a thick bit of rubber, and you slot your device in there, like that, and then you strap it around a pillow or cushion, so you can rest it on your lap like that. You can even pop it into bed, lie next to it and check your work emails late at night, if thats your thing. If youre using a laptop on a dining table or on your lap or in bed, you will know that that is terrible for your back or your neck. So i finally got around to getting myself one of these, its an adjustable laptop stand,
plenty of them on the market. You can see that the legs adjust in all different ways so you can pop it on your lap, and you can adjust the height so the keyboard, screen and camera are at the right height. This comes with a usb powered fan to keep things cool, as well. And if you happen to be working from a really strange place, like your sofa, and you need a completely adjustable work surface, it turns out i have the perfect solution. It is called the ironin board, and i have it here. Would you like to see it . Yeah, id love to 0k, right, so ready . Here we go, its the ironin board. As you can see, it goes all the way up and all the way down. Brilliant, perfect. It also comes with this thing, i dont know what it is, but the processor runs incredibly hot. Well, youve certainly been resourceful at home, but in the outside world, non essential retail is due to open next week, and spencer, i cant believe im talking to you seriously right now. But would you really want to go clothes shopping . You know i hate clothes shopping at the best of times. Yes, that is a very good point, and i think for most people, its probably not going to be a priority right now. But of course, the economy is weeping, so are we going to get the high street back in fashion . Technology cant replace everything, but its been doing a decentjob of filling the gap over the past months. Go instore has been working with a number of shops, using live video streaming to show products. Its live video chat allows customers to connect within saw staff over the web. In fact when Currys Pc World, a uk based Technology Retailer first began using it in april, it realised it could bring back some of its furloughed staff and allow them to work from home. But now they are starting to come back in store. A lot of the customers are loving this, especially, as i said earlier, people who are feeling vulnerable. People who are homeschooling their kids, especially, theyre all very grateful. And being able to speak to a person, rather than just browsing on the internet and looking for answers on 20 different websites, they can come down to the Currys Pc World website and click on the icon and get advice from the person either in store or from their home. An innovative remote solution, and it brings a new element to Online Shopping, especially for those who might be isolating longer. But, when it comes to clothes shopping, buying online does have limitations. Over the years on click, weve looked at some attempted solutions to getting the sizing right. I tried to get measured up by the zozo suit and some smart leggings, both connecting to smartphone apps to take readings. And spencer tried out some different looks in this smart mirror. But maybe now is the moment for some of these kinds of ideas. 0ne platform has taken things
to a whole new level making you, the customer, the model. Ai powered app zeekit aims to give you a really true to life virtual experience of trying on clothes. Now it does this by first of all photographing you, you do really have to follow the instructions. And that involved this rather embarrassing attire, a combination of shorts, a tank top and my best shoes. First i have put on heels in three months. Otherwise the picture may not upload very well. I had some difficulty with pictures of my own that i thought would work. So once i got the picture uploaded, and i did feel i was dressed like a 16 year old, it is really quite incredible because it offered something that no store does. Im flicking through the catalogue and i am seeing every single outfit on me, so it means you can actually pick out the things that suit you, rather than just items that catch your eye. How does it do it . Its algorithm uses deep learning to scan the picture of the clothing, dividing it into 80,000 segments. It then does the same to the picture of the person, and from there can match up the twoto fit the clothes to any unique body shape. Something that has always been a big problem for online retailers is the issue of so many returns. And right now, that can involve the quarantining of clothes, as well. Plus, for the customer, do you really want to be spending a long time in a socially distanced post office queue . Some of these outfits definitely look more ridiculous than others, of course there is only any point in any of this if what we are looking at here is actually true to life. So i need to order something to see if it looks the same in the flesh. Im going to go for this dress. It looks nice there, looks 0k. So im now going to tap through to buy it. Ok, the parcel is here. Lets do this. It doesnt feel great, admittedly. Lets see how it looks. Tada ok, i am actually pretty amazed by how much this looks like the virtual image. Let me just stand in the right position. So if we get a photo of that, put in a white background and match it up, then we can really see the true likeness, and i think that is quite astonishing. The only thing that i hadnt bargained for is that theres glitter absolutely everywhere. So i may have got a great idea in advance of how its going to look, but its not until you get your hands on something you can really tell the quality. Although, in fairness to this, it is a £20 dress. The inspiration came actually from a very different world, from military lidar technologies we used to develop mapping technologies, so you could actually see how maps look on topographies like intelligence maps look on topographies,
and when we developed those technologies, we actually had a kind of eureka moment that actually the human body is a bit like a topography, and any clothing items picture, we can look at it as if it was an intelligence map, and apply more or less the same technologies, and use that to solve the holy grail of online fashion. So, while many of us are starting to be able to go back to the high street, it seems coronavirus could have dramatically changed the way we shop long term. We think high streets will persist, but we are under no illusion that the number of retail units will probably decrease. So theres forecasts that said by 2025, we would lose 25 of retail stock. We think that might have been accelerated, and were looking at a 1 2 year rise, instead of a five year one. So perhaps the new reality is that our ever improving Online Shopping experience is increasingly at odds with the idea of getting back to the buzzing high street. I tell you what, after years of trying these sorts of things that
claim to show you what clothes will look like on you, this one does seem to work. I mean, that virtual you in the dress really did look like real you in the real dress. Yeah, i was actually pretty impressed. I tell you what, though, i am a real stickler for clothes being comfortable when theyre on, and i dont think an app will be able to ever tell you that. True, im not sure that its my First Priority although i dont want things to be too tight around the stomach because i want to be able to eat. But also the feel of the fabric, you do sometimes want to really touch it. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So last week we talked about the next generation of the xbox video games console. Playstation were due to launch the ps5 last week too, but they delayed. One week later, and marc cieslak has some information. After months of hype and feverish online speculation, the most Popular Video games console in the world, the playstation 4, is about to be replaced with, you guessed it, the playstation 5. Theres a lot of hype around this playstation event, because playstations next generation console is so shrouded in mystery. It is the followup to one of the biggest selling consoles all time, and yet its coming out at the end of this year, and we still dont know what it looks like or what games were going to be able to play on it. Sony has been able to sell 104 million playstation as, making it the second best selling console of all time beaten only by its older sibling, the playstation 2, with 150 million consoles shifted. So its next machine has big shoes to fill, but right now, gaming is having something of a moment. As a result of the covid i9 pandemic and lockdown, millions of people have found themselves at home looking for ways to entertain themselves. Playing videogames is one of those ways. Gaming has proved so popular that there has been a 48 increase in console sales. Todays reveal for the playstation 5 differs from the usual noisy affair
attended by thousands of members of the press, becoming an online only event. Finally allowing us to see the actual ps5 itself. A curvy console that will come in two flavours. A Standard Machine with an ultra hd blu ray drive, and a Digital Edition which lacks the drive. Of course, sony showcased fan favourite games like spider man, this time around an expansion of the 2018 title, now starring miles morales. And we got a taste of racing game gran turismo 7, which now features a story mode, and more third person adventuring with mechanised animals in a far future usa in a new horizon title, forbidden west. The latest ratchet clank game showed off the speed of the ps5s solid state drive, virtually eliminating load times, creating vast play areas that do away with programming tricks like ledges and narrow gaps that the player
must squeeze through. These are clever ways of allowing the console to load the next area without the player noticing. The ssd is so fast here, it does away with that programming sleight of hand. But surely there is more to this next generation then shiny visuals and load times. I think this next generation isnt just about better graphics, it is about your experience at a gamer. Theyre trying to remove some of the barriers between the point where you want to play a game on the point where youre playing the game. Cutting down loading time, cutting down the time it takes for the game to download if youre going to do digitally, the time it takes for the updates to install. All of that is being torn away, so you have access to a game within seconds of wanting to play it. The console wars of old are set to continue, as the rival xbox series x machine is also
scheduled to launch this year as well. Both machines will be backwards compatible, being able to play games designed for the previous generation hardware, the xbox one and ps4. But sony and microsoft have so far remained tightlipped about how much either of these consoles will cost, a factor which will become increasingly important in an uncertain economic environment. And, while gaming is popular right now, some people might choose to stick with the console they already have. Consumers will be able to make up their own minds which machine they prefer when both consoles arrive towards the end of this year. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that a google maps added a new covid i9 alert feature in selected countries including the uk and us, to help people plan trips around restrictions. Fastbrick robotics robot hadrian x was shown breaking its own speed record for laying bricks. Up to 200 per hour. And Aesthetics Company nextmotion announced it is developing what it says is the worlds first aesthetic injection robot to operate
independently to provide treatments. It was also the week that ibm announced it would no longer offer, develop or research general face recognition technology. In a letter to us congress the company said it firmly opposes use of any technology for mass surveillance of racial profiling. Amazon then put a one year ban on the use of its recognition product by the police, and microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition tech to the police until federal regulations were in place. Remote doctor app Babylon Health acknowledged it suffered a data breach after after one of its users found they had access to dozens of video recordings of other patients consultations. Babylon said it has now fixed the issue and notified regulators. Retailer gap has bought 73 warehouse robots to help with demand created by online orders. These sort picking robots can pick 335 pieces per hour. And finally this week, we saw a new cable driven robot that can be used to interact
with and track flying insects