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accessible togs. .. and surgery goggles. welcome to dubai, the desert kingdom where there's no such thing as too much. this city has spent more than a decade making a name for itself for the outrageous buildings that it's created. but 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 thing is 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 weren't the only high—tech additions to the force. back in may, the dubai police got some new recruits and these weren't your ordinary newcomers, these guys were made of the hard stuff, and kate russell went to meet them. like so much of dubai's over—the—top ambition, the police force wants to be seen to be 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 dubai's neighbourhoods are the world's first smart police stations, which will be com pletely u nstaffed. citizens can pop in for a safe driving lesson, a quick coffee or even to report crimes. they can also meet dubai's own robocop. i am the latest incorporation into dubai's police department. but unlike the movies... hello... ..he‘ll kill you with kindness. you have really pretty eyes. i think i'm getting hit on by a robot! do you think i'm beautiful? yes.

i love talking with you. thank you. you are absolutely astoundingly gorgeous, but it's the least interesting thing about you. my sensors detect the paparazzi among us. guess who it is? it's 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 feed to the command and control system. we 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 we're going to build smart system where it has a facial recognition. it's 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 also 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 he's stolen my heart. he's stolen your card? my heart. your heart! we've recently seen chicago pd‘s crime—predicting algorithms and now dubai's 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%. that's 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 don't 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. what's 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 person's vital signs. like so many of dubai's big plans, all this stuff seems to have one foot in ambitious reality

and the other in well—intentioned fantasy. it's a place worth keeping an eye on, though, and you can be very sure they'll be keeping an eye on us. now, we've all been hearing about the dangerous effects of n0x, the nitrogen oxide that's 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. it's 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‘s 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 don‘t have any sympathies for this, these tests were apparently solely aimed for pr purposes of the car industry. we‘re 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 that might help us to produce less of the killer fumes. i‘m driving around central london with lincoanopp. but instead of sitting back and enjoying being credible city skylines, i can‘t quite rest easy because the app we‘re using for navigation is also telling us how much carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide our car

is spitting out in the real—time. it‘s called air.car and lincoln is part of the team behind it. n0x is a silent killer. it‘s 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 nation‘s 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 we‘re looking at here is essentially an engine you would find in a car? that‘s right. it‘s a relatively old diesel engine by today‘s standards, but it‘s been updated with a lot of technology to measure what‘s going on in detail, so we have lots of sensors dotted

around the engine. and it‘s got this external unit here, which you would never find on a car, and that‘s to modify the turbo boost pressure. what we‘re 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 more—polluting vehicles now have to pay twice the amount to drive in central london. this means cars registered before 2006 orfall below the minimum carbon emissions star gets now have to pay £10 to drive into that congestion zone, and that‘s 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... my daughter, when she was growing up, had to go to great 0rmond street hospital on a number of occasions, 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 think 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 they‘re using the data collected from the tests done at imperial to come up with an estimate of how a charging system could work.

lincoln‘s shown us today that he‘s a very considerate driver, who actually thinks about the nitrous oxide his car‘s producing, but he did rev the engine a couple of times just to show us how the technology works, so what‘s happened now is he has a charge of around £5. it‘s said 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 hoping to capitalise on the decisions being made. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that facebook announced it‘s banning all ads for crypto currency. the word ransomware has been added to the oxford english dictionary. and amazon has patented a wristband that could keep track of workers‘ movements. it‘ll also provide ha ptic feedback to alert the wearer

when they‘re reaching for the wrong inventory bin. meanwhile, fitness tracker app strava‘s 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 ten months after its release the nintendo switch has already outsold its predecessor the wii u, a sigh of relief for nintendo i‘m 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 musk‘s boring company unveiled a flamethrower, insisting that at $500, it‘s 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 fashionista‘s calendar, as i well know. but there is a group of people who do not see themselves reflected on the 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 the 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 an impairment or disability? i‘ve come to a fashion lab

here in new york who are using tech to make fashion more accessible. 0pen style lab is a nonprofit in new york, was established to make clothing for disabled people which is 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 it‘s disability or those who have injury, or those who are facing ageing, by 2025 through design and technology. 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 3d printers and arduinos, to assist in the design process and the clothing they create. i went to meet some of the people on the receiving end of this fashion innovation. i‘m an adult survivor of paediatric cancer and it used to be called a quartermain amputation, i think — they take part of your arm, take part of your shoulder, a bit of the collarbone. they‘re designing a bag, i guess, that doesn‘t carry exactly like a backpack and that doesn‘t destroy my shoulder. jason da silva has multiple sclerosis and has difficulties with speech. his design team were creating a shirt with integrated microphone and loudspeaker to amplify his voice. they‘re creating a sensor system so i can talk louder than i would normally. it‘s a speaker system

for other people to use. they are trying to integrate that into my wheelchair and there will be a headset. he has a armrest and a crown surrounding his head. that is where it could be placed. we are looking at options for a wearable tech 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 haven‘t looped it on but what it‘s doing is using a microcontroller chip and i‘ve pretty much asked it to do the same switch,

because it‘s got conductive fabric inside, so when you touch one of the pockets it will send a signal and i did it for the microcontroller to send a signal if it‘s left or right, and these are 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 of putting on the chip and using conductive thread to figure out how the circuit lives 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 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 i‘ve met a company adding artificial intelligence to the mix. each house member represented by one of these stick people, more hi—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. mostly 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 alert 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. also employing artificial intelligence to interpret that data into information on what anyone is doing at any given time. sound creepy?

with alerts like this, some might think so, but you can tailor the notifications as you see fit. the homeowner can then select who is going to receive the alerts through the app. there is a choice as to whether you want to be able to see this video movement or see it in some rooms are not others or whether you only want to receive an alert when something has happened. but is this really what people want? we initially provided a lot of information but it ended when we lost one of our test customers. they didn‘t want to continue after we told the husband something about the wife or vice—versa so we learned the hard way that it is a bad idea to get into the couple‘s relations. so instead of helping husbands care about wives or wives care about husbands, we help both of them care

about who they normally care, like kids, pets and parents. so if this software can identify people and what they are doing, 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. recently we have seen a couple of interesting ideas on medical visualisations. 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 world‘s 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 you would rarely get to experience.

unless you are scrubbed in, you are not touching the patients. you‘re in another room, looking over the surgeon‘s shoulder but with this, you are looking on top of the patient and seeing what the surgeon is doing. since then, surgeon—in—charge shafi ahmed has moved on to microsoft‘s hololens. the data from the patient‘s scans is also overlaid, allowing them to consult on the operation. researchers at imperial college london are looking at the vr, to enhance the surgeon‘s ability to visualise some of the ha rder—to—perform operations. the team used medical scan results to create visualisations of bones and blood vessels and muscles. surgeons with headsets can see the schedules overlaid on the patients in the theatre. the first time i used this, it blew me away. it‘s an extraordinary new way

of seeing the world around you and interacting with it. we were acutely aware of wearing a headset. it‘s a heavy device for a long period so some of the feedback, maybe it‘s 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 overall patient recovery time. there is always a lot of initial excitement about this technology but what we need to show is that it saves time, it gives better outcomes for patients and ultimately is something 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. that‘s it from us for now.

don‘t 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, it is shaping up to be the brighter of the two weekend days. today is bringing sunshine in many areas. it was a promising start in felixstowe. but still some clouds blowing in. that will remain the case this afternoon. cloud and some showers in the east. a mixture of rain and sleet with some snow over

high ground. to the west fewer showers. windy to the south. but the winds to the north will be litting. across northern ireland and scotland where we see some sunshine it won‘t feel too bad at five or six degrees. some showers in eastern scotland and some in cumbria, lancashire and the manchester area. . for wales some in cumbria, lancashire and the manchesterarea. . forwales and some in cumbria, lancashire and the manchester area. . for wales and the south west breezy. four to six degrees will feel more like freezing 01’ degrees will feel more like freezing ora degrees will feel more like freezing or a touch below. as we head through the evening, the north—easterly winds will feed wintry showers across the south—east. quite a lot of showers and by this stage in the early hours of monday, most of them will be falling as snow away from the coast. a few centimetres of snow. that could cause some

disruption tomorrow morn being a cold night. these are the town and city temperatures. and some freezing fog. the risk of some lying snow and ice in the south—east tomorrow morning. that could cause some monday morning travel headaches so stay tuned. a few of the showers drifting west. generally not a bad day, crisp with blue skies. a system showing its hand up to the north—west and that will bring some rain, perhaps, but more likely snow as it slides east during monday night into tuesday. this front will weaken, but still could bring some snow south and eastwards during tuesday on what will be another particularly cold feeling day. so thatis particularly cold feeling day. so that is the theme throughout the week ahead, staying cold, widespread overnight frosts and you could see some snow. good afternoon. the home secretary amber rudd has insisted that differences

—— says the uk will continue to seek a bespoke deal on leaving the european union. and she has insisted that differences over brexit policy between cabinet ministers have been exaggerated. a cabinet committee will meet this week to discuss the government‘s approach to negotiations. here‘s our political correspondent, susana mendonca. watching the dragons in action on a trade trip to china last week, the prime minister was all too aware that her backbenchers at home were fanning the flames of