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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,
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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. i , temperature. like so many of dubai's big plans, all this stuff seems to have one foot in ambitious reality and the other in
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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, 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 zero 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 paid them a visit. buying clothes is something most people take the granted.
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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. open style lab was is a non—profit organisation in new york 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
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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
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a shirt with an 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. 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 bait 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,
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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 because of autism. the work being done by open style lab shows what can be done when technology and lateral thinking meet a social need. with a bit of luck, fashion of the future will all be designed with this much style. that's it for the short cut of click for this week, the full—length version is up on iplayerfor you to watch whenever you like. and don't forget, we live on throughout the week on facebook and on twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello.
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the weather showed a sunnier improvement today. there will be sunshine at times in the week ahead, but some fairly wintry weather at times, too. take advantage of the sun when it is out there, as it was in the bristol area for a time today. there have been a few showers dotted about through eastern parts of england in particular, and a keen and cold north—easterly wind. the showers will turn increasingly to snow in parts of east anglia, but especially south— east england as we go through the night. they will come through in bands so not everybody will see one. if you're underneath one of these bands of showers, you could see a few centimetres, icy conditions. if you're away from them, you will probably see nothing at all. there is a risk of some disruption from snow showers in parts of south—east england in particular, going into the morning. here is how things look at 8 o'clock in the morning. there may be a few showers dotted about through northern ireland and scotland. rain, sleet, hail possible, a bit of snow on the higher ground, not amounting to too much,
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but an ice risk with these. some fog patches around. much of england and wales, away from east anglia and the southeast, will be dry, frosty to begin the day, and the keen, cold wind still blowing in across east anglia and the south—east of england, and still with the snow showers to begin with. some will drift a little further west during the day but in the afternoon they will tend to fade away, along with the wind easing as well. many other places will have a fine monday, quite a bit of sunshine, variable cloud around, but temperatures struggling, setting the theme for the week ahead, really. around four degrees for most of us. we look to the northwest at the end of monday, a weather system coming in from the atlantic. we know we have got loads of cold air in place across us, so away from the coastline in scotland and northern ireland, as this moves in, during monday evening and night, there will be some snow, giving a covering for many on tuesday morning. by tuesday morning, this will be working into northern england and wales, again with a couple of centimetres in places. this system is weakening all the time as it heads its way south during tuesday.
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it will tend to fizzle out because of this. a few heavy snow and hail showers follow those later on tuesday, to parts of scotland, northern ireland and wales. a weather front going into wednesday morning still close by south—eastern england and east anglia, so still the risk of some sleet and snow shares, but an improving picture on wednesday before we see another weather system spreading south on thursday, with some cloud and mostly rain around with this one, some sleet and snow to higher ground. a cold week to come, frosty nights, especially during the first half of the week, then some snow. this is bbc news. the headlines at seven: the cabinet is more united than the brexiteers think, says amber rudd, ahead of a crucial few days for the negotiations. we meet in the committee privately for discussions, i think that we will arrive at something which suits us all. two people have been killed and more than a hundred injured, after two trains collided with each other in the united states. a fire which killed a man in a care
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home in hertfordshire is believed to have been caused by an oxygen cylinder exploding. sinn fein‘s gerry kelly is reported to the police after he was filmed removing a wheel clamp from his car. and sportsday is here in half an hour, with highlights from england's six nations tie in rome. their italian hosts had their moments, but england scored seven tries to start this year's campaign with a convincing victory.

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