Mechanical Medical Marvels

[Music] this week medicines makeup and marker paint [Music] hey welcome welcome welcome today we're going to be talking about gaming lara what was the last game you played the world count yes it does i got it in two in my first ever go on quitting whilst i'm ahead never playing again wow very wise show off in our house it's mainly and a fair bit of and quite recently a little bit of now look we all get sucked into the latest game at some point don't we and end up playing it just a bit too much yeah for most of us it's just a harmless pastime or a bit of entertainment but for others it can be taken too far now mark chizlak has gained exclusive access to the uk's only treatment center for video game addiction many of the teenage patients have an obsessive desire to play and almost all of their social interactions are about gaming and in fact if their consoles are taken away it can lead to violent outbursts and confrontations with parents and carers and sometimes even threats to take their own life for us as a couple um it's been challenging in as much as it's quite difficult to have interaction outside the house and even having people around you fit a degree of embarrassment sometimes i mean for the duration of the visit it'll just be upstairs gaming all the time shouting and cursing for us sleeping has been a huge issue so often that we'll just sleep in separate rooms and i'll have to have the fan on to sort of drown out his game stephen and louise are describing life with their 16 year old son who suffers from gaming disorder those aren't their real names we're protecting their identities it's a controversial condition defined by the world health organization by three characteristics impaired control when gaming prioritizing gaming over other interests and escalation of gaming despite negative consequences the games industry and some psychologists question the evidence used to define the disorder until quite recently in the uk help for problems like this could only be sought via private health care the nhs has created a specialist clinic for treatment of the condition via therapy hello so far national center for gaming disorder we've got four people um four under 16 parents based in west london it's part of the national center for behavioral addictions this is the first time cameras have been allowed to film inside the gaming clinic we know that um gaming disorder is quite a rare condition so the symptoms of gaming disorder can be really quite severe which has surprised us so they can struggle with anger anxiety and low mood often they also experience physical symptoms in terms of loss of sleep and that's often because people will be gaming at night to connect with gamers abroad yeah so we need to think about the groups that we're going to start in the new year this is the only nhs clinic in the uk treating gaming disorder its patients are spread out across england and wales and are often treated via video chat something they've been doing here since way before the pandemic made the practice commonplace video games are a massive pastime and source of entertainment and connection for people but when does the amount of time spent playing cross the line into problematic behavior a recent study concluded that broadly speaking playing video games is actually good for most people's mental health and well-being and that playing games has helped lots of people get through the pandemic so we're not saying that game is bad at all we completely accept that for a lot of people it's a really positive thing in their life we are really talking about that small percentage of people who are having a massive problem with it and it's genuinely affecting their quality of life and their ability to interact and their ability to function we opened our doors at the end of 2019 we've had well over 300 referrals since then 200 just in 2021. we start treatment at 13. we've had a few 12 year olds who've been referred we've also heard from people as young as eight or parents of people as young as eight but we haven't been able to see them and the age of uh people being referred to the clinic goes right up to the sixties it's very strongly weighted in favor of males so we've seen eighty-nine percent of people have been male stephen and louise's 16 year old son has recently been diagnosed with autism his issues with games have been ongoing for several years and have sometimes led to violent episodes a recent outburst resulted in a police intervention when their son physically assaulted stephen they referred him to the gaming disorder clinic themselves but he hasn't engaged with the treatment what was most helpful for us is talking to other parents they made a special support group for parents who have the same gaming needs or addiction whatever you want to call it and we meet once a fortnight on zoom to discuss how we're doing and more than anything else i think the greatest thing about that in terms of benefit is to realize that you're not alone there's loads of other people up and down the country and all across the world are going through the exact same situation what do you think the future looks like for your son and what do you think the future looks like for you as a family i feel optimistic because on facebook i follow a lot of people who are very like our son but they're adults now and i follow them because they're hugely insightful but also really helps me feel he will find his way that was mark and of course mental health issues aren't always immediately visible if you were affected by anything you saw there in the report if you're in the uk you can find support at bbc action line or internationally at befrienders.org now whether it's mental or physical health the nhs helps millions of people every day and that means it has to move a huge number of medicines around the country and one of the busiest distribution centers in the uk is not far from us here in glasgow [Music] this centre processes 15 to 20 000 medicines every day sending boxes to hospitals and wards across the glasgow area it's a massive operation and this is how the filing system works now when the stock comes in it gets loaded willy-nilly onto this conveyor belt i've loaded it willy-nilly anyway and then goes through that hole there now a little sucker picks up each box and twitters it around in front of this sensor where a qr code tells the computer the dimensions of the box the expiry date and what it is of course and then it gets dropped on that conveyor belt and sent to the main event there are eight of these robot arms which sort the medicines and place them onto suitably sized shelves [Music] then as the orders from the hospital awards come in they pick them back off the shelves in the correct combination and send them down the chutes into boxes ready for dispatch to each ward the popularity of medicines change because in the summer months you might have more antihistamines being getting used than we do in the winter months and cough syrups more in the the winter months so it stores a bit of history and it knows and based on previous outputs when the trends arise and it'll know to then move it's closer to the output now the software doesn't put all of one type of medicine in the same place kind of distributes it all over the place and it tries to get the medicine that's going to go out of date first closest to the output conveyor belt but once it's picked those the newer stuff goes in there and everything goes a bit out of order and so during the quiet moments the robot does a bit of housekeeping kind of sorts out its medicine cabinet [Music] now this isn't brand new technology but it has perhaps become more relevant since the pandemic as with many health systems over the last few years the nhs is suffering from a huge patient backlog and when this technology was introduced it had a big impact on where people could be deployed previously a lot of your pharmacy staff were based in the pharmacy department and the hospitals this area then became centralized and we released the pharmacy staff to the pharmacy ward areas so it may be that using more robotic systems like this could free up staff to work directly in patient care where the human touch can really make a difference [Music] hello it's time for your weekly 90-second tech roundup it was the week twitter will expand its safety mode feature which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets dating site tinder goes retro and introduces blind dates for users to interact without profile pictures and disney is the latest massive corporation to show interest in the metaverse appointing long-term employee mike white as senior vp for next generation storytelling and consumer experiences meta the company that owns facebook is to pay 90 million dollars to settle a privacy lawsuit over tracking users without their knowledge the social media giant who this week rebranded its news feed denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the costs and risks of a trial next up if you want to know exactly how stressed you are new wearable tech that looks a bit like a smartwatch can tell you researchers at ucla made this device which uses sweat to monitor the level of cortisol while being worn and finally more private astronauts are hoping to boldly go up but this time outside the spaceship as billionaire jared isaacman filed flight plans that include the first ever commercial spacewalk the finance ceo is already a crew dragon veteran flying last year on the inspiration 4 mission the polaris dawn mission hopes to test new eva suits and raise more money for the saint jude children's research hospital watch this space [Laughter] this can is filled with a forensic spray which for the first time is being used to stop domestic violence [Music] to show how it works i volunteered to be sprayed with it you can't see it with the naked eye but switch on the uv lights and you'll see i've been marked for years this substance has been used to protect property and deter thieves but now for the first time it's been used to convict someone for harassment a man in wakefield west yorkshire has been jailed for breaching his non-molestation order he'd been told to stay away from his ex-partner and her house so when he turned up she sprayed him with the solution three police forces in england have been giving these canisters filled with the smart water to victims of domestic abuse harassment and stalking and if it's sprayed on a person then it can put them exactly at the scene of a crime each batch of the liquid has a unique formulation at this lab in telford they mix together different chemical elements and there's more than a billion possible combinations the technicians can analyze the tiniest of samples so from just one drop of the stuff they can tell exactly which bottle it came from well i mean i can't tell you the secret sauce to smart water but what i can tell you is that it's made up of a combination of rare elements that would never be found naturally anywhere else in the world each batch is unique we know that categorically that smart water was registered to that person and can be linked back to the scene of the crime what about cctv would that not be a good enough deterrent cctv might not identify that categorically that was that person particularly if they were wearing something like a balaclava um suddenly you the element of doubt is there and you can't categorically prove that whereas there is no element of doubt in something like smart water the idea has been around for a while it was featured on the bbc back in 1996 but using it to deter domestic abuse is a new idea and police say it is working this is what forensic markings doing what we're saying to the perpetrator is if you go back to that address and you breach these conditions if you commit offences you will be forensically marked we will both approve prove that as a police service and we will bring you to justice as well how pleased are you that you got the conviction here in yorkshire during that incident the victim was able to safely deploy that canister during an incident at atera home address and during the subsequent investigation we could forensically see that the individual was marked with the spray following day the perpetrator was convicted and received 24 weeks imprisonment for a breach of a non-molestation order which we're really pleased about [Music] over 200 women across the uk now have smart water in their homes and the majority of them are telling the police that they feel safer as a result of having the tool they're also saying that their perpetrators are not visiting them anymore the victims say that they can go out to work and just have peace of mind currently west yorkshire south yorkshire and staffordshire police forces are using the tech as part of their domestic violence strategy but it's thought that forensic marking will be trialled by other forces across the country too in the hope of securing more convictions and deterring more crimes [Music] now this week is london fashion week once more models are gracing the catwalks to show off this season's finest designer garments have you seen anything you like spencer no it's called roy come back yet not sure yeah it's all a little experimental for me shall we say but it looks very creative how about you well don't laugh yet but i've actually been on the runway this week i'm off to the fashion innovation agency at the london college of fashion to test out a motion capture rig unlike any i've used before no expensive mocap suits here no dots painted on my face either and no professional motion capture cameras with this system you don't need any of that you can just track all the way down to finger level detail just using camera movements wearing the outfit you're wearing at your own convenience usually the team here would be capturing proper models but today my body's being motion tracked action cams check gaffer tape check one truly awkward feeling click presenter check first i need to calibrate the system and we are good to do some motion capture those hips swing the arms give me a pose stop pose for the cameras love it turn around let's do the same amazing strike another pose i don't usually get camera shy but suddenly i don't even know how to walk there's definitely not a job for me in modelling this technology in particular keeps the models relevant you need to capture that human data you need to capture that natural movement their nuances their body language their posture the amount of gesticulation the amount of personal space it gives you a real sense of that person in that space so even if the avatar doesn't look like you people can still look at it and be like that's your walk that's the way you stand i know that that's you it draws you in it keeps you immersed in that experience and makes it more believable and enjoyable as a consumer what we've built on top of the ai are a number of processing engines on top we have biomechanical rules written into there so there are kinematic models holonomic constraints which are what the human body can do in terms of how the joints can move so for instance if i bend my elbow like this you can't bend it past a certain point of extension rules like that are written into the system we can work out where your feet are when you're moving around the volume what that allows us to do is basically create a map of the volume and view within it there are six cameras in this setup and that's enough to track about five people in this space although they may bump into each other a bit but it can be scaled to whatever size you want and you can choose the resolution so for example if you were to use a football pitch it could track about 22 people the reason we can scale that up to a full football size pitch for instance is we up the resolution of the camera to say like 12k and it can be much further away much higher up but still maintain that pixel density of the person the system isn't live videos need to be filmed then processed first so it's ready for 3d garments a few hours later but the workflow is getting faster there's a huge amount of money being generated now through virtual garments that don't exist in the real world but what's the reaction been to that from some of the old school fashion brands that would probably prefer everyone just wearing real clothes and they go and look at a lot of real catwalk i think that fashion brands are starting to understand that they are addressing a consumer which doesn't only exist in the physical realm and by using these kinds of technologies like motion capture markerless we can kind of curate immaterial layers that we can use in the digital realm the avatars look amazing kostas thinks that the tech being developed now will be important for the future there will come a point where we're going to be able to consume digital fashion more realistically and in everyday life and i think that these kinds of technologies allow us to kind of get there quicker kate moss eat your heart out and now from clothes that you can't actually wear to make up that you can't really see here's knit quack really fascinated by all of those worlds that exist beyond our eyes ears nose and mouth and what we can sense as a person renowned for creating chameleon-like clothing that changes color depending on the wearer's environment lauren bowker and her team are now turning their test tubes towards the beauty business we just launched our metaverse makeup spectra and essentially it's just a colour and a makeup and eye color that transcends the digital physical realities they've made a real world makeup intended only to be seen virtually the eye is a window into a reality right it's how we see this physical reality that we're within but the screen is also another eye it is another medium in which to view a different reality so this is the metaverse makeup here and when i apply it to the skin you can see it disappearing it's almost invisible but it comes to life when i pull up my smartphone turn on the flash and look there you can see it look at that the product itself is retro reflective so it reflects into a spectrum of light that we tuned for the mobile phone flash camera to be alive in the metaverse i feel like i'm literally in the future right now spectra wasn't designed for everybody on the planet it was purely designed out of curiosity and curious it is infused inside the makeup is a special ingredient made from glass microspheres coated with aluminium it works a bit like the coatings on road signs which reflect car headlights yeah maybe look a little bit more yes yeah gorgeous i feel great in my sci-fi fantasy so maybe a bit higher than lauren it's my first metaverse photoshoot the inspiration came from being a gig and watching everybody at the gig view the gig through their phones watching everyone watch that musician through the screen made me think what if we could create a color that exists in the physical space but is only seen through the screen and the digital space yes it looks really good why would someone who wants to wear makeup not want people to see their wearing makeup why would they not don't we isn't the most interesting thing about someone the thing they don't tell you or the thing they don't show for me that's the most interesting thing i wear it a lot on myself because it's quite fun thinking that people don't know that you're actually wearing it but you know it gave her a moment of expression that was just that was unseen just for her it's like your own little secret you know is the world ready for this makeup i think the world absolutely is ready for it but it won't be for everyone and it's not meant for everyone well let's see it's time for me to face the makeup do i look ready for the metaverse time will tell oh yes i think you look lovely don't you he normally spends most the day just doing his hair oh that's true that's true anyway that was nick and that's it from us for now as ever you can keep up with us on social media find us on youtube instagram facebook and twitter at bbclick thanks for watching we'll see you soon bye [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Feb 23 2022