Richard Ayoade's Gadget Man MARATHON: ALL EPISODES - Series 2

hello my name's richard iowadi or at least i think that's how it's pronounced when i was young my father fixed televisions for a living and i would spend many a happy hour helping him in his workshop he was obsessed with gadgets and gizmos and i suppose he must have passed on some of this fascination to me i've always thought there's something moderately heroic about a gadget an often small device dedicating itself to one specific purpose making life that little bit easier so welcome to gadget man where i get to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets google glass i feel cyborgish already and introduce you to the most amazing and bizarre technology from around the world i'll also be inventing new gadgets to solve some of life's everyday problems so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business [Music] outside in the sky a place without borders a feeling of boundlessness marred only by intense feelings of acrophobia you see i've never been very comfortable with the great outdoors even the term itself seems somewhat smug you don't see the indoors calling itself great i like the inside it's where i live [Music] you see in my unassuming abode i've brought the great outdoors indoors for example this digital window allowing me to look at view after glorious view snow with some sleet water over rock and i can hear any sound i should wish to hear with this my sound machine for example asian garden or my personal favorite wind and if i wished i could wear these but i don't [Music] and for a totally immersive experience i merely need to don this the oculus rift headset why go outside when you can have vivid being lost in the forest dreams here and this way i've cut down on the travel i'm walking across some hills much like julie andrews see after a while you do start to feel quite seasick but i would rather feel seasick in my own house than at sea at least i can lie down on a bed [Music] maybe gadgets could soften my reluctance to venture forth and help me take the best of the inside outside to test this watertight theory i'm going to undertake a high-tech camping trip with a famous person i intend to show that even i a cowardly wretch and scorner of the great outdoors can learn to love nature with the help of the gadget i'll start by seeking an expert view on the sort of technology i'll need to make a camping trip like no other i'm meeting a man with whom i have absolutely nothing in common he's a professional explorer who's walked across the amazon basin and discovered two drives in new guinea benedict allen hello benedict hello in your natural habitat how can a man survive in the outdoors this is everything you really need that looks like a sewing kit what is it this is a survival kit and it has all the essentials this is for communicating with indigenous people okay pitch the queen uh this is someone who colonized you in the past uh this is a crocodile knife this is really if you are in trouble it that is incredibly sharp blade it's the slitting the belly of the crocodile or yes poking in its eye well your knife is undoubtedly impressive but is it as impressive as this oh that is a knife this is the wenger swiss army knife it's the biggest pen knife in the world it has 87 tools for 141 different uses you must be attracted to the cigar cutter oh that oh yeah amputate your finger yes this is quite good the nail clippers that is that is not a bad tool for cutting fishing line hmm anyway i'm sure there's something here well i'll pass on those comments to the manufacturer fire is the other great staple of survival and luckily i have something that dispenses with the exhausting need to rub sticks have this the wicked laser torch and this claims it can start to fire and toast marshmallows can you do it do you want to see it yeah 4100 lumens pretty bright go on then okay i'm gonna try it okay so you're in the jungle i'm in the jungle oh it's already smoking impressive it's the world's most powerful torch oh i can see one problem which is that you're sitting in your tents you want to read your book and your book goes up in flames that would be sub-optimal i have fire now i need something to filter dirty water look at this wow literally within days you can fill a pot it's like milking a cow so what do you feel about this and hurry up because i'm exhausted i i get the feeling you're more of an urban man is that coming across something about the size of it the amount of work you're putting in i wouldn't take it with me i am literally clutching at a straw i have the life straw it won the time magazine gadget of the year it fills out 99.9 percent of bacteria it makes an incredible difference in places where there isn't clean water do you want to have a go yeah there are a series of purifying filters inside which can produce 1 000 liters of clean water yeah yeah i didn't feel like spitting it out and it tastes quite good yes that's impressive good [Music] with my explorer approved gadgets in hand i can head to the next phase of my camping weekend research shelter i've got six avid campers trying out some of the most innovative tents on the market to see if i can get any ideas for my gadget builds campsite there's the cave a fully inflatable tent that takes just a minute to put up not made for the real man it's quite small good head room the tensile tree tent is designed to keep you away from wet ground and give you the comfort of a hammock it's got like a hole in the floor as well that must mean that you can pull yourself up through the middle instead of coming out the front finally this rooftop tent can be bought for a variety of four by fours and takes just eight seconds to erect but that was easy it's guaranteed to stay put in winds of even 70 miles per hour do you think there's room for me up there yeah without them yeah i can start fishing if you had to say which was your favorite and you do have to say which is your favorite what would you say the mankind yeah yeah yeah definitely okay well that's very good now you may be wondering where my tent is well i'm i'm wearing it and i'm going to show you what the heck i'm talking about look at this you unzip it thus you zip it up here thus like that liam gallagher particularly and then you do this and then this is a deeply unpleasant feeling i feel it's one step up from being in a body bag like i've been discarded in the middle of a field an admirable test but it's the inflatable tent that will provide most inspiration for the high-tech campsite i'm planning to build so in the continuance of my quest and it is a quest to get back to nature i am actually going to fish to see if this can be made less crushingly dull with the use of gadgets this fishing vessel is a road legal amphibious vehicle anyone can buy capable of up to 6 mph on water this is probably not the moment to announce that the last time i was on water i was violently sick this is the fisheyes fishing rod which uses a camera at the top to look down into the water so you can see where the fish are here we go it struggles somewhat in murky waters but i propose a solution i'm going to use sonar that's right sonar this is the humminbird sonar system which claims to be the world's most advanced sonar system that i'm currently holding look look at this this is what's going on in the drink pretty much as expected i was expecting that kind of orange waveform from just the look of it with a range of 150 feet this fish finding system gives you a 360 degree real-time view of what looks below but be warned it takes an expert eye like the one i have in my head to interpret the image like a chemical brothers video but as sweet as that is i still don't feel like an extreme trawler man whatever that is i mean you can buy fish and shops we're going to need a not as big boat [Music] like this one this remote control device lets you drop two kilograms of bait from its twin hoppers far more accurately than traditional casting allows [Music] it's imposition i'm now going to deploy the bait [Music] before long i have a bite [Music] although the gadgets made it undeniably easier to catch fish i'm not happy i'm standing on a boat and not in a good kind of arc alleyway the fish were certainly not happy i don't want my camping experience to be anything like this coming up see if technology helps me an indoor type of fellow survive outside this is one of the most unrelaxing experiences i've ever had [Music] friends the moment has arrived i'm about to do what i and most civilized people have avoided their entire lives i'm about to spend the night in a field now the only way i can really bear this is by surrounding myself with luxury camping objects and gadgets let's go and meet them this is the bubble tent currently inflating before your very eyes it's one of the most see-through tents in europe it costs 6 600 pounds i don't know why either it takes about an hour to set up and it's where i and my mystery guest will be garrisoned tonight its transparent design is meant to make you feel more connected to nature as if that's what anyone would like this is my portable outdoor oven which is actually bigger than my non-portable indoor oven it costs over three thousand pounds let's be candid this is a big oven y'all it's based on the kind of wood-fired ovens usually found outside italian farmhouses and lets you cook with a higher heat than a conventional oven and because we're in a field and there's nothing to do in a field apart from to work out ways of leaving the fields i've brought this an inflatable cinema screen which inflates in 60 seconds also i have this the lumitab which is the world's first tablet projector it means i can carry a whole cinema in a regular hold all and what camping trip would be complete without a jacuzzi that's why i have this the lazy spa monaco edition check this chisel time to brave the wiles and meet my camping colleague comedy actor stephen mangan [Music] good hello you received my coordinates i did excellent do you like this kind of setting or outside outside i love outside why what's not to like greenery sun yeah these are all things that i hate i'm gonna try and insulate ourselves from all of this stuff as much as possible all right all right okay let's um let's walk somewhere let's do that okay this way seems as good as anything okay [Music] we don't have to rely on just my near mythic sense of direction for survival okay it's a good walk i'm equipped for any eventuality okay so what kind of backpack you got i've got a standard backpack with things in it i pity you oh because i have the abs avalanche backpack yes that's right you're admiring my toggle do you want to see what happens when i pull this toggle i do good what the what this is is that if it snows and there is an avalanche yeah i could have pulled this and i would float above while you perished in the snow it's to save you from an avalanche it is but it's august and we're in kent quite firm well this is it wow it's amazing you have been very busy are you pleased i well i'm i can't help notice but the the tent is see-through it is see-through is that because you you like i like to have a good clear view of assailants right i tell you what i feel that my credibility is being reduced by this backpack i don't know why you think that okay so i'm going to toss it manfully aside i probably shouldn't have done that i think cost 700 pounds i've never been in a tent with an entrance hall like this it's an airlock to prevent the air in here getting out why is it special air oh there's a breeze there's a there's an actual breeze coming from inside that's it inflated so how do you feel about this i can't imagine being in one of these at glastonbury for example i feel it would attract comment at glastonbury it would and i think it might attract hostile people perhaps the worst thing about camping is the mere possibility of communal showers a possibility whose bud i have nipped [Music] there you go wow i feel like richard branson i had a dream like this once it didn't end well and i'm going to go into this massage chair look i probably could have done that more gently i'm going for lower back and intense i'm opening this i think intense is just a setting rather than an area i feel like i'm in a faulty car let's hope the sound of this cork going off doesn't attract any wild animals wow you really wanted that prosecco this is the life here you go thank you how's that tepid spa treating you it's treating me i feel like like a king i feel like a carrot in a hot pot cheers good this is one of the most unrelaxing experiences i've ever had oh well all that bubbling and back pummeling has worked up a hunger dinner is served from our italian style wood-fired oven now do you want to select a cussing implement amazing it actually is in the guinness book of records just in the uh pen knife division which is a pamphlet they produce it weighs a ton okay blade selected i'm going in to cut the pizza i think it's just cut 15 very thin strips yes severed pizza thank you it does feel a bit like that thing in ghostbusters wow a frosted glass in a field correct look what are you gonna do with that you can open beer with it but i'm a very weak man so i don't know whether i'll be able to do it it worked hooray into the frosted glass it goes that beer campaign is yours cheers as so often happens day becomes night so you see the thing with being outside which you claim to enjoy is that it's cold once it gets dark well there's a slight chill in the air when you have this it's a it's a stormwater jacket right it's got fabroc in it what is fabroc it's a revolutionary polymer sounds like a 70s funk band it heats up the fab rock heats up a revolutionary polymer that you compared to a 70 funk band i'm gonna give you a fob it's the future today what do i do with the fob well you choose one two or three depending on what heat setting you desire going for three i'll go for two it's really toasty yeah yeah it's a revolutionary polymer [Music] it's now time to watch a film what get out of town i'm in town and i have an inflatable screen where's my projector ask me where's your projector it's here look at this that's a very small thing it's a projector it's a projector look we can watch brokeback mountain let's hit it i mean not in that way [Music] with 16 gigabytes the luma tab can hold about eight films but unaccountably moved by our surroundings we turn our heads to the stars you join me next to the mead lx200 it's a beast i can just press on this little handset go to for example moon right and it's it's slewing here it goes and it's finding out where the moon is it's over there a mixture of gps and an inbuilt calendar it will automatically find the top five celestial bodies in the sky on the basis of luminance oh not on like popularity oh the moon look at that how does this compare to your other telescopic experiences steve this is right up there the brisk night hair makes a man ready for sleep it's bedtime and will be tucked up in these muscle bags from chile all the best sleeping bags are from chile unlike a normal sleeping bag the arms and legs let you move around for a more comfortable sleep ah i've spotted a floor how do you zip up you put your hand through look ah there's a velcro those chilly guys they thought of everything look at them i feel like there's been a nuclear war and we're the last two survivors okay i'll get the lights sweet dreams all i'll dream of is people attacking me in this see-through tent rosy finger dawn breaks our slumber this tent heats up doesn't it unbelievable right let's leave that was a truly horrendous experience oh do you feel refreshed by the sun's rays being magnified down on you it's about as relaxing as being interrogated yeah the experience ended i guess that's a positive thing it ended yeah would you like some breakfast as long as we don't have it in the orgasmatron i've been eagerly awaiting this part breakfast will be served in a campervan not due to be launched until next year it's a van with a secret nice room for the throw but that's standard campervan technology check out the double backyard the rear pod takes 45 seconds to slide out hello yes who's this adding an extra two meters of space inside that's better yeah and that was a muppet show entrance let that be said you came for breakfast i'm gonna text for it now that's right i'm texting for breakfast the future is now and it's delivered by a drone that homes in on the gps location provided by my phone yeah amazing well let's uh take the tray let's repair to the double back hey very nice so am i a convert to the great outdoors no i'm not to me it's an appalling act of lunacy can gadgets make being in the great outdoors easier yes they can it's much more pleasant with the use of gadgets can you start using so many gadgets that you might as well be inside yes i think we're at that point am i now going to go inside yes i am i'm going to do that hello my name's richard ayowardi or at least i think that's how it's pronounced when i was young my father fixed televisions for a living and i would spend many a happy hour helping him in his workshop he was obsessed with gadgets and gizmos and i suppose he must have passed on some of this fascination to me i've always thought there's something moderately heroic about a gadget an often small device dedicating itself to one specific purpose making life that little bit easier so welcome to gadget man where i get to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets wow you're straight in there back it off back it off and introduce you to the most amazing and bizarre technology from around the world i'll also be trying to invent whole new gadgets to solve some of life's everyday problems so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business [Music] the heartbreaking realization that you are no longer asleep i'm a writer so this puppy's normally set to about 3 p.m but for grown-ups with actual jobs and responsibilities there are deadlines trains to catch and places to be we spend about 2 000 hours of our lives just getting ready it's enough time to go to the moon 30 times over which explains why so few of us find the time to go to the moon and rinse that's powerful that's a powerful jet the same drill every day it's a colossal pain but don't get down i'm about to showcase some top-notch gadgets that'll cure those morning blues toast like this magic mirror that allows me to try on clothes without actually having to try on clothes this mirror was designed for shops but can also be installed in your bedroom to avoid the flaming nuisance of putting clothes on your body to see what they look like yeah i mean more or less i wonder if it's possible to create a machine that would alleviate the hassle of getting ready each morning i need to investigate [Music] my research starts with a dry run of the latest getting ready technology and who better to act as my guinea pig than a woman who's used to rising at an unfeasible hour to host her early morning radio 1 show sarah cox is waking up in my customized gadget man pad i think it's now safe and more importantly appropriate to enter the chamber how long do you have between waking up and needing to leave the door if i'm not sitting downstairs making the children eat cereal by seven then i'm gonna panic so time is of the essence really isn't a morning okay now i've got something that may save you time starting in the ensuite bathroom without actually being in the ensuite bathroom the eye shower what this does is it allows you to remotely control the shower look at this what kind of temperature are you looking at for your shower in the morning 22. okay is that nice for summers mall i think that's quite nice you can hear it start is that the shower that's a shower wow that's amazing it's heating up now the software linked to a water mixer which can be attached to any shower you can save minutes off your daily grind by simply allowing the shower to warm up in advance i might not make it into work with all this excitement i'm wasting time marveling at oh great it is saving time that is the one danger of this situation if there's one dull tour that does slow us down of the morning it's getting our clothes all pressed and crinkle free irons have barely changed since the first electric ones were invented in 1882 but at long last an alternative to conventional lining is upon us this is the tubi it's a new way of ironing and drying clothes i don't really iron no i shake things and i put them on the radiator right the key thing here is that we we put the dress on it this inflates with hot air wow the tubie automatically adapts its temperature to match the material and is ready in a brisk seven minutes freeing you to do something more worthwhile than slaving over a hot iron and there we go you know what it reminds me of a little bit is um outside of car showrooms where they've got those inflatable men that go yeah but it is quite clever in that you don't have to really do any of this business no sarah has no time for cafe pit stops she needs gadgets for a fast and efficient breakfast this is called the egg master any gadget with the word master in the title you know it's going to be good all the way from america this gadget actually cooks eggs i will then insert this into it oh it's um it's a stick that's right you place the stick in you walk away and then six to seven minutes you return with egg on stick shush no really that's right i'm going to put the stick in and we're going to walk away so let's turn our attention to this the pop cake [Music] the world's first automated table top pancake making machine this will spew out one every 20 seconds that's amazing [Music] originally from australia the pop cake creates an avalanche of hot pancakes that are 97 fat free that's not bad because normally you have to put a lot a lot of melted butter and oil into your pancake mix so this is quite good yeah this is pretty quick look at that boom should i taste one yeah go online what do you think good yeah right i'm not going to spend the money on it unless i want to start like maybe it's a like sarah's pancake shack okay on the side of the m61 in like a little caravan if i do that you'll give popcake a call i could be tempted look at this the egg master has done its work and proved pure egg on a stick it's mesmerizing do you wish to take it yeah you've gone for the middle that's not how i would have approached it it's like you don't know where the yolk is but maybe that's part of the fun yeah part of the fun is not knowing which bit of the egg yes it was at that precise moment that i wondered whether there be any way on this green earth to automate the whole getting ready business i want something that can wake me dress me and feed me while i remain floating gently on the borders of consciousness i mean wallace and gromit managed it and they're not even real i wonder whether i can do it generations have been captivated by the idea that a machine could be made to automate getting up and out of the house but has anyone in real life where i vaguely reside actually tried it i think not so far i've looked at gadgets that can wash dress and feed a fella but what about my insatiable need for grooming city professionals love to groom but they also need time to swim pump iron and make money so i've given them some speedy grooming gadgets to see if they can make their morning transition to work even faster we start with the non-men check this a professional airbrush makeup machine for spraying your face with morning makeup it feels so much nicer than foundation you had spray on makeup the blusher was a bit bright yeah look i look like a clown look at my cheeks okay and the curling tongs machine was that quicker i really liked it for hair styling the state of some kind of art hair curlers i think it's easier to use in the wand yes you literally clamp it down and it's done for you we have one other thing which may be of interest to you do you all possess nails yes there's a nail printing machine and it's over there for intricate designs on your fingertips a vending machine which instantly prints onto your nails it also has a camera here so you can take pictures of your own face and then print them on your nails now remove the digits wow how long is it taking you currently to lovingly put pictures of me onto your nails i hate getting my nails done right so that's all right yeah that's quite cool so in all it feels like we've had moderate to quite good success i'd say today but don't despair that you don't have my face printed on your nails something that i'd previously only seen in my worst nightmares wow yeah i'm gonna go home and put them straight on well you must i've also given some grooming gadgets to some city men in the adjacent changing room like this high-tech toothbrush timer connected to a nap it tells you how long and where to brush next quadrant all via bluetooth how was the tooth system apparently you're supposed to brush for two minutes i think i brush for three minutes you're wasting an extra 50 of your life exactly you had the goatee kit you had a shaver i found it to be a little awkward for unsteady morning hands the goatee saver claims to provide a fast perfectly shaped beard every time it didn't save me any time particularly and it certainly didn't help on the precision front either precision is key as craig david knows absolutely i do have something that i'm close to bursting with excitement about this little device removes unsightly nasal hair this is great it looks at the moment like you're having the world's tiniest fondue party is this going to save you time on your nasal hair grooming routine go for it you could be making a business call you could be saying buy sell they don't know that you've got a no stick in at the end sold pull wow you all look like you've made quite a haul [Music] so that's pleasing my research complete i'm now drawing up frankly extravagant plans for automating getting ready in the morning contraptions that anyone could install in their homes something that will take the strain out of the morning routine and turn it into an enjoyable part of the day instead all i need now is someone to build it and quick [Music] coming up i rise at the crack of day to escort radio 4's john humphreys to work i am just a little bit tense so you understand how do you think and i customize my gadget man quarters to see if it's possible to automate getting up in the morning wow [Music] welcome back i've been looking at gadgets to eradicate those early morning feeling bad blues look at that is that the shower that's me it's heating up now my deep and fervent wish is to automate the grisly business of getting up and ready but i am in a fierce hurry what in the name of all that is gadget could my engineering staff create in just one solitary day anthony i have this it's a way of trying to automate getting up in the morning okay it's a dream not as profound as martin luther's but of similar significance it'd be entertaining you're a man of considerable gift you've never let me down ever and that's a pretty good track record of not letting a man down best of luck thank you i think while he does that thing i asked him to do i'm going to tackle the tedium of the morning trudge to work one person who knows more about it than most is radio 4 presenter john humphreys he's personally demanded that i find him some alternative and energetic forms of transport to get him on his way [Music] [Applause] [Music] what is it well it's called the elliptigo it's a mixture between a bike and a cross trainer so you go up and down a bit like an attack in star wars right here we go there oh my god this is madness look at that good grief it has gears like a bike but unlike a bike it has no saddle to speak of it's really good exercise you can't sit down you can't have a little rest and it does feel very odd to be kind of walking a bike uphill which is the sensation you get it would get me to work the only slight problem is that by the time i got there and when the pips went at six o'clock i would be incapable of speech okay so this is the next transportation option now i like the look of this if i'm sitting in there yes who's any member of team humphreys could be do you think it could be peddling um it's assisted you can charge it effectively what you put in it gives you back what about you peddle it yeah and i i was afraid it was going to go there i could be on a laptop feeding you your information you could be running alongside pushing which would be a lot more help yeah oh yeah no i think you're getting it again obstacle coming up after call coming obstacle coming up we're away yeah good are you enjoying it well once once you're away from the start you know once you're actually moving yes it's rather nice and at least you can sit down unlike the last one yes now this is the tricky getting through the game we did it now don't get cocky oh you better stop at this point god and pull up there you go yeah i'm just not quite sure about all this it's quite a big space to carry one little bag so essentially you don't need the thing that it's for you got it okay in which case but there you go i need to go to work in this which i think you're going to like this is the twike it's an electric car but you can also pedal it yeah it goes up to 53 miles an hour this hybrid vehicle is made in germany a full charge can go up to 210 miles and cost as little as 30p it can be driven on roads in britain by anyone with a full driver's license yeah i like that so uh i'm gonna drive you yes to broadcasting house if you would you're a brave man okay before we set off i have a gadget tie for you i i'm all right but that may come in handy later [Music] how are you feeling about them pretty scared if you want the honest answer so i'm gonna have to give this my total concentration oh i am just a little bit tense you understand sure how do you think i feel the twice is steered much like a helicopter with a joystick your one hand steering one hand steering and with that one hand you're controlling the direction of the car but you're also controlling the accelerator and the brake now that john's mastered the controls we employ our powerfully muscular legs for a workout so this is just great for cardio it's a bit warm though isn't it i mean when you're pedaling on a bike you've got the air rushing part yeah but that's good you're probably sweating even more on time to self-refresh the gadget thai i gave you yes it was a lot by the way yeah that's because it's full of coffee it's full of liquid so you take this out you you bite it down and suck at the same you're winding me up right i'm not i think you have to you know really go assets and nothing is coming out that's that's a life half lift then so what time do you get up in the morning 16 minutes to four because i want to be in the car by about six minutes before and it takes ten minutes you're and you're ready absolutely yeah john requires a constant news feed on route to the studio by the time i got to the main roundabout in shepherd's bush the five live news headlines would be on so i'd listen to that you're basically a current affairs vampire it's what you are and i've got the most up-to-date information technology in the hood i have something quite new google glass i've heard of google glass so this is a real google glass yes i think this is the first time they've allowed it to be filmed they heard it was going to go near your head and they were extremely excited so what it is it's like a monitor this is going to be like looking at a computer screen nice okay right next to your eye if you tap the glass once on the side and then it has a voice activation system right say okay glass okay glass once activated google glass allows you to scroll through a range of apps including news oh somebody's talking to me in the speaker yes well that will possibly be the news being read out that's exactly what it is so you can read it quite clearly yeah it's extraordinary isn't it and that's not its only function say record a video record a video and it is now it's recording it's recording you yes looking at me and i can see a tiny image in your you can see yourself in my eye which is spooky somewhat disturbing yeah it's essentially one step closer to becoming a cyborg i feel cyborgish already google say that this is going to take over the world really that within a year everyone's going to have these on their domes mind you they would say that wouldn't they well you know am i being cynical here well you're not known for being contrarian at all all right well i think we should continue our journey to broadcasting taking these off i'm taking those myself let's close up go for it with the pips fast upon us we glide masterfully towards our destination google glass wasn't john's cup of joe but what about the twice i think if you got used to it it would be great fun yeah i don't like the fact that when the front wheel hits a hole it feels like you might die it feels a bit like that john thank you so much thank you very richard the news calls you know how it is it's all wow all the time instant endless questions i mustn't keep you all the best back at the gadget man house my engineering flunkies are installing a frankly under-resourced rise and shine machine to wake wash dress and feed me come the mourn [Music] with the house resembling an understopped boutique my expectations have started to spiral i suspect mutiny i take to my bed hoping as ever to never wake up please just another eight hours my bed has been customized with a conveyor belt which is activated when the alarm goes off [Music] my automated seat is guided by magic eye tape the same system that automatically steers jumbo jets into hangers this is less fast than i'd hoped two vileda supermops engage that is insufficient as a shower a series of triggers activates parts of the machine as i approach wow those areas of my head are now hot [Music] here we go and then i turn to the breakfast bar coffee and to the next stage liquid butter arcs out of an unhealthy looking nozzle wow that's appetizing followed by reddish liquid oh what a pleasingly efficient way to proceed [Music] this bit is still manual [Music] the day's business create an amazing gadget well i've done that not for the last time technology has lagged behind my ever restless mind so while gadgets can make portions of the morning more bearable it feels like there's some way to go before one machine can do it all my disappointment visible i leave the house in search of more qualified support staff hello my name is richard ayowardi or at least i think that's how it's pronounced i've always thought there's something moderately heroic about a gadget an often small device dedicating itself to one specific purpose making life that little bit easier so welcome to gadget man where i get to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets this is a new experience yeah you've not barbecued until you're seasick and introduce you to the most amazing and bizarre technology from around the world what i'll also be trying to invent whole new gadgets to solve some of life's everyday problems so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business [Music] as all parents know keeping children entertained is no picnic despite picnics actually been quite a good way of entertaining them the everyday reality of child care is a long hard grind that can often end in tears and tantrums and that's just the children or the parents i don't really know how that kind of joke works as channel 4's official personification of a gadget it's my pleasure but it's also very much my duty to suggest that perhaps gadgets might be able to take up the slack of this pesky parenting business parenting is exhausting i prefer gadgeting this playmat t-shirt means you always get a massage while the kids amuse themselves the daddle is a saddle for a dad if your kids are harder to impress then show them this a machine that uses helium and foam to make floating shapes [Music] there are super gadgets for older kids assuming they've been financially prudent [Music] and even super gadgets for babies this is spring loaded so before it hits the ground it will close and protect the teat the dirt is just on the outside okay there happy happy there's a massive raft of gadgets i'll be showing you that can make parenting less of a chore but i'm also determined to invent a contraption of my own that will take the strain out of the whole toot and thing now like an absolute plum i've agreed to look after a bunch of children next week and i'll do that i'll honour that promise but surely there must be a way of doing this without directly interacting with these small people i wish to build a playground where parents don't have to push swings or twirl roundabouts this concept of hands-off child minding has been around for years and while devices like this robot stroller somehow never took off maybe i can take inspiration from a modern day equivalent [Music] look at me you this is a bike and stroller in one the handling of this is fine but in you don't want to go too fast it can convert from this into a stroller okay so this comes out baby it's very calm at this point take the seat down like that this comes over the top down you pick up the child who has remained calm throughout this procedure look at that i can just move this buggy off and then later on i could put it back into a bike look at the faces of envy as i pass them look watch watch this yeah that's right that scowl is correct it's it's it was a bike you missed the best bit earlier it was a bike all that folding is too much darn effort for my liking so i've asked three real humans to try out some other parent-friendly prams and this self-folding stroller romped to victory [Music] from a sort of gadgety point of view that that is crazy this panel on the back is quite good because if you're a bit of a fitness freak then it can tell you how fast you're walking and stuff and also of course it does go up and down that's just fun all day that that's a pleasure now i think this is the key to the success of my playground it needs to be fully automated i need to be able to do no work apart from occasionally press a button building a playground that looks after children itself sounds like a job for my engineering friend and wrestling companion gary gary how do you automate a playground in the middle of a field well you've got the power right there aren't you what's the power it's the kids they're going to bring generators what we'll do is make a make a roundabout they've put the energy into it by using the roundabout round like a generator how am i going to keep these fellas on the roundabout because i need to keep them occupied you mean you need to incentivize i need to motivate the other motivated treats i found work yeah mice and children both love treats well if we get a lot of hamster balls for instance okay treats inside that and we can make those hamster balls move around and the kids have to follow it and it becomes an entertainment and a treat it's like the krypton factor they'll be hunting for sustenance yeah that's good forever forever but but a nice idea give me half an hour that's what i need it's about you as about as much about them this is mainly about me i'm afraid to say let's give it a try okay we'll do it don't sign anything because i want to take credit i'm heading to the patent office now to register it in my name all right while gary and his employees start making an automated playground inspired by my findings so far i'm going to research more hand-off parenting gadgets with a stunt baby called monroe and the non-stunt mum they called denise van outen oh look do you feel like you're flying do you feel slightly like you're skydiving in a way that is pleasing do you know what i am it's quite good for me yeah what do we think monroe do you like it monroe approves but before long she'll probably start crying like the baby she is look at this it's called why cry put it near to the baby and it tells you the reason why it's crying really bored annoyed hungry stressed or sleepy those are the five reasons right okay it claims to be 90 percent accurate it's going with hungry but what about that stressful period when bath tiredness and bedtime combine in a perfect storm here are some smart pajamas a variety of different dotted configurations which when on you scan with your phone and it comes up with a story that you can read these pjs contain 47 different tales your kids could even scan themselves and the app would read the story out automatically the torsos and the hair i'm guessing the idea of this is that if you're traveling and you don't want to take books or anything with you then yes it kind of saves space next a gadget to rock your child to sleep so you don't have to there are various types of rocking motion it can make tree swing kangaroo car ride i'd like to try the car motion okay when i struggled to get my daughter betsy to sleep i'll make her drive i always used to put her in a car seat and go for a drive i think a winner with munroe kangaroo i can't imagine there's a sensation that many babies feel normally oh oh hello what's going on the kangaroos obviously encountered some difficulties in this negotiating brush i definitely would buy this for my baby okay i think it's a really good idea it seems particularly comfortable safe and look monroe seal of approval big thumbs up okay endorsed okay so we'll place monroe down there you go there we go it's bedtime sleepy time now rocking the crib oh right we have something that is automated called the lullaby and what it does is it rocks the cot for you okay that you can use under any cot you can use under any cot which has legs look you can so there see this there is movement it's slightly oscillating but it's this piece of futuristic french technology that gives us a glimpse into the daft punk era of child care what on earth is that well this is the nail robot okay it's a programmable robot that can assist you with parenting costing around 10 large it uses cameras and a voice synthesizer to interact with children according to the un robots like these will soon be considered as essential as a family car i like your hair thank you see just the one fan then think of it as a nanny that looks exactly like a robot i work with children all the time i love it exactly loves children loves children i can help you send the baby to sleep well that would be incredibly useful were the baby not already asleep but proceed in what you're about to do i know some great lullabies and i am a great singer a little bit cocky but i take that on board why don't you sing a lullaby now here we go it's a bit like queen the intros are too long just get to the lullaby don't build it up don't build up [Music] a cot that rocks itself a robot babysitter these inspirational gadgets are giving me some great ideas i can rip off for my automated playground coming up hugh dennis and i test out gadgets for older children obviously i'm in complete control and i test my gadget playground there is much more to this playground and meets your unbelieving doubting eye [Music] i've been furiously pondering the best ways gadgets can make looking after children a dudely breeze indeed my relentless engineering staff are building a prototype of an entirely automated playground which i hope will be good enough to keep a party of kids entertained later on in the meantime i'm off to test out some more gadgets for that implacable edifice that is known as older kids and to help me i'll need a tv dad and that tv dad calls himself hugh dennis obviously i'm in complete control sure but a few gadgets wouldn't go miss good okay well well let's let's do this from paving slabs that reveal their hopscotch markings when wet to a game of twister that connects your mp3 player to remote controlled fighting robots there's a new generation of interactive gadgets to keep kids fully occupied but i'm most interested in testing this bijou barnstormer so this is going to be your friend today you just connect it in it's a kind of wii device which is operated by your hands above it so this is a drum kit you can hit the snare drum you don't need to you know make it look as hitler-ish as i currently know that it's a slightly dodder you know yeah you don't like someone learning to swim really badly this is essentially how i direct traffic it uses cameras and infrared to detect your hand and finger movements and it's intricate enough to let your kids dissect a pretend frog but they'll probably mainly use it for drums they're quite a lot better at it than we were yeah let's not dwell on that but would you be satisfied with this level of noise would you want it louder than that much louder would you much most about it just need to annoy my parents well there's always great pleasure in that next one of the biggest tablet computers on earth it's a 27 inch display and runs on windows 8. numerous players can all interact at the same time so we can play this air hockey game now for example well i found as a parent you don't really want to buy things which are solely games right do you justify that purchase you're thinking oh i could maybe i could write something on this it can work as a pc you can get multiple apps you can do a number of things with it yeah my competitive spirit has taken over again and i'm not really listening yes you're basically just focused on trying to humiliate me yeah okay so here we have some things to keep the children quiet this is a helicopter that you control with your mind it works via bluetooth through an app on a phone and it measures voltage fluctuations in your brain so i put this thing on yes like that and someone has to concentrate i can already see you're in the zone wow you're straight in there when you have a clear relaxed mind like you dennis your brain creates out for waves the app detects them and makes the helicopter fly if i don't concentrate you should just get yeah there we go right i'm going to concentrate again yes so it forces your children to concentrate back it off back it off thank you i'm going to look over here one there we go there we go okay your brain is undeniable it's his undeniable surprise if i got a call from the ministry of defense officer yeah we're gonna leave it there great let's call in the kids [Music] okay so essentially you can draw on the beds and that floats with the aid of your mind see you later don't panic i'm not sanctioning scribbling on bed clothes these duvets come with a set of washable pens [Music] obviously we all use surveillance on our kids to check up on them that's a given now this is the latest way to do it it's a spy tank it's got a camera there using an ipad or smartphone you can use it as a remote control and it will drive itself anywhere you want and can record what they're doing so let's see whether they're letting us down no one will know that you have a small white tank in their room filming them it's for a parent who's utterly lost trust in their children yeah or or apparently you can't be bothered to go to the door of their children's room and just have a look making them realise that they will always be watched throughout their lives and they need to start getting used to it now with the kids fully engaged us adults can turn our attention to relaxing well that's not relaxing they're happy though up there yeah it's worked to that extent yeah but i can still hear them so let's remedy that with this [Music] these are some of the biggest and thinnest domestic speakers money can buy designed by british aeronautical engineer they provide exceptional clarity [Music] welcome yeah this is my ideal energy level for the playground i wish to expend no more energy than this that much anticipated day has now arrived all right i'm going to be supervising 20 children without expending any energy behold the gadget man automated [Music] playground it has normal playground type things a swing that you might find in a regular playground a rocking horse made out of wood traditional materials there's also a roundabout which is almost eerie and it's round the bountiness look at that as it goes about its roundabout business but there is much more to this playground than meets your unbelieving doubting eye the traditional playground demands incessant parental pushing twirling and spinning but the idea here is to harness and redirect the limitless energy of the little nippers themselves all i need do is relax as the playground operates on top generated power alone here's a shot of them running as they turn the roundabout an alternator turns the motion into electricity charging batteries which can power all the other gadgets in the playground only one small inducement is required these children can only keep up this level of energy for so long some of them are already starting to flag they're going to need motivation they're going to need treats that's what i ask gary for that's what he's provided with the archimedes screw the balls are packed full of sweets as the roundabout spins it charges batteries that turn the screw which in turn delivers the goodies to the young folk suitably sugared they then have even more energy to push the roundabout and keep things working it's almost dangerously ethical we just keep loading them up i do not want to have to engage with them this is ideal the automated playground is taking care of 20 children and i'm not having to do anything and to further aid my loafing i've siphoned off some of the electricity generated by the kids to power my music system if i need to power more devices i can simply increase the power from these unwitting dynamos [Music] the kids have rightly hailed the playground a triumph but i'm keen to hear the opinions of their legal guardians responsible adults in need of a rest what do you think could you leave a child under some circumstances definitely as long as i can have a bench to sit on have a coffee look on from afar definitely i could send an email without being interrupted to push them on the swing that's great can you push me every two minutes right essentially you're you're cock-a-hoop i've i've i'm gonna be obsolete now okay this is good so we're standing at the scene of a triumph it's what we're standing at not for the first time i'm utterly indicated and um i can proceed to moonwalk around the entire perimeter and finally my signature piece a gadget that stops parents from being soaked this robot is a water fighting robot which also has my face in it to give the seamless illusion that it is me because the musculature and the body is modeled on my own so i think the safest thing for us is to step back and let this robot battle the children it's just water it's just water okay don't point at me the control system lets the robot take aim at any children foolhardy enough to approach while it is waterproof it could be vaguely frightening looking which is why i've given it a very non-threatening face i stay dry the kids have fun and get some all-important face time with a cowardly looking adult on top of a robot i don't think it would be a modest to turn that to an unqualified success the parents seemed very happy the children were even happier and i was delighted in that i did not have to spend a mere calorie of energy now of course in the real world where i sometimes live it's nice to be with your children to play with them to actually spend as much time as you can with them maybe this could be a whole new era and human motion could be harnessed as an energy source for other uses there are already plans to use the vibrations of pedestrian footsteps to power street lamps but now though my automated playground is the world leader in this kind of technology when you've been pushing the swing for about half an hour something like this is a rather pleasant dream [Music] hello viewer this is the voice of richard arjuardi welcoming you to gadget man where i'm authorized to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets what this is an espresso maker i'm kidding it's a microwave straight in my suitcase and i'll introduce you to the most amazing and bizarre technology from around the world yeah but you know i like it because it's gadgety there's something about that so satisfying this time i'm specifically targeting travel [Music] and holiday gadgets i wasn't happy on the beach okay but now i am you look great as well so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business summer holidays are an assault on good sense a gross slush of stress heat and brine what is the earthly point well that was a disaster have you heard the phrase i'm going to need a holiday to get over this holiday of course you have it's a dreadful cliche but that's exactly what i've been doing i'm now on my 17th holiday i'm increasingly tired my bank balance is in disarray something must be done i'll just uh sorry perhaps gadgets can be my passport to a stress-free holiday to test this i'm going to head to the south of france with noel building and avow technophobe and owner of hair to see if gadgets can be the key to that rarest of things a holiday that isn't rubbish [Music] on a short trip i will normally just pack a toothbrush and some animal magnetism but for this particular trip i'm going to need luggage this claims to be one of the toughest suitcases on the market not simply emotionally but also in terms of its ability to withstand impact so i'm going to throw it off a balcony now there you go a staggering display but i demand a suitcase that minimizes physical exertion could this member of the suitcase family be the answer it has this rather clever handle which when you extend it puts 85 percent of the suitcases weight over the wheels making it much easier to carry look as i glide like an elegant swan and if you're having difficulties pulling it up a hill an electric motor kicks in to aid you one last shirt to fold the infernally fiddly business of packing this contraption has special ventilating holes to eliminate static cling folding more neatly also means you can pack more now you know my rep if i see convention i must assure it so i can't travel to the airport by conventional means i will be traveling in this the mono tracer one of only 49 in the world driven by captain chuckles here half car half bike this two-seater is arguably the world's most energy-efficient high-performance vehicle thanks to its ultra-low aerodynamic drag it can accelerate to 60 in just four secs immediately after departure a dreadful anxiety claws at my insides will i be violated by hoodlum burglars but luckily i can use this smartphone to deploy a smoke screen which means that if any intruder is full hardy enough to enter my premises while i'm away if it detects anyone it will fill the room with thick gray smoke [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] once again i must endure the thrumming tedium of the departure lobby where i'm meeting my holiday companion male comedian noel fielding hi unbelievable lakes how are you i'm furious i'm furious don't touch me don't come near me i've just been strip searched for two hours if you look like this you tend to get hassled go yeah you look like bianca jagger yeah on the wedding yeah it's no good airports are a bit of a pain though aren't they i couldn't agree more you've got your little cases oh i have the solution i've got i call you the solution they call me the solution look at this it's a stuffer jacket what this does is you can put a load of stuff in the pockets hence stuffer and it means that you can carry all of your luggage on your person no more waiting in queues to check in bags this is what they claim will fit into this jacket look at that you're completely within your rights to board the plane and say there's nothing wrong here yeah it's pretty good i think it's good check this this is the re-timer glasses this fires a green light into your eyes to reset your sleep balance you just have to wear it 35 to 50 minutes a day and you will never feel jet lagged again it claims how's that looking you look like will i am the thing is i just feel i just feel right in this stuff now the last thing is the stadium towel stadium it's the freedom to urinate whenever you wish however you wish into a pipe and into a bag from here on out you can urinate at a time that suits you rather than when the so-called pilot says you can this allows you to urinate up to a thousand mil because i know that you are a powerful urinator when you urinate it's like a riot hose i know this so this sort of goes here i think that goes at the bottom and then the other thing attaches to yours yeah and it's sticky as well so there's no way that uh yeah the french women better watch themselves because when they see this coming at them they're gonna know that's right come on let me pick you up a 15 pound sandwich okay ladies perhaps the most feared and tiring aspect of any summer holiday is the flight but we are going to employ a stack of gadge to make this flight a delight flight one of the things that flies you into a rage gets me really furious you wound up it's people leaning their seats back ah the animals are unbelievable look at this the knee defender wow what you do is you take one of these fellas put the seat tray down engage the knee defender thus and thus and now this customer is going nowhere could not move can't move his chair back wow that's amazing also this is a matter that we're going to have to bring up sooner or later i know that you have the lower bowel of a small hippopotamus this is the flatulence absorber this has got the surface area in terms of carbon filtration of five football fields and believe me you're gonna need this because this plane is out of control and also it doesn't just suck up your own farts it sucks up i i notice it's sucking up a fart from a lady in row f yeah great it will suck as far out of the man's trousers from 50 yards yeah long gone are the days when i used to have to catch farts in my own hat my troubles are over the fart absorber i am taking this with me come fly with me with a whole hour to kill before we touch down i whip out a gadget to help us cope with the boredom [Music] this games console has a full seven-inch touchscreen and a detachable dual analog joystick controller [Music] here take one i think the youth gonna love this yes the little people wikipab plus can also be networked for a multi-player experience okay i've got a highly dignified item for you now it's called the snazzy napper this is zorro's one isn't it yeah he's embroidered his name's and now you're completely relaxed and you can fall asleep tell you what this is unbelievable is that a snazzy nap are you snazzy napping no no come back to me no i've got a cab but for san rafael i'm actually from here so these are my people so if you need me to do any translation for you just let me know bonjour yeah go on what else have you got come on get your gadget that's right you got a gadget for everything i've got now guys the solution i've got the s translator i can say anything into this and it will translate it for me will you drive us to our destination without attacking us okay thank you merci okay let's get in the car it's always good to ask that before getting in any vehicle [Music] this is horrendous it's so hot it's horrible it's very hot why do people i think people come here for the sun don't they if we could have lassoed the sun and brought it to england i wouldn't even have had to make this trip so you think if it was hotter in england people would stay there people wouldn't even leave i'm not sure that's true are you saying this scenery's superior to south end how dare you how dare you the thing noel just said made me think of the thing i'm about to say right about now there must be a way to stay in england but bring the weather to england and i've just had an idea which will confirm me as one of the most foremost thinkers of my age using the power of gadgets i'm going to bring the south of france to south end starting with the sun yes you heard me i said the word with hello anthony what i would like you to do so that i never have to travel again is to build the sun anything's possible anthony if you're going to give me static over this i don't have time i don't want to pull rank anthony but i need you to build the sun within a week otherwise you're fired and you know the redundancy terms i offer are not very good unbelievable coming up come on let's go let's hit the beach hit the beach yeah who are you david hasselhoff nolan and i test out the latest in seaside technology i wasn't happy on the beach okay but now i am you look great as well and i bring santa pay to south end it's actually really boiling it's actually so hot welcome back i've been looking at gadgets that can help make going on holiday a more pleasurable experience it's the freedom to urinate whenever you wish however you wish and i've just used my head to have a thought what i would like you to do so that i never have to travel again is to build the sun and that thought is to recreate the south of france in south end before nolan i head to the beach i'm asking some genuine french people to try out the latest in waterproof audio technology check that boombox it's called the echoterra a fully waterproof speaker system that encases your smartphone or mp3 player and this revolutionary underwater personal hi-fi doesn't play music through your ears it beams sound waves through your cheekbones instead [Music] the ion water rocker uses bluetooth to transmit tunes from an mp3 docked on dry land to its watertight ball shaped speaker from as far away as a hundred meters now i address the french in their native tongue thank you for testing these objects what did you think of them so my favorite neptune because the sound is really clear for me too i prefer this one in the water the sound is amazing do you like the echo terra the volume yes good good volume i think it's better than the water rocker paints me to hear that anything is better than the water rocker so the one you like best was neptune yeah neptune okay well this is good news thank you thank you my poolside research is complete but my journey continues come on let's go let's hit the beach hit the beach yeah who are you david hasselhoff i'm like a younger better looking hasselhoff no one's better looking than hasselhoff that's true that's what is it an absurd statement this is the solar electric scooter okay it's solar-powered amazing okay so let's get going well i say coming with you you're not although it can accommodate two people to go solo why because of balance and also i don't like being touched by you great see you down there thanks thanks mr gage what's wrong with you gadget head i'm not happy why not i'm on a beach that's why not the beach is a great fun place it's a disgusting collection of ground down sedimentary rock i know but you've got to make the best of it i mean look at me i'm a goth how do you think i feel i'm all exposed look at the minox wow yeah it monitors the uv light wow tells you when to reapply sun cream really that's right what's this you're sitting on i'm sitting on the lounge pack well you're on your tiny little red towel from the 60s it's a good color though i'm on the lounge pack oh fellaini let me then i've got speakers wow either side what of course stravinsky yeah so i can put in prokofiev whenever i need to get things a bit more russian it also has detachable drinks coolers and should you need to leave the beach in a hurry the whole affair folds down into a portable suitcase on wheels and look at your towel yeah a disgrace for the sand i've got sand all over you've got bits that's why you need the sand maps the sand developed by the military how is this better than the towel well the sand goes through one way and can't come back up so if you take some sand yeah it could only it could go straight through not straight through yeah okay that's the consumer test they wanted what else you got what's this bang flat pad look at that okay and then all right robocop i'll be honest i like that do you want to have a go i'm not sure you're gonna put sun cream on with this but it's quite powerful i'll tell you how you're gonna put sun cream on you put sun cream on here on that pad on this pad yeah and then you can apply it to your back i wasn't happy on the beach okay but now i am you look great as well i'm gonna go and see if i can make friends on the beach yeah see it a bit i have one further significantly more impressive gadget to show noel oh noel's gonna love this what's this i'm on the barbecue donut i can read the barbecue donut yeah how's it working out for you it's good oh one of the things that is not very good about being in the middle of the ocean is the inability to barbecue but you have no access to a barbecue you can't you're out in the ocean you're a little bit peckish you've not barbecued until you're seasick it's for some of the best barbecuing you'll ever do it's the brainchild of this man hi hey sebastian schmidt look at him that's amazing he's a real man not like jason statham's just copped a board constructed from thermo-resistant plastic to prevent its very hot charcoal barbecue from melting through the hull its donut-shaped chassis seats up to eight meat eaters are you a beautiful ride yeah i'm always ready for meat on the ocean you're not drunky i am does that matter yes gadgets have made this holiday slightly more bearable but i'd still rather not have to travel at all so i'm going to prove that there's no need to leave our shores ever again back at the gadget man workshop my engineering staff are creating a phalanx of gadgets to help me do just that including one uber gizmo that seeks to replicate a ball of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields i.e the sun [Music] bienvenue south end [Music] well how the blazing dickens am i going to transform this humble piece of british beach into a mediterranean paradise well i know how the question was rhetorical because i have all of this i have my fan [Music] of near unearthly power 40 000 revolutions per minute generating an instant soothing coolness i also have an automatic suntan lotion dispenser which measures the uv which i've absorbed and periodically will spray me with suntan lotion so that i may never be burnt to a crisp or cinder to recreate the riviera i want to hurl my olfactory senses southwards to the sweet aromas of the mediterranean let's be frank south end smells of south end which is pleasing but is an unmistakable odor let's employ the smell machine which i have here this device was first designed for the us military to prepare soldiers for the smells of the battlefield it comes with a smell menu i can choose such things as cheddar fig it's my it's my uncle there who still owes me money but i'm actually going to go for c marine here it's a block of smell condensed and you drop it in this i put it on and i'll close it and relax in the safe knowledge that my nasal cavities will be pleased from here on in and for my audio requirements i'm listening to sounds through these smart speakers which ensure my music won't disturb my fellow beach hounds now of course i could listen to my music through headphones like all those other saps but i have the audio spotlight which uses ultrasound to create a highly directional sound two meters either side and you can hear nothing look at this nothing nothing yeah something my comfort is in hand there is only one thing missing the thing that drives people from these shores year and year out the thing that they are desperately in search of here comes the sun and the beatles reference suspended from the arm of a giant 50-foot crane the sun not the beatles reference this quarter-ton gadget sun's halogen lamps blast out 48 000 watts of light twice as powerful as the real midday sun instantly raising the ambient air temperature by 5 degrees centigrade and although the actual sun is more impressive it's not ordinarily available in south end a delight no need to hang around in airports remonstrate with cabin boys or get your knees crushed by finnish businessmen ever again well it would seem churlish to keep this marvelous spectacle to myself so i must given that this is a public beach allow the public onto it sign in there goes the neighborhood yesterday you smiled at me the great thing about the artificial sun is that it never sets allowing you to enjoy the discomfort of high temperatures long into the night [Music] though the eve has glided into night's glassy embrace it's still 25 degrees under the gadget sun and its tanning uv rays have set off the automated sun cream dispenser well the gadget sun was really cool i was surprised about how much heat and light came out of it it's actually really boiling it's actually so hot if i had a nice heat and weather i would turn nicely so that would save me money on fake tan and money on going abroad so i kind of killed two birds one stone so what have we all learnt this time yes gadgets can make even a holiday abroad enjoyable but it's better to bring that holiday to you and where possible to construct a replica some i'm going to walk into the sea now and see what it does to me next time i'll be looking at gadgets that can help take the blinking hassle out of home improvement i love not falling i'm never happier than when i'm not falling to my desk [Music] hello i'm the same person as richard aruwadi welcome to gadget man there we go i love that where i get to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets i am just a little bit tense you understand how do you think i feel and introduce you to the most amazing and bizarre technology from around the globe do you want some quiche yeah sure that is an innovation for a dinner party isn't it there we go this week engage the robot arm gadgets designed to take the darn drudge out of do it yourself [Music] so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business [Music] it is said by people that our homes are our castles but unlike castles they always seem to need bits doing to them which is why every bank holiday 18 million of us saps end up here in a diy store vaguely wandering around trying to find the right density sandpaper no diy just isn't my jam i dislike the climbing of ladders the spreading of paint the buying of fluids and the purchase of tools in short i'm not too sure about diy i'd prefer gd ifm gadget's doing it for me perhaps i can get these home improvement tasks done by upscaling the technology i already have to do the fiddlesome tasks around the house this bravo robotic mop sweeps the ground beneath my feet it uses an onboard navigation system to map out where it's been and where it has to go now i also have a robotic helper for the icky job of cleaning gutters sweeping away debris using its propeller and brush attachments [Music] the most distressing task of all is cleaning our rooftop swimming pools so i have this a fully automated sub aqua cleaner that vacuums and scrubs the sides using as little power as a 60 watt bulb as it does the thing that it does leaving me free to sit near prone watching demolition footage on my smartphone located on the darkened inside of my tv hat pretty good well heavens to betsy these are exactly the sort of jobs that i need to farm out to gadgets when it comes to gardening we spend almost 2 billion pounds a year on tools like this multi-purpose fella [Music] the honda versatile comes with a variety of attachments for your streaming and trimming needs which if they're like mine are great and never ending so let's start this up just tame this bush this horticultural swiss army knife claims to do practically anything you might ever need a garden tool to do i'm talking head trimming blowing edging pruning cultivating and of course [Music] streaming that was a heck of a stream i don't mind telling you wow but i prefer a gadget to take care of the lawn without me lifting the proverbial let's meet this fella it's the husqvarna automower 265 acx let's hope the makers of this are better at making mowers than coming up with catchy names it claims to be able to cut your lawn on its own it's a robotic lawnmower let's test it this state-of-the-art mower uses an ultrasonic sensor and guide wires around the lawn's perimeter to maneuver itself around and there's no need to worry about your cat getting an unwarranted trim its sensors will prevent any collisions when it gets low on power it returns to its charging station like a dog would if it were this mower and there's more if it's disturbed in any way by for example bandits it will even send a warning text to your mobile well is grass getting shorter yes and am i doing anything no so those two things are pleasing it seems perfect seeing my robotic mower cut the lawn has sent thoughts rushing to my skull perhaps i can find gadgets that can speedily transform the inside of my house as well let's consolidate and group our thoughts in an orderly manner i need to decorate a room in this house i just need to the decor offends me can gadgets help me do this and what's more could they do it in just a few hours i'm going to decorate this empty shell of a room in my house into a space fit to host a tea party i will then invite some tv makeover titans to witness the whole process before i begin i'm going to pick the brain of architect and construction expert charlie luxton i want to get your opinion on some gadgets that are meant to be for the novice so it'd be good to get your expert eye on them okay who needs a tool-laden garage when you've got this transformer gizmo so essentially what this is it's a workbench in a box you've got your circular sawy thing put it down you've got a drill handle the power rate plugs straight into the mains or its two rechargeable batteries allow you to work cordlessly outside it strikes me that it's a lot of fun to use putting it all together and slotting it and clicking it and it is sort of like a big boy's toy so from that perspective i think it's probably a lot of fun helping us assess my diy gadgetry as charlie foreman pete lovely in the home excellent very good wouldn't necessarily use this particular product at work but in the home i would charlie's right hand man was nearly charlie's no right hand man after a nasty diy accident how how did you cut your hand i presume it wasn't a jewel no okay i was using one of these saws without a proper guard wow i am concerned about safety with these things there's some gadgets over here that are safe and let's have a look at them and see if you think they'll be useful britain's a e department see more than 200 000 diy casualties each year but this ingenious piece of american hardware is aimed at reducing injuries dramatically what's pretty amazing about this is that it has a sensor in it which means that if it comes into contact with human skin the sword drops below the level and it stops it really stops i'm not going to ask you to put your hand in it or your hand you've been there done that so we're going to use your lunch there's a savilloy in here [Music] carries an electrical signal upon contact with conductive material like human flesh it triggers a break and retracts the blade under the table bloody hey all this in five milliseconds which is a fast amount of time oh my god i thought it popped that's pretty good oh look it's got a very tiny little nick that is amazing yes you're pretty impressed i am really impressed yeah you could have had a less impressive wound if you'd had one of these [Music] ladders are involved in more diy accidents than any other piece of kit but this one claims to be the world's safest its adjustable outriggers make it five times less likely to tip to the side and its built-in spirit levels help you to put it up at the most stable angle i i love not falling i'm never happier than when i'm not falling to my desk actually ladders are incredibly dangerous so that is a good bit of kit the days of whacking finger with hammer could be over as well designed with a magnetic head this gadget grips nails in place so you don't have to its rapid fire mechanism hammers away 60 times a second this is actually mainly for tight spots where you know you're doing that you don't want to be in a tight area what i reckon is that's what they invented the screw sure well that seems a little over the top and okay what i'd say to that is smashing down walls is another potentially dangerous activity as well as being extremely tiring you've got a friend yeah this is the world's smallest remote control demolition robot no need for sledgehammers we can stand back at a safe distance while he does all the whacking here we go this is how to demolish a wall with ease this machine is capable of immense nuance witness me as i delicately remove one brick at a time to demonstrate its dexterity i really just want to whack it okay okay well i got tired of delicacy so yeah a great restraint yeah i thought you showed great win game there we go that was the power that was always there okay thank you very good well thank you very good if i may as we pause for sustenance i pump charlie for his thoughts on my quest to decorate a room in mere minutes using gadget magic so what kind of gadgets would be useful well paint sprayers you just and you can do a whole roux in in literally half an hour that sounds good what if i want to wallpaper well that's more difficult isn't it if you imagine some kind of dispensing unit that had a kind of hopper on the side with wallpaper paste which had a roll of wallpaper in it at the handle yeah and as you roll the wallpaper down it would look you know layer on the the glue and get all the air bubbles out this all sounds good i'm gonna make some calls i'm gonna get that actioned coming up my tea party guests arrive [Laughter] i love that and i decorate a room in a matter of hours without doing any work welcome back how are you i've been trying to prove that it's possible to replace diy by having gadgets and technology doing it for me not a bead of sweat i'm exhausted as spectacular as the gadget man house undoubtedly is inside there lurks a shamefully undecorated room that i plan to make over using a bevy of labor-saving gadgets but that's not all i'm hosting a tea party here and will transform this nothingness into somethingness before my guests very eyes my guests are about to descend and i haven't even chosen the color for my signature wall you can imagine the level of stress i'm experiencing luckily i have the node and chroma this gadget has a scanner it connects to your smartphone and you can choose colors from the real world like this and convert it into digital color like that and then i just need transfer the information from here to the x marked paint dispenser hit it x mart has 16 cylinders each filled with a base color by mixing these in different combinations it can literally produce an infinite number of paint colors i need just one which is just as well because my guests have sloped up [Music] charlie luxton is already privy to my heart's dear desire to have gadgets to all diy andy nice to meet you but for handy andy and anna ryder richardson veterans of the 90s tv makeover circuit my futuristic thoughts could very well blow their heads inside out i am going to decorate a room merely with gadgets don't drift off already andy it's going to be a long day all right well do you want to come in you're even more comfortable in the flesh right this is the room i'm decorating gathering andy i sent a report building between us i want to paint this wall yeah how would you do that uh roller and brush i suppose in it you sicken me behold my fanuc engage the robot arm this robotic goliath otherwise known as the fanuc m10ai was made in japan and plies its trade in car assembly plants around the world that's three capes now so that's quite good had it fitted with this paint brain gun and for today only it's here at gadget man towers helping me paint my feature wall and this literally is watching paint drying it's better than watching paint dry it is there's a huge robot spraying a wall i mean what's not to like it's very even though isn't it you think of all the people we've seen rolling in the past and you've got a patch here and a patch there i can see the concept of it yeah but it's the setting up time and all that andy you're breaking my heart why darling why is that it's just you're just so anti-fanuc i didn't say that i think i was anti didn't i all right i said i can see the concept okay we can all see the concept okay do you like it it might grow on me you may be poo pooing my fanuc but it has painted a large area of wall in a very quick time and i've not had to do a thing while my robot finishes up unsupervised i've got some other machines on the go printing my tea party knick-knacks to order these are 3d printers they are printing items for the tea party that are printing designs have you seen that before yeah but they're not the cube can make a two-dimensional design on a pc screen a 3d reality creating objects up to five and a half inches in size by printing layer upon layer of molten plastic handy speak up yeah i think it's very very clever but the point is what the point to it is that one day in the future after the dust settles after the interstellar wall we will all be able to download cups of various designs from sites this is a complete revolution in the way that we make things up until now we've heat and beaten and treating things which is lovely this is a completely new way of making this is the future genuinely show me something i'm really excited about thank you because you're gonna take away you're on a computer going what happened to big arms beating and sweating and brawn what i need is focus on gadgetry rather than something that sounded like the end of officer and a gentleman on that note it's on to perhaps the most revolved of all home improvement jobs wallpapering for decades scenes like this have been playing out in living rooms across the land all she has to do now is to stick it on the wall [Music] what a mess [Music] wallpapering by hand is near madness and yet no one has been able to invent a gadget to do it for us until now we once shared a dream about a machine that could wall paper we discussed a wallpapering machine and a new world that we could build on its shoulders wallpaper machine okay yeah all right do you want to do do you want to see it in action i do want to see it in action all right that that is a winner [Laughter] that is brilliant why has no one done that before very flat it's absolutely fantastic i can't think why somebody has not invented that before well thank you [Music] as they plan to retire on the proceeds of this ingenious invention my engineering staff has asked me not to reveal its exact machinations all i will say is that wallpapers pull through a bath of adhesive and then falls flat using a series of rollers an inbuilt guillotine is the final touch how does it work then what's involved in it it's at that point we park company because my engineering staff will not reveal the secret until the patent is lodged [Music] the wall is covered with paper but before we can take tea we must furnish and furnish furiously one of the greatest fears in organizing a tea party is having to build your own furniture but i don't have to do that because i have this look at this it's one sheet and i can make a chair from this have a look the inventors of these flux chairs took their design inspiration from hooligan proof football stadium seats made from a single sheet of plastic they simply fold together and boom the job is done with the minimum of efforts bending it the wrong way which way should it end it round or at least that's the theory it's like having a classic the back's coming just get it ready diy people ah lovely do you want to see a table that moves on its own yes please okay let's go if you push there straight through there we go i love that that is good yeah designed by dutch visionary walter shublin this ingenious table is one of only eight that exist why would you want a walking table why wouldn't you yeah exactly i'm detecting a dangerous seam of negativity [Music] using technology and the bare minimum of physical exertion it has taken but hours to transform this room and check it before you wreck it a wall lined with magnetic wallpaper so i can rearrange these pictures i love however i like without nail or screw and i have this any color of elegant mood lighting i desire controlled from my smartphone but most impressively i've printed out a complete dining set so let's talk about the 3d printing you witnessed some of it earlier look at all of these little objects they're amazing made by the 3d printer i mean clearly you can choose to print a fake cupcake for what it's worth but actually you know this technology is going to really transform our lives clearly it's in early stages but the potential is is endless this stuff is going to change your life you're saying it could get even better than this tiny vars and this cupcake yes i think we will look back and scoff at this cupcake in 10 years time [Applause] here we are in a fully decorated room all done by gadgets what's your feeling andy yeah i mean it's okay yeah it is quite nice it's quite nice it's like getting blood out of a stone with you isn't it to work hard on my back believable anna you're the design expert what's your verdict i actually think it's inspiring to be honest for a few hours work and plus i didn't get my hands dirty you know you can it can only get better and better really it's a brilliant start you can learn a lot from this kind of positivity okay charlie what's your feeling i'm quite impressed i mean i remember you talking about the idea of the wallpapering machine and the wallpaper machine happened and it has wallpapered and the robot painting machine has painted so gadgets have kind of worked haven't they well it feels that in the end it's going to be robots doing a lot of our work andy fighting the robots you in favor of the robots and perhaps you painting faces on those robots where do you stand on this robot come in well i'll tell you where i stand i've got a robot band that's where i stand and they're about to play us out of this okay they're there [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hello i am richard aruwadi welcome to gadget man where i get to celebrate some of the world's best gadgets how's that looking you look like will i am and introduce you to the most brilliant and bizarre technology from around the world [Music] oh i am just a little bit tense you understand how do you think i feel this week how small gadgets can be the bee's knees i love what you tried to do and it very nearly came off so before a do is in any way furthered let's tool up and get down to business you join me in my ideal mode of transportation a car that also affords me the room to jog but for the few of you left who don't own hummers space is at a premium there are over 12 000 people per square mile in london alone it's a scramble the world is more cramped than ever so shouldn't we be saving space can gadgets help is smaller better let's tackle this together now gadgets themselves are getting smaller all the time when i was young if you wanted to make a phone call on the move you needed something this size in order to take video this was the smallest that you'd get and to play music you needed one of these fellas now's the only thing open to a brother now all of these functions have been condensed to something over one billion of us own a smartphone [Music] but that is by no means the end companies are already investing in technology that you can wear on your freaking person for the sake of peace like for example the pebble it's a smartphone that isn't a smartphone because it's a smart watch pretty soon they're going to be blasting images into our eyes using this it's a contact lens that contains an lcd screen and before long i may have to forsake one of my hummers for this the world's smallest folding bicycle oh the savage and dignity gadgets are getting smaller and smaller but unlike the box apartments of tokyo and new york our homes remain wantonly large could smaller gadgets lead us to smaller houses [Music] i'm going to dedicate the next portion of my life to finding out i'm not the only one quacking on about smaller spaces even mini the tiny car manufacturer has developed a vehicle that doubles as a living space by fitting all sorts of functions into its interior you open the door as usual this slides out this goes up and there's a stove imagine underneath here you can store items such as kettles place the kettle on there should all of that exertion have caused you to perspire in an insane manner you can relieve your sweat with the shower or just point it and then finally you can repose in the bed can i poach this principle and take it up a notch for i wish to squish a whole bunch of stuff into a tiny space i mean look at this house it's an obscenity i wonder whether i could live in a tiny space a cube like this one small room using only minuscule gadgets and ingenuity to prove smaller it's the opposite of worse i want to squeeze an entire house with five whole rooms and my tiny gadgets into a cube measuring only 120 square feet and to action this mine quake i need clever people and so i sat without remorse my usual engineers in favor of the country's leading design experts at the university of hertfordshire to see if they can make my dream home actually happen one thing i will definitely need is smaller furniture sofas tables and chairs are the biggest items in our houses and i would moonwalk across my own mind if i could reduce the size of these beasts foldaway furniture was first developed by the ancient egyptians and that was over 100 years ago surely we can bring it back i'm going to see if the space-saving furniture i'm now pointing to can give the people in the house i'm now pointing to a little more room i'm going to give these innovative items to a standard suburban family to see if they prefer them to their regular bulky furniture and what may be the most incredible tv experiment of all time what is that there's nothing nice what is it replacing the three-piece suite is the cardboard flexible love sofa which can expand to a thumping seven meters if you get out what happens get up get up yeah get off it see it yeah this item is disguised as a sauna style bath map let's lift it up okay there's that what is it what's it gonna be oh it's like an egg-shaped table or something it's a coffee table no no it's a seat just two and a half centimeters thick when laid flat the rising chair transforms into an uncomfortable wooden seat i think this is much better than that one the aluminium folditure dining set measures even less just two centimetres each when folded up like frank sinatra it hails from new jersey and isn't for everyone so have this family been persuaded to junk their old furniture for future furniture how was it you know the chairs we have in the in the other room for the you know the dining room are you know they go really you know really flat and skinny it did save space yes definitely i can see that in certain events it could be really good [Music] that's the furniture dealt with but what about non-furniture items one man who has a lot of non-furniture items is musician alex james hey richard hello alex this is a very pleasing abode thanks for coming he has upside from the city to an elephantine six-bedroom five-bathroom 200-acre country estate without houses all right let's have a proper cup of coffee this is big bertha his gadgets have all expanded as well so i'm going to try out some compact gadget alternatives to his oversized appliances [Music] i don't think you need acostas in your kitchen maybe we should look at something smaller this tiny espresso maker works in a microwave a world first what this is an expression i'm kidding it's a microwave always going straight in my suitcase simply add ground coffee and water this has got a curved back this microwave to save space and microwave for 30 secs what do you think my word is all right god you're here and i'm not i'm not swapping my ridiculous coffee machine no you know i need that it's a deal breaker where i go yeah you need to put that in a freight case and take it with you pretty much [Music] alex's laundry room is stacked with no less or more than five washer dryers i humbly proffer a space-saving alternative this collapsible electric dryer will fit in a small cupboard you pop it up like this and then say let's take some clothes it takes up to 10 kilos yeah 10 kilos and so you put these in zip it up and turn it on oh look at that rising up like a cake it is it is cakey like a big panna cotta it's sort of warm isn't it so you're sort of drawn to it yeah i feel that the whole family will gather around this like in primitive times and perhaps tell stories collapse it down like that oh it's nice this is nice action isn't it yes yeah what do you think put me down for half a dozen good so this is your tower of shoes you're saying i've got too many shoes it's a good number but look at this in this suitcase there are 15 pairs of shoes you are joking i'm not even messing with you look described by its californian makers as shoe revolutionary zips shoes claim to be the world's first interchangeable shoe system i know what you're about to say this looks like an interchangeable shoe system it's because it is an interchangeable shoe system you have the base like this and then you can choose from a variety of fun styles and they connect up i'm the kind of person who might put a new top to my shoe on during a meeting you know i think kids would absolutely love them yeah but i don't want one thanks that's fine that's fine that's your that's your prerogative and i'm not saying that in a bobby brown way almost nine million of us own more than one barbecue alex has in excess of four but less than seven minus one on his outdoor cooking terrace i love a barbecue i cook everything on a bbq if i had time yeah you see i'm morally opposed to barbecues i just feel that before long you're wearing white jeans you've got a rugby top on there's no end i'm proposing that he can junk them all and replace them with just this one the multifunctional frontier food smoker this australian butte can do it all roast grill and even smoke you're a man of cheese i mean i'm a man of cheese you know this can also allow you to cold smoke some cheese oh wow now that is interesting this wood chip coil burns for 10 hours infusing your meat fish or cheese with a rich smoky flavour that is really clever and then put the lid on there you go gotta say pretty good that smoking gadget is genius good yeah can't wait to taste that while we wait for the cheese we pay alex's chickens a visit they've got a big rambling coop but i've brought along the two smallest on the market i like the look of the nog it looks like a chicken spaceship the reason i'm showing alex this compact coop is to tell him and remind any remaining viewers that i'm planning to live in a hutch of my very own the idea to create a gadget house that reduces space three meters by four meters by three meters they're even furious at those dimensions what do you think can it be done brilliant idea nightmare great we have our trailer coming up my revolutionary downsized house is finished and comedian jimmy carr comes and looks at it [Music] yeah but you know i like it because it's [Music] gadgety welcome back i've been looking at gadgets that help us live it up in small spaces what this is an espresso maker i'm kidding it's a microwave straight in my suitcase gadgets are getting smaller so can we reduce the space we need to live in to boot i intend to show we can by building a tiny house where five rooms can fit into one to do this my engineers are employing an intricate jigsaw of folding walls and crazy clever design [Music] one room that needs careful thought is the kitchen my small cooking area is for death going to need small gadgets i'm off to meet michelin star's chef galton blackiston at a rural restaurant to put a compact cooking gadget to the test what's in the bag nephew i hear you say i'll tell you what's in the bag an entire kitchen y'all i'm looking forward to seeing you give me a quick lesson on this i'm proposing that all of this need not exist because of this i am talking about the thermomix this gauge is a dynamo with only one less than 11 different cooking functions i'm going to demonstrate its versatility by making a three-course meal for diners right under golden's beak dried tomato soup is this machine actually sun-dried tomatoes for you don't flirt with me does anything hear sun dry things no not really okay well it's a false comparison this mini kitchen weighs chops and cooks so making soup from scratch in just 10 mins is insultingly easy do you feel in your line of work at stages that all food kind of looks gross yes all right i mean it's not heinz no that's ten times better than heinz but that's just the actual starter it's gonna do some beef and it's going to do a palette cleansing strawberry sorbet yeah it can do it all there's nothing it can't do apart from emotionally comfort you different compartments means that you can boil vegetables below while also cooking meat on top a whole roast dinner at the same time and for dessert it can blend fruit to make a sorbet in a matter of minutes it will even do its own washing up i'm for real now the people seem happy people are very happy with it i am amazed that you've actually managed to create the main course and the sorbet surprisingly good great piece of kit this is my pretend home it's an enormous pretend home but i don't need this much pretend room i'm a man who pretends to have modest needs my engineering staff have been busy building me a tiny gadget house which will contain everything i require will it work probably but let's see it anyway surrounded by skyscrapers my pocket size property sits seamlessly in the center of london city measuring just three meters by four meters this streamlined house could be a glimpse into the future when we are all compelled to live life in smaller spaces so here is my downsized house it looks like a normal hansel and gretel style house but there's a key difference would you adam and eve that there are five rooms in one here let's explore them together as a team now the interior floor area measures just 12 square meters but it contains all any man or other genders could ever want welcome to the crib it's modestly sized let's say that this is my living area scattered about the place are all manner of tiny gadgets a music player that turns anything it touches into speakers the steadfast thermomix and the tv remote control won't get lost behind the cushion because the cushion is the remote control allowing me to lose other things behind it it's a bit like a library stacking system i turn this wheel obviously my obje are now under direct threat my engineering staff has triumphed the walls inside the cube sit on runners moving backwards and forwards thus reconfiguring the interior space [Music] lock eyes on the kitchen y'all [Music] the power and plumbing supply is built into the back wall all i now need to do is move the walls again so i can get back to the living room lovely i'm now ready to receive guests when i say guests i lie there is just one man coming a comedian called jimmy carr whose house may well be larger than this so this is the new house yes i've made sure that it's in keeping with the area that's very important to me architecturally uh it's not fully in keeping with it i mean it's not strictly speaking a residential area who are you kevin macleod a little bit how dare you i love what you tried to do and it very nearly came off do you want to go inside wow how do you feel about this i too in my home have uh an entrance hall where you hang coats yeah and and take off shoes and i presume this is that space and then like the tardis it opens up and we go into the proper the property don't be clip sit down okay sit down what what sit down living room yeah in the living room okay okay jimmy's initial rudeness is arrested by this hitherto hidden piece of space-saving technology [Music] yeah but you know i like it because it's gadgety i just like there's something about that so satisfying if you just had a tv there i would not be impressed we squeeze into the kitchen we're now in the kitchen area i've gotta admit that it's quite clever do you like it well that's quite a again the gadgety nature of being able to do that is kind of does that then move across as well yes are we in danger jesus not really actually there we go come on how does so you could you can decide how big your kitchen is yeah you can reenact that scene in star wars where they get crushed how like your house is this currently i've got that great gadget what do you like about the thermal mix jimmy the thermomix makes the best porridge in the world oh just throw everything in there it does it for about 10 minutes and you get this incredible creamy porridge love a porridge in the morning it's a hell of a gadget i mean that's a hell of a gadget at last recorded proof that jimmy carr eats porridge do you want a plate is that like a oh oh my god that is a there you go do you want some quiche i'm liking the kitchen generally yeah i've got a feeling if you show me another room all of that will be destroyed his feeling is proved correct as i reveal to him a tiny toilet so actually there is an exercise element i mean the whole house is basically the gym yes good and i think we can take out the camera man here we go i mean this is yeah are you pleased this is so fabulous isn't it the duck doubles up as a digital speaker and the shaver is the size of a credit card get in the machine what's the machine okay washing machine shower i mean brilliant i mean well that's a shower that's like a shower in any normal-sized house that's just a shower okay uh on this sure has anyone been damaged i mean it strikes me that health and safety-wise has anyone been damaged you could come in of an evening yeah and you could crush your loved one they could be just flat how would you crush a loved one hey wait stop wait there wait there for one second i'll show you okay do it yeah keep going yeah yeah richard you in there yeah if it hurts tell me i'm in the shower full so the safety mechanism on this house is hide in the shower that's always a safety mechanism what's your assessment jimmy i like it i think it's genuinely fun and innovative and if you think about it it's like it's basically half a shipping container maybe a third of a shipping container and they've made it kind of an interesting fun little space and there's a problem with housing and where housing is it could solve it you set one of these up in in every shipping container and plonk them right in the middle of town where are we now we're in the middle of spitalfields sure no one can afford a flight around here they're crazy money so just stick one of these in there is one final room to reveal and that room can only be described as being upstairs how do we get upstairs okay watch this whoa easy to the center i'm moving i'm moving all right so back to the center oh okay now oh no i'm putting it in the center you're not authorized i don't think this marriage is gonna work whoa so this is where the magic happens is it well this is where the beds are let's leave it at that the tiny cube house manages to contain two double beds suspended on a mezzanine level if we were single guys right imagine the scenario we're single guys yeah we live together which i'm very much not but go ahead okay we're on a budget a couple of handsome fellows like us don't we're gonna be bringing the ladies back right shh maybe no it's a concern if you were trying if i was gonna try and the images flooding into my mind are so abhorrent to me jimmy that i must quell this line of thought i mean it's not spacious it let's not let's not pretend it is yeah but that's literally the point it's conserving space does it do it effectively yeah bloody does jimmy carr thank you very much and on that devastating note jimmy makes his exit his head a pulse with the brave new miniature world i've opened up before his tiny confused little islands well there's no need for me to blow my own trumpet because jimmy carr has just blown it for me and i'm not sure i'm entirely comfortable with that sentence myself you see we've managed to downsize an entire house into an area probably no bigger than one of his walk-in wardrobes i feel i can retire to my upstairs sleeping quarters in triumph [Music] [Music] you

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