Click (Season 17)

Your user-friendly guide to the latest technology news, issues, gadgets and apps.

01/01/2016 (Episode 1)
Air date: 2016-01-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The second of two shows highlighting the best bits from 2015. Including reports from Africa, Asia and USA on new ideas for drones, phones, and rollercoasters.
09/01/2016 (Episode 2)
Air date: 2016-01-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click is at the world's largest electronics show, CES in Las Vegas. The latest gadgets from the show include VR headsets, drones and fitness trackers.
16/01/2016 (Episode 3)
Air date: 2016-01-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click visits Hyperloop Technologies in Nevada and LA - is Elon Musk's futuristic transportation concept feasible? Includes world tech news and a robotic cat!
23/01/2016 (Episode 4)
Air date: 2016-01-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, games and computer industry news. Click visits San Francisco and looks at how 3D printing could be about to change our lives.
30/01/2016 (Episode 5)
Air date: 2016-01-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click looks at the possibilities of gadgets that biodegrade for use inside and outside the body and visits London's first drone film festival.
06/02/2016 (Episode 6)
Air date: 2016-02-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click tries out the world's tiniest printer, checks out high-tech home security and visits a holodeck (sort of).
13/02/2016 (Episode 7)
Air date: 2016-02-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The team go behind the scenes of $100m crowd-funded game Star Citizen. Plus a look into what went into some complex Star Wars Episode VII movie scenes. Includes tech news.
CERN (Episode 8)
Air date: 2016-02-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click goes deep underground in the tunnels of Cern to see how this colossal physics experiment could answer fundamental questions about our universe.
27/02/2016 (Episode 9)
Air date: 2016-02-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click visits the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to look at the latest from the world of smartphones.
05/03/2016 (Episode 10)
Air date: 2016-03-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Tyger Drew-Honey investigates whether Virtual Reality could change the way we form relationships. Includes global Tech News.
19/03/2016 (Episode 11)
Air date: 2016-03-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: We meet the Syrian refugees using innovative tech in Jordan's Zaatari camp and see how biometric data helps aid payments. Plus some very fast data and F1.
26/03/2016 (Episode 12)
Air date: 2016-03-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: In a drone special, the team race drones and then take them down with the help of an eagle. Plus learning how to program a BBC Microbit.
02/04/2016 (Episode 13)
Air date: 2016-04-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The tech team examines graphene - will it change our lives? Plus, there is a look at a new smartphone designed to be pulled apart, and Lara tests wireless headphones.
09/04/2016 (Episode 14)
Air date: 2016-04-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click features the smallest types of tech known to mankind, visits Malawi to see a solar projector and looks at dating for over 50s.
16/04/2016 (Episode 15)
Air date: 2016-04-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click looks at the next generation of TVs with High Dynamic Range (HDR). Plus the world's first surgery streamed in VR and a flight with Jetman.
23/04/2016 (Episode 16)
Air date: 2016-04-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click looks at the immersive world of virtual reality sound, plus a VR tour of Chernobyl and the week's tech news.
30/04/2016 (Episode 17)
Air date: 2016-04-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click explores going into space on the cheap, and reports on a new type of hairdryer and video camera.
07/05/2016 (Episode 18)
Air date: 2016-05-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news.
14/05/2016 (Episode 19)
Air date: 2016-05-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click meets a blind man who runs ultramarathons with the help of an app. Plus art created by robots.
21/05/2016 (Episode 20)
Air date: 2016-05-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. The team tries out robot exoskeletons that help people to move and asks where robotics and ethics meet. Plus the launch of some new gear from tech giant Google.
28/05/2016 (Episode 21)
Air date: 2016-05-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: This edition of Click looks at ad-blocking software and how it can affect content creation. Plus dancing robots and the best of the week's tech news.
Hay Festival (Episode 22)
Air date: 2016-06-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click meets some of the biggest tech minds at Hay Festival and tests gadgets for dogs with CBBC's Hacker the Dog. Plus the week's tech news.
Designed In China - Part One (Episode 23)
Air date: 2016-06-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. As part of the BBC World News Designed in China Season, Click visits Beijing. The team explores the latest surveillance tech, driverless cars and a badminton-playing robot, and takes a sledgehammer to a glass bridge.
18/06/2016 (Episode 24)
Air date: 2016-06-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. With reports from LA on the world's biggest video games expo - E3.
Designed in China: Part Two (Episode 25)
Air date: 2016-06-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: For the second episode of Click's Designed in China special, the Click team travel to China's tech capital, Shenzhen, to meet with some of China's largest technology companies and find out how our gadgets go from ideas to finished products. Plus the week's tech news.
Designed in China: Part Three (Episode 26)
Air date: 2016-07-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news.
US Special - Part One (Episode 27)
Air date: 2016-07-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The team visits Nasa Jet Propulsion Labs, and get transported to Mars. Plus the world's first Virtual Reality Amusement park.
US Special - Part Two (Episode 28)
Air date: 2016-07-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The second episode of Click's State of America special features underwater drones, stories from Silicon Valley and the Silicon Slopes of Utah as well as tech helping the homeless.
US Special - Part Three (Episode 29)
Air date: 2016-07-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to computer industry news. Click heads to Los Angeles to see if an artificial intelligence can direct a music video.
Gigafactory (Episode 30)
Air date: 2016-07-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click visits Tesla's new Gigafactory, chats to the boss Elon Musk and helps set a Guinness World Record. Plus 3D printed death masks in China.
06/08/2016 (Episode 31)
Air date: 2016-08-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click explores one of 2016's biggest games, No Man's Sky. Plus the hackers on the right side of the law in Las Vegas.
Spy Special (Episode 32)
Air date: 2016-08-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click reports from Defcon in Las Vegas, the world's largest hacking convention.
Back to School (Episode 33)
Air date: 2016-09-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: This edition of Click discovers how technology is being used in school classrooms and looks at the latest educational games, gadgets and apps.
Launches (Episode 34)
Air date: 2016-09-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click looks at the latest product launches from the world of technology.
17/06/2016 (Episode 35)
Air date: 2016-09-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: This week Click looks at the latest in self-driving and broadcasting tech, gets virtual with Bjork, and goes into space with Call of Duty. Includes tech news.
24/09/2016 (Episode 36)
Air date: 2016-09-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A look at bots influencing social media in the US election, ways to take back control of your mobile, and the latest drone from GoPro.
01/10/2016 (Episode 37)
Air date: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click looks at a new process that could revolutionise the solar energy industry, before getting up close and personal with the Megabots.
Japan Special (Episode 38)
Air date: 2016-10-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The team use technology which allows humans to understand dogs, take a ride in a self-driving car and test bendable batteries.
Cybathlon (Episode 39)
Air date: 2016-10-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click comes from Zurich and reports from the very first Cybathlon. The Cybathlon is a sporting competition featuring only disabled participants who compete using advanced assistive devices including robotic prosthesis, brain-computer interfaces and powered exoskeletons. In essence it is an Olympics for bionic athletes. The competition features six disciplines - a Functional Electrical Stimulation bike race, a Powered Leg Prosthesis Race, a Powered Wheelchair Race, a Powered Exoskeleton Race, a Powered Arm Prosthesis Race, and a computerised race for competitors with paralysis using brain-computer interfaces to compete in a computer game (BCI Race). The competitors, known as 'pilots', can use both commercially available bionic technology and lab-developed prototypes. Medals will be awarded to both the athletes themselves and to the companies or institutions that create their bionics.
22/10/2016 (Episode 40)
Air date: 2016-10-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click travels to Rwanda to see how drones are being used to potentially save lives in rural areas.
29/10/2016 (Episode 41)
Air date: 2016-10-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: This edition of Click goes down under at one of the world's toughest drone challenges. Plus tech to keep safe and augmented reality glasses with Pokemon Go. Includes tech news.
Japan 2 (Episode 42)
Air date: 2016-11-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click heads to Japan to visit a smart cucumber farm, hedgehog cafe and the superhuman sports society. Plus how the advent of 5G will change our lives.
Nuremberg (Episode 43)
Air date: 2016-11-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click looks at how VR is being used to help prosecute Nazis at WWII concentration camps and how it can be used to help learn a language.
Quiet Zone (Episode 44)
Air date: 2016-11-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Scissor Sister Ana Matronic finds out how nature is influencing robots. Plus the latest from the Gamecity Festival, and the town in the USA that is free from radio signals.
Disability Tech (Episode 45)
Air date: 2016-12-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A team of reporters with disabilities take on the latest assistive tech, including 3D-printed legs, driverless cars and goggles to improve vision.
10/12/2016 (Episode 46)
Air date: 2016-12-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Forget self-driving cars, Click takes to the skies in an autonomous aircraft. Plus, poverty-predicting software and sci-fi shopping.
Health (Episode 47)
Air date: 2016-12-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A look at how artificial intelligence is being used in the healthcare industry, and how 3D printing could change the way buildings are designed.
Xmas Special (Episode 48)
Air date: 2016-12-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click celebrates Christmas! The team unwraps some Christmas goodies and looks back at the best bits of Click from 2016.
31/12/2016 (Episode 49)
Air date: 2016-12-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Click's first live stage performance from the BBC's New Broadcasting House. The team tests some of the best technologies seen in 2016 live on stage.