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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, warning all Zoom users they should update the app. He links it to Wordle, where there are now books and poems. There's also a car park machine that only talks Welsh, a funeral where guests could quiz the deceased, problems with Meta's chatbot, the physicist who convinced people chorizo was a star, woodless pencils, three different stories about robot dogs and a paper battery that is biodegradable.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of plans to create jet fuel from sunlight. Students have built an e-car that sucks CO2 from the air, there's a tech mattress to help with sleep, Google's new AR glasses, a way to use dead spiders to lift tiny objects, a wearable fitness tracker that detects Covid 2 days before symptoms appear and a faster, more efficient way to dig tunnels - with a big catch.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, giving us the top theme park artificial smells, including rotting flesh, penguin vomit and Kylie Minogue's breath. In addition, there are motors made of DNA, how small-wheeled scooters can be made more stable, reusable coffee pods, car wheels able to turn 80 degrees, replacing microplastics with silk and an affordable electric bike.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil
Tech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the chess robot that broke a 7-year-old opponent's finger. There's also an explanation of why Hammersmith Bridge was wrapped in foil, a hydrofoil creating hydrogen, the privacy dangers of TikTok, why BMW owners need to pay more for heated seats, an e-Jerry can if you run out of charge and serving court papers using non-fungible tokens.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles
Share Radio's technology guru Steve Caplin laments the demise of the SLR camera after over 60 years. He discusses the world's longest drone highway, printing your face on Hasbro figures, hacking fruit-fly brains, a more efficient kettle, a crowdfunded levitating firestone and the Swiss developing a network of underground autonomous freight tunnels.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Twitter's spam & bot accounts, about the Uber files, how the offside rule will be monitored at the World Cup, about quantum entanglement, Bob Dylan's one-off disk, how limpet teeth trump spider silk as the strongest material in nature and about the Wizard Smart Switch, enabling you to turn lights on and off with a touch of a magic wand.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's e-bikes, biofuel, sand batteries & AR contact lenses

Simon Rose
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Sarah's Pick Of The Week

Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's e-bikes, biofuel, sand batteries & AR contact lenses
Share Radio's technology editor, Steve Caplin, talks to Simon Rose about Amazon's new e-cargo bikes and a new more efficient biofuel. Renewable energy storage takes a leap forward with sand batteries, while pyramids could be the way forward for solar cells. AR glasses may not be needed; there could be AR contact lenses instead while NASA want to send mini swimming robots to moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Steve admires a coal-powered motorbike and discusses the latest development in 3D printed wood.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual swimming tests, cloning dead voices & the return of airships

Simon Rose
Original Broadcast:

Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual swimming tests, cloning dead voices & the return of airships
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the Chinese students who must take compulsory swimming tests to graduate and who are now having to do it online! Alexa is exploring cloning the voices of the dead, IKEA is producing an app that lets you remove your existing furniture, the police now have contactless fingerprinting, there's an autonomous truck with no cab, a mysterious moon crater, passenger-carrying airships and Philips are crowdfunding an ultra-short-throw projector.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: AR glasses, spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish and roads paved with nappies

Simon Rose
Original Broadcast:

Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: AR glasses, spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish and roads paved with nappies
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's tech guru, discusses the first mainstream AR glasses, though he's less than impressed. He also tells of environmentally-kind spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish collecting microplastics and a worm called Zophobas Morio that eats plastic. In addition, disposable nappies are being trialled as a road surface, there's a coaxial octacopter for beating jams, a cycle brake light and smart implants to deliver medicines.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Is Google's computer alive and other robotic innovations

Simon Rose
Original Broadcast:

Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Is Google's computer alive and other robotic innovations
Steve Caplin goes all robotic in this week's tech show. As well as a robot waiter and a robot pizza maker, there's a pea-sized robot doing an obstacle course and a sweaty robotic finger. At Google, there's an argument over whether one of its robots is actually alive, with an engineer claiming it is and trying to get it a lawyer. Internet Explorer is no more, there's a solar panel-festooned car and cars charged by an induction loop. And Sony have brought out a high-end Walkman MP3 player costing a mere £2,999.
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Steve Caplin


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