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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Fitness trackers for dogs, electric baby buggies & manure-powered tractors

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Fitness trackers for dogs, electric baby buggies & manure-powered tractors
In our weekly gadgets show, Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through some of the ideas coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, including a 3D laptop, urine tester, fitness tracker for dogs, a completely wireless TV, a smellovision VR headset, an electric baby buggy and, from Cornwall, the first ever tractor to run on cow and pig manure.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI poetry & age checks, NFTs as tax write-offs & synthetic alcohol

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI poetry & age checks, NFTs as tax write-offs & synthetic alcohol
Share's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at Apple's fall from +$3bn to -$2bn, at ways of setting over-priced NFT purchases off against tax, at AI writing Channel 4's Christmas message and poetry about Share Radio, as well as checking your age in supermarkets. A former drug tsar has come up with synthetic alcohol doing away with drunkenness and hangovers and from the annual CES comes an AI oven, a fruit ripeness checker, a baby translator and printers for temporary tattoos and eyebrows.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The summary of the sublime and silly tech of 2022

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The summary of the sublime and silly tech of 2022
Steve Caplin looks back over the tech of 2022. There are escaped robot vacs, jumping robots, robot chefs, teeth-cleaning robots, robot fish, cockroaches, spiders & falcons as well as a dangerous chess-playing robot. They now know how to recreate dodos, clone pets, train goldfish to drive cars and use dead spiders to pick up microelectronics. It was a year with a lickable TV screen, Wordle, a collapse in NFTs, road surfaces made of nappies and the revelation that you should lie on your right side after taking painkillers.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message
Steve Caplin looks at a solution to the killing of bats by wind turbines, how space colonies might exist on asteroids, how New Zealand plans ridding the country of smokers, at a possible answer to foggy glasses, Channel 4's AI-written, robot-delivered Christmas message, at Westminster Council's solution to street urination and at a licence-free plane, which you have to build yourself.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide
Steve Caplin has a sackful of Christmas gift suggestions that should arrive before the holiday. For the extravagant, there's a 2-storey inflatable catamaran or a pimped iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the rest of us, choose between apps to produce spectacular portraits, a smart door lock, a space-saving Christmas tree, kitchen scales, a yodelling pickle, a rechargeable lantern, a travelling plug set, a folding fan, a belt for sailing through security, a suitcase to beat size restrictions and an app to keep track of all your online shopping.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips
Tech buff Steve Caplin finds an answer to Simon Rose's earlier question about who invented the wheeled suitcase. There's a pilot-it-yourselves VTOL sightseeing plane, a hydrogen-powered commuter bike and supercar, an electronic nose to detect prostate cancer, a toilet sensor to identify cholera outbreaks, a gel to kill harmful bacteria, nuclear-reactor robots to repair the 3,000 malfunctioning satellites, Elon Musk's brain chip and Apple allowing people in the UK to repair their own phones. Steve says, "Don't even think about it."
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots
Steve Caplin fills Simon Rose in on the latest tech developments, after commemorating 50 years of Pong. There's a backlash against Tesla drivers over Elon Musk, Alexa turning kids' ideas into animated stories, remote control worms, San Francisco's killer robots, circuits printed on contact lenses, vegan honey, the first hydrogen jet engine test and ride-on suitcases for adults.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US
Steve Caplin looks at the latest from the world of tech. He tells us how much Earth and Jupiter weigh, who the 8th billion person on Earth is, how to scare sharks away from fishing lines, why Bob Dylan's signature isn't what it seems, about a free time-lapse photography app, about an audiobook app that has trouble pronouncing words and how the United State has just become the second country to approve lab-grown chicken for sale.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon
Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech news with Simon Rose. As well as some bizarre Twitter blue ticks, there are Japanese robotic spiders to check sewers, cameras strapped to sharks to map seagrass meadows off the Bahamas, rats dancing to Mozart, the Ministry of Defence firing the first-ever real laser weapon, a Swedish wooden choir, a desk to facilitate using a laptop outdoors, a Japanese mission to collect moon dust and crowdfunding the monitoring of the modal frequencies of bridges to warn of possible collapse.
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