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Gadgets & Gizmos: Self-driving cars in the UK, bomb-sniffing rats & paper-thin loudspeakers

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Self-driving cars in the UK, bomb-sniffing rats & paper-thin loudspeakers
Tech expert Steve Caplin is bemused by the UK's go-ahead for self-driving cars only on motorways and no faster than 37 mph. He looks at Amazon's trials of contactless palm scanning, at their smart doorbell to deter porch package purloining, at Porton Down's new machine for training bomb-sniffing rats, at a smart bird feeder, at B&O speakers masquerading as books and at the development of paper-thin loudspeakers.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's Airtags, temperature-lowering paint & flying cars

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's Airtags, temperature-lowering paint & flying cars
Share Radio's tech connoisseur Steve Caplin waxes lyrical about apple's new iPad, though not its new iMac. He admires the company's Airtags key finder, using the power of 1 billion iPhones to find any that are lost. He explains how ultra-white paint can lower temperatures, wonders why Amazon has set up a hair salon, is impressed by a 3D printable ivory substitute, wants an electric bike trailer and mulls buying a flying car despite its $789,000 price tag.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Soaring PC sales, pedalling over the Channel & Elon Musk monkeying with brains

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Soaring PC sales, pedalling over the Channel & Elon Musk monkeying with brains
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at the NHS Covid-19 app falling foul of Apple and Google for privacy violations. There's also Google Pixel helping smartphone zombies, soaring PC sales, Amazon's virtual shopping patent, a contest to pedal over the channel, how human hair is helping improve solar cells, a new way of cooling computers, Segway's cool-looking motorbike, a built-in bike lock and yet another attempt to improve on the QWERTY keyboard.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Spinach as scaffolding, landmine-sniffing bees & texting pedestrians

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Spinach as scaffolding, landmine-sniffing bees & texting pedestrians
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses LG pulling out of smartphones, why lab-grown meat needs spinach as scaffolding, a sunlight-catching ball to enlighten basements, an Icelandic innovation for making online meetings more like the real thing, why bees are sniffing out Balkan landmines, a smart knee brace and how Japanese scientists have proven just how annoying texting pedestrians can be.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Uber's electric cars; space wine; lab-grown caviar; and a robot self-portrait

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Uber's electric cars; space wine; lab-grown caviar; and a robot self-portrait
Steve Caplin looks at Volkswagen's bizarre April Fool's joke, how Uber users can now request electric, how wine tastes after a trip in space, the world's first lab-grown caviar being made in Devon, the robot self-portrait selling for $688,000, an antenna powered by 5G signals, an app mapping the world's radio stations, a gadget for sharpening disposable razor blades and what can be discerned by eye tracking.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The sound of Mars, NASA's airless tyres, robot lifeguards & 42, the archive

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The sound of Mars, NASA's airless tyres, robot lifeguards & 42, the archive
Share Radio's technology expert Steve Caplin lets us hear the first ever audio from Mars. He brings news of airless tyres developed from NASA tech, of a virtual Mars house sold for $0.5m, an invisible security keypad, robot lifeguards, a car using your phone as its dashboard, a foolproof Face ID system for phones, the archive of Douglas Adams's letters called - perhaps not surprisingly - 42 and the launch of clothes made from mushroom leather.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google Nest helps you sleep while virtual offices help you work

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google Nest helps you sleep while virtual offices help you work
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, is a little nervous of the idea that Google Nest can use radar to track your sleeping patterns. He is impressed by Microsoft's AR meeting technology and Teamflow's virtual office. For those dreading Zoom meetings, Zoomescaper has the answer. He also highlights Wombo, which amusingly animates still photographs, technology to detect deep fakes, electric charging pads for spongy wooden flooring, a portable wind turbine and a 2000-year-old computer.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Auctioning the first-ever tweet, colon cameras & a hologram printer

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Auctioning the first-ever tweet, colon cameras & a hologram printer
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology expert, looks at the auction of the first ever tweet by Jack Dorsey and discusses how non-fungible tokens are a thing of the future. He looks at how the MGM lion is going CGI, how sports advertising hoardings can be localised, at colon cameras that will replace endoscopes, at a giant TV that lives below the floor, an amazing new drone, a 3D hologram printer and why Earth's oxygen running out might not be a problem for us.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's 1st UK supermarket & bringing old photographs to life

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's 1st UK supermarket & bringing old photographs to life
Steve Caplin looks back at the first programmable computer, now 75. He gives us news of Amazon's first UK supermarket, how it's using AI to dub movies and is crowdfunding a cuckoo clock, how you can animate old family photos, the ex-punk drummer planning a space trip, a headset with a brain-computer interface, a surgeon's eye-raising appearance over Zoom in court and MIT developing what could be flat zoom lenses.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Facebook 1 Australia 0, Zoom burnout, electronic noses & clever pigs

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Facebook 1 Australia 0, Zoom burnout, electronic noses & clever pigs
Share's technology maven Steve Caplin looks at the battle between Facebook and Australia, and why Australia lost it. He tells us why Liam Thorp, offered his jab early, is NOT 6.2cm high, why people are getting Zoom burnout, how electronic noses are getting cleverer, how pigs are already clever, how Seville is generating electricity from its rotting oranges, where to get clip-on pearl earrings that are also earbuds and how Bentley is to recycle rare earth magnets used in wind turbines.
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Steve Caplin

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