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Gadgets & Gizmos: The dangers of Excel, googling Graham Norton and making tea wrongly

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The dangers of Excel, googling Graham Norton and making tea wrongly
Technology editor Steve Caplin looks at the dangers of using Excel for sophisticated projects such as the Test and Trace Fiasco, but also other multi-billion pound blunders. He hopes flying taxis will be buzzing around the 2024 Paris Olympics, admires the chutzpah of Valencia's ventriloquistic bid to be European Capital of Innovation, points out the dangers of searching online for celebrities like Graham Norton - with scammers lying in wait - and looks at a study that says we've all been making tea wrongly for years.
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The Business of Film: Weathering With You, The Social Dilemma & The Great Buster

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The Business of Film: Weathering With You, The Social Dilemma & The Great Buster
James Cameron-Wilson laments the nervousness of the film studios in holding back new movies from the nation's cinemas, starved of new product. With no new films to see on the big screen, he raves about Japanese animated movie Weathering With You, out on DVD and Blu-ray and is equally excited by Netflix's The Social Dilemma, a frightening and thought-provoking documentary about the dangers of social media. He also recommends The Great Buster: A Celebration, a documentary about the great silent comedian Buster Keaton.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Hydrogen-Powered trains and jet-pack paramedics

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Hydrogen-Powered trains and jet-pack paramedics
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin gets excited by trials of a hydrogen-powered train which, it is hoped, might appear in passenger service in 2023. David Attenborough achieves a record for speeding to 1m followers on Instagram, Amazon reveals a host of new products - including one that seems rather creepy - and also unveils a palm scanner while others think 3D vein scanning could be the way to go. There's a foldable PC, a super enzyme that eats plastic, a smart bike light seeking crowdfunding, a pop-up restaurant on a plane, how seaweed could help with your cleaning and a jet suit for paramedics in the Lake District.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The daftest scientific studies of the year

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The daftest scientific studies of the year
Steve Caplin reveals some of the IgNobel prizewinners for the daftest scientific studies. Also the new Playstation and an upgrade to Oculus Quest, robot shelf stackers in Japan, economically-sound pellet guns, Amazon's patent for a burglar deterrent, Wikipedia's positive effect on tourism (except in the Netherlands) and why a second-hand TV has been causing havoc to broadband in a Welsh village.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Life on Venus, death on Earth

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Life on Venus, death on Earth
Technology editor Steve Caplin looks at the latest products from Apple, marvels at news of probable life on Venus, asks how you can locate human bodies in a forest, scoffs at the usability of Britbox for its main purpose, admires a face mask that incorporates air conditioning, praises scientists helping robots and amputees to feel pain, approves of the world's first portable MRI brain scanner and gushes over the Oceanbird sailing ship, providing a more environmentally-friendly freight solution.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robots galore, mushroom leather and interactive paper

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robots galore, mushroom leather and interactive paper
Share Radio's technology editor goes robot crazy, with robots deployed in care homes, serving in restaurants, triaging hospital patients and defending American Air Force bases. There's even a robot dog to make yourself that fits into the palm of your hand. There are unstaffed digital supermarkets in Sweden, a worldwide scam involving seeds, leather made of mushrooms and a way of making paper interactive.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Float-in cinemas and lobster titbits

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Float-in cinemas and lobster titbits
Technology editor Steve Caplin gives us the latest news from the world of tech. There's a new float-in cinema in London, a bigger folding screen phone from Samsung, an economical plane shaped like a bullet, a fitbit for lobsters, a watch with no hands and a device to turn any monitor into a touch screen. As well as that, Alexa is being encouraged to cope with all manner of British accents and dialects while the Scottish version of Wikipedia has been suspended because the majority of entries were written by an American teen who doesn't speak Scots!
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The fragrance of outer space

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The fragrance of outer space
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains what outer space smells like, now available as a new fragrance. He finds the most expensive items on Amazon, admires a new internet speed record, explains why Japan is running out of credit card numbers, warns how keys can be made from recordings of locks being turned, tells a cautionary tale of a very pricy mistaken purchase on eBay, admires taps that can wash without water and raises an eyebrow at Amazon's patent for a drone to replace ski lifts.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Emission-free aircraft and hands-free driving on motorways

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Emission-free aircraft and hands-free driving on motorways
Steve Caplin looks at Apple's soaring market cap, problems for Hauwei phone users, autonomous driving on UK motorways from next year, emission-free aircraft, a French cargo sailing galleon, biogas from cow dung, a laser-powered satellite to clear up space junk, a smartphone camera to detect type-2 diabetes, wireless power delivery, a liquid-filled guitar and a revival of the ZX Spectrum.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Vein scanning and rage rooms

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Vein scanning and rage rooms
Share Radio's tech maven Steve Caplin shines his LED light on vein scanning, cars with predictive touch screens, rage rooms to rent, learning the piano through a role play game, a black dot absorbing 99.9% of light, a high-tech drill, how to put an end to leaves on the line and space rockets that can land themselves.
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