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Gadgets & Gizmos: The coolest folding electric bike

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The coolest folding electric bike
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology guru, looks at the JIVR folding electric bike, admiring it not only for its stylishness but also its engineering advances, rideability and ease of folding. he also looks at the problems of "lost" cryptocurrency with QuadrigaCX, Canada's largest crypto exchange, Apple blocking Facebook's developer certificate, Jaguar Land Rover's projected light bars to help pedestrians, an updating weather poster, the CleanseBot for nervous hotel guests and the teen American bank robber whose escape vehicle was a scooter the app for which recorded all his details.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Airport parking robots

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Airport parking robots
Steve Caplin on the latest from the cutting edge of technology, taking in parking robots at Gatwick, Amazon's wheeled delivery vehicle, cameras that see round corners, Facebook's space lasers, Amazon's "blended reality mirror", a hand-pumped aqualung, why zebras have stripes and how scientists can transfer memories from one snail to another. Oh - and what submarines use X-box controllers for!
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The watch with no numbers & no hands for a mere $350,000

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The watch with no numbers & no hands for a mere $350,000
Steve Caplin, although a fan of Amazon's Alexa, wonders if it's worth building into a bicycle or a piano! He also looks at self-tightening trainers using a smartphone, the most retweeted message ever, a way of finding lost keys, a double bass that fits in a small suitcase, a solar-powered yacht and a $350,000 Swiss watch with no numbers and no hands, which chimes and gongs to tell the time.
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: More amazing stuff from the Consumer Electronics Show

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Gadgets & Gizmos: More amazing stuff from the Consumer Electronics Show
Steve Caplin continues his look at the weird and wonderful delights of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There's a VR headset with eye-tracking, a humanisation of Amazon's Alexa, a laundry-folding robot, an intelligent toilet with a "fully immersive experience", a water generator for cars, a mask to stop snoring and a smart speaker to teach Chinese.
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Roll-up TVs and more from CES

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Roll-up TVs and more from CES
Steve Caplin casts a frequently-disbelieving eye over some of the exhibits at the Consumer Electronics Show. Among exhibits were a roll-up TV, a treadmill that generates electricity as you run, a cat feeder with facial recognition, a dog dryer, Lamborghini's massage chair, a bluetooth nappy sensor and a car with legs that can climb a five-foot wall! There's also an idea for recycling Christmas trees, a look at Netflix's interactive drama and a recommended compact Bluetooth speaker.
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: The most common passwords

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The most common passwords
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's gadget guru, highlights the most commonly-chosen (and thus most unsafe) passwords as well as the most expensive Google keywords. He looks at Amazon's apparent purchase of potential shops in the UK and why some of their workers might wish Amazon didn't stock bear repellent. There's an update to computer game Doom, some 25 years on, Bosch are planning autonomous taxis and the latest crowdfunding project is a lounger that inflates using your mobile phone!
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Crowdfunding ideas in 2018

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Crowdfunding ideas in 2018
Steve Caplin looks back at some of the most interesting - and daft - crowdfunding ideas of 2018. There's a camping light running of a tea candle, a 4G phone the size of a credit card, music generated by plants, an add-on screen for laptops, a gravity light and a snorkel that lets you dive further as well as levitating water drops, the world's most advanced underwear, a magnetic wax seal and a rocking bed on chains.
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steve caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Review of 2018

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Review of 2018
Steve Caplin looks back at some of the most notable gadgets & gizmos of 2018. He reminds us of some of the tech disasters, looks at some of his favourite gadgets and highlights some impressive innovations. So, as well as the council that forgot to ask itself for planning permission for charging benches, we get jet suits, printed food, car windows for blind passengers, self-parking slippers, edible QR codes, contactless buskers and, of course, cuboid wombat poo's implications for manufacturing.
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steve caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas gift ideas

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas gift ideas
If you're searching for Christmas gift ideas, Steve Caplin has suggestions from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous, from the cheap to the eye-wateringly expensive. Tripods, tyre inflators, exploding air rifle targets, cassette players, bluetooth buttons, sock clips, ipod stands for watching video in bed, an impressively powerful phone charger and even an underwater villa to stay in in the Maldives.
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: The loo that monitors health

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The loo that monitors health
Steve Caplin looks (carefully) into the high tech loo that can check for signs of disease, the Amazon Alexa microwave, why wombat poo is cuboid, bike mirrors for the hands, the Chinese scientists who've created a heat source six times hotter than the sun and why our genes may decide if we prefer tea or coffee.
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