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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon Sidewalk, unhappy potatoes & buildings made of food scraps

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon Sidewalk, unhappy potatoes & buildings made of food scraps
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains how the Japanese believe they can turn food scraps into a building material stronger than concrete. Also Amazon Sidewalk and meditation boxes for their warehouse employees, how potatoes can be made to fluoresce to show if they're stressed, the British tanks that cost £3.5 billion that are almost completely useless, smart sunglasses, a 25-inch e-ink monitor and why the world's deepest pool is to be built in Cornwall.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Airships, hydrogen engines, the sky pool and an electric Popemobile

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Airships, hydrogen engines, the sky pool and an electric Popemobile
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at Google's 3D video chat system, the return of airships, Einstein's e-mc squared letter, the installation of the swimming pool 35 metres high, a hydrogen engine with only 20 parts, an electric Popemobile, an anti-hacking system, how a man blind for 40 years has recovered his eyesight, a 3D-printed electric scooter and he discovers just how prescient rocket scientist Wernher von Braun was in one of his science-fiction novels.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Smart bandages, Dr. Shopping Trolley, concrete batteries and deflagration

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Smart bandages, Dr. Shopping Trolley, concrete batteries and deflagration
Steve Caplin marvels at the latest developments in gadgets (and gizmos), discussing smart bandages, shopping trolleys that can detect irregular heartbeats and warn of potential strokes, aluminium-ion batteries that charge 10 times faster, concrete batteries that can be incorporated in buildings, how to power cars and jets of the future with explosions, earbuds that are also hearing aids, conspiracists who cut off an area's broadband because they thought "5GHz" was the same as "5G" and JCB's machine for repairing a pothole in only 8 minutes.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon guilt, healthy jazz lovers, a bike-powered concert & bamboo cricket bats

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon guilt, healthy jazz lovers, a bike-powered concert & bamboo cricket bats
Steve Caplin discusses Elon Musk's changed attitude toward Bitcoin, the guilt felt by many towards buying from Amazon, how jazz encourages healthy eating, why the London Sinfonietta are going to be getting on their bikes, how cricket bats could be made of bamboo, Asda trialling insulated delivery boxes, a solar-powered cooler and why some in-game ads are so bloodthirsty. He also demonstrates his own guilt by receiving an Amazon delivery in the middle of the podcast!
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Vulnerable routers, wine bottle NFTs, smart water & transparent wood

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Vulnerable routers, wine bottle NFTs, smart water & transparent wood
Steve Caplin worries about the vulnerabilities of pre-2018 routers. The latest NFT (non-fungible token) is for wine bottle pictures. The UK's first electric bus will arrive this year. The Swiss Army Knife not only has a "pharmaceutical spatula" but also a "Swiss Army for Her" perfume. Councils are trialling smart lighting to move commuters and the Co-op is issuing smart water to use against aggressive customers and shoplifters. Jeff Bezos is holding an auction for a space flight. Transparent wood may soon incorporate orange peel. And why you should hope your surgeon is playing hiphop or rap rather than classical music.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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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Simon Rose

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

Simon Rose
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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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steve caplin

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