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Gadgets & Gizmos: Champagne robots, the sound of space and silent drones

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Champagne robots, the sound of space and silent drones
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses the odd result of the South African lottery with six consecutive numbers. He also marvels at robots serving champagne, cultured meat, an end to astronauts burning their underwear, quieter helicopters and silent ion-propelled drones, a fan that follows you around the room, even smarter smart photo frames and an electric conversion kit for classic Minis, a snip at just over £10,000.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The new tiers, Rishi Sunak's Spending Review & Donald Trump authorising the transition

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The new tiers, Rishi Sunak's Spending Review & Donald Trump authorising the transition
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the politics behind the end of the second lockdown and the transition into a revised tier system, with its Christmas exemption. He delves into Rishi Sunak's Spending Review and the accompanying OBR figures, lamenting the lack of imagination in the directions the money spigot is spraying. And he looks across the Atlantic, where Donald Trump has finally given way and authorised the transition towards President Biden.
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Mike Indian

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The Business of Film: Unhinged, Hillbilly Elegy & Arkansas

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Unhinged, Hillbilly Elegy & Arkansas
With Welsh cinemas open again, as well as some in Scotland, James Cameron-Wilson looks at the latest dismal box office chart for the UK. He reviews the Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged, now out on DVD and Blu-Ray, having missed some of the film in the cinema through the unexpected absence of advertisements. He also looks at the Oscar-tipped Netflix premiere of Hillbilly Elegy, starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams and directed by Ron Howard, as well as black comedy Arkansas, starring Liam Hemsworth.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic gardeners, pain relief from tarantulas and cooling camel fur

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic gardeners, pain relief from tarantulas and cooling camel fur
Steve Caplin discusses the Yardroid, a robotic gardener that can even help guard your property, though he warns that cheap smart doorbells, designed to do just that, can easily give others easy access to your home wifi network. There are more flights to nowhere, this time for Buddhist monks and Taiwanese speed daters. There's a tech game table loaded with board games and Parisian e-bike ambulances. As for the animal kingdom, there's not only talk of pain relief drugs being derived from tarantula venom, but also how camel fur might be used to develop new cooling material.
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Steve Caplin

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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Reaction to the Spending Review and rotation into value

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Reaction to the Spending Review and rotation into value
Joe Healey of The Share Centre looks at the recent state of the stock market, both in the UK and the US, where retail investors have been seen again in strength. With markets having to digest the latest news on vaccines and the return of the tier system as well as Rishi Sunak's Spending Review, Joe discussions the rotation into value stocks. Discussing why investors need to consider if the pandemic's effects are just a blip or permanent for individual sectors, he highlights why financials might be worth looking at again.
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Joe Healey

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The Bigger Picture: What's going on in No. 10, Biden - a Purple President & the success of Big Pharma

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: What's going on in No. 10, Biden - a Purple President & the success of Big Pharma
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University takes a look at what is going on in No. 10 Downing Street, what it could mean for government policy and why a "narrative" is desperately needed. Casting his eyes across the Atlantic, he explains why Joe Biden will rule as a Purple President. And he takes a look at Big Pharma, much reviled in many quarters but a great scientific success during the pandemic.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: The Painted Bird, The Life Ahead & Totally Under Control

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: The Painted Bird, The Life Ahead & Totally Under Control
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the UK box office (operational only in Scotland) before turning his attention to the Blu-Ray release of The Painted Bird, a much-garlanded Czech film set in World War II. On Netflix, he looks at The Life Ahead, Sophia Loren's first film for 16 years, for which she's already being tipped for an Oscar nomination. And on various platforms, there is the documentary Totally Under Control, about the US response to the Covid pandemic.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Electric wing suits, virtual Santa's grotto & a space claw

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Electric wing suits, virtual Santa's grotto & a space claw
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at the latest news. £5m worth of Apple products were stolen, even though Apple will be able to track them if they're ever used. Harley-Davidson moves into e-bikes. There's the first electric wing suit, a concept phone with a rollout screen, a virtual Santa's grotto, an amazing VR piano app, a camera strap with incorporated tripod, a claw to clear up space junk and Japanese robot Covid monitors and robot wolves.
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Steve Caplin

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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Royal Mail, Easyjet, SSE & Halford's

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Sarah's Pick Of The Week

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Royal Mail, Easyjet, SSE & Halford's
Ian Forrest of The Share Centre looks at the market reaction to the good news on various C-19 vaccines. He examines recent reports from Royal Mail, Easyjet, SSE and Halford's and how their fortunes have been affected by the pandemic. Looking ahead, he tells us what we might expect when we hear from Compass, Pennon and Aviva.
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Ian Forrest

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's new computers, flying cars & self-folding paper

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's new computers, flying cars & self-folding paper
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at Apple's new computers using, for the first time, an in-house vastly faster chip. He also discusses the possibility of the British Army having robot soldiers, Netflix reinventing old-style TV, a flying car, self-folding paper, a keyboard that simulates an old-style typewriter, New York's KGB Museum auctioning off its gadgets, an electronic noise to detect bad meat and a 9-year-old's design for a space lavatory.
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Steve Caplin

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