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Gadgets & Gizmos: Cameras the size of a grain of salt, a Superman air taxi & dancing nursery robots

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Cameras the size of a grain of salt, a Superman air taxi & dancing nursery robots
Steve Caplin looks into the latest tech, with Sainsbury's opening a checkout-free store – again, this time in competition with Tesco. South Korea is introducing dancing, singing and farting robots in 300 nursery schools, there's a singing cactus that's ruder than expected, an air taxi that will make you feel you're Superman, a camera the size of a grain of salt, the oldest iron and fridge that are still working and a way of using two lenses at once on an iphone.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls
In his latest look at technology, Steve Caplin marks 50 years of the microchip. Uber is about to reach its 1 billionth trip in the UK, while Tesla's app locked owners out of their cars. There's an LED-lit zebra crossing, Adele putting an end to album-shuffling on Spotify, which has added lyrics to its songs, 8 million of them. There's crowd-funding for a gizmo that cancels out spurious noise when you're working at home and the Japanese are using discarded adult nappies to heat public baths.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin looks at Amazon's beef with Visa, banning its credit cards. He is open-mouthed at news that Apple is going to allow customers to repair their own devices in future. He also discusses DogPhones for dogs left alone at home, a device to detect offensive language in schools, a system to launch satellites by slingshot, why Tesla cars are shipping without USB sockets, why Marco Pierre White is to sell 3D-printed steaks, cow-free milk, the new Spanish right to speak to a real person at a company and the Egyptian thief who managed to steal a TV reporter's phone – during a live feed.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: DogTV, growing tomatoes on Mars & lab-grown fish

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DogTV, growing tomatoes on Mars & lab-grown fish
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at IT problems at Walker's crisps and how supermarkets are trying to hide empty shelves from shoppers. Heinz have apparently worked out how to produce tomatoes on Mars, Twitter is allowing people to edit tweets (at a price) and Curry's has teamed up with Uber for quick home deliveries. If you've a bored dog, then DogTV is here, aimed at the canine viewer, while lab-grown fish could soon be on the menu. And as COP26 draws to a close, there's news of how to power planes with ammonia, how to clean up the oceans in a more sustainable way and how to remove soot particles from wood fires.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Space nappies, 20 years of the iPod & wood that's sharper than steel

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Space nappies, 20 years of the iPod & wood that's sharper than steel
Share Radio's technology editor gives us the low-down on high-tech. There's Hertz ordering 100,000 Teslas, just as 12,000 are recalled, how SpaceX's astronauts are coping with a lavatory leak, the 20th anniversary of the music revolution sparked by the iPod, the scientists who have found a way to make wooden knives that are 3 times sharper than steel, a hover bike arriving next year that will set you back a mere half a million pounds and Steinway's innovation that will enable pianos to play remotely.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Airships & Hydrogen Engines.

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Airships & Hydrogen Engines.
In the week of COP 26, we re-visit an episode from May '21 in which 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, and 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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Gadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered fire engines & camper vans, facial recognition payment & fast-delivered food

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered fire engines & camper vans, facial recognition payment & fast-delivered food
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology expert, discusses Gloucestershire's solar-powered fire engines and Dutch students who've built a solar-powered camper van. Facial recognition payment has come to the Moscow Metro and schools in North Ayrshire. Apple have listened to customers with their new Macbook, Tesco have a checkout-free store as well as a one-hour delivery service that isn't as fast as some competitors. Also news of a foldable e-scooter you can take on a plane, robot Japanese waiters, the Royal Mint extracting gold from discarded devices and 10,000 Damien Hirst spot paintings where the buyers have a difficult choice to make.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Shatner in space, Sky Glass, flat pack houses & a Picasso palimpsest

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Shatner in space, Sky Glass, flat pack houses & a Picasso palimpsest
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, on William Shatner's brief trip into space, expressing disappointment that we didn't all wear monkey masks. With news that Prince Charles's Aston Martin runs on cheese whey, he hopes he drives "caerphilly". There's news of Sky Glass, ending satellite dishes, a lost Picasso palimpsest revealed, IKEA's flat-pack houses, a clever system for recharging e-bikes, Facebook's robot for spinning fibre cables and an app for those who are afraid of spiders.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Shatner boldly going, movies in space, leaves on the line & Beethoven's 10th

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Shatner boldly going, movies in space, leaves on the line & Beethoven's 10th
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin admires William Shatner, TV's Captain Kirk, going into space at the age of 90. He discusses competing movies to be made in space, why NASA is firing a rocket at an asteroid 7m miles away, recommends an interactive website for psychological disorders, applauds a method for ridding railway lines of those pesky leaves and tells of Netflix's move into gaming, of AI completing Beethoven's 10th Symphony, Ocado claiming it will have driverless food delivery in two years, Amazon opening an electronics store and why somebody has come up with the idea of a collapsible suitcase.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Singapore's solar farm - in Oz, pigs reducing bird strikes, lab-grown coffee & airless tyres

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Singapore's solar farm - in Oz, pigs reducing bird strikes, lab-grown coffee & airless tyres
Share Radio's equivalent of James Bond's Q looks at the latest not-so-secret gadgets. There's the world's biggest and most expensive solar farm (by a factor of 10), being built for Singapore but located in Australia, an Alexa-powered robot from Amazon, pigs being employed at Schiphol airport to reduce bird strikes, a flapping wing room fan, lab-grown coffee, airless tyres from Michelin and a solution to the problem of regolith, the dangerous jagged pebbles thrown up by moon landings.
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Steve Caplin

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