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

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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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Gadgets & Gizmos: The sound of Mars, NASA's airless tyres, robot lifeguards & 42, the archive

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The sound of Mars, NASA's airless tyres, robot lifeguards & 42, the archive
Share Radio's technology expert Steve Caplin lets us hear the first ever audio from Mars. He brings news of airless tyres developed from NASA tech, of a virtual Mars house sold for $0.5m, an invisible security keypad, robot lifeguards, a car using your phone as its dashboard, a foolproof Face ID system for phones, the archive of Douglas Adams's letters called - perhaps not surprisingly - 42 and the launch of clothes made from mushroom leather.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google Nest helps you sleep while virtual offices help you work

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google Nest helps you sleep while virtual offices help you work
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, is a little nervous of the idea that Google Nest can use radar to track your sleeping patterns. He is impressed by Microsoft's AR meeting technology and Teamflow's virtual office. For those dreading Zoom meetings, Zoomescaper has the answer. He also highlights Wombo, which amusingly animates still photographs, technology to detect deep fakes, electric charging pads for spongy wooden flooring, a portable wind turbine and a 2000-year-old computer.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Auctioning the first-ever tweet, colon cameras & a hologram printer

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Auctioning the first-ever tweet, colon cameras & a hologram printer
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology expert, looks at the auction of the first ever tweet by Jack Dorsey and discusses how non-fungible tokens are a thing of the future. He looks at how the MGM lion is going CGI, how sports advertising hoardings can be localised, at colon cameras that will replace endoscopes, at a giant TV that lives below the floor, an amazing new drone, a 3D hologram printer and why Earth's oxygen running out might not be a problem for us.
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Steve Caplin

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