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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's new iPod

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's new iPod
Steve Caplin looks at the launch of the latest iPod, 18 years after the first - a hard disk in a box - appeared. Also, some of the problems users of electric cars currently face when charging their vehicles in the rain, Alexa's and Siri's gender bias, Facebook's cryptocurrency, Uber's ebikes and the company's "no talking" option in its cars in the USA. And which of the ebikes is actually most economical?
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Gadgets & Gizmos: 5G stalled by lampposts

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 5G stalled by lampposts
Steve Caplin goes automotive, looking at Dyson's plans for an electric off-road car, the Honda e with swift recharge, the electric Jaguar E-type with optional original engine and Hydrogen-powered double-decker buses. He explains why 5G has been stalled by lamppost problems and why Jeff Bezos thinks he can have a moonbase by 2024 while Elon Musk thinks he can get to Mars by then. Australia's $50 note issue was marred by a spelling mistake, Barcelona has a self-charging e bike and there's a very cheap credit-card sized charger to take around with you.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: the inaccuracy of fitness trackers

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Gadgets & Gizmos: the inaccuracy of fitness trackers
Steve Caplin bemoans the inaccuracy of fitness trackers, even though he never uses one himself. He also reveals delivery service DPD's new electric cargo bike, the endurance plane that stays aloft for years, the fire extinguisher that sucks instead of blows, the AI-generated thrash metal, robots to clean your teeth, a self-braking supermarket trolley and Chinese fake Lego.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: fire-resistant wood

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Gadgets & Gizmos: fire-resistant wood
Steve Caplin on new research about how unsafe most of our internet passwords are. He also looks at making wood fire resistant - with wood, at Uber giving information on public transport, at an amphibious car kit, at the CIA joining Instagram, battery-free pacemakers and a solution to the problem of opening Leathermen with no fingernails.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The first UK shop with no tills

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The first UK shop with no tills
Steve Caplin discusses shopping in the first UK shop with no checkouts, using just his smartphone. He also tells us of the worlds first vertical TV, the arrival of the Tesla 3, an advance for RFID tags, an immersive VR mask, a mower with a top speed of 150mph and a sex toy for dogs!
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The 3D-printed heart

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The 3D-printed heart
Steve Caplin discusses a Japanese theft detection system for shops that is wrong one time in five and the Chinese response to "epidemic" toilet paper theft. Also the computer game that takes place over 8 million years, the world's first 3D-printed heart, Google's trial drone delivery service, steam trains running from Waterloo again and a crowd-funded LCD "window" that displays whatever view you would like.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: BT Tower's error message

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Gadgets & Gizmos: BT Tower's error message
Steve Caplin on tech going wrong, with the Notre Dame fire, with the BT Tower displaying a Windows 7 error message and with Amazon's five star reviews for unknown brands. Also a bicycle that isn't a bicycle (there's no seat!), a new Helvetica font and the rescue of 500,000 music tracks from MySpace, thanks to a decade-old academic study.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The meat-free Whopper

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The meat-free Whopper
Steve Caplin on the mother and daughter rescued by police use of the What3Words app, speed limiters on cars, wireless charging for electric taxis, French car alcolocks, the meatless Burger King Whopper, the autotune for karaoke singers, the weight of the Milky Way (1.5 trillion solar masses) and contraceptive jewellery.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Short story vending machines

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Short story vending machines
Steve Caplin takes a look at vending machines in Canary Wharf dispensing short stories, Apple's new credit card, a chance to be the voice of Virgin Trains' talking toilet, a wearable drum kit, less stressed laboratory mice, acoustic metamaterial and an AI system to train violinists.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Contactless cards with fingerprint scanners

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Contactless cards with fingerprint scanners
Steve Caplin looks forward to contactless cards which have built-in fingerprint scanners. He also tells of a new way to send large files, a computerised landscape artist, a pedal-assisted car that can reach 120mph, how facial recognition can lead to happier pigs, a new mono-wheel scooter, a drone with flapping wings, a Steinway that will let you record yourself and why hipsters and other anti-conformists end up looking the same.
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