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160 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -Stocks may rise and fall, businesses may boom and bust, but gadgets keep appearing at an ever-increasing rate. Share Radio’s Gadgets & Gizmos show explores the latest technological innovations, from the indispensable to the downright ridiculous. Show host Simon Rose and technology editor Steve Caplin take a weekly humorous look at what’s on offer, featuring both existing products and those whose inventors utilise crowdfunding platforms to make them a reality. Through its 300-plus shows, Gadgets & Gizmos has delved into the world of wifi, Bluetooth and exploding lithium batteries, reviewing gadgets of interest and ridiculing those that should never have got off the drawing board. Where some financial journalists tell you how to make your money grow, Gadgets & Gizmos tells you how to spend it – and when not to.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Frying chips in space, AI and The Beatles & mining asteroids
June 15, 2023 15:20 - 25 minutesSteve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose. Greek scientists have been working out how to fry chips in space, there's an ultra-wide gaming monitor, a TV you can take to the beach, AI is helping to create the final Beatles song, the UK is trialling smart lampposts and hopes to beam power from space, geothermal power takes a leap forward, there could be a way of abolishing most food waste and NASA hopes to find a way to mine an asteroid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's AR headset, pedestrians and driverless cars & AI reads the small print for you
June 08, 2023 14:53 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin guides Simon Rose through the latest tech developments, majoring on Apple's new AR headset bringing "spatial computing" to the world. But at $3,500, who is going to buy it? He explains the latest features of iOS 17, how driverless cars might let pedestrians know that they have been seen, why AI might read T&Cs on your behalf to check there's nothing fishy in the small print and wonders where the truth lies with a report that an AI drone tried to kill its operator because it didn'...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Driverless car rental, Robot sweaters and smart white canes for the blind
June 01, 2023 14:07 - 25 minutesSteve Caplin delves into the world of tech where driverless car rental has just been introduced in Milton Keynes, the cars being delivered by a remote operator. Sweaters are giving robots the sense of touch, Dyson's robot vacuum has 6 times the suck, there's a solution to mice devouring wheat seeds, a great new bird app, a smart cane for the blind, beaming energy from space to earth and progress towards getting astronauts to hibernate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Gadgets & Gizmos: A dog airline, AI does 3D modelling, AR laptop projection & a Spanish housework app
May 25, 2023 14:49 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin enlightens Simon Rose on the latest tech. Which? says that facial recognition on cheap smartphones can be unlocked by photos. Disney is shutting its Star Wars hotel, K9 Jets will let you travel with your dog – for a price, Tesla's bot Optimus is upgraded, AI can now create 3D-models, even from text, Google's AI is having trouble creating music, free WiFi on trains may disappear and the Spanish government want to develop an app to ensure that husbands do their fair share of housew...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Eels on Saturn's moon, Zombie defence, drinkable sea water & a free telly
May 18, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutesSteve Caplin updates Simon Rose on the latest tech. NASA have developed autonomous EELS to see if there's life on one of Saturn's moons. There's an extinction level event camper trailer to keep you safe in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse, a gadget to make sea water drinkable, a wheeled suitcase that is supposed to operate your hotel aircon, lights & TV while a US company is giving away free tellies in return for bombarding you with ads. There are claims that Uber charges more if your phone b...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's folding phone, booking flights with Uber & rock music – from rocks
May 11, 2023 15:05 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. Google have a folding phone (pricey) and a new tablet (reasonable), while Uber's app now lets you book flights, with a better refund policy than most airlines and 100 of Amazon's original shows are now available for free. Scientists have worked out how to get water on the moon – with a microwave, to produce music from rocks and to get the best head of beer from a can. AI cameras are to be used to catch litterlouts while a man has made th...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Sneaking war news into Russia, AI innovatios, bike radars & cultivated fish
May 04, 2023 14:12 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin delves into the latest tech, with a computer game that's found a way to sneak censored war news into Russia. ChatGPT is apparently more empathetic than real doctors while AI can now provide therapy and even read minds. Before long you'll be able to control your kettle by stroking it, there's a bike helmet with clever indicators and a bike light with built-in radar. Cultivated fish grown in a lab have been developed, with eel next on the list and Uber have a replica Coronation car...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Inflatable drones, bikes with square wheels & edible batteries
April 27, 2023 15:11 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin discusses tech with Simon Rose, lamenting the end of BuzzFeed news and explaining Twitter's blue tick problem. The Russians have beaten Tom Cruise to making the first movie in space while NASA's Mars helicopter has just completed its 50th flight. Inflatable drones may soon solve the problem of drone fragility while a bike's been built with square wheels. Parrots have been trained to video call each other while Italian scientists are developing an edible battery. Steve is also imp...
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI songs, cassette sales soar and a backpack for carrying your off-road bike
April 20, 2023 15:23 - 25 minutesSteve Caplin delves into the world of tech, with AI creating a photo that won a big photography competition, composing a popular song that has now been banned and attracting Elon Musk, shortly after demanding a pause in AI research. There's an electronic device to replace physical board games, a bike rack with a powered motor and a backpack for your bike if it's too tough off road. Last year cassette sales were at a 20-year high, while vinyl outsold CDs. And do you know how "high" you are scr...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Speed cameras on drones, creating shooting stars & AI robot massages
April 13, 2023 14:45 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains why Getty Images is suing an AI art maker. Devon & Cornwall Police are putting speed cameras on drones while a Janapese company is offering to create meteor showers to order. There's an AI humanoid robot and AI earbuds, while Italy is banning ChatGPT. Sony have come up with a spatial reality display that doesn't need glasses, Buckingham Palace has produced a coronation emoji while scientists have mimicked polar bears, producing material th...
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI interior design, coconut & lemon insulation & punchbags that fight back
April 06, 2023 14:46 - 26 minutesTech obsessive Steve Caplin demonstrates to Simon Rose just how impressive text-to-speech has become and why AI should really be AGI. There's the UK's first self-driving bus, why cars with damaged batteries must be scrapped, Paris banning e-scooters, AI suggesting how your home can be redecorated, the noises plants make if they are stressed, how you can insulate your home with coconut & lemon and a crowdfunded punchbag – that fights back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI websites, powdered beer, 3D cheesecake & smart socks
March 30, 2023 14:54 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin uses AI to build a website in just 30 seconds but 1,000 AI experts have called for a halt to the AI race. German monks have made the world's first powdered beer, there's a 3D-printed cheesecake (with no cheese), a 3D-printed rocket, carbon-negative concrete, an amazing glamping RV, superb paint-matching for next to nothing, smart socks for old people and airbags for motorcyclists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on Mars, AI on your PC & a batteryless doorbell
March 23, 2023 16:38 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin takes Simon Rose through the latest tech. Samsung's phone takes amazing moon photos (by cheating), the UK is to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, NASA unveils its new spacesuit (disguised), Stanford develop AI for your own PC and AI can now create photos. There's a fortified plastic chicken coop to keep out foxes (that looks like an animal prison) and Lidl are selling a wireless doorbell that is entirely battery free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Bing hallucinating, a paint revolution, an eternal battery & streaming classical music
March 16, 2023 15:50 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the latest tech innovations. A startup has worked out how to use data processing centres to heat swimming pools which cool the PCs in return. Bing's latest GPT upgrade has many improvements, but still hallucinates and makes things up. There's a revolution in the world of paint, better protection for windswept buildings, a keyboard hand heater, spirally-constructed wind turbines and Apple moving into the world of streamed classical music. Learn more about your ...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla woes, exploring Mars's caves & a rolling bridge
March 09, 2023 16:14 - 26 minutesTech expert Steve Caplin discusses Tesla's non-Ford assembly line, Musk's dull investor day and a setback for his Neuralink. Breadcrumbs will be the key to exploring caves on Mars, it seems, while the iMAG could be the way to end uncomfortable endoscopies and 3D printing taking place within the human body could soon be feasible. There's a crowdfunded exoskeleton to help with hill-climbing (or even shopping or visiting museums) and on the River Lee, there's an ingenious hand-powered rolling br...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Remote stroking & kissing, electronic bandages and a self-building igloo
March 02, 2023 15:57 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin delves into the latest tech, with the Chinese coming up with ways to stroke and kiss loved ones when not together. ChatGPT has been banned in China, there's a new AI app to try, an electronic bandage will dissolve after use, Metaverse property prices have gone south, there's a crowdfunded self-building igloo, the MoD is hiring sci-fi writers to predict the future of warfare, you can get a balloon ride to space for just £150,000 and the Kinks have asked Elon Musk to stop Twitter c...
Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI authors & self-cleaning touch screens
February 23, 2023 16:29 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. Apple's most famous designer has produced Charles III's Coronation logo, Microsoft's Bing AI doesn't know what year it is, Kindle's ChatGPT authors and the best book title ever, a sign language-reading app, self-cleaning touch screens for cars, a way of telling if you're overusing your voice, an alarm clock that shocks you awake and setting a spider (or lots of them) to catch a moth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting too frisky & autonomous fighter jets
February 16, 2023 15:54 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin astounds Simon Rose with tales of the latest tech. Microsoft are killing off Internet Explorer, AI can change the style of video footage and synthesise voices while an AI virtual friend is apparently getting way too frisky with some users. Scientists have developed an automatic arm-stroker to redue stress, Lockheed Martin now have an autonomous fighter jet, the best restaurant in Montreal doesn't actually exist, physiological synchrony can determine how a date is going while gold...
Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers
February 10, 2023 12:06 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin dives into the world of tech, telling Simon Rose about plans for charging users of ChatGPT and problems with Google's launch of its rival, Bard. There's also a stunning phone camera, how driverless cars might better cope with crossroads, Twitter being sued by the Crown Estate, a portable coffee printer, why skiers with Apple watches are annoying the Colorado police and a skyscraper in Detroit being built from the top down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations
February 02, 2023 16:20 - 26 minutesIt's gadget time with Steve Caplin, who tells Simon Rose about plans to reintroduce genetically-engineered dodos to Mauritius. There's also news of journalists being replaced with AI, music being generated by text and an audio prompt, AI passing the US law exams, how a flashing light can help you learn faster, Google laying off massage therapists, a robot to pick flowers, an app for when your phone battery is dying and why stargazing may soon become a thing of the past. Learn more about your ...
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants
January 26, 2023 17:03 - 25 minutesSteve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & a hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: The Share Radio Interview — The Internet of Things (REPLAY)
January 21, 2023 16:06 - 21 minutesWe’re becoming increasingly reliant on technology of all kinds, divulging more and more of our most personal details online and on internet-connected devices. But are we investing in suitable safeguarding measures to protect ourselves against hacking? Well, apparently not. Research from cyber-security experts, nCipher Security, has revealed that as more and more things become connected to the internet – from wireless home sensor networks, to smartphones, to wearable tech – we’re leaving ourse...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Fitness trackers for dogs, electric baby buggies & manure-powered tractors
January 12, 2023 17:40 - 26 minutesIn our weekly gadgets show, Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through some of the ideas coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, including a 3D laptop, urine tester, fitness tracker for dogs, a completely wireless TV, a smellovision VR headset, an electric baby buggy and, from Cornwall, the first ever tractor to run on cow and pig manure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI poetry & age checks, NFTs as tax write-offs & synthetic alcohol
January 05, 2023 16:09 - 27 minutesShare's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at Apple's fall from +$3bn to -$2bn, at ways of setting over-priced NFT purchases off against tax, at AI writing Channel 4's Christmas message and poetry about Share Radio, as well as checking your age in supermarkets. A former drug tsar has come up with synthetic alcohol doing away with drunkenness and hangovers and from the annual CES comes an AI oven, a fruit ripeness checker, a baby translator and printers for temporary tattoos and eyebrows. Le...
Gadgets & Gizmos: The summary of the sublime and silly tech of 2022
December 29, 2022 14:17 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin looks back over the tech of 2022. There are escaped robot vacs, jumping robots, robot chefs, teeth-cleaning robots, robot fish, cockroaches, spiders & falcons as well as a dangerous chess-playing robot. They now know how to recreate dodos, clone pets, train goldfish to drive cars and use dead spiders to pick up microelectronics. It was a year with a lickable TV screen, Wordle, a collapse in NFTs, road surfaces made of nappies and the revelation that you should lie on your right s...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message
December 22, 2022 16:04 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin looks at a solution to the killing of bats by wind turbines, how space colonies might exist on asteroids, how New Zealand plans ridding the country of smokers, at a possible answer to foggy glasses, Channel 4's AI-written, robot-delivered Christmas message, at Westminster Council's solution to street urination and at a licence-free plane, which you have to build yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide
December 15, 2022 15:48 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin has a sackful of Christmas gift suggestions that should arrive before the holiday. For the extravagant, there's a 2-storey inflatable catamaran or a pimped iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the rest of us, choose between apps to produce spectacular portraits, a smart door lock, a space-saving Christmas tree, kitchen scales, a yodelling pickle, a rechargeable lantern, a travelling plug set, a folding fan, a belt for sailing through security, a suitcase to beat size restrictions and an app to...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips
December 08, 2022 15:28 - 26 minutesTech buff Steve Caplin finds an answer to Simon Rose's earlier question about who invented the wheeled suitcase. There's a pilot-it-yourselves VTOL sightseeing plane, a hydrogen-powered commuter bike and supercar, an electronic nose to detect prostate cancer, a toilet sensor to identify cholera outbreaks, a gel to kill harmful bacteria, nuclear-reactor robots to repair the 3,000 malfunctioning satellites, Elon Musk's brain chip and Apple allowing people in the UK to repair their own phones. S...
Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots
December 01, 2022 15:56 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin fills Simon Rose in on the latest tech developments, after commemorating 50 years of Pong. There's a backlash against Tesla drivers over Elon Musk, Alexa turning kids' ideas into animated stories, remote control worms, San Francisco's killer robots, circuits printed on contact lenses, vegan honey, the first hydrogen jet engine test and ride-on suitcases for adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US
November 24, 2022 16:03 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin looks at the latest from the world of tech. He tells us how much Earth and Jupiter weigh, who the 8th billion person on Earth is, how to scare sharks away from fishing lines, why Bob Dylan's signature isn't what it seems, about a free time-lapse photography app, about an audiobook app that has trouble pronouncing words and how the United State has just become the second country to approve lab-grown chicken for sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon
November 17, 2022 16:46 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin discusses the latest tech news with Simon Rose. As well as some bizarre Twitter blue ticks, there are Japanese robotic spiders to check sewers, cameras strapped to sharks to map seagrass meadows off the Bahamas, rats dancing to Mozart, the Ministry of Defence firing the first-ever real laser weapon, a Swedish wooden choir, a desk to facilitate using a laptop outdoors, a Japanese mission to collect moon dust and crowdfunding the monitoring of the modal frequencies of bridges to wa...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter & Meta, edible drones, origami mice and artificial whipped cream
November 10, 2022 15:44 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin updates Simon Rose on the latest tech news, with problems at Twitter, Tesla and Meta in the news. He marks 10 years of Candy Crush then drones on about drones seeing wifi devices through walls, edible drones, autonomous emergency rescue drones, undersea drones and ashes released by drones. There's an origami mouse, a discussion about how we might talk to aliens when we can't even chat to whales and an attempt to produce whipped cream without the high fat content. Learn more about...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Magnetic north comes to the UK, robot falcons and the tiniest of TVs
November 03, 2022 14:58 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Elon Musk and Twitter, the arrival of magnetic north in the UK, a new data speed record, a robot falcon, how to defeat self-driving cars, the tiniest of tiny TVs, a self-boiling Thermos flask and how Google hopes to develop AI for the top 1,000 (out of 7,000) languages worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, solving leaves on the line & hearing the Earth's magnetic field
October 27, 2022 14:47 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a flying car that you can now order, although as a car it might prove somewhat lacking. He celebrates 21 years of the iPod, marvels at a couple of Lenovo prototypes, discusses the deadline to use up old-fashioned stamps, plays a recording of what the Earth's magnetic field might sound like, wonders why it's taken until the production of the Sand Rover to solve the problem of leaves on the line and explains how the first piece of land has just been bought us...
Gadgets & Gizmos: QR codes IN food, more efficient wind and wave energy & fake Amazon reviews
October 20, 2022 13:29 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor talks to Simon Rose about the ability to 3D print QR codes inside food, but wonders why anyone would want to. He is dubious about the data gathered by Meta's new VR headset but loves an app that separates various elements in music. He is impressed by a motionless rooftop wind generator and a sea platform producing energy from waves. There's even a proof-of-concept ability to transmit solar power wirelessly, using a system developed by Nikola Tesla over 100 year...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Killer robots, plants with machetes & brain cells playing Pong
October 13, 2022 14:50 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology maven Steve Caplin looks into a pledge not to weaponise robots, while a kinetic sculptor has armed a house plant with a machete in the name of art. A robot boot could help the elderly walk faster with less effort while Apple's new iphone has been assuming people on rollercoasters were in accidents. Brain cells grown in a lab of people and mice have been taught to play pong while a Crypto exchange that mistakenly refunded a woman $10.5m is having to sue in an attempt t...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Standardised tech cables, Tesla's non-walking robot & high-tech animals
October 06, 2022 14:37 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new EU requirement for all small and medium portable electronic devices to have a stanard USB-C cable from 2024. Amazon have brought out a raft of new devices, Google are closing Stadia, Tesla has demonstrated a prototype humanoid robot – which can't walk, a work of art has been destroyed to promote NFTs, a next generation razor may not work and scientists have worked out how animals can be used to create batteries, degra...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Racing robots, Skyscraper-repairing drones & VR goggles for sedation
September 29, 2022 15:10 - 25 minutesTechnology guru Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about a record-breaking running robot, a clever seabed camera, repairing the tops of tall buildings with extruding drones, how to make driverless cars safer for pedestrians, a lamp that not only follows you but also offers emotional companionship, turning plastic into diamonds and how VR goggles can be used for sedation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Ig Nobel prizes, cyborg cockroaches, a moon simulator & concrete inflatable buildings
September 22, 2022 08:50 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin reveals to Simon Rose the winners of the Ig Nobel prizes for science. There's also news of how AI can change the accents of cold callers, of a giant simulated moon you can visit, how building blueprints can be interpreted by robots, how cockroaches can be turned into cyborgs for dangerous situations, how concrete buildings can be easily constructed using inflatable forms, a motorless food blender, a clever camping lantern and why Janet Jackson migh...
Gadgets & Gizmos: iPhone 14, iOS16, 3D Wagyu beef, disco fridges & laughing robots
September 15, 2022 15:42 - 26 minutesShare Radio's tech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new iPhone 14, which can tell if you're involved in a crash. The new iOS lets you unsend texts while the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra has a camera with abundant pixels. There'll soon be 3D-printed Wagyu beef while LG have a fridge with mood lights and bluetooth speakers. And if you're worried that robots might be too solemn, Japanese scientists have worked out how to make them laugh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Laser phone charging, sulphur batteries & facial recognition for salmon
September 01, 2022 14:34 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose. The Koreans are developing infrared lasers that can charge your phone when you walk into the room, while MIT has come up with batteries from aluminium, sulphur and salt, superior to the Li-ion type. There's also an idea for getting energy from waves, facial recognition for one type of salmon, how Surrey Police have been tricking drivers by manipulating Waze and an e-VTOL plane that can land in your garden – with an optional parachute. Learn more about ...
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music & voice separation, boosting pain relief & the sound of a black hole
August 25, 2022 15:08 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin marvels at a website that will separate out voices and instruments giving you ready-made karaoke. He reveals that pain relief works better lying down, but only on one side and discusses a beautiful and nippy submarine, a limited edition Bugatti, an 87mph electric unicycle, clever rear bike lights and NASA's revelation of the sound of a black hole in the Perseus galaxy, 240m light years away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils
August 18, 2022 14:42 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, warning all Zoom users they should update the app. He links it to Wordle, where there are now books and poems. There's also a car park machine that only talks Welsh, a funeral where guests could quiz the deceased, problems with Meta's chatbot, the physicist who convinced people chorizo was a star, woodless pencils, three different stories about robot dogs and a paper battery that is biodegradable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices....
Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes
August 11, 2022 15:25 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin tells Simon Rose of plans to create jet fuel from sunlight. Students have built an e-car that sucks CO2 from the air, there's a tech mattress to help with sleep, Google's new AR glasses, a way to use dead spiders to lift tiny objects, a wearable fitness tracker that detects Covid 2 days before symptoms appear and a faster, more efficient way to dig tunnels - with a big catch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering
August 04, 2022 13:31 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, giving us the top theme park artificial smells, including rotting flesh, penguin vomit and Kylie Minogue's breath. In addition, there are motors made of DNA, how small-wheeled scooters can be made more stable, reusable coffee pods, car wheels able to turn 80 degrees, replacing microplastics with silk and an affordable electric bike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil
July 28, 2022 14:41 - 25 minutesTech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the chess robot that broke a 7-year-old opponent's finger. There's also an explanation of why Hammersmith Bridge was wrapped in foil, a hydrofoil creating hydrogen, the privacy dangers of TikTok, why BMW owners need to pay more for heated seats, an e-Jerry can if you run out of charge and serving court papers using non-fungible tokens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles
July 21, 2022 14:49 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology guru Steve Caplin laments the demise of the SLR camera after over 60 years. He discusses the world's longest drone highway, printing your face on Hasbro figures, hacking fruit-fly brains, a more efficient kettle, a crowdfunded levitating firestone and the Swiss developing a network of underground autonomous freight tunnels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wants To Turn On Lights
July 14, 2022 14:30 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Twitter's spam & bot accounts, about the Uber files, how the offside rule will be monitored at the World Cup, about quantum entanglement, Bob Dylan's one-off disk, how limpet teeth trump spider silk as the strongest material in nature and about the Wizard Smart Switch, enabling you to turn lights on and off with a touch of a magic wand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights
July 14, 2022 14:30 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Twitter's spam & bot accounts, about the Uber files, how the offside rule will be monitored at the World Cup, about quantum entanglement, Bob Dylan's one-off disk, how limpet teeth trump spider silk as the strongest material in nature and about the Wizard Smart Switch, enabling you to turn lights on and off with a touch of a magic wand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's e-bikes, biofuel, sand batteries & AR contact lenses
July 07, 2022 14:34 - 25 minutesShare Radio's technology editor, Steve Caplin, talks to Simon Rose about Amazon's new e-cargo bikes and a new more efficient biofuel. Renewable energy storage takes a leap forward with sand batteries, while pyramids could be the way forward for solar cells. AR glasses may not be needed; there could be AR contact lenses instead while NASA want to send mini swimming robots to moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Steve admires a coal-powered motorbike and discusses the latest development in 3D printed w...