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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: Wally Funk, vertically-farmed strawberries, chaff burgers & smart missiles
July 08, 2021 19:32 - 26 minutesShare Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin on 82-year-old woman astronaut Wally Funk finally getting the chance to travel into space. There's a Cambridge supercomputer using AI to solve healthcare problems, vertically-farmed strawberries, a fishmonger who beat Amazon in court, the prospect of burgers made from chaff, smart MOD missiles that talk to each other, a colour-changing bike helmet, temporary pacemakers that dissolve and microneedle patches made of ice. Visit www.shareradio.co.uk for more ...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, data voids, a balloon ride to space & a laptop shade
July 03, 2021 12:14 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin, Share Radio's tech whizz, discusses with Simon Rose problems with the NHS app as well the tourists charged over £2,000 for visiting Brighton Pier. He tells of a new flying car in Slovakia, how Google is warning users of "data voids", how lego is making bricks from recycled bottles, how you can ride in a balloon to the edge of space (for $125,000), the glasses that simulate a 140-inch screen and the crowd-funded device enabling you to use a laptop outside. Visit www.shareradio.co...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla's acceleration, cinema sound bubbles and tuneable glasses
June 25, 2021 09:42 - 27 minutesShare Radio's tech guru Steve Caplin looks at Jeff Bezos's space trip with the $28 million auction winner, at Tesla's new car that accelerates to 60mph in less than 2 seconds, at cinema speakers giving each member of the audience a personal sound bubble, at how to find a cool walk in Barcelona, a cure for hiccoughs, the British Army finally ditching maps, tuneable glasses and an app that will play music not just from any country but also any decade since 1900. Visit www.shareradio.co.uk for m...
Gadgets & Gizmos: The net outage, robot falcons, 3D cellos & manure-powered crypto mining
June 10, 2021 20:33 - 27 minutesSteve Caplin, Share Radio's gadget guru, discusses the net outage that took down so many websites as well as the encrypted-message app set up by the FBI to trap organised crime gangs. As well as highlighting developments in Apple's new iOS iteration, he discusses robot falcons deterring airfield pigeons, a 3D printed cello, a revolutionary women's urinal, microbes removing stains in the Medici chapel, a farmer using cow and sheep manure to power crypto mining and why Vietnamese Nem Chaua saus...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon Sidewalk, unhappy potatoes & buildings made of food scraps
June 03, 2021 15:37 - 26 minutesShare Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains how the Japanese believe they can turn food scraps into a building material stronger than concrete. Also Amazon Sidewalk and meditation boxes for their warehouse employees, how potatoes can be made to fluoresce to show if they're stressed, the British tanks that cost £3.5 billion that are almost completely useless, smart sunglasses, a 25-inch e-ink monitor and why the world's deepest pool is to be built in Cornwall. Hrkn to www.shareradio....
Gadgets & Gizmos: Airships, hydrogen engines, the sky pool and an electric Popemobile
May 26, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutesSteve 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, a 3D-printed electric scooter and he discovers just how prescient rocket scientist Wernher von Braun was in one of his science-fiction novels. Hrkn to www.sh...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Smart bandages, Dr. Shopping Trolley, concrete batteries and deflagration
May 19, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutesSteve Caplin marvels at the latest developments in gadgets (and gizmos), discussing smart bandages, shopping trolleys that can detect irregular heartbeats and warn of potential strokes, aluminium-ion batteries that charge 10 times faster, concrete batteries that can be incorporated in buildings, how to power cars and jets of the future with explosions, earbuds that are also hearing aids, conspiracists who cut off an area's broadband because they thought "5GHz" was the same as "5G" and JCB's m...
Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon guilt, healthy jazz lovers, a bike-powered concert & bamboo cricket bats
May 13, 2021 14:03 - 27 minutesSteve 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! Hrkn to www.shareradio.co....
Gadgets & Gizmos: Vulnerable routers, wine bottle NFTs, smart water & transparent wood
May 05, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutesSteve 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 ...
Gadgets and Gizmos - the first of several hundred
November 05, 2014 18:59 - 21 minutesThe original 'Gadgets and Gizmos' with Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin - the first of over 300 episodes of our weekly tech programme, originally published on Share Radio's first day of broadcasting, 5th November 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices