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Gadgets & Gizmos: Pi to 82.8 tn digits, wooden satellites, dissolvable smart watches & Ferraris for kids

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Pi to 82.8 tn digits, wooden satellites, dissolvable smart watches & Ferraris for kids
In this week's tech show, Steve Caplin discusses the Swiss researchers who've calculated Pi to 82.8 trilllion digits; but how will the Guinness Book of Records check it? He also brings news of the first ever wooden satellite, the battery-laden caravan that won't slow your Tesla, Tesla's problems with flashing emergency lights, dissolvable smart watches, getting bacteria to find precious metals in the Brussels sewers, how to train self-driving cars for British, rather than Californian, weather, three-quarter size Ferrari Testarossas for children and more tongue-in-cheek Amazon reviews.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Lose weight by eating more, biodegradable plastic (with a catch) & Leica's smartphone

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Lose weight by eating more, biodegradable plastic (with a catch) & Leica's smartphone
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses research that enables mice to eat more and still lose weight, Leica's first smartphone, waterproof cotton lifejackets, Adidas's sports sunglasses, a sign language translation glove, a keyboard that uses only AA batteries for power, the liking of bees for caffeine, more funny tongue-in-cheek Amazon reviews and biodegradable plastic that's useful only in the dark with no oxygen.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Zoom adds apps, Amazon's funniest reviews & new battery tech

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Zoom adds apps, Amazon's funniest reviews & new battery tech
Tech whizz Steve Caplin looks at the apps Zoom has added to its package but is a little worried about data implications. He discusses several advances in battery technology, with rust powering one new process. There's a new electric bike with an illegal top speed, Ordnance Survey's first game to encourage people to get out, the bullying of children called Alexa and some of the funniest tongue-in-cheek reviews on Amazon, including for uranium ore.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: When is an astronaut not an astronaut, Olympic Tinder dates & the Mini Moke is back

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Gadgets & Gizmos: When is an astronaut not an astronaut, Olympic Tinder dates & the Mini Moke is back
Steve Caplin feels (slightly) sorry for Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, told just after their flights that they don't qualify to be astronauts. He reflects on those changing their Tinder location to Tokyo in the hope of dating an Olympic athlete. He also discusses the e-motorbike that will follow you around, a way to get your exercise bike to tilt on imaginary hills, how to experience the Great Barrier Reef while staying at home, a Covid mask with a speaker, making fake reviews illegal, a physical stock ticker, the return of the Mini Moke and a way of arranging camping in people's gardens.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bezos in space, Aston Martin Valhalla, Deep Dive Dubai & dog poo DNA

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bezos in space, Aston Martin Valhalla, Deep Dive Dubai & dog poo DNA
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, admires Jeff Bezos's space flight but wishes the crew had thought to take a camera with them. He is perplexed by the new James Bond Aston Martin which needs refuelling every 10 miles. There's also a new Steam Deck portable console, Deep Dive Dubai with a sunken city to explore, Morrison's abandoning checkouts, Tel Aviv tackling a dog poo epidemic with DNA testing, Google Maps "potentially fatal" route up Ben Nevis and the high-tech travel saxophone.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The £1m Super Mario Game, 3D police mugshots & robot sculptors

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The £1m Super Mario Game, 3D police mugshots & robot sculptors
Share Radio tech whizz Steve Caplin explains why Sainsbury's has decided to stop selling CDs and DVDs and why the Japanese government hasn't been able to scrap its fax machines. He gasps at the $1.5m auction for a Super Mario 64 game and even more being spent on Isaac Newton's handwritten notes. He discusses 3D police mugshots, the proposal to shoot containers at 760 mph down a mag-lev tube, at robot sculptors at Carrara, Italy's famed marble centre and at dynamic focus sunglasses and a table lamp controlled by a hovering steel ball - until it gets lost.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wally Funk, vertically-farmed strawberries, chaff burgers & smart missiles

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wally Funk, vertically-farmed strawberries, chaff burgers & smart missiles
Share 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.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, data voids, a balloon ride to space & a laptop shade

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, data voids, a balloon ride to space & a laptop shade
Steve 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.
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla's acceleration, cinema sound bubbles and tuneable glasses

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla's acceleration, cinema sound bubbles and tuneable glasses
Share 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.
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Gadgets and Gizmos- Episode 1

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Gadgets and Gizmos- Episode 1
The 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.
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