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Gadgets & Gizmos: Water from thin air, solar power at night & the $2m jigsaw puzzle

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Water from thin air, solar power at night & the $2m jigsaw puzzle
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, tells Simon Rose of the Texas scientists who have worked out how to combine cellulose and konjac to make water from thin air while, in New South Wales, they've found a way to get solar panels to generate power at night! There's also a $2m jigsaw, though the puzzle itself is a QR code, Rolls Royce have a new $28m car while the Genesis GV60 comes with facial recognition, a fingerprint engine start and a crystal ball. After 45 years, Voyager 1 is 14.5 billion miles away but still transmitting, though nobody can understand it.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Post by drone, pay with a smile, underwater parties & meat in space

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Post by drone, pay with a smile, underwater parties & meat in space
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the Royal Mail's drone delivery to the Isles of Scilly, Shetlands, Orkneys and Hebrides. Mastercard have a new payment system requiring you to smile, there are teeth-cleaning nanobots on the way, underwater robots are killing jellyfish, drugs will have chocolate sprinkles to defeat counterfeiters, there's a battery that produces electricity from moisture and another from algae, the Dutch have produced a submarine party venue and Israeli scientists have mastered meat in space.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP iPod, first UK satellite, smart screws & cracklier chocolate

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP iPod, first UK satellite, smart screws & cracklier chocolate
Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about the latest tech news. After 21 years, Apple are discontinuing the iPod, the UK is to launch a satellite from Newquay, Mercedes' new electric car will go 1,000km on one charge, the Italians are producing a hydrofoil which will dive down 50 metres, smart screws will detect if they're coming loose in bridges, wind turbines and the like, the Dutch are making cracklier chocolate, there's a crowdfunded inflatable tent and solar table and a prototype app could detect the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Inflammatory buses, jumping robots & car-powered wine turbines

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Inflammatory buses, jumping robots & car-powered wine turbines
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about how Space X is using helicopters to catch its booster rockets - and then drop them! Also the e-buses catching fire in Paris, faster charging for lithium batteries, how to map the moon, a robot that can jump 100 feet, street lights powered by passing cars, AR glasses for the deaf, making better chocolate and how to avoid leaving your baby in the car.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic rats, a flying yacht, masked cows and solar-powered rubbish bins

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic rats, a flying yacht, masked cows and solar-powered rubbish bins
Technology buff Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, about a robotic rat, a luxury yacht that can take to the air, a YouTuber who faked a plane crash, masking cows to control methane, what happened when solar-powered ram-equipped rubbish bins went wrong, a table-tennis robot and an autonomous bus operating on the Forth Road Bridge.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The Mona Lisa of NFTs, art's blackest black and electric chopsticks

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The Mona Lisa of NFTs, art's blackest black and electric chopsticks
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin discusses trying – unsuccessfully – to sell the Non-Fungible Token of the first ever tweet. Anish Kapoor has upset other artists by cornering the market in Vantablack, you'll be able to watch movies in driverless cars, but not use your phone, there's an appealing small hand-held game console – sold out until next year, electric chopsticks to make food taste saltier and a bizarre App-controlled charging cable with a smart display.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Police stop a driverless car, art with smells, cloning dead pets & tech bike pedals

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Police stop a driverless car, art with smells, cloning dead pets & tech bike pedals
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about the San Francisco police's surprise at stopping a car without headlights – or a driver! There's also a way to trap smoke-stack CO2, a Rubens painting with accompanying smells, a solution to cat allergy, cloning dead pets, the most popular social media app that aims to get real, wearable air conditioning and crowd-funded illuminated bike pedals that Steve reckons are worth every cyclist looking at.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Chips fuelling jets, e-ink chalk boards, Dyson visors and slime robots

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Chips fuelling jets, e-ink chalk boards, Dyson visors and slime robots
Tech expert Steve Caplin tells us of BA sourcing jet fuel from chip fat, of the flying taxi firm that wants to expand into the UK, of how driverless cars might be controlled if things go wrong and how having no street lights might actually reduce crime. He also discusses e-ink chalk boards, Dyson's headphone with an air-filtering visor, whether mobile phones really do cause brain tumours, how the Chinese have developed the a soft robot made of slime and how one hotel in Venice is tackling the seagull menace.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The biggest LED in the world, an alarming sleep app and breathing cushions to hug

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The biggest LED in the world, an alarming sleep app and breathing cushions to hug
Tech maven Steve Caplin loves LEDs but even he is aghast at plans to build the world's biggest LED screen in East London. He's alarmed by a sleep app that dispenses CO2 to help you nod off. The largest scooter factory in the world is to be built in India, but will the batteries be as good as promised? There's also a "pedestrian shield" for electric scooters, Historic England's (hard to use) online map, a pocket touchpad that could help find things on TV, a folding kayak and a "breathing" cushion designed to reduce anxiety if hugged.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Facebook cuts, letting the dead speak, bringing the dodo back & the world's longest car

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Facebook cuts, letting the dead speak, bringing the dodo back & the world's longest car
Share Radio's technology editor, in discussion with Simon Rose, talks about the cuts in employee benefits at Facebook. MyHeritage have progressed from animating old photos to adding synthesised voices, the world's longest car has been extended, there's a DIY virtual rollercoaster, Audi are introducing a "holoride" for bored passengers, there's a plan to bring the dodo back from extinction and the world's largest bacterium has been discovered in a mangrove swamp.
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