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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's Alexa mocking users

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's Alexa mocking users
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's Technology Editor, looks at Amazon Echo's Alexa apparently mocking its users by laughing at them, iphones spontaneously calling emergency services, the Chinese woman whose toddler managfed to lock her iphone for 47 years (25m minutes) and the 4G network destined for the moon.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's wood-staining speaker

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple's wood-staining speaker
Steve Caplin looks at Apple's wood-staining Homepod speaker, the Winter Olympics drones nobody could see, ultra-strong "Super Wood", the LED lantern powered by a tea light, the fake news online game and the app that reminds you five times a day that you're going to die.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The chairless chair

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The chairless chair
Steve Caplin marvels at the chairless chair you wear, the latest in delivery drones, the banning of Winnie the Pooh in China, Google Lens and the squeezable metal bottle.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The downside of new tech

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The downside of new tech
Steve Caplin looks at the first autonomous vehicle casualty and the woman who almost died from staring at her smartphone. He also looks at the trash-cleaning robot you can control, a combined phone and fidget spinner and the Google Street view Easter Egg.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying phones

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying phones
Steve Caplin examines Samsung's idea for combining a phone with a drone, robot cucumber pickers, a new form of light discovered by American physicists, edible QR codes and the app that helps you think you're in a cafe.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The FutureTech Now Show

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The FutureTech Now Show
Steve Caplin, hotfoot from the FutureTech Now show, looks at VR cocktails, a VR gym trainer even HE would use, a VR game for those who are recuperating, as well as Microsoft, Xbox and Skype banning those using "offensive language" and an app that transcribes phone calls in real times in many languages.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Levitating water drops

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Levitating water drops
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's Technology Editor, looks at Lego's over-production of bricks, at cars that can see round corners, robot jean-rippers, a robot carpenter, the levitating water drop, a solution to chewing gum on pavements and the camera designed to shock its user into taking better photographs.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Printing chicken and fois gras

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Printing chicken and fois gras
Steve Caplin looks at a Californian firm printing chicken and fois gras, at an exoskeleton for skiers, at a drone blood delivery service, a great scanning app, how autonomous cars will mean more compact car parks and a way of uploading your brain to the cloud that is "100% fatal"!
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic Ikea constructors

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic Ikea constructors
Steve Caplin turns his roving eye towards robots, to robots doing Rubik's Cubes and building Ikea furniture, to the laws we ought to have in place for AI and to the slacker robots at Tesla. He also looks at a device to read our thoughts, curated walks and an impressive case to protect an impressively expensive smartphone.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Uber for dogs

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Uber for dogs
Steve Caplin takes a look at a dog-walking service described as Uber for dogs, facial recognition sunglasses for the police, Land Rover's phone, the culture secretary's social network and an Internet of Things burglar deterrent called Kevin.
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Steve Caplin


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