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Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message
Steve 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.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide
Steve 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 keep track of all your online shopping.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips
Tech 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. Steve says, "Don't even think about it."
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots
Steve 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.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US
Steve 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.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon
Steve 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 warn of possible collapse.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter & Meta, edible drones, origami mice and artificial whipped cream

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter & Meta, edible drones, origami mice and artificial whipped cream
Steve 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.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Magnetic north comes to the UK, robot falcons and the tiniest of TVs

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Magnetic north comes to the UK, robot falcons and the tiniest of TVs
Share 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.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, solving leaves on the line & hearing the Earth's magnetic field

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, solving leaves on the line & hearing the Earth's magnetic field
Steve 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 using an non-fungible token.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: QR codes IN food, more efficient wind and wave energy & fake Amazon reviews

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Gadgets & Gizmos: QR codes IN food, more efficient wind and wave energy & fake Amazon reviews
Share 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 years ago.
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Steve Caplin

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