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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil
Tech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the chess robot that broke a 7-year-old opponent's finger. There's also an explanation of why Hammersmith Bridge was wrapped in foil, a hydrofoil creating hydrogen, the privacy dangers of TikTok, why BMW owners need to pay more for heated seats, an e-Jerry can if you run out of charge and serving court papers using non-fungible tokens.
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles
Share Radio's technology guru Steve Caplin laments the demise of the SLR camera after over 60 years. He discusses the world's longest drone highway, printing your face on Hasbro figures, hacking fruit-fly brains, a more efficient kettle, a crowdfunded levitating firestone and the Swiss developing a network of underground autonomous freight tunnels.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Twitter's spam & bot accounts, about the Uber files, how the offside rule will be monitored at the World Cup, about quantum entanglement, Bob Dylan's one-off disk, how limpet teeth trump spider silk as the strongest material in nature and about the Wizard Smart Switch, enabling you to turn lights on and off with a touch of a magic wand.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual swimming tests, cloning dead voices & the return of airships

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual swimming tests, cloning dead voices & the return of airships
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the Chinese students who must take compulsory swimming tests to graduate and who are now having to do it online! Alexa is exploring cloning the voices of the dead, IKEA is producing an app that lets you remove your existing furniture, the police now have contactless fingerprinting, there's an autonomous truck with no cab, a mysterious moon crater, passenger-carrying airships and Philips are crowdfunding an ultra-short-throw projector.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: AR glasses, spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish and roads paved with nappies

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AR glasses, spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish and roads paved with nappies
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's tech guru, discusses the first mainstream AR glasses, though he's less than impressed. He also tells of environmentally-kind spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish collecting microplastics and a worm called Zophobas Morio that eats plastic. In addition, disposable nappies are being trialled as a road surface, there's a coaxial octacopter for beating jams, a cycle brake light and smart implants to deliver medicines.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Is Google's computer alive and other robotic innovations

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Is Google's computer alive and other robotic innovations
Steve Caplin goes all robotic in this week's tech show. As well as a robot waiter and a robot pizza maker, there's a pea-sized robot doing an obstacle course and a sweaty robotic finger. At Google, there's an argument over whether one of its robots is actually alive, with an engineer claiming it is and trying to get it a lawyer. Internet Explorer is no more, there's a solar panel-festooned car and cars charged by an induction loop. And Sony have brought out a high-end Walkman MP3 player costing a mere £2,999.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: iOS update, space solar power, 3D ears and mouse jigglers

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: iOS update, space solar power, 3D ears and mouse jigglers
Share Radio's tech supremo Steve Caplin delves into the features of Apple's forthcoming iOS update and looks at the world's fastest supercomputer. China is planning to put a solar power plant in space, there's an autonomous gas tanker, driverless taxis in San Francisco, 3D printing of ears and the ability to print inside the body, mouse jigglers for those not working particularly hard at home and a crowd-funded portable extractor.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered car, e-DeLorean, pizza vending and robot snakes & crabs

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered car, e-DeLorean, pizza vending and robot snakes & crabs
Steve Caplin, Share's tech expert, discusses with Simon Rose a new electric car powered by the sun. There's an electric DeLorean, a tracked VW camper van, an e-bike that could climb Mount Everest – if there was a road, objections to a car park pizza vending machine, parents using Alexa to help with homework, litter-picking in space, robot snakes and crabs and why people using mobile payments are more likely to overspend.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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

Simon Rose
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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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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

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

Simon Rose
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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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Steve Caplin

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