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Gadgets & Gizmos: 5G stalled by lampposts (R)

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 5G stalled by lampposts (R)
You may have read of the stalling of 5G installation around airports: such precautions are not new! In May 2019 Steve Caplin explained why 5G has been stalled by lamppost problems - this is the episode raising the issue. He also went automotive, looking at Dyson's plans for an electric off-road car, the Honda e with swift recharge, the electric Jaguar E-type with optional original engine and Hydrogen-powered double-decker buses and he explained why Jeff Bezos thinks he can have a moonbase by 2024 while Elon Musk thinks he can get to Mars by then. Australia's $50 note issue was marred by a spelling mistake, Barcelona had a self-charging e bike and there's a very cheap credit-card sized charger to take around with you.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Colour-changing cars, health-monitoring lights & self-cleaning cat litter

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Colour-changing cars, health-monitoring lights & self-cleaning cat litter
Steve Caplin and Simon Rose savour the latest great - and not so great - ideas on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, including colour-changing cars, a lightbulb that monitors health, a self-driving tractor, invisible headphones, an autonomous trolley, a camera for identification that attaches to glasses for those with poor eyesight and a self-cleaning cat litter tray that also assesses your moggie's health.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Blackberry, Wordle mania, making water from air and goldfish driving cars

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Blackberry, Wordle mania, making water from air and goldfish driving cars
Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about the latest tech as Apple becomes the first $3tn company. Blackberry says "goodbye", Tesla recalls half a million cars, Waymo make a taxi with no steering wheel, the world goes mad for the online game Wordle, a water cooler can make water from thin air, there's a lickable TV, goldfish are being trained to drive cars, a Mafia fugitive is caught through Google Street View and a 20-year-old recreates Ceefax.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The review of 2021

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: The review of 2021
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks back over some of the best and weirdest tech from 2021. Listen again to tales of a Tesla hearse, pigs playing computer games, the first-ever Tweet selling for $2.5m, transparent wood, fluorescent potatoes, the Tesla bot (or not), cosmic concrete, latrine-trained cows, Dog TV, a face mask using Ostrich extract to detect Covid and a ribald Polish-singing cactus.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual property boom, NFT trainers & the surprising "Product of the Year"

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Virtual property boom, NFT trainers & the surprising "Product of the Year"
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin looks at the virtual property boom where an online plot of land sold for $2.4m, at non-fungible token trainers, eye drops to improve vision, biodegradable single-use batteries, a space factory, facial recognition software in the Co-op, reviving wooly mammoths by gene-editing Asian elephants and a rather unlikely Which? Product of the Year.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Covid-detecting masks, hydrogen planes & yachts and washable batteries

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Covid-detecting masks, hydrogen planes & yachts and washable batteries
Steve Caplin and Simon Rose look at the latest in high- (and low-) tech. Kyoto University have produced a face mask that can detect Covid, while Amazon are now selling PCR tests. Scientists have developed a phone security system that relies on how you walk, commercial-sized planes using liquid hydrogen and a yacht that makes its own hydrogen from seawater. With wearable electronics becoming more popular, Canadian boffins have come up with a washable battery while some in Japan have devised a bus that is also a train - and vice versa.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Xmas gifts including light-up gin, a Lego typewriter & a wooden projector

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Xmas gifts including light-up gin, a Lego typewriter & a wooden projector
Share Radio's tech guru Steve Caplin takes us through a selection of possible Christmas gifts, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Among them are gin that lights up, a Lego typewriter, a James Bond Scalextric set, a CO2 bike tyre inflator, a wooden DIY projector, LED candles, a Casio keyboard, the champion of Swiss Army knives, a Dyson that tells you about the dust it's gathered and a couple of tech games.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Cameras the size of a grain of salt, a Superman air taxi & dancing nursery robots

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Cameras the size of a grain of salt, a Superman air taxi & dancing nursery robots
Steve Caplin looks into the latest tech, with Sainsbury's opening a checkout-free store – again, this time in competition with Tesco. South Korea is introducing dancing, singing and farting robots in 300 nursery schools, there's a singing cactus that's ruder than expected, an air taxi that will make you feel you're Superman, a camera the size of a grain of salt, the oldest iron and fridge that are still working and a way of using two lenses at once on an iphone.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls
In his latest look at technology, Steve Caplin marks 50 years of the microchip. Uber is about to reach its 1 billionth trip in the UK, while Tesla's app locked owners out of their cars. There's an LED-lit zebra crossing, Adele putting an end to album-shuffling on Spotify, which has added lyrics to its songs, 8 million of them. There's crowd-funding for a gizmo that cancels out spurious noise when you're working at home and the Japanese are using discarded adult nappies to heat public baths.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin looks at Amazon's beef with Visa, banning its credit cards. He is open-mouthed at news that Apple is going to allow customers to repair their own devices in future. He also discusses DogPhones for dogs left alone at home, a device to detect offensive language in schools, a system to launch satellites by slingshot, why Tesla cars are shipping without USB sockets, why Marco Pierre White is to sell 3D-printed steaks, cow-free milk, the new Spanish right to speak to a real person at a company and the Egyptian thief who managed to steal a TV reporter's phone – during a live feed.
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steve caplin

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