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Gadgets & Gizmos: BBC's extreme weather, a Möbius strip keyboard & beating airlines' luggage allowance

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: BBC's extreme weather, a Möbius strip keyboard & beating airlines' luggage allowance
Steve Caplin explains why the BBC has been forecasting record winds & temperatures. Tesla are to unveil their Robotaxi. Google Japan have produced a Möbius strip keyboard with 208 keys. A virtual dog lead is somewhat shocking. What will happen to the Chagos Islands' internet domain? A Harvard student has produced smart glasses with real-time facial recognition. The Ask Silver scam checker gets the thumbs up from Steve. The crowd-funded FlyOn travel coat is designed to beat the meagre luggage allowance on budget airlines. And an Australian university has found a way to make flat-pack tubes incredibly strong.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying shopping trolleys, a defensive ladies' fan & cutting cow burps

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying shopping trolleys, a defensive ladies' fan & cutting cow burps
Steve Caplin laments the demise of the car CD player. But he looks forward to flying shopping trolleys which can even handle stairs. A powerwash simulator apparently improves people's mood. A traditional ladies' fan converts into a tactical defence baton, for a price. There's a kayak with an electric motor you can pedal, if you can deal with one of the worst websites Steve has ever encountered. A hydrogen balloon is the latest space tourism venture. There's a nasal gel to trap viruses. Westinghouse are producing a nuclear microreactor with no moving parts which lasts for 8 years without refuelling. And Australian scientists have discovered that clay reduces the methane from cow burps by 30%.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: New iPhone tricks, AI hardware, Tetris prescribed for PTSD & golden lettuce

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Gadgets & Gizmos: New iPhone tricks, AI hardware, Tetris prescribed for PTSD & golden lettuce
Tech talk with Steve Caplin. He demonstrates the iPhone's way of filtering out unwanted background noise. OpenAI are to produce an AI hardware device to be designed by Sir Jony Ive. AI can now fool CAPTHA into thinking it's human. Tetris can apparently help treat PTSD. Magic mushrooms can help with chronic depression. Spanish scientists have developed a superfood yellow lettuce. For some reason Wordle is coming to Meta Quest. And red wine, dark chocolate and cheese help to lower the risk of dementia.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Holographic doctors, peelable paint & the IgNobel prizes

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Holographic doctors, peelable paint & the IgNobel prizes
Steve Caplin explains how patients in rural America can now consult specialists using holographs. There's a less intrusive brain-to-computer interface. Scientists have found a way to help the voiceless speak. A car, unstable at high speeds, can expand its wheels to go faster. A new paint can be peeled off. A novel phone alarm makes sure you get out of bed. People are getting mules to do their exercising for them. And Steve reveals some of the most interesting entries for this years IgNobel Prize.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Curing wrinkles with fish guts, remote control endoscopies & the iPhone 16

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Curing wrinkles with fish guts, remote control endoscopies & the iPhone 16
Tech maven Steve Caplin says that South Korean scientists have discovered that fish guts can inhibit the effects of ageing. Swiss doctors performed a remote endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong. Tartrazine can make skin transparent. Apple's new iPhone will appeal particularly to those keen on photography and has clever new auto-generated emojis. There's a keenly-priced new photography drone. Honda are making a foldable generator which will either charge your EV or turn into a mini motorbike. And the World Heath Organisation have proven that there really is no link between mobile phones and cancer.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Underground nuclear power stations, water cremation & biohybrid computing

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Underground nuclear power stations, water cremation & biohybrid computing
Steve Caplin discusses the astronauts whose space stay of 8 days has turned into 8 months. Nuclear power could be safer if the power stations are buried one mile underground. Water cremation is coming to the UK soon. There's an e-ink computer which will work in sunlight – though not for very long. Italian scientists have a humanoid jetpack robot to rescue people on mountains – with a few drawbacks. Ultrasonic joining solves the problem of sticking wood and metal. And biohybrid computing, which already gives robots locusts' ears is now adapting fungi's mycelium root communication to electronics.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Internet blimps, Steve Jobs' Apple 1 computer & reinventing the wheel

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Internet blimps, Steve Jobs' Apple 1 computer & reinventing the wheel
Tech talk with Steve Caplin. A blimp with GPS has been developed to beam high speed internet to remote places. Steve Jobs' 1976 Apple 1 computer is up for auction. Jonny Davies has set a new world record for being dragged behind a motorbike. Korean scientists have reinvented the wheel for bumpy ground. Scientists testing fruit flies prove we are happier drinking with friends. There's a £134,000 watch beased on the Blackbird supersonic spy plane. ePaper displays no longer need batteries. ChatGPT has been answering users in Welsh. Steve's favourite drone, the HoverAir X1, has been updated. And there's a new dual screen laptop with a flipscreen ideal for meetings.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot dentists, making bricks from rubble & stopping cow burps

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot dentists, making bricks from rubble & stopping cow burps
The man who knows tech stuff, Steve Caplin, discusses a household robot with a terrifying featureless face and the first autonomous dentist, apparently much faster than the real thing. There's a mosquito tracker, an AI-powered golf trolley, a necklace to jog your memory and a mobile factory that can make bricks from rubble, which is being sent to Ukraine. To solve the problem of moths in museums and stately homes, Rentokil suggests parasitc wasps while a pill could stop cows producing methane-laden burps. And do men drive more riskily if the voice on their satnav is female?
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Steve Caplin

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Vicky Sayers

Gadgets & Gizmos: Share Radio Interview — Bionic Britain?

Vicky Sayers
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Share Radio Interview — Bionic Britain?
We’re living in a world fascinated with the future and what it might bring. But with technology and AI improving all the time, could a “Terminator situation” be on the horizon? Vicky Sayers speaks to Futurologist, Dr Ian Pearson, who says the only way to make sure artificial intelligence doesn’t eventually overtake our own, is for humans to become more like the machines we’re creating. But how realistic is a bionic future for Britain, and the world at large? Replay from 29 September 2019
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Dr Ian Pearson

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: ChatGPT makes it up, BA's safety video, cheer up with fruit & stopping snoring

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: ChatGPT makes it up, BA's safety video, cheer up with fruit & stopping snoring
Steve Caplin's love for Perplexity deepens. OpenAI's rival to Google is almost ready but ChatGPT apparently makes up URLs. BA's hilarious new safety video has been watched on YouTube half a milion times. Fruit – but not veg – reduces age-related depression. There's a new supermarket delivery robot, while a Japanese supermarket uses AI to standardise smiles and Simon warns about Sainsbury's illusory online offers. There are a couple of devices to help stop snoring, but one uses AI and the other electrocutes your tongue! And the Royal Mail app can now detect counterfeit stamps.
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Steve Caplin

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