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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's robot throwers

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's robot throwers
Steve Caplin looks at car locks preventing drunk driving, at a 3D printable gun, at Amazon's patent for fulfilment centre robots throwing objects to each other, at Uber fraud, the bluntly honest HiMirror, at the world's largest 3D printer which can make houses and at the Spanish submarines too heavy to float!
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Autonomous electric ferry

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Autonomous electric ferry
Steve Caplin casts his eye over a Norwegian autonomous electric ferry, Stansted Airport banning sleeping passengers; PWC doing away with landlines, a gravity light, how to save your tattoos after death and a VR treatment for vertigo.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Singing for your taxi fare

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Singing for your taxi fare
Steve Caplin looks at the 10th anniversary of the App Store, Microsoft's Surface Go, an electric taxi taking payment in song, the world's lightest electric folding bike, the smartest lock ever, a 3D battery that will recharge in seconds and the most expensive purchases on eBay in 2017.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Volvo's self-parking yacht

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Volvo's self-parking yacht
Steve Caplin peers through his pince-nez at a Photoshop add-on to detect digitally-altered images, a headset to help you sleep, a football pitch-painting robot, Volvo's self-parking yacht, a smart tail-light for bikes and a clever extra screen for laptop users as well as wincing at the New Yorker who made a stool using no tools whatsoever.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: When tech goes wrong

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Gadgets & Gizmos: When tech goes wrong
Steve Caplin looks at the recent outage worldwide for Google Home and Chromecast as well as US companies blocking European access in the wake of GDPR. He also looks at haptic messaging, how you can own a piece of a Warhol, Makita's bulky cooling jacket, 3D models of pets and a scent-based alarm clock.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Pothole-fixing drones

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Pothole-fixing drones
Steve Caplin casts his eye over pothole-fixing drones, a robot chef, vegan-friendly fake meat, carrots impersonating avocados, an app to solve quadratic equations, a new pocket tool he's dying to have and the plane where you won't be able to see out of the windows IF you're in first class.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Space champagne

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Space champagne
Steve Caplin gushes about a 3D phone (that doesn't exist), champagne designed to be drunk in space, Uber's app to stop drunk riders, paying buskers by contactless cards, robot traffic cones and an electronic nose that can tell if food has gone off. Will it replace Steve's cat?
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steve cap

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Octopi from outer space

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Octopi from outer space
Steve Caplin scrutinises a Japanese digitizer that makes it easier to get shoes that fit first time, VR Boggle, hostage-takers thwarting the FBI with drones, why Octopi come from outer space, Uber delivering food by drones and an app that tells you what a song is when you lift and lower your phone - IF it's a Norwegian folk song!
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Power outage due to zombies

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Power outage due to zombies
Steve Caplin delves into facial recognition technology, with Amazon under attack for selling its software to the police, Orwellian moves in China in the classroom and Facebook being urged to adopt the technology for its ads by Martin Lewis. Also a cautionary Kickstarter and Indiegogo tale, the Florida zombie power outage, an app to relight photos and how to track others without a phone.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Restaurant-booking by robot

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Restaurant-booking by robot
Steve Caplin turns his attention to the Google virtual assistant that can book restaurants, the device to "magnetise rice", 3D helmets for the Swiss Guard, Uber and NASA's flying taxis, chatting with life-size holograms and the Boggle-solving app.
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Steve Caplin

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