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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars & mass-produced humanoid robots, a desk bike & a folding e-bike

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars & mass-produced humanoid robots, a desk bike & a folding e-bike
Steve Caplin celebrates the arrival of a flying car, though with a slow terrestrial speed. He also looks at modular jets, how electric planes could be powered by lasers on the ground, at the first mass-produced humanoid robot, at a desk bike that keeps you fit while powering your devices, at Honda's ebike that folds into a briefcase and at the development of a flexible soft robot that can heal like a living organism and even self destruct into an oily puddle (thanks of course to diphenyliodonium hexafluorophosphate).
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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: New iphone and watch, Duolingo does music & an off-road e-unicycle

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Gadgets & Gizmos: New iphone and watch, Duolingo does music & an off-road e-unicycle
Steve Caplin waxes lyrical about the iPhone 15, with a camera he's dying to get his hands on and an EU-enforced change to the charging slot. There's also a new Apple Watch, while Polaroid have, despite the ageing technology, brought out a new camera. Duolingo are moving from language into music, students have created the fastest-accelerating EV and the Finns are experimenting with a digital passport scheme. An oscilloscope watch is shipping, a mere 10 years after it was launched, cyclists can get NASA-inspired punctureless tyres and there's a Chinese e-unicycle which can go off-road up 50-degree inclines. Steve warns of the dangers of Amazon selling AI-written books on mushroom foraging.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI assistants for meetings, tear-powered contact lenses & CAPTHA's accuracy

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI assistants for meetings, tear-powered contact lenses & CAPTHA's accuracy
Tech maven Steve Caplin discusses the non-TFL ULEZ websites, the AI speed camera catching misbehaving motorists, sending AI assistants to meetings for you, AR contact lenses powered by tears, an up-market martini mixter, Tesla's secret autopilot mode, the Playstation Portal, a pen with 16 million colours, why Jeff Bezos had to buy a $75m support vessel to provide what his $500m mega yacht was lacking and why CAPTHA is not as good at distinguising computers from humans as you might expect.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Toilet-cleaning robots, cocktail makers, vegan spare ribs & an AI cat flap

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Toilet-cleaning robots, cocktail makers, vegan spare ribs & an AI cat flap
Steve Caplin laments the end of Wilko's while marvelling at a toilet-cleaning robot for offices, a tech toilet brush, a sophisticated cocktail maker, braille-coded Lego bricks, vegan spare ribs with edible bones, a snorkel with 10 mins of air, an intelligent cat flap that will stop moggies bringing in unwanted "presents", a humanoid pilot that can do everything a real pilot can do and an ePaper 25-inch poster.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: eBike caravans, smart glasses, 3D vegan seafood and an electric wheelbarrow

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Gadgets & Gizmos: eBike caravans, smart glasses, 3D vegan seafood and an electric wheelbarrow
Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose on a voyage through the latest tech. There's a hoist to lift your eBike onto your car roof, a cargo eBike and an eBike caravan. Smart glasses make a return as a fitness and navigation aid, there's a mouse that clips to your fingers, scientists have come up with 3D printed vegan seafood, China is limiting smartphone use for under-18s and you can buy an electric wheelbarrow wheel and a chair to cool you down. In New Zealand, a meal-bot has's been coming up with some hair-raising recipes, thanks to mischievous users.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI comes to computer games, writing music with your brain & storing electricity in concrete

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI comes to computer games, writing music with your brain & storing electricity in concrete
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the latest tech developments. There's a demo of AI computer game characters who can interact realistically with players, devices to help deaf concertgoers and blind subway users, how simply thinking about music can now actually produce it, glue that can be unstuck on demand, a camera so fast it can capture light in motion and take photos in almost total darkness, an electric guitar for children, why bras may be soon be able to check for breast cancer and how buildings made of concrete could become giant batteries.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Electricity without heat, Meta's Lincoln chatbot & Steve's best of the year

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Electricity without heat, Meta's Lincoln chatbot & Steve's best of the year
Steve Caplin delves into the latest tech. He is excited about a room-temperature superconductor, producing no heat, which could have extraordinary ramifications. There's a camping induction cooker, a cryptocurrency where you have to prove you're human, Meta's AI chatbot in the persona of Abraham Lincoln, Australian doctors being told not to use ChatGPT for writing medical notes, a new way to recycle tech, an E-trike like a go-cart and Steve's favourite gadget of the year, an autonomous crowd-funded drone that follows you with a palm takeoff and landing.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter, Delaying ageing, dementia & Parkinson's and a less-than-cuddly robot dog

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter, Delaying ageing, dementia & Parkinson's and a less-than-cuddly robot dog
Steve Caplin on the latest tech news. There's Twitter rebranding, scientists working out how to reverse ageing and ward off dementia and Parkinson's, the Australian military investing in computer-capable brain cells, injured knee tendons being replaced with those from kangaroos, DNA storing data with a biological camera, a relatively inexpensive robot dog that lacks cuddliness and a crowd-funded e-scooter with a more comfortable riding position.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: $190,000 for a useless iPhone, AI to annoy cold callers & music for cows

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Gadgets & Gizmos: $190,000 for a useless iPhone, AI to annoy cold callers & music for cows
Steve Caplin marvels at the $190,000 paid for an original, unopened iphone, at AI helping conquer the world record for juggling and defeating cold callers, at a laser device to rid Western Australia of feral cats, at a music system to keep cows grazing in the right place, at a system to reduce methane in cow dung – that appears utterly impractical, at a new way of charging electric cars that might mean they can enter the 24hr Le Mans race, at a crowd-funded portable hammock, at a device to counter car theft and at the possibility that humans could soon grow new teeth, much like sharks.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Threads, the UK's first hands-free car & a robot dog with built-in flamethrower

Simon Rose
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Threads, the UK's first hands-free car & a robot dog with built-in flamethrower
Share's tech editor, Steve Caplin, discusses Wimbledon's AI commentary, Meta's Twitter rival Threads, the Pope's Ferrari, the UK's first legal hands-free car, an eBike with built in ChatGPT, VR glasses for reading, underwater reading glasses for SCUBA divers, a robot surgeon with four hands and a robot dog which has a built-in flamethrower.
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