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Hrkn to .. Gadgets & Gizmos
Stocks may rise and fall, businesses may boom and bust, but gadgets keep appearing at an ever-increasing rate. Share Radio’s Gadgets & Gizmos show explores the latest technological innovations, from the indispensable to the downright ridiculous. Show host Simon Rose and technology editor Steve Caplin take a weekly humorous look at what’s on offer, featuring both existing products and those whose inventors utilise crowdfunding platforms to make them a reality. Through its 300-plus shows, Gadgets…
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Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Robot cockroach transformers, eyedrops replacing glasses & submarine pizza delivery
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new iteration of ChatGPT which is less sycophantic or likely to make mistakes. Singapore scientists can transform…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets and Gizmos: Bizarre new messaging app, light-up food and robot bricklayers
Steve Caplin is puzzled by Jack Dorsey's new messaging app – with a range of just 300 metres. A clip on your ear can improve your fitness. Tiny, edible micro…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Google's new search, Chat GPT causes psychosis & AI robotic dogs
Steve Caplin laments Google's new AI search which means far fewer people will ever click on links. ChatGPT apparently causes psychosis but could also be far…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: A 100mph e-scooter, a fake AI Instagram model & turning mercury into gold
Steve Caplin discusses an electric MPV, an e-scooter with a treadmill, a bike charging pad, a 100 mph e-scooter with faster acceleration than a Tesla and a…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees
Steve Caplin discusses an app that uses AI to create illustrated books for children, as well as AI being used to mark exams. Uber is making it easier for…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AIs working against humans, robot football & a possible cancer cure from tombs
Steve Caplin feels sorry for the Norwegian lottery players told they'd won big, only to find it was a basic maths error. Monzo has been fined over "weak…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: RoboTaxis, Iran & Scottish independence & lumbering velociraptors
Steve Caplin expresses surprise that Elon Musk (or his lawyers) claims not to use a computer, despite previous contrary evidence. Tesla has launched its…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI music for bots, Trump's mobiles & solutions for underarm odour and baldness
Steve Caplin discusses more to do with AI: researchers have discovered that relying on it makes you stupid; an engineer found it can't play chess; AI-generated…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Next generation email tool, automatic bike gears & AI art restoration
Steve Caplin is unsure about DeepMind's forthcoming "next generation email tool" which will answer emails in your voice. The rooftop garden of Google's new…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Albert Einstein's business card, concrete coffee makers & the world's smallest violin
Steve Caplin is excited by Jony Ive's new venture, even though nobody yet knows what it is. He wonders how much Albert Einstein's business card will fetch…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI resorting to blackmail, see-in-the-dark contact lenses & cyborg cockroaches
Steve Caplin says that the Vienna Tourist Board will be celebrating Strauss's bicentenary by beaming The Blue Danube to Voyager 1. Google's 3D meeting platform…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Google's new AI stuff, beard trimmers, gene-edited spiders & train cleanliness
Steve Caplin is bowled over by Google's new AI which can produce videos with incredibly realistic speech in 24 languages with any accent, though perhaps not…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Fish doorbells, turning lead into gold & speeding ducks
In Utrecht, says Steve Caplin, they've installed a fish video doorbell so the lockkeeper can open the lock for spawning fish. Scientists have managed to turn…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: A robotic cake, Spielberg's Duel becomes a reality & tattoing tardigrades
Steve Caplin wonders why scientists have developed a cake with pneumatic robotic dancing bears on top, rechargeable but also edible. Amazon have a new budget…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Junk food affects the brain, T-Rex handbags & the weight of Earth's trees
Steve Caplin explains the research showing how junk food inhibits the brain. There's a tailor-made Bugatti watch costing a mere $340,000. British scientists…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: A new colour, flu gum instead of jabs, energy from water & robot runners
Steve Caplin says there's a new colour, "Olo", but you need a laser blasted into your eye to see it. Instead of flu jabs, you may soon be able to chew a gum…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Robot horses, electric skateboards and a robot chess player
Steve Caplin is desperate to buy the Kawasaki robot horse which can do everything a horse can but is powered by hydrogen. Sadly it's still only a…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Speedbump-defying car, depression-alleviating AI bot & pilotless air taxis
Steve Caplin is impressed by a Chinese car with predictive suspension that remains level going over bumps and can even travel on three wheels. China also…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: STOL planes, environmentally-friendly concrete & chatting with GPT
Steve Caplin discusses a hybrid STOL plane which is as quiet as a vacuum cleaner and only needs a 100m-long runway. Amazon's plan for UK drone deliveries might…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Air taxis, AI can't tell the time, gravity batteries & driverless cars getting parking fines
Steve Caplin delves into the world of tech. Virgin expects to have an eVTOL air taxi service in the UK relatively soon. In San Francisco, driverless cars got…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, anxious AI therapists & using brain cells in silicon chips
Steve Caplin marvels at the video of a flying car – because it is so poorly made, as if from Thunderbirds. There's a seaglider that appears to float rather…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Disguising cold call voices, paper batteries & an affordable e-bike
Steve Caplin points out that Apple Intelligence isn't always particularly bright. Indian call centre voices could soon be disguised "to build a more…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Quantum computing chips, trifold phones & how to find an ice cream
Steve Caplin celebrates Photoshop coming to the iPhone, as well as Microsoft producing its first quantum computing chip, apparently powered by topological…
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Gadgets & Gizmos: Save 10 years with AI, the Super Bowl ad gaffe & Italy gets tough with fake reviews
Steve Caplin says that in 2 days, AI solved a problem that took Imperial College scientists 10 years. But it also caused a massive gaffe in a staggeringly…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Wifi giant barbecue, bike touchscreen display & a mobile 1-bed flat in a box
From the world of tech, Steve Caplin talks about the perfect way to cook a boiled egg and a giant barbecue that is controlled by your mobile. There's a…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The 500th edition – the good, the bad and the truly weird from 10 years of the show
For the 500th show, Steve Caplin takes a look back at some of the highlights of 10 years of Gadgets & Gizmos. He covers sprayable sleep, cows imitating zebras…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: DeepSeek and how to circumvent Chinese censorship
Share Radio's tech guru Steve Caplin discusses the Chinese AI DeepSeek, which he finds as good, if not better, than previous AI programs. Although it is…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Digital driving licences, AI videos & AI screenwriting and a robot turtle
Steve Caplin on the latest tech. Digital driving licences are coming to the UK. BT's 60,000 car charger plan produced just one – and it's out of order. There…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The fake Brad Pitt, a solar beach umbrella & hat and a pothole-jumping hypercar
Steve Caplin tells the salutory tale of a woman conned out of a fortune by a fake Brad Pitt online before turning to a second batch of wacky gadgets on display…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI failings, Meta abandoning fact checkers & bonkers CES products
In our tech show, Steve Caplin discusses some of the mistakes made by Apple's new AI and how Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. He reports on some of the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: 40 years of mobile calls, finding lost luggage & weird patent applications
Steve Caplin kicks off the year by reminding us it is 40 years since the first mobile phone call: but do you remember the celebrity who made it? Motorised skis…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos 2024 Review: AI Grannies, butter made from air, spying air fryers and much more
Steve Caplin looks back over the good, bad, ugly and bonkers of the tech world in 2024. He admired the AI scam-baiting granny, the rocket that eats itself, the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Google's quantum chip, rocking beds, solar paint & a security football
Steve Caplin updates Simon Rose on the latest tech. Sadly, OpenAI video generator Sora won't be available in the UK. However, Google's GenCast could soon be…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Christmas gift guide
Steve Caplin gives Simon Rose a plethora of tech ideas for Christmas gifts, for others and for yourself. He finds some bizarre advent calendars. The top toy…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Powered legs, octopus-suckered dentures & spaghetti bandages
In the world of tech, Steve Caplin looks at powered legs like "the electric bike but for walking". There's a 37mph electric surfboard while scientists have…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Stretchable screens, sterile mosquitoes & an AI scam-beating granny
Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. LG improve their bendable LED screens so they can now stretch too. Scientists improve the chances of…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Replica Batmobiles, robotic art, repairable kettles & barcoding zebras
Warners are making driveable Batmobiles, says Steve Caplin, though they aren't street legal. In California, there's a beautifully-designed solar-powered car. A…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Detecting spoiled milk, slow mobile internet & an inflatable toilet
Steve Caplin dives into the world of gadgets. Rolls-Royce have produced a one-off car to celebrate 60 years of Goldfinger. An Australian app can detect if milk…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Trapping CO2, Michael Parkinson to return & Google fined more than the world's GDP
Steve Caplin explains how US scientists have found an impressive way of trapping CO2 while Australian boffins have worked out how to generate electricity from…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI generating TV programmes & podcasts and why video games boost your brain
Steve Caplin talks health tech, including vein locators, speedier blood tests and AI spotting fractures doctors might miss. ITV is going to use AI to generate…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Standing desks, digital examinations & a robot orchestra conductor
Steve Caplin delves into the world of tech. Tesla's Robotaxi disappointed investors. Standing desks turn out to be no better than being seated. A robotic…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The global IT outage, robot litter-picking dogs & spray-on trainers - 25 Jul 24
Tech buff Steve Caplin explains the global IT outage caused by a Crowdstrike software update and Microsoft's extraordinary advice. There's an Italian…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The world's smallest chariot, walking in a VR game & slowing down ageing
Steve Caplin delves into the world of tech, where Tokyo scientists have made the world's smallest chariot, pulled by algae. Carmarker Stellantis have patented…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, butter made from air & uncannily recreating old stars' voices
Steve Caplin explains how Elon Musk will be destroying the International Space Station. There's a flying car that's a cross between a go-kart and a helicopter…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: CEO jets, Ferrari's electric car, solar panels for your VW & making robots smile
Steve Caplin says executive oneupmanship comes with Sirius Aviation's CEO eVTOL jet powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Ferrari has produced its first electric…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Pineapple leather, the $400,000 helmet & robot taxi drivers for any car
Steve Caplin discusses the importance of cheese, red wine and chocolate for living longer. Artificial leather just got better by using pineapples. The $400,000…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Apple's AI, the AI MP candidate and how Oxen's bottoms influenced railways
Steve Caplin explains to Simon Rose what Apple Intelligence will do on its newest phones. He has been quizzing the AI candidate standing in the General…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Tattooing avocados, growing your own teeth and having a third thumb
Steve Caplin explains why Tesco is tattooing avocados. Japanese scientists believe people will soon be able to grow new teeth. There's a robot seed-planter…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI gaffes and hearing aids, cutting cargo ship emissions and head transplants
Steve Caplin discusses the latest AI gaffes, as it suggests rock eating and gluing cheese onto pizzas. There's a bright idea to cut cargo ship emissions. Glass…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Monocab trains on demand, transparent wood & crowdsourcing hair colouring
Steve Caplin delves into the world of tech, with ChatGPT withdrawing a voice Scarlett Johansson claims is too much like hers and tech companies agreeing not to…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Another leap for AI, how to drink without getting drunk & battling noisy neighbours
Steve Caplin is excited by ChatGPT's latest innovation which combines text, audio and video and talks to you uncannily realistically. He also explains which AI…