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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 and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers
Steve Caplin dives into the world of tech, telling Simon Rose about plans for charging users of ChatGPT and problems with Google's launch of its rival, Bard…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations
It's gadget time with Steve Caplin, who tells Simon Rose about plans to reintroduce genetically-engineered dodos to Mauritius. There's also news of journalists…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & a hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The Share Radio Interview — The Internet of Things (REPLAY)
We’re becoming increasingly reliant on technology of all kinds, divulging more and more of our most personal details online and on internet-connected devices…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Fitness trackers for dogs, electric baby buggies & manure-powered tractors
In our weekly gadgets show, Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through some of the ideas coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, including a 3D laptop, urine…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI poetry & age checks, NFTs as tax write-offs & synthetic alcohol
Share's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at Apple's fall from +$3bn to -$2bn, at ways of setting over-priced NFT purchases off against tax, at AI writing…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The summary of the sublime and silly tech of 2022
Steve Caplin looks back over the tech of 2022. There are escaped robot vacs, jumping robots, robot chefs, teeth-cleaning robots, robot fish, cockroaches…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging glasses & an AI Christmas message
Steve Caplin looks at a solution to the killing of bats by wind turbines, how space colonies might exist on asteroids, how New Zealand plans ridding the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide
Steve Caplin has a sackful of Christmas gift suggestions that should arrive before the holiday. For the extravagant, there's a 2-storey inflatable catamaran or…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips
Tech buff Steve Caplin finds an answer to Simon Rose's earlier question about who invented the wheeled suitcase. There's a pilot-it-yourselves VTOL sightseeing…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots
Steve Caplin fills Simon Rose in on the latest tech developments, after commemorating 50 years of Pong. There's a backlash against Tesla drivers over Elon…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app & lab-grown chicken in the US
Steve Caplin looks at the latest from the world of tech. He tells us how much Earth and Jupiter weigh, who the 8th billion person on Earth is, how to scare…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with cameras & the first laser weapon
Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech news with Simon Rose. As well as some bizarre Twitter blue ticks, there are Japanese robotic spiders to check sewers…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Twitter & Meta, edible drones, origami mice and artificial whipped cream
Steve Caplin updates Simon Rose on the latest tech news, with problems at Twitter, Tesla and Meta in the news. He marks 10 years of Candy Crush then drones on…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Magnetic north comes to the UK, robot falcons and the tiniest of TVs
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Elon Musk and Twitter, the arrival of magnetic north in the UK, a new data speed record…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, solving leaves on the line & hearing the Earth's magnetic field
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a flying car that you can now order, although as a car it might prove somewhat lacking. He celebrates 21 years of the iPod…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: QR codes IN food, more efficient wind and wave energy & fake Amazon reviews
Share Radio's technology editor talks to Simon Rose about the ability to 3D print QR codes inside food, but wonders why anyone would want to. He is dubious…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Killer robots, plants with machetes & brain cells playing Pong
Share Radio's technology maven Steve Caplin looks into a pledge not to weaponise robots, while a kinetic sculptor has armed a house plant with a machete in the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Standardised tech cables, Tesla's non-walking robot & high-tech animals
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new EU requirement for all small and medium portable electronic devices to have a…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Racing robots, Skyscraper-repairing drones & VR goggles for sedation
Technology guru Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about a record-breaking running robot, a clever seabed camera, repairing the tops of tall buildings with…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Ig Nobel prizes, cyborg cockroaches, a moon simulator & concrete inflatable buildings
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin reveals to Simon Rose the winners of the Ig Nobel prizes for science. There's also news of how AI can change the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: iPhone 14, iOS16, 3D Wagyu beef, disco fridges & laughing robots
Share Radio's tech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new iPhone 14, which can tell if you're involved in a crash. The new iOS lets you unsend texts…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Laser phone charging, sulphur batteries & facial recognition for salmon
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose. The Koreans are developing infrared lasers that can charge your phone when you walk into the room, while MIT has come…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AI music & voice separation, boosting pain relief & the sound of a black hole
Steve Caplin marvels at a website that will separate out voices and instruments giving you ready-made karaoke. He reveals that pain relief works better lying…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, warning all Zoom users they should update the app. He links it to Wordle, where there are now books and poems. There's…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of plans to create jet fuel from sunlight. Students have built an e-car that sucks CO2 from the air, there's a tech mattress to…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, giving us the top theme park artificial smells, including rotting flesh, penguin vomit and Kylie Minogue's breath. In…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry cans & wrapping bridges in foil
Tech maven Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the chess robot that broke a 7-year-old opponent's finger. There's also an explanation of why Hammersmith Bridge…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone superhighway and more efficient kettles
Share Radio's technology guru Steve Caplin laments the demise of the SLR camera after over 60 years. He discusses the world's longest drone highway, printing…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth & Magic Wands To Turn On Lights
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Twitter's spam & bot accounts, about the Uber files, how the offside rule will be…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Amazon's e-bikes, biofuel, sand batteries & AR contact lenses
Share Radio's technology editor, Steve Caplin, talks to Simon Rose about Amazon's new e-cargo bikes and a new more efficient biofuel. Renewable energy storage…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Virtual swimming tests, cloning dead voices & the return of airships
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the Chinese students who must take compulsory swimming tests to graduate and who are now having to…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: AR glasses, spray food wrap, bionic robo-fish and roads paved with nappies
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's tech guru, discusses the first mainstream AR glasses, though he's less than impressed. He also tells of environmentally-kind spray…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Is Google's computer alive and other robotic innovations
Steve Caplin goes all robotic in this week's tech show. As well as a robot waiter and a robot pizza maker, there's a pea-sized robot doing an obstacle course…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: iOS update, space solar power, 3D ears and mouse jigglers
Share Radio's tech supremo Steve Caplin delves into the features of Apple's forthcoming iOS update and looks at the world's fastest supercomputer. China is…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered car, e-DeLorean, pizza vending and robot snakes & crabs
Steve Caplin, Share's tech expert, discusses with Simon Rose a new electric car powered by the sun. There's an electric DeLorean, a tracked VW camper van, an…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Water from thin air, solar power at night & the $2m jigsaw puzzle
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, tells Simon Rose of the Texas scientists who have worked out how to combine cellulose and konjac to make water…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Post by drone, pay with a smile, underwater parties & meat in space
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the Royal Mail's drone delivery to the Isles of Scilly, Shetlands, Orkneys and Hebrides…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: RIP iPod, first UK satellite, smart screws & cracklier chocolate
Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about the latest tech news. After 21 years, Apple are discontinuing the iPod, the UK is to launch a satellite from Newquay…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Inflammatory buses, jumping robots & car-powered wine turbines
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about how Space X is using helicopters to catch its booster rockets - and then drop them! Also…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Robotic rats, a flying yacht, masked cows and solar-powered rubbish bins
Technology buff Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, about a robotic rat, a luxury yacht that can take to the air, a…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The Mona Lisa of NFTs, art's blackest black and electric chopsticks
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin discusses trying – unsuccessfully – to sell the Non-Fungible Token of the first ever tweet. Anish Kapoor has upset other…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Police stop a driverless car, art with smells, cloning dead pets & tech bike pedals
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about the San Francisco police's surprise to stop a car without headlights – or a driver!…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Chips fuelling jets, e-ink chalk boards, Dyson visors and slime robots
Tech expert Steve Caplin tells us of BA sourcing jet fuel from chip fat, of the flying taxi firm that wants to expand into the UK, of how driverless cars might…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The biggest LED in the world, an alarming sleep app and breathing cushions to hug
Tech maven Steve Caplin loves LEDs but even he is aghast at plans to build the world's biggest LED screen in East London. He's alarmed by a sleep app that…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Facebook cuts, letting the dead speak, bringing the dodo back & the world's longest car
Share Radio's technology editor, in discussion with Simon Rose, talks about the cuts in employee benefits at Facebook. MyHeritage have progressed from…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Amazon radio, pig mood monitor, cleaning solar panels & FlossElf - 10 Mar 22
Share Radio's tech genius Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about Amazon's new radio app and Apple's new phone and computer. Danish scientists have worked out…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Amazon store closures, portable ski lift & ski tow, hill-climbing car & infinity train
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose why Amazon is closing 68 of its stores. For skiers going off-piste there's an autonomous ski lift on…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Interactive cartoons, fog-free glasses and bugging Rubik's cubes & coffee cans
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin waxes lyrical to Simon Rose about Netflix's interactive Cat Burglar cartoon. He also discusses Ben Gurion Uni's…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Tickets to space, Alfa's NFT plug-in hybrid, expanding cars & Tinder's blind dates
Gadget guru Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about tickets going on sale for Virgin Galactic's space trips, a snip at £333,000. He discusses National Grid's…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Smart windows, smart pens, a walk-through kaleidoscope & sugar cane bollards
After waxing lyrical about progress made in nuclear fusion, tech guru Steve Caplin discusses smart windows and smart pens, how to repel mosquitoes, the world's…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Wordle sold, stamps go tech, making scooters safer with cymbals & tubas
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses the success of the online game Wordle, just bought by the New York Times. The Royal Mail will be adding…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Robot escape, Wordle derivatives, Julian Lennon's NFTs & a smart plant pot
Share Radio's tech expert Steve Caplin on the not-so-great escape - of a robot vaccum cleaner from a Cambridge Travelodge. He also discusses a robot surgeon…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & 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…