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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…
Episodes
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Cameras the size of a grain of salt, a Superman air taxi & dancing nursery robots
Steve Caplin looks into the latest tech, with Sainsbury's opening a checkout-free store – again, this time in competition with Tesco. South Korea is…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls
In his latest look at technology, Steve Caplin marks 50 years of the microchip. Uber is about to reach its 1 billionth trip in the UK, while Tesla's app locked…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin looks at Amazon's beef with Visa, banning its credit cards. He is open-mouthed at news that Apple is going to…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: DogTV, growing tomatoes on Mars & lab-grown fish
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin looks at IT problems at Walker's crisps and how supermarkets are trying to hide empty shelves from shoppers. Heinz…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Space nappies, 20 years of the iPad & wood that's sharper than steel
Share Radio's technology editor gives us the low-down on high-tech. There's Hertz ordering 100,000 Teslas, just as 12,000 are recalled, how SpaceX's astronauts…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Airships & Hydrogen Engines.
In the week of COP 26, we re-visit an episode from May '21 in which Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at Google's 3D video chat system, the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Solar-powered fire engines & camper vans, facial recognition payment & fast-delivered food
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology expert, discusses Gloucestershire's solar-powered fire engines and Dutch students who've built a solar-powered camper…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Shatner in space, Sky Glass, flat pack houses & a Picasso palimpsest
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, on William Shatner's brief trip into space, expressing disappointment that we didn't all wear monkey masks. With…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Shatner boldly going, movies in space, leaves on the line & Beethoven's 10th
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin admires William Shatner, TV's Captain Kirk, going into space at the age of 90. He discusses competing movies to be…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Singapore's solar farm - in Oz, pigs reducing bird strikes, lab-grown coffee & airless tyres
Share Radio's equivalent of James Bond's Q looks at the latest not-so-secret gadgets. There's the world's biggest and most expensive solar farm (by a factor of…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Sir Clive Sinclair, Tesla's whoopee cushion & an IgNobel decongestant alternative
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin pays tribute to the inventiveness of the late Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the pocket calculator among other…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Cosmic concrete from blood sweat & tears, MooLoo & freight submarines
Tech maven Steve Caplin discusses cosmic concrete using Martian soil and astronauts' body fluids. Also MooLoos, training cows to pee environmentally soundly…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Abba's abbatars, airborne fast food & smart bike pedal lights
Share Radio's tech supremo, Steve Caplin, explains why Abba are having to build a venue for a London concert featuring them as they were 40 years ago. Also the…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Zero Emission Cars
As Simon Rose takes a well-earned break, we re-visit a programme first broadcast in March 2017 when Share Radio was a national DAB station. From April 2017…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The Corby trouser press, the Tesla Bot and the Populele
Share Radio's technology editor mourns the loss of Peter Corby, inventor not just of the eponymous trouser press but rather more. He looks at Amazon's decision…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Pi to 82.8 tn digits, wooden satellites, dissolvable smart watches & Ferraris for kids
In this week's tech show, Steve Caplin discusses the Swiss researchers who've calculated Pi to 82.8 trilllion digits; but how will the Guinness Book of Records…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Lose weight by eating more, biodegradable plastic (with a catch) & Leica's smartphone
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses research that enables mice to eat more and still lose weight, Leica's first smartphone, waterproof…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Zoom adds apps, Amazon's funniest reviews & new battery tech
Tech whizz Steve Caplin looks at the apps Zoom has added to its package but is a little worried about data implications. He discusses several advances in…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: When is an astronaut not an astronaut, Olympic Tinder dates & the Mini Moke is back
Steve Caplin feels (slightly) sorry for Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, told just after their flights that they don't qualify to be astronauts. He reflects on…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Bezos in space, Aston Martin Valhalla, Deep Dive Dubai & dog poo DNA - 22 Jul 21
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, admires Jeff Bezos's space flight but wishes the crew had thought to take a camera with them. He is perplexed by…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The £1m Super Mario Game, 3D police mugshots & robot sculptors
Share Radio tech whizz Steve Caplin explains why Sainsbury's has decided to stop selling CDs and DVDs and why the Japanese government hasn't been able to scrap…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Wally Funk, vertically-farmed strawberries, chaff burgers & smart missiles
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin on 82-year-old woman astronaut Wally Funk finally getting the chance to travel into space. There's a Cambridge…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, data voids, a balloon ride to space & a laptop shade
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's tech whizz, discusses with Simon Rose problems with the NHS app as well the tourists charged over £2,000 for visiting Brighton…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Tesla's acceleration, cinema sound bubbles and tuneable glasses
Share Radio's tech guru Steve Caplin looks at Jeff Bezos's space trip with the $28 million auction winner, at Tesla's new car that accelerates to 60mph in less…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: The net outage, robot falcons, 3D cellos & manure-powered crypto mining
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's gadget guru, discusses the net outage that took down so many websites as well as the encrypted-message app set up by the FBI to…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Amazon Sidewalk, unhappy potatoes & buildings made of food scraps
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains how the Japanese believe they can turn food scraps into a building material stronger than concrete. Also…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Airships, hydrogen engines, the sky pool and an electric Popemobile
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at Google's 3D video chat system, the return of airships, Einstein's e-mc squared letter, the installation…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Smart bandages, Dr. Shopping Trolley, concrete batteries and deflagration
Steve Caplin marvels at the latest developments in gadgets (and gizmos), discussing smart bandages, shopping trolleys that can detect irregular heartbeats and…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Amazon guilt, healthy jazz lovers, a bike-powered concert & bamboo cricket bats
Steve Caplin discusses Elon Musk's changed attitude toward Bitcoin, the guilt felt by many towards buying from Amazon, how jazz encourages healthy eating, why…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets & Gizmos: Vulnerable routers, wine bottle NFTs, smart water & transparent wood
Steve Caplin worries about the vulnerabilities of pre-2018 routers. The latest NFT (non-fungible token) is for wine bottle pictures. The UK's first electric…
Hrkn to .. Gadgets & GizmosGadgets and Gizmos - the first of several hundred
The original 'Gadgets and Gizmos' with Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin - the first of over 300 episodes of our weekly tech programme, originally…