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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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26:00

Gadgets & Gizmos: Inflatable drones, bikes with...

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2023/04/27

Steve Caplin discusses tech with Simon Rose, lamenting the end of BuzzFeed news and explaining Twitter's blue tick problem. The Russians have beaten Tom Cruise to making the first movie in space while NASA's Mars helicopter has just completed its 50th flight. Inflatable drones may soon solve the problem of drone fragility while a bike's been built with square wheels. Parrots have been trained to video call each other while Italian scientists are developing an edible battery. Steve is also impressed

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25:25

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI songs, cassette sales soar and a...

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2023/04/20

Steve Caplin delves into the world of tech, with AI creating a photo that won a big photography competition, composing a popular song that has now been banned and attracting Elon Musk, shortly after demanding a pause in AI research. There's an electronic device to replace physical board games, a bike rack with a powered motor and a backpack for your bike if it's too tough off road. Last year cassette sales were at a 20-year high, while vinyl outsold CDs. And do you know how "high" you are scrolling

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26:28

Gadgets & Gizmos: Speed cameras on drones, creating...

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2023/04/13

Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin explains why Getty Images is suing an AI art maker. Devon & Cornwall Police are putting speed cameras on drones while a Janapese company is offering to create meteor showers to order. There's an AI humanoid robot and AI earbuds, while Italy is banning ChatGPT. Sony have come up with a spatial reality display that doesn't need glasses, Buckingham Palace has produced a coronation emoji while scientists have mimicked polar bears, producing material that is

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26:01

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI interior design, coconut & lemon...

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2023/04/06

Tech obsessive Steve Caplin demonstrates to Simon Rose just how impressive text-to-speech has become and why AI should really be AGI. There's the UK's first self-driving bus, why cars with damaged batteries must be scrapped, Paris banning e-scooters, AI suggesting how your home can be redecorated, the noises plants make if they are stressed, how you can insulate your home with coconut & lemon and a crowdfunded punchbag – that fights back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:25

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI websites, powdered beer, 3D...

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2023/03/30

Steve Caplin uses AI to build a website in just 30 seconds but 1,000 AI experts have called for a halt to the AI race. German monks have made the world's first powdered beer, there's a 3D-printed cheesecake (with no cheese), a 3D-printed rocket, carbon-negative concrete, an amazing glamping RV, superb paint-matching for next to nothing, smart socks for old people and airbags for motorcyclists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:41

Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on...

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2023/03/23

Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through the latest tech. Samsung's phone takes amazing moon photos (by cheating), the UK is to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, NASA unveils its new spacesuit (disguised), Stanford develop AI for your own PC and AI can now create photos. There's a fortified plastic chicken coop to keep out foxes (that looks like an animal prison) and Lidl are selling a wireless doorbell that is entirely battery free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:30

Gadgets & Gizmos: Bing hallucinating, a paint...

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2023/03/16

Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the latest tech innovations. A startup has worked out how to use data processing centres to heat swimming pools which cool the PCs in return. Bing's latest GPT upgrade has many improvements, but still hallucinates and makes things up. There's a revolution in the world of paint, better protection for windswept buildings, a keyboard hand heater, spirally-constructed wind turbines and Apple moving into the world of streamed classical music. Learn more about your ad

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26:27

Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla woes, exploring Mars's caves...

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2023/03/09

Tech expert Steve Caplin discusses Tesla's non-Ford assembly line, Musk's dull investor day and a setback for his Neuralink. Breadcrumbs will be the key to exploring caves on Mars, it seems, while the iMAG could be the way to end uncomfortable endoscopies and 3D printing taking place within the human body could soon be feasible. There's a crowdfunded exoskeleton to help with hill-climbing (or even shopping or visiting museums) and on the River Lee, there's an ingenious hand-powered rolling

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26:13

Gadgets & Gizmos: Remote stroking & kissing,...

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2023/03/02

Steve Caplin delves into the latest tech, with the Chinese coming up with ways to stroke and kiss loved ones when not together. ChatGPT has been banned in China, there's a new AI app to try, an electronic bandage will dissolve after use, Metaverse property prices have gone south, there's a crowdfunded self-building igloo, the MoD is hiring sci-fi writers to predict the future of warfare, you can get a balloon ride to space for just £150,000 and the Kinks have asked Elon Musk to stop Twitter

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26:38

Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI...

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2023/02/23

Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. Apple's most famous designer has produced Charles III's Coronation logo, Microsoft's Bing AI doesn't know what year it is, Kindle's ChatGPT authors and the best book title ever, a sign language-reading app, self-cleaning touch screens for cars, a way of telling if you're overusing your voice, an alarm clock that shocks you awake and setting a spider (or lots of them) to catch a moth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:25

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting...

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2023/02/16

Steve Caplin astounds Simon Rose with tales of the latest tech. Microsoft are killing off Internet Explorer, AI can change the style of video footage and synthesise voices while an AI virtual friend is apparently getting way too frisky with some users. Scientists have developed an automatic arm-stroker to redue stress, Lockheed Martin now have an autonomous fighter jet, the best restaurant in Montreal doesn't actually exist, physiological synchrony can determine how a date is going while goldfish

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26:10

Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee...

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2023/02/10

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. There's also a stunning phone camera, how driverless cars might better cope with crossroads, Twitter being sued by the Crown Estate, a portable coffee printer, why skiers with Apple watches are annoying the Colorado police and a skyscraper in Detroit being built from the top down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:46

Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning...

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2023/02/02

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 being replaced with AI, music being generated by text and an audio prompt, AI passing the US law exams, how a flashing light can help you learn faster, Google laying off massage therapists, a robot to pick flowers, an app for when your phone battery is dying and why stargazing may soon become a thing of the past. Learn more about your ad

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25:57

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism,...

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2023/01/26

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, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The Share Radio Interview — The...

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2023/01/21

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. But are we investing in suitable safeguarding measures to protect ourselves against hacking? Well, apparently not. Research from cyber-security experts, nCipher Security, has revealed that as more and more things become connected to the internet – from wireless home sensor networks, to smartphones, to wearable tech – we’re leaving ourselves

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26:55

Gadgets & Gizmos: Fitness trackers for dogs, electric...

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2023/01/12

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 tester, fitness tracker for dogs, a completely wireless TV, a smellovision VR headset, an electric baby buggy and, from Cornwall, the first ever tractor to run on cow and pig manure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI poetry & age checks, NFTs as tax...

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2023/01/05

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 Channel 4's Christmas message and poetry about Share Radio, as well as checking your age in supermarkets. A former drug tsar has come up with synthetic alcohol doing away with drunkenness and hangovers and from the annual CES comes an AI oven, a fruit ripeness checker, a baby translator and printers for temporary tattoos and eyebrows. Learn

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26:08

Gadgets & Gizmos: The summary of the sublime and...

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2022/12/29

Steve Caplin looks back over the tech of 2022. There are escaped robot vacs, jumping robots, robot chefs, teeth-cleaning robots, robot fish, cockroaches, spiders & falcons as well as a dangerous chess-playing robot. They now know how to recreate dodos, clone pets, train goldfish to drive cars and use dead spiders to pick up microelectronics. It was a year with a lickable TV screen, Wordle, a collapse in NFTs, road surfaces made of nappies and the revelation that you should lie on your right side

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26:10

Gadgets & Gizmos: Colonies on asteroids, unfogging...

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2022/12/22

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 country of smokers, at a possible answer to foggy glasses, Channel 4's AI-written, robot-delivered Christmas message, at Westminster Council's solution to street urination and at a licence-free plane, which you have to build yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide

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2022/12/15

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 a pimped iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the rest of us, choose between apps to produce spectacular portraits, a smart door lock, a space-saving Christmas tree, kitchen scales, a yodelling pickle, a rechargeable lantern, a travelling plug set, a folding fan, a belt for sailing through security, a suitcase to beat size restrictions and an app to keep

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