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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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26:52

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control...

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2022/12/01

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 Musk, Alexa turning kids' ideas into animated stories, remote control worms, San Francisco's killer robots, circuits printed on contact lenses, vegan honey, the first hydrogen jet engine test and ride-on suitcases for adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:38

Gadgets & Gizmos: Earth's weight, time-lapse app &...

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2022/11/24

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 sharks away from fishing lines, why Bob Dylan's signature isn't what it seems, about a free time-lapse photography app, about an audiobook app that has trouble pronouncing words and how the United State has just become the second country to approve lab-grown chicken for sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:54

Gadgets & Gizmos: Robotic sewage spiders, sharks with...

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2022/11/17

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, cameras strapped to sharks to map seagrass meadows off the Bahamas, rats dancing to Mozart, the Ministry of Defence firing the first-ever real laser weapon, a Swedish wooden choir, a desk to facilitate using a laptop outdoors, a Japanese mission to collect moon dust and crowdfunding the monitoring of the modal frequencies of bridges to warn of

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26:24

Gadgets & Gizmos: Twitter & Meta, edible drones,...

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2022/11/10

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 about drones seeing wifi devices through walls, edible drones, autonomous emergency rescue drones, undersea drones and ashes released by drones. There's an origami mouse, a discussion about how we might talk to aliens when we can't even chat to whales and an attempt to produce whipped cream without the high fat content. Learn more about your

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26:24

Gadgets & Gizmos: Magnetic north comes to the UK,...

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2022/11/03

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, a robot falcon, how to defeat self-driving cars, the tiniest of tiny TVs, a self-boiling Thermos flask and how Google hopes to develop AI for the top 1,000 (out of 7,000) languages worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:51

Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying cars, solving leaves on the...

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2022/10/27

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, marvels at a couple of Lenovo prototypes, discusses the deadline to use up old-fashioned stamps, plays a recording of what the Earth's magnetic field might sound like, wonders why it's taken until the production of the Sand Rover to solve the problem of leaves on the line and explains how the first piece of land has just been bought using an

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26:27

Gadgets & Gizmos: QR codes IN food, more efficient...

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2022/10/20

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 about the data gathered by Meta's new VR headset but loves an app that separates various elements in music. He is impressed by a motionless rooftop wind generator and a sea platform producing energy from waves. There's even a proof-of-concept ability to transmit solar power wirelessly, using a system developed by Nikola Tesla over 100 years

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26:22

Gadgets & Gizmos: Killer robots, plants with machetes...

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2022/10/13

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 name of art. A robot boot could help the elderly walk faster with less effort while Apple's new iphone has been assuming people on rollercoasters were in accidents. Brain cells grown in a lab of people and mice have been taught to play pong while a Crypto exchange that mistakenly refunded a woman $10.5m is having to sue in an attempt to get

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26:24

Gadgets & Gizmos: Standardised tech cables, Tesla's...

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2022/10/06

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 stanard USB-C cable from 2024. Amazon have brought out a raft of new devices, Google are closing Stadia, Tesla has demonstrated a prototype humanoid robot – which can't walk, a work of art has been destroyed to promote NFTs, a next generation razor may not work and scientists have worked out how animals can be used to create batteries, degrade

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25:47

Gadgets & Gizmos: Racing robots, Skyscraper-repairing...

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2022/09/29

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 extruding drones, how to make driverless cars safer for pedestrians, a lamp that not only follows you but also offers emotional companionship, turning plastic into diamonds and how VR goggles can be used for sedation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:10

Gadgets & Gizmos: Ig Nobel prizes, cyborg...

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2022/09/22

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 accents of cold callers, of a giant simulated moon you can visit, how building blueprints can be interpreted by robots, how cockroaches can be turned into cyborgs for dangerous situations, how concrete buildings can be easily constructed using inflatable forms, a motorless food blender, a clever camping lantern and why Janet Jackson might crash

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26:13

Gadgets & Gizmos: iPhone 14, iOS16, 3D Wagyu beef,...

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2022/09/15

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 while the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra has a camera with abundant pixels. There'll soon be 3D-printed Wagyu beef while LG have a fridge with mood lights and bluetooth speakers. And if you're worried that robots might be too solemn, Japanese scientists have worked out how to make them laugh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:42

Gadgets & Gizmos: Laser phone charging, sulphur...

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2022/09/01

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 up with batteries from aluminium, sulphur and salt, superior to the Li-ion type. There's also an idea for getting energy from waves, facial recognition for one type of salmon, how Surrey Police have been tricking drivers by manipulating Waze and an e-VTOL plane that can land in your garden – with an optional parachute. Learn more about your ad

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26:22

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music & voice separation,...

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2022/08/25

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 down, but only on one side and discusses a beautiful and nippy submarine, a limited edition Bugatti, an 87mph electric unicycle, clever rear bike lights and NASA's revelation of the sound of a black hole in the Perseus galaxy, 240m light years away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:42

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram...

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2022/08/18

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 also a car park machine that only talks Welsh, a funeral where guests could quiz the deceased, problems with Meta's chatbot, the physicist who convinced people chorizo was a star, woodless pencils, three different stories about robot dogs and a paper battery that is biodegradable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:10

Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech...

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2022/08/11

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 help with sleep, Google's new AR glasses, a way to use dead spiders to lift tiny objects, a wearable fitness tracker that detects Covid 2 days before symptoms appear and a faster, more efficient way to dig tunnels - with a big catch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:29

Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors...

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2022/08/04

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 addition, there are motors made of DNA, how small-wheeled scooters can be made more stable, reusable coffee pods, car wheels able to turn 80 degrees, replacing microplastics with silk and an affordable electric bike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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25:47

Gadgets & Gizmos: Aggressive chess robots, e-Jerry...

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2022/07/28

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 was wrapped in foil, a hydrofoil creating hydrogen, the privacy dangers of TikTok, why BMW owners need to pay more for heated seats, an e-Jerry can if you run out of charge and serving court papers using non-fungible tokens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:19

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP SLR cameras, a drone...

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2022/07/21

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 your face on Hasbro figures, hacking fruit-fly brains, a more efficient kettle, a crowdfunded levitating firestone and the Swiss developing a network of underground autonomous freight tunnels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:10

Gadgets & Gizmos: Quantum Entanglement, Limpet Teeth...

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2022/07/14

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 monitored at the World Cup, about quantum entanglement, Bob Dylan's one-off disk, how limpet teeth trump spider silk as the strongest material in nature and about the Wizard Smart Switch, enabling you to turn lights on and off with a touch of a magic wand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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