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Gadgets & Gizmos: A notetaker on your finger, modular electric cars & a robot traffic cop
Steve Caplin is intrigued by a ring for your index finger which will capture audio to take notes or set up timers or reminders. Dutch students have i…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: A bad week for Elon Musk, robot lobster hands and a redesign of the teapot
Steve Caplin says it's been a bad week for Elon Musk. X has been fined €120m for breaching EU digital laws, his Optimus robot demo was disastrous and…
10 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: The 2005 gadgets Christmas gift guide
Steve Caplin plays Santa with Simon his little helper as he unveils his 2025 gadgets Christmas gift guide. Many inexpensive stocking fillers come fro…
10 months, 1 week ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: X marks the spot, avoid pirate Fire Sticks and what makes a good soldier?
Steve Caplin says the new location feature in X shows that thousands of pro-Trump accounts aren't US-based. The Grok chatbot has been bigging up Elon…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Largest data leak ever, Skoda's weird AI & AI's misleading financial advice
Steve Caplin discusses the way the University of Vienna got details of 3.5 billion people from Whatsapp in the largest data leak in history. He was m…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Coffee and heart problems, renewing tooth enamel & a voice-controlled electric blanket
Steve Caplin reports that Australian researchers have found that coffee sharply reduces heart problems. Nottingham scientists have produced a gel tha…
11 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Nuclear waste-burying robot dogs, indoor skiing & Tesla's unsticky glue
Steve Caplin is surprised that, despite AWS's massive internet failure, OpenAI will pay it $38bn for computing power. Robot dogs are to be used to de…
11 months, 1 week ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: What caused the Amazon outage, 3D bike saddles & why expensive TVs are pointless
Steve Caplin says that the massive Amazon outage was caused by nothing more than an empty data record. Google has been providing misleading informati…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: The Amazon internet outage, fake Amazon books & helping endangered species
Steve Caplin explains about the Amazon AWS outage, the biggest in the history of the internet. He also points out how many Amazon book titles, even b…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Mass-produced humanoid robots, an electric Ferrari & houses on the Moon
Steve Caplin says that Figure AI's mass-produced Figure 03 is the Model-T of humanoid robots. He reveals the truth about the greenness of plug-in hyb…
11 months, 4 weeks ago