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Gadgets & Gizmos: 3D house-building spiders, robot dogs for the moon & high-tech white sticks
Steve Caplin marvels at Google's weird Japanese keyboard. Australian engineers think giant spiders could 3D-print buildings. The Chinese are training…
1 year ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Ticketless train travel, a hypersonic ramjet plane & AI actors
Steve Caplin says that northern train passengers can soon trial a ticketless system which will automatically find the cheapest fare. A new hypersonic…
1 year ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon
Steve Caplin celebrates some of the bonkers research that has won scientists this year's Ignobel Prizes. A Denver designer thinks he can reinvent the…
1 year ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI cabinet ministers & MPs' speech writers, Zoox taxis & sleep earbuds
Steve Caplin tells an incredulous Simon Rose that Albania has appointed an AI cabinet minister which is 100% corruption free. AI is also apparently w…
1 year ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: New iPhones, Zuckerberg suing Zuckerberg & turning thoughts into words
Steve Caplin explains the features of the new iPhones and their clever cameras. Elon Musk has been offered a $1trillion salary – with tough condition…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Retail tech for ripeness & paying, glowing houseplants & livesaving couriers
Steve Caplin says Tesco are trialling tech that knows if avocados are ripe while Waitrose is testing ways of paying for shopping without needing to c…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Badminton-playing robot dogs, solar postboxes & biased maps
Steve Caplin says a robot dog can now play badminton – as well as a 7-year-old. Mobile phone conversations can be picked up by radar, with limitation…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Repairing teeth & eyes, robot motherhood & jazz-loving cows
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose that scientists have worked out how to use nanoparticles to end the misery of sensitive teeth while others believe they…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot cockroach transformers, eyedrops replacing glasses & submarine pizza delivery
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about the new iteration of ChatGPT which is less sycophantic or likely to make mistakes. Singapore scientists can trans…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gadgets and Gizmos: Bizarre new messaging app, light-up food and robot bricklayers
Steve Caplin is puzzled by Jack Dorsey's new messaging app – with a range of just 300 metres. A clip on your ear can improve your fitness. Tiny, edib…
1 year, 2 months ago