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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 & Gizmos has delved into the world of wifi, Bluetooth and exploding lithium batteries, reviewing gadgets of interest and ridiculing those that should never have got off the drawing board. Where some financial journalists tell you how to make your money grow, Gadgets & Gizmos tells you how to spend it – and when not to. Hrkn to www.shareradio.co.uk for more ..
Episodes
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Typing by thinking, robot fish and are chatbots conscious?
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos explores a beanie enabling typing by thought, robot fish, and the concept of conscious chatbots. Other topics include vibrating pillow sleeves for alerts and humanoid robots for baggage handling at Tokyo Ai…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot runners, table tennis players & wild boar chasers
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers diverse robotic applications, from athletic competitions and wildlife control to humanitarian rescue missions. It also touches on a remarkable fundraising event, a NASA initiative, future solar power…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Data roaming, robot seeing-eye dogs & AI singers
This episode covers data roaming tips, advancements in robotics like seeing-eye dogs and cleaning robots, a smart bike bell, AI-generated music, a gadget for vintage lenses, a multi-function pen, and Blue Origin's moon dust oxygen extracti…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Hydrogen-powered trucks, perfect hair-dyeing & smelly VR
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers hydrogen fuel cells for trucks, a hair-dyeing color matching device, and upcoming scented VR. It also features a robot that functions without legs, new retro cassette players from Maxell, a device fo…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: ChatGPT as literary critic, an amazing video drone & controlling games with your brain
Steve Caplin reviews ChatGPT's literary analysis, a high-resolution drone, and mind-controlled arcade games. He also covers topics like Kindle book management, iPhone OS features, a three-wheeled scooter, and a crowdfunding digital camera.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Electric submarines, self-balancing motorbikes & robotic wasps
Steve Caplin covers Apple's updated OS features like driving chatbots and a sleep playlist. He also discusses electric submarines, cargo ebikes, Gemini chatbot quirks, vape-powered cars, robotic wasps, and quantum batteries.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI renting humans, lab-grown computer gamers & plastic bottles treating Parkinson's
This episode covers AI agents renting humans for tasks, brain cells playing Doom, rapid EV charging, Tesco's QR code trials, and genetically engineered bacteria for Parkinson's treatment.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Apple, remote prostate removal and hummus on the Moon
Steve Caplin marks 50 years of Apple and covers remote prostate removal, AI developments affecting books and bots, a novel mop, a solar EV, battery cooling, and the potential for growing hummus ingredients on the moon.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI opts for nuclear war, Meta Ray-Ban owners being spied on & the Tesla Cybercab
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers new Apple MacBooks, AI's tendency towards nuclear war in simulations, privacy issues with Meta Ray-Ban glasses, and the pedal-less Tesla Cybercab. It also touches on new internet and battery technolo…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Dyson's electric mop, musical freezers and the world's largest spherical building
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers Dyson's electric mop, musical freezers at a Co-op, and the world's largest spherical building. It also touches on new QR code technology, Microsoft's long-term data storage plans, video doorbell limi…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI partner turned off, ghost number plates & a smart badge to wear
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers a range of topics including AI chatbots, children's YouTube viewership on TVs, the V&A's YouTube exhibition, the Seedance 2.0 AI video generator, a costly toy car, an airship wind energy system, ghos…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Flying pigs, drones predicting crimes & an AI piano teacher
This episode covers a variety of technological news, including a farmer’s drone incident causing a power outage, a new single-seat eVTOL aircraft, the use of drones for crime prediction, voice cloning scams, an AI piano teacher, a crowd-fu…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Cyborg pigeons, flying umbrellas and who is more creative, humans or AI?
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers AI developments, including Google's Project Genie and a debate on human vs. AI creativity. It also discusses Barnsley as a tech town and features unique gadgets like cyborg pigeons and a flying umbre…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: A dangerous AI assistant, a personal food concierge & talking to dead relatives and pets
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers a range of new technologies including a potentially dangerous AI assistant, a food concierge app, a dinosaur footprint identifier, and a holographic display for creating virtual relatives or pets. It…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Lip-syncing robots, airbags for cyclists and reinventing the steering wheel
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos features Steve Caplin discussing lip-syncing robots, the history of the laser, a new airbag helmet for cyclists, an Australian electric trike, and Peugeot's innovative steering wheel.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: More CES stuff including AI lawnmowers, saunas, showers and even a triceratops
Steve Caplin reviews CES innovations including AI lawnmowers, saunas, showers, and a robot triceratops. The episode also covers eVTOLs, Amazon TVs, AI cloning prevention, Siri powered by Google Gemini, and Nike's new footwear technology.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: The best and weirdest from the Consumer Electronics Show including musical lollipops
Steve Caplin discusses new product highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show, including smart bricks, a robot vacuum that climbs stairs, and music-playing lollipops. He also covers developments in robotics, AI, and 3D printing technolo…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Steve Caplin's Review of 2025
Steve Caplin's 2025 review on Gadgets & Gizmos covers a wide range of topics, including medical advancements, practical advice, quirky inventions like a giant hamster wheel, and an electric skateboard capable of 45mph. The episode also tou…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: A notetaker on your finger, modular electric cars & a robot traffic cop
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos explores innovative technologies including a wearable notetaker ring, a customizable modular electric car, and a robot traffic policeman. Additional features include an AI chef, a cat litter monitor, and a…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: A bad week for Elon Musk, robot lobster hands and a redesign of the teapot
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos discusses Elon Musk's challenging week, marked by an EU fine for X and a problematic robot demo. Host Steve Caplin also explores novel technologies such as robot lobster hands, adaptive eyewear, and a uniqu…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: The 2005 gadgets Christmas gift guide
Steve Caplin and Simon offer a 2025 Christmas gift guide, including stocking fillers from AliExpress and Amazon, tech accessories, and luxury items. The episode also touches on finding winter strawberries.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: X marks the spot, avoid pirate Fire Sticks and what makes a good soldier?
This episode covers the implications of X's location feature revealing non-US based accounts, warns about the security risks of pirate Fire Sticks, and explores innovative tech like space guns, the Stirling engine, and atmospheric water ge…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Largest data leak ever, Skoda's weird AI & AI's misleading financial advice
Steve Caplin covers the historical data leak from the University of Vienna, Skoda's AI capabilities, and the problematic financial advice given by AI. Gadget reviews and the trend of teens preferring chatbots over human interaction are als…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Coffee and heart problems, renewing tooth enamel & a voice-controlled electric blanket
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos discusses coffee's positive impact on heart health, a scientific breakthrough in tooth enamel regeneration, and a voice-controlled electric blanket. Additional topics include remote kill switches on buses,…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Nuclear waste-burying robot dogs, indoor skiing & Tesla's unsticky glue
This episode covers various technological advancements and issues, including robot dogs for nuclear waste, indoor skiing, Tesla's adhesive problems, and a solar-powered backpack for the homeless, alongside a discussion on AWS and OpenAI's…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: What caused the Amazon outage, 3D bike saddles & why expensive TVs are pointless
This episode covers the cause of the massive Amazon outage, misleading information from Google, and introduces an AI military helmet. It also touches on new ways to avoid scams, a gut health monitoring device, 3D printed bike saddles, the…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: The Amazon internet outage, fake Amazon books & helping endangered species
This episode covers the significant Amazon AWS outage, the prevalence of fake AI-written books on Amazon, and touches on topics like conservation efforts using DNA, police drones, a robot phone concept, space-brewed sake, and a new guitar…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Mass-produced humanoid robots, an electric Ferrari & houses on the Moon
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers the Figure 03 humanoid robot, Ferrari's first electric car, plug-in hybrid efficiency, Honda's adventure scooter, Anker's outdoor projector, Temu's EU profits, and Skyeports' moon sphere project.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: 3D house-building spiders, robot dogs for the moon & high-tech white sticks
This episode covers various technological advancements, including Google's unique keyboard, the potential of giant spiders for 3D house construction, Chinese robot dogs for moon missions, surgical technology inspired by nature, and a new h…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Ticketless train travel, a hypersonic ramjet plane & AI actors
This episode covers advancements in transportation and technology, including ticketless train travel, a new engine for hypersonic planes, drone-shooting weapons, an electric jet ski, and steel tires for mining trucks. It also features a cr…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos discusses the Ignobel Prizes, a new EV roadster, and innovations like a digital candle and a method for growing tea on the Moon. It also touches on Amazon Fresh closures and the upcoming launch of Waymo dri…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI cabinet ministers & MPs' speech writers, Zoox taxis & sleep earbuds
Gadgets & Gizmos covers the appointment of an AI cabinet minister in Albania, AI-powered speechwriting for MPs, new uses for BA's Avios points, recurring Tesla door problems, free Zoox driverless taxis in Las Vegas, Mega smart glasses, and…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: New iPhones, Zuckerberg suing Zuckerberg & turning thoughts into words
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos features Steve Caplin discussing new iPhone features, Elon Musk's conditional salary offer, a lawsuit involving Mark Zuckerberg, challenges for Amazon's drone delivery, Porsche's inductive charging, and an…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Retail tech for ripeness & paying, glowing houseplants & livesaving couriers
This episode covers retail technology for avocado ripeness and self-checkout, glowing houseplants, lifesaving courier defibrillators, an RFID object finder, and a warning about AI data deletion.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Badminton-playing robot dogs, solar postboxes & biased maps
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers a robot dog that plays badminton, radar technology for phone conversations, solar-powered postboxes, notable Guinness World Records, the geographical inaccuracies of Mercator maps, and a scientific m…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Repairing teeth & eyes, robot motherhood & jazz-loving cows
Gadgets & Gizmos explores advancements in dental and eye repair, artificial wombs, and robotic technology. The episode also touches on delivery drones and the surprising impact of jazz music on cow milk production.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot cockroach transformers, eyedrops replacing glasses & submarine pizza delivery
This episode covers advancements in AI with ChatGPT's new iteration, innovative robotics including cyborg cockroaches and robot antelopes, and future technologies like eyedrops to replace glasses. Gadgets for powering devices are also high…
- Gadgets and Gizmos: Bizarre new messaging app, light-up food and robot bricklayers
This episode covers unusual gadgets, including a short-range messaging app, fitness-tracking ear clips, edible light-up lasers for food, robots that can lay bricks, and 3D-printed houses made from soil. It also touches on using cigarette b…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's new search, Chat GPT causes psychosis & AI robotic dogs
Gadgets & Gizmos covers Google's new AI search impacting link clicks, ChatGPT's effects and administrative uses, Meta's massive data center and control wristband, the UK's first air taxi flight, trainable AI robotic dogs, and the precision…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: A 100mph e-scooter, a fake AI Instagram model & turning mercury into gold
This episode features discussions on a 100mph e-scooter, an AI-generated Instagram influencer, and scientists attempting to turn mercury into gold using nuclear fusion. Other topics include an electric MPV, a battery-changing humanoid robo…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees
This episode covers AI's capabilities in generating books and music, and grading exams. It also touches on advancements like Uber for seniors, autonomous vehicles, cyborg bees, and robotic surgery.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AIs working against humans, robot football & a possible cancer cure from tombs
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers a variety of topics including a Norwegian lottery mishap, a fine for Monzo, and unsettling AI behavior. It also touches on robot football limitations, a new pen gadget, NHS drones, and a potential ca…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: RoboTaxis, Iran & Scottish independence & lumbering velociraptors
This episode covers Elon Musk's computer usage, advancements in robotaxis by Tesla and Amazon, a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, and a phone-based scam. It also touches on a bike helmet innovation, internet censorship in Iran affecting Scot…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music for bots, Trump's mobiles & solutions for underarm odour and baldness
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos discusses AI's limitations and societal impacts, including its effect on intelligence and privacy. It also touches on technology like Google Meet, unique products like Trump's gold phones, and scientific ad…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Next generation email tool, automatic bike gears & AI art restoration
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos discusses DeepMind's AI email tool, automatic bike gears from Shimano, a waterless coffeemaker, and AI's role in art restoration. It also touches on AI's controversial claims and Amazon's policies against f…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Albert Einstein's business card, concrete coffee makers & the world's smallest violin
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers various innovations, including Jony Ive's new venture, a potential auction of Albert Einstein's business card, and advancements like living tattoos for buildings and the world's smallest violin. It a…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: AI resorting to blackmail, see-in-the-dark contact lenses & cyborg cockroaches
This episode covers AI blackmail tactics, Google's 3D meeting platform, potential dehydration detection via phones, Dyson's new vacuum, advancements in night-vision contact lenses, and the steering of cockroaches.
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's new AI stuff, beard trimmers, gene-edited spiders & train cleanliness
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers Google's new AI video generation capabilities, a potential parking app, innovative beard trimmers, gene-edited spiders producing fluorescent silk, and an efficient new jet design. It also touches on…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: Fish doorbells, turning lead into gold & speeding ducks
This episode covers innovative and unusual stories, including a fish doorbell in Utrecht, scientists achieving the transmutation of lead into gold, and advancements in audiobook narration and space travel. It also touches on a unique court…
- Gadgets & Gizmos: A robotic cake, Spielberg's Duel becomes a reality & tattoing tardigrades
This episode of Gadgets & Gizmos covers a range of technological and scientific news, including a robotic cake, Amazon's Haul service, and advancements in EEG technology. It also discusses Spielberg's Duel becoming a reality, delivery robo…