As much as we protest that we want to switch the world off when we travel, many of us do want some technology with us when we hit the road. With Christmas and New Year travels just a few weeks away, radio 6PR’s Jason Jordan and I chatted our way through some of the best […]
For a cool $100,000 you can soon buy your own jet-pack, only catch is that it only works over the water and has a 30 foot chord that tethers you to a small boat that travels behind you, but it is the iconic jet pack that many people associate as a symbol of having arrived […]
What will be beaches look like in 2060? What a great question, and I’m glad you asked cos 6PR’s Ted Bull talk about beaches 50 years from now. The notion that we will still have them and want to be on them, but that our leisure time will be very different and our use of […]
Facebook is being blamed for 1 in 4 divorces in the United States and in our in-depth comical discussion we seek to find out why and perhaps that it’s not Facebook that’s causing divorces, but people – ah if only they would use it for niceness instead of evilness (Maxwell Smart circa 1960). Ted Bull […]
This weeks segment is live from Tokyo Japan as we discuss my travels around Tokyo’s Akihibara – the electronic and gadget district, the Japanese view on all things gadgetry, the future and electronics, my driverless cars experience and meeting robots. Listen now
Just thirteen months ago the Apple App store had three geo-tagging applications. Today there are around 3,000. It shows how we have become accustomed, very quickly, to involving geography in the way we use the Internet. In today’s BTalk podcast Phil Dobbie and I ponder whether Geotagging, or devices and applications that know where you […]
