Interviews about Technology

Interviews about robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, communications, sensors and gadgets...

07 March 2010

We sent Meera Senthilingam out to find out how cleverly designing solar cells into the structure of a building can make...

07 March 2010

Flexible solar cells could revolutionise the way solar cells can be used, we hear how they're made and where they...

28 February 2010

An estimated 32 billion cubic metres of clean water are lost through leaky pipes every year. But there might be a...

28 February 2010

Most of the water that we use comes from reservoirs. These artificial lakes are often created by damming a river then...

21 February 2010

Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...

21 February 2010

Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...

21 February 2010

Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...

14 February 2010

Meera Senthilingam speaks to resident techie Chris Vallance to explore how new technology can be used to aid relief...

31 January 2010

Just what is Augmented Reality? Dr Tom Drummond, from Cambridge University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory,...

31 January 2010

Virtual Reality is a computer simulated version of the real world. Meera Senthilingam has been exploring the use of...

31 January 2010

Augmented reality headsets may find a perfect home miles above the surface of Earth, helping astronauts to repair and...

24 January 2010

Graham McShane explains what happens when you blow things up, both on land and under water...

24 January 2010

Meera Senthilingam explores how munitions are designed and tested to ensure they only detonate when they're...

17 January 2010

Meera Senthilingam becomes Sherlock Holmes to investigate the uses of Artificial Intelligence in the world of online...

10 January 2010

"The train standing at platform mgph is the phuy-hfgjy to mmughpyhmm..." We meet a sound simulation system...

10 January 2010

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...

20 December 2009

For hundreds of years composers have been creating beautiful and complex pieces of music, written to be sung by many...

29 November 2009

We get a technology update and find out why the entire borough of Swindon could soon be going wireless...

08 November 2009

We talk to Julian Norman-Taylor about In Vitro Fertilization, what it is, and when it can be used.

08 November 2009

We look at some refinements to IVF, controlling the environment of the embryos more carefully.

25 October 2009

How we could be one step closer to making our own spider-based glues...

18 October 2009

A new non-stick coating could give insects the slip, and prevent infestations...

11 October 2009

Tech expert Chris Vallance looks at the technology highlights from over the summer and investigates the effect of the...

04 October 2009

Proton therapy - a type of radiotherapy using beams of charged ions to target tumours, could avoid some of the...