Gadget Guru
Mondays at 6:30 pm (repeats 6 pm Saturday)
Ian the Gadget Guru helps us make sense of the latest consumer technology and other high-tech stuff. Alex Helmick helps us make sense of Ian.
Gadget Guru: Voice to text tweets and F1 speeding onlineMonday, 26 July, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru discuss new flight recorder technology, meaning investigators can find information after a plane crash. Then, a voice to text app that works on twitter and an F1 website that you may want to check out before the next race.
Gadget Guru: What to do about the iPhone problemMonday, 19 July, 2010The guru discusses the mountain of problems facing Apple and questions the existence of karma. Plus there’s a gadget to keep you hydrated while the sun is shining. Alex Helmick speaks to guru Ian.
Gadget Guru: Reviewing the World Cup (tech-style) and getting fit a little bitMonday, 12 July, 2010The Guru wraps up the World Cup only the way the Guru can. Then, a device to take your dog deep sea diving, and finally, another way to try and get healthy.
Gadget Guru: We all want the latest gadgets now—but at what costMonday, 5 July, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru look into how your gadgets arrive at your front door—although making products in other countries can keep production costs down, flying them into where they are bought has a big environmental cost. The guru goes green. The two also check out a belt to bring your unborn baby all the best tunes.
Gadget Guru: A homemade fusion reactor and the iPhone 4Monday, 28 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru explore an amateur scientist’s attempt to build a nuclear fusion reactor. They also review the Iphone 4 in light of rumors over reception issues and finally spot summer gadgets that no one needs, but some may want.
Gadget Guru: Gaming madness, Star Wars meets LegoMonday, 21 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru look at what’s coming out of this year’s E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles—and Lego’s newest Star Wars addition. Plus a review of Ian’s holiday in Barbados where he played in the Segway Polo World Cup with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniack:
Gadget Guru: (Best of) Apple iPad review and a tryst-tracking websiteMonday, 14 June, 2010Ian is on vacation in Barbados and Alex can’t help but check in on his co-host nice and early in the morning. But since Ian is on vacation, the two will check in on the best of the last 6 months: A review of the iPad and a website to help you track your trysts online.
Gadget Guru: A Logitech remote, an Aston Martin and a nerdy vacationMonday, 7 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru talk James Bond’s Aston Martin, and then Swiss giant Logitech gives the Guru a new remote control to play with. And finally, the Guru busts out his sunscreen and heads for Barbados for an uber-nerdy vacation with other portly, balding, middle-aged men.
Gadget Guru: The Guru's got his hands on an iPadMonday, 31 May, 2010The Guru tests out his iPad, plus Alex Helmick brings you a computer app for the Formula One fan in your life.
Gadget Guru: Hacking into cars, change for gold, and parking metersMonday, 17 May, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru set us worrying over hackers hacking into our cars and 75 years of parking meters. But why not forget about that and turn your change into bars of gold in Abu Dhabi: