Apr 21, 2014
Lots of news this week, including Bitcoin ATMs, StGeorge Bank’s new smartphone app, using drones for wireless networks, and Captcha solved. In our features, we have a look at some of the things you need to do when you get a new mobile phone, as well as a good look at Jawbone’s newest version of the Up fitness gadget. All this, and more, in this...
Dec 31, 2013
December 29. And 31, if you’re listening to the repeat broadcast, which happens every Tuesday afternoon, at 2. Or right now, if you’re listening to the podcast. We start by giving Geoff a hard time, and then we move to giving De a hard time, and then everyone else gives me a hard time. As well they should. Being a technology show, we discuss...
Dec 2, 2013
December is upon us, and with it, all thoughts turn to the festive season. We’re no different here at the Gadget Grill, and in this week’s show we spend some time discussing a number of ways that you can spend your hard-earned buying seasonal gifts for those in your life. But before we turn to shopping, we take a turn with a very compact and capable...
Nov 17, 2013
Tonight’s show was skippered, for the very first time, by maitre d’ Geoff Quattromani. And a very fine skipper was he – with apologies to both Gilbert and Sullivan. Geoff steered the Good Ship Gadget Grill straight and true. Until I managed to dismast it about 30 seconds into the broadcast. But in all seriousness, after stopping for a while...
Nov 10, 2013
And a martini glass that doubles as your egg timer. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Apart from all the latest in technology news, we review the Lowepro camera bag, Transit Backpack 350 AW camera bag. And bluetooth speakers – with a bit of power under their belts – have started to come into vogue over the last few months. Tonight we look...
Nov 3, 2013
Yes, one of the products we review on tonight’s show seriously suck. But then you’d expect that from a vacuum cleaner, in this case Dyson’s powerful DC59 Animal. Of course, Geoff knows a little bit about cleaning, but that’s a concept that is totally lost on me, so we grabbed the Grill’s resident chef, De, and let her have her way...