Episode
Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle as a TV show, egg-shaped mice & destruct AI bots - 14 May 26
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- Hrkn to .. Gadgets & Gizmos
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- May 14, 2026
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- 1586
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Summary
Steve Caplin wonders how exciting the NBC show based around Wordle will be. There's a beer station with surge pricing in China and satirical video games machines have appeared in Washington. Audible have opened a bookshop in New York with no books, just audiobooks. You can now buy the Adidas shoes that broke the two-hour Marathon record. There is uproar at the Chelsea Flower Show because a gardener has launched an AI garden design app. Universities in Rome and Belgium have come up with a performance exoskeleton to train violinists. There's a crowdfunded egg-shaped mouse. Car rental companies lost all their records because of a destructive AI bot. And Colossal Biosciences have decided, after trying to resurrect woolly mammoths and direwolves, to bring back the bluebuck antelope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices