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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Say Hello to Tomorrows Tech

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Bonjour! This week we've been to Paris; we've been attending Hello Tomorrow, the summit that showcases world-changing emerging technologies that are about to make it big. This week: A tiny microphone that lets you zoom in on individual voices in a conversation, the perks of dissolving your mobile phone, and from kites to kilowatts: a new form of wind power. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.3

Hello.

0:04.3

Hello.

0:05.3

Welcome.

0:06.3

Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space Big time, the brain, life, the universe.

0:15.0

Bonjure, this week, we've been to Paris.

0:19.0

We've been attending Hello Tomorrow,

0:21.0

the summit that showcases world changingchanging emerging technologies which are about to make it big.

0:26.1

Coming up this hour, right now with my phone, if I pinch my two fingers I can zoom in and out of my video.

0:31.5

What if I could do that with my audio as well?

0:33.7

The tiny microphone that lets you zoom in

0:35.5

on individual voices in a conversation.

0:38.0

Also, an ingenious solution to recycling old mobile phones. Do you say, well, I'm only going to try dissolving some of the metals then separate those.

0:46.0

My preferred options to dissolve the whole phone.

0:48.0

And hey that force that I feel I can do something with it energy and that's what we do. We harvest the kinetic

0:54.4

energy of that wind. From kites to kilowatts a new form of wind power.

0:58.6

Hello I'm Adam Murphy. I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.

1:04.0

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. At first this week a breakthrough in microphone technology.

1:19.7

Now the market for voice- activated products is exploding.

1:23.0

Millions of people literally are embracing this technology.

1:26.0

Many of you, in fact, probably use it yourselves.

1:29.0

Amazon have their echo, for example, and rivals Google have their home assistant,

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