Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Flies in urinals
12:30 Telepresence robots
12:40 Toastie pioneer
12:50 DEET resistant mozzies
13:10 Scratch.mit.edu
13:25 Tech news: ebooks
13:45 Bumpology: taste and mum-nesia

THE SMALL PRINT
First up this week, flies in mens' urinals. No not real ones or the ones you get on trousers; these are small fly like images glazed forever on the trough's pale porcelain face. It's a bit of behavioural science designed to promote better aim and avoid the sundry issues caused by a misdirected stream. But why a fly?

At 12:20pmtelepresence robots. These days you can log into your robot at work and then using a remote controller spend hours and hours whizzing around annoying your workmates! It's been called 'Skype on wheels' and we'll speak to a company using this technology today.

At 12:40pm we speak to a New Zealander who pioneered the sale of electric sandwich toasters into Asia. The gadget was invented in 1974 and sold millions in sandwich and bread devoted countries like the UK and Australia. But the Asian market proved a wee bit tougher to crack.

And before one, DEET's the most effective repellent for mosquitoes, but no one's really ever understood how it works. That's until now, but scientists are worried that mozzies are becoming resistant.

After one we're building computer games from Scratch. Scratch is a cool piece of software that lets you design, build and share computer games. Best of all you don't need to know a thing about programming or computer code!

Games Links:
Fish game
Chocolate
Zombie Attack
Yoshi

Then at 1:25pm Bill Thompson beams in with more bits and bytes from the world of technology. This week, the battle for the ebook format heats up. With lots of readers and several formats on the market will we ever see a universal format emerge that can be used on any device? Plus a neat way to sync all your bookmarks, passwords and browsing history if you're using Mozilla's Firefox browser.

And before we gobumpologist Linda Geddes of the New Scientist is back with more of the myths and science of pregnancy. This week, what's her baby tasting in the womb and is her pregnancy really making her forgetful and absent minded?

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....
Track: Two Headed Coin
Artist: the Obits
http://www.subpop.com/artists/obits
Album: I Blame You
Label: SUB POP
Catalog#: SP785
Broadcast at: 12:35

Track: Sherrif Fatman
Artist: Carter U.S.M
Album: Alternative: 120 Original Hits
Label: EMI
Catalog#: 966495
Broadcast at: 13:45

AND OUR THEME IS:
Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 2009