Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Show notes for Saturday 7 July 2012

Quick Hits

12:15   Watery Tomato

12:30   Refugee bikes

12:50   Thermo-electric clothing

13:15   Smart cars

13:30   Puff Pastry

13:50   TR10

The small print

First up this week, the hunt for the perfect tasting tomato!  Working out what makes a tomato taste good is so much more complex than for a banana or pear, but they're getting there! We're speaking to Harry Klee, a tomato researcher from the University of Florida.

At 12.30pm we're recycling bicycles for refugees - a great project in Auckland (by Refugees as Survivors) giving wheels to new residents of Aotearoa. Ride on! LINKS bike recycling and refugees as survivors

And before the news at 1pm, a fix for one of the darker sides of our modern lives, running low on batteries!  From phones to cameras, soon we could be charging electronic gizmos using the heat from our bodies. Thermo-electric clothing at 12.50pm.

At 1.15pm, our cars are getting smarter with more and more sensors in our vehicles. Now the plan is to use information from these sensors to instantly tell emergency services about your possible injuries if you crash and before they arrive on the scene.

Then at 1.30pm we're making puff pastry with Julie Clark, and a warning if you're butter intolerant- heaps of it goes into making a nice puffy pastry! Recipe - Puff Pastry

Gallery: making puff pastry with Julie Clark

And before we go, we look at some of the world's top emerging technologies with Jason Pontin, the editor-in-chief of the Technology Review.

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