This Way Up for Saturday 11 October 2008
Bits and Bytes
The latest proposed European laws to make all electronics manufacturers put replaceable batteries in their products.
Sporting Life
Why golf balls have dimples. Also do sex bans before competition help or hinder sporting performance?
Loaded Lyrics
Product placement's been going on in films and TV shows for ages. Now people are paying to get brand names mentioned in songs.
On Your Bike
In Oakland, customised, pimped-out bicycles called "scraper bikes" are the latest craze.
Fishy Business
Catch numbers and trout sizes are down at Lake Taupo, an area which sells itself as the trout-fishing capital of the world.
Pesto
We meet a guy who grows basil in Fiji, flies it here, then grinds it up to make 4 tonnes of pesto every week.