This Way Up for Saturday 14 December 2013
Bitcoins
Could bitcoins emerge as a cheap and global payment system? We see what you can buy with your bitcoins here in New Zealand. With Chris Mills of Kereru Brewing and Gwilym Griffith-Jones.
Tech news
Technology news with Charles Arthur of The Guardian. The US Supreme Court rules on patent protection for computer software.
Epidermal tech
John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is developing flexible computers that can be worn on the skin and can measure your body's performance in real time.
Handwriting's future
'The Golden Thread' by calligrapher and design professor Ewan Clayton traces the story of writing and the written word.
Nepali cooking: Yomari
Kanchana Subedi shows us how to cook the Nepalese sweet rice dumpling called yomari, made to celebrate the rice harvest.