Technology

A way to speed up the long and drawn out process of charging up a battery for your phone or digital device. Doron Myersdorf of StoreDot is developing an ultra-fast charging battery you can power up… Audio

Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith and an amazing new technique for 3D printing that's 100 times quicker than today's technology. Audio

Professor Frances Ashcroft is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and director of OXION, a training and research programme on the physiology of ion channels, the proteins… Audio

A gravimeter is an instrument that measures local gravity and Mikkel Andersen is developing one that uses atoms instead of springs or light Audio

Smart kitchens, the Apple watch, a round up from SXSW Interactive, Tinder's new paywall, Microsoft has announced plans to kill Internet Explorer. Audio

In 2010 the US was waging warfare against Iran over its nuclear programme through a computer virus that affected a uranium enrichment plant. Stuxnet was the world's first digital weapon which was… Audio

Dr Patrick Graichen, Director of the Agora Energiewende, German energy think tank charged by the European Climate Foundation with finding ways to overhaul the energy system in favour of renewables. It… Audio

A proposed GST on Internet products, the tech sector's 'women problem' (a lack of women that is, in leadership roles) and the future is ... flying cars. Audio

Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland is like an electro-magnet and by attraction, shows us how physics works... the physics of cricket. Audio

How much do you know about what others might know about you, from your use of technology? How do you minimise your online footprint on things you'd rather keep private? Bruce Schneier is a US… Audio

Training robots to see more like humans. Syed Saud Naqvi, a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, is working on an algorithm under the supervision of Will Browne, an associate professor in… Audio

Apple is in the news this week with the launch of the Apple Watch, and the prospect of its electric vehicles driving around by 2020. With technology correspondent Peter Griffin. Audio

Staff writer at The Atlantic magazine, discussing the fallout from Hillary Clinton's use of a home email server. Audio

Chair of Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College Chicago, and North American regional Chair of CILECT, the world organisation of film and media schools. He is the fourth Creative Fellow for the… Audio

Ant Piper and his sons have been wild harvesting clams since the early 1990s. The jewels of the catch are diamond shell, moon shell, tua tua and storm clam. A marine engineer by trade, Ant designed a… Audio

Rod Downey highlights some of the factual inaccuracies in the movie The Imitation Game as well as describing some of Alan Turing's great achievements Audio

The government says Northland towns like Kaikohe could be next in line for high speed internet, with the extension of its ultra-fast broadband programme. Audio