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Gadget Guru

Mondays at 6:40 pm (repeats Tuesdays at 12.38 pm and on Saturdays at 1.06 pm)

Ian the Gadget Guru helps us make sense of the latest consumer technology and other high-tech stuff. Alex Helmick helps us make sense of Ian.

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Gadget Guru: A homemade fusion reactor and the iPhone 4
Monday, 28 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru explore an amateur scientist’s attempt to build a nuclear fusion reactor. They also review the Iphone 4 in light of rumors over reception issues and finally spot summer gadgets that no one needs, but some may want.
Apple employee Franklin Weichelt cleans the glass in front of a display of Apple iPhone 4 phones, Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the Apple Store in the Memorial City Mall in Houston. Hundreds of people lined up in the mall Wednesday night to purchase one of the 800 reserved phones at the store. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen) * MANDATORY CREDIT *
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Gadget Guru: Gaming madness, Star Wars meets Lego
Monday, 21 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru look at what’s coming out of this year’s E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles—and Lego’s newest Star Wars addition. Plus a review of Ian’s holiday in Barbados where he played in the Segway Polo World Cup with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniack:
Microsoft's Don Mattrick unveils the new Xbox 360 during a media briefing at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on June 14. The more compact, higher-capacity Xbox console will start shipping to retailers Monday and be available to American consumers this week. With a 250GB hard drive, the console will carry the same price tag of $299. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuon)
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Gadget Guru: (Best of) Apple iPad review and a tryst-tracking website
Monday, 14 June, 2010Ian is on vacation in Barbados and Alex can’t help but check in on his co-host nice and early in the morning. But since Ian is on vacation, the two will check in on the best of the last 6 months: A review of the iPad and a website to help you track your trysts online.
Media members try out the new iPad during the launch of Apple's new tablet computing device in San Francisco on January 27. (REUTERS/Kimberly White)
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Gadget Guru: A Logitech remote, an Aston Martin and a nerdy vacation
Monday, 7 June, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru talk James Bond’s Aston Martin, and then Swiss giant Logitech gives the Guru a new remote control to play with. And finally, the Guru busts out his sunscreen and heads for Barbados for an uber-nerdy vacation with other portly, balding, middle-aged men. 
This undated computer enhanced handout photo released Wednesday June 2, 2010 by car auctioneers RM Auctions shows the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, driven by Sean Connery in Goldfinger and Thunderball, which is expected to fetch at least $5 million when it is sold at auction in October. The car is one of only two of the original Aston Martins featured on screen with Sean Connery behind the wheel in "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball." It comes with Bond gadgets including fake machine guns, revolving number plates and smoke screen. (AP Photo/RM Auctions, HO) *EDITORIAL USE ONLY *
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Gadget Guru: The Guru's got his hands on an iPad
Monday, 31 May, 2010The Guru tests out his iPad, plus Alex Helmick brings you a computer app for the Formula One fan in your life.
Gadget Guru: Hacking into cars, change for gold, and parking meters
Monday, 17 May, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru set us worrying over hackers hacking into our cars and 75 years of parking meters. But why not forget about that and turn your change into bars of gold in Abu Dhabi:
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Gadget Guru: Lasers, rocket racing and a mid-life crisis
Monday, 10 May, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru play with lasers and do a little rocket racing. Then, the Guru discusses the gadgets he’s using to overcome his mid-life crisis.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the laser, its possible uses today are seemingly endless: Here anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker fires a photonic laser disruptor towards Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru in the waters of Antarctica on Sunday, Feb. 14, trying to block them from firing harpoons at the whales. (Keystone/Institute of Cetacean Research)
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Gadget Guru: Motorola Milestone, cardboard box beer and bedroom antics
Monday, 26 April, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru review the Google Android operating system on a Motorola Milestone phone. Then, beer in a cardboard box. And finally, a little pillow talk as the two explore new beds for the cranky sleepers among us.
A man takes a photo with a Motorola Milestone smartphone, sister phone to the Motorola Droid. (REUTERS/Steve Marcus)
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Gadget Guru: Bringing you the best from the Inventions Fair
Wednesday, 21 April, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru explore the best of Geneva’s 38th International Exhibition of Inventions.
Supermodel Stephanie Seymour wears a white angel's bra with lace and sequin trim pleated slip at the Victoria's Secret fashion show, February 3 in New York City. (REUTERS/Jeff Christensen)
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Gadget Guru: Campfire iPod power, sour milk and the Guru's night light
Wednesday, 14 April, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru enter the world of the strange with unique gadgets that have a purpose: a sour milk detector jug, a campfire Ipod charger and a light that won’t wake up your partner but will keep you from tripping over the dog on a midnight bathroom run.
Philips AquaLight
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Gadget Guru: iPad revisited, ebooks and the best April Fools' gags
Wednesday, 7 April, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru examine Apple’s iPad again as it soon makes its way to Switzerland. Then, Amazon raises its prices on ebooks just as some guy from Apple said it would. And the best of the best tech jokes from April Fools’ Day. 
Media members try out the new iPad during the launch of Apple's new tablet computing device in San Francisco on January 27. (REUTERS/Kimberly White)
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Gadget Guru: Going to outerspace and catching spiders
Wednesday, 31 March, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru examine space travel for the average person. And then the two examine a gadget that catches spiders—eight-legged freaks beware.
The first "captive carry" and flight of VSS Enterprise or SpaceShip II over Mojave, California on March 22. The center mounted spaceship is attached to the "mothership" WhiteKnight II for a series of flight tests prior to its first drop test later in the year. (Mark Greenberg /Virgin Galactic)
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Gadget Guru: Fancy watches and gadgets for baseball fans
Wednesday, 24 March, 2010Ian the Gadget Guru brings Alex Helmick and other baseball lovers a dream gadget—then tries to justify his Baselworld expense report:
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Gadget Guru: The Internet anywhere and sorting your laundry
Wednesday, 17 March, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru give practical advice for getting the Internet anywhere, and then, a washing machine that will keep your white clothes …white!
Individual Washer design concept by Yali Dai
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Gadget Guru: Free satellite TV revisited and some newfound Mac love
Wednesday, 10 March, 2010Alex Helmick and the Guru revisit one of the most popular items ever reviewed on the show. And then if it’s the Gadget Guru, there must be a Mac addict swooning in there somewhere.
Will they let Alex back in the Geneva Apple Store? (Shown here at its grand opening in September 2008. KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini))
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