This Way Up for Saturday 18 April 2009
Charity collectors
Jessica Wilson of Consumer.org.nz on the on-street collectors packing clipboards and hoping to sign you up for the long term.
The Viewmaster
The binocular-style viewer giving us a view of the world for 70 years. Games correspondent Tim Walsh had one!
Bits and bytes
Peter Griffin's been using the on-line energy retailer Powershop. Plus Telecom's new mobile network launches on 1 June.
Time-banking
Founder Edgar Cahn on the cashless community work exchange and New Zealand's first and only time-bank in Lyttleton.
Robobusiness
Tech journo Peter Nowak's just been at one of the big events in the robot industry calendar in Boston.