Technology

A new film being made in Wellington will enable the audience to don a headset and become part of the onscreen action. Science and Innovation reporter Charlie Dreaver went out to Miramar Creative… Video, Audio

High tech digital pioneer Ian Taylor is bringing virtual reality to Otago prison to help inmates learn to read while they fix cars. It's estimated two thirds of prisoners need literacy and numeracy… Audio

Dr Paul Smith, is head of testing at Consumer New Zealand. He says although we live in an age of gadgets and appliances, many don't last. And whole classes of appliances are now uneconomic to repair… Audio

Professor Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is the director of the Centre of Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at the Central European University in Budapest. She is also Vice Chair of the IPCC. She's in… Audio

'This Is Love' is made by the same team that makes 'Criminal', a show that we featured on The Podcast Hour a few months' back. 'Criminal' tells true stories about right and wrong, and how to tell the… Audio

Remember the fearful run-up to the moment when the calendar clicked over to Saturday 1 January 2000 and the whole of modern civilisation as we knew it would fall off a cliff? In Headlong: Surviving… Audio

Elizabeth Denham is the UK Information Commissioner and lead the raid on Cambridge Analytica in March this year. She gained a warrant to search the London-based data analytics company's records over… Audio

Peter Griffin takes a look at the kinds of new or old technology that people might be looking to buy for Christmas or in the new year sales and asks if i-pads and tablets are now a thing of the past.

Spark faces political problems getting 5G - which isn’t for phones anyway; phone brands are set for a bloodbath; and the Trade Me offer likely isn’t good news for regular Kiwis, tech journo Bill… Audio

China is being blamed for an upsurge of cyber attacks against Australian businesses. A joint Fairfax Media-Nine News investigation says it has confirmation the attacks were orchestrated by China's… Audio

Does the idea of this make your blood run cold? Fourteen school pupils on the Gold Coast were in an overcrowded elevator that plunged several floors. And in Chicago a skyscrpaer lift fell from the… Audio

Dr Ethan Plaut, lecturer in media and communication at the University of Auckland, says the sheer volume of media messages in a 24- hour news cycle is more than anyone can critically process. Ethan… Audio

Sylvia Massy has worked with Prince, Tool, and Johnny Cash; Gil Norton has produced for The Pixies, Foo Fighters and Manic Street Preachers; and Clint Murphy has had his fingers on the faders… Video, Audio