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Pesky People interview with Jon Bentley from The Gadget Show

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    Alison Smith interviews Jon Bentley from The Gadget Show
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    Alison: Brilliant, we're on. I'm going to get the interpreter in as well if that is all right?
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    Jon: Yes
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    Alison: Em .... [giggles] ... trying to see the screen!
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    Jon: Yes
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    Alison: Right, My first question is ...
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    ... with your extensive knowledge of gadgets are there any you think we should know about and profile on Pesky People?
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    Jon: Mmm oh gosh ... oh ....
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    Alison: Anything that springs to mind that is … or stands out?
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    Jon: I mean gadgets? Everyone is interested in
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    I guess there must be .... em, there must be ...
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    there is such a vast field … I'm interested (in)
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    just this year … what phones manufactures are going to are they going to be any better than the iphone?
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    I'm interested in 3D technology - whether it is actually going to take off.
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    'Im interested in whether the ipad is going to be innovative (or not).
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    I'm er ...
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    Alison: Good one
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    Jon: I'm interested to see
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    the whole business of whether copyright and the media is going to be sorted out
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    especially with the Digital Bill .... and everything like that ...
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    that's perhaps I'm being far too serious?
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    Alison: No not at all not at all [giggles] not at all.
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    Alison: This actually leads one of the questions of
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    What is important to you when you are checking out and finding new gadgets?
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    What, what really gets you excited?
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    Jon: Which particular bits get me excited?
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    I tend to like
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    I tend to like new computers,
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    I like new cameras quite a lot, I use a lot of photography
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    something that pushes the boundaries there I'm really interested in.
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    I like the way Digtial SLR's use video.
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    You get sort of, some amazing cheap cameras.
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    Not so cheap, like the latest Canon SLR550 for around £600
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    you can get almost 100 quality movies
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    with limitless amount of depth of field and all that sort of thing.
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    I like it when a bit of technology comes along
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    that makes something possible that has not been possible before.
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    That was a bit of a rabble wasn't it? ... [laughs]
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    Alison: No, Not at all, fantastic!
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    Alison: Em ... I've got a challenge for you.
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    Jon: Oh!
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    Alison: Em, I know that you take up lots of new challenges on The Gadget Show
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    Jon: Oh yes!
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    Alison: you go through all sorts of trials and tribulations,
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    getting very wet n freezing cold
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    and blown over in gales and all the rest of it.
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    Em, What do you think of taking up Pesky People's challenge
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    to explore and feature accessible, useful gadgets for Disabled and Deaf people
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    on The Gadget Show?
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    Jon: To do that as a challenge on The Gadget Show?
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    Right, I think we should possible should.
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    I quite like people to suggest to our producers ...
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    who tend to decide what goes in each programme
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    and the overall subjects and challenges.
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    Alison: ah
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    If people come across interesting gadgets that really help them
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    I'd very much like to know about it.
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    Alison: Well a good one for me is I have digital hearing aids
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    that are also wireless and can connect to bluetooth,
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    em, if I press one the other one reacts, they change automatically in background sounds n stuff.
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    So they are only about two months old [laughs]
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    From that point of view it's like technology so can change things
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    in some really great ways.
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    Jon: So that is something that helps cut out background sounds?
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    So like noise cancelling headphones?
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    Alison: yeah they cut out background sounds,
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    em, I can connect to my mobile, em, my ipod, it will work with the bluetooth so you get duel sound into both ears.
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    It's got 5 different settings, so that I can go out to gigs,
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    I can be in a car and get the background noise cut out so I can listen to conversations.
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    So for me they are very useful gadgets.
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    Jon: So they've only been out two months?
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    Alison: This one is two months. It's the newest ones I've got curtesy of the NHS
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    So yeah the NHS has something good coming out of it.
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    Jon: Oh so it has become better in latest versions?
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    Alison: Really improved. The first digital ...
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    the first digital phones that came out interfered with hearing aids so you would get a buzzing noise going on.
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    So that is the only reason the NHS started providing
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    Digital ones because they were too many … mobile phones took off and they had to do something to sort it out.
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    Jon: That sounds fascinating, I must look at your blog to see what you are using.
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    Alison: Yes, yes, I'll give you my card - lovely.
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    We are very new, em … we're very em ...we have been going for 7 months
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    but already getting a lot of attention.
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    And we have just had an Untld 4iP fund award
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    Jon: Ah
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    Alison: for me to develop it as an individual ...
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    and I'm also one of the 'Inspiring Voices' from the Media Trust. So
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    Jon: ah
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    So we are getting recognition but just need to get it really off the ground.
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    Jon: mmm mmm
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    Alison: so ... It would be very interesting to get your feedback …
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    Jon: Feedback on?
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    Alison: [spoken quickly] to get your feedback on the website if you want to have a look?
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    Jon: Yes I'd like that, yes and very much like to have a look at your website
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    yes, and your blog ...
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    … and, what else do you put on there?
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    Alison: Em, from (today), we are going to put up things to do with products and different issues
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    around gadgets and stuff … so that is going to be very new.
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    One of the other things we are going to develop is
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    Hot or Not' in terms of good / bad sites
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    and how digital stuff comes in is great but
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    at the same time whether it is accessible or not.
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    So really challenge a few people at the same time.
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    Jon: It's all disappearing,
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    I mean the whole concept of digital is a very changing thing
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    websites and so on.
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    Alison: Absolutely
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    Jon: It used to be if a newspaper came back
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    you'd stuff it in the library
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    you'd go back 30 years … websites don't exist ...
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    I was fascinated by some library or another …
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    it was the … British library ... actually ... conserving websites.
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    Alison: Yes they are conserving websites. Yup, they are certainly doing that.
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    There is lots of talk about
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    how do you preserve something now
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    that is not going to be available technology wise in the future like floppy discs …
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    Jon: oh yes
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    throughout ... what's happening with like VHS and look at the range of gadgets, the whole thing, oh we had that, had that, oh that's gone. [giggles]
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    Jon: I was remembering ... there is always going to be ... I go back ….
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    to my earlier career before the car programme (Top Gear)
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    I used to work on the history programme called Timewatch
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    and in the office, er, we did something on Doomsday project
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    in 1986
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    that all the schools in Britain recorded
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    the things about the local area, things they liked to do, like music
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    it was all recorded on Philips laser discs,
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    the irony is actually it is very hard to get machines that now can play these things.
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    The irony is
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    you can look at the original Doomsday Book
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    but not the one from 1986!
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    It seems all wrong some how!
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    Alison: Yup that is a good forecast for us isn't it? [laughs]
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    Brilliant thank you very much.
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    Jon: Delighted.
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    Alison: I'm aware ...
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    Jon: Honestly, is that Pesky honestly as in Pesky?
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    Alison: Yes
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    Jon: Yes? Gosh!
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Pesky People interview with Jon Bentley from The Gadget Show
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