Techno Mum explains how radios can tell you the name of the song that’s playing.
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Techno Mum explains how radios can tell you the name of the song that’s playing.
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Ep 15 – Digging tunnels involves some very specialised engineers, and how they dig tunnels...
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Ep 14 – After a natural disaster, there may be many things that need rebuilding or solving, and...
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Techno Mum: My dad’s watch powers itself just by him moving his hand around. How does that work?
Ep 13 – As technology changes, we no longer have to wind up small knob on the side of the watches...
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Ep 12 – When you charge a battery, you can still use it, but when we sleep, we don’t do anything...
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Techno Mum: I recently got a tablet for my birthday. How does it know when I’m touching the screen?
Ep 11 – Although tablets may look pretty thin, they’re like a sandwich made up of a stack of...
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Ep 10 – Not everything floating around Earth is ‘junk’ – in fact lots of it is very important for...
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Techno Mum: Can you tell me how much faster the internet might get in the future?
Ep 9 – Have you ever had to wait for something to load really slowly while you’re on the...
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Techno Mum: My dad says that you can’t put metal things like forks in the microwave. Why not?
Ep 8 – Have you ever wondered why grown ups keep telling you not to put metal in the microwave?...
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Techno Mum: Is it true that you can run a car on chip fat?
Ep 7 – Grown ups usually fill their cars with Petrol or Diesel, but did you know that some cars...
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Techno Mum: How do mobile phones find the person you’re calling?
Ep 6 – Mobile phones are clever things that can do all sorts like texting, e-mailing and even...
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Techno Mum: Can you tell me how electricity gets into my house please?
Ep 5 – We might never see it, but we use electricity every day. So how does it get into your...
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Ep 4 – Everybody loves building really tall towers with bricks until they get too high and...
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Ep 3 – Techno Mum talks to her friend Chris Bellamy – an award-winning engineer from Jaguar Land...
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Techno Mum: Is it possible to design planes that go faster than the ones we have now?
Ep 2 – It is possible to make even faster planes, because we already have, just like the concord...
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Techno Mum: Can you tell me what an engineer actually does? Is it something to do with engines?
Ep 1 – From the boiler that heats your shower, to the bus that takes you to school – all of these...
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Ep 20 – We can go through batteries very quickly when we use them in our toys, but how do...
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Ep 19: Passwords and security codes are always used on the internet. Techno Mum tells us how this...
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Techno Mum: Zappers and Controllers
Ep 18 – Remote controllers are very useful! We use zappers to control our televisions and other...
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Ep 17 – What is a Wi-Fi? Techno Mum explains all about internet connections, routers, data and...
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