Podcast: The Kiira – Uganda’s Electric Car

Stories this week on Uganda’s electric car, Liberia’s new undersea fiber optic cable, and some Nigerians who are recycling plastic bottles into houses. Also, Syrian web monitoring and an app called Instant WILD.

Adding Sounds to the Silence of Electric Cars

An engineering group in Britain is helping manufacturers figure out which sounds might help electric cars be more obvious to pedestrians and cyclists.

Tech Podcast: “Loudening” the electric car…

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Sure, this little all-electric Tesla Motors sports car is an eye-catcher. But is it an ear-catcher? Will pedestrians hear it in time to get out of its way? In this week’s podcast, we’ll hear one professor’s arguments, and ideas, for “loudening” the electric car. Also, trash converted to charcoal in Haiti, and a trip into Russia’s computer criminal class. We’ll also talk about DVD piracy problems in Spain. (Photo courtesy of Tesla Motors)

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Technology Podcast: Smart phones for scientists

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In this week’s technology podcast, you can hear how some scientists in Britain are working to develop an open source application for smartphones that will allow field researchers to do some pretty sophisticated data collection and mapping. It’s all in an effort to fight the spread of infectious diseases across the globe. Also, we have a story on the future of electric vehicles, and a US researcher takes a look at how politicians Tweet in the US and UK.

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