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World Wise WebEpisodes

  1. World Wise Web: Part two

    Teenagers meet pioneering inventors, including the creator of the first mobile phone

  2. World Wise Web: Part one

    Teenagers meet pioneers whose inventions shaped our digital world

  3. Drones

    How battery-powered aircraft deliver medical supplies in Rwanda and Ghana

  4. Prosthetics

    How a new generation of implants is changing the lives of amputees

  5. Formula 1 simulator

    How can you recreate the experience of driving a Formula 1 car?

  6. The mobile phone

    In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his new cell phone

  7. Internet networks

    A teenager from the Philippines talks to "the mother of the internet"

  8. Computer animation

    How Pixar made films that changed cinema history

  9. Google Search

    The early days of one of the world's biggest companies

  10. GPS

    How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS

  11. Lithium ion battery

    How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution

  12. Socially assistive robots

    Robots that care - making technology that is a force for good

  13. The iPod

    In 2001, Apple’s iPod revolutionised how we listen to music

  14. Welcome to World Wise Web

    Coming in January. Teenagers talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives

  15. The preview

    Who are the people designing our digital world? And how do they come up with their ideas?

  16. Nasa’s Curiosity rover parachute

    The supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012