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Click hears from the researcher who's accessed the data that his iPhone has recorded about his movements over the last few months. Even though this information is buried deep in the iPhone's memory, it's easy to access and share. Gareth Mitchell talks to Jaako Sarela of Zen Robotics about a machine that has learnt how to scour piles of waste in search of valuable materials that could be recycled. The Finnish company has put together the best technology at its disposal to create an industrial robot that uses vision and other senses even including touch, to sort the useful from the useless. The performance artist, Laurie Anderson has re-jigged a violin so it triggers audio samples when the bow touches the strings. She's taken a table that transmits music to your ears through your arms. Ahead of her show Delusion which comes to the Brighton Festival in southern England next month, Anderson talks to Colin Grant about adopting and adapting cutting-edge technology in her art
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