Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,04 Dec 2015,23 mins

High Noon for Smartwatches?

Tech Life

Available for over a year

The latest on the VTech toy company hack with Ken Munro of Pentest Partners. Is the fad for smartwatches already over? We ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, one of the earliest devices of this kind. Paul Cameron talks to us about Booktrack, his idea to give e-books a soundtrack. And Mark Lawson-Statham of Intelligent Energy tells us about plans for a hydrogen fuel-cell phone battery. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Holly Brockwell of Gadgette.com, and Jane Wakefield from the BBC Online tech desk. (Picture: Man studying rack of smartwatches, Credit: Getty Images).

Programme Website
More episodes