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Last broadcast on Mon, 26 Apr 2010, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Simon Cox explores the digital world.
In this week's show: Twittering Shakespeare; a look behind the scenes of video game development; and how smartphone apps are becoming a tool in some surprising workplaces. Plus the BBC's Broadcasting House gets tagged in a new project that mixes technology with social history.
There's an app for that
Applications for smartphones have become incredibly popular - there's now software to do everything from checking the weather to learning first aid. Simon speaks to Dr Jerry Nolan, a consultant anaesthetist at Bath Hospital, who was involved in creating iResus, a medical app that is now in use on the wards. And The Economist's Tom Standage and Flora Graham from CNet UK join Simon in studio to discuss the rise of the app economy - a whole industry which didn't exist two years ago.
Twittering theatre
As an RSC/Mudlark production of Romeo and Juliet swaps sonnets for Tweets, Bethan Marlow, one of the writers on "Such Tweet Sorrow", and The Guardian's Lyn Gardner join Simon to talk about how interactive technology is taking theatre out of theatres, and changing the experience of being in an audience.
Video games workshop
Hermione Cockburn visits a workshop at the Edinburgh International Science Festival - where teams of teenagers learn how to design and put together a game, and gain insight into the workings of the Scottish games industry - all in just 2 days.
Tales of Things - tagging Broadcasting House
Click On takes part in Tales of Things, a new project mixing social history and memories with technology. Using a small printable barcode called a "QR code", we tag Broadcasting House. Visitors will be able to scan the code with their smartphone, and leave their memories of the building. Andy-Hudson Smith from UCL tells Simon about the ever-growing collection of objects in an "internet of things".
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Mon 26 Apr 201016:30
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