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The Gadget Show: The Big Book of Cool Stuff by Craig Charles (Hardback)
£19.99
Available
Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781912165353
Published:
09 Oct 2021
Format:
Hardback
Dimensions:
250 pages - 248mm x 187mm x mmmm
Weight:
0.100kgs
Author:
Full digital and physical marketing campaign. National & local radio author interviews, BBC's The One Show. Features in national newspapers, TV listings, computer & tech magazines. End of show pre-awareness and part of The Gadget Show 'Big' competition.
The Gadget Show, first launched in 2004, is one of the UK's longest running returnable formats, providing its TV audience access to the largest gadget reviews and technological innovations. Based in the studio, the team, which includes Craig Charles, Georgie Barrat, Ortis Deley and Jon Bentley, inform the audience about the latest consumer gadgets to hit the market in a lively and engaging way, keeping viewers fully entertained until the end of each episode.
The show is aimed at giving the mass consumer an insight into the gadget world, but also gives adequate information for the more "geeky" or knowledgeable audience, while still remaining accessible to the more casual viewer. The Gadget Show: The Big Book of Cool Stuff is a beautiful hardback book that takes the reader on a journey through the many gadgets they either have read about or heard of, to the ones they use, are about to invest in, or dream about owning. The book also discusses what the future could look like if all our lives could be made easier and more fun by gadgets.
Contributors include: Craig Charles, Georgie Barrat, Ortis Deley, Jon Bentley, Harry Wallop, Jordan Erica-Webber.
About the Author: Craig is an actor, comedian, author, poet, DJ and, of course, Gadget Show presenter since 2017. He is known for his legendary character Dave Lister in sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, Lloyd Mullaney in Coronation Street and as a funk and soul DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music. And before his time on the Gadget Show, he was no stranger to the world of high tech machines thanks to fronting Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004. Georgie is one of the UK's leading technology journalists and broadcaster and had been presenting on The Gadget Show since 2017. She graduated from Kings College London with a First in English Literature, has a Diploma in Radio Production and has recently learned how to code with the 'Code First: Girls' program. Georgie has also completed the London Marathon and Tough Mudder for charity. She writes about tech for a range of publications including Marie Claire, The Mirror, Metro & Tech City News and has been seen on the likes of ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. Georgie is passionate about getting more girls into coding and works alongside two charities (STEMettes, Baytree Centre) to help encourage 11-14 year-olds to study STEM subjects at GCSE & beyond. Ortis has now been a member of The Gadget Show team for over ten years. With his love of science and technology starting at a young age and a passion for all things sci-fi and comic book related, he's a bonafide super geek. Alongside his tech credentials, he has an honours degree in Pharmacy and is also a qualified personal trainer to boot. Other credits include The Bill, Silent Witness and Doctors on BBC One, and several CBBC dramas, and even starred opposite Clive Owen & Jennifer Aniston in Derailed and Noel Clarke & Rafe Spall in cult flick Kidulthood. Jon Bentley is the longest running Gadget Show presenter, having been on the team since the beginning in 2004, and is now widely respected as one of the most informed and honest technology journalists in Britain. Jon started his life in television on BBC2's Top Gear, becoming Executive Producer of the show between 1987 and 1999; one of the Top Gear test track corners is named after him. Jon was responsible for launching the TV careers of Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson. Jon's unrivalled enthusiasm for the world of technology has seen him test tech in a multiplicity of environments, including translators on the back of a camel in Tunisia, cameras at snowballing championships in Finland, 4K TVs at the world famous Aardman Studios, and walking boots with actor Brian Blessed in deepest Surrey.
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