Shopping - Richard Ayoade is continuing his noble quest to find gadgets that can help with the bothersome tasks of everyday life. And if there is a task he hates above all others it’s shopping - be it for clothes on the high street or for food in the supermarket. To assess whether gadgets can ease the pain, Richard first heads to the strip lit aisles of the supermarket where farmer and foodie Jimmy Doherty joins him to check out gadgets that include a robotic shopping assistant, a fruit ripeness reader and a food ethics scanner. Yes, a food ethics scanner. The stress of the supermarket is however nothing compared to the horror of clothes shopping, so Richard persuades actress Allison Steadman to accompany him in a busy department store to check out the latest in retail technology. (From the UK) (Factual Entertainment) (class tba)
Gadget Man was broadcast on SBS 2 at Thursday 29 October 2015, 09:30. This episode was initially placed on Thursday 20 November 2014.