Stephen Fry's Gadget Man - ALL Episodes | Series 1

The show that started it all. Before Richard became the Gadget Man and then Travel Man, Stephen Fry was the man in charge. Made way back in 2012 for Channel 4, and uploaded onto the Travel Man channel for the first time. Some of the tech might be a bit dated but it's still an enjoyable watch!
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[@Not_An_EV]

_"Nice jacket where did you get it?"_ "Stephen Fry gave it too me on a train" _"No really"_ "..."

[@Imspammedout]

"I'm off to drive a cab into the water." "Has it come to that?" Between that and his test of the umbrella, Wossy was fantastic in this

[@sawahtb]

The greatest thing that ever happened to commuting was working from home.

[@artworkjeremystudio521]

I agree

[@patrik5123]

I love watching this over a decade after it was made.

[@ps374249]

It's interesting which gadgets have become commonplace (like the air fryer) and which ones remain mostly unadopted (like the google glass predecessor)

[@harryroadman1089]

Just ordered the meta quest 3 tho and apple made one so it looks like that kind of AR tech is making a comeback

[@OracleTheRonin]

i laughed so hard when he gave him the 'unbreakable umbrella' and the he broke it in about 20 seconds xDD

[@SanjaySingh-sf6jv]

Stephen fry is legit coolest human ever 💙

[@Mark-xt8jp]

16:52 "if it goes wrong, I'll be mildly moist", sounds like going right to me!

[@missusingle]

You can make icecream with 2 different sized coffee cans, ice, and rocksalt. Probably not a good idea to toss it around, but we used to roll them back and forth on the kitchen floor. Best with fresh peaches. Yum!

[@sonofmanarkjazz8965]

Stephen Fry + Gadgets = How am I just now finding this?

[@herrunsinn774]

55:23 The battle of the latest smart phones: Nokia 920 vs. the Windows 8 phone. Both of those companies did soooo well in the smartphone market, didn't they? Ha! This video really "dates" the series. 😅🤣😂

[@KoraOSRS]

Hahaha indeed, I was waiting to see what phone Stephen had so I could date the age of the show, I think during episode 2 we got a close up of his iPhone 4/4s so I realised this is definitely a good decade or more old! haha

[@VidkunQL]

If you think the trains are stiflingly hot now, just wait until half the passengers are running air conditioners that vent _into the car._

[@Lord_Baphomet_]

Fry seems like the greatest aunt I never had.

[@TheMeanAdmin]

"Indestructible" is quite a challenge for an umbrella o_O... Followed by a clown car...

[@BoyProdigyX]

Poor Ste. I'm 6'4" myself, and getting into small cars has always been like putting toothpaste back into the tube for me too.

[@Millzieeeee]

was odd but cool to see mr fry laying on the sofa munching away ahhaha!

[@paulbriggs3072]

The amphicab needs a 4 bladed prop with a nozzle shroud - bit more downward angle.

[@fatguy89211]

10/10 great watch!

[@BlazingMichael]

Stephen Fry is the only man who can get away with shopping at waitrose and not recieve stares from working class folks.

[@johnhutchinson5398]

I love any and all shows you do. V the movie you played in was a very great show. But anyway, you had guest over for dinner I’m guessing and the first thing I seen y’all do was take a straw and inhale some vapor that was in this little glass container. Would you please let me know the name of it and where I can find one. I’d be so appreciated if you please send me this information. That’s the best dinner I’ve ever seen made with the gadgets around your home. Thanks again for all your hard work to make us laugh. Your friend and fan , John.

[@missusingle]

Carol’s plate looks like angry tank girl. 😆

[@Fillthrill]

I've got one of those safe sticks at home. I don't even have a pooch!

[@joeking1956]

I love how Stephen Fry found the one Xbox Connect camera that actually worked as advertised.

[@KoraOSRS]

It's pretty remarkable actually but the Xbox Kinnect has actually been used for lots of other random projects! Even though it was a littel ehh.. lackluster in terms of using it for gaming, the array of sensors in it are actually great for other applications, and it's all in a cheap and complete package, and has the highly compatible and versatile USB port on it so you can plug it into almost any device and program it for whatever you want! It's pretty cool! It's not the first time I've seen protoype projects using a Kinnect haha

[@theshadynorwegian6036]

fry2D2 caught me off guard, not gonna lie

[@MrSpasticdancer]

i'd watch basically anything hosted by stephen fry but gadget man? hell yeah!!

[@swopnilkalika7339]

Stephen Fry is awesome

[@michaelpriest6242]

Hurray! for Amphicab.

[@ericryckman1559]

The yike bike is brobably the worst bike design. No handle bar in the front means nothing between your body and whatever you crash into. You can't bail by hopping off or standing up, because the handle bars will take you out as the bike continues to roll forward after you have stopped.

[@itsmesai2429]

That umbrella 😅

[@KoraOSRS]

1:22 I can't tell if this is supposed to be Stephen Fry or James May hahahhah

[@doctornova3015]

Nice to see Stephen in a more casual setting. Makes him more human.

[@ABetterWeapon]

The Legend Stephen Fry, did this show then Richard Ayouaouaoudada took over? I love Richard Ayouoouodduude, but he's no Stephen Fry. Rick is so good that they brought him over to the US, for The IT Guys. I love Ayoade, more than Santa Clause(please don't tell him so).

[@kenkiekens7746]

water taxi, give it a heavier suspension and add a jet ski motor and your off, i'm sure.

[@Acceleronics]

Whoever wrote the user interface code for the shopping cart (trolley) must not have done well in primary school grammar. I'm surprised Stephen didn't comment. 27:18

[@KoraOSRS]

watching Alan Sugar absolutely catastrophically fail to drive a smartphone is the most 2010 boomer thing I've ever seen in my life hahaha, he actually did the thing when trying to take a photo, accidentally flipping the camera so he's just looking at himself!! Smh...

[@importantname]

We need people to keep making gadgets, hundreds of thousands of them. Alas most will always just be gadgets, but a few will prove useful:)

[@MrRobwave]

I want to know what happened to robot Stephen🤖

[@shlby69m]

Fry2D2, love it!

[@neilperry2224]

I want the roller boots but want the ones made by fireball tools with chainsaw motors lol n two stroke mmmmmmmm the smell of castrol oil

[@jakemuss3805]

I had an Amstrad when I was younger for gaming!

[@kev.6149]

I still have my Amstrad CPC 464 with 60 cassettes.

[@douglasdickerson5184]

👏🏻

[@ManyTriangles]

Anyone else spot Peter Griffin at 10:56?

[@nosnevets5]

The game on the side of the flour mill should be played when both teams are drunk.

[@grendel_nz]

Captain Birds Fry???

[@ArtyMars]

Deren is so cute

[@feralbluee]

this a fantastic show - all because of Stephen Fry. he just has “IT” ! whatever It is. watching him on that yike bike was too much. and his humor is so dry. omg ! being so sang-froid about that helmet. i’m dying. 😌

[@richardlebreton6690]

did Fry start the series?

[@TheMeanAdmin]

Yup. Ayoade definitely fits the moniker of a Gadgetman quite a bit better, while Fry is more of a wizard butler type. Fantastic in a lot of things just not the most felicitous a choice for this particular role.

[@chrisk7626]

The floating taxicab was a great idea it's called the boat they already invented it they should really employ a whole Fleet of them electrically right now talk about a great idea right in front of you that whole river was wide open

[@KoraOSRS]

Boats can't leave the river and drive on the road... You seem to have missed the entire point: being able to transition from road to water and back. Idk why you seem so annoyed about it lmao, it's a fun TV show about gadgets, chill dude...

[@wajapip]

Within 20 years humanity will be sorry for wasting materials on garbage toys.

[@chuck1804]

I wouldn't worry so much. Humanity mightn't survive that long!

[@goonerali3547]

Good old Arsenal. 👍🏾

[@feralbluee]

i know the Thames is a very important and hysterical river, but. . . What? - Oh! i know the Thames is a very important and HisTORical river, but it is so muddy - like our hisTORical Mississippi!! but it’s right in the middle of London. i think we here in New York are sooo lucky bacause we have the beautiful Hudson River. i’m sorry, but every time i see the beautiful Thames so muddy, i get so depressed. it should be gorgeous. it’s the Thames! poor river. i know, i’m sorry. i’m not gloating - really. i feel bad for it. i bet it is gorgeous upriver. i should check out some photos. i’d probably feel much better. is there a song or poem about it. please let me know. thanks 🙃 🏞 Hey!! it meanders through London. all riiight!! that’s gorgeous. there’s one that’s almost an oxbow. that is way cool!!! :) 🏹 ♌️〰️

[@KoraOSRS]

Gosh, Alan Sugar is so dislikeable! His salt about Apple basically putting him out of business in multiple tech industries seems to be real, he's smiling like he's joking, but the way he wouldn't let Stephen get a word in about the iPhone 4 antenna problem, man is still upset about it! But also he seems to not know how his OWN tech products work, if you asked him to drive any of those devices in his archives I doubt he'd actually know how to turn them on even... Also he straight up lied about the Youview box, making out like it's the first TV box that would let you watch passed programs, it seems like legally the producers had to add a correction in voice over, hence Stephen saying in the voice over "Virgin TV boxes have been able to do this for a while already, and you still have to pay upfront fees for Youview" so actually Amstrad weren't the first, and it's not actually free at all... Funny how Amstrad basically doesn't exist anymore because they ultimately flopped... They were clinging on through the early 2000s with TV boxes, but even those are only a relic of the passed nowadays because of how ubiquitous smart TV's are, with Firesticks, Apple TV's, Chromecast, and even bulit in Smart TV functionality directly in basically all modern TVs...

[@nybbleme]

@55m wow windows phone, that doesn't date this at all. I don't think Nokia is even in business anymore. Nor were they the second largest phone manufacturer at the time since I'm pretty sure Apple had them beat with Samsung being a close second. Whoever was third barely had 6% market share worldwide

[@MysterySemicolon]

The UK, where classism is so prevalent and ingrained no one bats an eye at calling your boss "Lord". It's bad enough when you have to call them Doctor.

[@soundslight7754]

Clearly the man fell off a bike is a professional stunt: hehit the front wheel and caused the fall. You fooled nobody but yourself, you silly man!

[@windsorblue4852]

How else would they show how an open before impact helmet works without faking a fall? Just give them to a bunch of people and follow them around with cameras until they fall over?

[@soundslight7754]

@@windsorblue4852 How else? You fake it better - called 'staging' in Hollywood

[@windsorblue4852]

@@soundslight7754 They did fake it, its called staging everywhere!

[@soundslight7754]

@@windsorblue4852 Pay attention to details! Read again only properly this time. Lada and Lamborghini aren't both means of transport and therefore the same! One is outdated, coarse and cumbersome, the other is object of desire. Fry's faking is of Lada caliber!

[@soundslight7754]

@@johnDoe-uw2zs Watch movies and learn post-production editing to make it remotely believable and not be so clumsy/amateurish

[@LamarDandre]

What happened to Richard?

[@oskahuxley6322]

Stephen did the first season and Richard did the rest, not sure whom I prefer.

[@grendel_nz]

But there was an mx5 style boat car ages ago on the Thames. Why would you want to work in a big city? Dirty, full of humans and rats.

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

Better to live in the countryside, where there are dirt and rats. At least not as many people, I grant you that 😊 I suspect tho, that some people aren't as fond of the countryside as you and I. It's almost like people can be different or something 🤔

[@johntaphouse5235]

statistics show you only get so many heartbeats in a lifetime, another stat shows exercising increases your heart rate...anyone want to buy my exercise bike, its killing me ??

[@Rossbrian1]

Is this show from 2002? Doesn't anyone have a decent phone?? Haha

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

Did you see Ericsson P800s, Nokia 6610s, and such? I missed that.

[@oskahuxley6322]

Alan Sugar trying his usual shtick of being the hard man proceeds to say 'we look like we are caging the joint' lol, it's 'casing the joint'. I don't blame people for losing touch it's just annoying to me that some people try so hard to appear like they are still congruent with their working class backgrounds when their massive wealth and power removed them from it 20 plus years prior.

[@bioshock6935]

Richard Ayoade's was better with this Gadget man show

[@pegtooth2006]

The sad part is the bulk of these electric vehicles are not recyclable and are just a landfill. Just like the majority of wind turbines not much is recyclable.

[@pegtooth2006]

So many aspects of wind turbines and wind farms are so over-engineered with petroleum products that they are unusable after their duty. Abandoned buildings, broken bikes or unused exercise equipment have a better use. www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

[@pegtooth2006]

Case in fact... dump it.... and pretend they need you! www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

[@albagubrath9073]

Ahahahahahahahaha What absolute nonsense!

[@Owdaks]

@@albagubrath9073 No dummy, it's actually true and it's just part of the problem with wind turbines, unrecyclable for the most part, piles of dead birds at the base, and more. Keep being blind lol

[@oskahuxley6322]

@@Owdaks Are they not made out of steel that can be melted down? I don't understand in what way they are unrecyclable? I'm no expert at all I would just like some elaboration. Also what is the lifespan of a wind turbine, surely the tower will continue to be structurally sound pretty much indefinitely with good maintenance? I understand there would be sort of twisting forces but couldn't you just leave the tower and replace the blades and the turbine? Can someone please explain this to me please? I am not looking to antagonise as the rest of you seem to be and if I get a shitty reaction I will just go and look myself. It just seems like you guys are such experts to the point of saying things like 'stop being blind'. Edit: Ok I don't need you guys now, the very article stated says 85 per cent of turbine components can be recycled it's just the old fiberglass blades. Also a company can recycle them into building materials. With better materials they will have a longer lifespan and will not need to be replaced as often. In the future maybe you should read the things you post as reinforcement of your argument.

[@albagubrath9073]

There's something very condescending about an English accent!

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Fry doesn't have an English accent. He as an RP 'accent' and that was manufactured just for rich inbred prats to patronise others . So Almost there. But it is not how Real English people speak.