In this episode: 0:22 This Week… 0:40 Introduction by Carmel Travis 1:03 "Wave Power" Iain Finlay reports from Oslo, Norway on renewable wave energy generators. 7:39 "The Smart Card" Carmel Travis reports from Blois, France on intelligent credit cards and the imminent death of the cash society. 11:55 "Waterhog" Jeff Watson reports from Dorking, UK on a new method for mopping up cricket pitches. WARNING: This story features some extremely questionable pantomime. 19:06 Not at all awkward. Not. At. All. 19:53 "The Leesailer" Iain reports from Nottingham, UK on a new type of small sailing dinghy. 24:00 "New York Future Skyline" Chris Ardell-Guiness reports on very tall buildings that never actually ended up being built. 32:50 "Hydroponics" Jeff Watson brings us a story from Japan on a way of growing vegetables (and other plants) without soil. 38:40 "Printing Your TV pictures" Chris Ardell-Guiness presents a way to get a so called "hard copy" from any video source. It's complicated, but essentially you just push a button. These things will be huge, invest now! Also, more evidence that Chris may in fact be colourblind. (Fuscia tie, Teal shirt? C'mon!) 41:22 "Fruit Picking Robot EVE" In Orange, France Carmel reports on a terrifying vision of the future where all your apples are picked by incredibly inefficient automatons.