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"Suzi Perry&amp;#039;s seven-year stint as a presenter of Channel 5&amp;#039;s consumer technology programme The Gadget Show came to an end this year, as the format is to relaunch this spring as The Gadget Show: World Tour, hosted by long-standing presenter Jason Bradbury and newcomer Pollyanna Woodward (Jon Bentley and Ortis Deley have also left the show following the change).  So, for Perry attending The Gadget Show Live extravaganza earlier this month at Birmingham NEC was a &amp;quot;bittersweet&amp;quot; experience. We caught some time with her at the event to discuss the end of a Gadget Show era, feeling like Madonna and her love for the new iPad and Fruit Ninja. How do you feel about this year&amp;#039;s live show? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s massive, it seems much bigger than last year. I try every year to get out there and see everybody&amp;#039;s stand, but there is just so much to see. You get people coming up to you and saying, &amp;#039;Have you seen the new Zig Zag scooter?&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s great, you know. But it&amp;#039;s also a bittersweet experience, because it is possibly our last one all together. We don&amp;#039;t know what is going to happen (in future), so it&amp;#039;s a pretty weird place to be.&amp;quot; Will the live show continue after the TV programme has changed format? &amp;quot;They are contracted to [keep doing the show]. So I would imagine so. 50 Cent was here this morning promoting his headphones, there are lots of global directors of companies here that we didn&amp;#039;t even know were coming. It&amp;#039;s big, really big. To have been involved when we started the show years ago, and to see how it is now, it&amp;#039;s just, &amp;#039;wow&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;  Do you get the same feeling with the programme? &amp;quot;Yeah, we started from very humble beginnings. Half an hour, much more science-y on Channel 5, I think it was seven o&amp;#039;clock when we started, but then obviously it developed and it grew over the years. Then the brand, the magazine and the show also developed at the same time.&amp;quot; What do you most look forward to about the show? &amp;quot;My favourite thing is meeting the people, otherwise you are just speaking into the camera all the time. These are the people who made the show quite big. The audience is wonderful, it really is a family-based audience, and it&amp;#039;s an honour and pleasure to be able to perform in front of them. You walk out and you feel like Madonna, and I would never get to feel like that anywhere else. When I used to walk out onto the Grid at Brand&amp;#039;s Hatch for World Super Bikes (as part of the BBC&amp;#039;s coverage of the sport), I used to get people singing songs about me. That was really special as well, and this reminds me of that. It&amp;#039;s really been an amazing thing to be part of over the years. So that is why it is bittersweet this time.&amp;quot;  What new technology is being demonstrated in the live performance? &amp;quot;We have 3D projections mapping, which is a great new technology; we have remote helicopters; and loads of interactive competitions so that everyone can get involved. We have some fantastic stuff that Otis did last year in Tunisia about interactive sound, where they have lots of sounds and put a video together showcasing the possibilities of that live on stage. We made that bespoke for each show. It is very much an hour of reveals and fun, along with a bit of comedy; Jason will probably take his clothes off at some stage, as he always does.&amp;quot; What else at the show has really caught your eye? &amp;quot;The latest 3D stuff, because I have never been really into that. I just never really thought that it was the most amazing thing. There is one thing that i really adore and that is the BubbleScope, which is a cheap attachment for your iPhone that enables you to take 360-degree video and stills. It has been designed by a British guy called Tom Lawton.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Suzi Perry bemoans female gadgets: The future is not pink At the moment, what gadgets can&amp;#039;t you live without? &amp;quot;The boring answer is the iPad. I take it everywhere, and I am loving the new Retina display and also the new iPhoto, because it is making me edit my photos as it is now really simple, whereas before it was quite complicated. It is just &amp;#039;put your finger there, do this, do that, and it&amp;#039;s done&amp;#039;. That is the one gadget that I can&amp;#039;t do without, but also I think data is really important, much more than voice. It seems data is king now. I have got an iPhone, in fact I have five different handsets, but for me the iPad encompasses everything you need.&amp;quot;  The Carphone Warehouse Appys 2012 awards ceremony will be staged next week, so what sort of iPad apps do you use most? &amp;quot;Well for a long time, like the whole of the UK, I was a massive Angry Birds fan. I was totally addicted and I championed it on the show. But now Fruit Ninja has kind of replaced Angry Birds as my addiction. And they keep updating it with the 3D Puss In Boots and so on. They have done it really well and it passes a few minutes, swiping a few kiwis; it&amp;#039;s stupid really, isn&amp;#039;t it, but it&amp;#039;s light relief. The other apps I use are more &amp;#039;worthy&amp;#039;, such as Sky Scanner to book all my flights and The Trainline to book my trains. It&amp;#039;s just so much easier than going through websites. Apps just make our lives easier.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;Hipster-Matic is still one of my favourite photo apps. I am a child of the &amp;#039;70s so I just love the beautiful images that it creates, it can make a very average image look gorgeous, like the cover of a Carole King album, or something like. The retro feel is just great. I think Sky Go is a really great app for people to never miss their favourite programmes on the move, Sky has done that really well. I use Sky Sports News for all my football news. I&amp;#039;m a Wolves fan and we are going down to the Championship, but hey.&amp;quot; Winners of the Carphone Warehouse Appys 2012 will be announced at a glitzy awards ceremony on April 25. Make sure you check Appys.com to find out which have been crowned victorious. For the opportunity to attend the Appys 2012, please enter our competition for a pair of tickets.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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