Fighting pirates with lasers, how there really is an app for everything these days, more mobile mishaps and correspondence with the world's best computer scientist. OddIT is back for the new year.

In this special edition of whitelist, Stuart Hyde, Deputy Chief Constable of Cumbria and Jason Hart from Cryptocard discuss current and future security threats and how police forces use social networking tools to catch criminals.

The web is dead, long live the internet, why iPhone users have more fun, spying mobiles, solar panels in your sunglasses and digital vagabonds. It can only be oddIT 54.

After an extended hiatus, the oddIT team is back discussing hover chairs, useless freaky-looking robots and what not to do in an Apple Store.