Oculus Rift; Heating Oil; Bailiff Trouble
Winifred Robinson tries out the latest frontier of gaming, Oculus Rift. Plus a look at big pension changes coming in April and why falling oil prices will not help heat your home.
For around 40 years computer games have been played roughly the same way. You plug a console into a screen. But the technology giant Facebook has spent $2bn on what it thinks may be the next frontier - Oculus Rift - a virtual reality headset which places you inside the action. The big bad villain of this game though is motion sickness...
In April there are big changes coming to pensions, with new freedoms to take out money. We hear from the pensions head who warned a Westminster select committee that fraudsters trying to exploit the change have already come up with a host of new tactics.
And it's gone a bit chilly hasn't it? But in rural communities not being connected to the National Grid is a major source of fuel poverty. We talk to a man who wants to know why global oil prices may be dropping - but you don't see the difference if you use oil to heat your home.
Also, in February the regulator Ofgem revealed domestic energy firms that they were hanging on to customers' money to the tune of 拢400m, because our former providers store it when we switch or move house. Ofgem gave them a warning to get to work on giving it back. We find out how they plan to do it.
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Heating Oil
Why is the falling crude oil price not reflected in the price of domestic heating oil
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Oculus Rift
Winifred tries the latest in virtual reality gaming
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- Wed 10 Dec 2014 12:15麻豆社 Radio 4 FM