Weird Tech
Hey, you wanna hear something weird? Us too! You might have noticed tech is getting a bit dull, stale and dystopian…but there’s so much fun, cool and just plain weird tech out there. So we’re gonna share it with each other - and you. Hosted by technology journalists Rae Johnston (Download This Show, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age) and Tegan Jones (SmartCompany, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age).
Number Stations
Do you wanna hear something weird about creepy radio broadcasts that sound like horror movie fodder but were probably more used for things like espionage?
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From The Vault: Bone Music
Wanna hear something weird about forbidden music in the Soviet Union?
In this classic Weird Tech, Spooktober continues with Tegan telling Rae a Cold War story about records being bootlegged on X-rays.
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Hunting Ghosts with Xbox Kinect
Do you wanna hear something weird about using an old Xbox accessory to hunt ghosts?
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Historic Coffin Tech
Do you wanna something weird about historic coffin tech?
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From The Vault: Busting Ghost Hunters
Do you wanna hear something weird about ghost hunting TV shows?
In this classic Spooktober special, Rae finds out the truth behind some of the gadgets and tech used to "detect spirits" on some ghost hunting TV shows.
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This Little Gadget Made My Smartphone Less Addictive (Brick Review)
Want to hear something weird about a gadget whose job is to make your life harder?
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The Apple Pippin
Want to hear something weird about the time Apple tried to make a gaming console
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Toilet Data Breach
Want to hear something weird about a gadget that collects your (very) personal information?
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Underwater Headphones (Tegan's Shokz Openswim Pro Review)
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's experiences with the Shokz Openswim Pro headphones?
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From The Vault: The North Korean Wii
Do you wanna hear about a weird gaming console? North Korea made its own version of the Nintendo Wii, and in this classic episode, Tegan tells Rae all about it.
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This $3k Printer Puts A Selfie On Your Coffee
Want to hear something weird you can do to a cappuccino?
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Wet Succy Boi
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's experiences with a robot mop?
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Uncanny Valley Of The Apes
Want to hear something weird about monkeys and deepfakes?
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The Commodore Flip Phone
Want to hear something weird about commodore? As in, the computer company?
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Birds Aren’t Real (This Robot One, Anyway)
Want to hear something weird about robot birds?
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Australian Scientists Invented A Glove That Can Feel Data
Want to hear something weird about a gadget that lets your spreadsheet touch you, physically?
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Earth's Black Box
Want to hear something weird about a black box for the Earth being built in Tasmania?
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The Cowgorithm
Want to hear something weird about cow surveillance?
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Numberless Phones
Want to hear something weird about numberless phones?
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Australian Scientists Used Technology To Solve One of Stonehenge's Biggest Mysteries
Want to hear something weird about stonehenge?
Here's the paper here, if you want to have a read.
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Why The Macbook Neo Is Weird (In A Bad Way)
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's adventures with tech's hottest new laptop?
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Vacuum Shoes: Because What If Your Feet Were Also a Roomba
Want to hear something weird Rae found on Pee-Wee Herman's blog?
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Why 700k E.T. Videogames Were Buried In The Desert
Want to hear something weird about over 700,000 game cartridges buried in the desert?
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Robot Swarms Are Fighting Fires
Want to hear something weird about robots that talk to each other?
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Inside The Clear Gaming Consoles Used In Prisons
Want to hear something weird about a gaming console that was only sold in prisons?
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Scientists Accidentally Explained Ghosts While Studying Office Air Conditioning
Want to hear something weird about a scientific explanation for haunted buildings, which turns out to be significantly more depressing than ghosts?
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How To Store Data For 10,000+ Years
Want to hear something weird about the future of data storage?
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The Garfield Phones Mystery, Solved
Want to hear something weird about Garfield-shaped phones that kept washing up on a beach in France for decades?
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The Demon Box
Want to hear something weird about about electromagnetic fields in all your appliances that can make music through something called...the demon box?
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A Bracelet That Zaps Your Bad Habits
Want to hear something weird about a wearable device you strap to your wrist so it can electrocute you?
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Spotify Urn
Want to hear something weird about playing music from the afterlife?
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The Doomsday Seed Vault
Want to hear something weird about an under-ice lair that could save humanity?
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Superhuman Vision
Want to hear something weird about a new computer-vision system can spot motion faster than humans can even notice it?
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Cereal Phreakers
Want to hear something weird about... breakfast cereal and hacking phones?
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Wheelchair Tech...Literally Powered By Blinking
Want to hear something weird about...blinking generating electricity than can power wheelchairs?
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This App Lets You Anonymously Tell People They Might Have an STI
Want to hear something weird about...using tech to tell someone you have a sexually transmitted infection?
LoveHurts is here
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Augmented Reality For Skiing Feels Like A Videogame With Consequences
Want to hear something weird about a heads-up display on your ski goggles?
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Are You Dead?
Want to hear something weird about an app that checks if you're alive?
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Someone Gave a Handbag a Touchscreen and Honestly… It Kinda Works
Want to hear something weird about these handbags?
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Smart, Shiny LEGO ✨
Want to hear something weird about LEGO?
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