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Weird Tech

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).

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113 episodes

  1. From The Vault: Bone Music 9:28
  2. Hunting Ghosts with Xbox Kinect 14:16
  3. Historic Coffin Tech 15:16
  4. From The Vault: Busting Ghost Hunters 11:17
  5. This Little Gadget Made My Smartphone Less Addictive (Brick Review) 22:11
  6. The Apple Pippin 20:23
  7. Toilet Data Breach 18:10
  8. Underwater Headphones (Tegan's Shokz Openswim Pro Review) 15:02
  9. From The Vault: The North Korean Wii 12:21
  10. This $3k Printer Puts A Selfie On Your Coffee 13:28
  11. Wet Succy Boi 18:13
  12. Uncanny Valley Of The Apes 9:54
  13. The Commodore Flip Phone 15:16
  14. Birds Aren’t Real (This Robot One, Anyway) 9:12
  15. Australian Scientists Invented A Glove That Can Feel Data 15:51
  16. Earth's Black Box 19:08
  17. The Cowgorithm 11:03
  18. Numberless Phones 15:24
  19. Australian Scientists Used Technology To Solve One of Stonehenge's Biggest Mysteries 9:43
  20. Why The Macbook Neo Is Weird (In A Bad Way) 14:51
  21. Vacuum Shoes: Because What If Your Feet Were Also a Roomba 13:43
  22. Why 700k E.T. Videogames Were Buried In The Desert 16:14
  23. Robot Swarms Are Fighting Fires 16:22
  24. Inside The Clear Gaming Consoles Used In Prisons 16:53
  25. Scientists Accidentally Explained Ghosts While Studying Office Air Conditioning 11:44
  26. How To Store Data For 10,000+ Years 17:28
  27. The Garfield Phones Mystery, Solved 11:10
  28. The Demon Box 13:03
  29. A Bracelet That Zaps Your Bad Habits 16:42
  30. Spotify Urn 15:25
  31. The Doomsday Seed Vault 22:03
  32. Superhuman Vision 13:30
  33. Cereal Phreakers 10:36
  34. Wheelchair Tech...Literally Powered By Blinking 8:02
  35. This App Lets You Anonymously Tell People They Might Have an STI 9:06
  36. Augmented Reality For Skiing Feels Like A Videogame With Consequences 10:07
  37. Are You Dead? 10:34
  38. Someone Gave a Handbag a Touchscreen and Honestly… It Kinda Works 15:53
  39. Smart, Shiny LEGO ✨ 12:22
  40. Tech To Get You Fit 22:26
  41. Our Best Tech Of 2025 18:57
  42. For The Love Of eSIMs 8:59
  43. Neutron Ghosts 14:05
  44. Weird In A Bad Way 28:01
  45. Gadget Names Are Boring 13:49
  46. The Solar Panel Sandwich 11:18
  47. Why Is The Rotary Phone Shaped Keyboard? 12:28
  48. Australian Scientists Counted 180 Million Trees (With Lasers) 11:17
  49. Regrowing Adult Teeth Is Now A Thing? 7:05
  50. Spooky Week Re-Release: Ectoplasm Explained 19:25