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Tech Talk with Mathew Dickerson

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Technologist Mathew Dickerson speaks with James Eddy to give a weekly summary of the latest technology developments from around the world. Send questions to ask@techtalk.digital

Location:

Australia

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Technologist Mathew Dickerson speaks with James Eddy to give a weekly summary of the latest technology developments from around the world. Send questions to ask@techtalk.digital

Language:

English

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61418628439


Episodes
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Toilet Tech and Sight-Saving Implants to AI Avocados, Cloud Chaos and Bottles That Battle Bacteria.

11/2/2025
Toilet Tech Triumph: Kohler’s Clever Camera Captures Clues from Your Poos. Sight Sparks: Smart Implants Shine New Light on Blindness. Avocado Algorithms: AI Assesses Ripeness to Reduce Waste. Checkout Chatbots: Walmart’s AI Alliance Accelerates Agentic Commerce. Cloud Chaos: When Amazon’s DNS Disaster Derailed the Digital World. Printing Potable: 3D-Printed Pitcher Pulls Pure Water from the Air. Helping Hands or Handy Humans? The Race to Give Robots the Right Grip. Cool Comfort or Wearable Warmth: Sony’s Smart Solution for Every Season. Purified Portability: The Brilliant Bottle Battling Bacteria with Light.

Duration:00:57:45

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Hologram Cops, Outback Robots, Electric Ferraris, Sonic Surgery and AI Scammers Exposed!

10/26/2025
Holographic Highway Patrol: Seoul’s Spectral Solution to Street Safety. Remote Remedy: Robotic Revolution Reaches the Outback. Ferrari’s Fast-Track to the Future: Electric Elegance Meets Engine Excitement. Shake, Swipe or Shimmy: The Future of Touchless Taps Takes a Turn. Artificial Imitations and Internet Intrigue: AI Scammers Spin Synthetic Shopfronts. Mirror, Mirror, on My Phone: The Sora Selfie Syndrome. Sonic Surgery: How Soundwaves Are Silencing Cancer Without the Scalpel. Subsea Sentinel: Self-Sailing Sub to Circle the Seas. Floppy Forensics: Fighting the Fade of Our Digital Past.

Duration:00:52:25

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Beer Breaches to Bite-Proof Suits: AI Collars, Windowless Flights and Photoshop-Free Futures.

10/19/2025
Brewery Breach Brings Bitter Blow to Beer Buffs. Windowless Wonders: Digital Daylight for the Jet Set. Collar Communication: Cows Connect Through Clever, Cloud-Controlled Collars. Clever Cameras or Cautious Concerns: Can AI Eyes Really Protect Our Homes? Cleaning Conqueror: The Deebot Delivers Dirt-Defying Design and Drive. Flash, Fuse, and Frame: Gemini’s Generative Genius Gets a Photoshop-Free Future. Talking Tech: Translating Travel through Tongues and Tech. Call Combat: Clever Call-Screening Cuts Cold-Caller Chaos. Shark Shield or Style Statement? Scientists Suit Up for Bite-Resistant Breakthroughs.

Duration:01:06:32

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Travel Tech Traps, Tiny Trackers and Pint-Sized Parasols; plus Synthetic Skin and Masterful Moments.

10/12/2025
Travel Tech Traps: AI Itineraries Inspire Illusions and Ill-Fated Adventures Pods, Play and Precision: Piloting with AirPods. Pulse, Proactivity and Personalisation: ChatGPT’s Daily Dose of Discovery. Synthetic Skin Simulation: Stretching Science with Surgeons’ Scalpels. Pocket-Proof Protection: Pint-Sized Parasol Promises Practical Portability. Tile’s Troubling Tracking: Tags, Trust and the Threat of Technology. Soft Strider Science: Small-Scale Robots Step Smartly on Surfaces. Perovskite Precision: Pioneering a Powerful Peek into Patients. Maxed-Out Motion: GoPro’s Mighty MAX2 Masters 360 Moments.

Duration:00:50:10

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Glasses, Guests and Guided Getaways; Forgery Fighters; Robo-Rescues; and Meta’s Motion-Powered Moments.

10/5/2025
Glasses, Guests and Guided Getaways: Disney’s Augmented Adventures. Mouse Makeover: Squishy Surfaces Shape Smarter Surfing. Forgery Fighters: Fine Art Faces AI’s Freshest Feint. Robo-Rescue or Ruff Reality: Redefining the Role of Robot Guide Dogs. Stealthy Signals: StrataWave’s Silent Spread for Safer Skies. Paper, Pen and Prestige: Montblanc’s Move into Digital Documents. Virtual Vibes and Vibrant Venues: Clubbing in Cyberspace. Meta Meets Motion: Smart Specs Supercharge Sports with Sight, Sound and Stats. Pocket to Production: Pro Phones and ProDock Power Play.

Duration:01:04:48

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Airbags for Aircraft, ChatGPT Confidants, Cassette Comebacks and Cyber Seas Under Siege.

9/28/2025
Cushioned Crashes: Can Cocooning with AI Create Safer Skies? Chatbot Chill or Chatbot Chill-out: Confronting the Crisis of AI-Fuelled Delusions. ChatGPT’s Changing Chat: From Career Companion to Casual Confidant. Hallucinations in the Halls: AI, Accuracy and the Administration of Justice. Silicon Surge: Slimmer, Stronger Batteries Shaping Smartphones. Television Time Travel: The Curious Comeback of Cathode-Ray Classics. Shipping Security Surge: Safeguarding Seas from Sophisticated Cyber Spies. Miniature Modular Might: The Promise and Pitfalls of Pocket-Sized Power Plants. Cassette Comeback: DNA Data Delivers Decades of Digital Storage.

Duration:01:01:00

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From Click-to-Focus Specs to Scam-Smart Screens and BMW Battery Breakthroughs to Wi-Fi Tracking Hearts.

9/21/2025
Bifocal Breakthrough: Crystal-Clever, Click-to-Focus Specs. Toilet-Time Tech Troubles: Smartphone Scroll & Stalk Swells Your Sit Risks. Pulse-Fi: Wi-Fi’s Wonderful Wave of Wear-free Wellness. Heart-Smart Horizons: Digital Twin Tech Taking Ticks to Tomorrow. Stain-Stopping Spot+Scrub: Dyson’s Determined Dirt-Detecting Dynamo. Sharent or Share-Not? School-Day Shots, Sextortion, and the Smarts to Stay Safe. Chatbot Caution Calls: ChatGPT’s Life-Saving Signal. Smart-Screening for Scam-Stoppers: Safeguarding Smartphones from Sophisticated Swindles. BMW’s Bold Battery Breakthrough: Beating Back Tesla.

Duration:00:59:04

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AI Stethoscopes to Bin Bots, Porn-Proof Phones to Icy Batteries and NBN Speed Jumps and Bumps.

9/14/2025
Smart Stethoscopes: Sounding Out Silent Heart Struggles. Bin Bots, Battery Bins and a Better Bin-Day. Future-Proof Fuse: The ‘Pornography-Proof’ Phone for Persistent Protection. Modem Mayhem Meets Mega-Mbps: Navigating NBN’s Next-Gen Upgrades. Pivoting Project Pivo: The Portrait-Portrait-Powerful Prototype. Anguilla’s .ai Alchemy: From Island Identity to AI Income. Icy Innovation: Ice-Battery Breakthroughs for Cooling Tomorrow. Pocket Pixels, Powerful Spectra: Phone-Ready Lab Tools. Ban, Biometrics and Behaviour: Australia’s Bold Teen Social Media Shake-Up.

Duration:01:04:25

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Ring’s Wild Aussie Animals, Rogue Robo-Vac, EcoFlow’s Fast Charge, PHEV Surge and Mars Mutts

9/7/2025
Wildlife Watch: Ring’s Rip-Roaring Ring-In of Aussie Animals. Vacuum’s Vivid Vanishing: Robo-Runner Runs Rogue. Power Packed Performance: EcoFlow’s Rapid Recharge Revolution. Dissolvable Designs: 3D-Printed PCB Prototypes for Plastic-Friendly Prototyping. Spreadsheet Showdown: Spreadsheet-Savvy Stars Scrutinise Excel Excellence. Robot Rhapsody or Human Hands? Hyundai’s High-Tech, Human-Hearted Hub. Plug-in Popularity or Progress Problem? PHEVs Power Past Predictions. Dog Recon-struction: Digitial Dogs Dashing into the Digital Domain. Mars Mutts: LASSIE’s Legged Lab-rador Learning Lunar and Martian Landscapes.

Duration:00:56:23

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Polestar Pushes Range, AI Dubbing Rises, Plushy Pals have Personality, Robotic Cows & Solar Breakthroughs

8/31/2025
Polestar’s Polished Performance: Polestar 3 Pushes Past Predicted Range. Power Paywall: VW’s ID.3 Performance on Permission. Dubbing's Digital Dawn: AI Brings Blockbusters Beyond Borders. Plushy Pals with Personality: Play-time Meets Programming. Sim-Sized Speed: Mini SSD Makes Moon-Sized Moves. Sweat-Smart Saris: Bacterial-Cellulose Jacket That Thins for Thermal Tune-Up. Bot Bonanza: Beijing’s Bumbling Bot-Battles. Bionic Bovid Boon: Robotic Ruminant Revolution. Black-Metal Boost: Blazing Breakthrough in Solar STEGs.

Duration:00:52:10

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Hydrogen Dreams Fizzling, Brainwaves Whispering Secrets, Titanium Tanks Rolling and Utes Going Electric.

8/24/2025
Ford’s Frugal Future: $30K Electric Pickup Poised for 2027. Hydrogen Hype Halts: The Fading Fuel Furore. Battery Boom Bumps Battery-Behemoth. AI Aids Authority: Jersey’s Justice Jumps Ahead. Stimulation Solution: Southampton’s Smart Sleeve Soothes Stiffness. Chatbots Checked: Illinois Checks AI in Counselling. Brainwave Beacon: Breakthrough in ICU Brainwave AI. Titanium Tech Triumph: Tailored Tanks Take Off. Sandy Slip-Ups: Simulating Surface Somewhat Sloppily.

Duration:01:02:38

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Rolling Laptops, Fire-Breathing Drones, Smart Skeletons and Ice Cream That Breaks the Rules of Science.

8/17/2025
Lenovo’s Limitless Laptop: The Rise of the Rollable “Tallboy” Tech. Robotic Rosey Rolls In: Clunky But Clever Cleaning Companion Created in China. Helmet-Hunting Hardware: How AI and Altitude Aided a Hiker’s Discovery. Dragon Drones and Fiery Flights: Fighting Flames with Flying Fireballs. Sun-Powered Sentinels: Stealthy Solar Drones Spark Shift in Battlefield Strategy. Sniffing Smarts: The Scent-sational Surge of Synthetic Smell Sensors. Fit, Fast, and Future-Proofed: The Whoop Wearable Way. Spooky Skeleton Spectacle: Skelly Gets a Smart Makeover. Polyphenol Power: The Science of Slow-Melting Scoops.

Duration:00:49:09

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Flying Solar, Talking Councils & Beating Soccer Shooters: The AI Revolution Rolls On!

8/10/2025
Penalty Prediction Precision: AI Outsmarts the Shot-Stoppers. Paddle-Powered Progress: Ping-Ponging Towards Practicality in AI. Sky-High Skydweller: Soaring Solar Surveillance Soars into the Stratosphere. Geraldine Goes Digital: Council Captures Care with Clever Chatbot. Search Shake-Up: Google's Gemini Gambit Goes Global. Buzzing with Big Brother: Amazon’s AI Bracelet Bet. Printed Plates from Potato Peels: Food Waste Finds a New Form. Dirt Dwellings and Digital Design: Printing Homes from the Ground Up. Maths, Minds and Machines: Medal Match at the Maths Olympiad.

Duration:01:00:14

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Robots That Deliver Snacks, Clean Rivers, Watch You Sleep and Prevent House Fires - What Could Go Wrong?

8/3/2025
Snackbots on the Subway: Shenzhen’s Smart Stocking Solution. Delivery Droids and Drone Drops: The Futuristic Feast of Food Fulfilment. Page-Turning Precision: Preservation Powered by Puffs. MegaShark and WasteShark: Robotic Rubbish Removers Revolutionise River Rescue. Robot Rivalry: The Road to a Robo World Cup. Slumber Surveillance: Smartwatches Spot Sleep Struggles. Password Pitfalls: Protecting Businesses from Cyber Catastrophe. Blazing Batteries Busted: Fire-Fighting Power Packs. Streaming Smarts: Netflix’s New AI Effects Slash Costs and Spark Controversy.

Duration:00:55:26

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AI Love, Lab-Grown Cheese, Lever-Less Lexus, Smarter Surgery & More Tech Twists!

7/27/2025
Bot Bonds & Binary Brides: The Allure of AI Affection. Cultured Curds: The Coming Clash of Casein Creations. Steering Shift: Lexus Leads the Leap to Lever-Less Driving. Scalpel, Sensors, Success: Surgical Systems Step Up. Sun Safety Simplified: Sun Day Sparks Skin-Smart Solutions. Hyper-HDMI: The High-Speed Home Theatre Hype. Pill Power: Profiling Physiology with Precision Pills. Perverse Profits: The Proliferation of AI-Powered Nudify Networks. Polymer Power: Pioneering Progress in Post-Lithium Batteries.

Duration:00:58:06

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Foldable Phones, AI Tattoos and Solar Hacks: The Tech That’s Turning Heads…and Raising Eyebrows!

7/20/2025
Foldable Frenzy: Samsung’s Slim, Stacked, and Snazzy Smartphones Spill. Inked Innovation: AI’s Artistic Advance in Tattooing. Sirens on Smartphones: September’s Safety Signal. Solar Sabotage: Smart Inverter Infiltration Threatens Power Stability. Radiation Rebellion: Rethinking Renewable Rules. Grok’s Growing Gaffes: Musk’s Politically Incorrect AI Push. Methane Mishap: Missing Satellite Sparks Space Setback. Spyware, Spiders, and Simulators: A Security Shake-Up. Sentiment Streets: Smart Cities Map Moods with Machine Learning.

Duration:01:03:57

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Could Your Old Phone Be Gold? Are Soft Robots the Future? Will AI Run Your Council? All This and More.

7/13/2025
Litter Lasso: Leveraging Lenses to Limit Littering. Golden Gains: Greener Gold Grabs from Gadgets. Speed Surveillance Shake-Up: NSW’s New Camera Crackdown. Future Frames: Xiaomi’s Smart Spectacles Step Up. Audio Adventures: Ami Amplifies AirPod Adventures. Da Vinci’s Drone Dream Delivers. Minutes Made Magical: Municipal Meetings Meet Machine Minds. Squishy Sentinels: Soft Robots Reboot Our Robo-Expectations. Feeding Figures: Fine-Tuning Infafeed for Infant Intake Insights.

Duration:00:53:35

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Phones Warn of Quakes, Cement Cools Cities but Being Polite to AI Heats the Planet: Tech That’s Helping and Harming Our World.

7/6/2025
Paws, Patterns and Positioning: The Fi Collar Fetches the Future of Pet Tech. Specs and Sound: Spectacular Synergy or Sensory Shortcut? Performance-Packed Prisms: Meta and Oakley Make Smart Specs Sporty. Seismic Signals: Smartphones Shake Up Earthquake Safety. Bright Bulbs and Better Burglar Busting: Wyze’s Watchful Wonder. Vacuuming Victory: LG’s Latest Launch Leaves Dust in the Dust. Sweating Structures: Cement Coating Cools Cities. Prompt Pollution: The Carbon Cost of Clever Chatbots. Tesla’s Tentative Taxis: The Autonomous Austin Adventure Begins.

Duration:00:48:59

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Keep Talking to Your Loved Ones after They Die, Apple Phones Used in F1 and Big Screen Backyard Blockbusters.

6/29/2025
Backyard Blockbusters: Big Screens, Budget Setups and Bug Spray. Brawling Bots: Beijing's Boxing Breakthrough. Final Farewell or Forever Files? The Rise of Grief Tech. Diagnosis Delivered: AI as a Co-Pilot in Cancer Care. Snooze-Saving Sound: Soundcore’s Snore-Silencing Sleep Solution. F1 Filmmaking with Apple: Custom Cameras, Chipsets and Cinematic Speed. Flesh Feel for Future Figures: Synthetic Skin Sensation Sparks Robotics Revolution. Companion or Con? Concerns Climb as AI Allies Amplify Attachment. Trump Tech Takeover: Mobiles, Megabytes, and MAGA.

Duration:00:47:30

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Drones Replacing Fireworks, Electric Tractors Charging Ahead and Watch Your Bias in Your Next Internet Query.

6/22/2025
Dazzling Displays and Drone Delights: A Sky-High Shift in Spectacles. Tractors, Troops and Tech: The Voltrac Versatility Venture. Breath-Based Breakthrough: Biomarker Detection Without Blood or Blades. Salmon Solutions: Safe, Sustainable, and Served Raw. Rings, Readings and Resilience: The Ultrahuman Upgrade to Wellness. Perilous Pages: Poison, Pigments and the Perils of Victorian Volumes. Bias, Bots, and Belief: The Search Spiral Syndrome. Hydrogen Harvesting Hits High Tide: Seawater Sparks Sustainable Solution. Gleaming Glass Gets Going: Apple’s Dazzling Design Debuts.

Duration:00:49:04