
Tech Talk with Mathew Dickerson
Technology Podcasts
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
Genres:
Technology Podcasts
Description:
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
Twitter:
@MathewDickerson
Language:
English
Contact:
61418628439
Website:
http://mathewdickerson.com/
Email:
ask@techtalk.digital
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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