Technologist and Futurist, Mathew Dickerson, discusses the latest technology developments on a weekly basis with James Eddy. Gain a glimpse of the technological future in this technology podcast.
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Census Con: Counting on Australians to Click Carefully. Specs Offenders: Smart Spectacles Spark a Surveillance Scare. Kung Fu Capital: China’s Robot Revolution Reaches the Stock Market. Cyclone Crystal Ball: AI Adds a Day to Deadly Storm Warnings. Salty Storage Surge: Sodium Batteries Shake Up the Power Grid. Smart Sleep Saviour: A Bassinet That Hears Baby Before You Do. Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Income: Luna’s Lenient Leadership Loses Loot. Artificial Authors: Are Bots Beating Bookworms at Their Own Story? Artificial Articulation: Spotting the Subtle Signs of Synthetic Speech.
Sweat Smarts: Sensing Secrets with Smart Rings. Pepper Patrol: Drone Defence Drives Debate. Robot Retail Revolution: Chinese Bots Boost Britain's Buying Boom. Prototype Plunge: Humanoid Hype Hits the Floor. Schoolbot Standoff: Classroom Companion or Controversial Creation? Printed Precision: Personalised Lenses Poised to Transform Vision. Drone Delivery Dilemma: Garden Grounding Gives Amazon Airborne Anxiety. Mapped Memories: Google Maps' Heartfelt Time Capsules. Bargaining Battle: Big Tech, Big Bills and the Battle for Australian News.
Agent Anarchy: AI’s Autonomous Assault Alarms Australia. Grand Theft Auto Greatness: GTA VI Gears Up to Rewrite Entertainment Records. Photo Preservation Plan: Protecting Your Pixels for Posterity. Melody or Mimicry: Mapping Music’s Machine-Made Mix. Voice Victory: Bringing Back Beloved Voices with AI. Electric Evolution: Formula E’s Fast-Track Fight with Formula One. Meeting Minutes Made Magical: AI Note-Taking Meets Modern Productivity. Vibe Verdict: App Avalanche or AI Afterthought? Diary to Digital: AI Animates Anzac Accounts.
Mosquito Mayhem: Drone Destroys Disease-Carrying Devils. Band Behaviour: BURŪV Brings Better Sun Sense. Dash-Cam Drama: Dangerous Driving for Digital Fame. Phantom Phenomenon: The Disappearing Drone Dazzle. Robot Referees, Reduced Reputation: Korea’s Fairer Fastballs. Clubbing Caution: Cameras, Clicks and the Cost of Cutting Loose. Bumpy Buddy: Beni Brings Brilliant Backyard Broadcasting. Flowing Forward: Frugal Flow Batteries Fuel the Future. Hidden Headlines: Ghost Font Gives AI the Slip.
Cooling Con: Counterfeit Coolers Cashing In on Heatwaves. Robo Rides, Real Rules: When Robotaxis Report Riders. Solar Souls: Powering Plots with Purpose. Boyfriend Bots Banned: Beijing Battles Bonding with AI. Rental Robots, Ready Recruits: Hiring the Humanoids of Tomorrow. Hydrogen Horizons: Fuel Cells Flying into the Future. Sodium Surge: Salt-Powered Storage Set to Supercharge the Battery Boom. Fabricated Fire Safety: AI Alarms and a Landlord’s Lie. Workplace Wizardry: ChatGPT’s Career Comeback.
Physical Farewell: PlayStation’s Disc Departure. Connected Car Confusion: Stolen Vehicles, Smart Apps and Security Shortfalls. Starter Success: Sourdough Sidekick Simplifies Slow Baking. Wonka’s Wired Whisper: AI Voice Sparks Vintage Vision vs Modern Misgivings. Paywall Pushback: Premium Price for Practical AI. Electric Evolution: BMW’s Bold Battery Bet. Ford’s Flawed Formula: Why Human Know-How Beat Artificial Intelligence. Sandy Swimming: Sandfish Science Steers Smarter Mars Rovers. Apple Access Advantage: The Hidden Hack for a Happier Kids’ Phone.
Ban, Backlash and Big Tech: Australia's Bold Battle for Better Behaviour. Robot Revolution: Rapid Robotic Restorations for Dental Crowns. Phone Pull or Powerful Pullback: Tackling Tech’s Toughest Temptation. Password Perils: The Chatbot Sharing Slip-Up. Silicon Sprint: China’s Supercomputer Surges Ahead. NanoStack Next: Building Better Brains Beyond the Billion Barrier. Proteus Progress: Amazon’s Autonomous Automation Accelerates. Gummy Guilt: Wobbly Wonders and the Weirdness of What We’ll Eat. Policing Powered by Prediction: AI, Axon and the Future of Frontline Force.
World Cup Wristwatch Watch: Tracking Football Fever in Real Time. Aqua Aerial Adventures: The Self-Flying Surfside Scout. Pouch Protection: Foiling the Fob-Focused Car Thieves. Sunscreen Spin: Social Media’s Sun-Safety Scam. Privacy for Polishing: AI’s Free-Cleaning Future. Pompeii Panic Preserved: AI Recreates a Roman’s Final Run. Slumber Surveillance: Can AI Beds Buy Better Sleep? Cobot Conflict: Robots, Redundancies and the Road Ahead. Wi-Fi Whisks: Can Connected Kitchens Create Culinary Confidence?
Berry Brilliant: Swallowable Sensor Brings Body Temperature Tracking to the Core. Soundwave Sips: Sonic Science Shakes Up Espresso. Face-First Future: Smart Specs, Seeing and Speaking with AI. Seeing Smarter: Sensor Sight Sharpening Self-Driving Safety. Peak Performance: Škoda’s Premium-Priced Peaq Pushes EV Ambitions. Flight Fun: Browser-Based Booming for Google Earth. Radio Rhythms or Robo Riffs? The AI Music Airplay Argument. Virtual Validation: Why China’s Youth Are Finding Family Through Faux Parents. Cancer-Catching Code: AI Accelerates Earlier Lung Diagnoses.
Electric Evolution: EV Enthusiasm Edges Out Engines. Busway Blitz: Bullet Buses Bolting Beyond the Bounds of Rail. Costco Current: The AI River That Never Ran. Ragwort Reckoning: Robot Ranger Rides to the Rescue. Flag-Free Football: FIFA’s Futuristic Offside Fix. Cheating Cheatsheet: Smart Scams Stir School Scrutiny. Sonic Silence: NASA’s Supersonic Soundbreaker Takes Flight. Fuel From Fries: The Sustainable Skies Shift. Pandemic Protection Pioneer: AI Architects a Vaccine Vanguard.
Virtual Vision for Velvet Avocados: VR Vineyards to Veggie Aisles. Text Trap Trouble: Why Trolling Scammers Turns You into the Target. Taxiing to the Sky: Manhattan’s Air Mobility Ambition Takes Flight. Borderline Biometrics: AI Age Assessments at the Asylum Gate. Wheeled Workforce: Humanoid Helpers Hit the Factory Floor. Mobile Megacharge: The EV Rescue Revolution Rolls Out. Quantum Quandary: Backrooms Born from Qubits. CV Clones and Career Clarity: How AI Is Rewriting Recruitment. Argus Ascendant: A Bold Blob Bot Breaks Robotics Boundaries.
Lightning Luce: Ferrari’s Futuristic Leap from Roar to Recharge. Hiking Hyperdrive: AI-Powered Exoskeletons March Into the Mainstream. Pub Pals: Robots Raising the Research Bar. Robo Relief: Tenderloin Tech Tackles the Volunteer Vacuum. Leaks, Logic and Low-Loss Living: AI Satellites Saving Water from Waste. Ban Battles and Browser Blues: Teens Tackle the Social Media Showdown. Gemini Gambit: Google’s Great Glasses Grab and Search Shake-Up. Reality Reframed: ROG’s Rapid-Refresh AR Gaming Glasses. Spoken Stories: Spotify’s Magazine Move into Audio.
Poetic Pictures: Camera Creates Captured Couplets. Parcel Panic: Digital Arrests and Deceptive Delivery Drama. Robo-Revival: T-Shirt Tech Taking Tailoring to the Top. Wolf Warning: Japan’s Bear-Battling Bot Beasts Bite Back. Hedgehog Horizons: Satellites, Sensors and Saving Britain’s Spiky Survivors. Tappy Tones: Boox Brings Bold Bluetooth Book Browsing. Hunting Hacks or High-Tech Hype? When Gadgets Game the Great Outdoors. Discordant Decisions: AI’s Job-Judging Jumble. Sense and Surveillance: When Smart Security Cameras Go Spectacularly Silly.
Tidal Tech: Can Floating Data Centres Ride the AI Power Wave? Robotic Reverence: Buddhism’s Bot Breakthrough. Slower Steps: How Hearing Health Hits Your Stride. Security Slip-Ups: Mowers, Messaging and Malware Mayhem. Hydrogen Hustle: Whyalla’s Young Racers Rev Up for a Swiss Showdown. Whisper Wars: Voice-Driven Workspaces Wage War on Quiet. Solar Sorrow: The Sun-Powered Plane That Fell from the Sky. Drone Drop-Offs: Prime Parcels Pilot the Postie-Free Future. Woodshop Wonders: Digital Dustbusters and Robo-Routers Reshape Woodworking.
Satellite Stockmen: Sky-Linked Livestock Set to Supercharge Smart Farming. Purr-fect Pause: Feline Firewall Fights Frantic Feeds. Sprint Surge: Speedy Silicon Sprinters Set to Shatter Records. Electric Escape: Emerging Economies Embrace EVs to Evade Energy Extremes. Vision Pro Provides Precision for Cataract Care. Back-to-Basics Brilliance: TI’s ‘Dumb’ Device Defies Digital Distraction. Goblin Glitch: ChatGPT’s Quirky Creature Craze Cracked. TikTok Trash Talk: Litter Legend Leads Learners. Pram, Payloads and Pocket-Sized Padawans.
Screen Smarts: Samsung’s Sensible, Seamless AI TV Shift. Ping-Pong Prodigy: Precision-Powered Robot Poised to Pummel Pros. Hologram Heartstrings: Digital Departures and the Future of Farewells. Robot Roommates Rise: Melbourne’s Mechanical Mates Meet Aged Care Needs. Humanoid Hype or Hardware Heresy: Robots Redefining the Human Form. Mythos Mayhem or Machine-made Mitigation: The Hacking AI Hype. Companion Care: Clever Canines and Caring Code for Ageing at Home. Pillow Pressure Patrol: Mirakuru’s Moving Morning Makeover. Mirror Muscle: AI Gym Gets Personal at Home.
Battery Bargains vs Diesel Drain: Australia’s Road-Cost Reckoning. Hatchback Hype: Hyundai’s Ioniq 3 Hunts for EV Supremacy. Robotic Runners Rewrite Records in Rapid Rise of Racing Replicants. Twin Tech Takeover: Digital Doubles Driving the ‘Superworker’ Surge. Mind-Made Motion: Monkeys Master Virtual Meandering. Message Multilingual Magic: iPhone’s Secret Translation Sidekick. Paws, Processors and Partnership: Why Guide Dogs Beat Bots—for Now. Pasta, Pucks and Preserving Family Patter. Fiery Future: Superheated Silicon Shatters Thermal Tech Limits.
Sonic Slicing: The Chef’s Knife That Cuts with a Quiet Kick. Truck Tech Tipping Point: Electric Rigs Reach Real-World Price Parity. Footy Forecast Fumble: AI’s Tipping Trouble Tackled. Controller Console Call-Up: Can Gamers Guide the Skies? AirDrop Alliance: Android and Apple Finally Find File-Flow Friendship. Bebird Breakthrough: Better Browsing for Blocked Ears. Puppy Programming or Pooch Placebo: The TV Trend Tugging at Tails. Rain or Ray: Revolutionary Renewable Panels Powering Possibilities. Robo-Romance Revival: Mechanical Mates Meet the Sage-Grouse Survival Struggle.
Pocket Prodigy: Plaud’s Portable Pen-Pusher for the AI Age. Bandwidth Bonanza: Fibre Breakthrough Fires Up the Future of Fast Internet. Sidewalks That Stalled: The Slow March of Moving Walkways. Battery Breakthrough Boom: Five-Minute Fill-Ups Fuel Future of Fast EVs. Spartan Slate: Stripping Back the Truck to Basics or Breaking Buyer Expectations? Grid Gains & Garage Gold: EVs Earning Energy While You Sleep. Packaging Problems Pummelled by Predictive AI Power. Bone-Based Biometrics: Skull Signals Set to Secure Systems. Breastfeeding Breakthrough: Smart Sensors Simplify Supply and Support.
Pepperoni Peace: Pizza Picker Puts Topping Tiffs to the Test. Fashion’s Fluid Future: The Colour-Changing Carryall. Deepfake Doubt: Digital Doppelgängers Disrupting Definitive Identity. Rogue Robots and Runaway Routes: Delivery Droids’ Dangerous Detours. Puff, Proof and Privacy: The Biometric Battle Behind Better Vapes. Heat Havoc: How Hungry AI Hubs Are Heating Our Habitats. Drone Drama Defied: DJI’s Daring 360-Degree Dynamo Delivers Dazzling Detail. Wristband Wizardry: Wearable Waves Wake a New Wave of Robotic Control. Alexa Ascends: Amazon’s Assistant Awakens with AI Ambition.
Splash, Sprint and Smart Streams: AI Swim Jets Stir the Backyard Pool. Wave Whirl Wonders: Spinning Systems Set to Supercharge Sea Energy. Robotaxi Revival: Autonomous Ambitions Accelerate Again. Pedal to Prestige: Prodrive’s Premium Simulator Pushes Play into Pole Position. Retro Rewind Revival: Video Store Vibes Virtually Revisited. Electric Equity or EV Expense? Taxing the Transport Transition. Leather Luxe or Lightning Loss? Hermès’ High-Fashion Charging Conundrum. Algorithmic Ambitions: AI Aims to Augment Scotland’s Services. Bot Butler Boom: Buying a Bipedal Buddy Before the Bugs Bite.
Playtime Peril or Plush Potential: AI Toys Tangle with Toddlers’ Trust. Blaze-Busting Bot: Firefighting’s Fearless Frontline Future. Paw-sitively Perilous: AI Pet Scams Prey on Panic and Photos. Gemini Gets Going: Google’s Groundbreaking Grab at Gadget-Driven Tasking. Bipedal Bots Bring Blue-Collar Boosts. Vape Voltage Venture: From Trash to Torque on Tiny EV Streets. Pokémon-Powered Paths: Pixelated Players Pave the Way for Pizza-Delivering Robots. Paws, Proteins and Personalised Precision: AI-Powered Pet Vaccine Pioneers Cancer Cure. Neo Notebook Nirvana: Apple’s Budget Breakthrough Blows Up
Petrol Price Pressure: Fuel Fears Could Fast-Track Electric Vehicles. Battery Breakthrough: BYD’s Blade Battery Promises Lightning Charging and Long Range. Drone Detection: AI Agriculture Takes Aim at Weeds. Dynamic Discounts or Digital Deception: Supermarkets Test Smart Price Tags. Sensor Surveillance: Hidden Car Signals Could Track Drivers. Cloud Collapse: Why Internet Outages Are Becoming So Common. Rogue Robots: When an AI Bot Started Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency. AI Assistants Aim to Fix the Frustrating Smart Home. Laser Lookouts: New Tech Aims to Detect Predatory Behaviour in Public Sp
Screen Shield & Smart Systems: Samsung’s S26 Signals a Safer, Savvier Smartphone Shift. Folding Frames and Flexible Firepower: Lenovo’s Legion Goes Large. Sphere Savvy: Supercharging Social Stories with the Insta360 X5. Pumped-Up Portability: The Pint-Sized Power of the HOTO Air Pump Pocket. Mind to Machine: AI’s Astonishing Inner-Thought Translation. Face Facts: The Visual Vigilance That Foils Fake Faces. Pothole Pummeller: Powerful Patcher Promises Pavement Perfection in a Flash. Microscopic Matrix Milestone: Ceramic Codes Carve a Colossal Data Future. Drone Dramas: Battlefield Lifts and Bor
Gas Gauge Gadgetry: The Flatulence-Focused Fitness Frontier. Pixelated Pages: Paper-Thin Playable Tetris Turns Print into Play. Pickle’s Peer-to-Peer Parade: Fashion Freedom Without Fast-Fashion Fallout. Robot Roulette: Rogue Remotes and the Vacuum Vanguard. Privacy-Preserving Parenting: Smart Sensors Safeguarding Seniors. Folded Futures: Weave’s Whirr into the World of Home Help. Spatial Specs & Spectacle: Rokid’s Reality-Rewriting AR Revolution. Bot Boosting Blunders: How a Blog Post Bamboozled the Big AIs. Yoto on the Go: Mighty Mini, Massive Imagination.
