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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 (Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age, SBS) and Tegan Jones (Gizmodo Australia, SmartCompany, Queens of the Drone Age). 

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Weird In A Bad Way

Weird In A Bad Way

2025-12-0928:01

Want to hear something weird...in bad way? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about gadget names? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about a sandwich made from solar panels? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about a keyboard that works like a rotary phone? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about tree-counting lasers? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about regrowing teeth? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Want to hear something weird about ectoplasm? In our final Spooktober special from the archives, Rae catches Tegan up on all the tricks and tech and science used by mediums during the spiritualist movement to produce the most earthly ghostly material ever - ectoplasm.  Warning: we discuss, with as much politeness as possible, the...er... oricifices used for this process.  👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wanna hear something weird about what looks like a river of blood seeping from a glacier in Antarctica? The spooktober specials from the archives continue as Tegan finds the creepiest waterfalls ever and horrifies Rae with their increasingly fascinating details. Are they cursed? Who can tell! 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wanna hear about a weird way people communicate with the dead?  The spooktober specials from the archives continue as Tegan discovers a very interesting gadget for "communicating with ghosts" while visiting Salem (yes, THE Salem). Also somehow Thomas Edison is involved???   👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wanna hear something weird about forbidden music in the Soviet Union? Spooktober continues with this classic from the archives: Tegan telling Rae a Cold War story about records being bootlegged on x-rays. 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about ghost hunting TV shows? In this Spooktober special from the archives, Rae finds out the truth behind some of the gadgets and tech used to "detect spirits" on some ghost hunting TV shows. 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTok Twitter/XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about colour-changing tattoos? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about doctors 3D-printing you some new bones mid-surgery? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Robotic Mushrooms

Robotic Mushrooms

2025-10-0809:20

Do you wanna hear something weird about mushroom-robot hybrids that can crawl? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about...ice? Not just any ice, but salty ice. The kind you find on those icy moons hanging around the outer solar system.  Turns out, scientists have discovered that you can actually generate electricity from it - just by bending it. Like, literally squishing salty ice and pulling power out of it like it’s an angry little frozen battery. And yes, it is precisely as bizarre and brilliant as it sounds... 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about the future (which is now?!)? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about scientists being able to read your inner monologue? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about turning woolly mammoth DNA into meatballs and other adventures in lab-grown meat (that Tegan actually ate)? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about how Indigenous knowledge is helping solar tech outsmart the weather? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you wanna hear something weird about quantum computing? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones 💻 Edited by Sam Blacker from the Podcast Butler 🎵 Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm Music 🔔 FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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