Tech Talk with Mathew Dickerson

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.

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

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. 

08-31
52:10

Formula E Beating F1, Hypersonic Travel Shrinking the Planet, Waymo in Sydney and a Deep Cut Humanoid.

Electric Edge: Will E-cars Eclipse F1’s Fastest?  Size-Savvy Styles: Smart Sizing Solutions Streamline Shoppers’ Struggles.  Hypersonic Hurdles to High-Speed Horizons: Turbulence, Tempests and Tomorrow’s One-Hour Travel.  Heat in the Hut: Data-Driven Warmth Delivers Dramatic Bill Drops.  Slicing Synthetic Skin: Xpeng’s ‘Cut-to-the-Core’ Humanoid Causes a Cybernetic Stir.  Sydney’s Self-Driving Surge: Waymo’s Wheel-Free Wheels Woo the Harbour City.  Centrelink Clone Con: Cyber Crooks Craft Convincing Correspondence.  Magnetically-Managed Micro Medics: Mini Machines Making Major Moves in Stroke Medicine.  Hyped Hit Halted: HAVEN.’s High-Flying ‘I Run’ Raises Alarms Over AI-Assisted Artistry. 

11-30
57:55

Tech Turns Nostalgic, Cars Go Keyless and Cameras Hunt for Alien Life – This Week, the Future Comes Into Focus!

Festive Flashbacks: Tech-Themed Trinkets Bring Nostalgia to the Christmas Tree.  Keyless Quandary: The Digital Drive to Ditch the Car Fob.  Cosmic Cameras and Celestial Clues: Snapping Signs of Life Beyond Earth.  Mindful Microchips: Minute MOTE Monitors Mental Messages.  Kosmic Knowledge or AI Conjecture? Kosmos Claims to Condense Months of Science into Hours.  Chatbot Counsellors or Cautionary Companions: When AI Lends an Ear and Raises Eyebrows.  Perimenopause Prediction: Phones, Physiology and the Power of Personal Tracking.  Love Logs and Logic Loops: A.I. Rewrites the Rules of Romance.  Ringing in the Future: How AI Turns a Simple Band into a Smart Brain Buddy. 

11-23
59:02

Robot Roommates to Flying Turbines and Trash-Powered Jets plus Pothole Free Roads with Graphene.

Domestic Droid or Digital Double? Neo’s Human-Helped Housekeeping Heralds a Humanoid Home Future.  Powerful Porsche Performance: The Electrifying Evolution of the Macan GTS.  Solar Sidings and Magnetic Motions: Powering the Future of the Rail Revolution.  From Food Waste to Flight Fuel: Turning Trash into Turbine Triumphs.  Solar Stratosphere Soarers: Radical’s Record-Breaking Drone Dares to Outfly Satellites.  Mega Movers: How the WindRunner Will Whisk Wind Turbines Across the World.  Graphene Gravel Gains Ground: Paving the Way to Pothole Prevention.  Call Centre Collapse or Chatbot Collaboration? AI Answers the Customer Call.  LOOI’s Little Leap: From Smartphone Stand to Sentient Sidekick. 

11-16
59:09

AI at the Loo, Digital ID Debuts and Teflon Toothpaste - Tech’s Oddities and Everyday Impact.

Poop Perception and Potty Precision: AI Flushes Out Clues to Your Health.  Passport Power: Pocketing Paperwork with Apple’s Digital ID Debut.  Medical Memory Made Easy: Mirror App Helps Patients Recall Crucial Consultations.  Badges, Bots and Bytes: Scouts Learn AI the Smart Way.  Foiling Fossil Fuels: How Hydrofoil Ferries Are Making Waves in Clean Transport.  Chatbots, Crises and Confusion: When AI Conversations Cross the Mental Health Line.  Map Memories: Apple’s iOS 26 Turns Travel into a Time Capsule.  From Frypans to Fluoride: Turning Teflon Trash into Toothpaste Treasure.  Atlas Ascends or Atlas Ails? ChatGPT’s Browser Battles Boundaries and Budgets. 

11-09
55:22

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

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. 

11-02
57:45

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

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. 

10-26
52:25

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

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. 

10-19
01:06:32

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

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. 

10-12
50:10

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

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. 

10-05
01:04:48

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

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. 

09-28
01:01:00

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

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. 

09-21
59:04

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

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. 

09-14
01:04:25

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

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. 

09-07
56:23

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

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. 

08-24
01:02:38

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

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. 

08-17
49:09

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

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. 

08-10
01:00:14

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

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. 

08-03
55:26

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

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. 

07-27
58:06

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

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. 

07-20
01:03:57

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