Weird Tech

Do you wanna hear something weird about the way things were? Tegan and Rae get nostalgic. 👀 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 how custom digital avatars are helping people who hear voices? Rae tells Tegan all about an incredible new tech-based therapy technique. 👀 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 "everyday" tech Tegan came across while she was in Japan? 👀 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 about what artificial intelligence from the perspective of a chicken nugget would be like? Well, you're in luck - it exists, and it's...earrings? In this episode Rae tells Tegan all about it.  👀 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 about a weird little hacking tool you'll potentially become emotionally attached to? It's like a swiss army knife for electronics, and in this episode Tegan tells Rae all about it.  👀 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 plastic-producing bacteria? Besides the fact they exist? In this episode, Rae tells Tegan a surprising thing she has in common with a microscopic creature that has the potential to save the planet.  👀 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 the milky way, dung beetles, and Aussie Scientists?  In this episode, Rae tells Tegan all about the incredible way the humble dung beetle is changing how we fly drones.  👀 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 Sppoktober special, 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 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 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 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 the first of our Spooktober specials, 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 about a weird gaming console? Turns out, North Korea made its own version of the Nintendo Wii and in this episode Tegan tells Rae all about it.  👀 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.

ArcTeryx has taken high-end outdoor equipment to a whole new level with a $7500 exoskeleton for hiking.👀 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.

It's been exactly 10 years since U2's Songs of Innocence album was forced into everyone's iTunes library. Tegan tells Rae the story of how this happen and why Apple users were so angry about it. 👀 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.

Tegan tells Rae about Waymo self driving taxis that won't stop honking at each other at 2am. 👀 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.

Rae tries to sell Tegan on the Monokey: a one key bluetooth keyboard that she found on Kickstarter. But what does it actually do? ✍️ SHOW NOTESThe Monokey on KickstarterThe Tippy Type keyboard cover 👀 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? 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 going to share it with each other - and with you. Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network.Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones Editor: Sam Blacker from The Podcast Butler Music: More Than A Game by ColorFilm MusicSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.