Tech Talk with Mathew Dickerson

AI catching people sneaking around with undeclared swimming pools. 

5G radiation risks answered once and for all. 

Superheated dishwasher steam does the job on bacteria in 25 seconds. 

Is that a phone charging cable – or a stealthy hacking tool? 

Twitter’s newest feature may make tweeting less intimidating. 

A plastic hotel key is so yesterday – use your phone instead. 

Mood rings were a fun gimmick but wearables can now detect stress levels. 

Long focal length cameras may no longer need a long lens. 

Power poles and light poles being used to charge EVs. 

Highlights from the latest Apple 'Far Out' event announcements. 

Berlin Radio Show highlights include wearable airbags and huge new TVs plus more. 

Check for breast cancer in the comfort of your own home. 

Remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches are now a reality. 

Use your home scales to measure your nerve and artery health - and your weight. 

Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast. 

New MG EV pushes the entry price barrier down as the cheapest EV in Australia. 

Mercedes introduces their first AMG EV and it does not disappoint. 

Nude photos of sick kids triggers Google’s abuse filters. 

For the Dad who has everything – a laser guided knife-throwing device! 

Use a Bluetooth tracker…to track your luggage the home of a baggage handler! 

Speak with your loved ones at their funeral – not through a ‘medium’ but with technology. 

Hold your phone in a special way to let it recognise you. 

Wind turbine blades turned in to gummy bears! 

Tesla Bot coming to take care of your household chores for you. 

A green solution to the vinyl record backlog. 

Cyclists rejoice – a self-powered light for your cycling helmet has arrived. 

Pay for items with the palm of your hand. 

New headlights to make driving at night safer. 

The COVIDSafe app is dead but was it ever really alive? 

Drones being used for blood deliveries. 

Robbers tracked by their own trackers. 

United Airlines moving in to Air Taxis. 

REX Airlines looking to convert turboprop power to electric propulsion. 

Quantum dots used for more accurate LED light colours. 

The latest Global EV sales figures for the first half of calendar year 2022. 

The smart home gadget that cures the ironing blues forever. 

Why just swat a fly away when you can zap it at the same time? 

Tourists using holiday booking sites are finding they can be underwhelmed by what they find. 

Look! There on the ground. It’s a train? It’s a plane? It’s a jet-train! 

Netflix needs more gamers. 

Body profiles being built by your smartphone to tell us how unhealthy we are. 

An artificial finger can now identify substances by touch. 

Google tries publicly shaming Apple in to adopting Rich Communication Services (RCS). 

An earphone that can ‘hear’ what you are saying without a noise being made. 

Wearable pet fans to beat heatwaves. 

Starting a global spyware business at the age of 15. 

Trypanophobes of the world rejoice – a new COVID-19 patch is more effective than a needle. 

Bandages that change colour when stretched. 

Wirelessly charge your phone with your notebook. 

Forget electric cars and electric snowmobiles. Now we have electric jet skis! 

Disposable printed batteries may help reduce battery waste. 

Ultrasound stickers can continuously monitor organs for days. 

Graphene is the new super material that can change the world. 

Forget the airlines – track your own luggage! 

Smart locks harvesting NFC power from your phone. 

EV Live from GM wants to educate you about your next electric vehicle purchase. 

Production of jet fuel with solar power, water and carbon dioxide. 

Robots winning the fight with chess players – literally! 

Glassholes may be coming to a face near you. 

Internet issues with leap seconds. 

How different are search results from different search engines? 

All-in-one video doorbell and smart lock with solar power. 

New emojis for 2022: Shaking head and mean goose and 29 others.

A wearable vest to fix your bad posture. 

Do you have Internet Gaming Disorder? 

Amazon targets fake review sites. 

Installing a home battery to generate some additional income. 

Electric passenger planes are being further developed. 

Drone superhighway being created in the UK. 

Will you use a ‘sand-battery’ to heat your home? 

ACT is the first jurisdiction in Australia to ban the sale of ICE vehicles. 

Everything is better with Bluetooth – but now there is a better Bluetooth. 

Heat your car seats for just $18 per month. 

Airbus sets a new record for the longest flight of an unmanned aircraft. 

Enhance your healthcare and run faster with pressure sensing mats. 

Trust us…we are health insurers with lots of data on you. 

Telcos trying to protect Aussies from text message scams. 

Beware the ATMs skimming credit card details. 

Restaurants being extorted with bad online reviews. 

Indian farmers create their own fake cricket matches to dupe Russian gamblers. 

Finally a technology solution to the offside call in soccer! 

Forget fixing potholes – just use a car that scans the road and adjusts the suspension. 

Too much demand for Netflix. 

Scams have cost Aussies over $2 billion in the last year. 

The new Apple watch will reportedly be able to detect a Fever, be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade. 

Spot the robot dog at work in the Snowy Hydro scheme. 

Underwater autonomous drones now being used for drug smuggling. 

Aerial drones risking passengers at Cairns airport while trying to spot Katy Perry. 

Predict crime in advance with lots of data and AI. 

Apparently it is illegal to mislead consumers in advertising. 

Watch out for the ‘Mum and Dad’ scam. 

Hybrid ships on the horizon. 

Augmented reality tools to help you replace furniture in your home. 

Need new friends? Smell here! 

Netflix dropping prices and adding advertisements. 

Hydrogen fuel cells for long-haul trucks. 

Take your satellite Internet service on the road. 

Take your off-the-grid power system on the road as well. 

Internet Explorer dies at 26 – long live the Internet. 

Bill Gates believes NFTs and cryptocurrencies rely on the greater fool concept. 

Identification of plants with your phone. 

Google starts charging for free e-mail. 

Tattoos to monitor blood pressure. 

Toyota faces $2 billion class action after faulty diesel particulate filters used. 

IDs of Aussies on the Dark Web for just a handful of dollars. 

Lime shared electric motorbikes. 

Nuclear desalination ships on the move. 

Tesla Model Y changing the EV landscape in Australia. 

Find fresh air – with Google Maps. 

Plasma Gasification to turn waste plastic in to energy. 

Warning! Medicare scam texts are costing us millions. 

Robotic Surgery is safer and improves patient recovery times. 

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has had an upgrade. 

Google engineer claims AI is sentient. 

Kate Bush has reached the top of that hill. 

What to do with old EV batteries? 

Get paid just to surf the ‘net! 

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…robotic Peregrine Falcon! 

The end may be nigh for fake social media accounts. 

See your pet from every angle. 

EV conversions of classic old cars. 

USB Type-C will soon dominate Europe. 

3D printing human body parts. 

A drone with a taser. What could go wrong? 

Announcements from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. 

Why Gen Xers have sore thumbs. 

Aussies spending big on video games. 

Great Scott! DeLorean Alpha 5 EV revealed. 

Singapore filling workforce gaps with robots. 

Dyson creating robots for your household chores. 

US reclaims Supercomputing crown with an AMD powered beast. 

AI helping you see fewer red traffic lights as you drive. 

Apple activates nudity blurring for children in Australia. 

Crypto scams result in more calls for regulation of crypto markets. 

The humble Contact Lens may be the ultimate computer screen. 

Video Games do not destroy the brains of kids – they might even help! 

Put your face on your fridge. 

Smartphone sales plummet. 

COVID-19 changing the modern home. 

Tesla opening up their Supercharger network to other brands. 

Crispr tackling malarial mosquitos. 

Garmin combines a radar, camera and taillight. 

How to conveniently produce white noise. 

Pet ownership has increased along with pet technology. 

If you are sick of plugging in your phone just wear a sweater with wireless charging. 

What is the difference between Netflix Livestreaming and Live Free-to-Air TV? 

Banks keeping up with millennials with 10-minute online mortgage approvals. 

The next solution to EV range anxiety is battery swap stations. 

Gravity batteries to solve our energy storage solutions. 

Google to pay more than 300 EU publishers for their news. 

The Tesla Effect on snowmobiles; boats; mowers; chain saws… 

Solar power generation at night! 

Bringing tennis from the outside world to the inside world. 

Electric supercar for less than 2 grand! 

Smart socks to help people with dementia. 

iPod is no more. 

Roll up your TV. 

Remote control to rev your engine. 

Continuously monitor glucose, alcohol and lactate levels with a lab on your skin. 

NASA’s 747 space observatory reaches the end of its flight plan. 

Portable solar generators to help you be at one with nature. 

Spiders on your lips with ultrasonic mouth haptics. 

Snapchat wants you to use their drone. 

Beijing now has robotaxis with no safety driver. 

A briefcase to turn seawater in to drinking water at the push of a button. 

Scammers steal $730,000 from one person in a property scam. 

16 states in the US sue the postal service over their plan to buy gas-guzzling mail trucks. 

Scientists set to redefine the length of a second. 

How to shoot criminal drones from the sky. 

Qantas will soon introduce the longest commercial flights in the world. 

A robot vacuum that can mop and vacuum and clean itself. 

Fitness mirrors to tell you who is the fairest of them all. 

Automated pram movement device to help frustrated parents. 

EU moves forward with a one charger fits all plan. 

The latest mobile hotspot has C-band 5G; Wi-Fi 6E and 2.5Gbps ethernet. 

COVID-19 breath tests. 

Can meat be grown in space? 

Californian garden landscapers being driven to change to electric mowers and blowers. 

EV news roundup. 

The greatest change in the mouse since...the mouse itself. 

QR Codes instead of Jersey numbers. 

Charging batteries without a charger. 

Airlines to use Starlink's LEO satellite Internet. 

Mercedes-Benz EV with more than 1,000km of range. 

New drones take the skill out of flying. 

Capturing solar energy and storing it for 18 years. 

New records with solar cell efficiency. 

SMS scam filters to slow down the deluge of dodgy text messages. 

Cough once for COVID-19. 

Microchip implants without a vaccine. 

Blur the lines between your bed and your gaming chair. 

FDA clearance for Fitbit passive heart rhythm monitoring. 

How does a cop tell a driverless vehicle to “step out of the car”? 

Puppy fraudsters being sued by Google. 

Why not collect solar power in space where the energy is eleven times stronger. 

The future of bicycles – not just an e-bike but a folding e-bike. 

Lithium-ion batteries are the greatest technology in EV batteries…until they aren’t. What is next? 

Dyson combines pure air and pure sound. 

You may not be able to make your dog immortal, but what about a clone? 

FedEx is now looking to drones for the ‘middle mile’ logistics. 

Great Scott! DeLorean sets a date for its electric resurrection. 

DreamHack is on its way to Melbourne. 

CARS24 pushes all the right buttons for car sales. 

Solar panels come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. 

The future of home energy storage may well be the community battery. 

Hertz charges ahead with 65,000 Polestar Electric Vehicles. 

Scam texts are now coming…from yourself. 

Oxford 16-year-old teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal. 

Apple TV+ just won the Oscar for best picture and everything is different now. 

Practice your swing with a new golf simulator. 

Take your 2D photos and create a 3D-rendered scene. 

Sunrise alarm clocks help you rise and shine every day. 

‘The Frame’ can be your TV and your artwork. 

Squid skin could help keep your takeaway coffee warm. 

What sort of car would you build if you had unlimited funds and you wanted to be safe? 

Roboburgers flipping burgers at a vending machine near you. 

Apple don’t want to sell you a phone – they want to lease you one instead. 

Australia needs to play catch-up with EVs or suffer for lack of choice. 

Imagine having solar panels that repelled dust. Imagine no more! 

Do you find a foot-tickling machine a laughing matter? 

Binge while you can! Netflix is cracking down on password sharing. 

Fall asleep in 30 minutes. Guaranteed. Without drugs. 

Optus and TPG pay back $6.5 million to customers because of slow Internet. 

Four-word Facebook Messenger scam to ignore. 

Printable lipstick to perfectly match the colour of your outfit. 

Air raid alerts directly to your phone. 

Play the GENIGMA app and help cancer research. 

Monitor the quality of your indoor air with these devices. 

Airbus powering aircraft with Hydrogen. 

Hang Ten on your surfboard at your nearest inland surfing lake! 

CDs are making a comeback after 17 years. 

Apple’s iOS 15.4 can turn your phone in to an EFTPOS machine. 

Less flower, more power with the modern VW Kombi Van. 

The science behind putting a gorilla in an ad. 

How do you spot a hidden camera in your holiday accommodation? 

Is an electric vehicle a car with technology added or technology on wheels? 

Telstra has signed a deal with satellite constellation provider, OneWeb. 

Electric boats are coming but water can be a real drag. 

Coles delivering your groceries…by drone. 

An electronic device for the bedroom that can save your marriage. 

Type to talk and back the other way. 

Greener fuel options for shipping companies. 

Time to get serious about fun with your water gun. 

If you want to be heard, you need HyperWhistle! 

For your next camping trip, try the solar-powered outdoor oven. 

Use your earbuds to monitor your body temperature. 

The humble wristwatch can now track your arterial health. 

The Hydrofoil electric boat is set to rise above the competition. 

That isn’t a hard drive…this is a hard drive! 20TB of space. 

Google turns off live traffic data in the Ukraine. 

Breaking news…Tasmanians had to talk to each other after the island’s Internet was cut off. 

How green is your thumb? 

Are you sick of checking your tyre pressure? 

Careful where your eyes wander. 

Only Donald Trump has the real answer. 

Future conflicts being fought from a keyboard. 

Selling picks and shovels is more profitable than being a gold prospector. 

Adaptive headlights lighting the way. 

Eye-watering prospect of more renewable power. 

Keep your natural circadian rhythm in check with simulated lighting. 

The high cost of romance. 

For the Superbowl, simple is good. 

B-cycle those old batteries. 

Glamping with the Airstream eStream. 

Oh No! Changes to Wordle by the New York Times. 

V2G and V2H for EVs in OZ. 

Track your toddlers in childcare. 

Is there not enough space in space? 

Portable monitors to keep you productive on the go.

High polluters be aware – your number plate is being tracked. 

Do you have the problem with teenagers tracking your private jet? 

BYD may change the EV world but what does it stand for? Before You Die or Build Your Dreams? 

Porn sites in the UK will be legally required to prove users are over 18. 

Health apps are proving to be effective early warning devices for COVID-19. 

A grossly offensive tweet can land you in jail! 

Lifeline’s new texting service. 

Engineering creates the impossible – a material stronger than steel but lighter than plastic. 

Sell your shares in Square because Apple will let you accept contactless payments. 

Wardle said his blood would curdle if a hurdle was placed in front of Wordle…or has that all changed now?

Don’t forget to charge that battery…on your plane!!! 

And the best-selling Electric Vehicles in Australia in 2021 were… 

What injuries do you need to be careful of when playing online games? 

Lie detection is adding a dose of technology. 

The present for someone who has everything. 

Do you buy items online? Are you prepared to order a car online? 

Would a helicopter drawing by Leonardo da Vinci from 1480 actually fly? 

Charging ahead with wound management. 

Infrared goggles to help the blind see. 

Who can you sue when an autonomous car crashes? 

Boeing investing in flying taxis. 

Tattoos that don’t last forever. 

Amazon craving electric vans. 

Sex in space – strictly for research. 

Can artificial nature help our mental health? 

The New York Mayor is paid in cryptocurrency. Is this a good idea? 

Latest global market share data for smartphones. 

Airbags on the outside of vehicles.

Avoid these passwords!

Aspire to earn the same money as these YouTubers.

Which video just passed 10 billion views on YouTube?

Norway sets new records with sales of Electric Vehicles.

Throw away those plastic straws and suck on a bacteria straw.

Large offshore wind farms are charging ahead.

Google promotes a gift card scam – whoops!

Twitter and Snapchat warn government against online anonymity.

Apple now opens up your Hyundai.

The BlackBerry is dead! Long live innovation. 

Change the colour of your car with the touch of a button. 

Change the colour of your hair with the wave of a wand. 

Use your watch to enter your house. 

Smart locks are so yesterday. Now there is the smart door! 

Google accuses Apple over bullying with exclusivity of iMessage. 

Cash in your old video games for big dollars. 

Robots are now swimming through blood vessels to clear blockages. 

Stop wasting time selecting weights. Just tell Alexa your required dumbbell. 

RIP Professor Michael Gore AO, founder of national science institution Questacon. 

You have your smartwatch. Does your dog need a smart collar? 

Has one company nailed the solution for a solar roof? 

How to harvest electricity from the air. 

Replace your kitchen tap with one that has no handle. 

Use your voice to fill and empty your bath tub – at just the right temperature. 

Silence sleep snoring with a pillow full of air bags. 

Find a Rapid Antigen Test with a new Web site. 

Mining companies are looking to greener transport solutions with hydrogen-electric trains. 

Use bathroom scales to deliver a segmented body composition reading. 

Anti-5G necklace to protect you against…what? 

Gift vouchers being offered to children in online games. 

If you are sick of passwords, consider a USB Biosecurity key. 

GM starts delivering electric Hummers to excited clients. 

Phase shifting substance to keep the heat out and the heat in! 

Keen to try solar but you don’t have roof space? A solar garden may be for you. 

Wireless induction charging for EV parking spaces. 

Designing a robotic hand that grips like a gecko. 

Ford Mustang Mach-E joins New York City’s yellow taxi fleet. 

Season 1 highlights episode. 

Season 1 has now finished and this episode is the first episode of Season 2. 

Season 1 consisted of 40 episodes with more than 360 separate tech stories with over 26 hours of content. 

This episode has 29 of the stories from Season 1 that generated the most feedback. 

Finally the flying car is here with the Jetson ONE. 

If you are sick of losing your hotel keys use your phone instead. 

Love your spreadsheets? Enter the Financial Modelling World Cup! 

Fried chips being used to power EVs across the Nullarbor. 

AirTags are being used by ingenious thieves to steal cars. 

AI will help you read the Terms and Conditions on your apps. 

Ford has over 200,000 reservations for the F-150 Lightning. 

Learn more about your dog with a DNA testing kit. 

Do you like to play video games or watch TV while you drive?

Which emojis are we using the most at the moment? 🤔 

What will be the next big thing from Apple? 

Earth is getting a black box so the future can see why we crashed. 

COVID-19 vaccine certificates for sale on the dark web…or are they? 

COVID-19 surveillance robots to the rescue for social distancing. 

Uber surveillance audio…for your safety. 

Think twice before you do that next nude run from the shower to the laundry – someone may be watching you. 

A new option for that big-screen TV you so desperately want. 

Ready to start travelling overseas again? Don’t leave home without this device. 

Using technology to stop drink driving. 

Mobile checkout to save time at Christmas. 

Your important certificates officially digitised. 

Trolls be gone! 

Teaching a computer to read an analogue clock. 

First ever 3D printed eye – without the Steve Austin beeps. 

Finally Antarctica will be receiving an Internet upgrade. 

2021 News Corp EV Car of the Year Finalists. 

What can your boss monitor when you work from home? 

Top 20 Gadgets to give to the Geek in your life! 

Coffee mug for lazy stirrers. 

Beer counting bottle opener. 

Invisibility cloak. 

Wireless charging photos frame. 

Smart ball for automated fetch. 

Toothbrush steriliser. 

LED light ring for better selfies. 

Novelty sound effects machine. 

Smart sock. 

Distract annoying dogs. 

Emergency affirmation button. 

Wearable fan. 

Reusable cup with tap to pay. 

Levitating speaker. 

Turtles in Time. 

Thermodynamic hand boiler. 

Project the world. 

Connect to your iPad. 

Personal alarm. 

The Useless Box. The name says it all! 

Wi-Fi HaLow announced by the Wi-Fi Alliance with range of 1km. 

What is more important when you buy a house? The number of bedrooms or fibre Internet? 

How a maths teacher makes his living on Pornhub - and no, it isn't what you think! 

Portable EV charger to address range anxiety. 

And for the latest trick by scamsters...blackmailing Insta users! 

Controlling your iPad with your eyes is now possible. 

Twentieth anniversary of the Xbox. Now I feel old! 

Will Hydrogen be the solution to climate friendly aviation solutions? 

Will a robot bartender listen to your woes? 

The hydrofoil bike could revolutionise the triathlon: finish the swim and the cycle legs at the same time! 

Nespresso trying to keep you away from imposter pods. 

The latest revolution in stopping your car – electronic brakes. 

When you over-binge on Netflix streaming, there is now Netflix gaming! 

Diesel cars making way for EVs in the UK. 

Fancy your cycling skills? The Defence Force has a role for you. 

Facebook to delete all facial data. 

Video gaming to connect with family and friends. 

VW will bring their ID.3 to Australia sometime after we have some new government policies. 

Hoverboards aren’t here yet so would a hoverbike suffice? 

Time may be running out to capture old memories from cassette tapes. 

Toyota is charging slowly in to the EV space. 

Forget about 3D printing a house. Why not 3D print an entire community? 

Storing massive amounts of data in the fifth dimension. 

Is Carbon Capture going to solve our Climate Change problems? 

Want to be a background extra in Squid Game? Just click this link! 

The now ubiquitous QR Code is being used by the wool industry. 

“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” A hologram is coming to your board room. 

UK tapping in to the desert sunshine…in Morocco! 

Solar panels on headphones! Really? 

Use this tablet to clean up your drinking water. 

Having trouble getting to sleep at night? Maybe try these glasses before bed. 

Want to own a racehorse but it all seems a bit messy? Go virtual. 

Net zero by 2050 seems a long way off – but it will start right now. 

Driving forward with Electric Buses (EBs) on the streets of Sydney. 

Australia could save half a trillion dollars by going EV. 

Make that next hire car an EV. 

New affordable EVs soon to hit the streets of Australia. 

Classic cars with a new lease on life. 

Keeping cattle in with virtual fences. 

Nokia relies on nostalgia for sales. 

After COVID-19 will we need QR Codes? 

How big is big when it comes to wind turbines? 

Smart doorbells might soon show you the image of a judge! 

Toyota might finally be saying, “if you can’t lick ‘em, jine ‘em.” 

UK schools have come up with a way of stopping bullies stealing lunch money. 

Do you remember your first iPod? It may have been up to twenty years ago. 

 

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Making millions playing games. 

Mobile phones to control your car systems. 

Internet censorship. Do we want it? 

Cooling down your sweaty mouse hand. 

New third-party in-app payment system for Apple apps. 

Unbreakable glass inspired by nature. 

Smart headbands to help you think about…nothing! 

UK winning the ‘Ashes’ of the renewable energy landscape. 

Should you opt-out of receiving scam messages? 

 

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Has ‘Squid Game’ broken the Internet? 

The longest subsea power cable in the world saving the planet. 

Tesla sales bucking the chipageddon trend. 

Is the future of cropping high-rise buildings? 

Episode sponsor Crestron improving the videoconference experience. 

“Where no man has gone before!” William Shatner, at 90 years of age, taking to space. 

Computer monitors to make you look your best on a video call. 

There is USB-C and there is USB-C. New labelling standards. 

Are we any closer to having our very own Rosie the Robot like Jane Jetson had? 

 

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Europe gangs up on Apple. 

How to lose money with cryptocurrencies - especially in China. 

New Zealand Councillors tricking the world. 

Public backlash for Police trying to find missing people. 

The first step towards mood rings with Bluetooth. 

The real-world equivalent of a Babel Fish for language translation. 

Japan making CRISPR tomatoes. 

US Army 3D printing buildings and bridges. 

Facebook community pages under threat from the High Court. 

 

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