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Weird Tech
by Weird Tech
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 (Download This Show, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age) and Tegan Jones (SmartCompany, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age).
Episodes
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Historic Coffin Tech
Do you wanna something weird about historic coffin tech? 👀 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 🔔...
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From The Vault: Busting Ghost Hunters
Do you wanna hear something weird about ghost hunting TV shows? In this classic Spooktober special, 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...
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This Little Gadget Made My Smartphone Less Addictive (Brick Review)
Want to hear something weird about a gadget whose job is to make your life harder? 👀 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…
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The Apple Pippin
Want to hear something weird about the time Apple tried to make a gaming console 👀 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...
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Toilet Data Breach
Want to hear something weird about a gadget that collects your (very) personal information? 👀 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...
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Underwater Headphones (Tegan's Shokz Openswim Pro Review)
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's experiences with the Shokz Openswim Pro headphones? 👀 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…
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From The Vault: The North Korean Wii
Do you wanna hear about a weird gaming console? North Korea made its own version of the Nintendo Wii, and in this classic 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...
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This $3k Printer Puts A Selfie On Your Coffee
Want to hear something weird you can do to a cappuccino? 👀 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 🔔...
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Wet Succy Boi
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's experiences with a robot mop? 👀 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...
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Uncanny Valley Of The Apes
Want to hear something weird about monkeys and deepfakes? 👀 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 🔔...
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The Commodore Flip Phone
Want to hear something weird about commodore? As in, the computer company? 👀 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...
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Birds Aren’t Real (This Robot One, Anyway)
Want to hear something weird about robot birds? 👀 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:...
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Australian Scientists Invented A Glove That Can Feel Data
Want to hear something weird about a gadget that lets your spreadsheet touch you, physically? 👀 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…
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Earth's Black Box
Want to hear something weird about a black box for the Earth being built in Tasmania? 👀 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...
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The Cowgorithm
Want to hear something weird about cow surveillance? 👀 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 🔔…
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Numberless Phones
Want to hear something weird about numberless phones? 👀 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 🔔…
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Australian Scientists Used Technology To Solve One of Stonehenge's Biggest Mysteries
Want to hear something weird about stonehenge? Here's the paper here, if you want to have a read. 👀 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:...
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Why The Macbook Neo Is Weird (In A Bad Way)
Want to hear something weird about Tegan's adventures with tech's hottest new laptop? 👀 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...
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Vacuum Shoes: Because What If Your Feet Were Also a Roomba
Want to hear something weird Rae found on Pee-Wee Herman's blog? 👀 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...
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Why 700k E.T. Videogames Were Buried In The Desert
Want to hear something weird about over 700,000 game cartridges buried in the desert? 👀 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...
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Robot Swarms Are Fighting Fires
Want to hear something weird about robots that talk to each other? 👀 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...
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Inside The Clear Gaming Consoles Used In Prisons
Want to hear something weird about a gaming console that was only sold in prisons? 👀 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…
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Scientists Accidentally Explained Ghosts While Studying Office Air Conditioning
Want to hear something weird about a scientific explanation for haunted buildings, which turns out to be significantly more depressing than ghosts? 👀 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 💻…
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How To Store Data For 10,000+ Years
Want to hear something weird about the future of data storage? 👀 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…
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The Garfield Phones Mystery, Solved
Want to hear something weird about Garfield-shaped phones that kept washing up on a beach in France for decades? 👀 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...
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The Demon Box
Want to hear something weird about about electromagnetic fields in all your appliances that can make music through something called...the demon box? 👀 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 💻…
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A Bracelet That Zaps Your Bad Habits
Want to hear something weird about a wearable device you strap to your wrist so it can electrocute you? 👀 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 🎵...
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Spotify Urn
Want to hear something weird about playing music from the afterlife? 👀 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…
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The Doomsday Seed Vault
Want to hear something weird about an under-ice lair that could save humanity? 👀 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…
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Superhuman Vision
Want to hear something weird about a new computer-vision system can spot motion faster than humans can even notice 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...
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Cereal Phreakers
Want to hear something weird about... breakfast cereal and hacking phones? 👀 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...
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Wheelchair Tech...Literally Powered By Blinking
Want to hear something weird about...blinking generating electricity than can power wheelchairs? 👀 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:...
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This App Lets You Anonymously Tell People They Might Have an STI
Want to hear something weird about...using tech to tell someone you have a sexually transmitted infection? LoveHurts is here 👀 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…
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Augmented Reality For Skiing Feels Like A Videogame With Consequences
Want to hear something weird about a heads-up display on your ski goggles? 👀 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...
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Are You Dead?
Want to hear something weird about an app that checks if you're alive? 👀 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...
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Someone Gave a Handbag a Touchscreen and Honestly… It Kinda Works
Want to hear something weird about these handbags? 👀 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...
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Smart, Shiny LEGO ✨
Want to hear something weird about LEGO? 👀 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…
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Tech To Get You Fit
Want to hear something weird about Rae's favourite tech from 2025? 👀 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...
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Our Best Tech Of 2025
Want to hear something weird about the best tech we used in 2025? 👀 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...
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For The Love Of eSIMs
Want to hear something weird (in a good way) about...eSIMs? 👀 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…
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Neutron Ghosts
Want to hear something weird about a dingo, a single-pixel camera, and something called ghost imaging? 👀 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 🎵...
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Weird In A Bad Way
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:...
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Gadget Names Are Boring
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…
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The Solar Panel Sandwich
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…
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Why Is The Rotary Phone Shaped Keyboard?
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...
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Australian Scientists Counted 180 Million Trees (With Lasers)
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 🔔...
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Regrowing Adult Teeth Is Now A Thing?
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...
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Spooky Week Re-Release: Ectoplasm Explained
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...
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Spooky Week Re-Release: Blood Falls
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! 👀...
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Spooky Week Re-Release: Telco Ghosts
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 (Download This Show, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age) and Tegan Jones (SmartCompany, Gizmodo Australia, Queens of the Drone Age).
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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 (Download This Show,...
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