Weird Tech
Hosted by Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones · Weird Tech
5.0from 9 ratings
- 112
- Episodes
- 105
- Transcribed
- 9
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About 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).
- Publisher
- Weird Tech
- Category
- leisure · news · science · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Aug 2024
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
105 of 112 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hunting Ghosts with Xbox Kinect
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Hunting Ghosts with Xbox Kinect
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But then, like we said earlier, it just had this very weird second life. Yeah. Just different industries. Yeah. Including ghost hunting. It's kind of amazing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I do love this and I want to hear more about it. Yeah. And so why are people using it for ghost hunting? So it comes down to how it actually works. So a normal camera sees color and light, whereas the Kinect, I mean, it could do that as well, but it had infrared projector and camera. And so the first iteration of the Kinect projected a pattern of infrared dots into a room that we couldn't see, obviously, but the sensors could. […]
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- YouTube views
- 419,123,460
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100
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- 35
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 32
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