Technology Connections

Name: Technology Connections
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Released: 20 Dec 2020
Rating: 0.00
Cast: Alec Watson

2020-12-20 48 minutes.

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Documentary Comedy technology

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Season - Episode

8 Season 8 Jan 01, 1970

7 Season 7 Jan 01, 1970

6 Season 6 Jan 03, 2020

6 - 1

Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4) Jan 03, 2020
6 - 2

Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever Jan 15, 2020
6 - 3

Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5) Jan 26, 2020
6 - 4

Brown; color is weird Feb 13, 2020
6 - 5

Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat Feb 22, 2020
6 - 6

The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics) Mar 08, 2020
6 - 7

The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain Mar 22, 2020
6 - 8

Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X Apr 07, 2020
6 - 9

Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast Apr 17, 2020
6 - 10

DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about? Apr 29, 2020
6 - 11

Fans; High is next to Off on purpose May 12, 2020
6 - 12

Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light May 22, 2020
6 - 13

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's May 30, 2020
6 - 14

The US electrical system is not 120V Jun 22, 2020
6 - 15

Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat! Jun 29, 2020
6 - 16

Cassette adapters are remarkably simple Jul 13, 2020
6 - 17

Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem Jul 22, 2020
6 - 18

The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems! Jul 30, 2020
6 - 19

A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145 Aug 19, 2020
6 - 20

Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of) Aug 31, 2020
6 - 21

The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think! Sep 12, 2020
6 - 22

Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained Sep 23, 2020
6 - 23

Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How Oct 10, 2020
6 - 24

Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter Oct 30, 2020
6 - 25

The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours Nov 12, 2020
6 - 26

What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp? Nov 21, 2020
6 - 27

Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light? Nov 29, 2020
6 - 28

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained) Dec 20, 2020

5 Season 5 Jan 11, 2019

5 - 1

DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive Jan 11, 2019
5 - 2

The Odd History of the SD Logo Jan 21, 2019
5 - 3

The Time-Lapse VCR Feb 04, 2019
5 - 4

Space Heater Nonsense Feb 13, 2019
5 - 5

The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas Feb 26, 2019
5 - 6

The Electromagnet in Your Toaster Mar 15, 2019
5 - 7

Exploring the World of E-Ink Mar 30, 2019
5 - 8

E-Ink on Android, and other new things! Apr 09, 2019
5 - 9

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours Apr 19, 2019
5 - 10

Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully) Apr 28, 2019
5 - 11

Thermostats: Cooler than you think! May 10, 2019
5 - 12

Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them Jun 02, 2019
5 - 13

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them Jun 15, 2019
5 - 14

The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird) Jul 06, 2019
5 - 15

TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard Jul 19, 2019
5 - 16

Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need? Jul 29, 2019
5 - 17

Switches are Clicky; Here's Why Aug 11, 2019
5 - 18

The Weird World in RGB Aug 28, 2019
5 - 19

The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1) Sep 10, 2019
5 - 20

The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2) Sep 21, 2019
5 - 21

LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC Sep 30, 2019
5 - 22

The VFD that isn't Oct 18, 2019
5 - 23

RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3) Oct 29, 2019
5 - 24

The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta Nov 08, 2019
5 - 25

LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie Nov 17, 2019
5 - 26

Klaxons; What makes them sound like that? Nov 27, 2019
5 - 27

One more thing: the VHS notch Nov 18, 2019
5 - 28

Film: the reason some of the past was in HD Dec 22, 2019

4 Season 4 Jan 08, 2018

4 - 1

Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once Jan 08, 2018
4 - 2

Laserdisc: An Introduction Jan 23, 2018
4 - 3

Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks Jan 30, 2018
4 - 4

Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong Feb 06, 2018
4 - 5

Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter) Feb 26, 2018
4 - 6

Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution Feb 17, 2018
4 - 7

Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring Feb 26, 2018
4 - 8

A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness Mar 05, 2018
4 - 9

DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc Mar 18, 2018
4 - 10

Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It Mar 25, 2018
4 - 11

The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301 Apr 03, 2018
4 - 12

These Are Not Pixels: Revisited Apr 22, 2018
4 - 13

The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200 May 06, 2018
4 - 14

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!" May 14, 2018
4 - 15

Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS May 22, 2018
4 - 16

MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994 May 29, 2018
4 - 17

Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test May 31, 2018
4 - 18

The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good? Jun 04, 2018
4 - 19

The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium Jun 19, 2018
4 - 20

The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion Jun 25, 2018
4 - 21

The Most Common EV Charging Misconception Jun 27, 2018
4 - 22

Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder Jul 03, 2018
4 - 23

The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals Jul 14, 2018
4 - 24

Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound Jul 25, 2018
4 - 25

Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound Aug 10, 2018
4 - 26

The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector Aug 17, 2018
4 - 27

The Compact Disc: An Introduction Aug 26, 2018
4 - 28

Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music Sep 06, 2018
4 - 29

LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of Sep 19, 2018
4 - 30

An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player Sep 28, 2018
4 - 31

CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips) Sep 28, 2018
4 - 32

TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup Oct 09, 2018
4 - 33

CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet... Oct 19, 2018
4 - 34

The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed Oct 26, 2018
4 - 35

LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner Nov 10, 2018
4 - 36

LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish Nov 26, 2018
4 - 37

Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know Dec 12, 2018
4 - 38

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name Dec 25, 2018

3 Season 3 Jan 25, 2017

3 - 1

The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR Jan 25, 2017
3 - 2

What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning Feb 07, 2017
3 - 3

Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes Mar 01, 2017
3 - 4

Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light Mar 23, 2017
3 - 5

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1) Jun 11, 2017
3 - 6

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2 Jun 16, 2017
3 - 7

Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better? Jun 21, 2017
3 - 8

Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works Jul 01, 2017
3 - 9

Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers Aug 07, 2017
3 - 10

LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did Sep 13, 2017
3 - 11

GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL Sep 25, 2017
3 - 12

Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television Oct 28, 2017
3 - 13

Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners Nov 09, 2017
3 - 14

How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings Nov 18, 2017
3 - 15

The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting Dec 03, 2017
3 - 16

Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special Dec 15, 2017
3 - 17

Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info Dec 22, 2017
3 - 18

Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product Dec 30, 2017

2 Season 2 Feb 01, 2016

2 - 1

From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves: Electrical Sound Recording Feb 01, 2016
2 - 2

Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level Feb 13, 2016
2 - 3

The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines Mar 03, 2016
2 - 4

What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work? Mar 19, 2016
2 - 5

Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366 Apr 08, 2016
2 - 6

Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient Apr 15, 2016
2 - 7

Electric Vehicle Charging: It's easier than you think Apr 20, 2016
2 - 8

Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape Jun 23, 2016
2 - 9

The Dead Man's Switch: How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved Dec 02, 2016
2 - 10

Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction Dec 17, 2016

1 Season 1 Sep 23, 2015

1 - 1

Bell & The Invention of Artificial Sound Sep 23, 2015
1 - 2

Edison's Impression: Laying Sound into a Groove Sep 30, 2015
1 - 3

Emile Berliner's Fix: Flatten the Cylinder to a Disc Oct 09, 2015
1 - 4

The Vacuum Tube and the Invention of Radio Oct 16, 2015

Overview

Technology Connections is a series of YouTube videos that explores numerous aspects of technological history, including how things work, the way things developed, and anything in between. There is no limit to what kinds of tech could be covered — one minute you may be learning about how electron guns draw pictures on an analog television, and the next you might be discovering that your modern toaster is a piece of junk.

Year 2020

Studio YouTube

Director Alec Watson

Crew Alec Watson (Director)

Popularity 0.6013

Language English

Technology Connections

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