Season 6 episodes

2020

Technology Connections is an educational YouTube channel created by Alec Watson. It explores the history, engineering, and inner workings of everyday technology, including consumer electronics, household appliances, transportation, lighting, and audio and video equipment.

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Episodes

Season 6

Episode 1

Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)

26m

Episode 2

Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever

11m

Episode 3

Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)

28m

Episode 4

Brown; color is weird

21m

Episode 5

Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat

10m

2020

Season 6

Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)

Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever

Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)

Brown; color is weird

Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat

The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)

The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain

Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast

DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?

Fans; High is next to Off on purpose

Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's

The US electrical system is not 120V

Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!

Cassette adapters are remarkably simple

Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem

The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!

A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145

Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)

The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!

Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained

Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How

1970's Camera Tech: How they showed you what settings to use

The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours

What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?

Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)