2015-09-23 0/10
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.
Director : Alec Watson
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Alec Watson
Seasons List
2015
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2016
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1. From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves: Electrical Sound Recording
2. Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level
3. The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines
4. What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?
5. Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366
6. Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient
7. Electric Vehicle Charging: It's easier than you think
8. Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape
9. The Dead Man's Switch: How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved
10. Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction
2017
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1. The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR
2. What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning
3. Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes
4. Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light
5. Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
6. Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2
7. Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?
8. Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works
9. Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers
10. LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did
11. GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL
12. Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television
13. Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners
14. How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
15. The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting
16. Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special
17. Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info
18. Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product
2018
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1. Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
2. Laserdisc: An Introduction
3. Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
4. Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
5. Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
6. Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
7. Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
8. A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
9. DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
10. Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
11. The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
12. These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
13. The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
14. The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
15. Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
16. MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
17. Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
18. The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
19. The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
20. The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
21. The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
22. Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
23. The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
24. Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
25. Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
26. The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
27. The Compact Disc: An Introduction
28. Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
29. LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
30. An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
31. CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
32. TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
33. CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
34. The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
35. LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
36. LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
37. Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
38. The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
2019
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1. DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive
2. The Odd History of the SD Logo
3. The Time-Lapse VCR
4. Space Heater Nonsense
5. The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas
6. The Electromagnet in Your Toaster
7. Exploring the World of E-Ink
8. E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
9. The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
10. Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)
11. Thermostats: Cooler than you think!
12. Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them
13. Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them
14. The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
15. TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard
16. Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?
17. Switches are Clicky; Here's Why
18. The Weird World in RGB
19. The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
20. The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)
21. LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
22. The VFD that isn't
23. RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
24. The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta
25. LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie
26. Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
27. One more thing: the VHS notch
28. Film: the reason some of the past was in HD
2020
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1. Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
2. Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
3. Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)
4. Brown; color is weird
5. Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat
6. The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
7. The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
8. Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
9. Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast
10. DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?
11. Fans; High is next to Off on purpose
12. Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light
13. How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
14. The US electrical system is not 120V
15. Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!
16. Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
17. Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem
18. The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!
19. A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
20. Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)
21. The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
22. Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
23. Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How
24. Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter
25. The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
26. What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
27. Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?
28. Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
2021
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2022
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