49 episodes

OK Smart-ass is a regular look at technology, how we see, use it and the impact it has on our everyday lives.

Ok Smart Ass Patrick Bonello & Tor Roxburgh

    • Technology
    • 4.9 • 8 Ratings

OK Smart-ass is a regular look at technology, how we see, use it and the impact it has on our everyday lives.

    Death.. everything you need to know

    Death.. everything you need to know

    Tor and Patrick return with a series of special episodes tackling technology and all things gadgety and interesting. With a focus on death, in this episode they ask the really big questions.
    How does medical science define death? Can you reanimate brain cells in a recently deceased pig?  Do you want to be buried or cremated or maybe, go where no one has gone before and have your ashes blasted into space.
    Join the ok smart-ass team as they delve into dreams, science and the technology of life and death.
    Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com

    • 50 min
    Bing AI has a brain fart, covert your petrol car to electric and get dumber looking at your phone

    Bing AI has a brain fart, covert your petrol car to electric and get dumber looking at your phone

    Patrick is joined by aerospace engineer Ryan who reckons AI Chat isn’t as smart as everyone thinks. 
    Bing AI Search had a brain fart but that's nothing compared to the scientists wanting to blast moon dust around the earth to stop global warming.
    Diesel and petrol cars to be banned in Europe. Medical experiments into magic mushrooms are being combined with VR, and looking at your phone too much could make you dumb and dumber.
    Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com

    • 53 min
    Educational and tasty, learn faster and drop a bombshell

    Educational and tasty, learn faster and drop a bombshell

    It this episode Patrick's excited, disappointed and melancholy all at the same time with new tech, old tech and questionable tech.
    Tor drops a bombshell, she uncovers an AI driven Babylonian hymn discovered using a fragmentarium.
    And we also cancel our order for a solar electric car while at the same time lamenting the ever eroding support for Windows 7 and 8.
    Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
     
     

    • 44 min
    Brushing, peeing and robot lawyers while driving a solar car

    Brushing, peeing and robot lawyers while driving a solar car

    In this episode, we turn the spotlight onto health gadgets whilst exploring the fountain of youth.
    Patrick explains his biggest medical fears and Tor has the perfect gadget that won't dial up his blood pressure.
    And a three wheeled solar car will be rolling off the production lines later this year.
    Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
     

    • 42 min
    Ryan Tonkin answers the smart and not-so-smart questions bugging the OK Smart-ass team

    Ryan Tonkin answers the smart and not-so-smart questions bugging the OK Smart-ass team

    In this episode, we pepper aerospace systems engineer, Ryan Tonkin, with questions.
    Ryan talks about a half-boat-half-aircraft project in Melbourne, a Swedish rocket range, the engineering challenges of space elevators, and the fate of one unfortunate English airship.
    Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com

    • 41 min
    Paragliding in space, a new space station for China, and Kenya’s electric motorcycles

    Paragliding in space, a new space station for China, and Kenya’s electric motorcycles

    In this episode we discuss all things space, including an innovative approach to space junk and space-based solar panel arrays.
    Kenya succeeds with a motorcycle battery-swapping scheme.
    And UFOs become UFAs (unidentified aerial phenomena) and then transition again to become unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    Feed your curiosity at https://oksmartass.com

    • 46 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
8 Ratings

8 Ratings

Hetty McMarsh ,

Witty tech biscuits for your brain

Tor and Patrick extemporising on tech makes for super smart, funny (and literary!) storytelling. I love that they weave social commentary, politics, psychology and creativity through every episode.

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