Amberly gets to run free! All the animal facts she's ever wanted to talk about she finally unleashes a torrent on Matt. Matt tells Amberly about a "social ranking system" that China wants to be made public (and compulsory) by 2020. It's very Black Mirror. Also, a robo-siurgeon has beaten a human in a glorified cutting competition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In September Togo turned off the internet, and what happened is nuts! A whole country without Whatsapp paints quite a picture. Also, Matt tells Amberly about an Australian bird that is helping achieve thought-to-text technolgoy. Amberly tells Matt some Canada facts thanks to the mailbag (this also explains the episode artwork) - and also teaches a couple of new words. Finally, the inventor of the polio cure is just a grade-A legend. Amberly tells Matt why. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
Matt tells Amberly about the world's top 3 cobots, who are robots that work collaboratively with humans. First, there's YuMi - the robot that recently conducted an orchestra in Italy . Then there's the surfing robot that is helping to save the great barrier reef. Finally, Google's Project X is using drones to deliver burritos in rural Australia! Amberly tells a couple of facts about babies - first of all how they get them to look new born in movies, and secondly allegedly they cry in different a...
Amberly is now 25! Is she older? yes. Is she wiser? You be the judge! In this episode we open up the Mailbag and read an international letter. Also, that same country invented the Hawaiin pizza. There's also an update on the Sex Robots (also not a good one) and Matt tells Amberly the origin story of the worlds most famous pair of scissors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The last episode with 24 year-old Amberly! Amberly tells Matt about the dwarf archetypes that Disney rejected. Also, before Elton John said yes to writing the music for the Lion King, another surprising pop act said no. Matt tells Amberly about Australia's new space agency and also introduces "Harmony" - the world's first AI sex robot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
First of all - sorry there's no "this week on Something Amazing". We plum forgot about it! So instead I'll type it here - AMBERLY: This week on ... TOGETHER: Something Amazing MATT: An 8-year-old bullied for her love of bugs just got published in a Scientific journal. AMBERLY: You know those inflatable tube people you see out the front of car yards? I'll tell you their origina story! MATT: Robots are being taught good human manners AMBERLY: and Mount Everest has a secret. Shhhh. MATT: That and f...
We're back in our "studio" (Matt's spare room) and this week Matt proves to Amberly that you can hear the difference between hot and cold water. Also, hear the results of an experiment where robots were doing some touching as sexy music played. Amberly tells Matt a strange little fact about polar bears and teaches Matt about the "backwards bicycle". Finally, we open up our mailbag to read a letter from one of our listeners! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
This is a very special live episode with guests from Melbourne Fringe playing our Something Amazing game! Liam Ryan, Josh Glanc and Shania Choir all join us on the show talking about sleep, baby's digestive systems and Shania Twain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Amberly tells Matt about fire and a cow that evaded police it's way to freedom! Matt tells Amberly about getting that fifth limb you always wanted and how a new breakthrough has happened allowing us to get ever closer to controlling computers with your mind. We also open up the Mailbag! If you want to write us, you can do it at [email protected]. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Matt tells Amberly about a former Google data scientist who has researched what successful people have in common. A wife trying to teach her husband a lesson about lotto wins a million dollars. Also a ten minute silent track is climbing the iTunes charts. Amberly tells Matt about a strange battle in Australia's history and how Austria ended up losing a battle to itself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this very special (?) Something Amazing - because we only needed one email to veto doing this, and we never received that email - we are doing the POOISODE! All the facts, stories and tidbits in this episode are all about everyone's favourite excrement: POO! But, of course, they are still all something AMAZING. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of Something Amazing - Amberly introduces Matt about the sport of cup-stacking. Also, Matt and Amberly play a round of hangman where Amberly has found the hardest word to guess. Matt tells Amberly how computers see, and a trend called "dazzle" which is designed to blind computer vision. Finally, 2 robots were shutdown after their program to negotiate saw them invent their own language. You can see Dazzle here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeup/374929/ ...
This week Amberly tells Matt the origin of a bunch of different well-known sayings. Matt tells Amberly about "Shrinkflation" which explains why icecream and chocolate bars are getting smaller. It's not just your imagination! Also, Amazon AI designed to create phone cases goes nuts and fills the store with over 30,000 hilarious products. You can see the pictures here: http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-amazon-ai-designed-phone-cases-fail/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
We're back after a short holiday! This week Amberly tells Matt about 3 places in the world that share a strange link and why carrots are orange. Matt tells Amberly about Dubai's plans to have 25% of its police force be robots by 2030. Also an Australian animal is completely confusing self-driving cars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode of Something Amazing - Amberly teaches Matt about "sin eaters" and a feature length movie that was basically just an ad for Maccas. Matt tells Amberly about a famous CEO whose alleged Netflix binge in retirement was proved false but replaced with an even better true story. Also Fake News existed back in World War II, and the government set up weird "rumour clinics" to try and stop them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
This week on Something Amazing - Amberly tells Matt about what happens when you cut a brain in half. Matt tells Amberly about a new solar paint that allows you to coat your house in clean energy. Also, we open up the mailbag to get an update from you about how far away we are from robot surgeons and musicians. You can watch Shimon the music playing robot here: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-performs-its-own-music/ See omnystudio.com/listener f...
In this episode Amberly tells Matt about how the colour mauve was invented and also how there is a weird pattern to humans discovering colours. Matt lets Amberly know that when a computer tried to learn and name colours it went hilariously wrong. Also, AI can now predict accurately when you're going to die. Would you want to know? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this epsiode Amberly tells Matt a lot of facts about how evil crows are. Also, have you already experienced your one-billionth second? Matt tells Amberly about a migrating butterfly that remembers a mountain that hasn't existed for thousand of years. Also - AI experts predict when robots will be better than humans at everything . Finally, we open up our mailbag and hear Something Amazing from YOU. You can email us too: [email protected] . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
On this episode of Something Amazing, Amberly tells Matt about a man who won a scrabble championship in an unusual way. Also a women inventor who had her invention stolen from her. Matt tells Amberly about the "library of babel" - where everything that can ever be said is written down. You can visit it here: https://libraryofbabel.info See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode of Something Amazing: Matt tells Amberly about a song that has enetred the UK charts in 2004 and has stayed there ever since. Also, how two big companies are working to help you link your brain up to a computer. Amberly tells Matt a surprising origin of a 1991 hit song! The video of Totale Finsternis from Tanz der Vampire is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-dLnxg8SE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
In the first ever episode of Something Amazing, Matt tells Amberly about a herpetologist who documented his own death in a diary. Also, there's an app being developed that can predict when you're about to have a fight. Amberly tells Matt about some dolphin facts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
