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D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

647K views • 13 years ago

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

Technology Connections

6M views • 5 years ago

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

Technology Connections

3.4M views • 7 years ago

The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source

The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source

698K views • 4 years ago

Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated

Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated

Technology Connections

2.3M views • 3 years ago

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

2.4M views • 10 years ago

Old pinball machines are amazingly complex

Old pinball machines are amazingly complex

Technology Connections

3.5M views • 3 years ago

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second

3M views • 2 years ago

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

13.6M views • 5 years ago

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

13.2M views • 4 years ago

Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap

Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap

Technology Connections

4.7M views • 4 years ago

A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable

A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable

Adam Savage’s Tested

4.4M views • 3 years ago

Cassettes - better than you don't remember

Cassettes - better than you don't remember

2.8M views • 10 years ago

The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

6.6M views • 5 years ago

How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠

How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠

Branch Education

5.5M views • 4 years ago

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

464K views • 6 years ago

Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

2.2M views • 10 years ago

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

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

Technology Connections

2.2M views • 6 years ago

British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why

British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why

7.6M views • 12 years ago

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them

Technology Connections

10.4M views • 7 years ago

This is why we can't have nice things

This is why we can't have nice things

25.6M views • 5 years ago

Atari's Quadrascan Explained

Atari's Quadrascan Explained

Retro Game Mechanics Explained

239K views • 5 years ago

How a transistor works

How a transistor works

847K views • 11 years ago

The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System

The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System

Branch Education

2.4M views • 1 year ago

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Captain Disillusion

2.9M views • 6 years ago

Segmented Displays

Segmented Displays

7.2M views • 4 years ago

Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™

Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™

888K views • 3 years ago

The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology

The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology

64.9M views • 10 months ago

What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.

What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.

188K views • 6 years ago

what did you do

what did you do

1.5M views • 11 months ago

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

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

Technology Connections

987K views • 7 years ago

New computers don't speed up old code

New computers don't speed up old code

Matthias random stuff

187K views • 1 year ago

How Electricity Actually Works

How Electricity Actually Works

12.8M views • 4 years ago

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

1.2M views • 3 years ago

How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined

How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined

943K views • 3 years ago

Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality

Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality

10.4M views • 10 years ago