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Start your weekend with Just For The Tech Of It, a take on the week’s news … with a lighter twist. Host Drew Prindle serves up all the oddball science and technology news that probably didn’t make it to your news feed. Some dude on Twitter described it as “high-level infotainment,” and we’re stealing his description and his compliment. Thanks, random Twitter guy!
Just For The Tech Of It: Pig hearts, eating with electricity, and hiding Earth from aliens
Electric forks can trick your tongue into tasting salt, pig-to-human heart transplants could be the answer to the worlds organ donor shortage, and how scientists plan to hide Earth from prying alien eyes.
Just for the Tech Of It: Transparent wood, fly-bombing drones, a ninth planet
Genetically modified flies dropped by drone could solve Ethiopia's tsetse fly problem, transparent wood is the material of the future, and a new planet could be lurking somewhere in our solar system, but we can't even see it.
Just For The Tech Of It: Genetically modified maggots, 3D printing in space, and more
This week on Just For The Tech Of It, host Drew Prindle gives you the lowdown on how scientists are using genetically modified maggots in medicine, 3D printing in space, and how CRISPR can eliminate HIV.
Just for the tech of it: Air pollution pigeons, plastic eating bacteria, and more
On this week's episode of Just For The Tech Of It, Drew gives us the lowdown on three big fights: How scientists are using machine learning to fight terrorism, how pigeons are fighting pollution in London, and how a new strain of bacteria could help us fight plastic pollution
Just For the Tech of It: Martian crops and dinosaur chickens
This week on Just For The Tech Of It, Drew gives us the scoop on growing vegetables in Martian soil, why Facebook is making its AI programs read children's books, and genetically modified dinosaur chickens.
Just For The Tech Of It: Drone-snatching eagles and carnivorous plants that count
This week on Just For The Tech Of It, host Drew Prindle tells us about drone killing police eagles, strange genetic studies, and carnivorous plants that can count to 20.