Every season of Technology Connections ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Technology Connections!

Bell & The Invention of Artificial Sound

Edison's Impression: Laying Sound into a Groove

Emile Berliner's Fix: Flatten the Cylinder to a Disc

The Vacuum Tube and the Invention of Radio

From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves: Electrical Sound Recording

Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level

The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines

What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?

Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366

Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient

Electric Vehicle Charging: It's easier than you think

Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape

The Dead Man's Switch: How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved

Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction

The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR

What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning

Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes

Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2

Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?

Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works

Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers

LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did

GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL

Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television

Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners

How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings

The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting

Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special

Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info

Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product

Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once

Laserdisc: An Introduction

Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks

Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong

Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)

Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution

Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring

A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness

DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc

Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It

The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301

These Are Not Pixels: Revisited

The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"

Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS

MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994

Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test

The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?

The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium

The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion

The Most Common EV Charging Misconception

Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder

The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals

Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound

Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound

The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector

The Compact Disc: An Introduction

Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music

LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of

An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player

CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)

TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup

CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...

The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed

LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner

LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish

Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know

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

DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive

The Odd History of the SD Logo

The Time-Lapse VCR

Space Heater Nonsense

The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas

The Electromagnet in Your Toaster

Exploring the World of E-Ink

E-Ink on Android, and other new things!

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)

Thermostats: Cooler than you think!

Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them

The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)

TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard

Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?

Switches are Clicky; Here's Why

The Weird World in RGB

The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)

The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)

LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC

The VFD that isn't

RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)

The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta

LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie

Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?

One more thing: the VHS notch

Film: the reason some of the past was in HD

Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)

Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever

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.

The Best Seasons of Technology Connections

The Best Seasons of Technology Connections

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Other Seasons

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 11

Season 12