Naked Tech Podcast - An Australian technology podcast

Ep 128 artwork   The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @nakedtechpod . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by Comf...

Ep 127 artwork   The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @nakedtechpod . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by Comf...

Episode 126 artwork   The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by...

Ep 125 Artwork The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by Comfort Fit...

Ep 124 artwork The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by Comfort Fit...

We catch up with Google’s Stadia announcement where it seeks to supersede the way you play and consume games without the need for hardware. Is this real? While Zuckerberg writes another op-ed asking for help and specifically tighter regulation of the internet. This could be the start of something big and the web as we know it. There are also some April Fools’ gags and Elon Musk’s...

Apple had its huge spring event and this time they focused on services – all around what you currently do on your iPhone – read stuff, play stuff, watch stuff and pay for stuff. We’re not exactly sure what a world with Apple being a financial services company would be like. Will it disrupt the industry? Will the shows produced by Apple be strong enough to grab the mindshare of a...

A spoiler-ful look at MCU’s 21st film – Captain Marvel. Watch it and come back to hear about what we thought with clips and all. Full episode: Episode 121. Recorded Tuesday 12 March 2019.  Contact:  iTunes  |  subscribe  |  email  |  twitter  |  web  | youtube Linkage Captain Marvel (2019) | IMDB Almost a half billion after first weekend | Box Office Mojo Clark Gregg’s message to...

4 years after they wowed us with their first iteration of the Hololens, Microsoft have finally revealed version 2.0 of the mixed reality headset. There are a lot of improvements in both hardware and software and you never know, you may soon be sporting one on your head at your workplace to get things done. There were also new phones galore at Barcelona’s MWC 2019. Whether it’s from Hua...

A folding tablet? An unfolding phone? Whatever it is, Samsung is paving the way for all other manufacturers to follow with its Galaxy Fold. Let’s not forget the 4 other models they announced as part of its Samsung Unpacked event. Meanwhile, Australian parliament gets hacked, or at least that’s what they want you to believe. Is this news? As always, we cover all angles using clips from...

Spotify acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor for $230M and thus changes the podcasting landscape forever. While Tencent invests heavily in Reddit who may now be ready to take on Facebook and Google as your frontpage of the web. Apple is in trouble again with a horrendous FaceTime bug and Facebook keeps on being Facebook by spying on you even further. As always, we cover all angles using clips from dif...

Are you a Whatsapp user that never joined Facebook? Well, that may be a thing of the past if Zuckerberg has anything to do with an upcoming project to unify all of Facebook’s many messaging services into one. There’s a great chance too, you know being the CEO and all. While Netflix has been forced to go on a price hike in America to keep its revenues up, as it prepares to stave off com...

Another CES has come and gone and yes, 2019 has officially begun. We cover everything from exoskeleton bionic suits, AR glasses that actually look decent on your head, toilets for dogs and a home brew machine that can make beer with a touch of a button. We also catch up with our favourite sentient robot, Sophia and this year, she may have given birth to a baby Sophia. As always, we cover all angle...

Apple and Tim Cook are making the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week but are the concerns warranted? What are the factors that has the market worried and what are some strategies they could employ to stop the rut? We also chat all things Bandersnatch and Netflix’s attempt at interactive entertainment. How _do_ you explain what a tv streaming service is to someone from the 80s? As...

We say goodbye to 2018 by recalling all the memes and themes for the year and greet 2019 by boldly predicting what lies ahead. As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch Podcast. Episode 114. Recorded Tuesday 1 January 2019.  Contact:  iTunes  |  subscribe  |  email  |  tw...

The foldable smartphone is closer to being reality as Samsung unveils its plans to make that a thing in 2019. Web Summit is also a thing that happened in Lisbon, and somehow it involves climate change. Australia’s Robyn Denholm is Elon Musk’s new boss for the next 3 years – how does the world feel about that? As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so yo...

Apple has unveiled its long awaited refreshes of the MacBook Air and Mac mini and announced some major changes to the iPad Pro lineup. We break it all down to assist with your (and our) purchasing decisions. Are you forking out thousands of dollars on these new shiny toys or have you seen it all before and won’t buy the marketing fluff? Let us know what you think! As always, we cover all ang...

The Pixel 3 leaks were correct! Google finally unveiled its hardware product line for 2018, which includes a notched XL phone, a tablet trying to be a laptop that’s definitely not a phone phablet and a new Google Home with the assistant built in with a phablet-sized screen. Confused yet? Tune in to episode 111 as we break it all down and what it all means to you. As always, we cover all angl...

After 5 years of steering Oculus and their virtual reality arm for high-tech devices, Facebook are making all the right moves and pushing the industry forward with the launch of Oculus Quest – a new standalone VR headset with hand presence and 6 degrees of freedom. Oculus Connect 5 is its annual developers conference and we deep dive into the metaverse to bring you all the latest from the ev...

In this special episode of The Lazy Couch podcast, we are joined by long time friend of the show, Alex, as we break down the all the announcements from the latest Apple event from Cupertino. What did we like/dislike about the new phones? Will we order the new watch? What’s with the weird naming convention anyway? As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get ev...

It has been dubbed our most random episode yet. We first head to Berlin for IFA 2018 and peek into the not-too-distant future where bezels have left the human race and it’s all screen, all of the time. Then it’s off to Seattle where a gaggle of geese have run amok and taken over an indie gaming convention at PAX West. Finally, your grandkids have abandoned you but never you mind, just...

NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang wowed SIGGRAPH by unveiling the world’s first real-time ray tracing graphics card but is he telling us everything? We deep dive into this new method of rendering computer graphics and the implications to the world of next-gen gaming and entertainment. Elon Musk has had quite a fortnight with regretful tweets and missteps all around. His mental health has come...

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 is here and it’s blowing up the internet. Is the hype worth it? The world’s biggest tech unicorn has just released their first real device – the Magic Leap One. Just one condition, you have to be living in one of 6 specific cities in the US to get your hands and eyes on one. In local news, the NSW Govt and Atlassian have announced yet another tech in...

It’s official – Apple is the first US company to be valued at over $1 trillion, with the other FAANGs hot on its heels. Also, did you know what a FAANG is? You will after you hear this episode! Meanwhile Tesla stocks surge after Elon’s big apology but is that real reason for the bounce back? Google is reportedly heading back to China – the world is not very happy about that...

Did you buy diapers too? This week in episode 104, we look at how Australia’s first Amazon Prime Day went and how it was different from Amazon is the USA. In breaking news, we discuss Netflix’s earnings reports, how the big players are merging and acquiring to compete with them and what Netflix have to do to keep up. Lastly, we go through the long awaited updates to Apple’s Macbo...