Technology Connections Season 8 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. Lessons from a Can Opener

If any of you have something to say about my hair, I'm gonna need you to can it. Unless you like it, then please shower me with compliments!

2. A troubling trend in lighting?

Is this a bright idea? Or will it eventually leave you in the dark?

3. Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

More pumping. More now.

4. Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

Is this the last video on heat pumps? Well, for a while anyway. This isn't a complete picture by any means, but I hope that you leave this video with the knowledge that this future is well within our grasp.

5. The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes.

For photos made with potatoes, these are remarkably good.

6. The tech which can charge an electric car in 10 minutes

It's here, it's fast, and when batteries catch up to it, road trips will be a piece of cake!

7. Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

It's not really a mystery.

8. Is Philips discontinuing their coolest warmest product?

Gonna take on a light subject today.

9. There are two types of smoke alarm. One of 'em ain't so good.

Which one is better? Now that's a burning question. Also, don't start tearing apart smoke alarms and playing with the americium. It's mostly harmless when outside your body but if it gets in there can be trouble.

10. The correcting feature of typewriters is not what I thought

I was really taken aback when I learned how this works.

11. Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap

Gather 'round the fire with some delicious cups of hot brown as I tell you the story of American hot brown.

12. A Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles

That is what this video is. It's a lot simpler than you think!

13. This 1960's camera is powered by light and completely automatic

Amazing what you can do with a few photons here and there.

14. Old car headlights were all the same — which was a fairly bright idea

There will be highs, there will be lows, but they would always be the same. Until 1957 anyway.

15. This TV gadget censors bad words with 1980's tech

Think of the children!

16. The clever camera code on rolls of film

Yep. It's a video!

17. In Defense of the Switched Outlet

Seriously. It's a good idea!

18. The decorative lamp that's built wrong on purpose

The decorative lamp that's built wrong on purpose

19. Movies made sound with a light bulb: Sound-on-film

Movies made sound with a light bulb: Sound-on-film