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Hosted by Angharad Yeo, Tegan Jones, Rae Johnston and Amanda Yeo, Queens of the Drone Age is a peek at the insider conversations happening amongst some of Australia’s top technology experts.
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Your Queens have caught the travel bug, after a bit of jet-setting from the team! Amanda shares a super practical way to use your phone overseas, with an app called Airalo that provides international data eSIMs that she used in Japan. Tegan shows off her passion for practical fashion with a review of some next-level thermal-wear from Icebreaker, that kept her cosy as she traipsed across Canada. And Rad stays home and gives us an early look at the Kobo Elipsa 2. It's not only an ereader, but you can also annotate your books, create your own notebooks to draw in, and draw humorous images on smutty books.
Fair warning: things go a tiny bit beyond PG13+ right at the end.
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Mother's Day is just over a month away so we're getting in early this year to give you plenty of time to buy something for mum.
Of course, as always, this quickly turned into a list of cool things the Queens actually want for themselves and we encourage you to take it the same way. Maybe you deserve a treat too!
While we usually steer clear of household appliances for Mother's Day, Rae makes a great argument for a cute little robot - the Ecovacs WINBOT W1 PRO window cleaner.
If your mum loves to travel, Tegan recently tried and love the extra big July Checked Plus luggage. And Amanda recommends the Dermasonic+ Sonic Cleanser for the mums who need a little pampering.
But the Queens didn't stop there.
Rae thought it would be funny to ask a very specific someone else for recommendations. But you'll have to listen to find out who 👀
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In this episode Tegan and Amanda return from their respective overseas trips and have brought some reviews back with them!
Amanda took the Volume+ Backpack from July Luggage to Japan and was impressed by the pockets and anti-thieving protocols.
Tegan gives us the low-down on the 'Vegan McDonald's of San Francisco - Mr. Charlies. The gratuitous branding is truly next level and you can read more about it here.
And Rae reviews the fancy TheraBody TheraFace Pro, which is basically like having a face spa in your house. If you ever wanted to (gently) Theragun your face, this is your chance.
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From scientists making chocolate easier to temper to making biofuel from its waste - this episode of Queens of the Drone Age is a celebration of the giant bunny bringing us lil brown eggs - and everything they're made of.
Does dark chocolate help your vision? And how much can you eat before it kills you? We answer all your melting questions about the world of chocolate.
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In this week's gadget chat, Rad emerges from laptop land to tell us all about the HP Spectre x360 14”.
Meanwhile, Rae explores Dyson's giant air quality monitoring backpacks being worn by Melbourne schoolkids.
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From a magic lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel to adhesives that dissolve with light - this week we take a deep dive into the toothy world of dental tech.
Rae brings the latest and greatest in Aussie innovations - including nanopores on implants and Virtual Reality training for injections, while Rad drops some fun facts about mole rats and Roald Dahl - plus lots more.
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In this gadget chat, the Queens are getting comfy.
Rad invested in “the world’s most comfortable basecamp mat” – the Exped Megamat Duo LW+ air mattress that has a very interesting way of inflating and deflating. Rae slept on it, so also gives her thoughts.
And Rae has been spending a fair chunk of time in bed lately, mainly to test out the Samsung The Frame television she’s popped up on her bedroom wall. She takes us through the art store, the installation process, and the battle it is engaged in with her Google Nest.
And while we’re cosied up in bed in front of a screen, Amanda has been playing a new rougelike deck building video game – Sigil of The Magi.
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We're taking a trip into the Queens of the Drone Age archives to re-visit one of our favourites that you also seemed to like.
That's right, it's poo-demonium as we get right down into the bowels of toilet tech.
We're a wee bit excited about this and don’t want to s(p)oil the episode in advance - but we’ll be looking at stuff like algae that turns waste into drinkable water and future toilets that will be able to detect diseases.
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We're digging into the archives with a Queens of the Drone Age classic!
From rubber going sticky to still having to charge all our devices every day, the Queens have a bone to pick with our biggest tech and gadget annoyances.
But, some solutions may be on the way...
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In this episode the Queens are heading off to the land of nod to explore the (sometimes terrifying) science behind sleep.
As it turns out, global warming is here to ruin the party again as it slowly erodes sleep across the world. So that's fun.
Meanwhile, sleep deprivation is extremely harmful for the body and can result in death.
But it's not all doom and gloom. They also cover lucid dreaming and some of theories behind what might cause it.
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