178 episodes

We're two engineers on a mission to make interesting technology easy to understand. In each episode, we explore tech that is going to change the world – and keep it entertaining along the way.

The Next Byte Daniel Scott Mitchell, Farbod Moghaddam

    • Technology
    • 4.8 • 41 Ratings

We're two engineers on a mission to make interesting technology easy to understand. In each episode, we explore tech that is going to change the world – and keep it entertaining along the way.

    177. Did A Shrimp Fry This Rice? No, A Robot Did

    177. Did A Shrimp Fry This Rice? No, A Robot Did

    In this episode, we discuss how a talented team of researchers from Stanford university have created a robotic platform capable of imitation learning for conducting over 850 common tasks, including searing shrimp!

    • 23 min
    176. Super Fast Computer Vision: Final Piece of The Autonomous Vehicle Puzzle

    176. Super Fast Computer Vision: Final Piece of The Autonomous Vehicle Puzzle

    In this episode, we discuss how a PhD student from the Technical University of Eindhoven might’ve cracked the code for high performance computer vision without compromising efficiency.

    • 19 min
    175. Is Your Drinking Water Safe? This Sensor Has The Answer

    175. Is Your Drinking Water Safe? This Sensor Has The Answer

    In this episode, discuss how big of a problem lead contaminated water still is across the world and how a collaboration between MIT & Nanyang University plans to tackle it with a highly accurate and inexpensive water pollution sensor.

    • 21 min
    174. All The Brain Chip Implant Benefits & None of The Risks

    174. All The Brain Chip Implant Benefits & None of The Risks

    In this episode, discuss how a team from Carnegie Mellon University spearheading non-invasive brain computer interface solutions has had a significant breakthrough in improving their accuracy.

    • 27 min
    173. Get 3 Days of Your Life Back Every Year with Smart Stoplights

    173. Get 3 Days of Your Life Back Every Year with Smart Stoplights

    In this episode, we discuss how researchers at the University of Michigan were able to reduce traffic in a small city - to the extent of saving ~3 days per person per year - using GPS data from connected cars and smart stoplights.

    • 20 min
    172. Don’t Throw Away Coffee Grounds; They Could Solve The World’s Water Crisis!

    172. Don’t Throw Away Coffee Grounds; They Could Solve The World’s Water Crisis!

    In this episode, we discuss research coming out of George Mason University which could provide an affordable and accessible way to get clean water using spent coffee grounds as a filter!

    • 19 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
41 Ratings

41 Ratings

Michaelbublefan ,

Highly recommend

I’m a pre-engineering student and love listening to this podcast to keep me up to date on technological and engineering advances delivered in a conversational and easy to follow format. Thanks for your hard work on this Daniel and Farbod!

Dinosaurbagel ,

Tech for Everyone. This podcast is brilliant!

The best podcast! Great hosts and easy to understand talks on complex topics. Can’t recommend more highly. This is the top tech podcast, always worth a listen.

Moogie98 ,

Mid

I see what they’re trying to accomplish but it’s what every “young engineer” is talking about. The research seems okay but they need to deep dive. Actually talk about things that are working and not potential of tech.

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