In Tech Today

In caffeine-fuelled podcast episode three, the boys talk about how cheap tech can actually be as good as the pricey stuff - with Josh revealing he owns a smartphone called 'Bush' - and they muse about the future of biometric identification. Recorded 2 February 2017.

It's the first episode of the regular series! In this podcast, Josh and Ed discuss how technology is changing banking, with an in-depth look at the UK's Monzo Bank. They also talk about voice-based home automation - such as Google Home and Amazon Echo, define what the Internet of Things is exactly, and have a hot tip for the next flights you book online. Recorded 19 January 2017.

This week in London, the ubiquitous Citymapper app trialled their own smart bus service using tiny green buses. Josh tried to find these tiny green buses to see what the service was like. Also, Ed goes on a rant about people deleting Facebook, and the techno dinosaur has a question about slow laptops. Plus, Amazon has yet another Echo announcement! Recorded on 11 May 2017. Music: "Nano Hoedown", "Wagon Wheel", "Wagon Wheel - Electronic"; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Amazon wants you to pay $200 for a smart camera that watches you get dressed. Why on earth would you want it? Also, the advertising regulator in the UK wants to put a stop to internet providers advertising broadband speeds that most customers will never get close to. And our techno dinosaur wants Microsoft Office, but she doesn't want to pay hundreds of pounds for it.

We take a look at the new Google WiFi home network product and ask if it's worth spending hundreds on a couple of routers when they look like moisturiser jars? Also, is AT&T's new "5G" product in the US really 5G? And our dinosaur wants to know more about torrents.