• #051 - Living into the 22nd century, robotic exercise coaches, retirement villages that look cool, and exploring 64 years of perspective
    Jul 6 2025

    In this second of three special episodes, Patrick and Tor interview 19-year-old student Eliza Ayres and octogenarian Ann Hardwick about their visions for the future of aged care. Eliza thinks retirement living looks cool and is aiming to live into the 22nd century. For Ann, at 83, the aged care future is present, and she wouldn't mind a robotic executive assistant and exercise coach.

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    35 mins
  • #050 -- Augmented bodies, exoskeleton futures, retirement as software, and embracing oddity.
    Jun 29 2025

    In this first of three special episodes, Patrick and Tor interview creative artist and musician Heather Marsh about her vision for the future of age care. Heather explores what life might look like in 2058 when she's 85. Will her virtual experiences be physical? Will AI remove the endless burden of admin? And what about companionship and relationships?

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    25 mins
  • #49 - Death.. everything you need to know
    Apr 14 2024

    Tor and Patrick return with a series of special episodes tackling technology and all things gadgety and interesting. With a focus on death, in this episode they ask the really big questions.

    How does medical science define death? Can you reanimate brain cells in a recently deceased pig? Do you want to be buried or cremated or maybe, go where no one has gone before and have your ashes blasted into space.

    Join the ok smart-ass team as they delve into dreams, science and the technology of life and death.

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    51 mins
  • #048 - Bing AI has a brain fart, convert your petrol car to electric and get dumber looking at your phone
    Feb 26 2023

    Patrick is joined by aerospace engineer Ryan who reckons AI Chat isn't as smart as everyone thinks.

    Bing AI Search had a brain fart but that's nothing compared to the scientists wanting to blast moon dust around the earth to stop global warming.

    Diesel and petrol cars to be banned in Europe. Medical experiments into magic mushrooms are being combined with VR, and looking at your phone too much could make you dumb and dumber.

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    54 mins
  • #047 - Educational and tasty, learn faster and drop a bombshell
    Feb 12 2023

    It this episode Patrick's excited, disappointed and melancholy all at the same time with new tech, old tech and questionable tech.

    Tor drops a bombshell, she uncovers an AI driven Babylonian hymn discovered using a fragmentarium.

    And we also cancel our order for a solar electric car while at the same time lamenting the ever eroding support for Windows 7 and 8.

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    45 mins
  • #046 – Brushing, peeing and robot lawyers while driving a solar car
    Jan 29 2023

    In this episode, we turn the spotlight onto health gadgets whilst exploring the fountain of youth.

    Patrick explains his biggest medical fears and Tor has the perfect gadget that won't dial up his blood pressure.

    And a three wheeled solar car will be rolling off the production lines later this year.

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    42 mins
  • #045 – Ryan Tonkin answers the smart and not-so-smart questions bugging the OK Smart-ass team
    Jan 13 2023

    In this episode, we pepper aerospace systems engineer, Ryan Tonkin, with questions.

    Ryan talks about a half-boat-half-aircraft project in Melbourne, a Swedish rocket range, the engineering challenges of space elevators, and the fate of one unfortunate English airship.

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    41 mins
  • #044 – Paragliding in space, a new space station for China, and Kenya's electric motorcycles
    Jan 1 2023

    In this episode we discuss all things space, including an innovative approach to space junk and space-based solar panel arrays.

    Kenya succeeds with a motorcycle battery-swapping scheme.

    And UFOs become UFAs (unidentified aerial phenomena) and then transition again to become unidentified anomalous phenomena.

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    46 mins