Rafe Blandford
Co-Host of 361 Podcast
Rafe Blandford has hosted 45 Episodes.
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Airpods Pro, hacking mobile networks & phones vs cameras [S17E05]
10 November 2019 | Season 17 | 38 mins 51 secs
Earbuds that silence, hackers that hide and cameras that see in the dark. It's a feast for the senses.
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Google's Nest Aware, Monzo's starting-over with Plus & 5G [S17E04]
28 October 2019 | Season 17 | 35 mins 9 secs
Paying Google to watch your home, paying challenger banks for fancy cards and would you pay more for 5G?
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Ikea Sonos speakers, Facebook eavesdropping & backdoors for spies [S17E03]
23 October 2019 | Season 17 | 37 mins 19 secs
What's worth listening to, who's listening to you and should the government listen all the time?
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Robots, iPhones 11 & Bags [S17E02]
15 October 2019 | Season 17 | 40 mins 28 secs
The team discuss robot lawn mowers, the iPhone 11 and the best way to carry your stuff.
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Ubiquiti, Huawei & Citymapper Pass [S17E01]
4 October 2019 | Season 17 | 45 mins 32 secs
The team discuss home networking using Ubiquiti's products, the 'Huawei problem', and review Citymapper's multi-mode transit pass for London.
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Palm & companion devices [S16E03]
30 November 2018 | Season 16 | 52 mins 23 secs
This week the team discuss the return of Palm with the, er, "Palm" companion device. Is this a new category of device and could they really replace our smartphones sometimes?
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Autonomous vehicles [S16E02]
12 November 2018 | Season 16 | 51 mins 46 secs
This week the team talk about self-driving cars, Ewan's recent briefing by Waymo in 'the valley' and how autonomous vehicle technology will change the world (probably).
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Smart homes revisited [S16E01]
19 October 2018 | Season 16 | 50 mins
The team discuss the tech they've added to their 'smart homes' since last year's challenge. They discuss what stayed and the new items that have been added.
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Ending the crypto-currency challenge [S15E07]
5 October 2018 | Season 15 | 37 mins 42 secs
After some time away the team are back to (prematurely) end the crypto-currency challenge. We talk about why and the challenges for using things like Bitcoin for anything other than speculation.
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The best explanation of crypto-currencies you'll hear by a geographer this week [S15E06]
25 January 2018 | Season 15 | 1 hr 35 secs
** Nothing in this podcast is investment advice. …
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Festive Winterval special [S15E05]
20 December 2017 | Season 15 | 45 mins 42 secs
This week the team tell bad Christmas cracker jok…
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Who can beat the banks? (FinTech special) [S15E04]
21 November 2017 | Season 15 | 49 mins 4 secs
This week the team discuss 'FinTech' - the apps a…
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Dodgy apps & data thieves [S15E03]
13 November 2017 | Season 15 | 39 mins 17 secs
This week the team discuss the ways apps and serv…
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The armchair social media experts [S15E02]
5 November 2017 | Season 15 | 54 mins 55 secs
This week the team talk about the state of social…
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Back to the smart home [S15E01]
25 October 2017 | Season 15 | 44 mins 36 secs
We're back (sorry for the wait) and this week we'…
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Smart things: Buses, Google Home and bees [S14E10]
5 June 2017 | Season 14 | 51 mins 39 secs
After a short break we’re back with the final episode of the season. We’re looking at smart ‘stuff’ again… Ben’s been on the Citymapper smartbus trial run in central London and Ewan’s been doing an extended comparison of Google Home to Amazon’s Alexa. Rafe’s also been messing about with bees.