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Technology is supposed to make our lives better, but sometimes it just leaves us scratching our heads! Join us as we explore the most baffling trends in modern tech. Our countdown includes ultra-thin devices with terrible battery life, vanishing ports that require endless adapters, self-driving cars that can't drive themselves, and more! Which tech decision frustrates you the most?
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00:00You have to be alert, you have to be aware of what's going on around you.
00:03Tesla itself warns drivers not to rely on the auto-driving software.
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo, where we'll be looking at the most confusing features of modern technology.
00:13Do you think this is something that ultimately is going to be something we're all wearing?
00:17Um, no.
00:20Prioritizing size over functionality.
00:22The core structure is a radically thin frame, made from grade 5 spacecraft titanium, that combines strength, lightness, and durability.
00:32In the late 2000s, smartphones were gaining tons of momentum.
00:36After the cumbersome bricks that phones had been in the earlier decades, the idea of a thin phone was highly appealing.
00:43Now, years later, it's become quite tiring.
00:46It feels like important features are ignored in favor of having an ultra-thin laptop or phone.
00:51For instance, the thinner your phone, the shorter your battery life is expected to be.
00:55Can't stop looking at it.
00:58I can't stop looking at it.
01:00A lot of consumers would prefer to have a slightly thicker device in favor of other features.
01:06It also looks quite silly when you get an ultra-thin phone, but with a majorly powerful camera bulging out the back.
01:12At least they don't bend in pockets like the iPhone 6 used to.
01:15It's the Acer Swift 7.
01:16The 14-inch notebook is only 8.98 millimeters thick, technically making it the thinnest computer in the world.
01:24Losing ports.
01:25Back when the iPhone 7 was announced, there was a global outrage at its lack of an aux port.
01:30Now it's more or less the norm, and it's challenging to find a new phone with one.
01:35This is because they wanted to sell Bluetooth headphones like AirPods.
01:38You tap connect, and that's it.
01:41There's no step two.
01:42There's nothing else to do.
01:43You simply connect.
01:45Modern devices seem to boast about having as few ports as possible.
01:49For instance, some MacBooks only have USB-C ports.
01:52If you want more variety, you'll need to splash out on an adapter.
01:56It's an adapter.
01:57Lightning to mini-phono audio adapter.
02:00And we're going to include that in the box with every iPhone 7 and 7 Plus as well.
02:06Ethernet is also largely a thing of the past.
02:08This change is all likely done to make devices as small as possible.
02:12But a lot of people believe greed is the cause.
02:15The few reports on a device, the more adapters sold.
02:18Everything we've learned has come down to this.
02:23No physical games.
02:25If you grew up playing video games, you probably have a few memories of driving home with a
02:30new game, eagerly reading the box, and flicking through the manual.
02:34Kids of today are unlikely to develop such memories.
02:38It's not just Tetris.
02:40Now challenge the system or go head to head.
02:42Even if they do buy a physical game, most are just codes in a box or installers that take
02:47hours to launch.
02:49This development is a major threat to digital preservation.
02:51I don't have to go to a physical retail location.
02:55I can shop from my own couch and look at my Xbox store, get the games I want.
02:59It's a lot easier to preserve a physical disc than a digital-only game owned directly
03:04by the company.
03:05Not all countries have abandoned physical media.
03:07In Japan, they still love it.
03:09So if you want to begin developing a retro games collection, a trip to Japan could be your
03:14best shot.
03:15No, I'm in second.
03:16This is how we play.
03:18Hyperloop.
03:18Elon Musk is planning to test part of his Hyperloop.
03:21In a tweet, the tech billionaire says he will test the high-speed pod to see if he can reach
03:26half the speed of sound or about 400 miles per hour.
03:29Humans have been designing public transport systems since the Industrial Revolution.
03:34One of the best methods we've come up with is the subway, which is simply an underground
03:38rail network.
03:39In the 2010s, billionaire Elon Musk began trying to redesign the subway by making it much less
03:45efficient.
03:45His idea was the Hyperloop, which is basically underground tunnels that only Teslas can drive
03:51through.
03:51I know that there are various companies that are trying to create the Hyperloop, and honestly,
03:56I think it's a lot easier than people think.
03:59It was intended to let cars go hundreds of miles per hour across the entire United States'
04:04West Coast.
04:05Musk has dumped millions into this idea when he could just build a subway, and it seems to
04:10be completely stalled now.
04:12Tunnels still exist in California and Las Vegas, though, but they're not as exciting as
04:17a well-made subway.
04:18Now, the current Acela line can't even hit its maximum speed because of track limitations
04:24all the way from D.C. to New York.
04:26In some places, the track dates back to the Civil War.
04:28MacBooks with no touchscreens
04:30For years, touchscreens have been common on laptops.
04:33This has turned a lot of them into a blend between a tablet and a laptop with detachable
04:38keyboards.
04:39Two words, touch bar.
04:41Apple believes this new touchscreen strip that lives above the keyboard on its new MacBook Pros
04:46is the future of laptops.
04:48You would think, given how pioneering Apple has been for both tablets and laptops, that
04:52they'd have jumped on the trend years ago.
04:55Well, it seems unlikely to ever become a reality.
04:58This is because Apple considers the iPad to be an extra interface for a MacBook.
05:03For me, the laptop is like my home.
05:05It's always just been me and my Mac.
05:07So that's what we have.
05:09A pro for pros.
05:10This means we can infer it's almost entirely motivated by greed.
05:14If they merged the iPad with a Mac, then you'd only have to buy one product.
05:19Keeping them separate means more Apple users will buy both, therefore making them more
05:23money.
05:24But I really do wonder how convenient it is to keep moving your hands off the keyboard
05:27and trackpad to go tap a small shortcut.
05:30Apple Vision Pro and AR Glasses
05:33Smart glasses are wearable computers, making them one of the coolest sci-fi gadgets imaginable.
05:39Well, in theory.
05:40In practice, they are a long way from taking off.
05:43Google Glass was the first major brand of smart glasses launched in 2012 and was discontinued
05:49entirely in 2023.
05:51The white light behind the button will turn on and remain lit while Glass starts up.
05:55You'll know Glass is on when the display is lit and you see the Glass logo.
05:59Turns out, people weren't happy about wearing a camera on their faces all day, which was
06:04a major privacy issue.
06:05Now there's the Apple Vision Pro, which is not much of an improvement.
06:09It costs $3,499 and is especially cumbersome to wear.
06:18It also causes major eye strain and headaches, resulting in many consumers returning them.
06:24Maybe someday the tech will be there to justify it, but today is not that day.
06:28I think a lot of people might be wearing them, but it could be five years or seven years before
06:32we get to the point where people are using these en masse.
06:35Tesla Self-Driving Cars
06:36Tesla has spent years developing their autopilot function, which should in theory allow for
06:42cars to drive themselves.
06:43He's had to slam on the brakes twice this year.
06:46It happened again, this time while our cameras were rolling.
06:50Well, there you go.
06:52Sheesh.
06:53It's such a dangerous idea that it was abandoned by other companies that tried it years ago.
06:58The idea has caused hundreds of crashes over the years, including at least 59 fatalities.
07:04And it makes you curious, like, was it the driver or was it the autopilot?
07:08As of September 2025, Tesla has altered their definition of full self-driving, implying they've
07:14abandoned the idea of entirely autonomous cars.
07:17The fact that they've given up becomes slightly funny when you hear Musk had promised it would
07:22become a reality every year since 2018.
07:25He's been promising full automation being, you know, six months to a year away for over
07:32nine years now.
07:33The humor in the situation vanishes when you realize how much suffering the failed concept
07:37caused.
07:38Nintendo Restricting and Bricking Hardware
07:41Older Nintendo consoles, like the Wii and the 3DS, are still played regularly today.
07:54That's because they're so moddable, it'll take you decades to get bored with them.
07:58Now the Switch and its follow-up are so locked down that trying to mod them slightly can get
08:03them bricked.
08:04150 million people bought a Switch, they're definitely going to get enough people buying
08:10a Switch 2.
08:11People have even had their Switch 2s banned from playing used games.
08:15If this happens, there's basically no way to fix it.
08:18This means that vast quantities of precious resources will be going into consoles that are
08:23unusable, which is exceedingly wasteful.
08:26It's the pinnacle of greediness.
08:28Even though it's proven that the more modifiable a console is, the longer it'll get played.
08:33Although some gaming accessories saw an increase of $5 to $10, but on eBay, some pre-order confirmations
08:39for the console going for more than double the price.
08:42Tech you can't fix.
08:44In the early days of smartphones, if the battery broke, you could simply pop the back off and
08:49slot a new one in.
08:50Now, you'll need to buy a fancy repair kit or melt the phone's glue to open it up, which
08:55will void your warranty.
08:57I can't install a spyware to remotely monitor calls or anything that the mic picks up.
09:01I can't do that at all.
09:02Wait, you can't do it?
09:04No, I can't.
09:05Alternatively, you can get it officially repaired for a small fortune.
09:09It's not just batteries, but the majority of tech is becoming a lot more locked down.
09:14This makes it substantially harder to perform your own repairs.
09:18One critic on Twitter summed up the gesture as,
09:20We'll give you something that uglifies our cool design to fix a problem we don't think exists.
09:25This is infuriating because you bought the product, so really, you should have the right
09:30to repair it.
09:31This also has the upsetting effect of increasing the number of electronics that are discarded annually.
09:36Something called the right to repair, the push for consumers to be able to repair their own
09:41products from iPhones to John Deere tractors rather than having to rely on the manufacturer.
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10:00Dumping billions into AI startups
10:04In the public markets today, what you want to be investing in are big tech incumbents that are
10:10effectively integrating AI very rapidly into their offerings.
10:13One of the most exciting new technologies is artificial intelligence.
10:17While it's made great strides in recent years, there are certain jobs it'll never be able to do,
10:22and it's not particularly profitable.
10:25Despite this, investors are still dumping billions into AI companies.
10:30AI's impact nearer term is proving way scary.
10:33Many booming companies are not adding workers as they usually do, they're shedding them.
10:38This has resulted into a major AI bubble, which many believe is about to burst.
10:44It doesn't help that they've been adding AI to literally everything they can.
10:48This means that now people have even been dating generative AIs.
10:53You're dating your computer?
10:54No, she's not just a computer.
10:57She's her own person.
10:58In a lot of ways, the burst would be a good thing,
11:01as generative AIs like ChatGPT have an incredibly destructive impact on the environment.
11:06Electricity demand for AI-optimized data centers is expected to increase by 400% by 2030.
11:15Were there any particularly confusing things we failed to mention?
11:19Let us know in the comments section.
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