Lab Rats TV

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joined 34 months ago

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Lab Rats is the brainchild of Sean Carruthers and Andy Walker. When the two technology journalists saw that podcasts were taking the Internet by storm they figure it couldn't be that hard to make TV for the web. They were wrong. It was really hard, but after a month or so of messing about, they got to it and shot a pilot episode in October 2005 called episode zero. Again they got it all wrong. There were shadows and bad audio and a bad couch. So they begged TV genius Matt Harris, who produced Andy's field segments while Andy co-hosted Call for Help, for some assistance. Harris, who was also the associate producer of Call for Help, said he'd help only if he didn't miss the Bruins play, so the first episode was shot between periods of a Bruins game (which they lost), but Lab Rats was summarily born. In the middle of all of this, Sony kindly chipped in a couple of cameras and Canon fixed Sean's GL-1. Then Geo Perdis, long time pal of Andy's (both worked on MS

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Videos (573)

Episode 86: Vampire Power Demystified

published 9 months ago

18:11 | 26 views

In episode 86, Andy and Sean show much power gadgets use when they are off.
Episode 49: Core 2 Demystifed

published 9 months ago

16:18 | 5 views

In episode 49, Andy and Sean discuss Intel's new family of microprocessors.
Episode 52: Super-Charge Skype

published 9 months ago

18:00 | 11 views

In episode 52, Andy and Sean show you extreme router secrets that improve the quality of Skype phone calls.
Episode 77: Transform XP into Vista

published 9 months ago

17:47 | 6 views

In episode 77, Andy and Sean retrofit a Windows XP machine to look and work like Vista.
Episode 58: CES Robots!

published 9 months ago

16:15 | 3 views

In episode 58, Andy and Sean show off bonus footage from CES 2007 including lots of robot footage.
Episode 94: User Accounts Demystified

published 9 months ago

17:45 | 2 views

In episode 94, Andy and Sean show what the big deal is about user accounts on your Mac and PC.
Episode 2 - TV connectors demystified

published 9 months ago

14:04 | 1 view

Andy and Sean turn the TV around and show you what the heck all those weird connectors are for. Includes coverage of coax, component, composite, HDMI, optical, DVI and S-Video! Plus Andy insults cable makers and Sean tries to apologies for him. Biff...
Episode 99: How to Hide your Data

published 9 months ago

16:50 | 5 views

In episode 99, Andy and Sean show you how to conceal your secrets from the bad guys.
Episode 89: Troubleshoot an Ailing Network

published 9 months ago

14:47 | 4 views

In episode 89, Andy and Sean show how to use ping and traceroute on a Mac and PC.
Episode 9 - Network File Sharing

published 9 months ago

18:21 | 4 views

In episode 9 (18:03), we explain how to share files and folder on a home network for both Windows and Mac. Plus Boo makes a surprise appearance. There's also a special guest appearance by a famous tech geek. Download to find out who it is.