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Matthew "Mat" Taylor, known online as Techmoan, is a British YouTuber and blogger. He creates videos about electronics, focusing on both new gadgets and older "retro" technology. His channel explores the history and workings of many interesting devices.

In his videos, Mat often takes apart electronic products. He sometimes even fixes them! For older tech, he shares its history and how people reacted to it when it was new. He finds information in old magazines like Billboard, which used to cover electronics. At the end of some videos, he includes funny skits with puppet characters. These puppets often make fun of comments viewers leave on his videos.

Techmoan's videos are popular and have been mentioned by many websites and magazines. These include Gizmodo, Hackaday, and Popular Mechanics. His YouTube channel was even listed as one of the top channels for "binge-watching" by MarketWatch.

His channel earns money in a few ways. He reviews new consumer products like action cameras and dashcams. Sometimes, companies send him products or pay him to review them. He also uses affiliate marketing, which means he earns a small fee if people buy products through his links. Fans can also support him through a Patreon membership.

Channel History

Mat Taylor started his first YouTube channel, "Vectrexuk," in 2006. On this channel, he uploaded videos about tech items. He even showed how to install a home cinema system. He once filmed controlled toasters just to show that people would watch anything online!

The "Techmoan" channel began on May 31, 2009. His first video was a tour of a scooter from 2009. It had basic sound and video quality. In 2015, he started another channel called "Youtube Pedant" for videos not related to tech.

In 2016, he made a video about an old video format called D-VHS. In this video, he found a recording of New York City from 1993. He uploaded this footage separately to his "Youtube Pedant" channel. As of June 2025, that video has gained over 7.3 million views. It has been shared widely on sites like Reddit and The Verge.

As of June 2025, the main Techmoan channel has over 1.42 million subscribers. His videos have been watched over 353 million times. Many of his videos get millions of views. For example, his video about the Nixie watch has been viewed more than 5 million times.

Exploring Old Technology

Techmoan creates many documentary-style videos about old and forgotten technologies. He often focuses on different ways people used to record sound.

He has shown many old magnetic tape formats. These include the OMNI Entertainment System, which used 8-track tape. He also explored the HiPac, a smaller tape format. Other videos feature some of the smallest and largest analog tape cartridges ever made. These include the tiny Picocassette for dictation machines. He also showed the huge Cantata 700 system, used for background music.

Mat also explores other old tape formats. He has shown the Sabamobil, which used small open reels for portable use. He also looked at the portable Sanyo Micro Pack 35. Other interesting tapes he's covered include the RCA tape cartridge and the Sony Elcaset. He also shows many unique features and tricks found on old Compact Cassettes. These include how tapes would automatically reverse and machines that could play multiple cassettes.

His documentaries also cover different ways people recorded music on vinyl records. He has shown the Tefifon endless cartridge. He also explored the Seeburg 1000 background music system. Other videos feature vertical turntables. He also explains special ways to reduce noise on vinyl records, like CX and dbx.

Beyond sound, Techmoan has made videos about other fascinating old devices. These include the mechanical Curta calculator. He also explores devices that used Nixie tube displays. Other topics include wire recording and the WikiReader, a device that stored all of Wikipedia offline.

See also

• Lazy Game Reviews
• The 8-Bit Guy