Techmoan

**Matthew Julius "Mat" Taylor** (born January 1971), better known by his stage name **Techmoan**, is a YouTuber and blogger who has been active since May 2009, featuring reviews of consumer electronics (or consumer tech) and "RetroTech" documentaries. He lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester.

The Daily Telegraph and Gizmodo has quoted his statements. MarketWatch listed the YouTube Channel 6th in its "binge-watching" top ten using ratings on Reddit.

Websites such as AVclub, Gizmodo, Hackaday, El Español and Popular Mechanics reference his videos.

## Career

In 2006, Taylor started a YouTube channel called "Vectrexuk", with videos of similar items of technology, such as installing a home cinema and controlled toasters, to prove people will watch anything on YouTube.

The channel "Techmoan" was started on May 31, 2009. The first video uploaded on Techmoan was a tour of a 2009 Piaggio MP3, which was filmed at 480p and had a very basic sound quality. In 2015, he started another channel, called "Youtube Pedant", to host videos not about technology. In 2016, in a video covering the DVHS format, he uncovered 1080p video footage of New York City from 1993. This footage was uploaded separately to his "Youtube Pedant" channel where, as of December 2019, it has received 3.8 million views, and it has also been widely shared on websites such as Reddit and The Verge. As of June 2019, the main channel has over 870,000 subscribers and over 180 million views. Some videos on the main channel have had over 3 million views.

### Later documentary videos

Techmoan has made documentary videos that are about forgotten magnetic tape recording formats, such as the OMNI Entertainment System, which uses 8-track tape storage, and the HiPac, a successor of the PlayTape and related uses of it. Other videos show some of the smallest and largest analog recording tape cartridges ever made, such as the Picocassette for dictation machines or the Cantata 700 background music system. Further videos show other discontinued ¼-inch-tape cartridge formats, such as the Sabamobil, which uses existing 3-inch open reels in a portable format, and the portable Sanyo Micro Pack 35, as well as RCA tape cartridge and the Sony Elcaset with another compromise of playtime and sound quality, oddities and gimmicks on Compact Cassettes as "reinventing the reel", several ways of autoreverse, automatic multiple cassette players, endless loop cassettes, and cassette mass production technology.

Other documentary videos Techmoan has made are about formats of vinyl recording, such as the Tefifon endless cartridge, the Seeburg 1000 background music system, vertical turntables, and other audio encodings CX and dbx, which are systems that were designed to reduce noise on vinyl records.

Further documentaries show other items, such as the mechanical Curta calculator, devices with Nixie tube displays, wire recording, and the WikiReader.

## Other websites

- Techmoan YouTube Channel
- Techmoan Website
- Techmoan - Not the 10th Anniversary Show with an about introduction

## Infobox (youtube personality)

- **name**: Techmoan
- **logo caption**: Techmoan logo
- **birth name**: Matthew Julius Taylor
- **pseudonym**: Mat
- **channel name**: Techmoan
- **years active**: 2009—present
- **genre**: Technology
- **subscribers**: 870K
- **subscriber date**: 31 October 2019
- **views**: 180,138,834
- **view date**: 31 October 2019