After a summer of jet lag, beer foam, and sunshine, we’re back, and the tech world got weird while we were gone. Google’s “Nano Banana” is the new AI image wizard making shockingly good edits in seconds. Naturally, we had to try it. This episode peels back what’s real, what’s synthetic, and what’s just plain bananas.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Google Gemini

Nano Banana in Google AI Studio

Matt Wolfe 50+ INSANE Ways To Use Nano Banana

MidJourney

Canva

Cling AI

Higgsfield

ElevenLabs

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The episode from August, 2023 where we talked about reconstructing Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, heard by patients with a neural implant.

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