Screaming Wi-Fi, internet dresses and unhinged AI chatbots - 20 of the wackiest tech stories we saw in 2025

Fungal batteries, a car that drives upside down, and AI chatbots inventing their own language - 2025 was a crazy year for tech

Technology is supposed to make life easier, smarter, and more efficient. As well as all that, 2025 also gave us AI worrying about dead chickens, backpacks that stared back, computers made of brain cells, and Wi-Fi being foiled by houseplants.

From upside-down electric cars to Linux hiding inside PDFs, 2025 proved innovation doesn’t always move in a straight line.

Some breakthroughs were impressive, others pointless, and a few genuinely unsettling. Together, they form a strange snapshot of where tech is heading - and how often curiosity, nostalgia, and absurdity drive progress just as much as usefulness.