Best and Worst (non AI) Products at CES

It Could Happen Here

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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From exoskeletons, rolling laptops, and VR therapy, Robert and Garrison discuss the some of the products at CES 2026 that aren't powered by AI and ChatGPT.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Call Zone Media.
0:10.3	This is It Could Happen here, a podcast about things falling apart.
0:14.2	And today, the things falling apart are consumer electronics as an industry?
0:18.6	We are at CES 2026, the trade show where the tech industry shows us
0:23.0	everything it's going to sell us in the next year. And we've seen some cool stuff and a lot of
0:28.9	bloatware, a lot of crap, a lot of AI-enabled stuff that doesn't need to be AI enabled.
0:34.0	Here to talk about it is our panel of experts.
0:38.0	Me.
0:39.8	Experts is a strong word, but okay.
0:41.6	Yeah, panel is a strong word.
0:42.6	That's also fair. I'm Robert Evans.
0:45.4	Garrison Davis is also with me.
0:48.5	And I'm Ben Rose Porter.
0:50.3	And, you know, Ben, you're an academic, right?
0:52.7	You do college.
0:54.2	Yeah, I do.
0:55.1	I teach sociology.
0:57.0	That's right.
0:57.4	That's right.
0:58.6	As a sociopath, uh, how have you enjoyed the trade show?
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