Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 1
Better Offline
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.
In Part 1 of our 4th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by Senior Review of Wearable Tech Victoria Song of The Verge, Ed Ongweso Jr, David Roth of Defector and Devindra Hardawar of Engadget to talk about the male-centric coverage of CES, personal nuclear reactors, useful wearables and tech companies that fantasize about making all of our decisions for us.
Victoria Song: https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song
https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social
Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social
The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/
David Roth, Defector: https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social
Defector: Defector.com
It’s Christmastown Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849
Devindra Hardawar, Engadget: https://bsky.app/profile/devindra.bsky.social
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/devindra-hardawar/
Devindra’s coverage of the ASUS Zenbook A14 https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/asus-unveiled-the-zenbook-a14-at-ces-2025-and-its-the-macbook-air-competitor-ive-been-dreaming-of-173026277.html
Phillip Broughton: https://bsky.app/profile/funranium.bsky.social
https://www.funraniumlabs.com/
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| 0:52.0 | I'm your host, Ed Zitron. |
| 0:53.1 | We have an incredible block to begin this with. I'm joined by Davindra Hardewa Venngadjit. Hello, hello. How's it going? Fantasticly now. Victoria's Song from the Verge. How are you doing? I'm so tired. We all are. I'm energized. I'm just the power of Christ. Not really. Edwin and Grasso Jr. tomorrow. How you doing, Ed? |
| 1:12.6 | Doing pretty good. Pretty good. So you're fresh back from the convention floor, right? |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, after thinking I lost my passport there. Which is amazing. Yeah, I found it. Well, then you'll be |
| 1:22.5 | just trapped here forever. I choose everyone's stream. Yeah. I did not want to say this to you, |
| 1:26.5 | but that is actually a CES right of passage. |
| 1:29.2 | Of the people, the lifers I know, at least, I think like five people I know of like, I lost my entire wallet in the LVCC. |
| 1:36.3 | I didn't lose it in the LVCC, but one of the first CES as I ever went to, I had a connecting flight back through Minnesota. |
| 1:43.1 | There was a snowstorm. I was stuck there for an extra day while begging every single airline counter to, like, put me on a flight out. I lost my wallet there. So like my company put me up with an extra hotel. I get to the hotel and they're like, you kind of need ID to check in. I was like, I don't know how to tell you. I just lost my wallet at the airport. |
| 2:02.0 | And so they're very nice in Minnesota. So they just let me stay. The next morning, I get up early and you can fly without an ID domestically. You just have to like go really early. You just do like a credit check. You have to do go really early though, because they do check everything you own with great scrutiny. |
| 2:21.4 | Oh, no. You just do like a credit check. You have to go really early, though, because they do check everything you own with great scrutiny. |
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