CES 2023: We Live Here Now
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In the world of consumer tech, there’s no palette-cleanser for the new year quite like the annual CES, the giant electronics show. What better way to kick off 2023 than to find your way through the maze of metal and screens (and germs) and Alexa-equipped toothbrushes and pet-feeding robots (and germs) and hyper-futuristic electric vehicles that may never actually ship (also, probably germs)? Our WIRED editors on the ground at CES, keeping an eye out for the most important developments to emerge from the gadget extravaganza.
So for this week’s WIRED Gadget Lab podcast, we come to you (alive but a little exhausted) from Las Vegas to talk about the big trends from CES and how they might shape our tech experiences for the rest of the year.
Show Notes
Follow WIRED’s liveblog of all the news from CES. Or just check out the coolest stuff from the event. Read all of WIRED’s coverage of CES.
Recommendations
Julian recommends not feeling like you have to see everything at CES. Adrienne recommends the Aeropress Pro and a collapsible travel kettle. Mike recommends not partying until your last night of CES and taking showers at night.
Adrienne So can be found on Twitter @adriennemso. Julian Chokkattu is @JulianChokkattu. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Lauren Goode (who will be returning to the show next week) is @LaurenGoode. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Michael Callori. I'm a senior editor at Wired. |
| 0:11.0 | This is our first episode of the year, so you know what that means. We are at CES in Las Vegas, |
| 0:16.5 | and you, of course, may notice that the audio is a little different this week, maybe a little |
| 0:21.2 | less crystal clear than you used to. |
| 0:23.7 | That's because we are recording this episode in a hotel room. |
| 0:27.2 | It is very late at night, so very late. |
| 0:29.7 | And we've just gotten back from a long day of touching various gadgets, eating bad food, |
| 0:34.4 | and breathing on strangers. |
| 0:36.5 | This is what CES is all about. |
| 0:38.9 | In the room with me here, our Wired Senior Associate Reviews editor, Adrian Soe, and Wired |
| 0:45.0 | Reviews editor, Julian Chokatu. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome back to the show, everybody. |
| 0:49.6 | Hi. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello. |
| 0:52.2 | So this is the first CES that we have attended in two years. |
| 0:57.9 | 2023 is this year and 2022. There was a CES. We covered it remotely. 2021. There was not a CES. |
| 1:07.5 | 2020. There was. So this is the first time that we have been in in Las Vegas in three years |
| 1:12.6 | to cover the show. How does it feel to be here? I missed it. Did you? Yeah. I mean, |
| 1:20.0 | here's like, there's a lot of things that you miss from a, from a remote experience, which is |
| 1:26.7 | mainly things going wrong. I've enjoyed all of the in-person |
| 1:30.4 | bloopers, the Panasonic turntables. They didn't work for the grand finale with the Olympic |
| 1:38.1 | break dancers. And I rejoice for that. I love seeing, you know, all the people who make our |
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