CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.
In Wednesday’s second episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Karissa Bell of Engadget, Jared Newman of the Advisorator newsletter, standup comedian and host of the Factually Podcast Adam Conover, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards and standup comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe to talk about very slow laundry robots, the return of the pebble watch (and their new ring), robotic assistive technology products, the sloppification of CES, and asking “who cares?” to every single booth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:08.8 | I've crossed oceans of time to bring you this podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | This is Better Offlines coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, and I'm your host, Ed Zetron. We're back here in the Palazzo and beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing you yet another episode covering CS with an incredible core of even more incredible guests. |
| 0:36.4 | And yes, I wrote it like that. |
| 0:37.9 | We've got an open bar, tacos and places to sit down for members of the media, whether they join us on |
| 0:41.4 | the microphone or not. Those joining me here at Swaggage Claim are the incredible Carissa Bell of Engadget. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello, hello. And we've of course got the impeccable Jared Newman of the advisory |
| 0:52.0 | newsletter. Hey. Returning guest for several years now. Well, I mean one year. One year. It's only been one. It just feels like many. And of course, the incredible actress and stand-up comedian Chloe Radcliffe. Yeah, fresh off the elliptical in your hotel suite. One of us is fucking used now. I've been, I've been doing podcasting. So, Carissa, we're going to start with you because you saw something I could not see moving |
| 1:13.7 | every time I went by. |
| 1:14.8 | The, fucking using it. I've been doing podcasting. So, Carissa, we're going to start with you because you saw |
| 1:12.0 | something I could not see moving every time I went by. The LG Cloyd laundry folding robot. |
| 1:19.3 | How was that? You said it here that it folded laundry and served food very slowly. Give me an idea of how |
| 1:26.0 | slowly. Well, there idea of how slowly. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, there's a TikTok in that story that you can see. |
| 1:34.2 | And one of the top comments was, it'll take three weeks to do your laundry at this pace. |
| 1:34.6 | Right. |
| 1:41.0 | And I don't know if it was slow, because for the demo purposes, they're trying to draw it out, make it more dramatic. But it started off with it was out of washing machine, and it's trying to pull something out of a hamper, but it started off with it. It was out of washing machine and it's |
| 1:44.4 | trying to pull something out of a hamper, load it into the washing machine. It's, and it just |
| 1:49.6 | is doing it so slow, but it takes its time kind of picking it up. Does it have any trouble? |
| 1:54.5 | It doesn't have trouble picking it up, really. It's just, it's not really clear why it takes so |
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