CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 9 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 Thursday’s second episode, Ed is joined by actress and standup comedian Chloe Radlciffe, Garrison Davis of It Could Happen Here, writer Westin Lee, Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards, Ed Ongweso of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, and tech writer Rob Pegoraro to talk about how this CES feels like something is missing, building things for actual people, how everybody is talking about “incremental” improvements in AI, OpenAI’s similarities to Theranos, and the problematic nature of mass-automation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Clause Media. |
| 0:07.9 | Damn, they got me feeling like white Michael Clayton. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ed Zittron, and this is Better Offline's coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show. |
| 0:29.3 | Better Offline. We are, as we have been all week here in the beautiful Palazzo Hotel Nevada, bringing you yet another episode covering CES with the crazed assortment |
| 0:35.5 | of guests from the tech industry. We've got an open bar, tacos and places to sit down for the members of the media, whether they join us on the microphone or not. This is our second episode of the day. It's Thursday. And we've got two more on Friday and an epilogue on Saturday. Then they're going to roll me into one of the aqueducts here and flush me into the sewer. But before they do that, it's time to introduce the latest contestants on the CES challenge, joining me as ever as stand-up comedian and star of it. Is this thing on Chloe Radcliffe? No. No? No, not anymore. Unfortunately. No, not unfortunately. They love you. No, very fortunately. I'm still here. You can't get rid of me. And we will not be. And of course, it could happen. Here's Garrison Davis. Hello, good morning. And take writer Rob Pagoraro, joining us once again. It's good to be back. It sure is good to have you. Lovely to see you. So, Gare, what have you been up to? What are you seen today? I've been at LVCC all day. What did you LVCC? Oh my goodness. |
| 1:29.8 | I realized I said good morning because the CES time distortion is starting to kick in. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, absolutely. Well, you were in like Tokyo a week ago, so your time is... |
| 1:36.8 | The best, at best is an interesting word. The most interesting thing I saw today is I happened to arrive at the |
| 1:45.5 | LG booth right as their home assistant robot demo started for the first time. Cloid. |
| 1:52.7 | Cloid. |
| 1:53.6 | Lloyd. Lloyd. Lvoid. So I got to see that in action for their first demo demo walk me through the action part of this |
| 2:02.7 | action like how was the action maybe it's more more proper to say i got to see cloyd in |
| 2:09.2 | it was it was action is generous it was breathtaking really it's going to change so many |
| 2:16.0 | people's lives. |
| 2:20.1 | How so? |
| 2:23.3 | So they gave us three different scenarios. |
| 2:31.4 | One is you have this clumsy dad who always forgets his keys and the robot is able to find the keys then put them somewhere else. |
| 2:38.3 | Which is an interesting solution to the problem of losing your keys because it was framed. |
| 2:44.5 | So this clumsy father of two left his keys on the couch. |
| 2:48.1 | Then the robot walks in the couch and grabs him from the couch and moves them to a different location in the house, which seems like a machine that just makes you lose your keys. The jester AI. I am here to add chaos to your life. |
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