CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
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 Tuesday’s first episode, Ed is joined by Ed Niedermeyer of the Autonocast, Henry Casey of CNN Underscored, Gare Davis of It Could Happen Here and Ed Ongweso Jr. of The Tech Bubble newsletter to talk about smart glasses, wireless TVs, and the big lie of consumer robotics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Quarzone Media. |
| 0:08.6 | You are bearing witness to a great becoming. |
| 0:11.1 | We're back. |
| 0:11.8 | It's Better Offline. |
| 0:17.1 | Better Offline. Yeah. That's right. It's our second day of coverage of the Consumer Electronics show here in beautiful, scenic, rustic, Las Vegas. |
| 0:31.1 | And we're here for two, two hour long episodes today, this being the first of course. |
| 0:35.3 | And I am, of course, your host, Ed Zittron and the King of Pigs, |
| 0:38.2 | the Dale Cooper of podcasting. We've got an open bar, we've got tacos and places to relax with journalists, and good Lord, have we all seen some crap. Our first contestants are the remarkable Edward Onguyser of the Tech Bubble newsletter, Ed. Hello. And of course, we've got Ed Needamire, the author, and of course, he's the co-host of the Autonocast. |
| 0:55.7 | Howdy? |
| 0:56.3 | And we've got Gare Daviseyer, the author. And of course, he's the co-host of the Autonocast. |
| 0:55.8 | Howdy? |
| 0:56.4 | And we've got Gare Davis. |
| 0:57.7 | If it could happen here. |
| 0:58.5 | Gare, how you doing? The only non-Ed present. Yeah, you've got three ads and one, Gere, and I think that the mathematics works there. I was at the convention center today. I power walk through two halls in the space of a morning. |
| 1:10.4 | I pray for death. |
| 1:11.8 | But I'm going to start with the fact that I think smart glasses are evil. I tried several ones of them. And there was one where I put them on, and it's meant to be, you meant to look at your photos in there. You meant to listen to music and all this. And it was blur. I just go, yeah, it's really blur. And it goes, yeah yeah, and just looks at me. I'm like, you know, he's like, yeah, you know, I'm like, how much is it, $1,200? I'm like, oh, great. He's like, yeah, but that's with discounts. And it's just like, who the, I know that there's the whole thing about assistive technologies that's cool and all, but it's like, who the fuck is this actually for and just kind of lost? I had a similar feeling. |
| 1:50.4 | There was a lot of times I would come across assistive tech that I'd be like, this is interesting. And then I get introduced to the rest of the |
| 1:54.9 | ecosystem, which itself is dubious, or there are other, there other additions or features that don't really seem to need to be |
| 2:05.4 | grafted on. I mean, I think similarly with smart glasses, you know, I feel like the only ones I saw |
| 2:10.4 | that I was interested in were some that allowed you to hear better and functioned as like a hearing |
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