CES 2026 - Thin Screens, Cute Robots and a Smart Egg You Pee On - DTNS 5178
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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We’re live at CES surrounded by robots, HUGE TVs, and forklifts. We cut through the noise to break down what’s really going on at the biggest tech show going.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, January 5th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, |
| 0:13.9 | give you the important context, and help each other understand. Today we are live from CES |
| 0:18.9 | 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, talking about all the tech news |
| 0:22.8 | and breaking it down in what we've been seeing ourselves. Me, I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob Dumbly. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Jason Howell. Back at headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Sarah Lane. And as always, I am |
| 0:34.2 | Roger Jay. Samsung had announcements last night. LG had him this morning. |
| 0:38.3 | Lego is announcing things as we speak. |
| 0:41.3 | Roger's going to be keeping check on that and check back with us in a little bit about what they've announced. |
| 0:46.3 | Later today at CES, we'll hear from NVIDA, Sony, Honda, |
| 0:51.3 | Mobility, Intel, and AMD. |
| 0:53.3 | So tomorrow will be almost entirely about chips. |
| 0:56.0 | But for today, let's start with what you need to know with the big stories. |
| 1:03.0 | So yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to, that's okay. |
| 1:06.0 | It's CES. It's crazy. Tell us about LG, Sarah. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, Tom, I'm glad that you want me to do that because I watched the keynote this morning. Came in at just under an hour. LG didn't cover any PC stuff, but that's to be expected. What they did cover was a lot of smart home, you know, smart kitchen, smart living room. We got a robot, and then a bunch of smart automotive stuff |
| 1:28.3 | that I'll get to in a minute. |
| 1:29.3 | Let's start with that robot though. |
| 1:30.3 | C. |
| 1:31.3 | Everybody loves a robot. |
| 1:32.3 | Which has gotten a lot of attention and was sort of cloaked in mystery before CES. |
| 1:37.3 | A lot of us were wondering, are they even going to have a tangible model that people can look |
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