CES Wrap-Up
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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
You'd be forgiven if you didn't pay much attention to CES this week. There's been quite a lot going on outside the world of consumer tech, plus the virtual event wasn't nearly as splashy as the Las Vegas extravaganzas of years past. Still, there were a bunch of gadgets on display this year, and we pored over all of it to find the most important devices and trends, from rollable screens to cleaning tech to X-Men arcade games.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED digital director Brian Barrett joins us to talk all about the good, the bad, and the just plain weird of CES 2021.
Show Notes:
Find our picks for the best of CES here or watch the video here. Read more about rollable phone screens here. Read more about all the clean tech at CES here. Follow all of our CES coverage here.
Recommendations:
Brian recommends Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beer. Mike recommends the Instagram account Siblings or Dating? Lauren recommends journalist Sachi Cunningham’s Instagram account, seasachi, for photos of surfers on giant waves.
Brian Barrett can be found on Twitter @brbarrett. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. 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 | Mike. |
| 0:01.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:02.0 | Mike, did you find it a challenge at all to pay attention to CES this week with everything |
| 0:06.7 | else going on? |
| 0:07.7 | No, I really just put my blinders on and had this intense focus all week. |
| 0:13.0 | All right, well, maybe I'm projecting a little bit. |
| 0:15.0 | But I'm guessing that other people were paying attention to much more important news. |
| 0:20.0 | So if you want to catch up quickly on what's going on |
| 0:22.4 | in Consumer Techland, we've got you covered on the Gadget Lab. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired, and I'm joined |
| 0:37.8 | remotely by my co-host, Wired Senior Editor, Michael Coolory. Hello, hello. We usually celebrate |
| 0:43.1 | your birthday during CES, but we couldn't do it this year in person for obvious reasons. So, |
| 0:49.7 | happy birthday, snack fight. Thank you very much. I still ate a lot of Thai food on my birthday, just like I would have if we were in Las Vegas. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, that's, I guess, a nice consolation prize. |
| 1:02.5 | All right, we're also joined by WIRED digital director, Brian Barrett. |
| 1:05.8 | Hey, Brian, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:07.5 | Hi, thank you guys for having me. |
| 1:08.7 | And I ate a lot of cake this week, unrelated to anything. |
| 1:12.9 | You should probably just say it was for Mike's birthday. We can say that. All right. So if you |
| 1:18.6 | missed it, I can't say I blame you. We're still finding our way through a devastating global |
| 1:23.9 | pandemic. And here in the U.S., we're reeling from a violent attack on the capital |
| 1:27.6 | in D.C. and now a second impeachment of Donald Trump. But CES was this week, the giant |
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