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I'm your friend David Pierce and I just got home from CES where we saw tons of gadgets. Thank you to everybody who came out for the live show last week. Thank you to everybody who has written in and sent us all the cool stuff that you saw in Vegas. CES is a blast. But now I'm home and it's time for my favorite annual tradition of detangling all of the junk that got stuck in my bag over the course of CES. I come home with SD cards full of pictures

I need to offload. I come home with just like a bunch of weird swag that I don't remember

picking up, but just like things from booths that end up in my backpack. I don't know. I have a lot of

stickers. Do you want stickers? I have nowhere to put stickers. CES is like full chaos and then I try to come home

and just clean a little bit. And it's like now the year starts. I always think of CES is not like the beginning of a new year, but the end of last year. Now I come home and we start it all over. And here we are very excited about it. Today on the show, we're going to talk a little bit about CES. We're going to follow up with Sean Hollister about the Lego Smart Brick, which I think was pretty undeniably the story of CES, and certainly the device of CES. But there's something interesting going on with what Lego is up to and what this thing means that we're just going to dive into more. Then Casey Newton, our friend and the editor of Platformer, is going to come on the show, and we're going to talk productivity. He is one of my favorite people to talk to about to-do lists and note-taking apps and all kinds of stuff about how we try to be more useful and get more stuff done without making ourselves crazy. We're going to talk about that. We've a really fun hotline question coming up. all of that is coming up in just a second. But first, do you know that feeling when you just have too much

crap on your desk and you're like, I got to get rid of all of this or I'm going to lose my mind?

That's where I am right now. I'm going to clean up. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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