Hey everyone, welcome to this special live taping of Gadget Lab.

I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.

And I am Michael Collori. I'm a senior editor at Wired.

And this is our first Wired podcast of the year. And fittingly, it's our CES show.

It's Wednesday.

The show officially started today, though we here at Wired have been taking briefings and just covering the event.

It seems like, I don't know, snack.

It seems like weeks now, days, months.

Yeah, it feels like we've been doing this since like the day before Christmas, probably. Pretty much. And as you might be able to tell, if you've tuned into the stream, we're not there in person. Wired along with a lot of other companies this year decided to participate in CES virtually for health and safety reasons. But we are still keeping a very close eye on the event. We've got a lot to talk about. We're going to get into all of the big trends that we're seeing this year at CES, some interesting new products. And we're going to talk a little bit about what these new technologies mean for the future of tech, like how it lays the groundwork for other tech that we're going to see merge this year. Also, I should note that if you have questions for us during this special live taping, you can send them to us at Gadget Lab or at the main Wired account on Twitter, which is just at Wired, and we're going to try to get them later on in the show. We would just love to hear your questions, so send them along. All right, so we're going to have a couple guests with us today.

First up is Julian Chacotto. He is Wired's review editor. And then later on in the show, we're going

to have Adrian sew on as well, and Julian's going to stick around. But first, let's go to Julian.

Julian, thanks so much for being here, or there, or in the Metaverse or however, how are we describing where we are?

I'll take Metaverse. Thanks, thanks for having me.

All right, so Julian, your coverage typically at Wired Spans a lot of different categories of phones, PCs, AR, VR, micro-mobility.

There's a lot going on there. Which categories so far would you say

stands out to you? Of all the areas you cover, which area stands out to you the most so far at

CES this week? Well, I think, I guess the first thing I maybe that caught my eye that I saw

at the show was when Intel randomly announced that it was,

you know, going to unveil this technology later this year called, well, it's part of the

acquisition of Screenovate. And so you're going to be able to look at your I messages on a Windows laptop or check potentially your Apple Watch ECG readings on your Windows machine.

Kind of weird and kind of, you know, random out of left field thing, but very cool in a way that, like, it's one of those features that, you know,

if you're in the Apple ecosystem, you're completely used to it. You are obviously from your iPhone going straight to your iPad with the same Safari web page,

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