The Best of CES 2026 - DTNS 5181

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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David Katzmaier tells us what CNET awarded best overall, and Richard Gunther and Trisha Hershberger fill out the list with their faves.

Starring: Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, David Katzmaier, Richard Gunther, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, January 8th, 2026.
0:12.2	We tell you what you need to know, give you some context and try, gosh, darn it, to help each other understand.
0:16.4	It's the last day live from the floor of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. And what's the best tech at
0:24.0	CES this year? Well, we've got C-Nets, David Katzmeier, digital media zones, Richard Gunther,
0:29.8	and the amazing Trisha Hirshberger here to tell us. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rod Dumbled.
0:34.8	I'm Trisha Hirshberger. Back at headquarters in Los Angeles, I'm Sarah Lane.
0:39.0	And also remote. I am Roger Chang. Well, the best of CES has been named and CET's editor-in-chief,
0:44.4	David Katzmeyer, is here to tell us all about the winners. And that is our big story.
0:51.5	David, you survived. I can't believe it's the last day of CES. I feel like I've been here for pretty much all year. Yeah, you get that feeling like you live here. Yeah. I mean, you have really been there pretty much all year. Well, I guess technically, but, you know, maybe even 2025 at this point. So CNA that has been awarding the official Best of CES Awards for a while now. Can you run through a little bit about what that means, how they're selected, what's the selection process, all of that?
1:17.1	Right. So the idea is these are the awards that are sanctioned by the CTA that puts on CES. And, you know, there's a bunch of other websites mentioning BEST of CES. You know, no, no shade on any of those, but we're the
1:28.8	official ones. So the idea is CET in partnership with PCMag, Mashable, LifeHacker, and ZDNet,
1:37.2	which are all owned by Ziv Davis, Media Group, got together. And this is the first time we've
1:41.4	really ever gone this hard. So we have 22 categories.
1:46.1	And we had to pick at least, you know, two to three finalists for each category. And then we put out
1:53.3	that story, it was yesterday morning. It feels like, again, a week ago. And then we ended up later in
1:59.6	the day going on stage here in the Central Hall and announcing the winners among those categories.
2:04.8	Yeah, I ran into Ayaz Akhtar who was doing the travel category and he was like furiously taking notes and like running all over the place.
2:11.5	It's a scramble.
2:12.8	Yeah, it is.
2:13.9	So best overall Samsung Galaxy Fold.
2:19.2	What was the thinking behind giving that the sort of the overall win?
2:23.3	Yeah, so, I mean, it's CES is just a grab bag.
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