TWiT 1066: A Supercomputer in Your Pocket - CES & the Next Leap for On-Device AI Power
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Summary
Is putting a camera in your toilet the future of health, or have tech companies lost the plot? This episode's panel digs into what's truly innovative versus what's just over the top, as industry leaders spar over privacy concerns and the real impact of AI in everyday devices.
- We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry
- Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready version of Atlas robot at CES 2026
- Hair Drying Robot
- Jensen Huang Says Nvidia's New Vera Rubin Chips Are in 'Full Production'
- AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series includes the first Copilot+ desktop CPU — Team Red refreshes Zen 5 APUs and Strix Halo
- Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses
- Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
- The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access
- Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop
- The Verge Awards at CES 2026
- These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Jason Hiner
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. It's our annual CES wrap-up, and we have three great hosts |
| 0:05.9 | who are at CES this year, Padre, Father Robert, Padre S.J, Jennifer Patterson-Tooey from The Verge and |
| 0:13.8 | Jason Heiner. CES, it turns out, was a pretty interesting show this year, from robots that fall over to toilets that take pictures of your business. |
| 0:25.5 | We will cover it, all of it. |
| 0:27.2 | Next on Twit. |
| 0:30.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:32.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:35.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:42.9 | Music you trust. This is Twit. This is Twit. |
| 0:44.5 | This Week in Tech. |
| 0:45.7 | Episode 1066 recorded Sunday, January 11th, 2026. |
| 0:51.3 | A supercomputer in your pocket. |
| 0:53.9 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. Hello everybody. |
| 0:58.1 | Time to talk about the week's tech news. And of course, this week was CES. And so we have our |
| 1:03.8 | traditional yearly CES panel, Jennifer Patterson. Tui is here. She is a senior reviewer at The Virgin covered all sorts of |
| 1:12.8 | stuff at CES. How many days at CES did you spend? Oh, gosh, I got there on Saturday and left on Friday. |
| 1:19.8 | That's too long. That's too long. I'm sure you felt the same way. Yes, I did. One of our, |
| 1:25.3 | one of our regular Scott Wilkinson wears a pedometer at CES every year and covers 30 miles |
| 1:30.3 | typically. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean, just a huge, yeah, a lot of foot soar. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, it can be, it can be pretty exhausting, but it's also like for a tech nerd, it's like |
| 1:39.3 | the Oscars and Christmas and the Super Bowl all at once. |
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