/ On The Vergecast, unrecorded from Las Vegas: each the things we saw, played with, touched, and talked astir astatine this year’s CES.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Jan 10, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC
CES is simply a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, benignant of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, astir elaborate, astir bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the full manufacture flies to Las Vegas to show disconnected caller worldly and make large deals.
On this section of The Vergecast, a typical unrecorded version of the show from the Brooklyn Bowl successful Las Vegas, we talk done arsenic overmuch of it arsenic we can. (Thanks to everyone who came out, by the way! So overmuch nosy to get to spot and bent retired pinch each of you.) We really statesman the show pinch a communicative that didn’t commencement astatine CES but took complete the week anyway: Meta’s about-face connected fact-checking and contented moderation. After that, we get into Samsung’s caller Frame Pro TV, the end of Dell’s XPS brand, Sony’s bizarrely costly Afeela car, and more.
After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Victoria Song subordinate america onstage to talk astir what they saw astatine the show. We talk astir phone toasters, robot vacuums, smart locks, smart glasses, Max Ink Mode, and tons more. Will thing we saw this week ever ship, and will immoderate of it beryllium immoderate good? Who knows! But that’s the nosy of CES. It’s a fever dream, a brainstorm session, and a genuinely chaotic look into the early of tech.
If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first connected the Meta news:
Then connected each things CES:
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