CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)

January 8, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual live podcast chat from CES 2025 in Las Vegas, hosted at an open bar lounge with rotating guests bantering over show floor demos.
The Key Players:
- Host: Ed Zitron, tech critic firing rapid cynical questions.
- Guests: Carissa Bell (Engadget, robot skeptic), Jared Newman (Advisorator Newsletter, gadget tester), Chloe Radcliffe (stand-up comedian, fresh off elliptical), Robert Evans (Behind the Bastards, collects absurd brochures), Adam Conover (Factually! podcast), Edward Ongweso Jr. (Tech Bubble Newsletter).
The Vibe: Hilariously cynical and fun—roasting hype with comedian energy, like a comedy roast of failed robots amid CES chaos.

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1 (02:39) **🎙️ Introduction: CES Panel with Carissa Bell (Engadget), Jared Newman (Adviserator), Chloe Radcliffe (Comedian)**
2 (03:40) **LG Cloyd Laundry Folding Robot**
3 (10:53) **Switchbot Laundry Robot**
4 (13:46) **Other Failing Robots at CES**
5 (19:00) **Pebble Watches and Index Ring**
6 (22:35) **Robotic Sneakers for Mobility**
7 (25:48) **Agibot/Intbot Humanoid Robots**

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Show Notes

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

In Wednesday’s second episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Karissa Bell of Engadget, Jared Newman of the Advisorator newsletter, standup comedian and host of the Factually Podcast Adam Conover, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards and standup comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe to talk about very slow laundry robots, the return of the pebble watch (and their new ring), robotic assistive technology products, the sloppification of CES, and asking “who cares?” to every single booth.

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Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social

The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/

Karissa Bell
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/karissa-bell/

Jared Newman:
https://advisorator.com/members/signup/

https://cordcutterweekly.com/

Chloe Radcliffe:

https://www.instagram.com/chloebadcliffe/?hl=en

https://punchup.live/chloeradcliffe

Robert Evans:

https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?l=en-GB

Adam Conover:
https://www.instagram.com/adamconover/?hl=en
www.adamconover.net/tourdates

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