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- The CES is underway in Las Vegas

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and Gizmodo is there, covering it all.

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I'm Leann Wallace, a
Deputy Editor at Gizmodo.

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And I'm joined now by Dave Ewalt.

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He's the Editor in Chief at Gizmodo.

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And Dave, CES has been around
for a really long time.

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We're talking over 50 years.

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And of course, the
technology has changed a lot,

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but the show itself is a bit
different this year as well.

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- Yeah, so CES was real
different the last couple years

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because of the pandemic, right?

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It was canceled the first
year of the pandemic

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and then it was largely virtual.

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All the big announcements
came over Zoom calls

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and people weren't really there in person.

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But this year everybody is back in Vegas

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at this unimaginably huge
technology show to see the latest

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and greatest in consumer electronics.

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- And some of our reporters are,

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they're seeing some of
the latest and greatest,

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and also some of the more
unconventional technology

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coming out, or some of the
more interesting stuff.

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What so far have some of
our reporters been covering?

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- You know, this is always
the fun stuff for me is,

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the smaller booths and the companies

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that you hadn't planned on visiting

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and just seeing like,

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"Oh, look at this wacky thing."

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In the lead-ups to the big announcement,

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there's a couple of preview shows.

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And last night, Kyle Barr,
one of our reporters,

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was checking out this new
BodyFriend massage chair.

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And it's like, it's the the
video is just too funny to watch

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'cause it's like this giant
enveloping mechanical cocoon

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that just rubs every
single part of your body.

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Looks like it should be relaxing.

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Kyle described it as falling
into the Sarlacc Pit,

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so I'm guessing he did not
really enjoy it that much.

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But there's a lot of things like that

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that really makes CES delightful.

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It's discovering,

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"Oh, you know, Withings
has this new dongle

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which you drop into your
toilet and it tests your urine

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to find out what your
metabolism numbers are,

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what your pH is, it does period tracking.

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And that's the sort of
thing like, going into CES,

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we never thought like,

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"Oh, the interesting gadget

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will be the thing you
dunk into your toilet."

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But those things are really interesting

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and often can be really useful, too.

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- I think the interesting
part will be getting it

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out of your toilet.

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- Yeah, I'll leave that to somebody else.

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- Hopefully, the tech can
take care of that as well.

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So some of the more conventional things.

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What else have we seen announced already?

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- Well, Nvidia released
a new graphics card.

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This is the budget end of
its high-end graphic cards.

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So now it's completed that new generation

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of high-end PC gaming graphic cards

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that you can get in either

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for a ludicrous amount of money

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or a slightly less ludicrous amount.

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- Okay, what's a slightly less
ludicrous amount of money?

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- Well, that's when you're
talking more about like

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five, 600 bucks, as opposed to 1200, 1400,

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so it's all ludicrous,

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but it really depends upon

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what you plan on spending it more.

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That's much more traditional sort of like,

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"Yeah, graphics cards."

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There's also going to be lots
of announcements about TVs

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and smartphones and laptops.

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That's really the bread and
butter of a show like this.

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Another thing we expect to see a lot of

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is automotive technology.

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A whole section of CES.

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Basically imagine an entire hotel,

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and their entire review space

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and huge sections of their expo floor

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are gonna be dedicated
to automotive technology.

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A lot of electric vehicles
will be debuted at the show,

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but also all the technology
that goes inside them.

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Stereos, interactive displays,

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even some of the technology on the outside

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of the car will change.

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Expect to see some new digital paint jobs

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and different ways that you can customize

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the way your car looks.

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- I know a lot of stuff to look at

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and to just kind of learn about at CES.

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If you want to check
out more from the show,

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of course, we've been
covering it all week,

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and we'll continue to do so.

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You can check out Gizmodo.com
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