The Vergecast

CES 2020 roundtable: Concept cars, Quibi, foldables, and more

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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Ashley Carman, and Sean O'Kane highlight the most important, weird, and surprising things The Verge saw at CES 2020.

Stories from this episode:

  • Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks
  • Amazon’s hardware boss responds to Sonos accusations of stolen technology
  • Sony’s electric car is the best surprise of CES
  • Byton’s 48-inch screen might not be as distracting as it looks
  • Mercedes-Ben’s Avatar-themed concept car with scales
  • Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S
  • Segway S-Pod
  • Quibi versus the world
  • Spotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads
  • 2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe
  • Foldable and dual-screen laptops desperately need Windows 10X
  • Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen
  • PS5 logo
  • Intel NUC Extreme platform
  • Neon CEO explains the tech behind his overhyped ‘artificial humans’
  • Samsung’s ‘artificial humans’ are just digital avatars
  • This is Intel’s first discrete graphics card in 20 years, but you can’t buy one
  • Samsung’s Ballie
  • The most promising AirPower alternative isn’t ready yet
  • Royole’s new smart speaker has a wraparound touch display

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