It’s a new year on the Solid State Podcast, and we’re kicking it off the only way we know how… 

In the middle of the Nevada desert, surrounded by a halo of lights that never sleep, are miles and miles of convention center halls, meeting rooms, and shadowy corners where once a year a critical mass of the technology industry descends with their wares, ideas, and moonshots to pitch the rest of the world that their product is the next game changer…

Whether your corner of tech is giant TVs, impossibly complex gadgets, or a toilet that reads you the news… this Mecca of technical wizardry is second to none other. 

And then, as quickly as it appeared, in a few short days it will disappear beneath the sands of the desert and time itself until another January finds us to start the process all over again. 

We, of course, are talking about CES or the “Consumer Electronics Show”… many big events have come and gone over the decades, but CES stands as the beginning of the gadget-filled year, and this was certainly no exception. It would take a week’s worth of back-to-back episodes to try (unsuccessfully) to cover it all, and frankly not even I can talk that much… So instead your three occasionally-lovable presenters have decided to gather our favorites (good, bad, and most definitely ugly) to give you just a taste of not only what CES has in store for us, but 2024 as a whole…

Much like Apple disrupting the news cycle while not even being quote-unquote in attendance, let’s peruse the store shelves of tomorrow by taking a look at what CES 2024 has for us today…