Listen closely and you’ll hear the battle cry of the tech adopter: it’ll be better next year! As 2016 comes to a close, we decided to go straight to what’s coming next. Starting the first week of January with CES, 2017 will be a year of big gadget announcements. A new iPhone. A new Pixel. More VR. More Windows. More cameras for your Snapchat. More Snapchat for your parents. And, for better or worse, probably about the same amount of Twitter as this year. Before we left for the holidays, we went through it all.

Some links: The many, many iPhone 8 rumors. Our retrospective on the last year of Twitter. Chris Kohler’s story on Microsoft’s Project Scorpio VR plans. Recommendations this week are two shows you ought to be watching, Fleabag and The 100.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.