The Worst Devices of CES 2024!
At the Consumer Electronics Show every year, manufacturers pitch their products hoping to convince us that they have invented the future. But will their vision make our lives better, or lead humanity down a dark and twisted path?
Welcome to the third annual Worst in Show awards!
Our panel of dystopia experts have reviewed this year’s batch of hype and have… concerns. From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations.
Our judges considered five questions to select the category winners:
How bad is this product?
Are the problems with this gadget innovatively bad?
What is the global impact if the technology is widely adopted?
How much worse is this than previous iterations of similar technology?
How much do the negatives outweigh the positives?
Check out the full story on our blog
https://www.ifixit.com/News/88815/the-worst-in-show-2024-losers-are-in
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Who Asked for This? The Caper Cart
01:50 Worst Device for Privacy: BMW and Alexa
02:47 Worst Device for Security: Ecovac Deebot X2
04:09 Worst Device for Environmental Impact: Revolution Cooking Macrowave
04:45 Worst Device for Repairability: Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4
05:36 Device Most Likely to Cause Enshitification: XREAL Air 2 Headset
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Dodge Caravan 2016 +. Stereo audio fails. Appears to be a common problem, but no recall. Fix at the dealers? $600 before labour.
Nathan might like to check on the assertion that the average person sees 10000 ads per day. I listened to a BBC Radio 4 podcast just this morning, "More or Less", explaining where this figure first arose and what the actual number could possibly be, about 90 as I recall. Pity that an excellent video is spoiled by repetition of hearsay without checking their veracity.
This ain’t it… You guys sound like a bunch of Karens 😂
Can someone explain to me the connection between ALEXA and domestic violence? I don’t have either.
Can we all agree to stop saying "ALEXA" in the middle of our youtube videos? The irony of the exec director of the EFF commanding my Alexa to open the front door (and it waking up and attempting to do so) is not lost on me, and yet, I'm not a big fan of it. 😂 Can we start saying "SMART SPEAKER"?
I'm not as concerned with hackers as I am with corporate or state surveillance. Id rather deal with hackers.
This video is so unnecessary. Incorrect information and anti-innovation. 👎
Cory Doctorow, please explain your point.
How does the XREAL Air 2 relate to the BMW? 🤔
AFAIK It's just an AR wearable display without any processing power on it.
it simply will show whatever the host would cast to it through a wired connection.
And host could be anything – PC, smartphone, game console, anything that you can plug an external display in.
Pretty much the same would happen to any similar products from other competitors like Vuzix, Oppo, Lenovo, Rokid, Inmo, Viture etc. etc.
Even with any portable display like Asus XG17AHP I have – it will show whatever source is casting to it.
So my question here is what is so special about XREAL Air 2 comparing it to its competitors?
Thanks for waking up everyone's Alexa device asking it (2:29) to unlock the front door! Hopefully people are aware of it especially at night.
Leave the identity politics out of the BMW crap. Cars bad enough without all that
STOP the music
Is she serious about the BMW thing what a stretch
Nothing describes 2023 better than "enshittification"
Awesome video idea, hah! 😀 5/5 🌺
could you guys do the California guys and other herbal friendly states a solid and take apart a Puffco Peak?
our future tech will be defined by next generation not by mummies thought.
Somebody get Carl a Lav microphone
Woman moment 1:50
Dieselgate was VW not BMW
We do not see 10,000 ads per day, that works out to like 11 ads per minute during awake hours. Who’s writing this script
"Man, I gotta replace my coffee mug's motherboard. I should have got a smart sponge from CES2030"
Do a Best in Show as well.
These products are all straight out of a dystopian nightmare
I fully support the intentions of this video, but 'dollars to Deutsch Marks' hasn't been a thing for well over 20 years. The video is too US-Centric to have a real bite.
Bunch of butt-hurt and paranoid peopled in this esteemed panel
fair enough
where is louis?
I agree with most of the worst in show awards but the Xreal/BMW AR glasses have a lot of benefits and keep the head up while able to provide valuable info in your field of view and can be taken off if intrusive. Screens and HUD or windshield based AR screens are here or coming and will be much worse as you cannot remove them.
IOT devices are the worst thing for privacy and security.
Don't but IOT Devices. If you do. Do not let them on the internet.
i dont agree with the BMW and Alexa judgment , its a super cool feature for when you want to talk in your car or from your home to your car !!! not everyone lives in a dwindling torn down society that suffers from mentally ill people that is the scum of the earth ,that is America
Ifixit you’re absolutely reaching about the Amazon and BMW domestic abuse scenario 🤣🤣 time to get real.