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

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 11 a.m.

Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Ashley Carman, and Sean O'Kane highlight the most important, weird, and surprising things The Verge saw at CES 2020.\nStories from this episode:\n\nSonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks\n\nAmazon\u2019s hardware boss responds to Sonos accusations of stolen technology\n\nSony\u2019s electric car is the best surprise of CES\n\nByton\u2019s 48-inch screen might not be as distracting as it looks\n\nMercedes-Ben\u2019s Avatar-themed concept car with scales\n\nSony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S\n\nSegway S-Pod\n\nQuibi versus the world\n\nSpotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads\n\n2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe\n\nFoldable and dual-screen laptops desperately need Windows 10X\n\nLenovo\u2019s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen\n\nPS5 logo\n\nIntel NUC Extreme platform\n\nNeon CEO explains the tech behind his overhyped \u2018artificial humans\u2019\n\nSamsung\u2019s \u2018artificial humans\u2019 are just digital avatars\n\nThis is Intel\u2019s first discrete graphics card in 20 years, but you can\u2019t buy one\n\nSamsung\u2019s Ballie\n\nThe most promising AirPower alternative isn\u2019t ready yet\n\nRoyole\u2019s new smart speaker has a wraparound touch display\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices