1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,920 Dear Journal, I've been covering CES 2025 for three days now. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:14,760 The Red Bull has run out. Drums sound in the distance, probably beaten by a smart toilet with robot arms or something. 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,920 It won't be long now. 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:24,560 AMD's lips are still sealed when it comes to their next-gen GPUs, but IGN managed to 5 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:33,080 secretly run the internal benchmark in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 on the RX9070 non-XT in 6 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,320 AMD's CES booth, getting an average FPS of 99. 7 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:45,400 From this, IGN estimates the card might perform somewhere close to NVIDIA's RTX 4080 Super 8 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,200 using some kind of PC nerd derivative of girl math. 9 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:56,600 I couldn't follow it. But the point is AMD's apparent decision to, at the last minute, withhold all information 10 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,760 about their next-gen GPUs except their names, has only made everyone more curious about 11 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,760 them. A lesson they already would have learned had they ever brought a bag of nuts into the 12 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,200 squirrel pen. You guys don't have those? 13 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,560 Even AMD's GPU board partners seem confused about what's going on. 14 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:20,040 PowerColor allowed Leo and the KitGuru team to look at their RX9070s while pretending 15 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:25,920 that they weren't. Come in, Matt. Come close and look at the invisible, non-existent graphics cards. 16 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:32,240 Meanwhile, Tom's hardware seems to have inadvertently published a photo of the Navi 48 chip powering 17 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:39,320 the GPUs, leading leaky Twitter guy David Wong to estimate the die size at around 390 18 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:46,240 mm2, which is slightly larger than the AD103 chip powering NVIDIA's RTX 4080. 19 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,320 We have gotten one concrete piece of information, though. 20 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:57,920 ASUS revealed both RX9070 variants have 16 GB of VRAM, which they apparently weren't supposed 21 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,200 to reveal as they took down the page shortly after. 22 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,680 AMD's kinda acting like that friend who will plan a surprise party for you, but hide it 23 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:11,520 horribly, so you have to act surprised when it happens. 24 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:19,240 Which has happened to me so many times. Such a relatable story. The Nintendo Switch 2 leaks may have officially jumped the shark. 25 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,240 Accessory maker Genki has published a video on their website of what might as well be 26 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,280 the Switch 2, ostensibly to show off the company's protective case for the console, 27 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:35,940 but they know what they're doing. They told Press the mock-up they're showing here is based on the real console, and their 28 00:02:35,940 --> 00:02:41,200 website has a pop-up admitting they can't keep a secret. 29 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,960 The video shows in detail the magnetic Joy-Cons releasing at the push of a button, revealing 30 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:54,320 the rumored laser sensor on the rail that may enable mouse functionality, we'll see. 31 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,280 And the video also provides our best look yet at the Switch 2's dock design. 32 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,720 Not only that, they were handing around a 3D printed mock-up of the console at their 33 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,640 CES booth, first shown in a video by French tech outlet Numorama. 34 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:13,280 They're starting to feel a little ridiculous that Nintendo hasn't unveiled the Switch 2 35 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,640 yet. As if to emphasize this, the Nintendo Japan Twitter account just changed their account 36 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:24,400 banner to Mario and Luigi, seeming to gesture at empty space. 37 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:31,880 Just watch Nintendo wait until March 31st, and then wait one more day to reveal the greatest 38 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:38,360 April Fools prank ever. There is no Switch 2. 39 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:45,240 But it wakes up in a cold sweat. Meta isn't just trying to appease the incoming Trump administration, they're also humoring 40 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:52,080 the EU and launching a test allowing users to browse eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace 41 00:03:52,080 --> 00:04:01,960 in the US, France, and Germany. The European Commission fined Meta over $820 million last year over Facebook Marketplace 42 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,800 being tied to Facebook. The EU loves to find people. 43 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,120 They even find themselves. Sort of. 44 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,800 The EU General Court ruled this morning that the European Commission broke its own rules 45 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:20,120 and allowed a German citizen's personal data to be sent to Meta's servers in the US when 46 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,880 they signed in with their Facebook account on an EU webpage. 47 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:29,760 The EU is now forcing itself to pay that citizen 400 euros in damages. 48 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,000 It's not really a fine in the strict sense of the word, but it makes more sense than 49 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,480 going pay up. Serves me right. 50 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,440 Dear Journal, the smart toilets found me and said they'd let me live if I gave them quick bits. 51 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,320 I said never, and now I'm dead. 52 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,280 Lesson learned. Alright, time for good old fashioned wacky CES stuff. 53 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:58,200 Swippet has unveiled a machine that can essentially reload your phone's battery with a fully charged 54 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:05,360 one in about two seconds. Although it's not your phone's internal battery, Swippet's link case, compatible with iPhone 55 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,360 and Android, has a battery inside which is swapped out for a fresh one when you dip it 56 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,520 into the hub, a toaster looking device that stores and charges extra batteries. 57 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,440 It all looks pretty sleek in Swippet's marketing materials, but as demonstrated by Allison 58 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,320 Johnson from The Verge, it actually sounds like a 20 year old printer. 59 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,040 But that's a small price to pay to avoid buying Anker's new solar panel beach umbrella, 60 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:35,760 which is billed as an alternative to lugging a battery back up to the beach. 61 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,760 I mean, maybe you're supposed to be touching grass, but there's no grass on the beach 62 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:46,880 anyway. This makes sense. LG had some fun things to show off other than that years old transparent OLED TV that's 63 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,560 actually available to buy now for $60,000. 64 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:56,800 How about the Stand My B2, a portable, hangable, 27 inch TV? 65 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:02,640 It's even got a kickstand, making it really seem like a giant tablet missing a touchscreen. 66 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,920 That's still a little confusing, but it makes more sense than the model from last year that 67 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,560 goes in a suitcase. Eh? TV in a suitcase? 68 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:17,520 I got one. But the best thing I think LG showed off was the AeroCat Tower, a version of one of the 69 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:23,160 company's AeroTower air purifiers, with a cradle on top so a cat can sit on it. 70 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,160 Now that's innovation. Where are all the other companies? 71 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:35,160 Putting cats on things. Ufi showed off their 3-in-1 E20 robot vacuum, so named because you can remove the actual 72 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:40,680 vacuum part and use it as a Dyson-style handheld with multiple attachments, which will also 73 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:48,120 get you more powerful suction. It's one of those rare CES products that's simultaneously practical and also kind of 74 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:54,160 wacky. But wait till you see Roborock's vacuum with a robot ARM in it, but not right now! 75 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,080 That's for the weirdest tech at CES episode on Friday. 76 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:04,320 I'm saving it. A company called Halliday showed off their smart glasses, which eschews more popular 77 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,320 waveguide built-in displays for their own Digi-window design. 78 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,160 It can be controlled either by voice or a control ring on your finger, which can of 79 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:21,440 course summon an AI agent. I'm sure there's more cool things about these glasses, but I was so distracted by the voice-overs 80 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:28,080 in the trailer. I think it's retro revival. People want that nostalgic feel, but with a modern twist. 81 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,080 That's the one. I love it. Let's explore some design concepts. 82 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:38,160 And Chinese car company BYD has shown off their Yang-Wang U9 electric sports car, but 83 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,880 apparently it means like, admire or something, so I was like, fair, you know. 84 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:48,280 Anyway, they showed off the car bunny-hopping over obstacles at 120 km per hour, including 85 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,880 a sizable pothole, a bunch of spikes, and worst of all, a chalk rainbow. 86 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Wouldn't want to disappoint the kids who drew that. Oh, it ruined it anyway. 87 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:03,480 Well, it was technically graffiti. Those kids are probably going straight to a CCP jail anyway. 88 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,600 But not you! I'm going right back here tomorrow for more tech news, because I'll be damned if I have 89 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,880 to endure this pain alone. Ah, oh wait. 90 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,900 I'm dead. I forgot. Ah!