WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.920 Dear Journal, I've been covering CES 2025 for three days now. 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. 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:17.920 It won't be long now. 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 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 00:00:33.080 --> 00:00:38.320 AMD's CES booth, getting an average FPS of 99. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:45.400 From this, IGN estimates the card might perform somewhere close to NVIDIA's RTX 4080 Super 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:49.200 using some kind of PC nerd derivative of girl math. 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 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:01.760 about their next-gen GPUs except their names, has only made everyone more curious about 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 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:09.200 squirrel pen. You guys don't have those? 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:13.560 Even AMD's GPU board partners seem confused about what's going on. 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:20.040 PowerColor allowed Leo and the KitGuru team to look at their RX9070s while pretending 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. 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 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:39.320 the GPUs, leading leaky Twitter guy David Wong to estimate the die size at around 390 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:46.240 mm2, which is slightly larger than the AD103 chip powering NVIDIA's RTX 4080. 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:49.320 We have gotten one concrete piece of information, though. 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:57.920 ASUS revealed both RX9070 variants have 16 GB of VRAM, which they apparently weren't supposed 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.200 to reveal as they took down the page shortly after. 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 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.520 horribly, so you have to act surprised when it happens. 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. 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:24.240 Accessory maker Genki has published a video on their website of what might as well be 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:29.280 the Switch 2, ostensibly to show off the company's protective case for the console, 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 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:41.200 website has a pop-up admitting they can't keep a secret. 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 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:54.320 the rumored laser sensor on the rail that may enable mouse functionality, we'll see. 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:59.280 And the video also provides our best look yet at the Switch 2's dock design. 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 00:03:03.720 --> 00:03:08.640 CES booth, first shown in a video by French tech outlet Numorama. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:13.280 They're starting to feel a little ridiculous that Nintendo hasn't unveiled the Switch 2 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:18.640 yet. As if to emphasize this, the Nintendo Japan Twitter account just changed their account 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:24.400 banner to Mario and Luigi, seeming to gesture at empty space. 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 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:38.360 April Fools prank ever. There is no Switch 2. 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 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:52.080 the EU and launching a test allowing users to browse eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace 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 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:06.800 being tied to Facebook. The EU loves to find people. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.120 They even find themselves. Sort of. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.800 The EU General Court ruled this morning that the European Commission broke its own rules 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 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:23.880 they signed in with their Facebook account on an EU webpage. 00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:29.760 The EU is now forcing itself to pay that citizen 400 euros in damages. 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 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.480 going pay up. Serves me right. 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. 00:04:44.440 --> 00:04:48.320 I said never, and now I'm dead. 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:52.280 Lesson learned. Alright, time for good old fashioned wacky CES stuff. 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 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 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 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:15.520 into the hub, a toaster looking device that stores and charges extra batteries. 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:20.440 It all looks pretty sleek in Swippet's marketing materials, but as demonstrated by Allison 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:24.320 Johnson from The Verge, it actually sounds like a 20 year old printer. 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, 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:35.760 which is billed as an alternative to lugging a battery back up to the beach. 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 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 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:50.560 actually available to buy now for $60,000. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:56.800 How about the Stand My B2, a portable, hangable, 27 inch TV? 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. 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 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.560 goes in a suitcase. Eh? TV in a suitcase? 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 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. 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.160 Now that's innovation. Where are all the other companies? 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 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.680 vacuum part and use it as a Dyson-style handheld with multiple attachments, which will also 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 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! 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:58.080 That's for the weirdest tech at CES episode on Friday. 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 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:09.320 waveguide built-in displays for their own Digi-window design. 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 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 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. 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:31.080 That's the one. I love it. Let's explore some design concepts. 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:38.160 And Chinese car company BYD has shown off their Yang-Wang U9 electric sports car, but 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.880 apparently it means like, admire or something, so I was like, fair, you know. 00:07:41.880 --> 00:07:48.280 Anyway, they showed off the car bunny-hopping over obstacles at 120 km per hour, including 00:07:48.280 --> 00:07:53.880 a sizable pothole, a bunch of spikes, and worst of all, a chalk rainbow. 00:07:53.880 --> 00:07:57.840 Wouldn't want to disappoint the kids who drew that. Oh, it ruined it anyway. 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:03.480 Well, it was technically graffiti. Those kids are probably going straight to a CCP jail anyway. 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 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.880 to endure this pain alone. Ah, oh wait. 00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:13.900 I'm dead. I forgot. Ah!