This is the kind of stuff that brought me to your channel in the first place. Covering things other tech channels don't, and being very thorough, clear, and to the point. Excellent as always, thanks Lon!
@LonSeidman make sure to load up on some airborne for a few days. One travel tip I learned years ago. Dirty hotel TV remotes clean well with a Lysol wipe. And use a good hand sanitizer after shaking hands at shows and touching products others have touched as much as possible.
@@delldell21 I like that it is always recording though. I get stressed when I intentionally record takes, so this takes the pressure off (at least for me). Doing it manually every time is a pain and it beats my old set up big time.
Best CES 2025 coverage on TH-cam! Tons of products and information that everyone else seems to miss. Some of the products I'll definitely buy thanks to your videos! Keep up the great work.
Ever since I’ve started watching your videos, you have been my go to for Tech product reviews. “Full disclosure, no one is paying me for this review. All opinions here are my own. No one is approving this comment before it was uploaded.” Love all your content. Keep up all of your hard work. Happy New Year Lon!
The best coverage of CES without any hidden secretly sponsored fluff. Real enthusiasm, unique products being shown and not the same repeat of the “big” tech that all the other channels are doing (tech that no one will buy anyway). Thanks Lon! Watch you throughout the year and these CES videos are always a big treat. So glad you could still do it without a sponsor.
I loved all of your dispatches! It felt so complete I barely watched any other CES coverage as a result. I am curious if you felt like you covered every single interesting product that was exhibited.
Great reports, Lon! Thanks. Btw, I run the DECO's at the house and have one of the outside units also. Best and easiest mesh network I've ever had, personally. #HighRecommend
Google home is in a weird place. The assistant keeps getting worse, but everyone knows they're not going to improve it much because they're all invested in Gemini, which is terrible as a default assistant. Every time I have changed the default assistant to Gemini. I have realized very quickly. It can't do ninety percent of the stuff I rely on assistant for. You can write a fake script or something but turn on a light? Start a timer?
(Really hoping I didn't double-post this…) Thanks again for all the great coverage. Wishing you a peaceful trip home. That MIDI interface made smile. That's one of those things that I absolutely *don't* need, but wish I did. I love seeing hobbyist-accessible iterations of esoteric/professional tech with ports I remember from when I was quite young. (Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for an era when I knew exactly what a port was by looking at it, as opposed to now, when I have a box of identical USB-C cables that all implement different bits of various USB standards. Not the best mystery box ever. I need a stylish, portable USB-C cable tester. :P ) That VLC local AI caption feature might be the most exciting client-side or server-side AI feature I've seen. That's what we need more of: using AI to enhance accessibility and other user-facing quality of life features. The current efforts to monetize generative AI don't encourage development of those sorts of things, so this is great to see. We need to encourage these sorts of things. I'm glad my arachnophobia improved, otherwise I'd not be able to look at any reviews for modern WiFi routers. :P Still not something I'd want to encounter glowing in the dark when I'm half-asleep. I'm really glad to see 10 Gbps/multigig NICs on these, too. (I'm still very regretful that I can't just buy a brainless TV with modern display technology, but that's a whole other thing.) I'm thrilled to see the Minisforum N5. That is the most thoughtfully designed, well-spec'd NAS I've seen yet. They're really putting QNAP and Synology (and UGREEN) on notice. I'm in love with the slide-out motherboard. My UGREEN DXP8800 requires partial- to almost-full disassembly every time I want to do anything to it. I'd love it if you did a video on the modern selection of switches. I'm completely overwhelmed at this point. I've always bought Cherry MX Blues, but I'm curious if there's anything newer that might get me closer to an old Model M or Apple Extended Keyboard II. I think there's a lot of people who are confused by the modern selection of switches but aren't ready to solder and weld their own keyboard together. It's so weird, but in a good way, that Atari is suddenly *actually* back in our lives with real products that aren't just a Raspberry Pi running Retro Pi in a 3D printed 2600 case. What they're selling and licensing might not be for me, but the people running Atari clearly care about what they're putting out and aren't just going for the cash grab.
Take care of yourself, Lon. Maybe a few days isolation from the family when you get back home, a high number of infections of flu and noro virus. Thank you for the CES coverage. 👍🏼 💪🏼
I suppose it depends on where you live if you're in Pittsburgh or something. You can Get a house for ninety k potentially. But where I live near boston not a million years.
Rog Flow Z13 with Ryzen Ai 9 Max+ 395 is a monster due to its 40cu integrated graphics while a PS5 only has 36cu's (PS5 Pro has 60cu's), gpu frequency and memory subsytem are also factors for overall performance. But the 2200$ Asus asking price will deter even the deep pocketed ones. For now tech savvy ones would just opt for the 16cu in the Ryzen Ai 9 370 HX or Ryzen Z2 Extreme. Thank you for the dispatch, these 4 episodes are jampacked with stuff not shown on other channels!
Thanks again for all the great coverage. Wishing you a peaceful trip home. That MIDI interface made smile. That's one of those things that I absolutely *don't* need, but wish I did. I love seeing hobbyist-accessible iterations of esoteric/professional tech with ports I remember from when I was quite young. (Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for an era when I knew exactly what a port was by looking at it, as opposed to now, when I have a box of identical USB-C cables that all implement different bits of various USB standards. Not the best mystery box ever. I need a stylish, portable USB-C cable tester. :P ) That VLC local AI caption feature might be the most exciting client-side or server-side AI feature I've seen. That's what we need more of: using AI to enhance accessibility and other user-facing quality of life features. The current efforts to monetize generative AI don't encourage development of those sorts of things, so this is great to see. We need to encourage these sorts of things. I'm glad my arachnophobia improved, otherwise I'd not be able to look at any reviews for modern WiFi routers. :P Still not something I'd want to encounter glowing in the dark when I'm half-asleep. I'm really glad to see 10 Gbps/multigig NICs on these, too. (I'm still very regretful that I can't just buy a brainless TV with modern display technology, but that's a whole other thing.) I'm thrilled to see the Minisforum N5. That is the most thoughtfully designed, well-spec'd NAS I've seen yet. They're really putting QNAP and Synology (and UGREEN) on notice. I'm in love with the slide-out motherboard. My UGREEN DXP8800 requires partial- to almost-full disassembly every time I want to do anything to it. I'd love it if you did a video on the modern selection of switches. I'm completely overwhelmed at this point. I've always bought Cherry MX Blues, but I'm curious if there's anything newer that might get me closer to an old Model M or Apple Extended Keyboard II. I think there's a lot of people who are confused by the modern selection of switches but aren't ready to solder and weld their own keyboard together. It's so weird, but in a good way, that Atari is suddenly *actually* back in our lives with real products that aren't just a Raspberry Pi running Retro Pi in a 3D printed 2600 case. What they're selling and licensing might not be for me, but the people running Atari clearly care about what they're putting out and aren't just going for the cash grab.
That Asus eGPU looks interesting. Mobile RTX 5090 *and* Thunderbolt 5. Probably going to be rather pricy though. Looking forward to Thunderbolt 5 eGPU user reviews.
Small correction: most keyboards and synths old and new have the 5-pin DIN MIDI as well as USB these days, not just 80s ones. But I get where you were going with that.
Lon as others have stated you did an excellent job. Was there anything new on the ATSC3.0 front? Will any information on that be included in your wrap up?
I can't see the radioshack thing going very well. There's quite a few stores in latin america but all they do is sell overpriced dropship/aliexpress quality cables and electronics. Even as a retailer for name brand products they overprice everything. They do come in handy occasionally when you need a not so common cable or something, but chances are they're out of stock or they don't offer it in the first place.
I appreciate your coverage of some of the more obscure items. That was always my favorite part of CES. Also, kudos on your microphone choice. Whatever that thing is, it does a fantastic job of isolating your voice, without any background noise.
microhauses are cool. Just tell me what zoning allows such things. What is the cost to hook them up. If I want to rent an air BNB do I want a tiny house? Its great for minimalists.
Great reports. Back in the early days, I used to attend Comdex. I was president of the North Orange County Computer Club ( in California) and got lots of swag. Met Bill Gates.
Lon, we want to congratulate you on a stellar, no-nonsense report on CES 2025. We watched all 4 videos. They are pure info, with no hype. Thank you!
So much better than the cringe CNET put out, where a middleaged woman scoffs at all the 'weird' tech she sees.
This is the kind of stuff that brought me to your channel in the first place. Covering things other tech channels don't, and being very thorough, clear, and to the point. Excellent as always, thanks Lon!
God Bless You for including chapter markers LOL !!!
Thanks for absolutely stellar coverage all week. Can’t wait for you to get some of those gadgets into the studio for full reviews
Thank you so much for your support this week!
without a sponser has been great. thanks for all the cool videos!
Was so nice meeting you Lon! Thanks for featuring my product!
-Chip
Love your eclectic dispatches. Fun random items no one else shows.
Thanks for giving us normals a glance at the new tech coming up!
Thanks!
Thank you for your support!
Love jamcorder, got one when it was released on hacker news and had already changed the way I play piano 😊
Rock solid coverage of CES 2025. Well done sir!
Great job Lon. I’ve done CES a number of times and it is a blast but tiring. Thanks for the content!!
It's brutal! But it's fun that people are enjoying the dispatches this year.
Nice coverage of CES doing this solo. You sure did cover a lot of stuff. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure you are beat from all the running around.
Yes definitely feeling it hit me now :). Red eye flight is next !
@LonSeidman make sure to load up on some airborne for a few days. One travel tip I learned years ago. Dirty hotel TV remotes clean well with a Lysol wipe. And use a good hand sanitizer after shaking hands at shows and touching products others have touched as much as possible.
The Jamcorder device is so cool! I just ordered one
It's basically just a midi capture device, they've been a thing for *decades*
@@delldell21 I like that it is always recording though. I get stressed when I intentionally record takes, so this takes the pressure off (at least for me). Doing it manually every time is a pain and it beats my old set up big time.
Best CES 2025 coverage on TH-cam! Tons of products and information that everyone else seems to miss. Some of the products I'll definitely buy thanks to your videos! Keep up the great work.
NO COMMENT lol, Thanks Lon always come to your channel for CES coverage
Thanks, Lon. Really great coverage!
These dispatches were so great. I saw a lot of things i had no idea existed. Phenomenal work Lon.
Love the VLC AI subtitles with your own hardware and no cloud
Ever since I’ve started watching your videos, you have been my go to for Tech product reviews. “Full disclosure, no one is paying me for this review. All opinions here are my own. No one is approving this comment before it was uploaded.” Love all your content. Keep up all of your hard work. Happy New Year Lon!
Your coverage this year has been great. A good rapid fire pace without feeling rushed to cover as much as you could accurately. Awesome
I love the VLC wizards
The best coverage of CES without any hidden secretly sponsored fluff. Real enthusiasm, unique products being shown and not the same repeat of the “big” tech that all the other channels are doing (tech that no one will buy anyway). Thanks Lon! Watch you throughout the year and these CES videos are always a big treat. So glad you could still do it without a sponsor.
Thanks Lon. Great work out there!
Excellent coverage of products.
Easily my favorite CES coverage. I just want to see the weird unique stuff and Lon delivers.
Im glad your numbers have been solid. You have many fans, my man.
Thank you for your efforts. Watched all your updates. Cheers.
I ;like your coverage, thank you. I like your approach and selection.
24:56 maybe you can get a review unit for it lon 😂
But as usual, love these videos! Absolutely fantastic lon. Thank you so much for covering it
Lot of interesting stuff covered here, particularly The MyArcade Atari handheld and associated control pad and joystick are definitely on my hit list.
Nice work! Watched all of them.
Please stay another day and send more dispatches. Thanks in advance!
Love the CES content!
Excellent coverage as always.
I'd love to go some year but you do a great job bringing it to me. Thanks super stuff👌
Fabulous video. Thanks so much for your CES 2025 videos. Really interesting to see what's there this year.
Thanks for the updates on the network gear from TP-Link.
"No comment" made me lol. Thanks for your great CES coverage as always, Lon.
I walked by JamCorder at CES today too! Such a neat idea!
I loved all of your dispatches! It felt so complete I barely watched any other CES coverage as a result. I am curious if you felt like you covered every single interesting product that was exhibited.
I am sure there was far more that I missed. This show is so enormous that you’d need a dozen reporters to find all of it!
Great work Lon. Thank you.
I like the robot that learns to read fortune cookies.
@18:34 Isn't the camera STILL protuding from the back ?
Lon has so many friends as CES.
Looking at that router design, somebody at TP-Link is a fan of Dell's old XPS desktops.
For being by yourself with no help no cameraman no teen no sponsors this was an awesome job
I believe you may have been patient zero when you returned home from CES 2020! Glad you are still around to cover this one.
I sure was! So far so good this time :)
Great reports, Lon! Thanks. Btw, I run the DECO's at the house and have one of the outside units also. Best and easiest mesh network I've ever had, personally. #HighRecommend
That HP Film Scan is calling my name. Would like to see you review it if able.
I should be able to get one in. I'll have to see what the final scanned image looks like but it looked pretty good on its screen.
You're amazing, thank you!!!
Google home is in a weird place. The assistant keeps getting worse, but everyone knows they're not going to improve it much because they're all invested in Gemini, which is terrible as a default assistant. Every time I have changed the default assistant to Gemini. I have realized very quickly. It can't do ninety percent of the stuff I rely on assistant for. You can write a fake script or something but turn on a light? Start a timer?
(Really hoping I didn't double-post this…)
Thanks again for all the great coverage. Wishing you a peaceful trip home.
That MIDI interface made smile. That's one of those things that I absolutely *don't* need, but wish I did. I love seeing hobbyist-accessible iterations of esoteric/professional tech with ports I remember from when I was quite young. (Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for an era when I knew exactly what a port was by looking at it, as opposed to now, when I have a box of identical USB-C cables that all implement different bits of various USB standards. Not the best mystery box ever. I need a stylish, portable USB-C cable tester. :P )
That VLC local AI caption feature might be the most exciting client-side or server-side AI feature I've seen. That's what we need more of: using AI to enhance accessibility and other user-facing quality of life features. The current efforts to monetize generative AI don't encourage development of those sorts of things, so this is great to see. We need to encourage these sorts of things.
I'm glad my arachnophobia improved, otherwise I'd not be able to look at any reviews for modern WiFi routers. :P Still not something I'd want to encounter glowing in the dark when I'm half-asleep. I'm really glad to see 10 Gbps/multigig NICs on these, too. (I'm still very regretful that I can't just buy a brainless TV with modern display technology, but that's a whole other thing.)
I'm thrilled to see the Minisforum N5. That is the most thoughtfully designed, well-spec'd NAS I've seen yet. They're really putting QNAP and Synology (and UGREEN) on notice. I'm in love with the slide-out motherboard. My UGREEN DXP8800 requires partial- to almost-full disassembly every time I want to do anything to it.
I'd love it if you did a video on the modern selection of switches. I'm completely overwhelmed at this point. I've always bought Cherry MX Blues, but I'm curious if there's anything newer that might get me closer to an old Model M or Apple Extended Keyboard II. I think there's a lot of people who are confused by the modern selection of switches but aren't ready to solder and weld their own keyboard together.
It's so weird, but in a good way, that Atari is suddenly *actually* back in our lives with real products that aren't just a Raspberry Pi running Retro Pi in a 3D printed 2600 case. What they're selling and licensing might not be for me, but the people running Atari clearly care about what they're putting out and aren't just going for the cash grab.
As I said before I watch your dispatch videos for the off the beaten stuff at CES that everyone else doesn't cover
I'd love to see the MyArcade pinball table reviewed.
Love GPD!
LOVE OUR COVERAGE LON :)looking forward to these innovative products
too bad you didn't say something 24:56 :(
I really hope the ohsnap is a success, pretty neat.
Take care of yourself, Lon. Maybe a few days isolation from the family when you get back home, a high number of infections of flu and noro virus. Thank you for the CES coverage. 👍🏼 💪🏼
I've had that GPD G1 dock for a while. It's rad! I want to get that new GPD Win Mini but it doesn't have Occulink!
$89k and no closet space!
I suppose it depends on where you live if you're in Pittsburgh or something. You can Get a house for ninety k potentially. But where I live near boston not a million years.
Don't forget to check the box for closet space when you order one.
Thanks for the cool info, i also have my fingers crossed that the Atari Joystick can work with other consoles too
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Rog Flow Z13 with Ryzen Ai 9 Max+ 395 is a monster due to its 40cu integrated graphics while a PS5 only has 36cu's (PS5 Pro has 60cu's), gpu frequency and memory subsytem are also factors for overall performance. But the 2200$ Asus asking price will deter even the deep pocketed ones. For now tech savvy ones would just opt for the 16cu in the Ryzen Ai 9 370 HX or Ryzen Z2 Extreme. Thank you for the dispatch, these 4 episodes are jampacked with stuff not shown on other channels!
Tp-link is going to be removed from usa sale. What do you recommend instead?
I'm fond of the Unifi gear right now. They had some road bumps for awhile but it's getting better now.
Hey Lon the 22^ gadget could be the FREESBY gesture contoller for smart home launched on kickstarter.. what you say?
Sounds great what mic? / how you hooking it to the phone?
Thanks again for all the great coverage. Wishing you a peaceful trip home.
That MIDI interface made smile. That's one of those things that I absolutely *don't* need, but wish I did. I love seeing hobbyist-accessible iterations of esoteric/professional tech with ports I remember from when I was quite young. (Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for an era when I knew exactly what a port was by looking at it, as opposed to now, when I have a box of identical USB-C cables that all implement different bits of various USB standards. Not the best mystery box ever. I need a stylish, portable USB-C cable tester. :P )
That VLC local AI caption feature might be the most exciting client-side or server-side AI feature I've seen. That's what we need more of: using AI to enhance accessibility and other user-facing quality of life features. The current efforts to monetize generative AI don't encourage development of those sorts of things, so this is great to see. We need to encourage these sorts of things.
I'm glad my arachnophobia improved, otherwise I'd not be able to look at any reviews for modern WiFi routers. :P Still not something I'd want to encounter glowing in the dark when I'm half-asleep. I'm really glad to see 10 Gbps/multigig NICs on these, too. (I'm still very regretful that I can't just buy a brainless TV with modern display technology, but that's a whole other thing.)
I'm thrilled to see the Minisforum N5. That is the most thoughtfully designed, well-spec'd NAS I've seen yet. They're really putting QNAP and Synology (and UGREEN) on notice. I'm in love with the slide-out motherboard. My UGREEN DXP8800 requires partial- to almost-full disassembly every time I want to do anything to it.
I'd love it if you did a video on the modern selection of switches. I'm completely overwhelmed at this point. I've always bought Cherry MX Blues, but I'm curious if there's anything newer that might get me closer to an old Model M or Apple Extended Keyboard II. I think there's a lot of people who are confused by the modern selection of switches but aren't ready to solder and weld their own keyboard together.
It's so weird, but in a good way, that Atari is suddenly *actually* back in our lives with real products that aren't just a Raspberry Pi running Retro Pi in a 3D printed 2600 case. What they're selling and licensing might not be for me, but the people running Atari clearly care about what they're putting out and aren't just going for the cash grab.
Anything interesting in the a ATSC 3.0 space?
Nope.. not as long as DRM remains an issue.
Is there any reason why you prefer the handmic vs the lapel??
yes - noise isolation
That Asus eGPU looks interesting. Mobile RTX 5090 *and* Thunderbolt 5. Probably going to be rather pricy though. Looking forward to Thunderbolt 5 eGPU user reviews.
Small correction: most keyboards and synths old and new have the 5-pin DIN MIDI as well as USB these days, not just 80s ones. But I get where you were going with that.
that minisforum nas is way overpowered.
Did you check out the GL-inet Slate 7?
Yeah big youtubers might cover LG or Samsung but they don't cover small company as you said so I'm glad you can give us a look at them
I know so many where waiting for! Bambu Lab! :(
You should checkout what the startups are doing its always a fun things to see all the cool / crazy ideas that are being worked on.
For the film scanner, I wish someone would make a stack loader for the Cube by Bell and Howell. I'm loathe to take them out of the cubes.
No comment 😂. Great video. 👍
11:14 That Asus router is biblically accurate
wow, that lvcc is huge…next year i go to ces i’m bringing a scooter
It's ridiculously large
There is a big need for neighborhood Radioshacks.
Lon as others have stated you did an excellent job. Was there anything new on the ATSC3.0 front? Will any information on that be included in your wrap up?
Nothing groundbreaking.. more of the locked down stuff unfortunately. I'll try to get that USB dongle in soon.
What was the price of the banana?
wow and peace be upon you sir from me
My favorite product at the show is Aptera solar EV.
I can't see the radioshack thing going very well. There's quite a few stores in latin america but all they do is sell overpriced dropship/aliexpress quality cables and electronics. Even as a retailer for name brand products they overprice everything. They do come in handy occasionally when you need a not so common cable or something, but chances are they're out of stock or they don't offer it in the first place.
$89k for that tiny home?! i'm sold
I've been waiting Atari to release handheld for a while. Jon from GenXGrownUp has a demo of the unit on his channel.
24:56 lol
I appreciate your coverage of some of the more obscure items. That was always my favorite part of CES. Also, kudos on your microphone choice. Whatever that thing is, it does a fantastic job of isolating your voice, without any background noise.
I've been using the Sennheiser AVX system for 9 years. It's rock solid and never lets me down: th-cam.com/play/PLCZHp4d1HnIvHVCynKWd9YgCMQ2IQWOI_.html
I am interested in the minis forum nas
What’s up with TP-link being banned
microhauses are cool. Just tell me what zoning allows such things. What is the cost to hook them up. If I want to rent an air BNB do I want a tiny house? Its great for minimalists.
Keyboards still come with MIDI. Especially high end real ones. 🎹
Yes! This supports both the traditional midi interface and midi over usb
Great reports. Back in the early days, I used to attend Comdex. I was president of the North Orange County Computer Club ( in California) and got lots of swag. Met Bill Gates.
if radio shack stores come back they better still have the parts bins with resisters leds capacitors and things like the old stores
UST Projectors seem to be woefully under represented
No ATSC 3 products?
None that were worth talking about
@LonSeidman what were they?
@@hectormanuel8360 There was nothing really new beyond some new televisions.
Wait... People still use VLC when there are better alternatives like MPC-HC?
11:16 alien router jumpscare