Worst & weirdest at CES 2025 -- Robotic owls, phone toasters, & unnecessary AI

After a week of high-profile releases, CES 2025 is over and there was some awful stuff on display. Here's the worst and weirdest products at the show.


There is a lot of amazing tech at CES. This year, I was particularly surprised to see that not only were there a lot of new products, but most of what I saw was imminently shipping.

That's a huge departure from year's past where most products were purely vaporware. You can see my existing roundups of