The CPG Guys · Peter V.S. Bond & Sri Rajagopalan

Live from CES 2026 with Tracy Locke’s Curt Munk

January 31, 2026·44 min·3 clips

Kurt Munk reveals how he curates CES tours for brands seeking the most innovative health and food technology displays.

The setup is familiar and ceremonial. The show opens with commerce and tech framing, host introductions, social follow requests, rating asks, and the platform housekeeping regular listeners know by heart. Then Vegas takes over. The hosts place the recording after a trip with a party, a dinner, and several recorded episodes. The useful signal is practical. Physical augmentation is not treated as a shiny future trick. The speaker describes an exoskeleton as a device that can help the body do things it may struggle to do. Aging is part of the conversation. The staircase joke keeps it loose, but the point is clear enough: mobility, physical capability, and tools that might help bodies keep working. The stronger example comes from what the speaker recalls as Delta Airlines. A baggage handler exoskeleton demo becomes the workplace case, because less back injury risk and easier heavy lifting connect directly to healthcare liability, workforce efficiency, and risk mitigation. The image sticks. One employee is described as linebacker-like, while a much smaller worker wearing the exoskeleton handles 200-pound bags with surprising ease. That contrast is the commercial hook. The device matters because it could let people with real or assumed physical limits do tasks they could not do before. From there, the conversation turns to diagnostics. A connected mirror and scale setup is described as watching someone for thirty seconds, reading mood and skin temperature, and gathering biofeedback through sensors. The tone stays curious, with a dry edge. The host jokes about what might be behind the mirror, but the serious question is right there: what happens when consumer devices watch the body, infer condition, and build health judgments over time. The segment is not pure gadget worship. It is most interested in the point where technology runs into labor, health, liability, and the gap between a good demo and something people can actually use.

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This episode works best when it shows practical tech helping people work, move, and get measured.

This episode stays practical. It follows technology that changes how people work, move, and get measured, and the Delta baggage-handler example gives that idea some real weight instead of leaving it abstract.

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For the Vegas demos that turn stage-floor spectacle into something operational.

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