Hands-on tech from the show floor.
PLUGHITZ Live Presents captures consumer tech where it is being shown, handled, and explained. Recent episodes move from creator microphones and smart lighting to pinball accounts, outdoor TVs, EV components, robotics, AI glasses, and CES awards.
PRESS PLAY
PLUGHITZ Live Presents is an audio feed for convention-floor technology coverage, especially the kind of coverage that happens while a product is sitting inches from the microphone. It is fast and practical. Recent episodes from CES 2026 move booth by booth, letting company representatives explain what they brought and how it works. The conversations often start with the physical object: a microphone, a lighting panel, a pinball machine, an outdoor television, an EV component, or a piece of gaming hardware. From there, the show looks for usable specifics. A Maono segment focuses on hybrid microphones that can connect by USB, wireless USB-C, and XLR, along with audio interfaces built with front-facing controls. A Monster conversation turns smart lighting into something concrete, from rotating sconces to roofline accent lights that can change scenes through an app. The gaming episodes have a more playful charge. My Arcade shows a jukebox-style Bluetooth speaker with Bandai Namco games, while Stern Pinball explains Insider Connected as a way to track plays, high scores, badges, and achievements. Home entertainment is a steady thread. Sylvox talks through specialty televisions for wet or outdoor spaces, including a frameless series with a very slim bezel. The feed also reaches into less living-room-centered tech. Tanaka Precision Industries presents a thinner aluminum inverter case meant to reduce EV component weight, and the CES awards episode jumps from fusion energy to wellness tech and AI glasses. The result is broad without feeling abstract. The show is strongest when a guest makes a technical feature tangible and the interviewer presses on installation, connections, controls, app behavior, or everyday use. It does not sound like a keynote recap. It sounds like someone walking the floor, stopping at anything useful, odd, clever, or hard to explain from a press release. The pacing is informal, with sponsor reads and production credits framing the segments. For listeners who follow CES, consumer electronics, maker-adjacent gadgets, and home tech, PLUGHITZ Live Presents offers a steady stream of first-contact product discovery.
Made for: Best for listeners who follow CES, consumer electronics, creator gear, gaming hardware, smart home products, and practical gadget demos. It suits people who want early product discovery in conversational form.
What sets it apart: The show is built around booth-level explanation rather than distant commentary. Its edge is the mix of quick curiosity and practical questioning about setup, controls, connections, materials, apps, and everyday use.
If you are looking for special events coverage of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA), or any other major convention around the country, look no further. The staff of PLUGHITZ Live travels all over the country to bring you news, reviews, and previews. Special shows air throughout the week of the events and can be found in this feed, as well as exclusive interviews and sneak, peeks right from the show floors. PLUGHITZ Live is a proud member of the Tech Podcasts Network and is part of the PLUGHITZ Live Family of content.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Direct CES interviews turn emerging gadgets into practical questions about daily use, accessibility, care, and the difference between novelty and genuine utility.
PLUGHITZ Live Presents (Audio) treats the CES floor as a working showroom, putting products in front of hosts who ask what they do and how they might fit into ordinary life.
A stair-climbing vacuum is only the warm-up before you decide which CES marvel deserves your attention.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
CES award picks, grateful recipients, and the Gadget Professor's search for AI glasses.
The Tech Podcast Network's CES 2026 awards follow the hosts' own picks. Scott opens with Commonwealth Fusion Systems and a story that moves unexpectedly from a ceramic cat computer to fusion energy.
A familiar CES conversation moves from stair-climbing vacuums to the trouble of finding a booth.
At her twentieth CES, spokesperson Allie knows the show's exhausting pace, yet a towel-folding robot still catches her eye. She is also impressed by robotic vacuums with arms that move obstacles and the ability to climb stairs.
A robotic puppy's family origin leads to practical questions about dementia care and clinical evidence.
Jenny, Tombot's interactive robotic puppy, began with a hard choice. The man behind her says he took away his mother's dog for safety after her Alzheimer's dementia diagnosis.
CES winners share the stage with the hosts' stories of how they found them.
Tech Podcast Network's CES 2026 awards move from a ceramic cat computer to nuclear fusion in the space of Scott Ertz's schedule. His pick is Commonwealth Fusion Systems, whose representative says it makes fusion energy power plants.
Don Bain asks Rokid's Dr. Lang Wan how smart glasses handle translation, reading, and touchpad prompts.
Don Bain's questions give this short interview with Rokid's Dr. Lang Wan its shape. Wan says the glasses weigh 49 grams and have two displays and four microphones. Bain keeps steering toward ordinary uses: translating speech, reading a newspaper.
Practical tech talk with real-world friction.
Two voices, seven seasons, zero toxic fandom.
AV talk with a field-work pulse.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems says its Massachusetts spark device will prove "Q greater than one" next year.
On PLUGHITZ Live Presents, Don Bain interviews CTA CES spokesperson Allie Freed during her 20th CES about AI, accessibility technology, health devices, robotics, and the show's expanding industry footprint.
PLUGHITZ Live interviews the CEO of Tombot Incorporated at CES 2026 about Jenny, an AI-powered robotic companion puppy designed specifically for seniors with Alzheimer's dementia and other serious mental health conditions.
Don Bain interviews Dr.
Monster showcases new indoor and outdoor smart lighting designs at CES 2026, including a two-sided sconce with Wi-Fi and voice control.
At CES 2026, Maono introduces hybrid microphones that can simultaneously connect via USB, wireless USB-C receiver, and XLR to three devices.
My Arcade VP of Design Michael Ponce introduces new retro gaming products at CES 2026, including a portable Bluetooth speaker jukebox with Bandai Namco arcade games.
At CES 2026, Stern Pinball's director discusses the company's expanded lineup of remastered and new pinball machines, highlighting the Insider Connected system that tracks plays and scores.
Sylvox marketing lead Jennifer introduces the company's new Frameless TV series with a 1mm bezel, alongside their specialty TVs for outdoor, bathroom, kitchen, and RV use.
The Tech Podcast Network hosts present their Best of CES 2026 awards across four categories at what appears to be a live broadcast segment.
Allie Freed, CES spokesperson in her 20th year at the show and 15-year CTA veteran, describes CES 2026 as the most diversified and AI-pervasive show she has attended, with AI present in every product category from dinner plates to Caterpillar tractors.
Tanaka Precision Industries showcases the world's thinnest inverter case, reducing weight by 15% to improve EV range and efficiency.
Sano from Prodigy explains how their platform helps companies adopt AI by addressing key questions about need, cost, and ROI while providing tools for data governance and productivity.
Dave introduces FREE-WILi, a device that empowers non-programmers by bridging the gap between low-level hardware like Arduino and Raspberry Pi and user-friendly AI integration.