Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At the Consumer Electronics Show every year, manufacturers pitch their products hoping to convince us that they have invented the future. But will their vision make our lives better, or lead humanity down a dark and twisted path?
Welcome to the fourth annual Worst in Show awards!
Our panel of dystopia experts have reviewed this year’s batch of hype and have… concerns. From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations.
Our judges considered five questions to select the category winners:
How bad is this product?
Are the problems with this gadget innovatively bad?
What is the global impact if the technology is widely adopted?
How much worse is this than previous iterations of similar technology?
How much do the negatives outweigh the positives?
Chapter
00:00 The Worst of CES 2025 Intro with Simone Giertz
00:39 The Worst Device for Environmental Impact with Stacey Higginbotham of Consumer Reports
02:01 The Worst Device for Security with Paul Roberts of Securepairs
03:16 The Worst Device for Repairability with Kyle Wiens of iFixit
04:03 The Worst Device for Privacy with Cindy Cohn of the EFF
05:24 The Device No One Asked for with Nathan Proctor of PIRG
06:37 The Worst Device of CES 2025 With Gay Gordon-Byrne of Repair.Org
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At the Consumer Electronics Show every year, manufacturers pitch their products hoping to convince us that they have invented the future. But will their vision make our lives better, or lead humanity down a dark and twisted path?
Welcome to the fourth annual Worst in Show awards!
Our panel of dystopia experts have reviewed this year’s batch of hype and have… concerns. From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations.
Our judges considered five questions to select the category winners:
How bad is this product?
Are the problems with this gadget innovatively bad?
What is the global impact if the technology is widely adopted?
How much worse is this than previous iterations of similar technology?
How much do the negatives outweigh the positives?
Chapter
00:00 The Worst of CES 2025 Intro with Simone Giertz
00:39 The Worst Device for Environmental Impact with Stacey Higginbotham of Consumer Reports
02:01 The Worst Device for Security with Paul Roberts of Securepairs
03:16 The Worst Device for Repairability with Kyle Wiens of iFixit
04:03 The Worst Device for Privacy with Cindy Cohn of the EFF
05:24 The Device No One Asked for with Nathan Proctor of PIRG
06:37 The Worst Device of CES 2025 With Gay Gordon-Byrne of Repair.Org
Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
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Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: facebook.com/iFixit
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