People always do stupid stuff with technology. CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more
There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money
So CES is going on in Las Vegas. CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, used to be the place to find out what all the Big Tech players were doing, but now it seems like the place to showcase truly bad ideas.
As regularly as bad tech shows up in Las Vegas in January, Repair.org and its allies in the repairability and tech responsibility movement were there to award a list of the worst things on display this year.
As was the case in 2025, there's a lot of AI on this list – but not just AI. There's some literal garbage on it, too.
There are a lot of bad ideas, but Amazon's expansion of surveillance is perhaps the worst. Adding a bunch of AI features to the Ring camera network? What could possibly go wrong?
Citing the "sheer expansion of surveillance capabilities that [Amazon] is supporting this year," [Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director Cindy] Cohn expressed concern with facial recognition in Ring cameras, commercially deployable surveillance towers, and a new app store she said is "going to let people develop even sketchier apps for the doorbell than ones that Amazon already provides."
More surveillance, Cohn added, doesn't always make us safer.
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