47 Future Now - Mobile Aloha Robot debuts, Peregrine Lander in Trouble, iPhone skydives 16K feet, Cool CES Gadgets, Transparent TV, CAR-T cancer treatment breakthrough

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It’s 2024 and time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, a massive techie spectacle we used to attend every year.  These days, everything there is online and in many ways more accessible to braving the crowds in Las Vegas. New display tech was used to turned the famous Luxor pyramid hotel into a giant Dorito chip!  Is nothing sacred?  As we recorded this week’s show, CES had just opened and we discuss some of our favorite items from this year’s crop of shiny new gadgets.  But before we delve into CES world we look at Stanford/Google’s new robot, the Mobile Aloha, a machine that comes closer than ever to performing common household tasks well, like cooking and cleaning. And almost as amazing is the survival of an iPhone falling 16 thousand feet without a scratch. And even more incredible is a new CAR-T treatment for cancer worth checking out! Enjoy..

The Luxor pyramid is now a giant orange Dorito