Toasting and roasting 2024's biggest gadgets

From Apple to TheraFace, this week's episode covers the usual and more unexpected tech from the last year. (Image: Getty)

Peter Griffin

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Other than a few big-swing failures, it’s been a bit of a holding pattern for consumer technologies this year, with many minor improvements but nothing truly revolutionary.This week, The Business of Tech hosts Peter Griffin and Ben Moore are unpacking all that and more as they dive into the consumer products and services from 2024 that they thought were good, bad, and just plain silly.Topics include the series of disappointments that were built-in artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, Dyson’s $800 headphones, the AI services they...

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