Moment founder Marc Barros makes accessories for mobile phones. His company’s optical glass lenses screw onto special mounting brackets that you fasten to your phone, much improving the quality of your handset’s camera. The company’s cases also feature physical shutter buttons with DSLR-like behaviors. Moment’s lenses and cases have taken off among mobile photo enthusiasts; they’re really great. But we didn’t bring Marc on to plug product. He’s here to talk about the smartphone accessories business. From design to marketing, from crowdfunding to manufacturing, it’s a wooly world, complete with copycats, bankruptcies, and brand managers who focus all of their marketing on Amazon search. Marc’s insights are invigorating and informative, and we hope you enjoy our talk as much as we did when we taped it.

Some links: See what Moment can do by browsing the photos. The company has a new battery case for iPhone on Kickstarter. Recommendations this week include Hundred Pushups, Streaks, and F.lux.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds. David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

With David out snorkeling in the alps, we welcome WIRED editor Brian Barrett to the show. Brian recently wrote about Lady Gaga’s drone-backed performance at the Super Bowl, and all of the crazy tech that went into planning the spectacle. He tells us how the Intel engineers control hundreds of drones at once, plus how the company plans to deploy its automated platform in situations that aren’t all about entertainment and marketing. Also this week, Jack Stewart talks to UNICEF about its use of drones, and Paul Sarconi interviews Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux, maker of the first real consumer drone.

Some links: Brian’s story about Lady Gaga at the Super Bowl. Brian also wrote about the Disney drone show. WIRED’s 2010 review of the Parrot AR drone. Recommendations this week: The North Water by Ian McGuire and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds. Brian Barrett is @brbarrett and Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

Super Bowl weekend is upon us. This episode the crew tackles the topic of sports on TV, on the internet, and in person. Live streaming of sporting events is something we’d all like to see happen more often (and better), but there are roadblocks from the league and from the networks that need to be cleared. Highlights and full-length broadcasts in VR are also pretty dope—when they work properly. It’s not all bad news though; we visit the best intersections of sports and the internet. Halfway through the episode, WIRED writer Paul Sarconi talks to Populous, an architecture firm that designs stadiums with the aim to substantially improve the fan experience.

Some links: How to watch the Super Bowl without cable. Tim’s stories on the NFL and NBA’s flirtations with VR. Streaming options on NFL Sunday Ticket. Populous designs stadiums. Many stadiums have interesting roofs. David’s inside look at the web’s first live-streamed football game. Recommendations this week: Recomendo, BookBub, and seven-layer dip.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds. David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

What will your next computer look like? A convertible hybrid? A Chromebook? A massive 28-inch touchscreen? Will you just buy an iPad and slap a keyboard on it? The PC landscape is being reshaped by new habits, new workflows, and new economics. Hardware designs are getting weirder, touchscreens are taking over, and mobile processors are getting crazy powerful. Two guests help us make sense of it. First, we welcome WIRED staff writer Tim Moynihan to talk about his reporting in the Windows PC metaverse. In the second half of the show, Steven Sinofsky joins us. Steven was the President of Windows in his last job (of many) at Microsoft. He’s currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz. His main rig these days is an iPad. He’ll tell you: It’s the future.

Some links: Read Tim’s survey of the innovations in Windows hardware. David tells you how to switch to an iPad. Steven Sinofsky’s thoughts about using an iPad as an everyday computer. Recommendations this week are the Quilla e-ink whiteboard from QuirkLogic, Liner, and the KZ-ATE earbuds.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds. David Pierce is @pierce, Steven Sinofsky is @stevesi (he’s on Medium too), and Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

It’s been a couple of weeks since CES—just enough time to fully process everything we saw there. The hosts run through all the trends they spotted at the biggest technology show in the US: Changing television design, the coming wave of high-end gadgets from China, immersive experiences, and Alexa showing up absolutely everywhere. Also, David breaks his iPhone.

Some links: Read all of our CES coverage in one place. David writes the first story in a series about Chinese tech companies. Also, see Liz Stinson’s story about the messy proliferation of Alexa. Recommendations this week are FilmStruck and Google Home as an alarm clock.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

Listen closely and you’ll hear the battle cry of the tech adopter: it’ll be better next year! As 2016 comes to a close, we decided to go straight to what’s coming next. Starting the first week of January with CES, 2017 will be a year of big gadget announcements. A new iPhone. A new Pixel. More VR. More Windows. More cameras for your Snapchat. More Snapchat for your parents. And, for better or worse, probably about the same amount of Twitter as this year. Before we left for the holidays, we went through it all.

Some links: The many, many iPhone 8 rumors. Our retrospective on the last year of Twitter. Chris Kohler’s story on Microsoft’s Project Scorpio VR plans. Recommendations this week are two shows you ought to be watching, Fleabag and The 100.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

Lots of tech died this year. Went into maintenance mode. Ceased operations. Faded into the distance. Got gobbled up for IP and jettisoned like a spent piece of used jet trash. The hosts run down the list of everything service, app, and piece of hardware that died in 2016. Many we will miss. Some we certainly will not.

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Some links: Samsung’s explodo-phone. David’s glowing, claim-chowdery profile of the Project Ara crew. Mat Honan’s 2013 piece about Vine’s distinct culture. Raftery’s Vine eulogy. Hoverboards. VCRs. Ugh. Recommendations this week are Mixcloud and Timepage for iOS.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

Continuing our miniseries of year-end recap shows, David and Michael name their picks for the best products, apps, and gadgets across all of the major categories. Phones, computers, cars, kitchen stuff, and everything else you want to know about. We also hear from the transportation team: Alex, Aarian, and Jack, who discuss Tesla’s big year. Also, we hear from you, our listeners, about your picks for the best gadgets of 2016.

Some notes: The Jonathan Safran Foer article about technology and the human condition can be found at The Guardian. You must try Jeff Morgenthaler’s Clyde Common eggnog recipe. David wants you to know about Tiny Wings.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.

The sun is setting on 2016, so we’re peeking forward into 2017. David and Michael round up the rumors about what’s next from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the other tech heavyweights. The hosts run through all the guesses—credible or not—and judge each one as likely or ludicrous. Also: You’re going to love our new theme song.

Some notes: Rumors about the next iPhone and the next iPad. There’s a Surface Phone and a redo for Windows 10’s design language. The Xbox might get Oculus compatibility. Google’s maybe making a new tablet and laptop, and Amazon is probably going to make an Echo with a screen. Recommendations this week: Auxy and Radio Public. Our theme music is by Solar Keys.

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (David Pierce is @pierce and Michael Calore is @snackfight) or bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab.