Worst in Show: Calling out Tech's Troubling Trends

Source: https://www.worstinshowces.com/

      Worst in Show awards 2026
    

The “Worst in Show” Awards were created to draw attention to the least
private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable gadgets
at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Privacy

Presented by
Cindy Cohn

Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Security

Presented by
Paul Roberts

Founder, SecuRepairs

Environmental impact

Presented by
Nathan Proctor

PIRG

Repairability

presented by
Kyle Wiens

Co-Founder, iFixit

Enshittification

Presented by
Cory Doctorow

Craphound

            “Who Asked for This?”
          
        
        
        
        
          
            presented by
            Stacey Higginbotham
          
          Consumer Reports
        
      
      

            People’s Choice
          
        
        
        
        
          
            Presented by
            Michael Vito Valentino
            
          
          
            Editor-in-Chief of NowThis with Back Market
          
        
      

            Overall Worst in Show
          
        
        
        
        
          
            presented by
            Gay Gordon-Byrne
          
          Executive Director, Repair.org
        
      

        Find out the winners of this edition
      

        or check out the iFixit
        blog post!
      
      
      
    
    

        Our judges considered five questions to select the category winners:
      
      
        
          
            1
          
          How bad is this product?
        
        
          
            2Are the problems with this gadget innovatively bad?
        
        
          
            3
          
          What is the global impact if the technology is widely
            adopted?
        
        
          
            4
          
          
            How much worse is this than previous iterations of similar
            technology?
        
        
          
            5
          How much do the negatives outweigh the positives?
        
      
    
    
  

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