Worst in Show awards 2024

Calling out the most troubling trends in tech

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 Shanika Whitehurst

Associate Director of Product Sustainability, Research and Testing, Consumer Reports
Repairability

presented by Kyle Wiens

Co-Founder, iFixit
Enshittification

Presented by Cory Doctorow

Writer, Pluralistic.net

Activist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Who Asked for This?”

presented by Nathan Proctor

National Campaign Director, PIRG

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?