https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/19/forget-apple-vision-pro-rabbit-r1-is-2024s-most-exciting-launch-yet/

The year is off to a quick start in terms of new product launches and availability, even leaving aside the usual mid-tier smorgasbord that is CES. Apple just started pre-sales of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, with shipments beginning in early February; meanwhile Samsung debuted the next generation of the only viable iPhone competitor out there, the Galaxy S-series. Despite these heavyweights trying to front-run the year, however, a startup’s oddball take on what the future of personal tech might look like is the most exciting thing to happen in gadgets in a long, long while.

I’m talking about the rabbit r1, the AI-powered hardware unveiled with a fairly impressive, if low-budget impression of an old-school Apple keynote in a small conference room deep within the rabbit’s warren of a Las Vegas casino during CES. The r1 deserves praise just for its physical design, which is a tidy bit of kit created in partnership with Teenage Engineering, the gadget ‘it’ brand of young millennials and Gen Z everywhere.