With CES 2020 at its end, we saw giant TVs that will never come to market as is. We saw cars that are ready for automation when the infrastructure isn’t and by the time automation is ready the cars are out of date. For all of the things that are in the market that are functional and ready for prime time, there was a common point to it: money.

Now I realize that money makes the world go around and I’m not going to debate that. It seems like everybody wanted to take something that already exists, add a bell to it and sell it as a new product. We saw less new innovation and a lot more repurposed tech with a new name. So why does the Smart Potato get the coveted best-of award?

The Smart Potato provides a smile that everyone in the world needs right now.

As you can tell by the video, this is pure genius. This is everything that the world needs right now, we all need something to make us smile and forget global news for a few hours. It’s with this in mind that we decided that this deserves an award. After the team came together at the end of the day this made everyone smile and the only thing that we talked about.

Someone willing to buy up space at CES to make me happy deserves my admiration. Thank you Nicolas Baldeck. You sir have made 2020 start off feeling very smart.