[DELETED ON YOUTUBE] Best Products of 2025 (Apps, Video Games, AI)
episodePreviously titled “Best Products of 2025 (Apps, Video Games, AI)” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is the Sippy Awards format and what will we cover in this episode?
In this episode, I share what are my favorite products of 2025? What is the best productivity product of 2025? What is the best product under $100? What is the most hyped product of 2026? This is an award show for some of my favorite products in 2025 and what I'm looking forward to in 2026. I bring on my friend Jonathan Courtney to bring some of his favorite products in 2025. This episode will give you some ideas, physical products, AI products, non-AI products. And it's just kind of a fun conversation that I hope you enjoy because I had a blast doing it. This is called the Sippy Awards of 2025. Enjoy the episode. And if you don't mind, if you got this far, like and comment so I know that you enjoy this stuff.
See you in there.
All right, we are here, Jonathan Courtney. This is the second annual Sippy Award Show Baby, where we are going to give away awards in 2025. What awards are we going to give away, JC?
First of all, if anyone hasn't seen this before, this is the most prestigious award ceremony ever. of the year for tech companies, product companies. Everyone's been waiting for this. It's like one of the most hyped things on X. And getting one of these awards is bigger than getting something like a Red Dot Award or a Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace Prize. Those things are kind of like the kind of low level stuff. And this is the high level stuff. So I think it's important that people know that this is not just sort of like a, you know, quick, we're just making it up on the fly sort of thing. There's a whole jury, like it costs billions of dollars to put this thing together. It's completely objective. Um, and as for the awards that are coming up, just to give a few previews, we have our, I mean, of course we're going to, we're going to reveal our favorite product of the year.
Both of us will probably have different answers there. Um, most used product of the year, um, best productivity product. Um, uh, I'm just making stuff up now.
Yeah.
So, like, oh, best product for under $100. Like, the product that improved our lives the most for under $100 award. And also, I think one of the rules we have to clarify is that the products don't have to have come out in 2026. They're just like the Nobel Peace Prize. The people weren't born in the year they got the Peace Prize, right? So by that logic, we are pulling from products from all through time, but we have to be using them. We have to have used them this year and benefited from them this year. Also, our most hyped product of 2026... That's a big one. And that's kind of it.
Cool. So Nobel Peace Prize for technology, basically. Basically, exactly. We prepared a ton. We aren't doing this on the fly. It's going to get crazy.
Which product is the most hyped for 2026 and why are Valve/Half‑Life causing excitement?
Here we go. All right, where do you want to start? Fave product of the year?
I think best product of the year, favorite product of the year might be... I mean, do we want to start with the best thing, basically?
Yeah.
No, that'll be the end.
How about most hyped product of 2026?
Okay, let's do it.
Do you want me to go first?
Yeah, go for it.
My most hyped product of 2026 is Half-Life 3. It is a video game from the company Valve, who are my favorite video game company in the world. They are also launching three physical products next year in approximately March, which is a new controller, a new product, which is called a Steam Machine, and a new VR headset called the Steam Frame, which I'm super excited about. So the whole Steam Machine product launch last week was, in my opinion, a masterclass on launching products. But the rumored but still not confirmed most hyped thing about all of this is the idea that there'll be a new Half-Life game. And so for me, Half-Life 3, which obviously encompasses all of these products because I'm going to buy all these products, for me as someone who plays video games, that's my most hyped product of 2026.
I'm very excited about it.
So your most hyped product is Half-Life 3, but you're also excited about Steam Machine?
It's the software that's going to play on the Steam Machine I'm the most hyped about.
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