All the things introduced at CES 2026

It is the primary week of a brand new yr and there is no time for the tech world to slowly ease again into issues following the vacations. That is as a result of CES 2026 is in full swing, with all method of firms descending on Las Vegas to disclose their newest improvements and what they’re planning to carry your means within the close to future.

Most of the Engadget crew are on the bottom to take a look at as a lot of the brand new tech as attainable. In fact, we’re maintaining tabs on all the main CES press conferences too. Samsung held its First Look presentation, which focuses on dwelling merchandise, whereas LG has proven off a big selection of TVs and Lego unveiled its new Sensible Brick expertise. We’ve heard from the key chipmakers, gone hands-on with Samsung’s trifold cellphone, checked out some funky laptops and seen some cute robots.

You’ll be able to make amends for all the massive CES 2026 bulletins (and a number of the extra offbeat gizmos we’ve seen) proper right here. We’ll be maintaining this story up to date all through the week.

Micro RGB TVs

Micro RGB is a time period you’ll be able to count on to listen to about fairly a bit within the coming months and years, particularly once you’re purchasing to your subsequent TV. Micro RGB is a brand new tech that is much like Mini LED, although it makes use of pink, inexperienced and blue LEDs as an alternative of white backlights. Distinction ratios aren’t fairly as excessive as these on Micro LED and OLED shows, because the pixels cannot be turned on and off individually. Nonetheless, Micro RGB items are stated to be brighter and extra coloration correct than TVs that use different show tech, partly as a result of the LEDs in these screens supply smaller, extra customizable dimming zones. Read reporter Steve Dent’s explainer for a deeper dive into how Micro RGB differs from different kinds of show tech.

We’re seeing extra of those TVs pop up at CES 2026, together with a mammoth 130-inch concept model that Samsung brought to Las Vegas. The corporate unveiled its first Micro RGB TV in August, — that’s a 115-inch, $29,999 mannequin. This yr, you’ll be able to count on it to begin providing Micro RGB TVs in 55-, 65- and 75-inch sizes. There are additionally 85-, 100- and 115-inch fashions on the best way.

LG revealed its first Micro RGB set at CES as effectively. The biggest variant is 100 inches, however there are 86- and 75-inch fashions too. Elsewhere, LG showed off its latest Wallpaper TV, which is a 100-inch OLED show. We additionally obtained a have a look at LG’s new Gallery TV — The Gallery is the corporate’s tackle Samsung’s Body TV format.

Different new TVs and OS updates

We’ve obtained one other competitor to The Body, as Amazon has entered that scene with the Ember Artline TV. The 4K OLED mannequin has Amazon Pictures integration and you’ll select from 2,000 items of free artwork to indicate on the display. The Ember Artline can swap on or off mechanically when somebody enters or leaves the room.

It runs on the Fireplace TV platform and (after all) there’s Alexa+ integration, together with assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+ and Wi-Fi 6. The Ember Artline is anticipated to begin delivery this spring. It begins at $899 for the 55-inch mannequin.

Talking of Fireplace TV, Amazon has revamped the platform’s user interface with rounded corners for present, film and app tiles; a bit of extra space for stated tiles; and typography and coloration gradient modifications. The corporate has reworked the platform’s codebase as effectively, and it says the Fireplace TV OS will ship velocity boosts of as much as 20 to 30 %. Amazon will begin rolling out the up to date UI subsequent month.

On the Google facet of TV land, you’ll be able to count on more Gemini-powered features. The corporate is bringing the flexibility to look Google Pictures for sure moments and folks to Google TV, together with the choices to remix photographs into totally different kinds and create slideshows on the fly. The Veo and Nano Banana AI video and picture technology fashions are coming to Google TV as effectively. You may also count on the flexibility to regulate TV settings utilizing your voice. These Gemini options are coming to Google TV-powered TCL fashions first, then different units within the following months. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to take a look at senior reporter Amy Skorheim’s hands-on impressions of the Gemini updates.

Samsung

Samsung being Samsung, the corporate had much more up its sleeve at CES than simply TVs. Within the leadup to the occasion, it introduced its two new soundbars (we’re had some hands-on time with one of those), the fashionable Music Studio audio system (we have got some IRL impressions of those), a bunch of monitors, the refreshed FreeStyle+ projector (we’ve checked that out too). It additionally introduced plans to bring Google Photos to TVs.

On the First Look showcase on Sunday, Samsung talked up “AI experiences in every single place. For everybody” (sigh). Right here, we noticed extra TVs, resembling the skinny S95H OLED, which has a zero-gap mount that lets you place the unit flush towards a wall.

First Look has lengthy been targeted on dwelling merchandise. Naturally, Samsung execs mentioned some options for the corporate’s fridges, resembling ​​recipe choice updates, AI cooling tech and Google Gemini-powered AI Imaginative and prescient that is stated to have the ability to acknowledge extra gadgets and assist you determine what you want to purchase with out having to manually take stock. FoodNote, in the meantime, is a weekly abstract that breaks down what has gone out and in of your fridge.

Furthermore, Samsung highlighted the Samsung Bespoke AI Laundry Combo and its new AI wash cycle. With the brand new Air Dresser — which has an Auto Wrinkle Care function — Samsung goals to eliminate irons (thanks, Samsung). As for the Bespoke AI sensible vacuum and mop, that may apparently control your pets once you’re not dwelling.

LG

Likewise, LG introduced different non-TV tech to CES. The corporate is shining the highlight on its CLOiD robot. Just like the far creepier-looking 1X Neo, the CLOiD is designed to assist with family duties resembling beginning laundry cycles, folding garments, unloading the dishwasher and serving meals. This seems to be extra of an idea than one thing you can purchase anytime quickly, however we should always get a better have a look at the CLOiD in individual this week.

The corporate additionally debuted the LG Sound Suite, a modular dwelling audio system it developed along side Dolby to tackle the likes of Sonos. Simply forward of CES, LG pulled again the curtain on a brand new batch of xboom speakers in addition to some monitors and ultralight Gram laptops which might be made with a cloth it is calling Aerominum.

Lego

In its first CES appearance, Lego introduced the Smart Brick, a standard-sized brick with a 4.1mm ASIC chip inside that’s designed to reply in several methods relying on what set you’re constructing and the way you’re constructing it. Utilizing what Lego calls the “Play Engine” and built-in copper coils, every brick can sense issues like movement, orientation and magnetic fields, plus its personal distance, path and orientation in relation to different Sensible Bricks. Every brick additionally has a teeny tiny speaker inbuilt that can play audio “tied to dwell play actions” slightly than solely pre-recorded clips.

Accompanying Sensible Bricks are Sensible Tags and Sensible Minifigures, which have their very own capabilities — certainly one of which is letting Sensible Bricks know what context they’re being utilized in. All of those items tie collectively through a neighborhood wi-fi layer dubbed BrickNet that, partly, lets Sensible Bricks know the place they’re positioned in relation to different sensible elements. All of it appears very neat and I am trying ahead to seeing what else Lego and followers can do with these Sensible Bricks.

The primary “Smart Play” associate is, unsurprisingly, Star Wars, which is able to launch three “all-in-one” units utilizing Sensible Bricks, Sensible Tags and Sensible Minifigures. The 473-piece Darth Vader TIE Fighter set will price $70; the 584-piece Luke’s Pink 5 X-Wing set is available in at $100 and the 962-piece Throne Room Duel & A-wing set will set you again $160. The audio system in these units can emit lightsaber swooshes, fighter sounds and The Imperial March.

The chipmakers

It is CES, so after all we’ll see a bunch of laptops and desktops, together with bulletins concerning the tech that powers the brand new fashions. Meaning NVIDIA, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm are all on the town to speak up their newest chips and different improvements.

Given its lofty place within the business (and the financial system) NVIDIA’s CES press convention is all the time one to control. This yr’s version was laregly a recap of the corporate’s latest strikes, however it did have some news to share.

NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo, which is a gaggle of open-source reasoning fashions designed to assist autonomous autos deal with tough driving eventualities. The corporate additionally revealed {that a} tremendous pc constructed on the Vera Rubin GPU structure NVIDIA unveiled in 2024 is in manufacturing.

Issues haven’t precisely been going nice for Intel for some time, however the firm is unquestionably hoping that its Core Ultra Series 3 chips might help it proper the ship. These are the primary chips to be constructed utilizing Intel’s 18A (18 angstroms, which is slightly below 2nm) course of. The corporate says they provide improved efficiency — 60 % greater than the previous-gen Lunar Lake processors — and battery life enhancements for laptops.

The Extremely Collection 3 features a new Arc B390 built-in GPU, with 50 % extra graphics cores, double the cache and 120 GPU TOPS of efficiency. Put all that collectively and these chips ought to ship as much as 77 % quicker gaming efficiency than Lunar Lake fashions, Intel stated. To that finish, the corporate teased a Extremely Collection 3-powered gaming handheld for later this yr.

In fact, AMD wasn’t going to be neglected of the CES social gathering. The corporate introduced a number of CPUs for laptops and desktops, whereas chillingly declaring that “AI is in every single place” and “altering the face of gaming.” Ick. There was quite a lot of AI chat throughout the two-hour(!) keynote, together with a “a jet-powered flying robotic.”

After which there’s Qualcomm. The corporate revealed the Snapdragon X2 Plus chip on the present. It’s extra of a mid-range chip that isn’t fairly as highly effective as the upper finish Snapdragon X2 Elite — it doesn’t have as many CPU cores, for one factor. Nonetheless, Qualcomm claims the X2 Plus affords as a lot as 35 % quicker single-core efficiency over the earlier gen. The corporate additionally says the Adreno GPU affords a efficiency increase of as much as 29 % in contrast with the final technology.

Laptops

What would CES be with out some new {hardware} that makes use of these new chips? As ever, laptop computer and desktop makers had been on the present to supply up their newest fashions to your consideration. (You’ll want to take a look at our dedicated roundup of all the laptops that grabbed our attention at this yr’s present.)

Samsung’s Galaxy Guide 6 Extremely, Galaxy Guide 6 Professional and Galaxy Guide 6 boast Intel’s Core Extremely Collection 3 chips and revamped designs which might be stated to enhance warmth administration. You’ll be able to learn our story on the Galaxy Book 6 series for the specs of those laptops, although we don’t have pricing or a launch window as but.

Dell realized it messed up by killing off the XPS title as a part of a broader rebranding effort and we’re glad to see that the corporate is making a U-turn on that entrance. A full lineup of XPS laptops is coming this year, together with an all-new XPS 13 (a long-time Engadget fave on the Home windows ultraportable entrance). Dell additionally has 14- and 16-inch XPS fashions within the hopper, together with others it’s maintaining beneath wraps for now.

We love an odd laptop computer and ASUS didn’t disappoint by bringing the ROG Zephyrus Duo to CES. This can be a dual-screen gaming laptop computer with two 16-inch OLED panels, certainly one of Intel’s new CPUs and as much as an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU. The keyboard is removable and may work wirelessly. A kickstand might help you arrange the Zephyrus Duo in all types of orientations. You’ll be able to even place the twin screens in an upside-down “V” tent mode. We don’t know the worth of the Zephyrus Duo as but, however it absolutely gained’t be cheap.

That’s not all ASUS delivered to the dance. The corporate made a particular version of the ROG Movement Z13 some that’s styled after the works of the famed recreation designer Hideo Kojima. The ROG Flow Z13-KJP has visible aptitude that’s attracts from the likes of Dying Stranding and Metallic Gear. Kojima’s Ludens mascot is right here too. There’s no pricing or launch date for this variant or its matching equipment simply but.

L’Oreal

L’Oreal typically brings some fascinating magnificence tech to CES and the corporate did so once more this yr with a trio of gadgets. The LED Eye Masks makes use of pink mild and near-infrared mild to deal with the likes of puffiness, discoloration and superb traces.

The LED Face Masks appears to be a extra pliable model of masks that we have seen from the likes of Dr. Dennis Gross, Omnilux, Therabody and Shark lately. Nonetheless, it is solely in prototype kind for now and it is not anticipated to hit the market till subsequent yr.

The Gentle Straight + Multi-styler makes use of infrared mild to assist dry and elegance hair in comparable style to L’Oreal’s AirLight Professional. It is stated to have sensors that make use of “built-in proprietary algorithms and machine studying” to allow them to adapt to your gestures and “maximize particular person expertise.” L’Oreal claims that whereas conventional straighteners can function at 400°F or increased (temperatures that may injury hair), its newest innovation “successfully straightens hair whereas by no means exceeding 320°F.” You’ll be able to count on the Gentle Straight to reach in 2027 as effectively.

Cellular

At CES 2026, we had our first likelihood to go palms on with the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold, which the corporate officially announced last month. Senior author Sam Rutherford had qualms concerning the value (not confirmed but for North America, however it prices round $2,500 in Korea) and bulkiness.

Nonetheless, after Sam opened it up, “my considerations had been rapidly pushed apart as a result of abruptly you’re greeted with 10 inches of vivid AMOLED goodness.” That further actual property may are available very helpful for a lot of people. Mixed with a keyboard and maybe a mouse, it may effectively be the laptop computer/pill substitute many have been ready for. You’ll want to learn Sam’s hands-on for his full initial impressions.

Again at CES 2024, we obtained to check out a physical keyboard phone accessory from Clicks. Quick ahead two years, and the model is making its personal Blackberry-esque telephones, in addition to a brand new bodily cellphone keyboard accent. The Android 16-based Clicks Communicator has a tactile keyboard with a fingerprint sensor within the spacebar, a 4-inch OLED show, a 3.5mm headphone jack (hooray!) and expandable microSD storage as much as 2TB. You’ll be able to reserve one now for $399 — the worth will improve to $499 on February 27.

As for the brand new accent, Clicks is asking that the Energy Keyboard. It connects to an iOS or Android cellphone through MagSafe or Qi2, and it might probably function as an influence financial institution in a pinch due to the two,150 mAh battery. The Energy Keyboard has Bluetooth performance as effectively, so you need to use it with units like tablets, sensible TVs and digital actuality headsets. Pre-orders are open now and the Energy Keyboard is anticipated to ship within the spring. Early adopters can lock in a pre-order for $79 earlier than the retail value jumps to $110.

Those that want their cell phones to have fewer bells and whistles may be within the newest mannequin from Punkt. The MC03 is a nifty-looking touchscreen mannequin that runs on the privacy- and security-centric AphyOS, which is predicated on the Android Open Supply Venture. It has a UI that borrows a web page out of the Gentle Telephone’s playbook, although you’ll be able to nonetheless set up any Android app.

The MC03 will hit European markets this month for €699 / CHF699 / £610. There is a obligatory subscription, nevertheless. You get a yr of entry included with a cellphone buy, then it is a €10 / CHF10 / £9 month-to-month charge (paying for a long-term plan up entrance can cut back the associated fee by as much as 60 %).

Charging tech

Anker and Belkin really feel like CES mainstays at this level. They every had some fascinating charging gear to indicate off this yr. Belkin supplied up a refreshed Nintendo Switch 2 case that recharges the console through its 10,000mAh energy financial institution (which delivers as much as 30W of quick charging). The case has an LCD display on the surface to indicate you at a look how a lot juice it has left and there’s a built-in kickstand so that you can prop the console up on.

Belkin’s new Change 2 charging case prices $100 and it’s obtainable now. The corporate’s new $100 UltraCharge Professional Energy Financial institution can recharge two units concurrently. You may get your palms on that subsequent month. There’s additionally a really slim BoostCharge energy financial institution that may match into your pocket. That can run you $60 and it’ll ship later this yr.

Anker unveiled its neat Nano Charger, which may seemingly determine the iPhone mannequin you hook as much as it and supply the suitable stage of charging energy. This plug will arrive later this month for $40.

The corporate introduced a string of different merchandise that may cost a number of units on the similar time. The $150 foldable Prime Wi-fi Charging Station can juice up your iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods concurrently, with as much as 25W of Qi2 wi-fi energy. That’ll arrive by the top of March.

There’s additionally a 10-in-1 Nano Energy Strip ($70, late January launch) with 70W of output, surge safety and a number of USB-C ports, USB-A ports and AC retailers. Anker additionally confirmed off a 13-in-1 Nano Docking Station you could snag proper now for $150. Amongst different issues, this helps as much as three 4K shows, as a lot as 100W of upstream charging and 10 Gbps of knowledge switch between units which might be hooked as much as it. Useful!

AI

No prizes for guessing that there is going to be a ton of AI-related information at CES this yr. Amazon, for one, introduced that it is rolling out a web-based version of Alexa+. Meaning you will not essentially have to have an Amazon gadget to check out the generative AI-powered assistant. Nonetheless, Alexa+ Early Entry prospects are getting first dibs on the net model.

There are a boatload of AI-powered units on the CES present ground too. One which we noticed early on is a Tamagotchi-style digital pet from a startup known as Takway. The Sweekar will keep in mind your interactions with it (you may have to feed and play with the pet to maintain it wholesome and blissful). As soon as it is all grown up, the Sweekar will head off on digital adventures and inform you about its exploits when it “returns.” Takway will quickly begin a Kickstarter marketing campaign for the  Sweekar, which is able to doubtless price between $100 and $150.

Ludens AI, in the meantime, showed off a pair of AI companion robots which might be admittedly fairly cute. Cocomo can react to your voice and contact interactions, observe you round your property and find out about you over time. It stays near human physique temps, so it feels cozy for those who hug it. Inu, however, stays in your desktop. It, too, responds to your voice and contact.

We additionally noticed the Fraimic, an E Ink show that may faucet into OpenAI to generate photographs. There is not any subscription for the Fraimic (which prices $399 for the usual dimension, which has a 13-inch show) and also you get 100 AI-generated photographs per yr included together with your buy. Pre-orders are open now and the Fraimic is anticipated to begin delivery on this spring.

Some firms are nonetheless making an attempt to make wearable AI units occur. SwitchBot has a wearable mic known as the AI MindClip, which may seemingly document and transcribe every thing you say (no, thanks!). Anker’s Soundcore division obtained in on the combo too with its Work voice recorder.

Plaid, in the meantime, introduced its NotePin follow up to the dance. This time round, the NotePin S has a button you could push to document conversations. You may also press the button to flag key moments for an AI-generated abstract to give attention to. The NotePin S is offered now for $179, do you have to be enticed to purchase such a factor.

On an identical be aware, Bee provided an update on what it’s bee-n as much as since Amazon bought the company final yr. It has developed 4 options that it’s rolling out to its current AI voice recording wearable units, together with one which draft an e-mail once you say you want to ship one, and one other that highlights tendencies in what you say over a interval of weeks or months. There’s additionally a voice notes function, as a result of that’s one thing you’ll be able to’t do together with your cellphone already.

Robots

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robotic is able to roll. We’ve seen a number of iterations of this machine over the previous few years and now the corporate’s latest model is ready to enter manufacturing. As well as, Boston Dynamics has teamed up with Google DeepMind to fuse Gemini Robotics AI basis fashions into Atlas robots.

Per a press release, the partnership “will give attention to enabling humanoids to finish all kinds of business duties and is anticipated to develop into a driving drive of producing transformation, starting within the automotive business.” Because it occurs, Hyundai (Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder) and DeepMind will likely be among the many first to obtain Atlas robots.

Transportation

Sony and Honda introduced the latest revision of their first Afeela EV to CES 2026. We already knew that you simply’d be capable of play your PS5 remotely whereas the automobile is parked, although we discovered some new particulars from the businesses’ presentation. The Afeela 1 will debut with a sophisticated hands-off, eyes-on driver help system. The goal is to finally supply Stage 4 autonomy through over-the-air updates. Sony and Honda to plan to begin shipments on the tail finish of 2026, first in California, then in Arizona.

We additionally obtained our first have a look at a mannequin that’s an additional down the pike. The Afeela Prototype 2026 is a taller model of the primary EV. Simply don’t count on to have the ability to strive it your self till no less than 2028.

Gaming

NVIDIA announced the newest model of its DLSS (Deep Studying Tremendous Sampling) upscaling tech. DLSS 4.5 is claimed to supply sharper visuals due to the 2nd Era Tremendous Decision Transformer, which is offered now for all RTX GPUs. NVIDIA says this affords higher temporal stability, lowered ghosting and improved anti-aliasing.

On GeForce RTX 50 Collection GPUs, DLSS 4.5 will be capable of generate as much as 5 further frames for every historically rendered one and ship as much as 4K 240Hz path traced efficiency, NVIDIA says. The Dynamic 6x Body Era function will likely be obtainable for these graphics playing cards someday this spring.

NVIDIA additionally detailed a brand new model of its G-Sync variable refresh charge tech. It says that G-Sync Pulsar can decrease movement blur by successfully quadrupling your refresh charge. So 250 Hz gameplay will seemingly supply up a perceived efficient movement readability of over 1,000 Hz with G-Sync Pulsar enabled.

You’ll want a G-Sync Pulsar-compatible show to make use of this function. Most shows have a backlight that’s all the time on, so photographs fade from one body to the subsequent. On G-Sync Pulsar shows, there are a number of horizontal backlight sections. The backlights pulse from high to backside. That is stated to assist the pixels in every body stabilize earlier than they’re backlit, leading to decrease movement blur.

It’s fascinating stuff. Acer, AOC, ASUS and MSI are every releasing a G-Sync Pulsar-compatible 27-inch monitor this week.

The FlipPad is certainly one of my favourite issues I’ve seen popping out of CES this yr. It’s an 8BitDo cell recreation controller that’s designed for vertical use. There are a bunch of neat physical controllers for phones which might be constructed for panorama mode. However many cell video games are performed with the cellphone oriented to the vertical place. And that’s to not point out emulators that will let you play the likes of Recreation Boy titles whereas your cellphone stands tall. So it’s neat to see 8BitDo providing a bodily controller that’ll do the trick. The corporate additionally unveiled a new Xbox controller with swappable joysticks and button modules.

Audio

Victrola announced a reasonably Bluetooth speaker that sits neatly beneath its turntables. You should utilize a cable to attach the 2 as effectively. In fact, you’ll be able to play audio from different units, together with telephones and tablets. I’ve had my eye on a Victrola turntable for some time due to its Sonos integration, and the Soundstage speaker is tempting too. The Soundstage will likely be obtainable this summer season for $350.

Talking of fairly audio system, I actually just like the aesthetic of those three wireless bookshelf options from Cambridge Audio. The fashionable-lookin’ L/R Collection audio system begin at $549 for a 100W mannequin with a 21mm hard-dome tweeter with a 3-inch long-throw woofer hut no assist for Wi-Fi streaming (there’s Bluetooth aptX HD, although).

On the high finish is the $2,299 L/R X, a 800W speaker that has a a 2.5-way acoustic design with a 28mm Torus tweeter and twin five-inch woofers. There’s even a contact of LED underlighting on this mannequin and the $1,599 L/R M, which has 300W of energy, smaller four-inch twin woofers and the identical 28mm tweeter. All three audio system will likely be obtainable later this yr.