Every little thing introduced at CES 2026

It is the primary week of a brand new 12 months and there is not any 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 corporations descending on Las Vegas to disclose their newest improvements and what they’re planning to carry your method 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 potential. After all, we’re conserving tabs on the entire main CES press conferences too. Samsung held its First Look presentation, which focuses on residence merchandise, whereas LG has proven off a wide selection of TVs and Lego unveiled its new Sensible Brick know-how. We’ve heard from the most important chipmakers, gone hands-on with Samsung’s trifold cellphone, checked out some funky laptops and seen some cute robots.

You may atone for the entire massive CES 2026 bulletins (and a few of the extra offbeat gizmos we’ve seen) proper right here. We’ll be conserving 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 whenever you’re buying to your subsequent TV. Micro RGB is a brand new tech that is much like Mini LED, although it makes use of crimson, 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, for the reason that pixels cannot be turned on and off individually. Nevertheless, Micro RGB items are stated to be brighter and extra colour correct than TVs that use different show tech, partially as a result of the LEDs in these screens provide 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 12 months, 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 way in which.

LG revealed its first Micro RGB set at CES as properly. 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 point out on the display screen. The Ember Artline can swap on or off robotically when somebody enters or leaves the room.

It runs on the Fireplace TV platform and (in fact) there’s Alexa+ integration, together with assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+ and Wi-Fi 6. The Ember Artline is anticipated to begin transport 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; slightly more room for stated tiles; and typography and colour gradient modifications. The corporate has reworked the platform’s codebase as properly, and it says the Fireplace TV OS will ship pace boosts of as much as 20 to 30 %. Amazon will begin rolling out the up to date UI subsequent month.

On the Google aspect of TV land, you’ll be able to count on more Gemini-powered features. The corporate is bringing the power to go looking Google Pictures for sure moments and other people to Google TV, together with the choices to remix photographs into completely different kinds and create slideshows on the fly. The Veo and Nano Banana AI video and photograph technology fashions are coming to Google TV as properly. You can too count on the power to regulate TV settings utilizing your voice. These Gemini options are coming to Google TV-powered TCL fashions first, then different gadgets 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 trendy 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 all over the place. For everybody” (sigh). Right here, we noticed extra TVs, akin to the skinny S95H OLED, which has a zero-gap mount that lets you place the unit flush in opposition to a wall.

First Look has lengthy been targeted on residence merchandise. Naturally, Samsung execs mentioned some options for the corporate’s fridges, akin to ​​recipe choice updates, AI cooling tech and Google Gemini-powered AI Imaginative and prescient that is stated to have the ability to acknowledge extra objects and assist you determine what you must 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 characteristic — Samsung goals to eliminate irons (thanks, Samsung). As for the Bespoke AI sensible vacuum and mop, that may apparently control your pets whenever you’re not residence.

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 akin to beginning laundry cycles, folding garments, unloading the dishwasher and serving meals. This seems to be extra of an idea than one thing you’ll purchase anytime quickly, however we must always get a better have a look at the CLOiD in particular person this week.

The corporate additionally debuted the LG Sound Suite, a modular residence audio system it developed together with 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 numerous 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, route and orientation in relation to different Sensible Bricks. Every brick additionally has a teeny tiny speaker in-built that may 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 — considered 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, partially, lets Sensible Bricks know the place they’re positioned in relation to different sensible elements. All of it appears very neat and I am wanting ahead to seeing what else Lego and followers can do with these Sensible Bricks.

The primary “Smart Play” companion is, unsurprisingly, Star Wars, which can launch three “all-in-one” units utilizing Sensible Bricks, Sensible Tags and Sensible Minifigures. The 473-piece Darth Vader TIE Fighter set will value $70; the 584-piece Luke’s Crimson 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 in fact 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 trade (and the economic system) NVIDIA’s CES press convention is at all times one to control. This 12 months’s version was laregly a recap of the corporate’s latest strikes, nevertheless it did have some news to share.

NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo, which is a bunch of open-source reasoning fashions designed to assist autonomous automobiles 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 may help it proper the ship. These are the primary chips to be constructed utilizing Intel’s 18A (18 angstroms, which is just 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 12 months.

After all, AMD wasn’t going to be not noted of the CES celebration. The corporate introduced a number of CPUs for laptops and desktops, whereas chillingly declaring that “AI is all over the place” and “altering the face of gaming.” Ick. There was a whole lot of AI chat through 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 provides as a lot as 35 % quicker single-core efficiency over the earlier gen. The corporate additionally says the Adreno GPU provides a efficiency enhance 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. (Make sure to take a look at our dedicated roundup of all the laptops that grabbed our attention at this 12 months’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 may 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 conserving 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, considered one of Intel’s new CPUs and as much as an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU. The keyboard is removable and might work wirelessly. A kickstand may help you arrange the Zephyrus Duo in every kind of orientations. You may even place the twin screens in an upside-down “V” tent mode. We don’t know the worth of the Zephyrus Duo as but, nevertheless it absolutely received’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 Demise Stranding and Steel 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 usually brings some attention-grabbing magnificence tech to CES and the corporate did so once more this 12 months with a trio of gadgets. The LED Eye Masks makes use of crimson gentle and near-infrared gentle to deal with the likes of puffiness, discoloration and superb strains.

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. Nevertheless, it is solely in prototype kind for now and it is not anticipated to hit the market till subsequent 12 months.

The Gentle Straight + Multi-styler makes use of infrared gentle to assist dry and elegance hair in related trend 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 larger (temperatures that may injury hair), its newest innovation “successfully straightens hair whereas by no means exceeding 320°F.” You may count on the Gentle Straight to reach in 2027 as properly.

Cell

At CES 2026, we had our first likelihood to go arms 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, nevertheless it prices round $2,500 in Korea) and bulkiness.

Nevertheless, after Sam opened it up, “my considerations had been shortly pushed apart as a result of out of the blue you’re greeted with 10 inches of vivid AMOLED goodness.” That additional actual property might are available very helpful for a lot of people. Mixed with a keyboard and maybe a mouse, it might properly be the laptop computer/pill substitute many have been ready for. Make sure 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 may reserve one now for $399 — the worth will improve to $499 on February 27.

As for the brand new accent, Clicks is looking that the Energy Keyboard. It connects to an iOS or Android cellphone through MagSafe or Qi2, and it may function as an influence financial institution in a pinch because of the two,150 mAh battery. The Energy Keyboard has Bluetooth performance as properly, so you need to use it with gadgets 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 cellphones to have fewer bells and whistles is likely to 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 relies on the Android Open Supply Venture. It has a UI that borrows a web page out of the Gentle Cellphone’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 12 months of entry included with a cellphone buy, then it is a €10 / CHF10 / £9 month-to-month payment (paying for a long-term plan up entrance can cut back the fee by as much as 60 %).

Charging tech

Anker and Belkin really feel like CES mainstays at this level. They every had some attention-grabbing charging gear to point out off this 12 months. 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 screen on the surface to point out 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 Swap 2 charging case prices $100 and it’s accessible now. The corporate’s new $100 UltraCharge Professional Energy Financial institution can recharge two gadgets concurrently. You will get your arms on that subsequent month. There’s additionally a really slim BoostCharge energy financial institution that may match into your pocket. That may run you $60 and it’ll ship later this 12 months.

Anker unveiled its neat Nano Charger, which might seemingly establish 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 gadgets on the identical 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 tip 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 shops. Anker additionally confirmed off a 13-in-1 Nano Docking Station that 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 gadgets which might be hooked as much as it. Helpful!

AI

No prizes for guessing that there is going to be a ton of AI-related information at CES this 12 months. 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 system to check out the generative AI-powered assistant. Nevertheless, Alexa+ Early Entry clients are getting first dibs on the net model.

There are a boatload of AI-powered gadgets on the CES present flooring 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 will have to feed and play with the pet to maintain it wholesome and glad). 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 can probably value 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 study you over time. It stays near human physique temps, so it feels cozy in the event you hug it. Inu, then again, 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 isn’t any subscription for the Fraimic (which prices $399 for the usual measurement, which has a 13-inch show) and also you get 100 AI-generated photographs per 12 months included along with your buy. Pre-orders are open now and the Fraimic is anticipated to begin transport on this spring.

Some corporations are nonetheless attempting to make wearable AI gadgets occur. SwitchBot has a wearable mic known as the AI MindClip, which might seemingly document and transcribe all the things you say (no, thanks!). Anker’s Soundcore division obtained in on the combination 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 that you could push to document conversations. You can too press the button to flag key moments for an AI-generated abstract to concentrate on. The NotePin S is obtainable now for $179, do you have to be enticed to purchase such a factor.

On an identical notice, Bee provided an update on what it’s bee-n as much as since Amazon bought the company final 12 months. It has developed 4 options that it’s rolling out to its current AI voice recording wearable gadgets, together with one which draft an electronic mail whenever you say you must ship one, and one other that highlights traits in what you say over a interval of weeks or months. There’s additionally a voice notes characteristic, as a result of that’s one thing you’ll be able to’t do along with your cellphone already.

Robots

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robotic is able to roll. We’ve seen just a few iterations of this machine over the previous couple of 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 concentrate on enabling humanoids to finish all kinds of commercial duties and is anticipated to develop into a driving drive of producing transformation, starting within the automotive trade.” Because it occurs, Hyundai (Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder) and DeepMind will probably 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 just’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 intention is to ultimately provide 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 attempt it your self till not 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 because of the 2nd Era Tremendous Decision Transformer, which is obtainable now for all RTX GPUs. NVIDIA says this provides higher temporal stability, diminished ghosting and improved anti-aliasing.

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

NVIDIA additionally detailed a brand new model of its G-Sync variable refresh fee tech. It says that G-Sync Pulsar can reduce movement blur by successfully quadrupling your refresh fee. So 250 Hz gameplay will seemingly provide 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 characteristic. Most shows have a backlight that’s at all times on, so photographs fade from one body to the following. On G-Sync Pulsar shows, there are a number of horizontal backlight sections. The backlights pulse from prime 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 attention-grabbing stuff. Acer, AOC, ASUS and MSI are every releasing a G-Sync Pulsar-compatible 27-inch monitor this week.

The FlipPad is considered one of my favourite issues I’ve seen popping out of CES this 12 months. It’s an 8BitDo cellular 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 cellular video games are performed with the cellphone oriented to the vertical place. And that’s to not point out emulators that help you play the likes of Sport 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 need to use a cable to attach the 2 as properly. After all, you’ll be able to play audio from different gadgets, together with telephones and tablets. I’ve had my eye on a Victrola turntable for some time because of its Sonos integration, and the Soundstage speaker is tempting too. The Soundstage will probably be accessible this summer time 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 may be Bluetooth aptX HD, although).

On the prime 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 probably be accessible later this 12 months.