The whole lot introduced at CES 2026

It is the primary week of a brand new yr 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 firms descending on Las Vegas to disclose their newest improvements and what they’re planning to deliver 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 doable. After all, we’re preserving 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 foremost chipmakers, gone hands-on with Samsung’s trifold telephone, checked out some funky laptops and seen some cute robots.

You’ll be able to compensate for the entire huge CES 2026 bulletins (and among the extra offbeat gizmos we’ve seen) proper right here. We’ll be preserving this story up to date all through the week.

Micro RGB TVs

Micro RGB is a time period you’ll be able to anticipate to listen to about fairly a bit within the coming months and years, particularly if you’re procuring in your subsequent TV. Micro RGB is a brand new tech that is just like Mini LED, although it makes use of crimson, inexperienced and blue LEDs as a substitute 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 models are mentioned to be brighter and extra colour correct than TVs that use different show tech, partially 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 sorts 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 anticipate it to start out 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 nicely. The most important 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 take 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 Photographs 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 Hearth TV platform and (after all) there’s Alexa+ integration, together with help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+ and Wi-Fi 6. The Ember Artline is anticipated to start out transport this spring. It begins at $899 for the 55-inch mannequin.

Talking of Hearth TV, Amazon has revamped the platform’s user interface with rounded corners for present, film and app tiles; somewhat more room for mentioned tiles; and typography and colour gradient modifications. The corporate has reworked the platform’s codebase as nicely, and it says the Hearth TV OS will ship pace boosts of as much as 20 to 30 p.c. Amazon will begin rolling out the up to date UI subsequent month.

On the Google aspect of TV land, you’ll be able to anticipate more Gemini-powered features. The corporate is bringing the flexibility to go looking Google Photographs for sure moments and other people to Google TV, together with the choices to remix images 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 nicely. You may as well anticipate 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 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 permits you to 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 mentioned 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 put off irons (thanks, Samsung). As for the Bespoke AI sensible vacuum and mop, that may apparently keep watch over your pets if 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 can purchase anytime quickly, however we should always get a better take a look at the CLOiD in individual 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 fabric 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, course and orientation in relation to different Sensible Bricks. Every brick additionally has a teeny tiny speaker in-built that may play audio “tied to reside play actions” somewhat 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 by way of 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 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 value $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 will see a bunch of laptops and desktops, together with bulletins in regards to 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 at all times one to keep watch over. This yr’s version was laregly a recap of the corporate’s current 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 situations. 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 also 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 p.c greater than the previous-gen Lunar Lake processors — and battery life enhancements for laptops.

The Extremely Sequence 3 features a new Arc B390 built-in GPU, with 50 p.c 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 p.c quicker gaming efficiency than Lunar Lake fashions, Intel mentioned. To that finish, the corporate teased a Extremely Sequence 3-powered gaming handheld for later this yr.

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 plenty of AI chat in the course of 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 p.c quicker single-core efficiency over the earlier gen. The corporate additionally says the Adreno GPU provides a efficiency enhance of as much as 29 p.c 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 in your consideration. (You should definitely 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 Sequence 3 chips and revamped designs which might be mentioned 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 preserving underneath 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 may work wirelessly. A kickstand may also help you arrange the Zephyrus Duo in every kind 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 usually brings some attention-grabbing 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 crimson gentle and near-infrared gentle to handle the likes of puffiness, discoloration and fantastic 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 type for now and it is not anticipated to hit the market till subsequent yr.

The Mild Straight + Multi-styler makes use of infrared gentle to assist dry and elegance hair in comparable vogue to L’Oreal’s AirLight Professional. It is mentioned 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 harm hair), its newest innovation “successfully straightens hair whereas by no means exceeding 320°F.” You’ll be able to anticipate the Mild Straight to reach in 2027 as nicely.

Cell

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 in regards to the worth (not confirmed but for North America, however it prices round $2,500 in Korea) and bulkiness.

Nevertheless, after Sam opened it up, “my issues had been shortly pushed apart as a result of out of the blue you’re greeted with 10 inches of vivid AMOLED goodness.” That further actual property might are available in very helpful for a lot of of us. Mixed with a keyboard and maybe a mouse, it might nicely be the laptop computer/pill alternative many have been ready for. You should definitely 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 telephone 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 looking that the Energy Keyboard. It connects to an iOS or Android telephone by way of 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 nicely, so you should 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 worth jumps to $110.

Those that choose their cell phones to have fewer bells and whistles could 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 Mild 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 necessary subscription, nevertheless. You get a yr of entry included with a telephone buy, then it is a €10 / CHF10 / £9 month-to-month price (paying for a long-term plan up entrance can cut back the associated fee by as much as 60 p.c).

Charging tech

Anker and Belkin really feel like CES mainstays at this level. They every had some attention-grabbing charging gear to indicate off this yr. Belkin supplied up a refreshed Nintendo Switch 2 case that recharges the console by way of its 10,000mAh energy financial institution (which delivers as much as 30W of quick charging). The case has an LCD display on the skin 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 may run you $60 and it’ll ship later this yr.

Anker unveiled its neat Nano Charger, which might seemingly determine the iPhone mannequin you hook as much as it and supply the suitable degree 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 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 you can 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 information switch between units 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 yr. Amazon, for one, introduced that it is rolling out a web-based version of Alexa+. Meaning you will not essentially must have an Amazon system to check out the generative AI-powered assistant. Nevertheless, Alexa+ Early Entry clients are getting first dibs on the internet model.

There are a boatload of AI-powered units 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 must 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 let you know about its exploits when it “returns.” Takway will quickly begin a Kickstarter marketing campaign for the  Sweekar, which is able to seemingly 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, comply with you round your house and study you over time. It stays near human physique temps, so it feels cozy in the event you 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 photos. There is no subscription for the Fraimic (which prices $399 for the usual dimension, which has a 13-inch show) and also you get 100 AI-generated photos per yr included together with your buy. Pre-orders are open now and the Fraimic is anticipated to start out transport on this spring.

Some firms are nonetheless attempting to make wearable AI units occur. SwitchBot has a wearable mic known as the AI MindClip, which might seemingly file and transcribe every part 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 can push to file conversations. You may as well press the button to flag key moments for an AI-generated abstract to deal with. The NotePin S is accessible now for $179, must you be enticed to purchase such a factor.

On an identical observe, 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 present AI voice recording wearable units, together with one which draft an e-mail if you say you must 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 characteristic, as a result of that’s one thing you’ll be able to’t do together with your telephone already.

Robots

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robotic is able to roll. We’ve seen a number of 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 deal with enabling humanoids to finish all kinds of business duties and is anticipated to grow to be a driving drive of producing transformation, starting within the automotive business.” Because it occurs, Hyundai (Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder) and DeepMind shall 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 have the ability to play your PS5 remotely whereas the automobile is parked, although we realized some new particulars from the businesses’ presentation. The Afeela 1 will debut with a complicated hands-off, eyes-on driver help system. The intention is to ultimately supply Degree 4 autonomy by way of over-the-air updates. Sony and Honda to plan to start out shipments on the tail finish of 2026, first in California, then in Arizona.

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

Gaming

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

On GeForce RTX 50 Sequence GPUs, DLSS 4.5 will have the ability to 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 characteristic shall be obtainable for these graphics playing cards someday this spring.

NVIDIA additionally detailed a brand new model of its G-Sync variable refresh price tech. It says that G-Sync Pulsar can decrease movement blur by successfully quadrupling your refresh price. 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 characteristic. Most shows have a backlight that’s at all times on, so photos fade from one body to the following. On G-Sync Pulsar shows, there are a number of horizontal backlight sections. The backlights pulse from high to backside. That is mentioned 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 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 telephone oriented to the vertical place. And that’s to not point out emulators that can help you play the likes of Sport Boy titles whereas your telephone 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 fairly Bluetooth speaker that sits neatly beneath its turntables. You should use a cable to attach the 2 as nicely. After all, 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 shall be obtainable 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 stylish-lookin’ L/R Sequence audio system begin at $549 for a 100W mannequin with a 21mm hard-dome tweeter with a 3-inch long-throw woofer hut no help for Wi-Fi streaming (there may be 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 shall be obtainable later this yr.