CES is now in full swing, and we’ve been drenched in all kinds of tech, from the sublime TVs to literally dozens of robots all promising to do something new and cool (although some just look a bit scary).
As ever, Digital Trends has been pounding the halls, racking up hundreds of thousands of steps and trying to spot the bigger innovations from the ‘and me’ devices being created every year.
We’ve also been sifting through the thousands of product launches being flung into our inboxes and around the web, dialling into what really catches our eye.
These are the pieces of tech that we think are exciting, innovative or could have a big impact on the way you use your technology in 2026, showcasing the best that CES 2026 has to offer.
It’s hard to start anywhere else – LG’s reboot of its Wallpaper series sees an impossibly slim 9mm TV that sits flush to the wall and only has a single power cord trailing from its body. The panel is the most advanced yet from LG, with almost zero reflection and super bright colors making this a must see at the conference.
It’s likely to cost something similar to the high-end G series, which means it’s not going to be super expensive… but it might still be the most expensive TV you ever buy.
Getting hands on with the Galaxy TriFold was a special feeling, chiefly because it made us realize our current foldable is flawed.
This is a 10-inch tablet that folds down to a 6-inch smartphone, which you can slide into your pocket. And it doesn’t feel flimsy – there’s a reassuringly sturdy feel to the dual hinges in charge of folding and unfolding the internal display.
You get no fewer than six cameras across the device, powerful performance, and a 5,600mAh battery. It will hit stores during the first quarter of 2026, and you should check the TriFold out when it does.
Samsung’s mega 130-inch Micro RGB with the firm’s new Timeless Frame design is a thing of beauty, and we’re not talking solely about picture quality. This is a statement piece for your home as well as a serious entertainment display.
Picture quality is indeed excellent, with this set utilizing Micro RBG technology for stunning visuals and vivid color.
It joins 55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch, 85-inch, 100-inch, and 115-inch variants announced in December, but this is the first to boast the Timeless Frame design. It’ll probably be seriously expensive when the official price gets confirmed, but if you have the funds – and the space – you’ll have something pretty special to admire.
The Zenbook A14 feels more like air than a MacBook Air. It comes in at just 2.18 pounds, while the M4 MacBook Air weighs a portly 2.7 pounds in comparison. That’s half a pound heavier than the Zenbook.
Does it really feel any different? Yes, in fact, it feels like a prop: effortless to lift, and if powered off, you’d have a hard time convincing folks it was a real laptop.
And it comes packed with the features and power you’d want, with a 14-inch OLED screen, Snapdragon X2 Elite chipset, and an impressive-sounding claim of 28 hours of video playback on a single charge. The MacBook Air needs to watch its back.
The return of Pebble smartwatches continues to gather momentum, and off the back of the success of the square Pebble Time 2 and Pebble 2 Duo, we’ve now got a new circular watch with the Pebble Round 2.
Pebble watches aren’t all-singing, all-dancing devices like the Apple Watch 11 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 8. Instead, Pebble offers up a more reserved experience with its color e-paper display, closer-nit set of features and thriving developer community.
Versus the original Pebble Time Round from 2015, the Round 2 has a larger display and slimmer bezels. You can even get the Nyan Cat watch face (IYKYK).
We wouldn’t normally put a fan in the list of top technology from a show, but there was something about this Dreo fan that we couldn’t help but ignore. At its heart, it’s pretty simple: it’s a fan that sprays water to humidify the air and keep you cool. However, Dreo has been experimenting with the size of the droplets, and thinks it’s found the perfect balance between being too wet and not cool enough.
In practice this works incredibly well – your skin feels cool with the moisture, but when you touch it, it’s already dried, which feels a bit magic.
Anker wowed us at CES 2026 with the Solix E10 whole-home backup system, thanks to its triple-power approach. It combines a solar output kit (up to 27kW), expandable battery packs (scalable up to 90kWh), and a smart generator (4.5kW) into a modular package.
Ideal for residential usage across varying weather conditions, the Solix E10 is a perfect solution for extended power outages with seamless power switchover convenience in tow. The 200A Power Dock ensures that every port in your home works without a hiccup, while delivering five times higher electrical efficiency in terms of fuel consumption compared to a regular AC generator.
The plug-and-play design approach ensures smooth installation (complete with a wall mounting perk), and if you’re concerned about the raw power output, Anker’s kit can handle a 5-ton central AC, as well. Thanks to the modular design, you can stack multiple battery modules that can supply enough backup power for 15 days.
CES is just filled with robots, and Cloid is one of the most talked-about. While it’s still a prototype, this wheeled humanoid was shown doing laundry, speaking to humans and demonstrating where robots in the home might go one day.
The videos highlight what Cloid might do one day were the most illuminating, interacting with myriad LG appliances to run your home. But it’s the AI learning that was the most interesting, highlighting moments where it sees someone drop their keys and putting them back in the right place.
Could robots overthrow us one day? Potentially, but at least they’ll be able to make a mean lasagna too.
This might not sound like a big deal to some of you, but trust us… it is. If you’re someone who works out regularly, especially outside, you’ll know how important open-ear headphones are (after all, that’s why bone-conducting headphones are so popular) to maintain safety.
But there are times when you want to put them into your ear and let noise cancellation switch the world off – these headphones promise to do both, with a simple click moving from open to in ear. It’s not a massive change, but one that makes a huge amount of sense.
There’s always room at CES for a gadget that does something that we’ve not seen before, and these headphones from TDM (Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter) are just that. They’re fine-sounding headphones when worn, but you can take them off, twist the cups and connect them together magnetically to create a splashproof Bluetooth speaker.
It’s a clever idea that will have you just wanting to play with – you can even wear the headphones around your neck and have them spit out music that way… but you might not want to be that person.
TCL’s impressive rise as a premium TV manufacturer continues, with the introduction of the X11L showcasing that it’s capable of delivering premium viewing experiences to challenge the industry’s incumbent brands.
Available in 75-, 85- and 95-inch models, and packing the firm’s new SQD-MiniLED technology, the X11L delivers pixel level precision when it comes to color. That means a lot more color definition, bolder saturation, and more color accuracy.
And with upcoming over-the-air updates, the X11L (along with other TCL TVs) will be getting Dolby Vision 2.0 support and Xbox GamePass compatibility, allowing you to stream games without needing a physical console.
Govee’s new ceiling light feels a little bit like magic. How can a minimalist, slimline lighting unit which sits almost flush to your ceiling produce the mesmerizing hues of the Ceiling Light Ultra?
Well, there’s a 616-pixel LED matrix able to not just illuminate in a single color, but also a gradient of color. It can even show intricate animated scenes which you can pick from in the app or create your own, a neat feature which will delight children especially. And with 5000 lumens of brightness, it can comfortably illuminate an entire room.
Motorola has finally entered the book-style foldable phone market with the introduction of the Razr Fold. It’ll go up against the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, giving you a trio of Android-powered options to choose from.
All off Moto’s previous foldables have been flip phones, so it’s great to see it widen its portfolio here. This is the most premium Motorola phone in its family of devices, the uber flagship which will sit atop of its handset pyramid.
That means it could well be the most expensive Motorola phone too, but we’ll have to wait a few months to find out the price. Fingers crossed it follows a similar pattern to its flip handsets, with a price which undercuts the competition.
If you’re someone who fondly remembers their BlackBerry and wished there was a new QWERTY keyboard phone on the market fit for the demands of 2026, look no further.
The Clicks Communicator is basically a BlackBerry in all but name. It’s been built by former BlackBerry employees and fans, and its keyboard was designed by the legendry BB board designer Joseph Hofer.
This is as close as you’ll get to a modern-day BlackBerry, it even has a notification light and a 3.5mm headphone jack. For the QWERTY fans out there, this could be the best phone you’ve seen in a long, long time.
Now, this has technically been out for a while but it’s been on Kickstarter and we got to see it in the flesh, and it’s something that captures the imagination in a different way.
There’s an e-ink display inside the frame, with a microphone that allows you to ask it to display, well, anything you want. It then uses ChatGPT’s image capabilities to create it, giving you the ability to create art whenever you want.
You can also upload your own images to the frames and in the future, Fraimic wants to add in things like movie art that matches what you’re watching on Netflix. This is AI used in an interesting way, and we like to see it.
We saw this at CES Unveiled, and it was initially confusing: why is that scale looking like a wakeboard? That bar is key though, as it adds sensors from the top of your body as well as the bottom, giving a far more complete view of your internal data, adding four more electrodes on top of the eight from the original Body Scan.
While it can’t be used medically, by measuring micro changes in things like foot sweat and cellular membrane analysis it can give you a better idea of how healthy you are overall.
We mostly like it because it’s added a handle to some scales though.
Razer claims that the Wolverine V3 Bluetooth is the fastest wireless gaming controller out there, but there’s more than just speed which is being offered here.
The Wolverine V3 can also double as… your TV remote. Yup, Razer has specifically designed this controller to work with select LG TVs, with basic TV controls embedded in the d-pad.
Back to the speed, and Razer says its wireless controller has a lower latency (3ms), which is significantly lower than the Xbox controller (12~13ms) and PS5 DualSense (9~14ms). Game on!
Think your laptop is thin? Think again, as the HP OmniBook Ultra 14 comes in 5% thinner than Apple’s 2025 MacBook Air 13, helping it achieve the title of the world’s slimmest consumer notebook.
You might fear of the laptop’s durability, but HP says it’s been put through a series of tests including drops, shocks, and temperature extremes. Thin, light, and durable? Sign us up.
And if you’re looking for a machine to help you with AI workloads you can choose a HP exclusive Snapdragon X2 Elite variant with up to 85 NPU TOPS, or go with next gen Intel Core Ultra processors aimed at graphic-heavy AI workloads.
Say hello to smart Lego bricks. Yep, you heard us. Lego’s new smart brick packs in a clever processor along with lights and a speaker, and it will interact with smart minifigures and tags included in sets to trigger various sounds and illuminations.
A trio of Star Wars sets will be the first to take advantage of the 2 x 4 smart brick, allowing you to recreate iconic lightsaber battles and spaceship flights.
The smart brick is recharged wirelessly, and Lego has a charging pad which can charge multiple bricks at the same time.
The thing that caught our eye with the Luna Band was the price. On the outside it looks a lot like the popular Whoop band, that is worn by health fans the world over looking for deeper insights into their body.
What Luna does is do the same without an expensive monthly subscription, and we like the sound of that combined with the ability to use your voice to log food or mention symptoms as they arise. We’ll be interested to see if this sparks a rise in voice-led coaches, with more holistic understanding of your body’s rhythms.
The Acer Swift 16 has an absolutely massive touchpad. Seriously, it is HUGE. Acer says it’s the largest haptic touchpad on a notebook.
It measures a whopping 175.5 x 109.7mm, but don’t worry, it’s designed to do more than just move your mouse and click. In fact, Acer hopes that it will allow some users to completely ditch their tablet.
That’s because the touchpad comes with MPP 2.5 stylus input support, providing creative users sketching, animating, modeling, and editing opportunities directly on the pad, alongside AI creation tools.
You can now turn any MagSafe-compatible smartphone into a QWERTY keyboard-toting typing machine with the Clicks Power Keyboard, perfect for those who want to relive the golden age of BlackBerry.
And what’s more this mobile accessory also doubles as a power bank, with a 2,150mAh battery inside providing 5W Qi wireless charge for when your phone runs low.
The magnetic pad for your phone slides up and down, allowing it to comfortably accommodate most compatible handsets. And because the keyboard connects to your device via Bluetooth, you can pair it with tablets for a sit-back typing experience.
GYou might know Shokz for making bone-conducting headphones, allowing you to keep your ears clear while listening to music . But the OpenFit Pro are different – they’re open-ear hooked earbuds that pump sound into your head, but can somehow create noise cancelling without a sealed fit.
It feels a bit like witchcraft, but the sound quality is highly impressive – and yet you can still hear the world around you. This happens through using three microphones in each bud to work out what noise cancelling is needed, as well as enhancing the quality of your audio.
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.