Every thing introduced at CES 2026

It is the primary week of a brand new 12 months and there isn’t 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 manner 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. In fact, we’re protecting tabs on all the main CES press conferences too. Samsung has already 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.

You’ll be able to atone for all the large CES 2026 bulletins (and a few of the extra offbeat gizmos which might be being proven off on the occasion) proper right here. We’ll be protecting 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 in your subsequent TV. Micro RGB is a brand new tech that is just like Mini LED, although it makes use of purple, 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, because the pixels cannot be turned on and off individually. Nonetheless, Micro RGB items are mentioned to be brighter and extra shade 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 our 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 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 best way.

LG revealed its first Micro RGB set at CES as properly. 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 bought 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 bought 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 may select from 2,000 items of free artwork to indicate on the display. The Ember Artline can swap on or off routinely when somebody enters or leaves the room.

It runs on the Hearth TV platform and (in fact) there’s Alexa+ integration, together with help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+ and Wi-Fi 6. The Ember Artline is predicted to begin delivery 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; just a little more room for mentioned tiles; and typography and shade gradient adjustments. The corporate has reworked the platform’s codebase as properly, 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 facet of TV land, you’ll be able to count on more Gemini-powered features. The corporate is bringing the power to go looking Google Photographs for sure moments and folks to Google TV, together with the choices to remix photographs into completely different types and create slideshows on the fly. The Veo and Nano Banana AI video and picture era fashions are coming to Google TV as properly. You too can 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 units within the following months. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to try 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 all over the place. For everybody” (sigh). Right here, we noticed extra TVs, comparable to the skinny S95H OLED, which has a zero-gap mount that permits you to place the unit flush towards a wall.

First Look has lengthy been centered on dwelling merchandise. Naturally, Samsung execs mentioned some options for the corporate’s fridges, comparable 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 gadgets and assist you determine what it’s essential 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 get rid of irons (thanks, Samsung). As for the Bespoke AI good vacuum and mop, that may apparently keep watch over your pets whenever 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 comparable 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 should always get a more in-depth 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 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 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 inbuilt that can play audio “tied to dwell play actions” quite 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, partly, lets Sensible Bricks know the place they’re positioned in relation to different good 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” companion 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 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 keep watch over. This 12 months’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 bunch 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 definitely hoping that its Core Ultra Series 3 chips will 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 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 cors, 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 sooner gaming efficiency than Lunar Lake fashions, Intel mentioned. To that finish, the corporate teased a Extremely Sequence 3-powered gaming handheld for later this 12 months.

In fact, AMD wasn’t going to be disregarded of the CES get together. 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 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 affords as a lot as 35 p.c sooner single-core efficiency over the earlier gen. The corporate additionally says the Adreno GPU affords a efficiency increase of as much as 29 p.c in contrast with the final era.

Laptops and desktops

What would CES be with out some new {hardware} that makes use of these new chips? As ever, laptop computer and desktop makers have been on the present to supply up their newest fashions in your consideration. We’d already seen LG’s new ultrathin laptops prematurely of CES, whereas Samsung had a few of its personal to indicate off.

The 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 protecting underneath wraps for now.

We love an odd laptop computer and ASUS didn’t disappoint by bringing the ROG Zephyrus Duo to CES. It is 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 will 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 value of the Zephyrus Duo as but, however it certainly received’t be cheap.

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 purple mild and near-infrared mild to deal with the likes of puffiness, discoloration and wonderful 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 in recent times. Nonetheless, it is solely in prototype type for now and it is not anticipated to hit the market till subsequent 12 months.

The Gentle Straight + Multi-styler makes use of infrared mild to assist dry and magnificence hair in related trend 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 greater (temperatures that may harm 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 properly.

Cell

Again at CES 2024, we bought 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 value will enhance 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 will possibly 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 should utilize it with units like tablets, good TVs and digital actuality headsets. Pre-orders are open now and the Energy Keyboard is predicted 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 desire their cellphones to have fewer bells and whistles is perhaps 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 Challenge. 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 necessary subscription, nonetheless. You get a 12 months 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 scale back the associated fee by as much as 60 p.c).

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 must have an Amazon machine to check out the generative AI-powered assistant. Nonetheless, Alexa+ Early Entry prospects 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 comfortable). 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 doubtless price between $100 and $150.

We additionally noticed the Fraimic, an E Ink show that may faucet into OpenAI to generate photos. 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 photos per 12 months included together with your buy. Pre-orders are open now and the Fraimic is predicted to begin delivery on this spring.

Some corporations 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 little thing you say (no, thanks!). Plaid, in the meantime, introduced its NotePin follow up to the dance. This time round, the NotePin S has a button that you would be able to push to file conversations. You too can press the button to flag key moments for an AI-generated abstract to deal with. The NotePin S is on the market now for $179, must you be enticed to purchase such a factor.

Robots

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robotic is able to roll. We’ve seen a couple 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 deal with enabling humanoids to finish all kinds of commercial duties and is predicted to grow to be 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.

Gaming

The FlipPad is considered one of my favourite issues I’ve seen popping out of CES this 12 months. It’s an 8BitDo cell sport 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 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.