The whole lot 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 convey your means within the close to future.

Lots 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 holding tabs on the entire 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 know-how.

You’ll be able to atone for the entire large CES 2026 bulletins (and among the extra offbeat gizmos which are being proven off on the occasion) proper right here. We’ll be holding this story up to date all through the week.

Micro RGB TVs

Micro RGB is a time period you may count on 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 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. 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 supply smaller, extra customizable dimming zones. Read our 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 may count on 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 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 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 Pictures integration and you may select from 2,000 items of free artwork to point out on the display. The Ember Artline can swap on or off routinely when somebody enters or leaves the room.

It runs on the Fireplace 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 anticipated to start out 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; somewhat more room for stated tiles; and typography and colour gradient adjustments. The corporate has reworked the platform’s codebase as effectively, and it says the Fireplace 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 may count on more Gemini-powered features. The corporate is bringing the flexibility to go looking Google Pictures for sure moments and folks to Google TV, together with the choices to remix pictures into totally 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 effectively. You may as well 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 gadgets within the following months.

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, reminiscent of 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, reminiscent of ​​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 could 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 dispose of irons (thanks, Samsung). As for the Bespoke AI good vacuum and mop, that may apparently keep watch over your pets if 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 reminiscent of 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 take a look at the CLOiD in particular person 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 are 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, path 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” relatively than solely pre-recorded clips.

Accompanying Sensible Bricks are Sensible Tags and Sensible Minifigures, which have their very own capabilities — one among 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 good parts. 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 Purple 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.

L’Oreal

L’Oreal usually brings some fascinating 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 pink gentle and near-infrared gentle to deal with the likes of puffiness, discoloration and wonderful 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. Nevertheless, it is solely in prototype type for now and it is not anticipated to hit the market till subsequent 12 months.

The Mild Straight + Multi-styler makes use of infrared gentle to assist dry and magnificence 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 larger (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 Mild Straight to reach in 2027 as effectively.

Laptops and desktops

It is CES, so in fact we’ll see a bunch of laptops and desktops. Nearly all of these will certainly emerge after NVIDIA’s press convention on Monday night, although we have already had a peek at LG’s Aerominum laptops.

Cell

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 enhance 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 by way of MagSafe or Qi2, and it could possibly function as an influence financial institution in a pinch because of the two,150 mAh battery. The Energy Keyboard has Bluetooth performance as effectively, so you should use it with gadgets like tablets, good 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 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 is predicated on the Android Open Supply Challenge. It has a UI that borrows a web page out of the Mild Cellphone’s playbook, although you may 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 price (paying for a long-term plan up entrance can cut back the 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+. Which means you will not essentially must have an Amazon gadget 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 must 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 is able to seemingly value 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 anticipated to start out delivery on this spring.

Some corporations nonetheless attempting to make wearable AI gadgets occur. SwitchBot has a wearable mic known as the AI MindClip, which may seemingly file and transcribe all the things 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 could push to file conversations. You may as well press the button to flag key moments for an AI-generated abstract to concentrate on. The NotePin S is out there 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 number of iterations of this machine over the previous few years and now the corporate’s latest model is about 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 business duties and is anticipated to turn out to be a driving drive of producing transformation, starting within the automotive trade.” Because it occurs, Hyundai (Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder) and DeepMind might be among the many first to obtain Atlas robots.

Gaming

The FlipPad is one among my favourite issues I’ve seen popping out of CES this 12 months. It’s an 8BitDo cellular sport controller that’s designed for vertical use. There are a bunch of neat physical controllers for phones which are 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 permit you to 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.