The 4 coolest devices I’ve seen at IFA 2025 (together with ones you’ll be able to really purchase)

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IFA is Europe’s largest client electronics present, and this 12 months is not any completely different. IFA 2025 options a number of the most eye-catching improvements ever, a lot in order that it is arduous to slender down the checklist of wonderful merchandise. 

However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with synthetic intelligence (AI) adoption, I discovered the truth that the most effective merchandise I’ve seen do not hinge on AI. As I stroll by means of the halls of Messe Berlin, these are the most effective merchandise I’ve seen and those I’m positively going to observe.

1. Philips Hue MotionAware through Bridge Pro

One of the good issues I’ve seen at IFA is Philips Hue giving current sensible lights the flexibility to develop into movement detectors in your sensible house. Philips Hue simply introduced the brand new Hue Bridge Pro, a brand new sensible hub for its Hue sensible lights that has a 5 instances quicker processor and may deal with as much as 150 Philips Hue lights in your house.

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The new Bridge Pro additionally helps as much as 4 MotionAware setups, so you’ll be able to set a gaggle of Hue lights to work collectively as a movement detector. Seeing this in motion, I used to be impressed at how a gaggle of Philips Hue lights could be arrange collectively, together with the Bridge Pro, to detect movement by recognizing modifications within the wi-fi indicators round them. 

This sort of expertise sounds futuristic, but Philips Hue managed to not solely make it occur but additionally make it out there for the overwhelming majority of its current sensible lights, excluding the first-generation and moveable lights.

2. Rokid Smart Glasses

The Rokid Glasses are shaping as much as be considered one of Meta’s largest rivals within the sensible glasses market. Rokid’s newest glasses mix augmented actuality (AR) with AI, with the capability of exhibiting you information and letting you work together with an AI assistant. As an AI wearable, the glasses assist real-time translation in 89 languages, object recognition, navigation, transcription, and extra.

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These glasses are additionally surprisingly light-weight and thinner than different fashions, weighing just one.7 ounces, which makes them a compelling possibility for all-day put on. Even at this weight, the Rokid Glasses have a built-in 12MP digicam for taking first-person photographs and movies and built-in audio to work together with the GPT-5-powered AI assistant or just hearken to your favourite music.

The glasses can be found on Kickstarter and have surpassed the $1 million milestone for pledges. Rokid plans to promote the Rokid Glasses for $599. 

3. Ecovacs X11 Omnicyclone

Aside from being the longest-lasting robotic vacuum and mop, the Ecovacs X11 Omnicyclone can be the primary mainstream premium robotic to function computerized cleansing with no replaceable mud bag. This robotic vacuum can wash and dry its mop curler on the dock and routinely empty its dustbin when full. 

The largest innovation about that is that it empties the dustbin right into a plastic mud canister on the dock as an alternative of counting on mud luggage. This signifies that you will by no means have to purchase one other dustbag for this robotic vacuum, and may as an alternative merely empty out the mud canister when full after a number of weeks. 

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Combining a big 6,400mAh battery and GaN expertise on the dock, the X11 Deebot can shortly recharge every time it goes to the dock to clean its mop pad, refill its clear water tank, and empty its dustbin, gaining as much as 6% of cost in solely three minutes. This PowerBoost expertise lets the robotic clear a whopping 10,700 sq. ft with out stopping on account of low battery, making it a dependable answer to scrub massive areas.

The robotic can be one of many smartest I’ve ever seen. Its voice assistant can work together with the consumer to reply setup questions, evaluate troubleshooting guides, and deal with complicated instructions.

Thanks to the improved TruEdge 3.0 expertise, the mop curler also can attain the sting of flooring alongside partitions or beneath cupboards. 

4. Olight Ostation 2

I used to be impressed with the Ostation battery charger at CES earlier this 12 months, however Olight simply upped the ante with the Ostation 2, which routinely costs each AA and AAA batteries. 

My household goes by means of extra batteries than I’d prefer to publicly admit, so I’ve been taking a look at rechargeable battery stations to make the swap to a extra eco-friendly answer. The largest drawback with these is that they sometimes solely cost one sort of battery, both AA or AAA, so that you’d have to purchase separate stations to get each kinds of batteries recharged. 

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The Ostation 2 solves this with a charging dock that may deal with each AA and AAA rechargeable batteries, able to holding 12 of every. You do not even have to fret about lining up the battery good — merely drop it into one of many slots and the Ostation 2 will recharge it and launch it right into a sorted tray as soon as accomplished. This station protects rechargeable batteries from overcharging by releasing the connection as soon as the battery is full.