The 7 coolest devices I’ve seen at IFA 2025 (together with ones you possibly can truly purchase)

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IFA is Europe’s largest shopper electronics present, and this yr is not any completely different. IFA 2025 options a few of the most eye-catching improvements ever, a lot in order that it is arduous to slender down the record of fantastic merchandise. 

However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with synthetic intelligence (AI) adoption, I discovered it refreshing that the perfect merchandise I’ve seen do not hinge on AI. As I stroll by way of the halls of Messe Berlin, these are the perfect merchandise I’ve seen and will certainly watch.

1. Philips Hue MotionAware by way of Bridge Pro

One of probably the most extraordinary issues I’ve seen at IFA is Philips Hue giving present good lights the power to turn out to be movement detectors to your good house. Philips Hue simply introduced the brand new Hue Bridge Pro, a brand new good hub for its Hue good lights that has a 5 instances quicker processor and might 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 possibly can set a bunch of Hue lights to work collectively as a movement detector. Seeing this in motion, I used to be impressed at how a bunch of Philips Hue lights may be arrange collectively, together with the Bridge Pro, to detect movement by recognizing modifications within the wi-fi alerts round them. 

This form of know-how sounds futuristic, but Philips Hue managed to make it occur and make it obtainable for the overwhelming majority of its present good lights, excluding the first-generation and transportable lights.

2. Rokid Smart Glasses

The Rokid Glasses are shaping as much as be considered one of Meta’s greatest opponents within the good glasses market. Rokid’s newest glasses mix augmented actuality (AR) with AI, which may present you information and allow you to work together with an AI assistant. As an AI wearable, the glasses help 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 choice for all-day put on. Even at this weight, the Rokid Glasses have a built-in 12MP digital camera 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 automated cleansing and not using a replaceable mud bag. This robotic vacuum can wash and dry its mop curler on the dock and routinely empty its dustbin when full. 

The greatest innovation is that it empties the dustbin right into a plastic mud canister on the dock as a substitute of counting on mud luggage. This signifies that you may by no means have to purchase one other dustbag for this robotic vacuum and might merely empty the mud canister when it’s full after a number of weeks. 

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Combining a big 6,400mAh battery and GaN know-how on the dock, the X11 Deebot can shortly recharge every time it goes to the dock to scrub 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 know-how lets the robotic clear 10,700 sq. toes with out stopping as a result of low battery, making it a dependable answer to scrub giant areas.

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

Thanks to the improved TruEdge 3.0 know-how, the mop curler can attain the sting of flooring alongside partitions or below cupboards. 

4. Eufy Marswalker

If you have ever grumbled about having to maneuver your robotic vacuum upstairs so it may possibly clear your second story, Eufy has an answer: the Marswalker. Thanks to rubber tracks that grip onto the steps, this robotic can carry your Eufy Omni S2 robotic vacuum and mop up and down the steps with out lacking a beat. The Marswalker can journey up and regulate to completely different stairs and flooring sorts, making it extensively suitable.

The Marswalker is suitable with the Omni S2 and S1, and Eufy hopes to make sure compatibility with the Eufy E25 and E28 robotic vacuums. The firm hasn’t introduced a value or date for this robotic’s availability.

5. Olight Ostation 2

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

My household makes use of extra batteries than I’d prefer to publicly admit, so I’ve been rechargeable battery stations to change to a extra eco-friendly answer. The greatest drawback with these is that they usually solely cost one form of battery, both AA or AAA, so that you’d have to purchase separate stations to recharge each varieties of batteries. 

Also, I attempted to destroy this $45 energy financial institution (together with driving over it with a tractor) – it refused to interrupt.

The Ostation 2 solves this with a charging dock that may deal with AA and AAA rechargeable batteries, holding 12 of them. You do not even have to fret about lining up the battery excellent — 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 completed. This station protects rechargeable batteries from overcharging by releasing the connection as soon as the battery is full. 

6. Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro

Govee’s new TV Backlight 3 Pro is visually spectacular, particularly to somebody with the Nanoleaf 4D mild strips put in on my TV at house. The new Govee system has a triple-camera consumption system, so it may possibly extra precisely mirror the colours in your TV. I watched the lights change together with the picture and was struck by how brilliant and responsive they’re. The lights mirror the colours on the display inside a fraction of a second, so you do not get the sense that they are catching up to what’s displayed on the display. 

Govee has but to announce a value for its TV Backlight 3 Pro, nevertheless it says the product needs to be obtainable within the coming weeks. 

7. Roborock RockMow

Robot mowers have turn out to be a pure development for robotic vacuums, which perform equally. Roborock is increasing its portfolio to incorporate robotic mowers, significantly fashions just like the RockMow Z1, RockMow S1, and RockNeo Q1. The Z1 is anticipated to be probably the most premium mannequin within the Roborock lineup, able to reducing 54,000 sq. toes day by day.

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It’s unclear when these robotic mowers will go on sale and at what value they are going to be, however Roborock expects at the very least one mannequin to hit the US within the first hald of 2026.