CES 2026: The wildest, weirdest tech we noticed

CES 2026 has been full of huge bulletins — advances within the chips that energy AI, main product launches, and extra — however the Vegas tech conference is often known as a haven for bizarre tech.

We right here at Mashable are lovers of bizarre tech and odd devices, and, fortunately, CES 2026 has not disenchanted to this point. We’ve acquired people on the bottom in Vegas scoping out every little thing odd on the showroom ground — listed here are six of the weirdest and most enjoyable issues we have seen.

Check out the full list of Best of CES 2026 finalists, as selected by CNET Group, here.

Teeth music

Ever puzzled how your music…tastes? Well, now you can discover out…form of. The Lollipop Star is a tool that performs music by your enamel. The firm sells $9 lollipops that use bone conduction to play music into your internal ear, when you additionally get a sugar repair.

For lower than a ten-spot, you should buy your favourite music and have a bit of novelty deal with. Not a nasty deal.

Credit: Lava Brand

Brain-sensing headphones

Neurable confirmed off headphones at CES that measure how briskly you suppose. The thought is that players, particularly, might monitor their response occasions and thought processes. Using this information, the corporate has developed a system that ought to assist you focus higher. Mashable’s Chance Townsend examined it out and located it fairly cool.

“The feeling afterward was quite pleasant, all things considered,” Townsend wrote. “Everything on screen felt slightly slower, but I was reacting more quickly.”

Credit: Mashable / Chance Townsend

Headphones that twist into audio system

In a little bit of old-school gadgetry, new audio model TDM debuted headphones that may twist right into a speaker at CES 2026. It’s a neat thought — go from non-public listening to sharing with one bodily motion.

Credit: TDM

A vibrating chef’s knife

Mashable’s Haley Henschel examined Seattle Ultrasonics’ C-200 UltraSonic Chef’s Knife, which vibrates as you utilize it to make reducing simpler. Though the vibrations are almost indetectable to the bare eye, the motion helps slice extra simply.

Wrote Henschel:

“I had no trouble getting it to cut paper-thin pieces of tomato with a light touch. Seattle Ultrasonics’ rep likened it to riding a bike versus pedaling an e-bike in that it makes your experience more effortless.”

The $399 knife might show helpful for a lot of residence cooks, particularly these with disabilities or bodily limitations.

Credit: Haley Henschel / Mashable

Panda companion bots

In a little bit of strange-but-sweet tech, Mind With Heart Robotics confirmed off its AI-powered panda An’An. The thought is the fuzzy little man will probably be an interactive companion for aged people with cognitive decline or youngsters engaged on social expertise.

Credit: Mind With Heart Robotics

The AI soulmate

Chinese firm Lepro displayed its Ami gadget at CES 2026, a desktop OLED display screen that homes an AI “soulmate” to maintain you firm. And that isn’t sat…in any respect.

The firm pitched the Ami as a companion that might be empathetic and join with its customers on a deper degree. Giving an AI companion a bodily type is definitely an fascinating selection.

Wrote Mashable’s Chance Townsend:

“Most AI companions today live where everything else already lives: your phone, your browser, your notifications. They blur into the same infinite scroll that’s already exhausting us. Lepro Ami, by contrast, asks for a dedicated spot on your desk. It doesn’t follow you everywhere. You have to choose to keep it around.”

Credit: Mashable / Chance Townsend

CES is all the time good for some actually fantastic and unusual tech — fortunately, 2026 delivered in each regards.

Want to see extra of the most effective in bizarre tech at CES 2026? The finalists for the Best of CES 2026 awards have been introduced. See the nominees and be taught when the winners will probably be introduced.

Head to the Mashable CES 2026 hub for the newest information and reside updates from the most important present in tech, the place Mashable journalists are reporting reside.