Gizmodo’s Best of CES 2026 Awards: See the Winners

Dell has introduced again the XPS branding and the bodily perform row keys. It’s all gravy from there with its seamless trackpad and flat keyboard. The XPS 14 sport the brand new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs and a wonderful OLED show as well.

With a brand new title, a terrific display screen, and extra energy, the HyperX Omen Max 16 stands out as one of the crucial interesting laptops at CES this yr. Its shining function is a 300W complete energy package deal. Plus, it features a distinctive GaN energy adapter able to outputting 460W to energy all that gaming goodness.

Asus’ revised ROG Zephyrus Duo takes its cues from the Zenbook Duo, and it’s higher for it. The laptop computer is basically two screens hooked up through a hinge. There’s a shocking variety of methods you need to use a laptop computer of this dimension, both vertically or horizontally.

Asus’ new prebuilt desktop is made to show heads. You can have it configured with an AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, however essentially the most eye-catching side is the 340 x 340 hologram show customers can use to show their very own pictures.

Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 chips lastly made their debut at CES 2026, and so they could also be among the greatest chips for light-weight laptops we’ve seen but. The “X” variations of the chip comprise extra GPU cores, permitting them to sport shocking capabilities for graphics duties and gaming.

Keychron cranks out an ungodly variety of mechanical keyboards yearly, however at CES, the corporate introduced the Q3 Ultra 8K Wireless, which touts a ridiculous 600 hours of runtime from a single cost. The 8,000Hz polling charge can also be greater than quick sufficient for critical gaming with much less latency.

Open wi-fi earbuds are nice, but when there’s one factor individuals miss once they put on them, it’s noise cancellation. Shokz could also be right here to avoid wasting the day, although. Its OpenMatch Pro have a “noise reduction” function that cancels out environmental noise while you need it and lets your ears breathe while you don’t. To prime all of it off, they’re comfortable, they give the impression of being good, and the battery life is sturdy on paper.

Fender is formally within the over-ear headphones recreation and its first entrant has rather a lot to like. This pair of headphones is modular, permitting you to swap ear cups and headbands and pull the audio system off. It additionally comes with a USB-C dongle for lossless streaming. On prime of all that they sound fairly darn good.

The Kallsup sounds approach higher, and is way extra lovable, than it feels prefer it must be for simply $10. You can join and synchronize as much as 100 of them. That’s not new within the Bluetooth speaker world, however it’s the primary time we’ve ever felt like we may nearly afford to purchase sufficient of them to strive it out.

Lenovo’s newest idea is the type of laptop computer we by no means thought we needed. The 16-inch display screen extends horizontally to supply an ultrawide show as massive as 24 inches.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Trifold already launched in South Korea in December, however we lastly acquired our first have a look at the dual-hinge foldable that morphs from a cellphone to a 10-inch pill, and it was superb. It’s a thick machine when closed, for certain, however having a big-screen pill, with helpful multitasking modes like DeX as well, saved us lusting over the expensive Z Trifold.

The new Clicks Power Keyboard is all the things the unique QWERTY cellphone accent ought to have been: suitable with each iPhone and Android units utilizing MagSafe, built-in with a built-in battery for juicing up the linked machine, and capable of help quite a few orientations (slide-out vertically just like the useless Palm Pre and rotated horizontally just like the additionally useless LG Wing). It’s not fairly the return of the BlackBerry, however it is likely to be the subsequent smartest thing for individuals who miss a bodily keyboard for dashing out messages and e-mail.

Razer’s Project Motoko is an idea that slaps cameras on a pair of headphones. The result’s one thing that the corporate thinks may rival the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. That stays to be seen, however the concept is a enjoyable train in porting good glasses-like options to different sorts of devices.

Xreal has made a giant title for itself within the AR/video glasses area and it reiterated why at CES. Its Xreal 1S aren’t simply $50 cheaper than their predecessor, additionally they include a show that’s increased decision and brighter—plus you may nonetheless do enjoyable stuff like convert 2D video games into 3D. Hard to argue with cheaper and higher.

While show glasses are all the fad, AI glasses with no display screen are arguably simply as helpful and Rokid’s Ai Glasses Style show why. These good glasses are gentle, weighing simply 38.5g, and provide all of the options you’d need in a pair of screenless good glasses, like translation, music playback, and pictures/video seize due to the built-in digital camera. Meta could have market share within the U.S. however these are a worthy competitor to Ray-Ban AI glasses.

The Pebble Round 2 affords maybe essentially the most expansive replace to the venerable Pebble model. The rounded, 1.3-inch watch face has a 200p show that’s superb in its simplicity.

At its first-ever CES, The Lego Group introduced what it’s calling its greatest invention for the reason that minifig in 1978, the Smart Brick. Part of its new Smart Play units, the two x 4 Lego brick is filled with sound, gentle, and movement sensors, permitting it to react to good tiles which might be inside shut proximity. The concept is that youngsters will be capable to unlock new interactive experiences that meld the bodily with electronics—and after an prolonged demo, we expect Lego is admittedly onto one thing.

Crowning a greatest TV at CES is all the time arduous. How do you select between so many stunning and shiny flatscreens? However, LG’s OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV had our jaws on the ground for longer than we’d have preferred. It’s solely 9mm thick (barely thicker than most flagship smartphones) and is wi-fi—sure, you may beam 4K video and audio to it from 33 ft away with out an unpleasant HDMI cable hanging out the bottom.

Govee’s new ceiling gentle allows you to put fairly photos in your ceiling, although it affords extra element than different related merchandise made by the corporate, like its Curtain Lights. That’s due to its array of 616 LEDs, which give it sufficient granularity to make pictures seen even below the brilliant lights on the CES present flooring. Also, it’s Matter-compatible, so any previous good residence platform will do.

Right, so it’s a thermostat, however hear us out: the Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 does a lot extra. It’s a millimeter wave presence sensor; a video doorbell monitor; makes use of the common digital key Aliro customary; and it helps Apple’s new Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance options.

The Roborock Saros is the primary robotic vacuum that may climb and clear stairs. It’s arduous to beat that. Will it come to market? Well, the Saros Z70 and its robotic arm did.

It’s not CES with out robots, and ClOiD is an ideal mixture of cute, purposeful, and possibly too formidable. ClOiD has arms for folding towels, a wheeled base for getting round, and makes use of AI (after all) to do all its pondering. And sure, it actually can fold a towel.

There was a fairly a little bit of good chook feeder competitors at this yr’s CES, and the Birdfy  Feeder Vista with its 360 digital camera chook feeder stood on prime of all of them. Its digital camera will guarantee no avian escapes your sight. Plus, it makes use of a novel air pump system to ship chook feed as a substitute of utilizing gravity and a trough.

The Legion Go 2 could have been a bit too costly the primary time round, however now it comes with a greater OS and a less expensive worth. What extra would you like, particularly when this handheld sports activities an 8.8-inch OLED display screen.

CES 2026 was crammed with extra large and high-refresh-rate gaming displays than we may lay our eyeballs on. However, LG’s monstrous 52-inch UltraGear evo G9 52G930B simply stood out with its extra-wide 12:9 side ratio, bonkers-sharp 5K2K decision, and more-than-fast-enough 240Hz refresh charge for aggressive gaming.

This controller is constructed for racing and racing solely. Still, even for those who don’t play many racing video games, the GameSir Swift Drive feels wonderful with the power suggestions in its built-in steering wheel. It could also be the most effective different for a full-sized, costly racing yoke.

Everyone needs us to speak with our vehicles, however the AI assistants can’t sustain. That’s the place Cerence AI shines. The firm’s latest Cerence xUI platform is built-in with Microsoft 365 and works with a number of music, mapping, and different automotive functions. In a demo, we confirmed that talking naturally and colloquially doesn’t journey up the system. None of that is shocking, Cerence AI has supplied automotive voice management on its platform since a minimum of 2019, nicely earlier than it was in style.

Screens are in every single place in vehicles, however a minimum of the Sony Honda Mobility’s Afeela 1 linked EV makes good use of them on its touchscreen dashboard. The Afeela 1 contains a panoramic display screen that’s really two screens aspect by aspect, a smaller 12.3-inch display screen and an enormous 28.5-inch display screen. The lengthy, slim dashboard upfront homes the numerous apps for films, video games, and music that passengers can take pleasure in. Passenger-side apps embody a privateness filter to keep away from inflicting distractions for the driving force. Back seat passengers also can get in on the Sony-enabled enjoyable with PlayStation Remote Play, which connects wirelessly to the again screens.

Waymo is the one Level 4 driverless automotive firm that’s really working in lots of cities, finishing 14 million journeys with its Jaguar I-Pace robotaxi service in 2025. Its new sensor-filled Zeekr minivan, dubbed the Ojai, will quickly hit the streets, too. While many others at CES need to sometime attain that degree of autonomy, none of them are there but. Waymo is the clear winner of this race, and it’s an open query whether or not one other firm can catch as much as it anytime quickly.

Handy’s newest male stroker is ludicrous sufficient by itself, till you be taught you may configure it to hit 1,200 strokes per minute. The Handy 2 Pro additionally sports activities a bigger battery and a number of new attachments.