IFA 2026 is all the time a giant present for dwelling tech, and whereas we undoubtedly noticed our justifiable share of electrical toothbrushes, robotic vacuums, and ever-smarter lights this week in Berlin, we additionally noticed some dazzling entries from extra conventional devices, particularly relating to laptops and gaming handhelds. All in all, our greatest of IFA 2026 group is a colourful bunch, each figuratively and actually due to plenty of Pantone partnerships. Here’s what we liked at this 12 months’s present!
Best of IFA 2026
Hypershell Halo
Hypershell has outdone themselves at this 12 months’s present with a revamped and powered up tackle their mobility exoskeleton. The Hypershell Halo is an entire rework of the motorized Hypershell X Ultra carbon fiber exoskeleton we tried out final yea, however the goal stays the identical — to offer you a bit mechanical push to make navigating hikes, uphill stretches, and stairs a complete lot simpler.
The Halo exoskeleton now goes all the way in which down from hip to calf, reasonably than simply to the thigh, with 4 joints and a very new AI system that makes use of coaching information to foretell your actions inside microseconds to make help from the exoskeleton really feel extra pure. That AI will adapt over time to your personal motion and enter, steadily turning into extra personalised with use.
While the 20km vary on the battery is a bit shorter than that of the Hypershell X Ultra, the battery continues to be removable and swappable, permitting customers to hold spares of their backpacks. And whereas it’s principally seen as a mountaineering support, you may apparently guide it within the Halo — it helps a most velocity of about 10.5 miles per hour, which is knocking on the door of an elite tempo for a marathon.
Dell 14S
Apple’s MacBook Neo appears to have opened the floodgates for cheaper, light-weight laptops bursting with colour. The Dell 14S was one among a handful of Windows opponents we noticed at IFA this 12 months — the 14-inch laptop computer will are available Linen, Dusty Rose, Washed Denim and Velvet Green colour choices, all with a metallic sheen that straddles the road of enjoyable {and professional}. The colours pop, however there’s so much else to love, particularly that at 2.5 kilos, it’s one of many lightest choices out of this latest bumper crop of colourful laptops. The Dell 14S needs to be a terrific reward for college kids this vacation season — no confirmed pricing but, but when it’s competing with the Macbook Neo and different related laptops (together with others unveiled at IFA), the beginning value will possible be round $700 or $800.
Lenovo IdeaPad Vibe Series
Lenovo had its personal set of colourful laptops at IFA this 12 months within the IdeaPad Vibe collection. With seven Pantone colours on supply, it’s probably the most colour choices we’ve seen on this light-weight, student-friendly laptop computer phase. But, Lenovo wished to offer people heaps extra decisions than simply the colour — you may get the IdeaPad Vibe with an OLED show, select completely different coloured keycaps, select between AMD, Qualcomm, and finally Intel processors, and even select to improve to as much as 32GB of RAM. The IdeaPad Vibe will even be out there in each 14-inch and 15-inch fashions, with the most affordable of the previous beginning at $700 this October.
Anker Soundcore SleepLab Pro
The Anker Soundcore SleepLab Pro goals to place good mild, sleep tracker, and sleep speaker into one package deal that helps enhance your sleep. Using radio wave sensors, the speaker can approximate your sleep cycle on a nightly foundation, then use that data to create a customized sleep soundtrack of soothing sounds that will help you get to sleep and keep asleep a bit simpler. The speaker additionally has a light-weight that may steadily brighten to imitate dawn, waking you up a bit extra gently than a loud smartphone alarm. It’s all options we’ve seen earlier than on the earth of sleep tech, however the SleepLab Pro lastly places all of it collectively in a single gadget.
Laifen Glowy Vanity Mirror
Laifen is bringing the studio dwelling with their Glowy Vanity Mirror. The ring mild round this 8.5-inch mirror has been tuned to imitate pure lighting to offer a extra correct reflection of what you’ll appear to be out within the daylight. There are lighting presets you could regulate, and the mirror can flip in your favored preset when it senses you approaching. It’s additionally light-weight and might function on battery energy, making it a strong journey companion. Not fairly the magic mirror, however getting there!
Acer Project DualPlay Mini
Acer confirmed off an idea handheld gaming PC with much more twisting and swiveling occurring than standard. The 8-inch clamshell opens up right into a mini laptop computer, with a small keyboard that can be utilized in a pinch for first-person shooter video games (or, extra boring, for work), however that keyboard can swivel round and be folded behind the show so you should utilize Project DualPlay Mini as a conventional handheld gaming PC. The models on both facet of the show can be rotated, with audio system on one facet and gaming buttons and joysticks on the opposite.
It’s meant to be a hybrid recreation and work gadget, with output ports that permit it to be hooked as much as an exterior show to offer it a bit extra versatility. But, Project DualPlay Mini is only a idea for now, so it stays to be seen if it’ll ever be launched, or if we’ll see some concepts from this gadget present up in different Acer merchandise down the street.
Tecno Next-Gen Bezelless Concept Phone
If you need a fast shock, check out an image of a smartphone from round 2009 — the bezels are extra huge than you keep in mind. Smartphones have come a good distance in the direction of slimming down that black border across the show since then, however at IFA 2026, Tecno confirmed off an idea cellphone that eliminates them altogether. Turns on the market are loads of thorny technical causes that make eliminating bezels troublesome, and possibly Tecno hasn’t gotten all the way in which there — the cellphone is only a idea, in spite of everything — but when nothing else, it’s a working prototype, and that edge-to-edge show positive appears fairly!
Samsung | Canvas THE HiFi S99H
Even among the many best possible TVs, audio tends to be an afterthought — when you’re splurging for a dear TV, you’re most likely going to splurge individually on the perfect sound system you could find, too. Samsung and Canvas are lastly presenting each in a single package deal at this 12 months’s present. Samsung labored with the audio specialists at Canvas to mix their high-end S99H OLED TV with a bespoke high-fidelity sound system ensconced in a lovely wood body that makes THE HiFi S99H appear to be a lovely piece of furnishings to be proven off. To make sure, a prerequisite for a beginning asking value of €7,999!
Vitesy Fruit Bowl
We’ve been going to those types of commerce exhibits and selecting our favorites for a few years, and whereas nobody’s reminiscence is ideal, I can say with nearly 100% certainty that that is the primary time a fruit bowl has made it onto a better of record. And it’s properly deserved! The Vitesy Fruit Bowl does one factor very properly — retains fruit more energizing for longer, utilizing a catalytic filter that that pulls moisture and ethylene gasoline away from fruit. Those are the issues that make fruit ripen and/or develop mould extra shortly, so when you’ve ever bought a bunch of peaches all to come back again in a pair days and see a mushy slop of mould and unhappy fruit within the bowl, the Vitesy Fruit Bowl is perhaps one thing to regulate.
Jackery HomePower 1000 Plus V2
Jackery recurrently delivers some spectacular large-scale batteries at IFA, and this 12 months, they’ve a complete system good for each dwelling use and longer outside journeys. The Jackery HomePower 1000 Plus V2 is an 1,800W battery that may be mixed with stackable battery models to offer as much as 11kWh of energy. It’s a plug-and-play backup battery system that may maintain a number of home equipment and units operating throughout an influence outage with none sophisticated set up wants. It might be charged shortly over a easy connection to an ordinary AC outlet, and it may be hooked as much as a photo voltaic panel array to retailer extra solar energy, which is a should for anybody who needs to make use of photo voltaic to chop down their vitality payments as a lot as doable.
Violoop
The agentic AI bonanza has led to loads of hobbyists and professionals alike utilizing their very own customized AI brokers to automate huge components of their work and residential lives. Folks who aren’t as deep within the AI weeds however who wish to attempt it out often default to one of many many massive fashions on the market, like ChatGPT or Gemini or DeepSeek. Those are all cloud-based brokers, that means all the main points of your life head to their servers. Violoop is a small AI gadget that simplifies establishing an AI agent to make use of your laptop (whether or not it’s a more recent machine with a chipset that higher facilitates AI or one operating on older {hardware}). You can arrange your personal workflows round responding to emails, or simply have extra granular management over good dwelling units. Whatever you do, you get the advantage of Violoop maintaining your whole information on the gadget itself — the entire AI processing occurs regionally.
Asus Zenbook 14
The Asus Zenbook 14 may not have as many colour choices as others on this record, however the three on supply — Komodo Coral, Arctic Blue, and Zabriskie Beige — all look beautiful in Asus’s personal mix of ceramic and aluminum used within the chassis. The Zenbook 14 additionally stands out for being a very mild laptop computer, a 14-inch machine that weighs below 2.5 kilos. And, due to a Snapdragon X processor and a big battery, it ought to survive on battery energy for many of the day, even with an OLED show.
Dyson CameraJet
Dyson is all the time good from dwelling tech that appears a bit additional, and their entry into toothbrushes at IFA 2026 is not any exception. Not content material to merely make their very own electrical toothbrush, Dyson threw a digicam, a processor, and a high-powered water jet in there to make the toothbrush do what too many people received’t on our personal — floss. The digicam detects minute gaps between tooth, and the processor takes that data and alerts to the water jet when to hit these gaps and blast out any caught particles or plaque between tooth. It’s additionally the wildest trying electrical toothbrush we’ve ever seen at one among these exhibits, and we’d anticipate nothing much less from Dyson.
Lenovo ThinkBook Project Swan Concept and Project Aeroblade idea
Lenovo all the time provides us a pair enjoyable appears at the way forward for laptops at IFA. Lately, they’ve been on a rollable show kick, and that continues with Project Swan, a 14-inch idea ThinkBook laptop computer with a rollable show that may prolong out to a 16:9 17-inch show. If you’ve ever tried utilizing a laptop computer as a split-screen multitasking gadget and acquired aggravated with the dearth of display area, this one can be for you.
For people who worth ease of journey over all the things, Project Aeroblade asks what a laptop computer purpose-designed to be as mild and skinny as doable would appear to be. This 14-inch idea laptop computer is simply 10mm thick and weighs below 830g, or about 1.8 kilos, which is staggeringly mild for this measurement of a laptop computer. The major innovation is a brand new fanless cooling system from the oldsters at Frore, who’ve developed the AirJet cooling chip. AirJet takes in warmth from the processor and, utilizing vibrating membranes, creates a robust move of air away from the processor with out utilizing massive transferring components that power the laptop computer to be thicker and heavier.
It’s a a lot lighter answer with out compromising on cooling effectiveness, that means the Aeroblade idea might nonetheless deal with intensive workloads whereas sufficiently managing warmth to permit for constant efficiency. Like Project Swan, Project Aeroblade is simply an unreleased idea for now, however we’d anticipate to see this type of cooling tech in quite a lot of laptops within the years to come back.
Roborock Saros 20 Flow Complete
We’d by no means depart an IFA present with out shouting out a robotic vacuum — this 12 months, it’s the Roborock Saros 20 Flow Complete combo vacuum and mop. This 12 months, there are not any splashy options just like the robotic, sock-grabbing arm from final 12 months, with Roborock specializing in the basics. The vacuum is highly effective at 36,000pa, however the primary enchancment appears to be on the mopping facet, the place Roborock has elevated downward power to raised assist scrub away more durable stains. They’ve additionally elevated the stress and frequency of the self-cleaning system for the mop, stopping the mop from spreading grime round whereas it’s making an attempt to wash. That’s all in a bot that’s a bit over 3.5 inches tall, making it one of many thinnest out there.
Philips Hue Liane 360 Rope Light
Philips has been main the way in which on good LED lighting, not simply by creating an easy-to-use good lighting system with their Hue line, however by imagining different types of dwelling lighting past the standard mild bulb. The coolest factor we noticed of theirs at this 12 months’s present was the Hue Liane 360 Rope Light, and the identify and picture nearly say all of it. It’s a strip of versatile rope that emits mild in all instructions, but it surely’s stiff sufficient to the place it can maintain its form when you’ve molded it. You can wrap it round items of furnishings, spell out phrases in cursive — no matter you may think about. And, it’s out there instantly, beginning at $400.
Govee Sky Ceiling Light
In the temper lighting class, Govee had their Sky Ceiling Light on show at this 12 months’s present. The ceiling mild can emit mild throughout a large spectrum. When plugged right into a broader community of good dwelling units and AI brokers, the sunshine can detect while you’re working and steadily shift the sunshine to a extra stress-free hue. The Sky Ceiling Light may also monitor ambient mild and maintain the depth and hue of its mild pure because the day progresses.
Moto Watch Ultra
Our favourite wearable from this 12 months’s present was the Moto Watch Ultra. As all the time, factors scored for appears in addition to tech — the Pantone colours on the silicone watch bands look terrific, whereas a partnership with Polar ensures correct coronary heart price monitoring whereas including a bunch of latest sleep monitoring and evaluation options, together with monitoring sleep high quality and the way refreshed you’re the day after. On the {hardware} facet, the Moto Watch Ultra has a 1.5-inch OLED show, NFC help for cell funds, Google’s Wear OS, and, for the primary time for a Moto Watch, an LTE variant that permits the watch to have its personal mobile connection impartial of your cellphone. It’s additionally IP68-rated, making it waterproof. Not unhealthy for a beginning value of $350.