The 9 coolest devices I noticed at IFA 2026 – together with a bezelless cellphone

IFA simply kicked off its 2026 present in Berlin, and I’ve been on the bottom taking in all the brand new tech, from robotic garden mowers and rollable laptops to each sort of sensible dwelling gadget you possibly can think about.

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There’s no option to see all of it, however right here’s my shortlist of the good devices I went hands-on with on the present, together with a bezelless smartphone, a necklace that tracks what you eat, and a tool that runs your pc for you.

1. Acer Swift Blade 14

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Acer introduced the Swift Blade 14 at IFA, the only real mannequin in an all-new subbrand of ultralight, skinny laptops with OLED shows. The 14-inch mannequin weighs simply 1.7 kilos (799 grams) and measures 0.5 inches thick, with a 3K OLED show and an Intel Core 7 350 processor — a light-weight, battery-efficient chip.

It’s a beautiful laptop computer, however it isn’t supposed for demanding workflows, because it caps out at simply 12GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM and an built-in Intel graphics card. Instead, it commits to portability and premium options at an accessible (however not but finalized) value level.

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It’s additionally one of many lightest laptops I’ve gone hands-on with, focusing on customers on the lookout for portability and battery life throughout mainstream workflows and visible content material … and looking out good whereas doing it. The Swift Blade 14 is ready to be launched within the first quarter of 2027.

2. Tecno’s bezelless cellphone

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It wouldn’t be IFA with out some proof-of-concept gadgets, and Tecno’s aptly named Bezelless smartphone is without doubt one of the coolest of 2026. It’s not precisely 100% bezel-free, however the 6.78-inch OLED panel stretches all the best way to the perimeters of the cellphone, making the display and UI appear big in your hand.

The idea mannequin options 8GB of RAM, 256GB of native storage, a MediaTek Dimensity 7400e chipset, and a 50MP important digital camera, however ought to it truly make it to market, these specs might actually change. What’s cool right here is the corporate’s means to point out off a profitable execution of this design and the way it might encourage follow-up gadgets.

3. Odyss food-logging necklace

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Let’s admit it: Manual meals logging is unattainable to maintain over time. Odyss‘ AI-powered necklace makes an attempt to unravel the issue of guide enter by mechanically figuring out and monitoring what you eat by means of the multimodal AI digital camera within the necklace.

This expertise already exists, to make certain, however what stunned me was how good it was at rapidly and precisely figuring out meals, notably extra complicated mixtures of cooked dishes like “couscous with roasted carrots and sprouts”.

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Privacy considerations abound when carrying what is actually a digital camera round your neck, however this showcase of clever multimodal AI has fascinating implications for the way forward for health-focused wearables. Odyss is at present beta testing.

4. Flowtica Scribe

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I admire when product designers perceive that the best resolution is usually the perfect. Flowtica’s Scribe is a standard (and really premium) ballpoint pen with a particular function: It’s additionally a recorder and transcriber. With a single button on the highest of the pen, you possibly can rapidly file total conferences or conversations whereas taking notes as regular.

Transcriptions are despatched to the app, and tapping the multifunction button permits for some extra capabilities for the top outcome, like highlighting explicit elements of a dialog because it’s taking place in actual time so you possibly can come again to the vital elements. The Scribe is accessible now for $159.

5. Plantiemoji

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The large manufacturers like to point out off at IFA, however the present is notable for its small-scale merchandise, too. Take this system from the two-person firm Plantiemoji. It’s basically a sensor you stick into the soil that measures soil high quality, oxygen, moisture, and lightweight, then makes use of AI to match them with the optimum situations to your plant species (identifiable within the app).

The ensuing evaluation comes again within the type of an animated emoji GIF — one among 26 accessible — on the sensor, summarizing how the plant is feeling and what you are able to do to enhance it. This isn’t groundbreaking tech, however it is likely to be one of the best ways to show my 3-year-old niece tips on how to look after crops.

6. Dell 14S

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We noticed a handful of MacBook Neo opponents at IFA this yr, however maybe the sleekest is Dell’s new 14S, an all-aluminum 14-inch laptop computer hitting the market proper across the $699 value level. It brings the fundamentals to a stable construct, with a sensible choice of ports, cool colorways, and a few implausible battery life: as much as 21 hours on one cost, Dell says.

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It caps out at 16GB of RAM and runs Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” processors — light-weight, battery-efficient chips — for all-day use by college students and for mainstream workflows. For PC customers looking for a Neo equal, that is as shut as I’ve seen but. The 14S will probably be accessible this fall.

7. Violoop

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This little field connects to your pc by way of HDMI and USB-C and harnesses multimodal AI to see what’s in your display. It then takes actions in your behalf — together with complicated, multistep workflows like responding to emails or navigating databases.

Violoop processes content material regionally to find out what it’s seeing and tips on how to act — together with navigating Windows and net pages and typing by itself. In a demo, the corporate informed me it’s designed to be a “second participant” in your pc, performing actions and doing be just right for you, even if you happen to’re utterly AFK.

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It’s nonetheless coaching, nevertheless, having accessed solely tens of hundreds of screens — not the hundreds of thousands it wants — with success charges for extra complicated duties not fairly averaging 80%. Still, watching this little field undergo your emails, kind responses, and ship them efficiently was a bit scary, however it hints on the close to way forward for AI brokers within the office. Violoop is at present on Kickstarter.

8. Lenovo’s “Project Swan” rollable laptop computer

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Lenovo’s newest rollable laptop computer proof of idea is a bit tamer than previous years’ iterations, and that’s a great factor. Dubbed “Project Swan,” this 14-inch ThinkBook encompasses a horizontal rollable display that extends out to 17 inches — simply sufficient to be impactful, however not so large as to seem like a precarious (and costly) gimmick.

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The design right here is extra sensible, with a single hinge connecting the extra-large show to the keyboard element and only some inches of extension on both facet. Lenovo has proved that it’s going to convey its proof of ideas to market, so Project Swan — or a equally designed laptop computer — might turn out to be a actuality inside a yr or so, particularly for the reason that reined-in mechanics might maintain costs extra accessible.

9. Acer’s Project DualPlay Mini

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Gamers who journey for work, rejoice. The idea right here is straightforward: a gaming handheld with a display that flips round to the again so it might probably turn out to be a mini laptop computer.

The {hardware} in fashionable gaming handhelds is highly effective sufficient to behave as PCs, and this one is not any exception. Powered by an Intel chip (although Acer didn’t specify which one), it runs Windows and simply takes on the function of a laptop computer with a backlit keyboard or a handheld with the identical dual-fan cooling structure as Acer’s different flagship handheld, the Predator Atlas 8.

The DualPlay Mini continues to be a proof of idea, however that is one I’ve excessive hopes of seeing within the close to future.