Ten devices that caught our consideration at CES 2026

An AI pocket pet, a vibrating ultrasonic knife and a “paper battery” had been among the many fascinating and strange merchandise on show on the world’s most influential know-how honest, CES, in Las Vegas this week.

Running yearly within the first days of the brand new 12 months, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) places main manufacturers comparable to Samsung and LG alongside small firms, start-ups and disruptors as they launch new merchandise and take a look at out fringe ideas.

This 12 months, maybe unsurprisingly, synthetic intelligence (AI) was all over the place, from smoke alarms to showers to shoe cabinets. However, this was extra fatiguing than inspiring, with few AI merchandise succeeding in grabbing our consideration or making the case for his or her usefulness.

In probably the most crowded of crowded fields, these are the devices that stood out, whether or not for his or her novelty, potential or polish.

“Paper battery” by Flint

Singaporean tech firm Flint’s rechargeable “paper battery” is a skinny, versatile, non-toxic and non-explosive various to at the moment’s lithium batteries, created from a mixture of zinc, manganese and a water-based answer. The firm even claims that it’ll biodegrade on the finish of its life cycle.

Unlike most experimental battery designs, the paper battery has formally entered manufacturing at Flint’s facility in Singapore, lighting a beacon of hope that we could possibly transfer away from damaging lithium and cobalt mining.

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CLOiD robotic by LG

For a very long time, the common-or-garden act of folding laundry was held up for instance of the form of mundane however quietly complicated on a regular basis human duties that had been past the capabilities of robots.

This 12 months, CES was dwelling to not one however two humanoid machines slowly however certainly folding clothes –DYNA Robotics’ laundry service robot and LG’s CLOiD – an AI-powered robotic that the electronics model has focused on the home market.

Debuted on stage as a part of LG’s keynote presentation, the AI-powered CLOiD robotic is claimed to naturally have interaction with the people it serves and deal with a small vary of family chores, together with laundry, retrieving gadgets and easy cooking.

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Smart Brick by Lego

Toy producer Lego has revealed an upgraded model of its beloved brick with digital elements able to making engines roar, lights flash and lightsabres hum in response to actions throughout play.

The Smart Brick, a part of a brand new Smart Play system, makes use of elements comparable to sensors, accelerometers and tiny audio system to carry a brand new ingredient into Lego builds and shall be launched initially in three Star Wars units launching in March.

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C-200 knife by Seattle Ultrasonics

Billed because the “world’s first ultrasonic knife”, the C-200 by American producer Seattle Ultrasonics vibrates greater than 30,000 instances per second.

These vibrations are imperceptible to the human eye – and hand – however supposedly assist the blade to behave sharper than it really is, fairly actually slashing the pressure wanted for chopping by half.

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Clicks Communicator by Clicks Technology

Last 12 months, we requested whether or not the rise of AI is likely to be the tip of smartphones. Instead, we is likely to be seeing folks every have two, with the second serving a extra contained perform.

That’s the guess that Clicks Technology is making with its Clicks Communicator, a cellphone designed primarily for messaging. It combines a messaging-first interface with a Blackberry-style bodily keyboard, and Clicks imagines folks may use it together with a second smartphone for leisure and content material.

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Music Studio 5 speaker by Samsung and Erwan Bouroullec

Following on from his work on the Serif TV, French designer Erwan Bouroullec has once more collaborated with Samsung on the Music Studio 5, a speaker with a minimalist dot design.

Bouroullec’s intention was to create a design that will not be “forgotten the moment the sound stops”, however as a substitute resembles an summary sculpture that enhances an inside even when not in use.

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MC03 smartphone by Punkt

The MC03 has one distinctive promoting level: privateness. Created by the Swiss know-how firm Punkt, it’s a full-featured smartphone supposed to get rid of invasive practices comparable to monitoring and profiling, give customers full management over their knowledge, and shield them from spying and hacking.

The cellphone is focused at people who find themselves disaffected with mainstream know-how firms and ships with none of the default Google apps which are sometimes packaged into Android units. According to Punkt founder and CEO Petter Neby, privateness is being sought by folks greater than ever, notably as we enter the age of AI.

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Updated Varmblixt lamp by IKEA and Sabine Marcelis

IKEA made its CES debut in 2026, bringing a variety of recent good merchandise for the house, together with an up to date model of the doughnut-shaped Varmblixt lamp by Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis. Originally launched in 2023, this chubby orange lamp shortly bought out and have become a viral hit for its playful and tactile kind.

The up to date model has a matte white end and a dimmable, colour-changing good bulb. Marcelis describes it as “a very natural, technical evolution of how light can be experienced”.

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Neo hybrid headphones by TDM

Another world premiere at 12 months’s CES got here from audio model TDM, which debuted the “first and only” headphones that flip into a transportable speaker.

TDM’s patent-pending twist mechanism merely aligns the 2 earpieces and wraps the scarf round them to kind a compact speaker.

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Sweekar by Takway

Chinese startup Takway unveiled a cute AI-powered digital pet, designed to develop bodily and emotionally alongside its consumer by voice interactions.

Similar in idea to a Tamagotchi, Sweekar is a handheld accent that customers should maintain alive. However, in contrast to conventional digital pets, Sweekar is fitted with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)-based behavioural modelling that determines every pet’s particular person character.

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is on in Las Vegas, USA, from 6 to 9 January 2026. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date checklist of structure and design occasions happening around the globe.