The fall’s biggest tech show has come and gone, giving us a few more gadgets to look forward to between now and the end of the year. This year was all about the home, with lots of AI-powered security cameras and, as always, leaps ahead in the robot vacuum game. But, IFA 2025 had its fair share for the gamers, too, with a new portable PC gaming machine from Lenovo and some gorgeous new TVs to for playing at home. Read about all that, plus a few more surprises, in our Best of IFA 2025 roundup.
The best of IFA 2025
Lenovo Legion Go 2
Teased earlier in the year at CES, Lenovo made the Legion Go 2 gaming handheld official this week, and it’s a big leap forward from the first generation. With an OLED display, a more powerful processor, and much improved controllers, the Legion Go 2 looks like one of the most technically impressive gaming handhelds on the market — a big reason it’s commanding a price just north of $1,000.
Baseus Security X1 Pro Outdoor Dual Camera
Security cameras were big at IFA 2025, and just in terms of size, there might have been none bigger than the Baseus Security X1 Pro Outdoor Dual Camera. Powered by a large solar panel that automatically rotates to follow the sun, this security camera has two separate camera modules, both of which can take 3k video, together covering up to a 300-degree field of vision. Add in AI subject tracking, and you have a security camera that won’t miss anything.
You can even avoid paying subscription costs — the camera can be loaded up with a 512GB microSD card. Local storage is also much better for data privacy, although 512GB might not be all that much, depending on how much 3k video you record and save.
LG StanbyME 2
Somewhere between a tablet and a TV is the LG StanbyME 2, a 27-inch 1440p display that can go anywhere in the home. The new version has a higher resolution display than the original, but is also much more versatile — the display comes on a wheeled stand that can be taken around the home, but the display can be taken off and used with its kickstand or hung on the wall, and used in either horizontal or vertical orientations. With a four-hour battery life, the StanbyME can even be used outside or in places in the home far away from an outlet.
Samsung Galaxy S25 FE
Samsung took time during IFA 2025 to round out its Galaxy S25 line with the Galaxy S25 FE, a more affordable version of their flagship phone. The FE (fan edition) of the Galaxy S runs on Samsung’s own Exynos chipsets, but premium features still abound, like a 6.7-inch AMOLED display and an excellent three-camera array, including an 8MP 3x optical zoom camera. Not bad for $650!
Philips Hue MotionAware
New security cameras? Not surprising. A little more surprising was seeing Philips Hue smart lights join the home security system fray. It’s a clever implementation that works with existing lights, as long as they are all connected to the same Hue Bridge Pro. As long as you have more than three or four lights in a room, those lights can connect to each other over the Zigbee standard, with fluctuations in those wireless connections from passersby now able to trigger alarms that can be pushed to your phone. Easiest way to explain it? Imagine the kind of network of laser tripwires you see in heist movies, but substitute wireless connections for lasers. Almost as cool, just as effective!
Valerion VisionMaster Max
The ultimate form of Kickstarter darling Valerion’s projector has arrived, and it’s earning its $5,000 price tag. Capable of up to 3,500 lumens of brightness, the projector pushes out crisp, clear images while using an algorithm to help boost black levels to get a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. No surprise it has HDR10+ certification! AI also helps with lightning fast light blending to avoid the rainbow effect that plagues projectors during fast-moving scenes.
It’s not just the image quality that impresses — the VisionMaster Max uses a zoom lens to throw up to a 300-inch picture, and can detect wall contours to fit picture to wall perfectly. The projector also features vertical lens shift, so you can push the picture up or down the wall to better suit your viewing angle without having to physically reposition the projector (or shove another book under it to tilt it further up).
Anker Eufy MarsWalker
As always at tech shows, there was excitement around robot vacuums. But, this time, the star of a show wasn’t a vacuum, but a robot vacuum assistant. The Eufy MarsWalker is a shell that goes around a robot vacuum (specifically, the Eufy Omni S2 Pro) and uses four robotic arms and treads to pull and roll that vacuum up a flight of stairs — yet another vexing robot vacuum problem solved. The MarsWalker should be available sometime next year, but we’re hoping this means we’ll be seeing robot vacuums that can handle stairs by themselves sometime in the next few years.
SwitchBot Acemate Tennis Robot
We didn’t think tennis was going to give us our favorite robot of the show, but what’s IFA without a surprise or two? The Acemate Tennis Robot looks like a really useful training companion for competitive tennis players — far more than just a lob machine, you can adjust spin, vert, and positioning to give yourself drills, whether that’s for returning serves, recovering from tough shots, or hitting overhead smashes. The robot also has a camera that can track your movements, allowing it rally with you, as well. That camera will then record data about your shots, creating shot charts and generating training insights based on what it sees.
Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro
Govee upped their mood lighting game with the TV Backlight 3 Pro, a backlight kit for TVs that produces light to match what’s on screen. With the Backlight 3 Pro, Govee is using a small three-camera array perched on top of your TV to detect light coming from the display and change the color of the backlight accordingly, a method that should be more accurate than reading data from the HDMI connection. The white performance also promises to be better, with less unwanted color tint.
Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight Camera
Reolink wasn’t content to bring merely a security camera to this year’s show — they threw some extremely bright lights on the TrackFlex Floodlight Camera for good measure. The dual-camera array covers a wide angle, and motion sensors cover an even wider angle, in turn triggering the camera module to rotate and follow something moving outside its field of vision. If it picks up something suspicious late at night, it can use both audio and those super bright lights as alarms, in addition to pushing mobile alerts to your phone. And thanks to AI, the camera can distinguish between pets and people, only triggering the alarm when it senses the latter.
Hisense L9Q Laser TV
Hisense calls it a TV, but it’s not the kind of TV you’re thinking of. The L9Q Laser TV is actually a projector with a TV tuner (and running Google TV), but it’s one of the most impressive projectors we’ve seen yet. Capable of outputting 5,000 lumens of brightness, the TV is capable of excellent performance and contrast even in brightly lit rooms. Hisense nailed all the details, too — the kit comes with a 6.2.2-channel virtual surround sound system in the projector unit that uses Dolby Atmos processing, plus an Ambient Light Rejection screen (which you can get in different sizes) to project onto.
Roborock RockMow Z1
Our favorite robot vacuum makers are taking their show on the road — or at least onto the lawn. The Roborock RockMow Z1 is one of the most impressive robot lawnmowers we’ve seen yet, thanks to its abilities to trim edges close to walls and clear small steps. Dynamic suspension, all-wheel drive, and AI-powered camera and mapping systems help the bot navigate lawns, create efficient paths, and adjust its cutting angle when rolling over rocks to maintain an even cut. The goal is for the bot to get all the little details right, without you having to go in for a clean-up trim after it’s done.
Rokid Glasses
Rokid is coming for the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses — their AI/AR glasses are lightweight and just sleek enough to not immediately reveal themselves as a gadget instead of a normal pair of glasses. Despite being small and light, the Rokid Glasses have both cameras and displays, opening up more AI potential. For example, the cameras can read text in another language and the AI processor in the glasses can quickly translate and give you a text and audio interpretation in English (or your native language). Slow AI and awkward looks have long held back the smart glasses category, and it looks like Rokid has figured out both problems.
DJI Mic 3
The DJI Mic 3 is an all-in-one wireless mic kit — all the accessories you need, including the mics, windscreens, clips, cable, and receiver fit neatly in the charging case. The mic transmitters themselves are small and light, and DJI has improved their performance with timecode support and better noise cancellation for outdoor use. There’s even an automatic adaptive gain setting that can detect background noise and boost the wearer’s voice accordingly. A 28-hour battery life should make these popular field companions.
xTool P3 CO2 Laser Cutter and Engraver
Here’s something for the artists and craftspeople out there — the xTool P3 CO2 Laser Cutter and Engraver is a high-powered machine that brings professional gear to a price more accessible for hobbyists ($6,000). The P3 is now faster, more precise, and safer, thanks to new cooling and fire suppression systems. Depending on the intensity of the laser, it can etch into or cut through glass, acrylic, leather, and wood, allowing for artisans to create finely etched designs or beautiful pieces of furniture.
Tineco Floor One S9 Scientist
No IFA roundup would be complete without a vacuum cleaner! This time, it’s the Tineco Floor One S9 Scientist, a vacuum that excels at cleaning hard floors. It’s got a high-powered water jet that blasts stains away from tile and grout alike, and is slim enough to clean corners and edges effectively. It’ll be beloved by the non-cleaners in the home, too — it’s one of the quieter vacuums at 70 dB. It’s also more sanitary, because the roller quietly and quickly dries itself after use to prevent bacteria growth.