The whole tech industry is in Vegas this week for CES 2026, showing the world what’s coming in the next year and beyond. And while yes, part of that answer is AI, and a lot of it, in everything, this year’s show was packed with some seriously cool tech that we didn’t expect — a laptop display that can roll out into a widescreen, all manner of increasingly smart chore-doing robots, and some pretty out-there concepts that shake up how we think of our favorite gadgets. It was a packed show this year, but we’ve finally managed to narrow things down to our Top Picks at CES!
Top Picks at CES 2026
Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable Concept
You can put all the Nvidia you want into a gaming laptop, but it’ll always fall short of a good gaming desktop in one big way — the widescreen display you’ve got hooked up to it. Until now, that is! Lenovo used their recent experience with rollable OLED displays to make a concept laptop with a display that extends out in both directions horizontally, giving gamers widescreen gaming on the go.
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
You’ve heard of multi-display setups — this display flips that on its head and makes multi-PC setups a thing. Targeting day traders, executives, and all manner of professional dashboard gazers, the Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor is a massive 52-inch IPS 6K display (not OLED, perhaps to keep the price down) with a 120Hz refresh rate.
Not only does it aim to replace a collection of two or three separate displays, up to four different PCs can be connected to it at once, with feeds from each PC appearing in different quadrants. The monitor even has ports for keyboard and mouse that allow you to control all four PCs with one set. So, if running all the things you need to watch would blow up a single PC, you can now spread the processing load around to more PCs while still feeling like you’re just using one PC.
Xreal 1S
Xreal is making their AR glasses just a little bit better at this year’s CES — a mid-generation improvement to the Xreal One, the Xreal 1s gets a bump in resolution from 1080p to 1200p, a bump in brightness from 600 nits to 700 nits, and a bump in field of view from 50 degrees to 52 degrees. Basically, everything is either the same or a little better. Normally not too exciting, but here’s the kicker — the one number that did drop was the price, from $500 to $450. If you’ve been holding off on getting turn-by-turn directions right in front of your eyeballs, here’s your chance to get more for less!
Mova Rover X10 Robotic Pool Cleaner
Robotic pool cleaners may have long preceded robot vacuums and robot lawnmowers, but they haven’t been getting quite as much high-tech love as their robot siblings until very recently. Makes sense — while the other two have to deal with a (usually) flat plane, the humble pool bot needs to go up walls, stairs, and inclines, all while underwater.
The Mova Rover X10 is the best in recent memory, designed to tackle all the complexities of the swimming pool. It can thoroughly clean floor and walls alike, while tackling corners and steps and giving a little extra love to the staining that can happen around the waterline. Like other cleaning bots, it has its own scanning system to map out the pool and plan cleaning routes accordingly, so it doesn’t wander around blindly for hours on end like the pool bots of old.
Govee Ceiling Light Ultra
Long gone are the days when lighting meant just buying a plain old light bulb. The Govee Ceiling Light Ultra is a replacement for traditional (i.e. boring) round overhead light fixtures. A light that can only do one color? Not in 2026. The Ceiling Light Ultra doesn’t just change color on command, it has a 616-pixel LED matrix that allows you to create gradients, animations, and color patterns. Truly the next evolution of mood lighting.
Segway is planting itself as a leader in robot lawnmowers with the Navimow X4. Building on the previous model, the Navimow X4 introduces zero-turn technology that allows the bot to rotate around corners without taking out huge divots from the lawn in the process, maintaining an even mow. With 12 blades powered by two 180-watt motors, the bot can power through an acre of grass within 11 hours, making the mower more efficient than before. Best of all, network RTK capabilities allow the bot to function without an antenna station, keeping it operational by using satellite connectivity.
Dreame Z30 Cordless Stick Vacuum
We do love a good value. The Dreame Z30 Cordless Stick Vacuum is distills the kind of suction power you usually find on $600-$700+ vacuums and puts it in a lightweight, sleek frame that can currently be had for just $330 through Dreame. It’s easy to push around at under five pounds, can hit corners effectively, and with a battery life of 90 minutes, is perfect for quick weekly cleaning runs through the house.
Dreame X-Wind Air Conditioner
If you don’t have central air conditioning (or, if you live in a place that used to not need air conditioning, and now does), wall-mounted air conditioners might be on your radar. Dreame is making a splash at CES 2026 with pretty much every kind of electronic device and appliance you can think of, but this little improvement to the wall-mounted air conditioner got our attention — the X-Wind Air Conditioner uses a pair of robotic arms to make the angle of air output wider, cooling an entire room more quickly and more evenly. Because it uses two arms, it can even make localized adjustments, pushing out a more intense stream of cold air to one side of the room while keeping it gentle on the other side — perfect for the one person in the family who think it’s always too hot or too cold.
GE Profile Smart 4-Door French-Door Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant
When a fridge hits this list, you know it’s not going to be just for keeping things cold. This GE smart refrigerator is laser-focused on solving the most vexing problem in all of grocery shopping — oh no, I bought too much parsley, and bought a bunch when I didn’t need to, and now all the parsley is bad. Thanks to internal cameras, whoever is doing the grocery shopping can get a live look inside the fridge, including in the crisper drawers, to avoid buying anything that is already there. It’s perfect for families that maybe aren’t always super good at having everyone on the same page re: what’s in the fridge. It even has a barcode scanner that can be used to add items that you’re getting low on to a digital grocery list that the whole family can access. Or, you can share it to Instacart and be done with it. Either way!
Segway Myon e-bike
Last year, Segway came to CES looking to make a splash in the ebike world, and they did with the high-powered Xyber and Xafari models. This year, they’re bringing ebikes to the people — the Myon and Muxi are smaller ebikes aimed more at folks who just want something that looks like a bike but makes going up hills not miserable. The Myon is the larger of the two, and has an 80-mile range and an automated shifter that works with just the press of a button. The Muxi is a little smaller and has a cute sort of hipster look to it that we’re digging. Unlike last year’s more powerful models, both the Myon and Muxi come in at or below $2,000 ($2,000 for the Myon, $1,700 for the Muxi).
Motorola Razr Fold
With the Motorola Razr being synonymous with the flip phone back in the day, of course Motorola is going to be involved in all things foldable today! At this year’s show, Motorola debuted the Razr Fold, the first book-style foldable in the Razr line. They’re just previewing the phone for now, but an early look tells us it could be one of the best foldables in 2026, with an impressive three-camera array and an internal 8.1-inch OLED display.
Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold
Now that Samsung has years of foldables under its belt, it’s no surprise that it looks like they’ve added one more fold perfectly. The Galaxy Z Trifold is a 6.5-inch smartphone when folded up, perhaps a little thicker than most at 12.9mm — but it becomes shockingly thin when unfolded not once, but twice to become a 10-inch tablet-sized device that is just under 4mm thick. It can be used as a tablet, or can run three separate apps on each segment of the display for some serious multitasking. It’s the most versatile phone we’ve ever seen, and with the amount of experience Samsung now has in building foldable phones, we’ve got faith that they can pull this off without serious durability issues on the display or hinges down the road.
Roborock Saros 20
The Roborock Saros 20 is Roborock’s updated flagship robot vacuum, an improvement on one of our favorites from CES 2025. The FlexiArm that can get into corners and edges is back, along with a better obstacle detection and avoidance system, more powerful suction, the ability to climb small stairs, and a self-cleaning protocol that is even better at preventing mold and bacteria growth after use. With a long battery life and more efficient pathing, the Saros 20 can clean deeper and head back to its dock faster, and you get to cross vacuuming off as a chore permanently.
Roborock Saros Rover
Folks, we’ve got walking robot vacuums. No surprise that Roborock is topping robotic arms on vacuums with robotic legs that can walk the vacuum up any flight of stairs. But wait! You may point out that we have seen this before, recently. While we have seen vacuums ascend stairs in the last year, they’re doing a disaffected teenager’s job of it — climbing the stairs, but not actually cleaning them. The Saros Rover is the first one we’ve seen that does both, and it promises to be thorough.
Rather than use a set of tank-like treads, the Saros Rover uses a pair of legs that can rotate and be adjusted continuously to help the vacuum maintain balance while climbing stairs. That allows the vacuum to maintain contact with each stair, using extendable brushes to clean as it goes. Roborock is indicating that there will be few restrictions, too — when released, the Saros Rover should be able to handle hard and carpeted stairs alike, as well as both straight and spiral staircases, with good enough spatial detection and balance capabilities to not take a spill downwards.
The design is tailor-made to handle staircases, but the legs help the vacuum over any uneven surfaces, lifting over obstacles and taking the vacuum up inclines while cleaning evenly. That would make it the ultimate robot vacuum, but it’s not ready to go quite yet. While Roborock has confirmed that they plan to release the Saros Rover, no release date has been set — after all, for a commercial release, they have to be really sure it’s not going to fall down the stairs.
Reolink OMVI X16 PoE
Reolink made an impression in the security camera space with their AI-based ReoNeura technology, which improves object recognition and allows users to perform natural language searches to search through video footage. Not only does the OMVI X16 PoE camera benefit from those AI features, it has some serious hardware — dual 16MP panoramic cameras with a 180-degree field of view and an 8MP pan-tilt-zoom camera that can pan a full 360 degrees, tilt 140 degrees, and is capable of 16x optical zoom. That pan-tilt-zoom camera can track and follow moving objects and people even beyond the field of view of the dual panoramic cameras. With the AI features, that means you can set more specific alarm triggers, knowing that the camera is smart enough and perceptive enough to catch what you’re looking for.
Samsung Freestyle+
The Samsung Freestyle+ is an updated version of the original Freestyle projector from a few years ago — it’s brighter, has better audio, all the little things we expect. Here’s what we didn’t expect: it can project onto anything. On even surfaces, the 3D Auto Keystone will flatten images and make them look pristine, even if you’re projecting onto the edge between the wall and the ceiling. In fact, it doesn’t even need to be a fully white surface — the projector can detect the color and lighting of a surface and adjust the picture accordingly. Projecting on patterned wallpaper should work just fine, making the Freestyle+ one of the most versatile projectors we’ve come across.
Hisense S6 FollowMe
A new paradigm in TVs has emerged in the past couple years — they don’t just need to stay on the wall! The Hisense S6 FollowMe is a 32-inch 4K TV on a lightweight stand that can follow you around the home, with a base that allows the TV to tilt and rotate. You can watch TV with it in the living room, then throw on a how-to video when it’s time to cook in the kitchen, without having to squint at your phone’s screen or keep tapping it to stop it from going to sleep.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus
Watch out Intel and AMD — Qualcomm is here to stay in the PC game. ARM-based PCs have become more and more common, with laptops from big names like Lenovo releasing models with Qualcomm chips inside. Until now, they’ve mostly been known for efficiency, in some cases giving laptops battery life that eclipse a day, but not necessarily for top-end power. And while the Snapdragon X2 Plus isn’t the powerhouse (that’s the Elite line), the X2 Plus is considerably more powerful than its predecessor, while still using less power than other chips. This is the chip we’ll likely see on mainstream laptops this year — powerful enough for most people at more affordable prices.
Even Realities G2
The Even Realities G2 AR glasses are turning heads and getting on faces at CES 2026 — these sleek, lightweight glasses bring AI to your eyeballs. On top of the usual AR glasses fare like turn-by-turn directions and notifications, these glasses pick up sound and video around you to provide relevant information — that could be anything from real-time translation to contextual information about a topic you’re discussing with someone else. The frames are made of aircraft-grade titanium and magnesium, so they should be as durable as a good, expensive pair of glasses should be!
JBL Soundgear CLIPS
We love a good twist on an old classic. JBL has turned wireless earbuds into fashion accessories with the Soundgear Clips, earbuds that have silicone hooks that wrap around the side of the ear. They’re bold enough to be noticeable, where most wireless earbuds try to stay out of sight, but they also stay in the ear more securely because of the design. And, of course, you get sound from a company in JBL that is known for quality.
TCL Note A1 NXTPAPER
TCL’s NXTPAPER devices have been some of the most compelling we’ve seen at CES for years — tablets with displays that mimic the look and feel of paper. Rather than being general use tablets, these are typically released as digital notepads and readers, and the 11.5-inch TCL Note A1 NXTPAPER is in that camp. Not only is the display easy on the eyes, handwriting on the surface with the T-Pen Pro stylus actually feels like you’re putting ink to paper. It’s a really cool technology, and great for anyone who feels like they retain more when they handwrite notes instead of type.
Clicks Communicator
The Clicks Communicator looks 20 years old, and that might be exactly what a lot of folks want right now. It’s a phone that brings together all major communication apps like Messenger, Slack, WhatsApp, and a lot more — no other apps to serve as distractions. That’s wrapped up in a device that seems to delight in the things that larger companies have consigned to the dustbin of history. BlackBerry-like physical keyboard? Yep. Headphone jack? Brought that back. Physical microSD card tray? Sure thing. It’s a greatest hits of retro phone tech, and if you just need to a phone to be purely a communications device again, you might want to give it a look.
Infinix Active Visual Backplate Technology
No one does smartphone style like Infinix. This year, they demoed a slate of new inks and plastics destined for smartphone backplates that will truly look like no other. The designs and colors move and shift not only with viewing angle, but with ambient temperature — there are examples of colors flowing through gradients and animations that play out as you rotate the phone around with your hand.
Honor Robot Phone
As concepts go, this is one of the more unexpected ones — and it might not be a concept for much longer. The Honor Robot Phone, once it’s ready for market, will have a camera module attached to a robot arm with a gimbal that extends out of the phone. While that camera module needed to be handled manually at the show, the finished product will not only be able to move the camera module automatically, it’ll have some sort of AI-boosted features like object tracking. Honestly, we’re not sure where this is going, but we’re excited to keep an eye on the Robot Phone for the rest of 2026!
LG CLOiD Home Robot
LG is at CES 2026 trying to make Rosie from The Jetsons, and it looks like they’re getting pretty close. CLOiD is a robot on wheels that can roll around the home and do some chores — warming something up in the oven and loading the dishwasher, for example. Tech-wise, it’s an AI-fueled evolution of the smart home hub — CLOiD’s head is a computer that can connect to other smart home devices, so the bot can also take on controlling connected lights, shades, and other home appliances, while using AI to better learn habits and take actions accordingly. I didn’t think we were going to get Rosie before flying cars, but here we are!
Victrola Soundstage
The audio pros at Victrola have developed an impressive way for newcomers to enjoy vinyl without the need for multi-speaker systems. The Soundstage sits beneath a record player and plays smooth sounds from records — and that’s easier said than done. Usually, vibrations from bass cause a little instability in the record player itself, distorting the audio. Victrola has solved that problem with downward firing woofers paired with drivers that fire mids and highs forward into space evenly. The result is a warm sound faithful to vinyl, and a great alternative for folks who need to save space or money on a sound system to go with their record player.
Samsung Music Studio 7
Samsung gets it — home speakers have to sound good and look good. They nailed it with their new Music Studio line, speakers that can work on their own or in concert with other speakers from Samsung, like their soundbars. The Music Studio 7 is the largest of the new speakers, a 3.1.1-ch speaker with drivers that fire up, left, right, and center for sound that can fill a room. They also look terrific, with a clean, minimalist aesthetic from designer and longtime Samsung collaborator Erwan Bouroullec.