2026 is just beginning, and it's already time for the biggest gadget event of the year. As the Verge team heads to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, David and Nilay run through as many of the newly announced products as they can. There are robots, art TVs, phones, more robots, smart Legos, smart home gizmos, and still more robots. Some of this stuff will ship, and might even be a big hit. Some of it, well, won't. But it's all an interesting look into what's happening in tech right now.Also: if you're in Vegas for CES, come see us live! We'll be at the Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday, January 7th, for live recordings of Decoder and The Vergecast, and we'd love to see you there.
Further reading:
This robot companion is a cameraman for your pet
LG says its CLOiD home robot will be folding laundry and making breakfast at CES
SwitchBot brings a humanoid home robot to CES
You can’t buy Zeroth’s WALL-E robot in the US, but you can get its cousin
This startup brought WALL-E to life and will also sell you WALL-E’s weird cousin
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
The Clicks Power Keyboard is also a backup battery for your phone
The Clicks Communicator is a BlackBerry for your phone
I just want to keep unfolding the Samsung Z TriFold
The Aliro smart lock standard for NFC and UWB unlocking will launch this year
Lutron adds smart wood blinds to its Caséta line.
Bosch’s fancy coffee machine is getting Alexa Plus
The new Ultraloq smart lock uses both your face and your palm to let you in
Lockin’s new vein-scanning smart lock has a video doorbell and recharges wirelessly
Hands-on with the Mui Board: a wooden smart home controller
The Mui Board will support mmWave sleep tracking and gesture control
You can unlock SwitchBot’s first deadbolt smart lock with your face
Lifx launches a smart mirror and a $30 dimmer switch that can control smart bulbs
Lockly’s new smart locks will support Matter and NFC
GE Lighting’s new Matter-compatible smart shades start at just $300
The LG OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV makes its return at CES
RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors
Belkin’s new HDMI adapter wirelessly connects to screens from 130 feet
LG’s new Gallery TV, designed for displaying art, will be at CES 2026
Samsung brings back the Timeless Frame with its biggest Micro RGB TV at CES.
TCL debuts a new quantum dot and color filter technology with the X11L
Gemini on Google TV is getting Nano Banana and voice-controlled settings
Amazon announces a Samsung Frame competitor with the Ember Artline TV
Amazon Fire TV OS gets a revamp that’s more modern and pleasing
LG’s new karaoke-ready party speaker uses AI to remove song vocals
Would you let AI cut your hair?
A developer for a ‘major food delivery app’ says the ‘algorithms are rigged against you
Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years | The Verge
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop
“Feed is dead.”
Adam Mosseri on how Instagram exists in the age of AI-generated images
The Trump phone just missed another release date
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