More from CES 2025: all the news, gadgets, and surprises

Wraparound glass is a fancy desktop trend, and so are CPU coolers with built-in screens — sure seems like two great tastes taste great together with the Asus ROG Ryuo IV SLC 360 ARGB!

Asus, Samsung, MSI, and Alienware will all have them, so you can safely ignore the “world’s first” marketing baloney for now — but it’s absolutely true that the 32-inch version of these monitors was groundbreaking, and a 27-inch size means you can comfortably fit the entire gorgeous picture in view.

Asus made a laptop that transfers its heat to an air diffuser on the back lid. You won’t be stuffing run-of-the-mill Glade gel packs in these; instead, the Asus Adol 14 Air Fragrance Edition has its own replaceable inserts with conceptual descriptions... like “Be a new her.”

Sony shared a video of an “immersive proof-of-concept entertainment experience” for The Last of Us as part of its news at CES. It looks like a fancy theme park-like experience, though it seems too scary for me.

Wearables reporter Victoria Song got to wear three of Ultrahuman’s super-expensive smart rings in a new video from CES. Watch this one all the way to the end.

I sat in the Sony Honda car a year ago, six months ago, and now — improvements are slow. AI is new for 2025, but the chatbot got far too easily confused. I couldn’t see the lidar in action. I like the digital mirrors, though.

I know everything in Vegas is for sale, but wouldn’t the Sphere be more of an attraction if the structure displayed more incredible 3D art and fewer ads? (This is one of like three we saw repeatedly looped while riding a ferris wheel.)

There I was, wandering the show floor, when I stumbled upon the Nova X and Nova Pay. The former is a smart ring that has a micro display, while the latter supports NFC payments. I’ve tested several smart rings over the years and seen dozens on the show floor... but it’s been 84 years since I’ve seen these features in a working prototype or product.

Delta’s CES keynote at the Sphere was truly an experience for all five senses. Wind whipped through my hair as a plane turned on a runway, and at one point, the place filled with the smell of hazelnut coffee as an Uber Eats driver “delivered” drinks to the speakers onstage. This recap doesn’t capture that aroma, but you’ll get an idea of the whole spectacle.

First announced at last year’s CES, My Arcade says its nostalgia-packed Atari Gamestation Go handheld will be available sometime in Q3 2025 for $149.99. It’s got a seven-inch screen and in addition to standard controls like a D-pad and action buttons, there’s a trackball, rotating paddle, and numeric keypad for authentically playing classic Atari titles like Missile Command and Breakout.

HP calls its ZBook Ultra 14 G1a “the world’s most powerful 14-inch mobile workstation,” because it comes with AMD’s most powerful mobile chip: the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka “Strix Halo,” with up to 128GB of unified memory shared among the CPU, GPU, and AI engines.

The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.

iFixit has pulled together a panel of experts to call out the least repairable and most insecure, unnecessary, and energy and privacy harvesting gadgets from CES 2025.

It’s not the most technologically advanced thing ever, no butt-kicking haptics inside. Just a comfy mesh chair that can cool me when I inevitably run hot or warm me on chilly days, with near-silent jets of conditioned air. I really hope Razer actually sells this Project Arielle.

Sean has been scouring CES for an RTX 5090 demo with an actually playable game. It took a while, but he found one and came away with some footage. Yeah, it looks good.