More from CES 2025: all the news, gadgets, and surprises
Anker is showing off a concept that it calls the “world’s first wearable solar panel.” Like its solar umbrella product, the cloak uses perovskite solar cells, with 30W maximum input and USB-C output to charge your phone. The LED strips make it very Blade Runner chic, and I can confirm that it’s quite warm. Not sure how much use I’d get out of it in Seattle though...
HP is announcing a new modular wireless gaming mouse for CES. The HyperX Pulsefire Saga Pro comes with two sizes of interchangeable upper / lower shells and side buttons, but you’ll be able to make it your own since HyperX will post the 3D-printing designs on Printables.com.
Check out these remixed mice with alternative materials like wood. The Saga Pro will run $79.99 from HP.com, launching in March.
MSI has buttoned-up Venture and Venture Pro business notebooks for CES to go with its gaming laptops. They come in 14- to 17-inch sizes, with older Intel Meteor Lake chips or AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 350. The Venture Pros get discrete 40-series GPUs.
MSI usually means business when it comes to specs, but I guess it makes exceptions for business.
We’re at Pepcom’s annual Digital Experience showcase on CES Eve! The takes will be hot but this ice sculpture is cold. We verified this with rigorous in-person testing (Vee touched it).
The G-Assist System Assistant, initially revealed in June 2024, can help users “control a broad range of PC settings, from optimizing game and system settings, charting frame rates and other key performance statistics, to controlling select peripherals settings such as lighting — all via basic voice or text commands,” according to a blog post.
The 200W wireless speaker also puts on a beat-synced light show and includes two wireless mics with vocal enhancement and reverb effects to improve your next karaoke performance.
The Anker brand also announced a smaller 140W Soundcore Boom 2 Pro speaker at CES that’s dustproof, waterproof, and floats, so it can join you in the pool, not just beside it.
Shure’s new MV7i is an alt version of its popular USB mic — but instead of an XLR output, you can plug in an XLR or TRS audio input and use it as a stereo USB interface.
I like this as a travel mic option or a beginner’s podcast setup for recording two people in the same room, as long as the guest has their own XLR mic.
