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    Would you let AI cut your hair?

    The Glyde smart hair clipper has an AI hair-cutting coach and automatic fade trimming so you can be your own barber, and you only have to wear this extremely normal looking face band for it to work.

    As a man who already cuts his own hair: no one needs this.

    Photo of a mannequin head being “shaved” by the Glyde smart hair trimmer
    This band is how the Glyde knows where on your head it’s cutting.
    Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
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    You call that a knife?

    This is an ultrasonic knife. Seattle Ultrasonics’ C-200 uses piezoelectric ceramic crystals to vibrate over 30,000 times a second, helping it cut as if it’s sharper than it really is. I was skeptical, but I sliced through a tomato with almost no resistance at all — it felt like the knife was falling through.

    Photo of the Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 knife slicing a tomato
    Photo of the Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 knife on a chopping board
    Photo of the Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 knife showing the button
    Photo of the Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 knife with the battery removed
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    The C-200 still needs sharpening, but less frequently than other knives — once every couple of years.
    Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
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    The Robot Phone is real(ish).

    I only got to see (and not touch) a prototype, and the fold-out gimbal camera wasn’t operational. So it’s strictly TBC what the Robot Phone will actually do, but Honor did tell me this is no concept: after the full launch at MWC next month it will go on sale — but only in China.

    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, with the camera folded out
    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, with the camera folded in.
    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, with the camera folded out
    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, seen from the side
    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, at an angle with the camera folded in
    Photo of a prototype Honor Robot Phone at CES 2026, with the camera folded out from the back
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    The Robot Phone has a stabilized camera that folds out of the body.
    Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
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    How do they keep getting away with this?

    Longtime Verge readers will know: art TVs are not good TVs. But there’s a reason manufacturers keep making more of them.

    Holmeser:

    Manufacturers simply can’t resist the appeal of a low-quality LCD panel they can sell for the price of an OLED

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