The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is one of the biggest and buzziest tech events of the year, offering a first look at next-generation TVs, laptops, smart home gadgets, cars, and more. In 2026, the event is being held in Las Vegas from January 6–9, and The Verge will be on the ground covering it all. Follow along here for the biggest news from the show floor.
This cute little guy is all over LG’s CES booth, winking at people and offering them popcorn.
The LG On-Device AI Hub (great name) is a smart speaker with a 4-inch screen, built-in camera, and microphone. Designed to be a satellite to the ThinQ ON home hub, LG says it’s a concept product, so there’s no price or release date.
Similar to the Dockcase Smart Magsafe SSD, SanDisk’s new Creator Phone SSD sticks to the back of your phone using magnets while connecting with a short USB-C cable. It offers read speeds up to 1,000MB/s and write speeds up to 950MB/s, which is fast enough to unlock ProRes 4K recording at 60fps on the iPhone 15 and 16.
The Legion Go S is the immediate successor to the Legion Go handheld, minus the detachable gamepads / mouse / kickstand and plus a SteamOS option. But a Legion Go 2 is coming sometime in 2025, Lenovo has announced.
Specs include Ryzen Z2 Extreme, an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED screen with VRR (!), and a big 74Wh battery. This one didn’t turn on, but the grips are definitely comfier!
The second-gen Lenovo Legion Glasses pull the same magic trick as the original — putting a 1.26-inch full HD MicroOLED USB-C display in front of your eyeballs — but with a stylish new prescription-ready aviator frame that’s lighter at 65 grams.
The display now supports up to a 120Hz refresh rate, a 98 percent DCI-P3 color gamut, and is significantly brighter at 800 nits (up from 270 nits).
The new 16-inch Legion Pro 7i, announced at CES, features Nvidia 50-series GPUs and up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX. It will start at $2,399 when it launches in March.
There’s a lot of intriguing new gaming laptops in this range, but not all of them offer a 2560 x 1600 240Hz OLED in all configurations.
Lockly’s latest smart lock, the Vision Prestige, shows your visitor through a built-in camera. It’s a neat concept, but bending down to see who’s at the front door feels a tad awkward.
The video was also quite dark, and the screen was tiny, but it showed the visitor instantly — not always the case when pulling up a feed from a video doorbell on your smartphone.
Corsair is expanding its Custom Lab to personalization options for DRAM. There are eight design options to pick from for black, white, or gray Vengeance RGB DDR5 modules. You’ll only be able to grab these custom RAM sticks in speeds of 6,000MT/s or 6,400MT/s though with CAS latencies as low as 30. Corsair also has a new Wave kit for its Dominator Titanium RAM sticks.
The company’s Gamestation Retro lineup may appeal to nostalgic gamers not interested in dealing with ROMs. The collection includes a handheld, console, and a miniature arcade that ship with 100 officially licensed games from Bandai Namco and Capcom including Street Fighter II, Mega Man, and Pac-Man. They’ll range in price from $149.99 to $299.99 when released in Q3 2025.
Technically, the laptop needs the “Hyperboost” update, too — but after it’s applied to both, Razer says its Blade 16 can run its mobile RTX 4090 graphics chip at 20 watts higher TDP — from 150W TGP to 170W TGP, yielding a 30–40fps improvement in Shadow of the Tomb Raider (here, from 142fps to 184fps average).
The company is expanding its Music City Bluetooth speaker lineup with three new party models that introduce RGB lighting that syncs to the music playing.
The Vegas, Miami, and New York speakers also feature a mic for karaoke and three dedicated buttons that play airhorn, record scratch, and applause sound effects in case the lights aren’t getting the party started fast enough.
Levoit’s new Pet Odor and Hair Air Purifier can detect substances that contribute to common pet odors and increase airflow to help capture them in a four-stage filter.
It also uses a motion sensor to track activities, like if you leave to walk the dog, to create custom routines. It will be available in Q2 for $199. A self-cleaning version will cost $249.
The Hue Sync TV app was previously only available for Samsung TVs, but now you can sync up your lighting with content playing on your LG TV (for a pretty hefty price, of course).
The app, which also comes with the option for a $3.99 per month subscription, is available on LG TVs with webOS 24 and newer.
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...
