CES

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.

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.

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.

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.

The company is bringing the convenience of retractable charging cables to more devices including a new 25,000mAh power bank with up to 165W of total power delivery. The $99.99 charger has an 8.66-inch USB-C cable that transforms into a carrying strap, a 27.2-inch cable that fully retracts inside, and a small screen displaying how much power each connected device is using.

Valve just squashed its second Steam Deck-adjacent rumor in one day. “We’re not currently working with GPD on official SteamOS support,” Valve designer Lawrence Yang tells The Verge.

The venue normally fits 12,000 people, but Nvidia says it’s cramming in as many 14,000 by filling the center of the arena, too — where myself, fellow press, and analysts are seated. The screen is massive. You can watch the keynote here or on YouTube starting at 6:40PM PT — it’s running a little late.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is about to hold a keynote at CES that’s going to be full of GPUs and AI. We’re expecting a two-hour keynote that will delve into the latest AI announcements from Nvidia, new RTX 50-series GPUs, DLSS 4, and much more. You can tune in for all the news, below.

It’s not the longest line I’ve ever seen, but it is glacial; crowds already stretched through the casino halls 2.5 hours before the keynote. Metal detectors are coming up. A sea of people behind and in front. Interest in Nvidia and its stock price are at record highs right now.

It’s co-developed with Tencent, it’s called the Sunday Dragon, and it’s absolutely huge with an 11-inch autostereoscopic screen (like the Nintendo 3DS but massive). I nearly dropped it trying to remove its detachable controllers.

For the ultimate in multitasking, this “Indoor Garden” from LG is a grow light, accent light, and a speaker all in one.

On deck: updates about how to pre-order Afeela, the electric vehicle Sony is making with Honda.

As reported by TechCrunch:

“SmartThings for ships is a new integration that uses Matter, the connectivity standard, to connect with compatible ships,” Sean Michael of Samsung Electronics America said during the company’s press conference today.

During his CES press conference today, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said the company was “exploring rockets.” Indeed, Toyota had just announced that it had invested an undisclosed sum in Interstellar Technologies, a private Japanese spaceflight company, with the aim to leverage Toyota’s manufacturing prowess to mass produce rockets.

You can tune into a livestream of the keynote here.