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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.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You can stick any TV to your wall using the Displace Hub suction mount.

Displace’s $5,999 wireless TV with a battery-powered suction mount is only available with a 55-inch 4K OLED panel. But at CES 2026, the company will be introducing a new $1,999 Displace Hub mounting system that works with any 55 to 100-inch TV of your choosing, as long as it weighs less than 150 pounds.

<em>The Displace Hub eliminates visible wires and is powered by a battery that’s good for five to 10 hours of viewing, depending on the size of the attached TV.</em>
<em>The hub uses four battery-powered suction cups to stick to walls with smooth finishes, streamlining TV installations.</em>
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The Displace Hub eliminates visible wires and is powered by a battery that’s good for five to 10 hours of viewing, depending on the size of the attached TV.
Image: Displace
John Higgins
John Higgins
Get ready to hear Sony say True RGB a lot in 2026.

According to FlatpanelsHD and TheWalkmanblog, Sony has trademarked “True RGB” in Japan and Canada. It’s almost certainly for the RGB TV technology announced earlier this year to compete with similar RGB tech from Hisense, TCL, and Samsung shown in 2025.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
I see Delta woke up and chose violence on my flight.

I boarded my plane to Google I/O an innocent. “What are my movie options?” I asked myself right before takeoff. Maybe an action flick? An old school rom-com? Little did I know I would be assaulted by the ghost of tech conferences past.

I am agog, I am aghast, the CES 2025 keynote is front-and-center in my in-flight entertainment menu. Delta, why must you hurt me like this!?

A zoomed in photo of Delta’s in-flight entertainment menu showing the 2025 CES keynote front and center.
What did I ever do to Delta?
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
I wore a one-horsepower exoskeleton to the world’s biggest tech show

It felt like an extra energy tank in a Metroid game.

Sean Hollister
Zoox robotaxi hands-on: safe but lagging

The toaster-shaped vehicle made safe if conservative decisions and offered a relatively comfortable ride through Las Vegas.

Abigail Bassett
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I played with the new Legion Go 2, too.

The SteamOS and/or Windows-toting Lenovo Legion Go S was the best handheld of CES 2025, but it wasn’t the only Lenovo portable I took for a spin! The third time was the charm for this detachable-controller and kickstand Legion Go 2 prototype, which I found working at the third venue I encountered it.

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Andru Marino
Tech trends and truffle fries.

Every year toward the end of our trip to CES, the Verge staff in Las Vegas get together for a team dinner before we head back home.

This year we filmed that dinner, and I moderated a little chat about the trends, vaporware, and other memorable tech from the show floor.

Robot vacuums just keep growing

CES saw wild innovations from Roborock and Dreame and helpful upgrades from the rest of the pack, all of which are set to make 2025 a banner year for those who’d rather leave the cleaning to the robots.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Kara Verlaney
Kara Verlaney
Weekend plans, locked.

CES 2025 officially wrapped up yesterday, but there was so much stuff that our team saw and wrote about and...smelled while on the ground in Las Vegas.

If your plans this weekend include catching up on all the news you may have missed from CES, there’s no better place to start than our annual best of video!

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Rincewind is in the house!

Meet Julien Navas, dressed as a Conehead wizard to promote VideoLAN’s new automatic subtitle generation and translation for VLC.

I tracked down the colorful character in the French section of Eureka Park in the dying moments of CES 2025.

Here, I saw Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe speech being translated into Japanese in real-time, locally and offline — a feature the team says is coming to VLC later this year.

Julien Navas has developed Cone Fused, an online Game Boy game, to promote the non-profit VideoLAN. Finish it first and win a 24-carat gold Game Boy.
Julien Navas has developed Cone Fused, an online Game Boy game, to promote the non-profit VideoLAN. Finish it first and win a 24-carat gold Game Boy.
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
This mechanical keyboard can control your smart home.

ThirdReality’s MK1 Magic Keyboard ($80, launching March) is a Matter smart button. Ingenious!

The function keys are programmable buttons. Just press to activate a scene or control smart devices like lights through Apple Home, SmartThings, or Home Assistant. Mechanical keyboard / smart home nerds rejoice!

This smart keyboard has RGB lighting, Gateron Yellow switches, and a Matter-over-Wi-Fi chip on board.
This smart keyboard has RGB lighting, Gateron Yellow switches, and a Matter-over-Wi-Fi chip on board.
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Intel brought working prototype Panther Lake laptops to CES.

As proof it’s on track with its next low-power laptop chip — the chip that will itself prove out Intel’s 18A process, which could in turn prove whether the company can regain silicon manufacturing leadership — Intel showed journalists these working samples.

These aren’t laptops you’ll actually buy — they’re demonstrators from Compal, Pegatron, and Wistron, which serve as ODMs to brand-name laptop companies.

<em>There was nothing running on these machines for us to try, mind you, but that’s typical this early.</em>
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There was nothing running on these machines for us to try, mind you, but that’s typical this early.
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
OhSnap Mcon: the viral phone gamepad designed by a teen looked even more fun in reality.

Just before Christmas, I told you how the company behind those awesome Popsocket alternatives had rescued the coolest-looking gamepad phone attachment I’ve ever seen.

Here at CES, my colleague Chris Welch got a quick demo that answers the biggest question: can this snappy spring-loaded gadget fling your phone around without yeeting it to the ground?

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Nanoleaf brought smart lighting for the face to CES.

So, of course, I had to go try it out. This $150 LED Light Therapy Face Mask is the smart lighting company’s first lighting-focused wellness product, and it sounds like there may be more to come. I think it’s rather fetching ... don’t you?

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The Verge Awards at CES 2025

Fluffy robots, portable TVs, and vacuums with arms and legs. This is what we come to CES for.

Verge Staff
The smart glasses era is here — I got a first look

At CES, the next generation of eyewear was everywhere. It’s just no one seems to agree on why we want it or what the best approach is.

Victoria Song
Panasonic came back for TV glory at CES 2025

The company hasn’t been back in the US TV market for long, but the Z95B OLED proves that Panasonic can hang with Sony, LG, and Samsung at the very high end.

Chris Welch
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Here’s the Asus fishtank CPU cooler for your fishtank gaming PC case.

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!

It has a 6.67-inch 2K curved OLED screen that can display ”stunning naked-eye 3D media or customizable hardware monitoring information,” while also housing a water pump for its 360mm radiator. No price yet, but probably north of $350.

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I can attest that a 27-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED monitor is a very good idea.

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.

This is the Asus one, the ROG Swift OLED PG27UDCM, here at CES.

A gaming monitor on a desk with a lush scene from Horizon: Forbidden West, with keyboard and mouse held by my hands.
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
We find out what “Rose of Man’s Land” smells like.

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.”

The Honda Zero EVs look even more compelling up close

I’m not saying I want to buy one. I’m just very curious to see where this is going.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Preciouses.

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.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I’m still not feeling the Afeela, but it does have working digital mirrors now!

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.

It’ll be 2026 before journalists can test-drive it, Sony Honda Mobility director Shugo Yamaguchi confirms, though the company’s already taking preorders for what’s now a $90K car.

GIF by Sean Hollister / The Verge
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Andrew Liszewski
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
The Sphere was a giant Intel ad last night, and it felt weird.

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.)

Also, for a seemingly struggling company, Intel must have spent quite a bit on CES this year — it’s plastered all over the Vegas monorail, too.

Intel vPro badge atop a blue and purple electrical lines zig zagging
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge