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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- CES is astir present with immoderate breathtaking merchandise innovations.
- Expect to spot much AI-enabled wearables from absorbing startups.
- New trifold smartphones, robots, and TVs could beryllium the stars of the show.
CES is conscionable days away, kicking disconnected connected Jan. 4 for the media (when astir of the quality breaks) and connected Jan. 6 for the public. As the world's largest tech conference, the amusement starts the twelvemonth with companies showcasing their latest innovations connected a planetary stage. The result: a bevy of announcements for tech enthusiasts and the wide nationalist alike.
To springiness you a wide thought of what to expect astatine CES, I person compiled a fewer trends based connected the hottest trends of the past twelvemonth and our ain predictions of what volition beryllium connected show this year.
AI hardware
CES has typically been a hotspot for wearables of each kinds, with immoderate of our favorites from past year including a slumber wearable that keeps you focused and adjacent an 18-karat golden astute ring. However, arsenic AI has go the hottest exertion of the moment, companies are incorporating the tech into wearables to connection much precocious features, specified arsenic deeper information investigation with easy-to-use Q&A AI chatbots.
Additionally, arsenic AI models go much precocious and connection users much mundane assistance, the request to span the bundle realm with the carnal satellite has go progressively prevalent. Hence, the emergence of AI-enabled wearables, specified arsenic astute glasses, pins, and wristbands. While we saw an uptick successful AI wearables astatine past year's event, we are apt to spot adjacent much this twelvemonth -- and that inclination could beryllium a positive.
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The CES showfloor offers the accidental to larn astir caller products that spell beyond starring brands, specified arsenic Oura for astute rings oregon Meta for astute glasses, and to spell hands-on with devices from startups that could connection users a bully experience, possibly for a little premium. I volition beryllium scouring the amusement level for these types of products and program to bash a akin roundup, updated daily, as last year.
Phones that spell beyond the slab
In 2025, important advancements person been made successful the foldable smartphone market. Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 7, its thinnest foldable yet, 25% thinner than its predecessor, some erstwhile folded and unfolded. Apple released the iPhone Air, its slimmest smartphone yet, and apt a archetypal measurement successful a determination toward its ain foldable successful the future. However, that's not wherever the advancement ended.
As aboriginal arsenic February 2025, earlier Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate launched globally, making it the archetypal trifold to ship. When opened, the instrumentality provided a 10.2 tablet-like screen. This improvement was conscionable the beginning. Earlier this month, Samsung announced the Galaxy Z TriFold, a instrumentality with a 10-inch flexible show that is expected to motorboat successful the US successful aboriginal 2026.
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You would expect Samsung to uncover the instrumentality during a large event, specified arsenic MWC, Samsung Unpacked, oregon CES. Considering the Galaxy Z TriFold has already debuted successful different markets, it would marque consciousness for the institution to instrumentality vantage of a CES launch. Even if Samsung doesn't marque this move, since CES is unfastened to exhibitors extracurricular the US, we mightiness spot different takes connected the trifold instrumentality astatine the conference.
The ongoing lawsuit for adjuvant robots
CES includes a large absorption connected astute homes. Beyond astute lights, doorbells, information systems, blenders, and toasters, determination are besides robot vacuums.
While they whitethorn not dependable sexy, last year's CES brought america the Roborock, with a claw to drawback items, specified arsenic socks. This year's lawsuit is apt to diagnostic immoderate futuristic-looking add-ons to the classical robot vacuum, arsenic good arsenic caller robovacs that, though they whitethorn not beryllium arsenic flashy, are much effectual astatine their job.
Outside the astute location space, you tin besides expect to spot galore chill robots. If you person ever walked the expo halls, you'll cognize that you tally into a robot astir connected each aisle. While galore of these devices are typically futuristic prototypes without galore real-life applications astatine the moment, who knows? This twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium the twelvemonth that, with capable AI magic, we spot a real, adjuvant companion travel to life. I'll study backmost connected immoderate discoveries.
AI... the nitty gritty
More specifically, connected the taxable of AI, determination volition apt beryllium quality from the existent chipmakers powering the technology. At CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote and announced Cosmos, an AI level designed to alteration robotics and autonomous driving, which won 1 of our Best of CES 2025 awards. While the institution has yet to corroborate a keynote for this year, it volition beryllium successful attendance and is apt to stock immoderate quality pursuing past year's precedent.
Similarly, AMD volition beryllium astatine CES and has confirmed a keynote for Jan. 5 astatine 6:30 p.m. PT. During that clip slot, the institution is expected to denote its latest innovations, including caller 3D V-Cache CPUs, according to immoderate leaks.
TVs, TVs, and TVs
Since CES is each astir showcasing the flashiest tech, what amended mode to present that attack than with TVs? At CES, you spot TVs that spin, stick to walls, and adjacent span a whopping 116 inches, similar Hisense's movie theater-sized TV unveiled past year. This year, you tin expect the same. We'll apt spot a greater surface takeover, with TVs appearing connected much devices and surfaces than before.
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This inclination means we'll besides spot galore caller TV accessories. Expect caller and improved soundbars and projectors with amended dependable and representation quality.
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