You love a widescreen monitor for gaming. So how about a nice gaming laptop that expands into a widescreen gaming laptop? Lenovo’s made one.

The Legion Pro Rollable Concept is a 16-inch gaming laptop with a screen that unrolls horizontally to a 21.5-inch “Tactical” mode, or all the way up to a 24-inch “Arena” mode. It’s wacky, it’s fun, it’s CES!

With the high-end smartphone market awash in book-style foldables, Motorola has stuck with a smaller flip design while staying away from vertical hinges. Until now.

When we test red light therapy masks, one of the most common testing criteria is whether or not the mask is comfortable and easy to wear. L’Oreal’s new prototype silicone face mask and eye patches were developed with iSmart Developments and they feel light, soft, and flexible—hardly more uncomfortable than a one-time-use sheet mask. By my rough estimation, they are about 80 percent less likely to get your spouse to say you look like Jason Voorhees.

It’s such a simple insight that it’s hard to understand why no one has thought of this before. LED face masks (or neck collars, or eye patches) that are light, beautiful, and easy to use will make it easier for customers to wear.

The 200 LEDs are set in a (again, beautiful!) microcircuit to precisely control the emission of two selected wavelengths of light—red light (630 nm) and near-infrared light (830 nm). You can pick from two different timing sessions and the mask is expected to go on sale in 2027. Guive Balooch, L’Oreal’s global vice president of technology, noted that usability is incredibly important for something that you’re supposed to wear every day against your skin.

“It’s the world’s lightest face mask, near 1-mm thick,” Balooch said. While it’s important to note that this is still a prototype, Balooch also said that the battery life is incredibly long, lasting for weeks of use instead of three or four uses or hours that is now standard. It also recharges via USB-C.

AI-based noise suppression is already baked into just about every piece of tech you already own, often times in multiple layers, but I’ve never seen anything this precise.

They’re called the Voicebuds, and on their own, they’re nothing special, but I was left intrigued by one simple demo. Standing just a couple of feet away in the bustling CES expo room, the representative (one of the founding team members) began talking quietly while wearing the earbuds—at a volume so low, I couldn’t make out the words. He then showed me how his speech had been fully dictated on his phone, the earbuds picking out only his voice in the loud room. One of the other engineers at Subtle Computing, the startup responsible for the Voicebuds, also mentioned that it’s equally impressive in a dead silent room, such as an office, where the earbuds would be able to dictate even a whisper. What makes it possible? They claim to have nailed its machine learning algorithm in a way that companies like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google haven’t been able to do.

The idea of us all walking around whispering to our computers might sound dystopian, but I do think privacy is one of the main reasons people don’t use voice control more often. Of course, the more practical use case is for those who depend entirely on voice for using their phones or PCs. The Voicebuds plan to launch this month and ship soon after, with pre-orders currently going for $199.

There are carpet cleaners, and there are robot vacuums. But have you ever seen a carpet cleaning robot vacuum? I think not, and it’s my job to keep my eye on these things. Robotin showed what the company calls the first carpet cleaning robot, with a swappable wash-and-dry module and a deep-clean module. Not a trace of the Coke that the showperson spilled is left after washing, although I am pretty sure someone in my family could probably have thought of something grosser to spill on the carpet for a demo.

Most personal safety devices are discreet little devices, usually some kind of wearable jewelry or keychain. Not the Timeli. There’s a camera right in the center of the flashlight, so you can point it in the direction of trouble to hopefully ward sketchy people away while also capturing live HD video. When you press the red emergency button, you’ll hear a loud alarm until you’re connected with a dispatcher from RapidSOS, who will analyze your real-time video footage to assess the threat and whether medical, fire, or police need to be dispatched. They’ll also receive your live GPS coordinates. There’s two-way communication, so you can provide specifics about the situation.

It’s not just for emergencies. Timeli says you can push the red button whenever you feel unsafe and want a companion as you walk to your car in the parking lot. It supports cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, and you can use it with the companion app to fine-tune the flashlight’s settings, from brightness to the alarm’s volume. It can last up to 2 years on battery in standby mode, but it’s USB-C rechargeable, and you can use it as a power bank to give it a dual purpose (the Timeli stops charging your phone when the battery is at 50 percent to make sure the flashlight isn’t dead when there’s a real emergency).

Naturally, it requires a subscription for the cellular and GPS features. You’ll pay $300 for the Timeli, but at launch, you’ll get a year bundled for free, after which you’ll have to pay $10 per month. It ships in early February.

There are always a lot of robots at CES, but this year, it feels like humanoid robots are everywhere. One company that has drawn the most crowds is AgiBot, mostly for this little dancing bot, the X2. My colleague Will Knight did a deep dive on the Chinese startup late last year, but the gist is that these robots are being trained to perform dextrous work in factories. This CES 2026 showing is the first time AgiBot has brought its products to the US, and AgiBot spokesperson Yuheng Feng says you can expect to see its robots deployed around the country starting this year (it has reportedly shipped 5,000 robots elsewhere in the world).

The A2 series robot is a full-size humanoid robot, and you can imagine it deployed in airports, convention centers, and campuses to help direct people, provide information, and even walk with people to specific locations. This model features autonomous navigation and is powered by multimodal large language models.

Even Google’s getting in on the humanoid robot craze—at CES 2026, the company announced it’s working with Boston Dynamics to integrate its Gemini assistant on a humanoid robot called Atlas and the famous robot dog, Spot.

In a wide-ranging Q&A with press and analysts this morning at CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addressed questions about Nvidia’s ability to ship chips to China, the company’s new Vera Rubin chip system, memory shortages, concerns about an AI bubble, and more.

A few notable remarks Huang made:

• WIRED asked Huang what “full production” means with regards to the new Vera Rubin AI chip system. A couple days ago representatives from Nvidia said that the company was on track to ship the chip by the second half of this year, but Huang said a day later that the superchip was in “full production.”

“Both of those facts are consistent,” Huang said. “We’ve had [the chips] back for some time, and we’re quite rigorous. There’s a fair amount of new technology, but those new technologies, to the best of our ability, have been de-risked…I don’t want to take lightly what we’re doing, but I have every confidence we’re going to succeed.” When further pressed on whether that means the Vera Rubin chips are still in the testing and validation phase, Huang replied, “You’re always in the validation phase.”

• Despite being one of the most powerful CEOs in the world, Huang is still very much at the mercy of both the US government and Chinese government when it comes to shipments of Nvidia’s H200 chip to China. Huang said Nvidia is “getting the last details of the licensing finished with the US government, and so after that I think we…you know, we do the best we can.” He claimed demand for the chips is high in China, and that his company has fired up its supply chain to meet this demand.

However, the Chinese government has also reportedly been telling companies there to refrain from using Nvidia’s H20 chips—a less powerful chip that was designed specifically to be sanctions-friendly—and it’s unclear whether that guidance will be extended to the H200. “I’m not expecting any declaration from the Chinese government” that they’re suddenly approved, Huang said. “When the purchase orders come, that will speak for itself.”

• Interestingly, Huang said he believes that Nvidia will become “one of the biggest storage companies in the world,” not necessarily because Nvidia is going to build its own storage, but because it has partnered with so many storage vendors.

He also said he thought Nvidia could become one of the biggest CPU makers in the world, due to the amount of high-performance CPUs it’s putting in data centers. (Shots fired at AMD?)

• He dismissed concerns about memory shortages, insisting that “HBM [high bandwidth memory] suppliers are all doing great,” and that Nvidia has been a “very large” customer of HBM, so it’s able to plan well in terms of its own supply chain.
• When asked when robots will stop being so middling and have the human-level capabilities that robotics enthusiasts have been talking about for years, Huang said without missing a beat, “Next year.” Then corrected himself to say: “This year, this year.”

Even Jensen Huang gets tripped up at the start of the new year.

Victrola has something sweet for the vinyl lovers among us. It’s called the Soundstage, and it’s a platform that you place underneath your turntable. Inside are a stereo pair of forward-firing speakers and a down-firing woofer, so all of your speaker needs are housed in something that stays tucked under your record player. This means you don’t need to make room for bookshelf speakers, an amp, or any of that messy business.

I know what you’re thinking: Putting a turntable on top of something that vibrates will make the stylus vibrate in the record’s groove and muddy up the sound. And yes, that’s very true, which is why the Soundstage uses a driver design that cancels out low-frequency vibrations to dampen the rocking (but not the “rocking”). This type of speaker is known in the audio biz as a symmetric drive woofer; it’s common in soundbars and other compact speakers.

It works with nearly any turntable, but you can plug in more than a record player. The Soundstage has a 3.5-mm aux in, RCA ins, and a USB-C port. It also works wirelessly as a Bluetooth speaker or as an Auracast device. It will cost $350 and it will be here this summer.

Swiss-based Punkt is back at CES with a follow-up to its 2024 MC02 privacy-focused smartphone: meet the MC03. The phone isn’t flashy, though the hardware has improved this time around with features like wireless charging, IP68 water resistance, a 120-Hz OLED screen, and a 64-megapixel camera; oh, and the battery is removable (you just need to unscrew a few screws) to comply with recent EU regulations. But that’s not necessarily why you’re buying this phone—it’s a vehicle for Apostrophy’s AphyOS operating system (formerly called Apostrophy OS).

You can read more about AphyOS here, when I first covered them in 2024, but the OS is based on GrapheneOS, which is in turn based on Android. Your main home screen is called the Vault—you can only place Punkt-approved apps here (these apps go through a rigorous vetting process that takes about 20 days, if the app developers are compliant). That includes the entire suite of Proton apps, a new partnership between the companies. There are several changes to the interface to make it more user-friendly, with a few more customization options, such as the ability to choose what apps appear in the Vault.

Swipe left, and now you’re in the “Wild Web,” which is where you can download curated open-source apps from the AphyOS App Hub. During the onboarding process, the company has also made it significantly easier to install the Google Play Store (if you want it), meaning you can still get all your favorite apps and use them in the Wild Web. Each of these apps is sandboxed to severely limit what data is sent back to Google. You can also rotate a nifty slider in the company’s Ledger app to restrict how much data access you want to grant an app (restrict too much, and some functions of certain apps may not work).

It’s unclear right now if the improvements to the software will make it back to the MC02, as the company says some of the new capabilities are hardware-dependent. The MC03 also has a Secure Element to store encryption keys for tougher security.

Punkt says the phone is manufactured in Germany by Gigaset (though many of the phone’s components are not made in Germany). It’s powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chip with 8 GB of RAM, and it’ll get 5 years of security updates. It costs $699 and includes a year of AphyOS. After that, you’ll have to pay $10 per month—the idea is that you’re paying to own your data, as AphyOS doesn’t collect or sell your data. It’ll ship in Europe at the end of January and will arrive in the US in the spring.

Petter Neby, founder and CEO of Punkt, tells me two other OEMs will make phones running AphyOS this year, though they’re more likely to cater to the enterprise sector instead of the average consumer.

Watching the parade of ever-larger and -heavier electric SUVs, trucks, and crossovers can be a bore. Which is why we perked up at the sight of French company Aemotion’s car-motorcycle hybrid on the CES floor. The lithe two-seater can hit 70 miles per hour, and travel more than 120 miles on a charge thanks to two swappable batteries. In Europe, the petite four-wheeler is categorized as an autocycle, allowing it to cruise expressways and motorways, and—crucially—lane-split in most European countries, so that riders can smugly sail by traffic.

The nifty vehicle is due to go into full production in France in 2027, and a select few could start in fleet pilots as early as this year. Allons-y!

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is an important tool for treating neurological disorders, as well as mental health and sleep challenges. Unfortunately, they’re pretty hard to administer—you have to lie down in a room with a person putting little electrodes over your head and then looking at real-time readouts (I made my aunt do one on me when she worked in a neurologist’s office).

This week, Naox Technologies made two announcements. The first is that its wired in-ear EEG earbuds, the Naox Link, just received FDA clearance.

These are not direct-to-consumer buds, but are intended to be used with medical professionals in settings like sleep labs or clinics. Still, this is a huge upgrade to the laborious sticking-sensors-on-your-head thing.

The company also announced the Naox Wave, pictured at the top of the post. These are the consumer buds that are not FDA-cleared and are not intended for medical use, but also track brain activity. They come with a connected app, so whenever you’re wearing your earbuds throughout the day, you can check if your meditation or workout session actually calmed you down. And these are actually real wireless earbuds, so you don’t have to put them in and listen to nothing. You can actually take your calls and listen to music while monitoring your brain activity.

Hugo Dinh, the CEO and cofounder of Naox, noted that you can actually see noticeable differences in your brain health once you do things like pick up a meditation practice. If my AirPods Pro 3 could pick up anything from my brainwaves right now, the app would be bright red alarms and indicating nothing but PURE PANIC, I’m sure. Maybe I will find a meditation device on the show floor to calm me down.

New televisions from Amazon, Hisense, TCL, and others are designed to display fine art and look like a painting when they’re switched off. This category is growing thanks to today’s TV buyers living in smaller spaces, plus overall changes in TV tech like matte screens, better dimming, and thinner designs.

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A personal car that can do all your driving for you might not exist yet. But the up and coming robocar-maker Tensor and the automotive safety supplier Autoliv are thinking ahead. They’ve debuted a foldable steering wheel that smoothly tucks away once a car transitions from human driver to software one. The manufacturers have thought through how the wheel will work, safety-wise. When humans are in control and using the steering wheel, a crash will trigger the airbag inside the wheel. When the car has transitioned to autonomous mode, another airbag inside the vehicle’s instrument panel deploys instead.

Such unusual designs usually need sign-off from safety regulators. Tensor says it’ll get the right approvals before it starts sending its vehicles to customers, slated in Europe and North America for some point next year. The company, which began as the Chinese tech developer AutoX but divested from its Chinese operations last year, plans to sell cars that can do much of the driving by themselves. In October, Tensor inked a deal with Lyft to deploy robotaxis in Europe and North America starting in 2027.

Back in 2022, Sony and Honda first announced a most unusual joint auto venture to build tech-forward battery-electric cars. The collab’s first product, the $90,000 Afeela 1, is supposed to finally go into production this year, with the goal of delivering to California customers by year’s end. (Japanese deliveries should begin in the first half of 2027.) And now at CES, we get a surprise, brand-new SUV-ish concept, the Afeela Prototype 2026, due out in the US, confusingly, as early as 2028.

The folks at Sony Honda Mobility America seem to see media and design features as the Afeela line-up’s jump on the competition, rather than, say, performance, price, or range. “Being in a car will no longer be about driving. It will be about making the most of your time and space while you move,” Izumi Kawanishi, the venture’s president and chief operating officer, said during a Las Vegas press event on Monday.

To wit, executives emphasized the vehicles’ first-of-their-kind PlayStation integration, which will allow drivers and riders to play during downtime (but for now, not while driving). A Co-Creation Program for creators and developers will allow anyone to build customized in-cabin wallpapers or sound experiences.

All this high-concept media wizardry should fully come to bear once Afeelas begin to do much of the driving task by themselves. “The cabin will evolve into a drive-less environment, reducing the task of manual driving, and providing more freedom to relax and enjoy entertainment content,” Kawanishi said.

Asus has been experimenting with dual screen laptops for years now, but this time, it really feels like they’ve finally ironed out all the wrinkles. The Zenbook Duo, which is now in its third generation, features a redesigned hinge that allows the two, 14-inch screens to stand side by side seamlessly. Whether you’re using it side side by vertically stacked, this is important in a device that expects you to move between the displays. It’s also got the most powerful version of the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips too, and even now comes with a six-speaker audio system.

Asus also now has a gaming version of this form factor, the Zephyrus Duo. The main difference between the two is that the Zephyrus Duo is much thicker and more powerful. It has an RTX 5070 Ti to start out and can be configured up to an RTX 5090 in terms of graphics. It doesn’t have the seamless edge-to-edge design of the new Zenbook Duo due to the placement of the vents, though.

The Zephyrus Duo could be a good option for streamers, using one display for the game and the other for watching Discord or Twitch. Another fun use case is to have the screens pointing in opposite directions and then mirroring the same game on both sides for some multiplayer action. That won’t work for every game, but it’s a big improvement over huddling around a single screen. I still think the Zenbook Duo makes more sense for the type of person who would want this form factor, but the Zephyrus Duo can also fills in the gap for folks who need a powerful GPU for creative work—not just gaming.

Beyond just dual screen devices, Asus also has announced smaller refreshes to its Zenbook, Vivobook, and ROG Zephyrus. Unfortunately, Asus was also the first big PC maker to officially announce price increases last week, which have already gone into affect, with a reported 15-20 percent increase. We don’t know how this will all play out, though, and Asus won’t be alone in this regard.

When I tell you that I raced to the showroom floor to try Merarch‘s chatbot treadmill. The company prides itself on making professional-grade workout equipment at accessible prices (I’m currently testing the vibration plate at home). This February, Merarch is launching a treadmill with professional-grade joint protection. It has a triple-layer suspension system blah blah blah but the interesting part is that Merarch said that it will have a conversational, not pre-programmed, LLM-powered AI assistant built directly into the treadmill.

The chatbot will be built directly into the dashboard of the treadmill, right where that little round circle is:

Unfortunately, it’s not ready yet. Merarch tells me that it will be ready in about a month, and that the chatbot will respond to your heart rate as you’re running and encourage you to keep to your plan (or slow you down if you’re fuh-reaking out). I don’t know what it says about CES that I was really looking forward to getting verbally abused by a treadmill for 5-15 minutes this morning and getting it on video, but I can’t. I’ll get the tester and the walking pad later to try at home. Sorry readers, I tried!

Accessory company Clicks makes cases with integrated physical keyboards for select phones, but they’re almost comically long and tough to fit in a pocket. The new Clicks Power Keyboard solves this problem and offers wider compatibility. It’s a magnetic physical keyboard you can snap to MagSafe iPhones or any Qi2 Android device, turning them into old-school BlackBerries of sorts. When you don’t need the keyboard, just take it off. It connects via Bluetooth, and that means you can also use it with other smart devices, like TVs, when you want to enter a password. You can pair it with up to three devices.

The keyboard can extend to various lengths to accommodate small or big phones, and you can rotate the Power Keyboard sideways and shorten the length to use the keyboard with your phone in landscape mode. Since it’s not integrated into a phone case, the Power Keyboard has bigger keys and a dedicated number row, which makes typing on it a little easier. It can also work as a power bank in a pinch, but the capacity is low, and it charges the phone very slowly at 5 watts, so it’s best to just save that juice for the keyboard itself. It costs $109 and goes on sale in the spring, but you can preorder it now.

That wasn’t the only exciting thing from Clicks at CES. Clicks is now a phone company, too. The Clicks Communicator is a proper Android phone, one that’s designed to be a second phone that specifically focuses on communication. (I was only able to play around with a dummy prototype model.) Load it up with your favorite messaging apps and type away—you can even use the selfie or rear cameras for video calls. The company partnered with Niagara Launcher to make the home screen look more unique than the typical spread of app icons.

The Communicator supports a physical SIM or eSIM, has a headphone jack, 256 GB of storage plus a microSD card slot, Qi2 wireless charging, and NFC for contactless payments. It even uses silicon-carbon battery tech for the 4,000-mAh cell inside. Since it does have the Google Play Store, you can install anything you want on it—even TikTok, assuming it doesn’t look strange on the square-ish OLED screen. There’s a customizable killswitch on one side that turns on airplane mode by default, and the “Prompt Key” on the other side for voice dictation—a press and hold will enable voice memos.

Clicks doesn’t want to force you to limit your screen time with this secondary device, unlike similarly sized pocket devices like the Light Phone III or Minimal Phone. Instead, you’re in control and can customize what you want to use it for; nothing is stopping you from making it your primary phone. It’ll get two Android OS upgrades and 5 years of security updates, though the company is exploring other chip options to widen the OS update window. It costs $499, and you can reserve it now, with an expected launch date later this year.

Along with pee testing, I have also been testing my spit with Montreal-based Eli Health‘s at-home hormone tests. I have the cortisol tests at home, but at CES, the company launched instant progesterone and instant testosterone at-home tests. (It’s not precisely instant, since you have to soak the tab in spit and wait 20 minutes for it to process, but you can just put it in your pocket and walk around.)

I had breakfast with Eli Health CEO Marina Pavlovic Rivas this morning, where we discussed the longevity trend and AI. Unsurprisingly with a background in data science, she is a big fan of AI in health care. “When it comes to health, what I want, personally, is to have real-time access that matches the fluctuations that happens in your body. Single snapshot in a year once a year in one data point is useless,” she said. According to Rivas, professional athletes, sports teams, and longevity clinics are using at-home testosterone testing to improve performance and track conditions like fatigue and brain fog.

As for progesterone, not only are your progesterone levels important for tracking your ovulation window, it’s also important for maintaining basic menstrual health. I had to take supplementary progesterone with my two pregnancies, so I have first-hand experience with why you might want to track it, but I do understand that sorting through all the white noise of what you should and should not be tracking about your body can be confusing for someone who is not a licensed medical professional. That’s what the AI is for, I suppose.

The Pebble Time Round finally gets a successor. After recovering the Pebble trademark last year, founder Eric Migicovsky has been on a roll. The company introduced the Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 smartwatches in 2025, though the latter will start shipping in March. Then, late in December, the company announced a $75 smart ring called the Index 01 purely to record your thoughts discreetly (also coming in March). Now at CES 2026, it announced the Pebble Round 2, a long-awaited successor to the original from 2015.

It looks great! There’s no chunky bezel around a tiny screen anymore; instead, the Round 2 looks sleek and modern with a 1.3-inch color e-paper display. Pebble watches aren’t fully featured smartwatches, and the Round 2 doesn’t have the heart rate sensor or speakers of the Pebble Time 2. It’s $25 cheaper at $199, but battery life is roughly two weeks, whereas you can get 30 days out of the Time 2.

There’s a touchscreen, but you can ignore it and use the four physical buttons to control the watch if you want. It can track your steps and sleep, and you can connect to the Pebble Appstore to swap watch faces or install various open-source apps ranging from weather apps to ones that let you ask questions to your favorite AI assistant. Naturally, you’ll be able to see your phone’s notifications and even respond via the microphones (though this is only available when connected to an Android phone). The Pebble Round 2 is expected to ship in May, and you can preorder it now.

I also got to see the Index 01 smart ring in person and watched as Migicovsky silently spoke into the ring to record random thoughts, like how my ring size is 13. The app shows a stream of consciousness list of all these musings he’s made; a personal record of all the things he wants to remember. (You can read more here.) It’s a simple gadget with a physical button at the top, and it doesn’t need to be charged as it uses a battery that should last two years. You buy a whole new ring when it’s dead (Pebble will offer a recycling program).