To be eligible, a product or service had to be a CES exhibitor and meet at least one key criterion, whether that’s introducing a compelling new concept, solving a consumer problem, or raising the bar for performance or quality. While these categories reflect the breadth of what many media news covers year-round, our main goal was to identify the products most likely to fit into your everyday life once the CES lights turn off. We selected winners across a total of 22 categories, plus one overall Best of CES winner, nearly doubling the number of awards from last year.
Mobile and Best Overall: Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold
Unveiled a month before CES, Samsung’s first trifold phone looks like a regular Android smartphone when closed, but unfolds with two flaps to become a 10-inch tablet.
You can use the entire real estate for one application, such as a word processor or video, or multitaskers can segregate the panels into two or three separate apps to access simultaneously.
As with other Samsung phones, Galaxy AI is very much a part of the experience, along with a desktop-style experience through Samsung DeX (and yes, you can also connect the Galaxy Z TriFold to a monitor or television and add a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard).
The titanium and aluminum body has been rigorously tested for durability, says Samsung.
TriFold feels like the form factor foldables have been building toward all along, delivering a wider, more natural 10-inch display that makes multitasking and content use feel intentional. While it comes with trade-offs, like two-handed use and no stylus support, he sees it as a confident, future-facing phone-tablet hybrid that represents a real turning point for foldables.
Qira is Lenovo and Motorola’s attempt to move beyond traditional chat-style assistants, positioning it as an ambient, context-aware AI that can carry out tasks across devices and apps. By working in phones, PCs, wearables, and a new AI pin, Qira can reduce friction, keep user data private, and offer a more natural, agentic alternative to tools like Copilot and Gemini.
Lenovo: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 makes one of its biggest improvements yet by prioritizing repairability through a redesigned, double-sided “Space Frame” motherboard. The change is largely invisible from the outside, but it allows users to easily replace key components, extending the life of the laptop without sacrificing the classic ThinkPad design or performance.
Home theater: Samsung S95HSamsung’s S95H is a major upgrade, with up to 35% higher brightness, an all-metal design, and the ability to safely display static artwork from the Art Store without burn-in. The flagship OLED also introduces a wireless Zero Connect box, a metal bezel that doubles as a wall mount, and gamer-friendly features like a 165Hz refresh rate, VRR, and glare-free technology.
Smart home: Saros Rover
Saros Rover is a two-legged robot vacuum with a wheel-leg design that lets it lift itself, climb stairs, and clean multiple levels without human help. Still in development, it uses AI and 3D spatial data to adjust its posture, avoid obstacles, and move in ways no consumer robot vacuum has before, making it one of the most eye-catching robotics demos.
Wellness: PeriPeri at CES 2026. Now available for preorder, it’s one of the first wearables built to track perimenopause, using a nonintrusive, patch-like device to monitor biomarkers tied to symptoms like hot flashes, sleep disruptions, anxiety, and night sweats. It aims to replace guesswork with real data, helping users better understand their symptoms and how they change over time.
Weird tech: Lepro Ami, the AI soulmate
Lepro Ami as a striking and slightly surreal take on AI companionship, centered on an always-on, hologram-like presence inside a curved OLED display. He framed it as more concept than consumer-ready product for now, raising questions about how far people will want AI to go in filling emotional or social roles.
Parent tech: Coro
Coro stood out as one of the most useful parenting gadgets at CES, calling it a game-changing way to track breastfeeding in real time. The ultra-thin silicone shield measures exactly how much milk a baby is getting and turns that data into clear insights, helping parents better understand feeding patterns and reduce uncertainty.
Startups: Allergen Alert
Allergen Alert is a compact, handheld device designed to test food for allergens before you take a bite, helping people with food allergies avoid accidental reactions when eating out. It will launch in mid-2026 with gluten and lactose testing, and there are plans to expand to other common allergens over time.
Audio: Samsung Music Studio 5 Samsung’s Music Studio 5 is a compact, more playful alternative to the larger Studio 7, offering clear, well-balanced sound from a single woofer and dual tweeters. While it skips hi-res audio support, its modern design, colorful options, and smart features make it a strong competitor to speakers like the Sonos Era 100.
Beyond the categories above there where products in many sectors: energy, robotics, health & fitness, fun Teck, Lego smart play system for children to be debuting in March 2026.
Fraimic introduced a cordless canvas for your wall that can display your photos, but more impressively, at any time, you can ask for AI-created art to suit your mood. Along with its full-color Spectra 6 E-Ink matte display, other features include multi-year battery life, auto-orientation (detects portrait or landscape automatically). And it supports device-to-canvas image transfers over Wi-Fi.
From KingSmith, the brand behind the compact WalkingPad and other fitness products, comes a slew of other home exercise options that debuted at the 2026 CES.
A standout is the WMX, a rowing machine that integrates water and magnetic resistance systems to mimic the natural rhythm of rowing, says the company, while also allowing precise digital adjustments (including support via the KS Fit companion app).
While the NEOS II Ultra may look like any other electric toothbrush, it’s meant to mimic professional equipment at the dentist’s office as it combines flossing (with its ultra-fine water stream), sonic vibration (at 66,000 movements per minute), and 20-degree oscillation for a more precise and powerful clean (even between teeth and the gumline, which can help with effective plaque removal).
Unlike most other electric toothbrushes, NEOS II Ultra’s water stream delivers 80 seconds of deep cleaning, essentially combining brushing and flossing in one handheld and battery-operated tool.
In other words, brush your teeth as you normally would with the cushioned bristles, but you’re also getting a deeper floss for harder-to-reach areas
Pronounced “Whisper Ring,” Vtouch’s WIZPR is the world’s first smart ring that enables AI-based natural voice conversations.
Through its proprietary “Proximity Voice Activity Detection” (PVAD) technology, a user can just speak near the 4-gram titanium ring (without needing a “wake” word) to ask a question or give a command (such as controlling smart home devices).
It features noise-proof recognition, a low 3% error rate, which adjusts the raw decibel (dB) reading by filtering out low and very high frequencies (where human hearing is less sensitive).
Vtouch says its WIZPR RING leverages existing genAI/LLM ecosystems on iOS and Android, and can be used even when the phone is locked and/or put away. Battery life maxes out at two days.
While it’s not the first CES for WINZPR, preorders remain open for a 2026 launch.
The “smart” eyewear space is getting exciting.
RayNeo revealed its “X3 Pro” prototype last week, a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses with integrated eSIM connectivity. This means the wearable computer doesn’t need to be paired with a smartphone for standalone communication (like phone calls), music or podcast streaming, and real-time translation (of up to 14 languages).
Add an eSIM (up to 4G) to get the X3 Pro online, even during activities like jogging or driving.
Along with cellular access, a camera and display are also integrated into the frames.
Even Realities G2 Display Smart Glasses
While they debuted in November, Even Realities brought its G2 launch hype to Sin City for CES.
Unlike most other smart glasses, G2 Display Smart Glasses are for those who value everyday wearability and discretion (as there are no cameras) and they look almost indistinguishable from regular (i.e., non-tech) premium glasses.
So, what can you do with them? With its heads-up display (HUD) projecting green text, seen only by the wearer, you can access info, such as phone notifications, weather, and calendar events; view words in “teleprompter” mode while delivering a speech; read real-time translations (supporting dozens of languages); get turn-by-turn directions when navigating to a destination; and summon the Even AI-powered assistant.
This lightweight eyewear (36 grams) offers an impressive two-day battery life.
Two styles and multiple colors are available for $599.99, but adding prescription costs a little more.
Plaud NotePin S
From the startup responsible for the credit card-sized Plaud Note Pro, an AI-powered notetaker, comes a new wearable: the Plaud NotePin S.
This pill-shaped device captures conversations and meetings in clear audio (up to almost 10 feet away), and can transcribe and summarize notes, and translate languages. It features a new “instant highlight” button.
Battery life is said to top 20 hours of recording or up to 40 days on standby.
As with other Plaud devices, a subscription gives you access to all your recordings, transcripts and summaries on the Plaud app, web, and desktop, with unlimited storage on a secure cloud.
You can wear the new NotePin S in four ways: wristband, necklace, pin and clip.
Lenovo AI Glasses Concept
We’ve seen (and seen through) several “smart glasses” at this year’s CES — including Lenovo’s impressive AI Glasses Concept.
As you might expect, these eyeglasses — which are not much bigger than a non-smart pair — wirelessly tether with a nearby smartphone to give you voice and touch access to an AI assistant, real-time (sub-millisecond) live language translation, a teleprompter mode that displays rolling text in front of your eyes, image recognition, multimedia control and more.
Powered by Lenovo Qira, the company says this 45-gram wearable concept was meant to keep users connected to their personal technology but with less reliance on a phone or PC. Battery life is said to be up to 8 hours between charges.
Winner of a 2026 CES Innovation Award in the Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility category, the Botslab G980H Dashcam offers innovative 4-channel recording with 560-degree coverage (4K front and 2K rear video and sides of the vehicle). It has AI-enhanced features like lane departure warnings, forward collision alerts (and automatic pre-recording), pedestrian detection, and parked vehicle monitoring via the Botslab Dashcam app.
Along with its high-precision GPS module (to accurately record your vehicle’s location, speed and travel route), you can replay trips with GPS and augmented reality overlays.
Speaking of connectivity, Botslab says the 5.8GHz WiFi chip delivers 300% faster transfer speeds to enable instant 4K video transmission to your phone.
You never know what brands will show up at a show like CES.
