CES 2026: The best tech announced so far

Ahead of the official opening of the CES show on Tuesday, January 6, many companies have already announced new AI-based technologies, gadgets, concepts and upgrades that will be released over the course of this year.

Yesterday’s CES Unveiled event delivered even more announcements and reveals. If you’re already struggling to keep up with all the news from the show, we’ve rounded up some of the best hardware and upgrades that have debuted so far. But there’s even more to come, so you can come back here every day or follow all the news. The edgeCES 2026 coverage from here.

First announced last month, The edgeAllison Johnson finally got some hands-on time with the Galaxy Z TriFold, which uses a pair of inward-folding hinges to transform from a big phone to a big tablet. For now, it’s only available in Korea, but the Z TriFold is expected to be available in the US sometime in the first quarter of 2026, which will likely be a big change. Johnson says its biggest selling point is the ability to carry a replacement laptop in your pocket. “What makes the TriFold feel like it might finally be The One – the one device you can carry around, leaving everyone else behind – is none other than DeX. On the TriFold, DeX isn’t just a desktop environment when you pair it with an external display. It’s a fully standalone mode with windowing as you wish.”

If you always seem to remember what groceries you need After When you get home from the store, the new package scanning refrigerator from GE Appliances can help you create a complete shopping list. Launching in April 2026 for $4,899, the GE Profile Smart 4 French Door Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant has a scanner on the front that you can use to scan empty packages, and you can manually add items to a shopping list using an 8-inch tablet on the door. There’s even a camera inside the fridge, which you can access remotely via an app to check if you’re out of anything while you’re shopping.

Clicks is best known for its smartphone cases that add a physical compact BlackBerry-style keyboard. Its latest creation has the same keyboard, but also a 4.03-inch OLED screen, front and rear cameras, a headphone jack and a 5G data connection, and it runs Android 16. The Clicks Communicator is designed to be an alternative to your daily driver smartphone that you can limit to essential apps to minimize distractions. At $499, it’s priced similarly to the Pixel 9A, but you can reserve one now for a limited time to get a discount.

Like TCL and Hisense have done, LG is looking to usurp Samsung’s The Frame’s dominance in the art TV category. Its new LG Gallery TV leverages the company’s Gallery+ service launched earlier this year to display everything from art to gaming scenes. The Gallery TV is a mini LED TV with what is likely a matte coating, but LG describes it as having a “specialized screen that reduces glare and minimizes reflections for an art-like viewing experience.” It comes with a white frame, and while you can purchase additional wood-colored frames, pricing for the LG Gallery TV hasn’t been announced.

LG’s CLOiD is a home robot that can potentially do more than just clean your floors. The robot features a pair of articulated arms with seven degrees of movement mounted on a movable base with a torso that can tilt and bend. LG says CLOiD can perform household tasks like folding and stacking laundry, putting food in the oven, or fetching something from your refrigerator. Can he do it faster or more reliably than you? That remains to be seen, but CLOiD could be even more useful as a mobile smart home hub that you can chat with while following you around the house.

Samsung’s Family Hub smart refrigerators aren’t new, but the company will soon introduce a new feature for added convenience: voice-activated door opening and closing. When your hands are full of groceries or dirty while preparing a meal, you can ask Bixby to “Close the refrigerator door” or “Open the door” and it will open more than 90 degrees, giving you full access. If your mouth is full of food and you can’t properly articulate what you want, the door can also be opened or closed with a simple touch of the palm or back of the hand.

If you pulled a Honey, I shrunk the kids on the Las Vegas Sphere, you’d end up with something like SwitchBot’s new dome-shaped Obboto RGB desk lamp. It’s wrapped in more than 2,900 color-changing LEDs and can display preset animations, animated GIFs, AI-powered “ambient animations,” music visualizers, or just the local weather and time if you want to be hands-on. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.

Petkit’s new automatic pet feeder, which can dispense up to seven days of wet food, isn’t just about easing the guilt of leaving your four-legged friend behind while you travel. The Yumshare Daily Feast uses an NFC tracking system to remove meals that haven’t been eaten in 48 hours and UVC lighting to sanitize the system to deliver fresh meals. What’s potentially even more useful is an AI-powered 1080p night vision camera that tracks when and how much your pet eats to provide insight into their diet and possible health issues. It is scheduled to launch in April 2026 and will be sold through pet food companies.

Six years after the launch of its first Wallpaper TV in 2017, LG has relaunched the range with its new LG OLED evo W6. The TV is 9mm thick thanks to its redesigned internal architecture and has a new stand allowing it to sit completely against a wall. Further enhancing the setup is the W6’s use of LG’s Zero Connect Box, which wirelessly sends a video signal up to 33 feet away. The only physical cable you need to run to the W6 is the power cable. It will be available in sizes 77 and 83 inches.

GameSir may have already clinched the title for weirdest controller at CES 2026. The company has shared more details about its upcoming Swift Drive gamepad which features a small steering wheel in the middle of the controller. The wheel is connected to a high-precision Hall effect encoder and an equally small direct-drive motor that provides force feedback effects while playing racing games and simulations. There are additional haptic motors located in the gamepad’s Hall effect triggers to simulate effects such as ABS braking, and RGB lighting effects can be synced with your game. Pricing and availability have not yet been revealed.

It’s not as adorable as the furry robot Mirumi that debuted at last year’s CES, but Yukai Engineering’s new Baby FuFu is potentially more practical. It looks like a stuffed cat that huffs and puffs and has an internal fan that will keep young children cool while preventing little fingers from reaching dangerous moving parts. It should arrive mid-2026 for $50 to $60.