Coverage from CES 2026 in Las Vegas highlights a familiar CES mix: practical consumer devices you can actually order soon, alongside experimental concepts and delightfully strange prototypes shown to gauge interest. Across outlets, themes include smart home upgrades, new PC and mobile hardware, accessories, and a continuing push to put AI into everyday products—from TVs and laptops to toys and robots. Reviewers also note a tension between heavy “AI” messaging on stage and the hands-on reality on the show floor, where tangible, shippable products often stand out most.

Highlights:

• Smart Brick debut: Lego used its first CES appearance to introduce “Smart Brick” tech: a standard-size brick containing a 4.1mm ASIC chip, plus systems meant to sense motion/orientation and relationships between bricks during builds.
• Bathroom health tracking: Several exhibitors pushed at-home health monitoring deeper into the bathroom, including a toilet-mounted device that uses cameras and microphones to analyze bowel movements and aims to flag changes that might indicate health issues.
• Period microfluidics: Vivoo showed a menstrual pad concept using microfluidics to track fertility and hormone markers after scanning it with a phone, extending the show’s broader “quantify everything” trend.
• Display experiments: Rollable and expandable display concepts were a recurring crowd-pleaser, including a Lenovo gaming-laptop concept whose screen can expand significantly beyond its normal size.
• Order buttons now: A notable slice of CES announcements came with immediate preorders or availability—outlets compiled roundups of chargers, docks, keyboards, projectors, and smart-home gear that already have prices and live purchase links.

Perspectives:

• Engadget editors: The team says flashy CES keynotes leaned heavily on AI buzzwords, while their awards favored concrete, life-improving products they could evaluate hands-on. (Engadget)
• Mashable live team: Mashable frames CES as the industry’s biggest showcase where giants and startups share the floor, and it’s covering surprises in real time while also helping select official Best of CES awards. (Mashable)
• TechCrunch roundup: TechCrunch’s overview emphasizes breadth—chips from major vendors alongside quirky peripherals and “AI oddities”—reflecting CES’s role as both product launchpad and idea theater. (TechCrunch)
• CNET show team: CNET describes the show’s “cool and smart” tech as increasingly personal, highlighting how devices are moving closer to the body and home routines. (CNET)

Sources:

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