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Over 4,000 exhibitors flocked to Las Vegas, Nevada this week to showcase their wares at CES 2026. The Engadget workforce, as regular, was out in full pressure<\/a> protecting the present. The week started with press conferences from enormous corporations on the present, largely crammed with AI buzzwords, obscure guarantees and fairly little in the way in which of laborious information.<\/p>\n A couple of firm even determined to forgo saying issues throughout their conferences to make approach for extra AI chatter, solely to publish press releases later quietly admitting that, sure, truly, they did make some shopper know-how. It is applicable, I assume, that as we’re starting to really feel the knock-on value results of the AI trade’s insatiable urge for food for compute sources \u2014 larger utility payments and system costs \u2014 corporations would somewhat use their flashy conferences to strengthen AI’s supposedly must-have attributes somewhat than truly inform the general public about their new merchandise.<\/p>\n We’re certainly not AI luddites at Engadget, but it surely’s truthful to say that our workforce is extra excited by tangible merchandise that enrich our lives than iterative enhancements to giant language fashions. So, away from all the bombast of NVIDIA’s marathon keynote and Lenovo’s by some means concurrently gaudy and boring Sphere present, it has been a pleasure to judge the group of bizarre new devices<\/a>, home equipment, toys and robots vying for our consideration.<\/p>\n Over the course of a number of days of exhaustive dialogue and impassioned pitching, our CES workforce has whittled down the a whole lot of merchandise we noticed to choose our favorites. Beginning with an preliminary shortlist of round 50 candidates throughout a various vary of product classes, we finally landed on 15 winners and our singular greatest in present.<\/p>\n For those who’ve been with us all week, keep tuned for lots extra to return \u2014 regardless of publishing virtually 200 articles from the present already, there’s nonetheless a lot we now have to let you know about. For now, although, listed below are our winners, every launched by the editor most acquainted with it. \u2014 Aaron Souppouris, Editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n