Every January, we kick off the new year in Las Vegas with a deluge of original, weird and wonderful new technology products, and CES 2025 has been no different. CNET’s experts continue to trawl the floor of the tradeshow looking for the most impressive tech inventions — AI tools, tech for your smart home, new TVs, groundbreaking cars, laptops, health tech and scads of robots.
See the bounty of tech goodness we’ve discovered at this year’s CES below. We’ll keep updating this curated list of the coolest new stuff that delights, inspires and may soon solve real problems, from our homes to the world beyond.
While a good chunk of the most eye-popping finds of the show are concepts, you can check out the many new products at CES you can buy now (or soon), or have a chuckle reliving the bizarro things we’ve seen at CES in the past.
Honda 0 series EVs
From prototype to production
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Xgimi Ascend
A roll-up projector screen on the cheap-ish
It’s not the LG OLED rollable screen of your dreams, but the Ascend may be more within your grasp. It’s a retractable, ambient light-rejecting screen with built-in speakers and an ultra short-throw projector that looks like a piece of furniture when the screen withdraws. TV tech guru Geoffrey Morrison has been an ultrashort throw skeptic, but thinks this pair may solve some of the issues he’s had with them. There’s no pricing yet for the screen (the projector is $2,700), but it’s bound to be less than models like the LG.
Finally, A Roll-Up Projector Screen of Your Budget TV Dreams.
Humetrix
Humetrix AI app
An upgrade that will voice-to-voice translate your symptoms and meds in the local tongue.
Humetrix’s AI-powered translation technology already assisted aid workers at last summer’s Paris Olympic Games, but soon it’ll expand to help individuals seeking medical aid in places where they don’t speak the native tongue. Humetrix’s advantage lies in its database of 4 million medications and info on 67,000 medical conditions; using GPS location, Humetrix will translate and speak symptoms, medications and other health info into the local language (of 25 available for now) — just speak into your phone and the Humetrix app will explain in the right lingual and medical terminology.
CES 2025: This AI Tool Lets Doctors and Traveling Patients Converse, Despite Language Barriers.
AC Future
AC Future AI-THu, AI-THt and AI-THd
Tiny homes with big tech
When you’re ready to go small — or don’t have the budget to go big — a tiny home can be an appealing alternative, especially when it’s luxurious and packed with the latest smart tech. Our favorite of AC Future’s designer mini residences is the AI-Thu, a modular build (as small as 400 square feet) packed with smart technology that helps control lighting, heating, cooling and appliances, plus solar panels, a water recycling system, atmospheric water generation and a lot more.
Would You Pay $100,000 for a Mini Smart House? We Saw the Details at CES 2025.
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Top of mind for every potential EV buyer is how inconvenient charging is — but the Aptera Solar EV is wrapped in solar panels to recharge while you drive. Forget the cockroach-looking solar-powered cars of yesteryear, as this EV is a svelte three-wheeler with a swooped design that looks like it’s about to take off into the sky (that achieves 70% less drag than EV’s on the road today). Aptera expects to start producing the $40,000 vehicle later this year, so start planning if a constantly-recharging two-seater EV would fit your lifestyle.
I Took a Ride in an EV That Doesn’t Need to Plug In.
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Dreame X50 Ultra
A robot vacuum with tiny legs to get up ledges or cross door gaps.
Roombas and other robot vacuums have been a big hit, but their little wheels can be defeated by the tiniest ledge or threshold between rooms. Enter Dreame’s X50 Ultra, which has two short wheeled legs it can deploy to surmount very modest obstacles. No, it won’t climb stairs, but we saw it conquer small ledges a couple inches high. This advancement comes at the steep price of $1,699 when it starts shipping in mid-February (preorder it for $390 off).
Delta Concierge
Delta’s AI-powered app aims to reduce travel woes.
Delta has a new feature for its phone app, and yes, it’s AI-powered. Coming this year, Delta Concierge will help out with the most annoying parts of travel, like reminding you about passport renewal and visa requirements, suggesting what to pack for your destination’s weather and general tips on getting around while you roam. Like other new AI-powered features, you’ll be able to ask questions through text or speech in natural language and have the app respond. Anything that makes travel less painful — and for free — is a big help these days.
