Early January means kicking off the new year in Las Vegas with a captivating lineup of original, weird and wonderful new tech products, and CES 2025 has provided that in spades. With the event in full swing, CNET’s experts continue to comb the tradeshow floor, searching for the most impressive tech inventions — AI tools, tech for your smart home, new TVs, groundbreaking cars, laptops, health tech and plenty of robots.
The best, weirdest tech goodies we’ve discovered at this year’s CES are all below. We’ll keep updating this curated list of the coolest new stuff that delights, inspires and may soon solve real problems from our kitchens and hallways out to the roads and wide 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.
For more CES coverage, take a look at the official 2025 Best of CES winners, selected by CNET.
Nike x Hyperice
Tech-filled “shoes” that soothe your aching feet with topical warmth and compression.
Nike partnered with fitness recovery tech company Hyperice to make a tech-filled boot that can help sore feet recover. First deployed at last year’s Paris Olympics, the Nike x Hyperice boot (no more official name) slips around your foot and applies heat and compression with buttons to adjust either. It’s technically a “system of dual-air Normatec bladders bonded to warming elements,” but there was only one word when our CNET Senior Reporter Lisa Eadicicco wore them on the Vegas show floor: relief.
Kirin Electric Salt Spoon
Soup too bland but lowering salt intake? Use this spoon to add flavor… through electric shocks.
The pitfall of salt is that it tastes so good, but many of us are on low-sodium diets for our health. Rather than use an untasty alternative, why not turn to science? Japanese appliance company Kirin has a new experimental soup spoon. It’s large and requires an awkward grip to engage the sensors, so you kinda look like a toddler using it. But pull it off and weak electrical current will simulate the taste of salt (varying per person), making it an imperfect but promising piece of dinnerware tech.
