Starting off the year with the tech overload of the CES trade show has been a CNET tradition for decades, and CES 2025 was no different, as our editors stalked the floors and booths looking for the most innovative products, culminating in our official Best of CES awards.
This year’s CES tech extravaganza served scads of AI tools, tech for your smart home, slick new TVs, groundbreaking EVs, powerful laptops, ingenious health tech and a bounty of robots.
Scroll down for some of the most interesting products at CES 2025. For more CES coverage, check out all of the delicious (and gross) food created by CES kitchen tech or read about the top seven biggest disappointments at CES.
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.
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.
