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All the tech trends we saw at CES 2026

A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout.

CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds covered so many new products and technologies that it’s understandable if it was all a little overwhelming.

That’s why we’ve gathered up a collection of trend reports from the show to help make sense of everything that happened at CES 2026, which, by extension, is a preview of the big tech stories for the year to come.

Most dubious uses of AI at CES 2026

TV makers are taking AI too far

Is this the world’s first solid-state battery?

The gap between premium and budget TV brands is quickly closing

What surprised us the most at CES 2026

Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7

CES promises the robot butler, but delivers better Roombas instead

AI moves into the real world as companion robots and pets

Power bank feature creep is out of control 

I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried

RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors

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