CES 2025 Live Blog: News, Photos, and Videos From Tech's Big Show

Why have one product when you can cram several, quite niche products into one? That certainly seems to be LG’s approach for the slew of new concept products it showed off at CES 2025. All concepts have to be a little bit nuts, right?

One that really couldn’t be missed, not least because of the terrifying stuffed cats LG had placed on it, was the AeroCatTower, a cat bed and air purifier that can provide a cosy (and gently heated) bed for your furry friend, while also tracking their weight and sleep habits in the LG ThinkQ app, and of course purifying the air.

It was shown off alongside LG’s new concept plant pot lamp, which provides a large and stylish plant growing space with a brightness-adjustable light. There’s a 1.5-gallon capacity water tank for keeping your plants appropriately hydrated, with the lamp on hand to support optimal plant growth—as well as set the ambiance in your home.

These were great and all, but my eye was particularly drawn to the High Up wine and snack fridge. It offers space for 23 bottles of wine, chilled to the perfect temperature, and magnetic moveable trays and clips for storing all your favorite snacks. Its real party trick, though? The huge speaker that is installed into its top panel. The perfect house party accessory. Push this one into production quickly please, LG.

Remember flipping through Nintendo Power magazines? Remember rummaging through strategy guides and walkthroughs? Razer’s Project Ava might make that firmly a thing of the past. The company unveiled an AI-based assistant that is accessible when you’re playing a game on your desktop. Stuck somewhere? No need to Alt-Tab and leave the game. Just ask the assistant and it will comb through the internet to give you the answers, stealing the hard work of gaming writers who have painstakingly put together these guides on their own time. The company also says it has plans to provide Ava to game developers so they can bake in tips, strategy recommendations, and walkthroughs themselves, but at a certain point, it feels like a bit of the magic is lost.

Ava can do more than just tell you where the hidden loot is—it can suggest improvements to your gameplay (git gud), recommend things to buy in multiplayer battle online arena games (MOBA), and even suggest what skills to buy. It’s still early days, so there’s not much info on when Razer plans to deploy Ava.

Read Adrienne's full report on the Roborock vacuum with an articulated arm, as well as all the other new capabilities coming to robovacs this year.

We have been spoiled with cute robots at CES 2025, but I think TCL’s Ai Me concept companion robot could well be the cutest. I caught a demo at the TCL stand and watched Ai Me roll around the stage, speaking in an only slightly creepy child-like voice and with the most adorable eyes that I swear looked deep into my soul when we briefly came face to face.

TCL showed how Ai Me would be able to do everything, from control your smart home devices and provide home safety surveillance to capture those wholesome family moments with all of you in the pictures as well as entertain your kids. Ai Me has quite the wardrobe, I’ll have you know.

Ai Me is very much a concept at the moment with no release date. I suspect that might remain the case, but count me in for a real-life working demo if I’m wrong.

There was a crowd around Ultrahuman’s booth in anticipation of the launch of the Ultrahuman Rare, the first luxury version of the smart ring that we call the best smart ring without a subscription.

Ultrahuman’s chief business officer, Bhuvan Srinivasan, expressed some doubts himself about whether smart rings need to look fancy. “After all, we’re a tech company, not a luxury company,” he said. Still, you wear your smart ring almost every day. It should be something that you can wear with your nicest outfits and still feel good about yourself.

Rare comes in three different versions: Desert Rose, made from 18K rose gold; Dune, made from 18K gold; and Desert Snow, which is made from PT950 platinum. Srinivasan alluded to the technical challenges inherent in making a durable smart ring from a much softer material. But even made from a pricier metal, the Rare still has all of the original Ultrahuman ring’s functionality, complete with photoplethysmography sensors and 6-axis motion sensors. I myself don’t often wear my wedding ring; it looks like a mistake, sitting next to the awkward smart rings that I’m always testing on my left hand. But for special occasions, it might be nice to swap it out without getting a gap in the data. If you have to wear it all the time, it might as well look really good. As befits a luxury item, the Rare is currently only available at Selfridges London and Printemps Paris.

L’Oreal has been a mainstay at CES for over a decade, launching several products at the show in that time. This year it has unveiled the L’Oreal Cell BioPrint, a tabletop hardware device that provides personalized skin analysis in five minutes, based on advanced proteomics.

If you’re wondering what proteomics are, you are me from a couple of hours ago. I now know, however, this is the study of how protein composition in the human body can affect skin aging.

L’Oreal has determined that there are a number of different proteins in the skin that can dish the dirt on how your skin is doing in key areas—but also how predisposed you are to having these skin concerns, as well as products that may or may not be able to help, based on your biology.

The process requires you to pass two sticky pads across clean skin to grab some surface dead skin cells, which are then placed into a buffering solution. A few drops of that solution is loaded into a BioPrint carriage and placed into the machine for processing. In five minutes you’ll have a terrifyingly accurate rundown of your skin, including your skin’s biological age, and ingredient responsiveness.

It’s initially aimed for use in stores and dermatology offices, with the hope it’ll become an at-home service in the future. It will launch in Asia at the end of 2025.

If I tried to find every single smart glasses company at CES, I’d probably be here all week. Walk into Central Hall at the LVCC and you’re greeted to three to four smart eyewear brands, some new, some old. These kinds of gadgets have showed up in many forms over the years ever since the original Google Glass and North’s Focals, but it’s Meta’s Ray-Ban Wayfarers that really helped explode popularity. Google also recently announced the Android XR platform, which means even more smart glasses are probably on the way. Let’s run through a handful of the ones I did manage to see:

Sightful Spacetop Glasses: I’ve been following the development of the Spacetop for some time now, but the company is finally shipping its product as of the first day of CES 2025. And boy is it different. The original design was the bottom half of a laptop attached to a pair of smart glasses. Now? It’s just the smart glasses (which are technically not even made by Sightful—they’re Xreal glasses). Sightful is focused on the software, an augmented reality spatial computing platform that lets you work in a virtual environment and place apps all around you, but apparently the previous version just didn’t have enough compute power to enable all of this well enough. That’s why now you need to bring your own Intel Lunar Lake or Meteor Lake-powered laptop—plug the glasses into the machine and you’ll have a bigger world to work in. Broader hardware support is on the horizon. The cost is steep. The glasses and a 1-year subscription to the software start at $950—it’s unclear how much the software will cost after that.

Nuance Audio Frames: A new sub-brand from EssilorLuxottica, Nuance Audio first showed off a prototype pair of smart glasses that can boost hearing at CES 2024, but now the product is close to its final form and will be available in 2025 over the counter for $1,100. There are speakers baked into the arms of the glasses, and microphones situated at the front. It uses beam-forming mics to isolate audio and fixes in on the person or subject in front of you, feeding their voice through the speakers so you can hear them better. It’s designed for people with low to moderate hearing loss, and is still pending FDA approval. My demo wasn’t great—it was a loud environment and the person’s voice wasn’t consistently coming through the speakers, but I’ll chalk it up to it being a prototype.

Loomos AI Glasses: Accessory maker Sharge now has AI glasses. Similar to Meta’s Wayfarer glasses, there’s a 16-megapixel camera to capture 4K photos, 1080p video, and speakers to pump out some tunes. Naturally, there’s built-in access to a voice assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o large language model. The company claims the battery is the largest in the market at 450 mAh and you can even expand this to 6,500 mAh with a neckband power bank. That makes sense since Sharge primarily makes charging and battery accessories. Not sure if I want to wear a battery as a necklace though.

RayNeo X3 Pro, Air 3, and V3: RayNeo has been making smart glasses for some time now and it has three new glasses at CES. I tried the top-end model—the X3 Pro—and it has projectors in the frame of the glasses that turn the lens into a mini display. I stood there as the person in front of me spoke Chinese and the glasses translated it in real time for me. It wasn’t super accurate, though it was a really loud environment. What’s more surprising is just how lightweight and slim these glasses feel. The technology is evolving rapidly from chunky frames to something more subtle.

Mustard Glasses: Here’s yet another pair of glasses that has the whole shebang—microphones, cameras for taking photo and videos, speakers, and even an AI assistant. Uniquely, there’s a physical cover that blocks the camera when you’re not using it, which might make some users—or the folks around them—feel more comfortable. The AI will be able to analyze what you’re looking at, and Mustard says it will have an app ecosystem. It’s not exactly clear what that will look like though. It launches as a Kickstarter in March.

There’s plenty more I didn’t get to see, like the Inair Pro, Xreal One Pro AR, and that’s not even mentioning the ones we’ve already written about, like the Halliday Glasses, Solos AirGo 3, and the Even Realities G1. Pretty soon, we’re all gonna be glassholes!

“Every material will become intelligent at some point or another,” says Myant CEO Tony Chahine. “Clothes will become fully functionalized. I have no doubt that this is going to happen.”

Myant is a Canadian full-stack medical device company that specializes in advanced materials—that is to say, textiles. I stopped by the company's booth to see two items in particular: Myant's Skiin cardiac monitoring smart garments and its Skiin Active Electroosmotic membrane jacket. Skiin is Myant’s cardiac monitoring system that’s woven into the fabric of the chest strap or arm band. It tracks a truly baffling array of metrics, including ECG, cuffless blood pressure, breathing pattern and volume, core body temperature, oxygen saturation (SpO2), actigraphy and posture, and sleep metrics to check for sleep apnea.

While you can do point checks of an ECG by running a test on your watch, a garment that you wear constantly is far more likely to accurately assess your risk. Up to 5 percent of the population have arrhythmias, according to the Cleveland Clinic. But the majority of them go undiagnosed because they don’t have any symptoms. Continuous, passive monitoring would spot those risks—especially for women, whose symptoms are more often overlooked than men.

Myant had a wide array of smart textiles on display, including smart underwear that heats up to help ease menstrual cramps, and comfortable smart sheets to check to make sure that your baby is breathing. However, since I am one of WIRED's testers of rain jackets, the Osmotek self-drying jacket was particularly intriguing. The jacket wearer will be able to manipulate the flow of liquids through the jacket by manipulating electrical current.

While this can move water outside of the jacket, Chahine noted that you can also convey liquids in, for example if you wanted to move medicine to a wound site but have the wound remain covered. It makes Lycra look almost boring.

The maker of some of our favorite security cameras and routers is being investigated by the US authorities right now, but that didn’t stop it from announcing several new smart home devices at CES. The Tapo HybridCam Duo (C675 KIT) is a versatile dual-lens security camera that combines a fixed wide-angle short-range lens and a longer-range lens that pans and tilts. There’s also a Tapo NVR Security System for folks who want a local wired system of cameras. TP-Link also showed the Tapo PalmKey Smart Door Lock, which uses the veins in your palms instead of fingerprints.

Beyond security, there was the Tapo Atom-Link Lighting System with a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Mesh designed to ensure its new smart bulbs, smart downlights, and smart switches are responsive even if Wi-Fi is weak where they are installed. The Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra is its latest robot vacuum with a water production and purification system that extracts moisture from the air and recycles dirty water after mopping for the next cleaning cycle. And of course, the obligatory Tapo AI Assistant, which promises to anticipate your needs, connect devices, and automate your smart home.

Finally, there were a few Wi-Fi 7 routers, including a travel model and an outdoor router, but you may want to hang fire on those until the US government decides whether to ban TP-Link routers.

Dolby Atmos Music, which brings Dolby’s 360-degree sound format to artists old and new, has in many ways seen impressive adoption. It’s been leveraged by tons of top artists, from Elton John to Post Malone, including over 90 percent of 2024’s Billboard’s top 100. It's inspired speakers like the excellent Sonos Era 300, and according to Dolby, the audio type is supported by 20-plus music services worldwide. Still, when it comes to how most people listen, it hasn’t yet made much of a dent in good old stereo. Maybe that’s because it hasn’t found the right venue yet.

Cadillac thinks that venue could be the cockpit of your car. After what I just heard, I’m inclined to agree. Using 19 different AKG speakers meticulously tuned for 7.1.4 sound, the company’s new Optiq electric car just punched me in the feels with one of the best interpretations of Dolby’s new(ish) format that I’ve experienced yet.

While 3D music mixes can sometimes feel a little cacophonous or drowned in an echoey haze, that was definitely not the case in the demo I heard. Jacob Collier’s “Witness Me” was particularly hair-raising, with crisp clarity at the center and a barrage of voices expanding throughout the cabin. Other vehicles have begun to adopt some form of the technology, as well, making me an increasing believer in the format’s merits. Now, if I can just raise the scratch to get one for myself.

If there’s a common theme for Samsung’s core TVs in 2025 it’s that the matte is back in a big way. By putting a matte finish on a typically glassy television screen can cut down glare and make the TV easier to view in brighter environments.

Samsung first introduced a version of its matte-like screen in The Frame TV, which has become extremely popular for its design that looks like a painting on your wall. This year, Samsung added a step-up model in the Frame Pro with significant performance enhancements.

But that’s not the only TV using the brand’s glare-resistant backdrop. As with last year’s S95D OLED TV (8/10, WIRED Recommends), the new S95F continues to use the reflection stopping display design, while the technology has expanded to its new Q990F and Q900F 8K TVs as well as the stalwart Q90 series TV in the new Q90F 4K mini LED TV. For those tired of running cables through the wall, Samsung’s new Wireless One Connect box serves up more innovation, offered with the Frame Pro (naturally) and the ultra-thin Q990F. Similar to LG’s M-series TVs, the Wireless One Connect provides cable-free transmission to the new screens from a claimed 10 meters.

Acer has announced not one, but two new Nitro Blaze gaming handhelds at CES 2025, the Nitro Blaze 8 and the Nitro Blaze 11. Of the two, it was the latter that really grabbed our attention, because—well—it’s enormous.

Featuring a huge 10.95-inch 144Hz WQXGA touch display that offers up to 500 nits of brightness, it’s like gaming on the go with an iPad Air—except it feels even larger thanks to the detachable Hall Effect joysticks on either side.

The Nitro Blaze 8 is a little more sensibly sized, with an 8.8-inch screen and built-in joysticks that can’t be removed.

Both feature AMD’s Ryzen 8040HS processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 2TB or storage. They join the Nitro Blaze 7 that was announced at IFA 2024, and will be available by the summer for $899 and $1,099 respectively.

Even though it’s a gigantic PITA, I always try to catch the Sony press conference, which is typically one of the latest pressers to happen at CES. I hate to add to the Sony hype, but pretty much every intellectual property pie that the company puts its fingers in (I’m sorry I can’t come up with a better, less disgusting analogy) is very exciting and well done. I love The Last of Us. I love Horizon Zero Dawn. I have never lost hope that one day Troy Baker will be one of the guest speakers and I’ll get to hear Joel Miller’s voice in person.

There was a dearth of News News. The company finally opened the waitlist to buy an Afeela for $90,000, though I’m not sure why you’d want to. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was also on hand to announce that Sony is making a new football coach headset. But most of the presentation revolved around Sony’s creator tools and its partnerships with Crunchyroll and Aniplex, anime-focused entertainment services.

The popular Demon Slayer series is going to become a movie! Ghost of Tsushima will be an anime! Until Dawn, the movie based on the the wildly popular horror video game, will probably debut this year! I was also incredibly excited when Peter Stormare (aka the best part of Fargo) was announced to be a speaker, but alas, he was only a pre-filmed video clip. Recycle everything back and forth forever! It’s very easy to please a fan.

Everyone went crazy over the Boox Palma last year, a phone-sized e-reader powered by Android. Well, TCL might have something better: an Android phone and an Android tablet with screens that transition from color to an epaper-like experience. They employ the company’s Nxtpaper technology, which TCL has been iterating on for several years and has now reached its fourth generation. This matte screen reduces the amount of blue light that reaches your eyes and cuts down glare.

The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper actually uses the third generation of the technology but TCL is finally bringing it to the US on the open market as an unlocked device (some Nxtpaper Android phones have been available but only at select carriers). This phone has a slider key that can switch the display from a matte color screen to Max Ink Mode, which mimics the E Ink experience on an e-reader. It silences notifications, and the battery will last for around 7 days if you use it for reading (it has a standby time of 26 days). However, since you can technically use apps like YouTube in this mode, that battery life will vary. TCL is also partnering with Microsoft to integrate its Copilot AI assistant into the operating system level. It’s a respectable device considering the expected sub-$300 price, with a 120-Hz screen, 256 GB of storage, and a 50-MP rear camera.

The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is the first to use the fourth-gen Nxtpaper tech, which supposedly offers better clarity and sharpness, is more color-accurate, and better matches ambient lighting conditions. This one has a button that, when held, can let you switch between three modes. The first is the regular color screen, then there’s an e-paper like screen that has some color, and the third is the same Max Ink Mode for the full black and white e-reader experience.

There’s no details on pricing and availability for the tablet, but the TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper will arrive in Canada this spring with US to follow after, though exact timing and price hasn’t been announced. I asked about the software update policies for these devices, which has long been a point of frustration on TCL devices, and the company said it would share more details at Mobile World Congress in March.

Smart home gadget manufacturer Aqara has unveiled a wave of new sensors, switches, and a new control panel to make your home smarter, but what jumps out to us is the Doorbell Camera Hub G410. It can serve as a smart home hub with dual-band Wi-Fi, Thread and Zigbee support, and the ability to act as a Matter controller.

This update to one of our favorite video doorbells, the G4, also brings enhanced 2K video quality with a wider 176-degree field of view, RTSP support, and compatibility with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. It also looks more compact than its chunky predecessor, but there’s no word on the release date or price just yet.

After the egregiously over-priced Netgear Orbi 970 Series, we got the much more affordable 770 Series, which earned a place in our best mesh systems guide. The new Orbi 870 Series is the middle child, coming in at $1,300 for a three-pack.

This is a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh capable of covering up to 9,000 square feet. The main router has one 10 Gbps Ethernet WAN port, but both it and its satellites boast four 2.5 Gbps Ethernet LAN ports apiece. Most folks should still opt for the cheaper 770 Series, as you’ll need multi-gig internet and a large property to make full use of this mesh. Netgear has also revamped its subscription services to offer a new tier called Armor Plus, which adds VPN service, ad-blocking, and anti-tracking to its standard security software but bumps the price up to a whopping $12.49 a month.