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If you’ve ever tried to get back into a sport you were halfway decent at in school, you’ll know the soul-crushing reality of muscle memory giving you the middle finger. It’s a reality I’ve found myself living in – once a fairly capable tennis player, now dodging serves. Unfortunately, I missed seeing the device at IFA 2025, so when I was offered the chance to play against Acemate’s Tennis Robot at CES 2026, I had to give it a try. Read more: The 10 best tennis video games ever made to play during Wimbledon (and after) Acemate’s machine isn’t just…

Asus is announcing three new OLED gaming monitors at CES with “RGB stripe” technology that the company says will bring improvements to “texture clarity and color rendering consistency.”With RGB stripes, which Samsung Display and LG Display (the two companies that usually provide the panels for gaming monitors) are also making a big deal about at CES this year, the colors of subpixels are lined up in vertical RGB stripes. The resulting clarity and color improvements “enhance your viewing experience no matter what you’re doing, making these monitors perfect picks for your multi-purpose setup,” Asus says. “Whether you want the most…

Amazon has revealed its take on the art gallery-style television with the new Ember Artline set offering a super-thin design and a matte-finish display to really ensure your artwork pops. At its core, the new Ember Artline set is a 4K QLED television set that supports both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ and should offer speedy and reliable access to streaming content thanks to Wi-Fi 6 integration. Running off the newly-reimagined FireTV UI, there’s support for 2,000 pieces of free art via Amazon Photos. The Ambient Experience also automatically comes on and off when people enter and leave the room so…

Boston Dynamics unveiled the latest version of its humanoid Atlas robot Monday at CES in Las Vegas. The robot, with a glowing circle for a face, a fully electric, battery-powered body, and joints that can rotate 360 degrees, is so advanced that it will soon be working alongside human factory workers for parent company Hyundai, the companies claimed.Hyundai said it plans on mass-producing Atlas as “production-ready humanoid robots” that will be put to work at the automaker’s car plants, starting with the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant in Savannah, Georgia. The company estimates it will produce 30,000 robots annually starting in…

Imagine walking into CES 2026, sitting down in front of a smart mirror, taking a 30-second selfie, and getting a score for how well you’re aging. Well, last night, a bunch of other tech journalists did just that. I witnessed some journalists take critical damage to their self-esteem. Others wiped their brow in relief. Yours truly let out an unholy cackle because the mirror told me I look 11 years younger than I actually am. All hail the protective powers of sunscreen.This particular smart mirror is Nuralogix’s $899 Longevity Mirror. It uses something called “transdermal optical imaging” to measure blood…

LG’s CLOiD robot took the stage at CES 2026 on Monday, offering our first look at the bot in action. During LG’s keynote, the company showed how CLOiD can load your washer or dryer — albeit slowly – as part of its goal of creating a “zero labor home.”CLOiD waved both of its five-finger hands as it rolled out on stage. Brandt Varner, LG’s vice president of sales in its home appliances division, followed behind and asked the bot to take care of the wet towel he was holding. “Sure, I’ll get the laundry started,” CLOiD said in a masculine-sounding…

On March 1st, 2026, The Lego Group will begin selling the most ambitious brick it’s ever made: a tiny computer that fits entirely inside a classic 2×4 Lego brick. When it detects NFC-equipped smart tags nearby, embedded inside new Lego tiles and new Lego minifigures, or when it sees other Smart Bricks, the company claims it will make entire Lego sets come to life — starting with the humming lightsabers, roaring engines, light-up blasters, and the music of Lego Star Wars.These “Smart Bricks” and “Smart Play” initiatives, just announced at CES 2026, aren’t like the huge Lego Mario toys that…

Getting fit is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, and if we’re being honest, it’s also one of the easiest to quit by week two. But with the right support, it doesn’t have to be that way this year. Earbuds like the last-gen Shokz OpenRun Pro can help keep you motivated, while their open-ear design provides a safer, more comfortable alternative to traditional wireless earbuds. And right now, they’ve hit a new low price at Amazon and Best Buy, where you can buy them for $109.95 ($50 off).Built with sports and outdoor activities in mind, the bone-conduction headphones…

Stuff VerdictA major improvement over the original Neo at a similarly beginner-friendly price. The ultimate selfie drone for beginners, thanks to a raft of clever autonomous flight modes.ProsWorks great without a controllerNow comes with obstacle avoidanceLots of built-in storage spaceConsCan’t shoot RAW photosBattery life on the short side Introduction When DJI released the Neo last year, it proved that even a cheap drone could perform to a decent level – assuming you wanted selfies and short clips rather than pro-quality aerial footage. Barely 12 months later the DJI Neo 2 is here, and while it might look nearly identical to…

HP has announced a revamped lineup of OmniBook productivity laptops at CES, including its latest AI-focused flagship Ultra model. While pricing and availability haven’t yet been revealed, we know the upcoming HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is ditching its previous AMD Ryzen AI 300-series CPUs in favor of Intel’s Panther Lake and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 series processors, which are expected to provide a hefty performance boost to AI-related tasks.The top-line 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-90-100 features a neural processing unit that HP has rated at 85 trillion operations per second (TOPS), for example, higher than the up to 55 TOPS provided…

Qualcomm has been taking the fight over Windows laptops to AMD and Intel for a couple of years now and has now completed its full complement of second-generation chips with the mid-range Snapdragon X2 Plus introduced at CES 2026 alongside numerous devices from Asus, Lenovo and more. The company introduced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme for higher-end laptops at the tail end of last year. The first generation Snapdragon X Plus chips debuted in September 2024, so Qualcomm certainly isn’t resting as it attempts to build more market share in what is an ultra-competitive market. The new…

If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive sizable discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. While recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some of the steepest discounts we’ve seen, there are still good deals to be found on every model in January.Below, we’ve rounded up the best deals currently available on each set of AirPods, including both iterations of the AirPods 4, the third-gen AirPods Pro, and the AirPods Max.At the end…