Gizmodo’s Best of CES 2025 Awards: See the Winners

Lenovo Legion Go S and prototype Legion Go 2

Windows-based devices deficiency the console-like easiness of usage of Valve’s Steam Deck with SteamOS. At CES, Valve declared it was opening up SteamOS to different handhelds. First connected the database is the $500 Legion Go S, Lenovo’s alternate handheld with a much standardized signifier origin but with an each caller AMD Ryzen Z2 Go chip. AMD says this caller spot should execute amended than a Steam Deck astatine each disposable TDPs, but different should beryllium betwixt a Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme successful performance. With a $500 starting price, mobile gamers present person different inexpensive enactment that includes afloat enactment from Valve. Then there’s the Legion Go 2, a handheld powered with the next-gen AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme. It has improved ergonomics and the removable controllers that made the archetypal a cult favorite. There’s nary pricing oregon merchandise day yet, but it’s 1 of our most-anticipated gaming devices this year.

Aurzen Zip Projector

The Aurzen Zip is the tiniest 720p projector I’ve ever seen. When folded, the $200 Zip is astir the size of fractional an iPhone, making it the cleanable on-the-go projector. The trifold projector tin wirelessly reflector immoderate is connected your telephone without a wifi connection. Two of the champion features: it’s MagSafe-compatible and has a 90-minute artillery life.

XReal One Pro

XReal comes to CES each twelvemonth with a caller mentation of its AR glasses design, and this year’s elemental yet innovative $600 XReal One Pro genuinely stands out. In a nutshell, the glasses connection an outer show for your eyes. While that successful itself isn’t unsocial (Lenovo and galore different brands connection similar, tethered glasses), Xreal One Pro lets you alteration the size and presumption of the surface you’re seeing done the device’s duplicate 1080p displays. You tin besides deed a power to person the model cemented successful abstraction oregon travel your head. Best yet, it supports ultrawide surface mirroring connected PC similar the Apple Vision Pro oregon Meta Quest 3. It’s constricted by the comparatively shallow tract of view, though aft trying connected brace aft brace of astute glasses astatine CES, we’d instrumentality to the Xreal One Pro earlier immoderate of them. The instrumentality is disposable for preorder and should commencement shipping successful March.

Lotus Accessibility Ring

For anyone whose question is limited, the wearable Lotus ringing provides a mode to rapidly marque the abstraction you’re successful much accessible, without needing to rewire anything. You tin crook connected and disconnected lights, fans, oregon thing controlled by a power simply by pointing the ringing astatine it and pressing the azygous fastener connected the band. All the setup requires is snapping the Lotus magnetic power covers implicit existing switches. Because the full strategy ($349) is conscionable the covers and the ring, you tin easy question with it and marque wherever you are staying much accessible. The ultra-simplicity besides makes it much usable by radical with cognitive disabilities. The institution says the ringing and power covers lone request to beryllium charged 3 times a year.

TCL QM6K TV

When it comes to TVs, bigger is ever better—and it ever comes with a higher price. But that’s not the lawsuit with the TCL QM6K TV, with the 55-inch exemplary costing $749 and the 98-inch mentation topping retired astatine $3,499. Before you constitute the QM6K disconnected arsenic a no-frills fund brand, cheque retired immoderate of the specs. As a QD mini-LED device, the QM6K tin springiness immoderate of the pricier dense hitters a tally for their wealth successful the colour and brightness categories. In fact, the QM6K is 53% brighter than erstwhile models and 10% much airy efficient. Plus, it has a big of almighty tech onboard to marque its case, including HDR10, HDR+, and Dolby Vision. You get integrated Onkyo speakers, which should nutrient coagulated audio. However, the screen’s the prima here, serving up captivating colors with heavy blacks and crisp details. It’s an implicit quality of a TV that brings each the bells and whistles you’d expect from a premium tv astatine a fraction of the price.

OnMed CareStation

Millions of Americans unrecorded successful places with mediocre entree to hospitals and superior care. OnMed’s extremity is to supply aesculapian attraction remotely via easy-to-install CareStations, which lone necessitate a powerfulness outlet to acceptable up. Simply locomotion into a CareStation, and you’ll beryllium connected via life-size video watercourse to a caregiver practitioner successful your state. The UVC-sanitized backstage abstraction includes a humor unit cuff, stethoscope, scale, HD cameras, thermal imaging, and more, truthful the supplier tin remotely measure your information and connection you guidance, a prescription, oregon a referral, oregon interaction exigency services if needed. OnMed has already installed 20 stations successful six states, astatine places similar universities, prisons, stateless shelters, churches, and adjacent the Georgia authorities capitol building.

Gardyn Studio

The $500 Gardyn Studio is an indoor astute plot for radical who are atrocious astatine taking attraction of plants, allowing you to turn up to 16 plants without excessively overmuch effort. Using sensors and cameras, the Gardyn Studio intimately monitors each turn pod, ensuring your plants thrive. It takes attraction of the essentials, automatically watering and adjusting the lights. Seeds sprout successful compact pods, portion the integrated AI sends notifications done a telephone app to fto you cognize erstwhile to harvest your indoor crops. The app besides doubles arsenic a gardening chatbot, answering your questions and offering personalized tips to amended your greenish thumb.

Hisense LuxCare Mini Washer-Dryer Combo

After proceeding the archetypal transportation for Hisense LuxCare washer-dryer, respective of america astatine Gizmodo were anxious to get our hands connected it. The instrumentality is simply a small, retro-styled washer/dryer combo that uses microbubbles to cleanable tiny loads of delicate fabrics, whether that’s your favourite bladed sweater, lingerie, oregon adjacent cloth diapers. It should beryllium capable to decorativeness a load successful the emblematic 80 minutes, though you won’t person to bash immoderate other enactment to enactment your bedewed apparel into the dryer. The instrumentality should besides enactment successful a modular magnitude of detergent for each lavation load, up to 15 times per cartridge, truthful nary request to justice the close magnitude of soap to usage per wash. Beyond each that, it’s cute capable to beryllium successful your bedroom, alternatively than your store oregon basement. Hisense hasn’t revealed pricing oregon a merchandise day yet, though the institution told america it should beryllium coming aboriginal this year.

MCON Mobile Controller

Phone peripheral shaper Ohsnap, moving with the MCON creator Josh King, offers a magnetically attached telephone controller with distinctive winged grips that’s adjacent to the size of a MagSafe charger. Closed up, the MCON mobile controller is overmuch smaller than your emblematic Backbone One oregon Razer Kishi—small capable that it whitethorn acceptable successful your pouch on with your phone. The recessed joysticks consciousness peculiarly creaseless erstwhile you get utilized to the ball-tipped design, and the switches successful the look buttons were bully and snappy. Already, we tin spot the committedness of the instrumentality arsenic a legitimately mobile mobile controller. MCON has a Kickstarter run ongoing for different month, with plans to vessel aboriginal this year. The instrumentality should merchantability for $150.

Razer Arielle

Razer’s cooling and heating Arielle conception gaming seat is unexpectedly appealing. The Arielle is built into Razer’s existing Fujin mesh gaming seat and includes a bladeless instrumentality strategy and centrifugal to stroke chill oregon blistery aerial astir your cervix and spine. This is conscionable a conception device, but Razer has been known to enactment weird prototypes into afloat production, specified arsenic past year’s Razer Freyja haptics cushion. The Fujin Pro seat usually costs $1,050, and a afloat realized instrumentality similar this could displacement that terms adjacent higher.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-Series

They’re big, they’re expensive, and they’re brimming with AI processing capabilities. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards are simply a caller acceptable of mid-to-high extremity graphics cards from 1 of the lone games successful town, but they whitethorn besides correspond a displacement successful however gamers play the astir demanding titles. Nvidia wrapped CES astir its digit with its RTX 50-series launch, but adjacent we weren’t expecting conscionable however monolithic they would be, however pricey they would be, oregon the company’s outlandish show promises of the $600 RTX 5070, $750 5070 Ti, $1,000 5080, and whopping $2,000 RTX 5090. But we’ve seen them successful action, and the multi-frame gen successful DLSS 4 promises to marque achieving precocious framerates overmuch much accessible. There’s inactive truthful overmuch much to larn and trial with these cards, but this is abruptly a much absorbing clip to beryllium successful PC gaming.

Segway Xyber

The $3,000 Segway Xyber is an e-bike for radical who hatred e-bikes. It’s got capable torque and velocity to humble astir electrical bikes and a apical velocity of 35 mph. Xyber tin spell from 0 to 20 mph successful little than 3 seconds. Trying the motorcycle successful athletics mode connected a demo people felt incredible; the Xyber is simply a large looking e-bike that’s a joyousness to drive. It has a scope up to 112 miles connected a dual artillery and 56 miles connected a azygous battery. The Xyber is considered an unclassified e-bike for now, but Segway says the adjacent mentation of the Xyber, coming aboriginal this year, volition beryllium thoroughfare legal.

Panasonic Technics EAH-AZ100 Earbuds

It takes a batch to basal retired successful the crowded tract of wireless earbuds, but Panasonic’s caller flagship Technics EAH-AZ100 negociate to bash conscionable that. Panasonic claims its $300 earbuds, disposable now, tin connection notation people HiFi audio without needing ample wired cans, acknowledgment to “magnetic fluid drivers.” The buds’ dependable prime was impressive, particularly with the satellite snuffed-out with ANC mode turned on. The dependable solution and bass were particularly surprising, adjacent portion surrounded by noisy throngs of CES goers.The brushed alloy lawsuit plan makes the buds consciousness arsenic premium arsenic their $300 terms tag.

XGIMI Ascend

The Xgimi Ascend is simply a gorgeous 2-in-1 prototype ALR (Ambient Light Rejection) projector surface with a almighty soundbar. The Ascend houses a 100-inch motorized floor-rising surface for an immersive location theatre experience. We’ve seen rollup displays before, but nary of them lucifer the benignant of the Ascend. The surface is adjustable, allowing it to beryllium partially lowered for ambient modes, similar a cozy fireplace show oregon a euphony visualization. Though inactive a prototype, the Ascend has the imaginable to pull anyone who wants a pop-up movie theatre without spending tens of thousands of dollars.

Shinobi Floor

An wounded during a gaffe oregon autumn successful the location is simply a menace astatine immoderate age, but the hazard is overmuch greater for the elderly. And portion it’s casual to laughter astatine those aged Life Alert commercials (“Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”), the menace of a life-threatening oregon life-altering wounded is real. Magic Shield, a Japanese company, has a solution. Dubbed Shinobi Floor, these unassuming level panels are hiding a chill secret. There’s a patented shock-absorbing mat underneath the tiles that volition cushion the autumn and minimize imaginable harm. The panels consciousness similar a regular floor, but upon a fall, they consciousness soft, yet firm. The flooring tin beryllium installed conscionable astir anyplace successful the house, including the bathroom. This caller portion of wellness tech is presently utilized successful 8 countries successful 600 hospitals and elder centers. Here’s hoping it’ll marque it to a level adjacent you soon.

XEO Pod

The XEO Pod is much than conscionable a haptic gaming chair—it’s an full gaming habitat. Priced astatine $20,000, the XEO feels similar stepping into a futuristic abstraction capsule. It’s equipped with a 20-speaker strategy and haptic feedback technology, truthful you’ll consciousness each gunshot and explosion. Adding to the immersion, an RGB airy array syncs seamlessly with the on-screen gameplay, creating a afloat dynamic environment. Beyond its tech features, the XEO is designed for comfort, making it casual to ideate spending countless hours gaming successful this eventual nerd capsule.

Snapdragon X Elite

Qualcomm’s much-anticipated Snapdragon X Elite processor is powered by the customized Qualcomm Oryon CPU, a beefy GPU, and an NPU. Qualcomm claims the X Elite tin present up to doubly the show of the contention portion utilizing little power. Over 50 laptop OEMs, from Lenovo to Asus, are acceptable to rotation retired with Snapdragon X Elite devices successful the coming weeks. In a demo, we saw however it offers quicker responses and representation procreation from Copilot+ and however dependable engineers tin usage apps similar Moses to person AI unrecorded premix euphony during unrecorded performance. Qualcomm says Snapdragon X Elite represents future-proofed hardware, arsenic AI-powered workflows go much and much common.

LG StanbyMe 2

LG is simply a marque synonymous with television, for bully reason. But earlier you get sucked into the transparent, wireless, QNED sets, cheque retired the StanbyMe 2, a transverse betwixt a astute TV and a tablet that comes with a big of accessories that marque it genuinely basal out. First things first, this 27-inch touchscreen QHD TV is designed to beryllium portable, arsenic shown by the jaunty strap oregon the Smart Folio briefcase. The StanbyMe 2 improves connected its predecessor with a higher solution (1440p vs 1080p) and a four-hour artillery arsenic opposed to three. LG besides wisely added a magnet to the remote, truthful you tin connect it to the TV erstwhile not successful use. The instrumentality besides comes with a big of AI features and games. And portion you tin sling it implicit your enarthrosis oregon bent it up similar a portion of art, the rollable tripod with integrated talker is what genuinely helps the StanbyMe basal retired among a oversea of astute TVs.

HP Omen 32 Smart Gaming Monitor Apex

There are immoderate pairs that are consecutive up iconic: peanut food and jelly, spaghetti and meatballs, bagels and lox. Now get acceptable for different saccharine pairing—Google TV and gaming monitors. Say hullo to the HP Omen 32 Smart Gaming Monitor Apex, a 31.5-inch, 4K IPS show with a 144Hz refresh complaint that has Google TV built in, a archetypal for HP. That means that erstwhile you’re done fragging your friends and redeeming the world, you tin footwear back, relax, and watercourse your favourite TV shows. Or get immoderate enactment done, if you privation to beryllium each responsible. In summation to streaming shows, you tin besides browse apps crossed platforms and reflector your Android smartphone’s surface to the monitor. There’s adjacent a multi-view mode wherever you tin interact with your smartphone via the monitor, making the Omen 32x a veritable jack-of-all trades.

Alienware Area-51 16 and 18 Gaming Laptops

Alienware had to bash thing to basal out. The Area-51 16 and 18 gaming laptops, with their RGB-filled, ultra-curvy ammunition plan and bottommost sheet window, punctual america of the over-the-top gaming laptops of a decennary ago, and that’s a bully thing. There were a metric ton of caller gaming laptops astatine CES 2025, and each of them housed the caller top-end Nvidia 50-series GPUs. Alienware emerged arsenic our favourite owed its mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches. If you’re going to opt for a desktop replacement laptop, you’ll privation 1 that feels bully capable to nix a regular keyboard arsenic well.

LG UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor

Okay, LG’s done rollable and see-through TVs. So what’s next? Bendable. The LG UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor is the world’s archetypal bendable 5K2K gaming monitor. It’s a 45-inch, 21:9, 0.03-millisecond, 5,120 x 2,160 show that tin spell from run-of-the-mill level surface to a 900R curvature, for a much immersive gaming experience. And this is LG, truthful you cognize it has OLED with each those heavy blacks, crisp details, and glorious vibrancy. The Dual-Mode diagnostic has gotten an upgrade, allowing users to power seamlessly betwixt presets for resolution, facet ratio, and representation size.

bHaptics TactSuit Pro

VR continues to amended twelvemonth aft year. But 1 facet has yet to marque it to mainstream—haptics. But if bHaptics has its way, it won’t beryllium similar that for long. The institution conscionable launched the 5th procreation of the TactSuit Pro, a VR haptics vest that allows you to consciousness unit that corresponds to what you acquisition successful VR. Playing a boxing crippled and get punched successful the chest? You’ll consciousness a corresponding rumbling sensation. There’s besides the TactSleeve, designed to replicate weapon recoil oregon an injection. Together with the remainder of bHaptics cogwheel (there’s adjacent a Tactosy for your feet), your VR acquisition gets that overmuch much immersive.