The Weirdest Devices We Noticed at CES 2026

Nothing says CES like taking a look at a gadget and uttering to your self, “What the precise f*ck?” Wacky devices are as vital to the attract of the world’s largest shopper electronics present as phones are to MWC or as being illegitimate is to Trump Mobile.

Now that CES 2026 is fading into the space, we’re right here to compile the winners of the bizarre. The creme of the complicated gadget crop; the perfect of the baffling; the titans of “tf did I simply see?!”

iPolish color-changing nails

Most likely one of many largest show-stealers this yr was a set of acrylic nails that may change colours on demand, due to a novel little gadget made by an organization known as iPolish.

Principally, the entire thing works by making use of a small piece of electrophoretic movie to an acrylic nail. As soon as utilized, that nail can have its colour reworked by a vape-looking system that emits an electrical area. With iPolish, you’ll be able to choose between 400 totally different colours which might be chosen by way of a companion app and shift the colour of every nail nearly immediately.

Imagine it or not, you’ll be able to truly purchase iPolish’s starter package proper now for $95 with an anticipated ship date in June.

Lollipop Star’s music-playing sweet

Generally wacky CES devices simply really feel like somebody mashed a bunch of phrases collectively, and I’m going to take the freedom of submitting this bone-conducting lollipop beneath that class.

The Lolipop Star is precisely what I stated: a lollipop that you simply put in your mouth to play music in your head. It’s important to chunk down barely to essentially hear the tunes since that is bone-conducting audio tech that emanates from the stem, however that exercise yields its personal sugar-y reward—you get to crunch on scrumptious sweet.

Proper now, there are three artists—Ice Spice, Akon, and Armani White—however hey, who is aware of? Perhaps lollipops with bone conduction are the subsequent massive factor, and that is only the start. Charlie XCX taste, right here we come.

Fitasy 3D-printed footwear

You would possibly assume that 3D printing is for VR equipment and untraceable weapons, however there are many different makes use of. I’ll provide you with a touch: look down. No, not that; I’m speaking about your ft.

Fitasy introduced its foot-scanning tech to CES 2026, which 3D prints footwear which might be tailor-made precisely to the anatomy of your ft. To do that, all you must do is take a bunch of ft pics (no, Fitasy just isn’t paying for them) to create a 3D mannequin in an app. That mannequin is then made utilizing digital gentle projection 3D printing to create a rubber-like pair of kicks with a shock-absorbing lattice design.

The entire thing is as spectacular as it’s bizarre. In case your canine are dying for a pair of 3D-printed, absolutely customized footwear, you should buy a pair from Fitasy beginning at $180.

Glyde good hair clipper

There was good all the things at CES 2026—good plates, good mirrors, and good pet bowls. There’s, nonetheless, just one good system that may trim your hair, and that comes courtesy of Glyde. Why shove good tech into clippers? Effectively, Glyde claims that the clipper is “mistake-proof” and makes use of a “good blade: to sense your velocity, tilt, and angle, so it might “regulate in actual time to forestall uneven fades or overcuts.” There’s additionally a bizarre band that you must put on whilst you’re utilizing Glyde, so it is aware of the place you’re chopping.

We tried to check Glyde for ourselves, however Gizmodo’s good residence knowledgeable, Wes Davis’ hair was apparently “too lengthy.” Hey, we stated “weirdest devices,” not “most useful,” okay?

Mui Board good wooden

I keep in mind two lengthy years in the past once I wrote concerning the Mui Board; it had already been kicking across the CES circuit for years. The good residence hub, which is definitely fabricated from actual wooden, initially debuted as an idea in 2019 however by no means truly acquired shipped. Effectively, 2026 was the yr for the Mui Board; with a brand new technology, this costly piece of wooden is definitely discovering its approach to clients, and I need one simply as dangerous as I did means again when.

The Mui Board doesn’t do something groundbreaking on a technical stage—it controls stuff like lighting and can be utilized to set timers or see notifications and climate like different good residence hubs—nevertheless it does look so much nicer and emphasizes minimalism. You may also contact the wooden floor, which is capacitive, to work together with the hub and your good residence.

It prices $800, which is so much for a chunk of good wooden, however I’d be mendacity if I stated I wouldn’t pull the set off if I had that form of frivolous gadget slush fund.

TDM Neo headphone audio system

Generally you must simply ask your self: why not each? That’s what TDM did when it made headphones that additionally flip into audio system. Yup, that’s proper—music outdoors and in, child.

These headphones fold up and connect magnetically, so while you’re bored with internalizing all of your audio, you may make everybody else take heed to your Spotify favored songs, too. I acquired to listen to the TDM Neo myself, and whereas it was exhausting to get a way of how the speaker half sounds, on condition that I used to be in a loud, crowded room, the headphone half sounded fairly okay. Might you simply purchase a Bluetooth speaker to associate with your headphones? In fact, however going full Transformer is a lot cooler.

Neurable and HyperX brain-sensing gaming headset

You may put the vitality drinks away, as a result of there’s a brand new approach to lock in that doesn’t contain ingesting 50g of sugar. This new gaming headset idea from Neurable and HyperX integrates EEG sensors to trace your focus and assist information you to changing into a greater gamer.

To assist zero you in, Neurable is utilizing what principally quantities to a meditation that asks you to take a look at a bunch of dots and focus till the dots get smaller. Keep in mind, there are EEGs on this factor, so it’s measuring your focus scientifically; you’ll be able to’t cheat your means into minimizing the dots.

If the headset does its job, it ought to improve your focus by decreasing your cognitive load—the much less different crap you’re specializing in, the extra you’ll be able to consider pwning. The entire thing is fairly nifty in the event you ask me, and whereas there’s no exhausting launch date, it doesn’t really feel like one thing that might be completely unimaginable to make.

Beatbot’s RoboTurtle

It’s not all about Spot, Boston Dynamics’ horrifying dog-like robotic—turtles can have a bit little bit of robotics, too, as a deal with.

Introducing RoboTurtle from Beatbot, which is an organization recognized for making pool-cleaning robots. In contrast to its different pool robots, RoboTurtle has a extra altruistic mission of conducting analysis in delicate ecosystems like coral reefs. The thought is that RoboTurtle can mix in with its environment and acquire knowledge extra simply with out scaring away surrounding sea life.

On high of that, it’s additionally only a cool type of biomimicry and fairly rattling cute. I imply, take a look at this factor and inform me you wouldn’t need one to swim round your pool and monitor chlorine ranges? Personally, I feel Beatbot is onto one thing right here, environmentalism or not.

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