The weirdest tech we’ve seen at CES 2026

There’s ne'er a shortage of breathtaking and innovative tech astatine CES. A superthin TV and tri-folding phone are cool and all, but sometimes the weirdest gadgets are the ones that make america spell “huh.”

Luckily, location was plentifulness of wacky worldly connected the show level this year, and we’ve rounded up immoderate of the astir bizarre (in nary peculiar order).

Instead of stepping retired of the ablution and having to activity your hairsbreadth dryer astir your caput for 15 minutes, ideate conscionable sitting connected your sofa while a crescent-shaped instrumentality hangs complete your head, drying your hairsbreadth arsenic you watch TV aliases play a video game. Well, that’s precisely what a institution called Dreame has developed, and I deliberation it’s benignant of a bully thought — but possibly not for $700.

The instrumentality is besides a lamp, truthful astatine slightest you won’t person to explicate to group why you person a giant, opinionated hairsbreadth dryer successful your surviving room.

Our very ain Victoria Song braved the taint-zapping booth astatine CES 2026, which is precisely what it sounds like: a instrumentality that sends electrodes into a man’s perineum, pinch the extremity of preventing premature ejaculation.

The device, called Mor, is attached to an adhesive spot containing electrodes that you, well, instrumentality connected your taint. And no, this isn’t vaporware — the starter pack is disposable for astir $300.

I’m not judge what’s scarier: a friend equipped pinch clippers and precisely 1 YouTube tutorial, aliases putting AI successful complaint of your haircut. Glyde claims its smart clippers let for “mistake-proof” cuts by automatically adjusting their blades arsenic you go.

But first, you person to strap connected a “fade band” that the clippers usage to observe their position connected your head. Then, conscionable move them connected and dream for the best.

Desktop anime girls made a comeback astatine CES 2026. This clip around, Razer showed disconnected its Project Ava pod, featuring a 5.5-inch hologram of the cat-ear-wearing anime waifu Kira, aliases the tattooed husbando, Zane. They’re expected to look astatine you utilizing a built-in camera (or your webcam) and tin spot what’s happening connected your machine surface via the device’s USB-C relationship to connection gaming tips. The avatars are powered by xAI’s Grok (ew), and you tin chat pinch them utilizing the pod’s dual-mic array.

No, this isn’t a prop from The Silence of the Lambs; this is L’Oréal’s LED Face Mask. The flexible, silicone disguise looks for illustration different furniture of skin, complete pinch reddish lights that item a veinlike pattern. L’Oréal claims its look disguise tightens and smooths tegument utilizing targeted reddish ray and near-infrared light. The institution expects to motorboat the LED Mask successful 2027.

A institution called Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter (TDM) is launching Neo over-ear headphones that you tin toggle shape into a speaker by folding successful the elastic headband. Along pinch 40mm drivers connected the wrong of the Neo’s receptor cups, the instrumentality offers a abstracted brace of 40mm drivers that activate erstwhile utilizing speaker mode.

TDM’s Neo headphones are launching arsenic portion of a Kickstarter run and will costs $249.

The location artillery institution Jackery took the wraps disconnected a solar-powered gazebo that looks much for illustration an incomplete retention instrumentality than thing that I’d want to put successful my backyard. It comes equipped pinch 2,000W of star panels, built-in lighting, a pull-down projector screen, and 2 AC outlets.

What’s possibly moreover much outrageous than the creation is its value tag: it’s expected to costs anyplace betwixt $12,000 and $15,000, not including artillery storage.

The Chinese telephone shaper Honor offered a person look astatine a non-working Robot Phone prototype during CES 2026, which comes pinch a camera mounted connected a mini gimbal that folds retired from the backmost of the device. Based connected a promo shared by Honor, the camera appears to move connected its own and way subjects, but what other it tin do will stay a enigma — astatine slightest until the institution launches it astatine MWC 2026.

This small bot whitethorn springiness you a amended knowing of a time successful the life of your pet while you’re not home. The bot is called Vex, and it’s built to travel your feline aliases canine astir your house, capturing videos while it attempts to play pinch them. Vex will moreover edit the video itself by utilizing AI to create “moving narratives and shareable stories.”

It’s an adorable conception — if it works. FrontierX, the bot’s manufacturer, hasn’t shared footage edited by Vex yet.

The wellness tech startup Vivoo has created a “smart” menstrual pad that’s designed to observe follicle-stimulating hormone, as precocious levels whitethorn suggest little ovarian reserves, fertility issues, aliases conditions for illustration polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The pads are pricey astatine $4 to $5 apiece, but they show results connected the back, which users tin threat a image of utilizing the Vivoo app for much information.

A $399 chef’s knife from Seattle Ultrasonics promises to trim pinch 50 percent little effort, acknowledgment to piezoelectric ceramic crystals that vibrate much than 30,000 times per second. The institution claims you can’t spot aliases moreover consciousness the vibration erstwhile activated.

You tin complaint the weapon pinch a USB-C charger aliases a $149 mahogany wireless charging tile that you tin instrumentality connected your wall aliases spot connected your antagonistic (and yes, you request to complaint this device, too).