Every January, the biggest names in technology gather in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), ready to show off their new and upcoming wares for the next 12 months.
The 2025 extravaganza gets underway on Tuesday, January 7, although there will be lots of news coming out of the show from the weekend before that.
Our best gadgets of CES 2024 list gives you an idea of the variety of hardware that gets showcased at this expo: everything from high-end TVs and projectors to wireless earbuds and keyboard accessories for your smartphone.
And there’s lots to look forward to this year: the likes of Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sony, Google, Nvidia, and many more are all going to be in attendance. That covers a huge range of components, devices, apps, and services.
The TechRadar team will be out in Vegas in force and will be bringing you all the highlights of CES 2025 once it gets underway. In the meantime, these are the announcements, new products, and tech trends to watch out for at this year’s show.
When is CES 2025? Dates and schedule
CES 2025 will run from Tuesday, January 7 to Friday, January 10, 2025. Those are the official show dates, although many announcements will take on the preceding two days (Sunday, January 5 and Monday, January 6), which are designated as media days.
Many of the keynotes will be available to watch on the official CES YouTube channel, but if you’re planning to go in person you’ll be able to visit the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) or the Venetian Expo during the following times:
- 10am – 6pm PT Tuesday, January 7
- 9am – 6pm PT Wednesday, January 8
- 9am – 6pm PT Thursday, January 9
- 9am – 4pm PT Friday, January 10
CES 2025: our predictions and what to expect
TVs and soundbars
In the TVs space, the big CES upgrade is expected to be HDMI 2.2 – or perhaps HDMI 2.1c, as the HDMI Licensing Administrator has merely referred to the new specification as “next-generation HDMI technology” – which will almost certainly improve upon the connectivity of our future HDMI ports.
There’s no word yet on what HDMI 2.2 will be able to support, but considering HDMI 2.1b (which has steadily become the standard connector type across the space) can transfer resolutions of up to 10K and refresh rates of 120Hz with dynamic HDR, we expect the next-gen tech will be something special.
We also anticipate that CES will bring its usual suite of television improvements – i.e. brighter OLEDs, bigger mini-LED displays, better gaming support with 165Hz refresh rates, and the like. For soundbars this would mean more and/or more capable speaker arrays that can more easily generate an immersive Dolby Atmos soundscape, or perhaps tech that could build upon and roll out alternatives to the Sonos Arc Ultra’s Sound Motion feature, which allows for more impressive performance from smaller sub woofers.
However CES is also home to those wackier, more experimental designs. While they might not be announced for mainstream commercial availability, except to see some transparent TVs, screens that can be bent into weird shapes, and displays bigger than anyone could ever need.
Laptops and computing
CES 2025 is expected to be a major event in the computing and laptop space thanks to one announcement that we’re very likely to get: Nvidia’s RTX 5090 graphics card. While the announcement has yet to be confirmed, there are plenty of rumors and leaks suggesting we’ll see a new Nvidia flagship GPU – we might even see the more affordable 5080, 5070, and 5060 if we’re lucky – and in this instance it certainly feels like a case of where there’s smoke there’s fire.
If the 5090 does indeed break cover, then we’ll also probably see the major computing brands announce new laptops sporting mobile versions of this powerful chipset.
Nvidia won’t be alone, mind. AMD is also expected to drop new GPUs at CES 2025, plus there’s talk that Qualcomm will debut new desktop CPUs to better compete with AMD and Intel. So we should see various laptop and desktop configurations sporting these components too, if they make an appearance.
Computing accessories will rear their head as well. We’ll be looking out for impressively large or vibrant monitors, as well as new mice, keyboards and headsets – though they’ll likely be a little overshadowed.
Headphones and audio
HDMI 2.2 won’t just have visual benefits but should also lead to audio improvements, as better data transfer can occur between your TV and soundsystem. That won’t be the only development in the sound space, though.
For a start we expect to see your usual suite of updates (in terms of the design and performance) to the audio gadget catalog – headphones, earbuds, AV receivers, turntables, speakers – as brands announce their 2025 lineup of consumer tech.
But where things will get properly interesting is in the more medical side of headphones, with audio tech such as the AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid feature or the Neurable x Master & Dynamic brain-hacking headphones. We expect there will be plenty of CES demos showcasing similar tech that blends traditional cans with medical diagnosis kits into packages of varying usefulness – which we’ll be nonetheless interested in testing for ourselves.
Our Audio editor Becky Scarrott also predicts a return to wired connections, as people look to experience truly hi-res digital audio from their sound tech – so be on the lookout for more traditional-looking audio at tech at CES in and among the weirder stuff.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence: have you heard of it? AI has been everywhere this year, and that won’t change in 2025. At CES 2024 we were all wowed by the Rabbit R1 – although it didn’t exactly live up to the hype – and it’s possible there’ll be another AI breakout star at the next expo too. That could quite possibly be Luci, an AI companion wearable that tracks your life and offers instant help with anything.
We’re also expecting to hear more about the LG Self-Driving AI Home Hub: a little bit like an Amazon Echo built up to be a full robot that can move independently. It’s able to answer your questions, give you advice, control your smart home devices, and more, and it’s due to be launched sometime during 2025.
Other AI innovations on the way at CES 2025 include the MSI Aegis RS2 gaming PC that uses AI to constantly tweak and optimize your settings, the Ailive Studio engine for generating virtual 3D worlds with AI, and the EVOM AI Piano – a physical piano that can invent music in real time to fit the mood of any environment.
We’re also likely to see plenty of health-related AI at CES 2025. One of the products being showcased is the January app, the first AI-powered virtual continuous glucose monitor (CGM) we’ve come across. The January team will be on the ground at Las Vegas, and explaining more about where AI might lead health apps and gadgets in 2025.
Smart home
When it comes to the smart home, expect AI to be infused into every product in this category too. Samsung is one of the companies packing AI and displays into ovens, fridges, and other appliances, and that’s an idea that we’re likely to hear more of at CES – the idea that everything in your home is smart.
There’s a good chance we’re going to get more unusual items of furniture with appliances inside as well – think the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk table lamp speaker, but even crazier – and these are the sort of innovations that CES is known for. We’re also quite looking forward to testing this Eden Rovo 25 body massage chair.
The craziness is likely to continue with robot vacuums, which continue to get more capable and more feature-packed. Think magnetic mops, quad bike-style suspension, and other upgrades, as well as (we hope) the robovac upgrade we want the most – the added ability for these devices to climb up the stairs.
Two other trends to look out for: more smart home kit that connects to rapid response emergency services (like medical alert systems) and sustainability in smart home devices – tech companies continue to focus on health, well-being, and eco-friendliness in their products, and there should be more evidence of that at CES 2025.
Wearables and fitness
AI is likely to be every bit as prominent in the fitness space, too. We’ve seen some solid examples of it so far, but AI interpretation of your health metrics to help you better understand what stats mean for your health and workout plans seems like a trend we’ll see incorporated into more gadgets at CES. Our team hopes that new versions of these AI trainers will be able to take into account your injuries when generating guidance.
More widely in the wearables category, we expect glasses sporting AR and/or AI capabilities will rear their heads to capitalize on renewed interest in this area thanks to the arrival of the Meta Ray-Bans, Meta Orion prototype, and the recent Android XR announcement.
Similarly, following the success of the Samsung Galaxy Ring we’re expecting CES 2025 will treat us to a handful of copycats here, and to more generally continue a trend of more discreet fitness bands and wearables that might not be so obviously techie like a smartwatch.
CES will also likely be home to innovative mobility options in the e-bike and e-scooter area, so look out for those announcements. But we’ll also be on the hunt for the… let’s call them stranger announcements in the wearables and fitness space. We’re talking exoskeleton suits that increase your carrying capacity and other gadgets which feel ripped from science fiction.
Car tech
There’s always a lot of automobile tech on show at CES, and this year we’re anticipating that Honda will have the most to say at the event. As a lot of companies do, Honda has put out a press release ahead of the show: it announces an all-new hybrid-electric Honda Prelude, and we also know a new Honda 0 Series EV will be unveiled at CES 2025 too.
Chinese EV makers will be represented by Zeeker, which is going to have three models to show us in Las Vegas. The car manufacturer has a strong record of CES announcements, and there should be plenty of news out of CES 2025 as we look forward to what the automobile industry has to show us over the next year.
Another company that will be at CES 2025 is car rental service Vay, which delivers autos to customers via remote teledriving – so a Vay employee is operating it remotely. It means you can get a rental car any place, any time: the service is already up and running in the US and could be coming to Europe soon.
Those themes of electric vehicles and tech innovations will be the dominant ones at CES 2025 as far as the car industry goes, and we know that key speeches are going to be delivered by executives from Volvo and Waymo too.
Robots and tech accessories
Part of what makes CES great is the sheer number of tech products that get showcased: some weird, some wonderful, but mostly all interesting. Consider, for example, the Romi Lacatan, a “conversational AI robot” that’s able to keep up a detailed, real-time conversation, and talk about what it sees and hears.
We’ve also got exoskeletons at CES 2025: the XoMotion takes assistive tech to a new level, with various advancements in terms of built-in agility and balance. It’s intended to help patients recovering from spinal cord injuries, strokes, and other neurological conditions, and it’s going to be on show in Las Vegas.
Chamelo is another company we’re looking forward to hearing from, as we’ve already been impressed by their glasses tech that can turn normal specs into sunglasses in an instant. More and more smart eyewear products are hitting the market now, and no doubt more will show up in January.
There’s lots more, too: for instance the BioLite Backup batteries that can keep your whole house powered for up to 60 hours should the power get cut. From smart beer makers to self-refilling coffee machines, just about every tech category is covered at CES – and we might even see some new categories created in the process.
We’ll be updating this page constantly during the show, adding in the latest stories as they appear. So bookmark it now and check back regularly for all of the big announcements as they happen. Plus, don’t forget to follow us on TikTok and WhatsApp for the latest from the CES show floor!
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