The first big tech event of every year is just around the corner: CES 2026 starts on January 6th and offers three days of new hardware and software presentations. Expect home tech, TV, fitness and gaming announcements galore.
Hundreds of companies are exhibiting in the Las Vegas conference showroom and many of them are also showcasing their products online. So it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of new products and services being introduced.
To save you hours of browsing and crossing your fingers that your news algorithm is feeding you interesting news, here are five important announcements to look out for at CES. Some of these are individual products or lines, others are larger market segments that are highlighted at the trade fair.
RTX 50 Super Series
There’s usually a flurry of graphics card announcements at CES, and we already know that Intel will unveil Panther Lake at the 2026 event. But we’re not looking at specific releases because the potential releases are more interesting right now.
There’s a high probability that NVIDIA CES 2026 announcements will include the GeForce RTX 50 Super series: updated versions of the existing 50 series of GPUs. NVIDIA’s graphics cards remain by far the most popular among gamers – 26 of the top 30 GPUs in Steam’s November hardware survey were from the company – so any presentation of updated components is big news.
We’re not sure what we’ll see in the GeForce RTX 50 Super series or exactly how it will differ from previous builds. However, many assume that CES will serve as an initial showcase rather than a full unveiling of these graphics cards, and that a “real” launch will take place later in the year.
Lenovo Legion Go 2 (SteamOS model)
Another announcement for gamers could be a version of the Lenovo Legion Go 2 that runs on SteamOS instead of Windows 11, giving gamers a stronger competitor to the Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally than the existing version.
First introduced at IFA 2025, the Lenovo Legion Go 2 was a top-of-the-line PC gaming handheld with a premium screen and convenient controllers, but it drew criticism for its high price and subsequently caused less of a stir than alternatives from ROG or Valve.
We’ve heard some strong rumors that CES will bring a variant of the Legion Go 2 that retains the same hardware as the original but swaps out the software for Valve’s own handheld device. There’s no word yet on the price of this new device, but using SteamOS seems like a big upgrade. It could make the new Go 2 one of the most interesting non-GPU releases at CES for gamers.
Micro and Mini LED RGB TVs
Instead of selecting one product or range of products, I chose a whole new market segment for this selection. The best CES announcements often include brand new TVs that leverage new display technologies to produce better-looking images. Often this new technology can be found on expensive and huge TVs, and it will still take a few years to be released to the consumer, but it still lets us know where the TV market is heading.
One of the CES announcements we’re expecting from Samsung (https://www.dailysparkz.com/home-theater/samsungs-at-ces-2026/) is the introduction of new Micro RGB TVs that use Micro LED-style screen technology and additionally use RGB LEDs instead of white LEDs to increase the expected contrast and color accuracy. Some TVs like this have already been unveiled, but it’s still very new, and Samsung’s news post highlighting the announcement ranks it among the biggest TV trends of the year, alongside AI changes.
Very similar technology will come from Hisense, as its own announcements at CES will likely include RGB mini-LED TVs. The technology here is very similar to LG’s, with one important aspect: Hisense introduced its concept TV with this technology last year. So at CES 2026 we could actually see consumer-ready devices with this technology that will be available in stores throughout the year.
A handful of new smart rings
Not one announcement, but many: Smart rings are expected to come onto the market in large numbers at CES 2026. This is not due to guesswork, market changes or our own expert analysis, but rather the organizers themselves, who in a blog post flagged smart rings as a big new trend for the 2026 show.
In the article, CES highlighted brands like Oura, Ultrahuman, Luna and RingConn that will be exhibiting at the show, without, in most cases, naming specific products. Oura and RingConn’s most recent releases came out in late 2024, allowing new models to be introduced, and the Bond Ring Evo is scheduled for release in mid-2026, so that could also be released.
Additionally, many new companies could emerge to introduce their own first-generation smart rings. CES is a major trade show for emerging brands to showcase their debut devices. Since health and AI technology are both big focuses of the show, smart rings are a natural choice.
Smart Robot Vacuum Upgrades
AI tools and home robotics are both big trends at CES, and at the heart of the Venn diagram for CES 2026 are big improvements in robotic vacuum cleaners.
The hot new AI buzzword is “Agentic AI.” These are AI tools that not only do what you ask, but also predict when you ask and what you will ask for, and this is expected to be seen for the first time in robot vacuum cleaners. They are able to work independently and adapt their schedule and cleaning to a variety of factors through a complicated decision-making process
We know that LG will unveil a new self-cleaning smart vacuum cleaner as the company has already won an award for it, and other big names like Roborock, Dreame and Eufy are also likely to have similar new announcements.
