All the Eye-Popping Tech That’s Wowed Us at CES 2025

Every January, we kick off the new year in Las Vegas with a deluge of original, weird and wonderful new technology products, and CES 2025 has proven true to form. CNET’s experts continue to comb the tradeshow floor searching for the most impressive tech inventions — AI tools, tech for your smart home, new TVs, groundbreaking cars, laptops, health tech and scads of robots.

See the bounty of tech goodness we’ve discovered at this year’s CES below. We’ll keep updating this curated list of the coolest new stuff that delights, inspires and may soon solve real problems, from our homes to the world beyond.

While a good chunk of the most eye-popping finds of the show are concepts, you can check out the many new products at CES you can buy now (or soon), or have a chuckle reliving the bizarro things we’ve seen at CES in the past.

For more CES coverage, take a look at the official 2025 Best of CES winners, selected by CNET.

James Martin/CNET LG G5 OLED TV
Hey, good looking

Katie Collins/CNET Flint Paper Battery
Sustainable, affordable, scalable power

Singaporean startup Flint’s technology hopes to solve the problems inherent in today’s widely-used lithium-ion batteries with cellulose, a natural material that promotes ionic transfer between the positive and negative terminals of a battery. Which is another way of saying “electricity!”. Cellulose, the stuff of leaves and other greenery, is flexible, compressible and possibly more important, biodegradable; the paper battery can be shrunk small enough embed in a smartwatch strap. It’s one our picks for Best of CES 2025, too.

These Paper Batteries — Yes, Paper — Are Coming For Your Tech.

LG LG UltraGear 45GX990A
Bend it, game it

The flagship of LG’s new GX9 line of UltraGear gaming monitors announced at the show is the most feature-laden of the group and more interesting than a lot of other offerings — it’s relative high resolution (5,120 x 2,160), has support for multiple picture sizes and refresh rate configurations (dual mode) and a curved-to-flat bendable screen (like the Corsair Xeneon). 

The Monitors of CES 2025 I Can’t Wait to Try.

Humetrix Humetrix AI app
An upgrade that will voice-to-voice translate your symptoms and meds in the local tongue.

Humetrix’s AI-powered translation technology already assisted aid workers at last summer’s Paris Olympic Games, but soon it’ll expand to help individuals seeking medical aid in places where they don’t speak the native tongue. Humetrix’s advantage lies in its database of 4 million medications and info on 67,000 medical conditions; using GPS location, Humetrix will translate and speak symptoms, medications and other health info into the local language (of 25 available for now) — just speak into your phone and the Humetrix app will explain in the right lingual and medical terminology.

CES 2025: This AI Tool Lets Doctors and Traveling Patients Converse, Despite Language Barriers.

Celso Bulgatti/CNET Samsung stretchable screen concept
Horror movies just gained a dimension

You know that horror trope where something scary stretches the screen towards you and something awful enters the world? Samsung’s turned the stretching screen of our nightmares into reality — though it could be flowers as much as the undead pushing through. The screen bulges in the middle to produce a 3D effect; it’s a little hard to see, according to editor Lisa Eadicicco, but it’s there.

Samsung’s Wild Stretchable Display Concept Turns 2D Into 3D.

Lisa Eadicicco/CNET Swippitt
A fast way to fill up your phone’s charge. And empty your wallet