CES 2026 live: Every major reveal from the world's biggest tech show

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Finding the sun itself

Jackery's new Solar Mars Bot is a portable power station that can seek out the best sun for its solar panels, thanks to the fact it's on wheels. The roaming robot features four extending solar panels and will autonomously find the best spot to help it to charge.

Clicks has recreated the BlackBerry

After successfully selling two generations of the Clicks Keyboard for iPhone, which added a BlackBerry-like manual keyboard to your phone, Clicks have launched an actual phone. And, unsurprisingly, it looks a bit like a BlackBerry. The Clicks Communicator is no retro handset though, bringing modern tech but in a more manual way and less distractions.

Laptops will be a major theme

It's too early for any official news, but with the knowledge that AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm are all present at CES, with their respective conferences throughout Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th January, it's clear that we're going to get a lot of processor reveals at the show.

And that means a lot of laptops. LG has gone early with its Gram reveal. But there'll be a presence from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, Samsung, Razer, MSI and many more. Pretty much any major laptop-maker you can think of will have new kit – featuring the latest processors.

The rumour is that we're not talking top-end, though. This is mass-market, AI-forward, affordable processors for the kind of laptops that most people will want to buy. And with Nvidia not expected the reveal an upgraded GPU this CES, that also fits the narrative.

LG's early doors reveals

LG likes to get ahead of the CES game, revealing many of its major new products before the show kicks off.

For 2026 that's represented by the ongoing will.i.am collaboration in the brand's Xboom speakers; there's also a new 5K upscaling gaming monitor; the Gallery TV series 'designed by curators'; updated Gram laptops; and a brilliant (yet possibly creepy) chores robot.

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When is CES 2026?

While CES 2026 officially takes place from Tuesday 6th through until Saturday 10th January this year, the days preceding the show's official opening is when many reveals happen – and the big news begins to drop.

Indeed, Sunday 4th and Monday 5th January this year are the two media preview days, where we can expect much of the heavy reveals to happen. That plus some behind-the-scenes pre-briefings under embargo.

CES 2026: What to expect?

While CES has often been seen as a TV or audio-video showcase, it's no longer just about the best new TVs – sure, LG, Samsung, Hisense and TCL will reveals their latest, but there'll be plenty more too.

This year the big press conferences is from Lenovo (at the Las Vegas Sphere), suggesting that PC, gaming and AI will be big – and with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Nvidia all also present and with their own big reveals, that makes a lot of sense.

It's also Lego's first-ever CES, which is a great example of the show's reach beyond the norms. That plus some automotive presence, lots of audio brands (in the Venetian Sands expo), and a lean towards AI and health tech continue to be rising trends.