The first big tech event of each year is nearly upon us, with CES 2026 starting on January 6 for three days of new hardware and software launches. Expect home tech, TVs, fitness and gaming announcements galore.
Hundreds of companies exhibit on the conference’s Las Vegas showroom floor and plenty of those have online unveilings too, so it’s very easy to get overwhelmed by the number of new products and services shown off.
To save you from hours of browsing, or crossing your fingers that your news algorithm will feed you interesting news, here are five big announcements to keep a look out for at CES. Some of these are individual products or lines, others are wider market segments which will pop off at the show.
RTX 50 Super series
There are usually a glut of graphics card announcements at CES, and we already know that Intel will launch the Panther Lake at the 2026 event. But we’re not looking at definite releases, as it’s the potential ones that are more interesting right now.
There’s a strong possibility that the NVIDIA CES 2026 announcements will include the GeForce RTX 50 Super series: updated versions to its existing 50 series of GPUs. NVIDIA’s graphics cards remain, by a huge margin, the most popular for gamers – in Steam’s November hardware survey , 26 of the top 30 GPUs were from the company – so any showcase for upgraded components is big news.
We’re not certain what we’ll see in the GeForce RTX 50 Super series, or exactly how they’ll be different from the previous builds. However many are expecting CES to act as a first-look showcase, rather than a full reveal for these graphics cards, with a ‘proper’ launch falling later in the year.
Lenovo Legion Go 2 (SteamOS model)
Another announcement for gamers could be a version of the Lenovo Legion Go 2 which runs on SteamOS instead of Windows 11, giving gamers a more potent rival to the Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally than the existing version.
First launching at IFA 2025, the Lenovo Legion Go 2 was a top-spec PC gaming handheld with a premium screen and handy controllers, but it drew flak for its high price and subsequently made fewer waves than ROG or Valve’s alternatives.
We’ve heard some strong rumors that CES will bring a variant of the Legion Go 2, which will retain the same hardware as the original but swap out the software for Valve’s own handheld one. There’s no word on the price of this new device, but the use of SteamOS will seem like a major 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 a product or product range as a selection, I’ve chosen an entire new market segment for this selection. Some of the best announcements of CES are often brand-new types of TV, using new display technology to create better-looking pictures. Often this new tech is on expensive and giant TVs, with consumer releases a few years out, but it’ll still let us know where the TV market is headed.
One of the Samsung CES announcements (https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/samsungs-at-ces-2026/) we’re expecting is the launch of new Micro RGB TVs, using Micro LED-style screen tech with the addition of RGB LEDs instead of white ones to boost the kind of contrast and color accuracy you can expect. A few TVs of this sort have already been unveiled, but it’s still very new, and Samsung’s news post hinting at the announcement puts it alongside AI changes as one of the biggest TV trends of the year.
A very similar kind of tech will come from Hisense, as its own announcements at CES will likely include RGB Mini-LED TVs. The tech here is very similar to LG, with one major consideration: Hisense unveiled its concept TV with this tech last year. So in the 2026 CES proceedings, we could see actual consumer-ready sets boasting the tech, ready to hit store shelves through the year.
A handful of new smart rings
Not one announcement, but many: smart rings are expected to be released in large numbers at CES 2026. This doesn’t come from guesswork, market changes or our own expert analysis but the organizers themselves, who flagged smart rings as a big new trend for the 2026 show in a blog post.
In the article, CES highlighted brands like Oura, Ultrahuman, Luna and RingConn which will exhibit at the show, without naming specific products in most cases. The last releases from Oura and RingConn came out in late 2024, so new models could be shown off, and the Bond Ring Evo is slated for a mid-2026 release so it could appear too.
Plus, many new companies could emerge to unveil their own first-gen smart rings. CES is a big show for up-an-coming brands to unveil their debut devices, and with health and AI tech both big focuses for the show, smart rings are a natural choice.
Smart Robot Vacuum upgrades
AI tools and home robotics are both big trends through CES, and at the center of that Venn diagram for CES 2026 will be big upgrades to robot vacuum cleaners.
The hot new AI buzzword is ‘Agentic AI’, which are AI tools that don’t just do what you ask, but predict when you’ll ask and what you’ll ask for, and this is expected to be first exhibited in robot vacuums. They’ll be able to operate independently, adapting 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 due to it already winning an award for it, and other big names like Roborock, Dreame and Eufy will probably have similar new announcements too.
