What to Expect from CES 2025

It’s time for the biggest tech expo of the year. CES 2025 officially begins next week. Most of the industry’s biggest names will gather in Las Vegas to announce new products and showcase some of the most exciting technology coming all year.

CES is traditionally a show about TVs, laptops, and smart home technology. But it’s increasingly becoming a big show for cars, wearables, medical technology and more. Expect to see a lot of the acronym AI appearing in every single category this year. The AI ​​hype cycle is heading straight to 2025, and whether we like it or not, it’s certain that AI will appear in the next generation of TVs and cars.

The show officially opens on Tuesday, January 7th, but you can expect announcements to be made on the Sunday and Monday before the show floor opening and press conference date.

Here are the big beats we expect to see on the show:

I predict two general trends for TV at CES 2025. As screens continue to grow, AI capabilities will inevitably become ubiquitous. Consumers have been preferring larger TVs (75 inches and larger) for the past few years. So get ready to see large OLED and mini LED models from Samsung, LG, TCL, Hisense, and more.

And you can bet that just about every TV manufacturer will be dialing up their AI-based tricks to 11 this year. We already did that with automatic picture and audio settings. But considering how popular ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI assistants have become, it’s only a matter of time (maybe a matter of days) before chatbots make their way to TV next.

The hottest news is expected to come from Samsung and LG. However, I am very curious to see what Panasonic will show after successfully returning to the US TV market last year.

CES 2025 will be the year of smart home devices. We expect an avalanche of new product announcements to be on display this year from companies like Aqara, Nanoleaf, Tapo, Reolink, SwitchBot, Shelly, Lutron, Lifx, Flic, and Cync. I hope to see real innovation that takes smart homes to the next level, especially products with a foundation in Matter, a unified connectivity standard they can leverage.

One area where we expect to see a lot of new products with interesting features is smart locks. The space is poised to be disrupted with the launch of the new Aliro standard next year. An easier and more seamless way to handle locks and security is a common need that will help bring the benefits of home automation to more people.

Another trend we expect to see on the show floor is new ways to control smart homes. Following the success of the Amazon Echo Hub, we’ll see a slew of new touchscreen interfaces that connect to smart home devices and give everyone in the home a way to control lights, locks, shades, and more without a phone. voice. We can see more screens than we really want to. Samsung has already teased its new “screen everywhere” plan and is equipping all of its home appliances with touchscreens.

Another big topic is robotics. Robot vacuum cleaners have been innovating at an incredible pace over the past few years, with most now able to operate almost completely autonomously to sweep and mop your floors. At this exhibition, we expect robot vacuum cleaners to reach new heights through Ecovacs, Roborock, Dreame, Narwal and more.

Lastly, home energy management will be a top topic across smart homes at CES. We expect most product announcements to focus on energy use and/or conservation, but more importantly, we’ll see announcements about a new home energy management system, a platform that leverages AI to orchestrate how your home uses energy. I think. It helps you save energy and save money. No matter how fun color-changing lights are, they’re one of the most compelling reasons to add connectivity to your home.

– Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

I think it’s safe to say that this year’s CES will be the sleepiest it’s ever been from a transportation perspective. Most of the world’s major automakers are holding it back, and most of the transportation-themed announcements have already been made at some level.

Take a look at Afeela, Sony and Honda’s joint EV project. This is the third show to feature the upcoming vehicle, although we’re expecting some updates on pre-orders and customer experience.

That doesn’t mean there won’t still be some interesting news. Honda is getting ready to share more details about its Honda Zero lineup, introducing two new vehicles that will definitely fill our quota for a sleek, aerodynamic sedan with a cool cyberpunk-inspired lighting motif.

BMW is another major manufacturer with big CES plans this year. The German automaker plans to debut the “Neue Klasse” platform it has been teasing for several years, including a new panoramic iDrive display and a new operating system.

Certainly, with the threat of tariffs and reduced incentives hovering over the EV market, it’s not surprising that there are fewer plug-in vehicles on display at shows. But a number of commercial vehicle manufacturers, including John Deere and Oshkosh, are planning big announcements that will whet your appetite for battery-powered machines.

The Windows laptop space has seen some interesting changes over the past year, with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm all releasing great new mobile CPUs for 2024. We’ll be seeing a ton of Intel Arrow Lake chips coming to laptops and a variety of product lines. But the real story at CES is likely to be about graphics. With the launch of the next generation of Nvidia GPUs, it feels like the entire PC space is about to explode.

This year’s show will feature gaming and content creation laptops built around Nvidia’s new 50 Series discrete GPUs. Hopefully this will mean a significant performance boost over the 40 Series instead of simply repeating upgrades at a higher cost. Or maybe you don’t need a separate GPU in your laptop at all for above-average gaming performance. According to the leak, AMD will have powerful new Strix Halo processors with integrated graphics comparable to Nvidia’s RTX 4060 GPU. As much as I like high-end GPUs (i.e. those ending in 90), I also believe that better performance will trickle down to thinner and lighter machines.

Graphics may be the big story, but one thing’s for sure: we’ll continue to hear a lot of bluster about “AI PCs,” bland automatically-generated work emails and problematic chatbots. Sure, real-time translation is great, but it’s coming to laptops at CES 2025. The most exciting AI features to emerge are likely to be what Nvidia has in store for the next generation of DLSS.

– Antonio G. Di Benedetto

This is shaping up to be a big year for PC gaming at CES. One of the biggest announcements of CES is the next-generation GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. We expect Nvidia to reveal its RTX 50 series graphics cards during a special GeForce keynote on January 7th. Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs have been heavily leaked and are expected to include new “neural rendering” features and “advanced DLSS technology.” Nvidia could be ready to reveal up to five new cards at CES, including the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070, and even the RTX 5090D for China.

AMD is also likely to announce its new RDNA 4 GPU at CES as well. There are rumors that the Radeon RX 9070 XT will appear at the show, but it’s more likely to compete with Nvidia’s current RTX 4080 rather than the upcoming RTX 5080. The RX 9070 XT may launch with FSR 4, AMD’s latest upscaling technology. AI-based, it competes more closely with Nvidia’s DLSS.

It wouldn’t be CES without new gaming laptops and the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD. Rumors suggest that we may see Intel’s Arrow Lake-H series laptop processors paired with RTX 50 series GPUs in a variety of laptops at CES. If that pairing is correct, we’ll be seeing a ton of gaming laptops with it.

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your monitor to OLED, expect to see more options at CES as well. Asus, Samsung, and MSI have all announced their first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors, with MSI having a 500Hz 1440p OLED monitor and ASRock also having a 520Hz IPS monitor for those who still want to play at 1080p. With new GPUs coming soon, it’s a great opportunity to combine them with next-generation OLED technology.

Lastly, if you’re interested in PC gaming but don’t want to spend a fortune on a dedicated rig or gaming laptop, a handheld may be much more appealing. Lenovo looks set to launch its own SteamOS handheld gaming console soon, and has invited Valve and Microsoft to a special handheld gaming event at CES. Microsoft’s “next VP” will also be in attendance, as Windows battles SteamOS for portable PC gaming.

CES is no longer a phone show, but I’ll be spotlighting non-phone people. I think this year will be hot. If you’re not on your phone, you can do things you’d normally do by tapping on your phone’s screen. However, this cannot be done on a mobile phone. Glasses with cameras, devices without screens, things like that. Maybe we’ve discovered that phones don’t have to do everything under the sun. we can have different A compact camera, a tiny e-ink tablet that runs all your favorite reading apps, and a silicone case that turns your Apple Watch into an iPod – this is the device you use when you don’t need your phone. The important thing is that it does not replace cell phone wholesale. They just complement it.

Oh, and of course there will be a lot of AI. AI refrigerator, AI roller skates, AI pants, I don’t know. Personally, I’d like to see AI devices that are really useful but don’t try to do too much – more meta ray bans and less human-like AI pins. I still think phones will remain undefeated as future AI devices, but I also think there’s room for non-phone products as well. I hope so anyway.

This year seems to be another year where smartwatches are losing out to more niche wearable devices. I’m sure we’ll see some updated smart rings, but I think smart glasses, AR headsets, and AI wearables will dominate the showrooms. There is nothing on the level of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Rabbit or Humane. Think of smaller, more established companies in the space introducing something new, as well as courageous startups looking to push the boundaries. Either way, smart glasses and AI wearables have gained real momentum in 2024, and this will likely be reflected at CES 2025.

The health sector is expected to see continued trends over the past few years. Things like OTC hearing aids, remote health monitoring, and at least a few other strange concepts that will almost certainly be fantasies. After all, it wouldn’t be CES without a handful of companies claiming to have cracked the code of non-invasive blood sugar monitoring. And speaking of AI, we’re definitely looking forward to seeing more medtech companies adding chatbots similar to ChatGPT to their existing devices or services.

Beauty tech and other categories targeting women have also been gaining popularity in recent years. L’Oréal has been leading this movement, and after generating so much buzz at the 2024 show, we’re curious to see what the category will do this year.