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The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is one of the biggest and buzziest tech events of the year, offering a first look at next-generation TVs, laptops, smart home gadgets, cars, and more. In 2025, the event is being held in Las Vegas from January 7–10.

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Andrew Liszewski
My Arcade’s Atari handheld includes some unusual controls.

First announced at last year’s CES, My Arcade says its nostalgia-packed Atari Gamestation Go handheld will be available sometime in Q3 2025 for $149.99. It’s got a seven-inch screen and in addition to standard controls like a D-pad and action buttons, there’s a trackball, rotating paddle, and numeric keypad for authentically playing classic Atari titles like Missile Command and Breakout.

The My Arcade Atari Gamestation Go held in one hand against a white background.
The My Arcade Atari Gamestation Mega against a white background with a hand holding its joystick.
The My Arcade Atari Gamestation Gamepad and Arcade Stick being held and played.
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Atari Gamestation Go is powered by a rechargeable battery but My Arcade hasn’t announced what battery life will be like.
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Sean Hollister
I lifted 128GB of memory and the most powerful integrated graphics with one hand.

HP calls its ZBook Ultra 14 G1a “the world’s most powerful 14-inch mobile workstation,” because it comes with AMD’s most powerful mobile chip: the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka “Strix Halo,” with up to 128GB of unified memory shared among the CPU, GPU, and AI engines.

I watched it generate an AI image of Las Vegas on a locally loaded large language model.

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Sean Hollister
Ever seen Nvidia and AMD’s AI server parts in real life?

The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.

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Thomas Ricker
The worst of CES.

iFixit has pulled together a panel of experts to call out the least repairable and most insecure, unnecessary, and energy and privacy harvesting gadgets from CES 2025.

And here’s our list of the best.

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Jacob Kastrenakes
We finally played with an RTX 5090.

Sean has been scouring CES for an RTX 5090 demo with an actually playable game. It took a while, but he found one and came away with some footage. Yeah, it looks good.

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Allison Johnson
This is the cozy blanket the Nikon Z9 will wear to the moon.

I was about to complain about the lack of cameras at Nikon’s CES booth when I came across this display. It’s a modified Z9 inside a special thermal blanket, and it will accompany astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. The big, simplified buttons will be easier to press with massive gloves on. Super cool!

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Yes, my precious.

We do not needs the Ultrahuman Rare. No, no we should not haves it. It is too much that we haves $6,000 worth of smart rings on our hand it is. But... my precious...

In all seriousness, you can see the quality in person and Ultrahuman told me they’re working on a way to swap out the electronic components / have a guaranteed upgrade path so you can keep the value of the precious metals.

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<em>Oura Ring 4 versus Ultrahuman Rare (right).</em>
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This is $6,000 worth of smart rings on one hand.
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Andrew Liszewski
ShiftCam’s tiny 2TB SSD upgrades your iPhone’s recording capabilities.

The Planck SSD is drop-proof, IP65 water-resistant, and weighs just 10 grams, meaning you’ll barely feel it attached to your smartphone.

With transfer speeds up to 1,050MB/s it’s fast enough to unlock ProRes 4K 60fps recording on the iPhone 15 and 16. ShiftCam will launch the Planck through a Kickstarter in February in 1TB and 2TB capacities, according to 9to5Mac.

The ShiftCam Planck SSD attached to the bottom of an iPhone.
The 1TB ShiftCam Planck SSD from two different angles.
Two ShiftCam Planck SSD drives attached to a USB-C hub.
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Full retail pricing for the Planck SSD is expected to be $189 for the 1TB version and $299 for the 2TB. It will be discounted as part of the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to $125 and $199.
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Sean Hollister
The only thing more terrifying than a spider router: a spider router with AI.

They’ve been haunting CES since 2015, and there’s no end in sight.

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI claims to be the first with a built-in NPU for AI-powered ad, tracker, and malicious site blocking, AI-powered noise detection to improve Wi-Fi stability, AI-powered “triple-level game acceleration,” and allegedly, AI power savings, too. Dong Knows Tech says it’ll cost $800.

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Sean Hollister
A better look at the zany ergo keyboard with Wolverine claw action.

I showed you the AutoKeybo right after I tried it, but here’s a video that gives you a better idea of how it works!

I think they need to build a proper cyberdeck out of this, something a bit more Ghost in the Shell. Maybe an Angry Miao collab?

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Sean Hollister
TIL Samsung Display makes screens that stretch — not just wider or taller, but in three dimensions.

The company’s been working on them since 2017, and they’re now beginning to impress — as you’ll see, I witnessed a miniature Las Vegas Sphere bulge from the panel, as well as a tiny virtual shark attack. But I’ll admit the company’s own video is even more impressive.

My video, however, also contains other awesome flexes!

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Allison Johnson
Look who’s Sphere.

Delta’s about to host a big, splashy CES keynote in Vegas’ biggest, roundest screen. And really, what’s more CES than a big spectacle and a giant screen? We’re going to hear from CEO Ed Bastian, and in the meantime, there are experiences to experience. How very Vegas.

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Jay Peters
Want an RTX 5090 for your small form factor PC?

It will have to be Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition model, according to an update to Nvidia’s small form factor PC compatibility list spotted by VideoCardz.

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Jacob Kastrenakes
That’s a lens of a different color.

Chamelo’s color-changing and tint-adjusting sunglass lenses are back — only now, they support prescriptions.

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Jay Peters
That AI-powered livestreaming assistant I wrote about yesterday? I’d be skeptical of it.

It looked vaguely interesting (and weird) in a video from Streamlabs. Then I watched this new Nvidia video where the assistant says almost the exact same script but to help out a different streamer. So right now, it seems like total marketing.

At least Nvidia’s video shows a cool virtual key light effect that’s possible with RTX 50-series GPUs.

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Sean Hollister
I finally touched the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus.

The Intel Lunar Lake handheld, on sale now, looks and feels SO much better than the original, and I hear it performs far better, too.

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