CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest, silliest, and most eyebrow-raising products from CES 2025.
A new adorable gadget from Yukai Engineering is the Nékojita FuFu, a tiny robotic cat that can be mounted to a mug or bowl and will blow air in human-like intervals to help cool off your coffee or soup. The company says the product was born after a team leader wanted an easier way to cool down freshly cooked baby food “because doing so often left him feeling breathless and dizzy.”
Why add more salt to your meal when a $127 spoon could simulate the taste of sodium for you? Japanese company Kirin Holdings showed off an electronic spoon that makes your food taste saltier. The company says its spoon uses a weak electric current to concentrate sodium ion molecules in your food, adding a stronger umami and salt flavor to low-sodium foods.
Handheld consoles are great for gaming on the go, but Acer’s latest product is really pushing the limits of what is considered portable. The Nitro Blaze 11 is undeniably massive: With a 10.95-inch display, it’s not only the size of an 11-inch iPad Air, it also weighs as much as two iPad Airs stacked on top of each other. You might need to get your wrist strength up before giving it a try!
A few years ago, Lenovo teased its concept for a laptop that has a screen that can expand into a much larger one. At this year’s CES, what was just a concept has turned into the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable. The device’s 14-inch OLED display can unfurl itself and expand into a 16.7-inch panel with the press of a button or gesture controls, effectively adding a lot more screen space without any other monitors or accessories.
And you can watch our friends at Engadget getting up close and personal with the Gen 6 Rollable below.
Spicerr is another odd food tech gadget from this year’s CES. The device fashions itself to be a sort of Keurig machine for spices, with individual capsules that you can rotate through while its AI detects how much you will need based on the recipe you’re using and dispenses it for you. If you want to add a little more than what it recommends, there’s also a “freeform” function that gives you a bit more control.
Bird-watching tech is nothing new to CES. Longtime attendees may remember Bird Buddy’s smart bird feeder or Swarovski’s $4,799 AI-powered bird-watching binoculars. The latest bird innovation comes from Birdfy: a smart birdbath. The Bath Pro uses AI to detect when birds are using it and takes a photo — but there’s a monthly subscription fee if you want it to identify species.
How much is too much for a jolt of caffeine? Meticulous showed off this smart espresso machine, which the company claims is the first of its kind with a robotic lever. The machine features 10 digital sensors that monitor water temperature, pressure, flow rate, and the weight of the liquid in the cup and can make real-time adjustments like a barista. The preorder price for the machine is a whopping $1,350, plus another $250 if you want its milk steamer.
From Humane’s Ai Pin to Friend, it’s been a weird time for AI wearables. Joining them is Based Hardware’s Omi, a wearable that can answer your questions, summarize your conversations, create to-do lists, and help schedule meetings. The device is constantly listening and running your conversations through GPT-4o, and it also can remember the context about a user to be more personalized.
Omi can be worn as a necklace, but the company is pushing for folks to attach it to one’s temple with medical tape for a real sci-fi experience. Based Hardware claims it can use a “brain interface” to understand when you’re talking to it, though we only saw a brief in-person demo; that’s a claim for further testing when it’s released.
Smart glasses are the buzziest AI form factor of late, and wearables startup Halliday is jumping on the hype, but with a slightly different approach. Rather than projecting a screen onto the lens, this pair of smart glasses projects a 3.5-inch round display right into your eyeballs. The glasses offer real-time language translation for 40 languages and can display phone notifications, a cheat sheet with notes, and navigational directions.
If there’s one thing that signals life in the future, it’s the concept of a flying car. Xpeng Aero HT unveiled the Land Aircraft Carrier, its “modular flying car,” that’s part van, part eVTOL. It’s essentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL vehicle tucked in the back that can be rolled out and launched into flight.
Xpeng’s vice chairman and president, Brian Gu, said the Land Aircraft Carrier has received its type certification, but if this all sounds a bit far-fetched to you, you’re certainly not alone.
Swippitt wants to make sure your phone battery never runs out again. With a design reminiscent of a stylish toaster, the charging hub works by quickly swapping out external battery packs that fit into a custom phone case, and aims to give 50-90% extra charge instantly. It’ll cost you, though: it starts at $450 with a $120 add-on for the phone case.
What if a cat tower could also help keep the air in your apartment clean? That’s LG’s aim with the AeroCatTower, a stylish cat tower that doubles as an air purifier. It can also monitor your cat’s weight and sleep, and you can even change the flow of the purifier while your cat is perched on it so they aren’t disturbed by the noise.
Razer showed off its concept for a gaming chair that can heat and cool your seat like a fancy car seat. The system features a self-regulating heater that’s capable of reaching up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as a “bladeless fan system” that circulates cool air through the mesh backing so you can stay comfortable while you’re grinding Fortnite.
While not a product reveal, I would be remiss to not mention one of the silliest keynote moments of the conference. To illustrate BMW’s Panoramic iDrive, the company pretended to shrink the entire audience as if the keynote took place inside a BMW. Thanks to that, we now have this wonderful photo of comedy legend Tim Meadows looking very small next to a giant coffee cup.
This $1,500 iPad bundle that will post for you when you die
As our own Brian Heater writes, we’ve already reached the point in CES where it’s hard to tell a real product from an elaborate prank. In Case of Death is a grim bundle designed to be a dead man’s switch for your digital life. It includes an 11-inch iPad case, a smart ring, an app, and a self-destructing 11-inch iPad Pro — which bricks in the case of the user’s death. According to the company, the “death protections” include features that can erase your search history, Rickroll your loved ones for eternity, and send out one final social media post to your followers.
While not technically a CES 2025 reveal, the “resurrected” Enron made an announcement for a fake at-home nuclear reactor on Monday to transparently piggyback off of the attention paid to the spree of tech industry announcements. Called the “Enron Egg,” the latest hoax involved a very CES-style keynote video championing the egg’s ability to power a home for 10 years straight and revolutionize the “power,” “independence,” and “freedom” industries. Sure!
Yukai Engineering also debuted Mirumi, its latest charming robot that mounts to a purse and moves its head like a curious baby as it observes its surroundings. The company says Mirumi was designed to “re-create people’s joyful experiences” when interacting with a baby as it expresses itself through inquisitiveness, bashfulness, and comfort.
