Best of the Best CES 2025 Winners
LAS VEGAS — Over the last week, tech enthusiasts from across the world traveled to Las Vegas for CES 2025 to witness the launch of exciting innovations from more than 4,000 emerging and long-established brands.
This year’s CES focused primarily on tangible, demo-ready products, a welcomed departure from the purely conceptual and often exorbitantly priced offerings of previous years. Whether you’re interested in the latest AI-powered devices, new gadgets to add to your budding smart home, or are curious about tech to keep your health in check, we’ve got your back.
The BestReviews team not only navigated the bustling carpeted show floors but attended industry-exclusive events across the Vegas strip to uncover the products and trends that will shape the year ahead.
Thanks to the power of caffeine and our love of tech, our team marathoned countless in-person and virtual briefings, parsed through thousands of emails and press releases, and scrutinized several spec sheets to identify the best products worth your hard-earned dollars.
Best Graphics Card
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Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 50-Series GPUs offer incredible graphics performance and AI capabilities to bring your games to life. We’re most excited about the budget-friendly 5070 series that claims to deliver the same level of performance as the $1,599 RTX 4090.
For those who like to dive into specs, the RTX 5070 family is divided into the RTX 5070 Ti laptop GPU with 5,888 CUDA cores and 12GB of memory and the base RTX 5070 laptop GPU is limited to 4,608 cores with 8GB of memory and both are expected to launch in February.
Best Smart Vacuum
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While robot vacuums are incredibly useful, they usually require some tidying up beforehand to avoid getting stuck on items like cables, socks, or toys. The Roborock Saros Z70 is different. It features a robotic arm with a claw that can actively pick up obstacles in its path and even put them away. The feature-filled robot offers an impressive 22,000 pascals of suction power, an improved chassis for towering over steep thresholds, and comes with a multi-function dock that self-empties its dust bin and dirty water tank, self-cleans and dries its mop pad, and refills its water tank.
Best Projector for the Price
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The Yaber K300s is a compact ultra-short throw projector that brings big-screen entertainment to your home without taking up extra space or needing to be mounted on the ceiling. You can project a massive 100-inch image from just 9 inches away. The K300s offers vibrant, accurate colors, 1,000 ANSI lumens of brightness, and solid contrast, making it a great choice for various lighting conditions.
Best Home AI Assistant
Samsung
Samsung’s ball-shaped robot has made a handful of appearances at CES over the years, but Samsung says Ballie is ready to hit the market within the next six months. The robot acts as a personal home assistant who can share information, turn on lights and other smart home products, and project images and videos onto nearby walls or the ground.
Samsung hasn’t announced pricing for Ballie yet but said it plans to offer a subscription service in South Korea so customers can pay for the robot in installments, but it’s unclear if this model will expand to the U.S., and we hope to learn more soon.
Best Interior Innovation
PocketBook
The InkPoster is a colorful digital display that can be oriented in either direction to showcase artwork or your own photos in stunning detail. With three size options, support for WiFi and Bluetooth and a battery that lasts up to a year, it’s an easy way to refresh your space without any hassle. The expected pricing for the InkPoster, slated for a mid-Spring release, is approximately $599 for the 13.3-inch model, $1,700 for the 31.5-inch model, and $2,400 for the 28.5-inch version.
Best Lighting Innovation
Govee
Govee Mini Panel Lights offer a sleek, compact design with vibrant colors that can easily transform any room. A single power adapter can connect up to 120-cube-shaped smart lights. Plus Govee’s app offers more than 50 scene lighting effects and synchronization modes. The smart lights with major smart home systems like Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and Alexa. Whether you’re upgrading your gaming setup or adding ambiance, these lights will add a unique pop of color.
Best TV
Hisense
Hisense 116-Inch TriChroma LED TV (116UX)
The Hisense 116UX TriChroma LED TV reigns supreme in the ultra-large format category with a stunning 116-inch display that you have to see to believe. This 4K anti-glare LCD screen is illuminated by more than 21,000 RGB mini LEDs, delivering exceptional contrast and detail. Boasting a peak brightness of 10,000 nits, the 116UX supports Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and IMAX Enhanced for a truly cinematic experience.
Its immersive 6.2.2 surround sound system features strategically placed speakers, including visible side speakers, to create a 240-degree sound field that envelops the viewer.
Pricing has yet to be announced, but for context, Hisense’s 110-inch 110UX TV (released in October 2024) is priced at $19,999.
Best Self-care Product
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The Eyeris 1 was a standout performer in the BestReviews Testing Lab. It offered exceptional relaxation, effectively soothing tired eyes with its comfortable heat distribution and targeted temple massage.
The Eyeris 3 builds upon this success, all while keeping an attractive price point of just $99. Its voice activation feature is particularly convenient, considering your eyes are covered. And it comes with a removable cold-therapy insert to reduce puffiness, soothe a headache, or lessen the negative effects of a hangover.
Best Smartphone
TCL
The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G offers features comparable to many Android phones, including a 6.8-inch FHD+ display, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a 50-megapixel triple-camera system. Its key differentiator is the NXTpaper display, which uses a multi-layered design to reduce reflections and blue light, creating a matte, paper-like appearance similar to a Kindle or other e-readers. TCL says it’s targeting the $200-$250 price range with a Spring 2025 launch.
Best Tech for Kids
Tonies
These engaging, unabridged chapter books invite young listeners to dive into best-selling adventures, explore exciting new titles, and spend time with beloved characters. Tonies Audiobooks work seamlessly with the Toniebox, a uniquely designed audio system built specifically for children. The audio begins instantly and pauses when a character or “book” is removed from the Toniebox’s magnetic base. Each audiobook provides hours of engaging storytelling so you can make new memories with your little ones.
Best Mini PC
HP
HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation Desktop PC
The HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation is a powerful and crazy compact mini workstation designed for folks tackling demanding tasks like 3D design, AI processing, and graphics rendering. Its small size makes it easy to stow behind a monitor or under a desk. Despite its small footprint, it comes with Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, and Ethernet ports and can be used with up to four 4K displays. It’s powered by the highly efficient AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 processor, which supports clock speeds of 3.0 GHz (base) to 5.1 GHz (boost).
Best Robot Vacuum Mop Combo
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The Narwal Flow Series is one of the few robot vacuum and mop combos that features a rolling pad mopping system, replacing traditional spinning pads for superior corner cleaning and access under low furniture. It also offers advanced obstacle recognition and avoidance tech and an updated brush design to resist hair tangles. The 8-in-1 Multifunction Base handles automatic dust emptying, mop washing, hot-air drying, and water refills for a truly hands-free cleaning experience. The Narwal Flow has a June 2025 release date, but pricing hasn’t been released yet.
Best Self-Washing Robot Vacuum
ECOVACS
If you’re willing to splurge on a flagship all-in-one robot vacuum and mop and live in a home with primarily hard floors, the ECOVACS DEEBOT X8 PRO OMNI is worth a look. Its mop uses a continuously flowing stream of water and an integrated scraper on a rotating roller to keep dirt and debris at bay. As for the vacuum, it’s rated at 18,000 pascals of suction power, offers LiDAR-based navigation, and includes a charging self-emptying base to empty the robot’s dustbin and dirty water tank and replenish the clean water.
Best Portable Charger
Anker
Anker Power Bank (25K, 165W, Built-In and Retractable Cables)
This energy-drink-can-sized power bank offers a generous 25,000mAh capacity and up to 165W of total power delivery to charge multiple devices quickly. It features two built-in retractable cables: a short 8.66-inch USB-C cable that doubles as a carrying strap and a longer ~28-inch cable. It’s TSA-approved and also has a screen for keeping tabs on total power output. Best of all it’s priced under $100, which is quite reasonable considering it’s powerful enough to charge a laptop.
Best Portable Cooler
BLUETTI
BLUETTI SwapSolar Ecosystem MultiCooler
BLUETTI’s MultiCooler and B70 battery system offers a sustainable, all-in-one solution to keep your food fresh and drinks cold sans ice. We’re big fans of its modular design, wheels that make it easier to haul, impressive 3-day-rated battery life, and versatility. The cooler can be used as a fridge, freezer, and ice maker. Plus, you can also pair it with solar panels to keep it powered on off the grid.
Best Speakers
Klipsch
Klipsch Music City Series Party Speakers
The just-announced Klipsch Vegas, Miami and New York speakers range in size from 14 to 56 pounds to cater to parties of all shapes and sizes. The largest speaker, Klipsch New York, stands over 31 inches tall and provides 110 decibels of output. All three models feature built-in microphones for karaoke, convenient handles, fun sound effects, and custom RGB lighting that can sync to the beat.
Best Headphones
JBL
Although their 40mm drivers seem promising, the standout feature for these sleek headphones is JBL’s new SMART Tx wireless audio transmitter. This touchscreen transmitter lets the headphones pair with any USB-C or analog audio source, from in-flight entertainment systems to PCs, tablets, and TVs. JBL promises this proprietary connection delivers enhanced latency, stability, and clearer calls.
The headphones come in black, mocha, and blue color options and are expected to ship in April for $399.95.
Best Skincare Device
Nanoleaf
Nanoleaf LED Light Therapy Face Mask
Members of our Testing Lab were already fans of Nanoleaf’s colorful smart home lights, so we were excited to see the brand enter the beauty space. In case you’re unfamiliar, light therapy masks can potentially treat acne, plump up fine lines and wrinkles, and improve skin tone. Nanoleaf says the mask is made of medical-grade materials, has received FDA Class II device certification, and uses various colors/wavelengths to penetrate the skin at different depths.
The beauty device is expected to ship in mid-February and is priced $149.99. It currently has a 10% discount if you pre-order, making it especially enticing considering competing light therapy face masks are priced as steep as $380.
Best Outdoor Gadget
Birdfy
The Birdfy Feeder 2 Duo is the company’s most advanced and feature-filled model and marks the first smart bird feeder that packs dual cameras and three lenses. That way, it offers both wide-angle views and up-close portraits. Like previous models, the smart feeder offers specific identification and can send a notification to your smartphone when a bird visits.
Best Laptop
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When we got our hands on the Zenbook A14 at a media preview event in December, we were blown away by its lightweight but sturdy fingerprint-resistant design. Weighing at just 2.18 pounds, it’s nearly 20% lighter than Apple’s M3 MacBook Air. The eight-core Snapdragon X base model starts at just $1,099, making it more affordable, too. It flaunts a vibrant OLED display, a whopping 32-hour battery life, plenty of ports, plus a 1080p webcam. Consider us impressed!
Release dates listed reflect time and date of publication and are subject to change.
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Brandon Carte is a contributor for BestReviews specializing in consumer electronics and appliances. He has covered CES for more than a decade and has a knack for unearthing innovative products that simplify everyday life.
