Early January is more than just the start of the new year for the tech junkies out there. It’s also when the annual Computer Electronic Show, or CES, takes places in Las Vegas. Each year, thousands of people from nearly every industry tangentially related to the consumer-electronics space flock to Sin City to see and show off the biggest and boldest gadgets from the 12 months to come. In recent iterations, we’ve seen everything from colour-changing cars to “rollable” laptops, not to mention more futuristic TVs and wearables (for humans and pets) that we can count. With that in mind, here are the 10 standout products from this year’s convention.
9. Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable
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Lenovo thinks it’s figured out a way to make gaming on the go even more immersive. No, it’s not launching an ultra-capable handheld console; instead it’s hard at work on a gaming laptop with an expanding screen. The proof of concept on display at CES featured a 16-inch widescreen display that can “unroll” horizontally to 23.8 inches at the touch of a button. There’s more to the laptop than its screen, though. It’s based on the Legion Pro 7i, which means that, should it make its way to market, it’ll be up for playing the most hard-core games out there.
8. Klipsch Atlas Headphones
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One of our favourite speaker makers is getting back into the headphone game after a five-year absence. Indianapolis-based Klipsch unveiled a new family of high-end cans called Atlas in Las Vegas. The headphones, which are scheduled to launch this summer, include the wireless HP-1, the closed-back HP-2, and the semi-open-back HP-3. We’re particularly intrigued by the first of the trio, which will supposedly feature the kind of coaxial drivers that even the snobbiest audiophiles should approve of, while still delivering “standout” battery life.
7. Lego Smart Brick and Smart Play
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The Danish company’s “most significant evolution” in a half century is a 4×2 toy brick with a tiny little computer inside of it. This addition, along with the presence of multiple sensors, will help bring the company’s new “Smart Play”-enabled sets to life. In a pair of upcoming Star Wars-themed releases—“Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter” and “Throne Room Duel & A-Wing”—the Smart Brick will add immersive lights and sounds familiar to anyone versed in George Lucas’s fictional universe to the sets. Smart Minifigures and tags that utilise the same tech are also set to arrive alongside the bricks this spring.
6. LG OLED Evo W6 Wallpaper TV
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Don’t tell LG that TVs have gotten too thin. The company unveiled a new set called the OLED Evo W6 Wallpaper at this year’s show, which, while wider than its namesake, still sits at a mere nine mm thick. There’s more to the TV than its ultra-slender dimensions, though. The panel, which uses Hyper Radiant Color Technology, is nearly four times brighter than a traditional OLED set. It may not be transparent, like the company’s Signature OLED T from 2024, but we imagine plenty will be interested in the model when it makes its way to market.
5. Boston Dynamics Atlas
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If you care about technology at all, chances are you’ve seen you’re fair share of humanoid robots this decade. There’s one thing that sets Boston Dynamics’s latest, the Atlas, apart from much of the pack, though: It’s headed to production. Spot’s creator announced at this year’s CES that it has begun building the finished version of its dancing droid, which can be operated autonomously, by local remote control or via teleoperator. Once finished, the first batch of robots will be divvied out between two of Boston Dynamics’s closest collaborators: its majority shareholder, Hyundai and AI partner, Google DeepMind.
4. AC Future AI-THt
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Two years after AC Future first offered up a glimpse of its futuristic RVs at CES, the California-based company is ready to finally start putting the vehicles into production. Its first model will be the AI-THt, a transforming trailer that was recognised with one of this year’s CES Innovation Awards. The vehicle features multiple slide-out that bump interior room to over 32.5 square metres when fully deployed. Add in a sleek design courtesy of the legendary Pininfarina and a slew of AI-powered smart features and you have yourself a trailer sure to appeal to those looking to make the camping experience a little more comfortable.
3. Samsung Music Studio 5
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Design is far from the most important factor when looking at speakers, but there’s no denying it: The Samsung Music Studio 5 is gorgeous. The electronic giant’s latest features a stunning minimalist look that means it won’t look out of place in even the chicest of rooms. But there’s more to this speaker, which was developed with homes in mind, than its bold look. It also features a four-inch woofer and dual tweeters that will help it fill whatever space it’s in with rich, balanced sound.
2. Roborock Saros Rover
Not all robot makers have the same ambitions. Roborock, for example, is just looking to build a bot that can make it easier to keep your home clean rather than aiming to replace human workers on the production line. The company’s latest model, the Saros Rover, comes with two articulated legs with wheels at their ends. The appendages, both of which bend as needed, allow the vacuum dance, jump, and, most importantly, climb stairs, a first in the increasingly crowded field.
1. Verge Motorcycles TS Pro
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It’s the battery that makes Verge Motorcycles’s update to the existing TS Pro so exciting. The new two-wheeler comes with a solid-state unit, developed by Donut Lab, that’s much more efficient than the lithium-ion battery found in most electric vehicles. The range-extended version of the battery allows the bike to travel an incredible 370 miles on a single charge. It can also add 300 kms of range with a 10-minute charge. Even more impressive, Verge says deliveries of the motorcycle will commence this quarter.
The Swiss watchmaker just unveiled its new Constellation Observatory Collection today, the next step in its Constellation lineage and the first two-hand hour and minute timepieces to ever earn Master Chronometer certification. And if you were paying attention to any of the dazzling watches spotted at the Oscars this year, you would’ve caught a glimpse of the new line already: Sinners star Delroy Lindo rocked one of the models on the Academy Awards red carpet, giving us a pre-release preview of the collection.
Developed at Omega’s new Laboratoire de Précision (its chronometer testing lab open to all brands), the collection houses a set of nine 39.4 mm watches. The watches underwent 25 days of scrutiny there, analysed via a new acoustic testing method that recorded every sound emitted from the timepiece to track irregularities, temperature sensitivities, and more in the name of all things precision. (Details such as water resistance and power reserve are also thoroughly examined.) This meticulous process is all in the name of snagging that Master Chronometer label, meaning that the timepiece is highly accurate and surpasses the threshold for ultra-high performance. The Constellation Observatory Collection has now changed the game, though, thanks to its lack of a seconds hand.
A watch from the Constellation Observatory Collection, with the Observatory dome on display. Omega
“Until now, precision certification has required a seconds hand,” Raynald Aeschlimann, president and CEO of OMEGA, said in a press statement. “The development of a new acoustic testing methodology has made that requirement obsolete. It is this breakthrough that has enabled us to present the Constellation Observatory, the first two-hand watch to achieve Master Chronometer certification.”
In addition to notching its place in history, the collection also debuted a new pair of movements: the Calibre 8915 and the Calibre 8914, each perched on a skeletonised rotor base. The former’s Grand Luxe iteration will appear on the 950 Platinum-Gold model in the collection, which offers up that base in 18-karat Sedna Gold alongside a Constellation medallion in 18-karat white gold with an Observatory dome done in white opal enamel surrounded by stars. The second Calibre 8915, the Luxe, will find its home on the other precious-metal models in the line, either made with the brand’s 18-karat Sedna, Moonshine, or Canopus gold seen across the case, the hand-guilloché dial, and, of course, the movement itself. (Lindo chose to rock the Moonshine Gold on Moonshine Gold iteration, priced at approximately $86,000, for Sinners‘s big night at the Oscars.) As for the Calibre 8914, it can be found in the collection’s four steel models.
A look at a gold case-back from the collection. Omega
Each model is a callback to myriad design features on past Omega models. That two-hand dial, for one, comes from the 1948 Centenary (the brand’s first chronometer-certified automatic wristwatch), while the pie-pan dial (seen in various blue, green, and golden hues throughout the line) and that Constellation medallion caseback both appear on watches from 1952. The star adorning the space above 6 o’clock also harks back to 1950s timepieces from Omega. And to finish off the look, you can opt for alligator straps in a variety of colours, or perhaps a gold iteration to match the precious-metal models; the brick-like pattern on the 18-karat Moonshine bracelet was also inspired by Omega watches from the ’50s.
We’ll have to keep our eyes peeled for any other Constellation Observatory timepieces (or any other unreleased models from the brand) at the rest of the star-studded events headed our way this year—perhaps the Met Gala?
A modern classic in the making, combining naturally aspirated power with elegant restraint to deliver performance that feels as refined as it is visceral.
In a year when carmakers of all persuasions sheepishly extended hyperbolic electric targets, it’s fitting that the monastic puritans of Maranello—who, lest we forget, won’t finally yield to the sin of battery power until October with the Elettrica—opted to make combustion their major power play.
As an uncertain future of AI omnipresence barrels towards us, the 12Cilindri—an analogue, open-topped tribute to Ferrari’s late-’60s/early-’70s grand tourer, the Daytona—represents a defiant fade into the past, a pause for breath, a fleeting return to The Good Times when nascent technology provoked excitement rather than existential dread.
Guiding this automotive nostalgia trip is, as the nomenclature suggests, a naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 engine, generating an unceasing wave of power as it sears towards the 9,500 rpm redline with relative nonchalance. That’s because the 12Cilindri is not a mouth-foaming attack-dog. It scales performance heights with the refinement of the finest Italian works of art; its “Bumpy Road” mode facilitates comfy al fresco GT cruising, and even the imperious powerplant is mannerly at most speeds.
For all the yesteryear romance, progressive technologies and engineering, such as a world-class 8-speed transmission, advanced electronic aids and independent four-wheel steering, are baked into the deal. The 12Cilindri’s clean, stark design somehow toggles between retro and modern; and while vaguely polarising, one can’t ignore its magnetic road presence.
In terms of aesthetics, Ferrari describes the 12Cilindri as being “ready for space”; in many ways, a fantasy vehicle that transports users to another dimension is probably what the world needs right now.
On the fourth floor of Westfield Sydney, near the Castlereagh and Market Street entrance—in the space formerly occupied by Chanel—Loro Piana has opened its first Australian boutique. It is a significant address change for that corner of the mall, and a meaningful one for the Italian house, which has sourced Australian merino wool for decades but until now had no retail presence here.
The facade is understated—creamy, tactile, more about texture than theatre. Inside, the store unfolds across a single, expansive level divided into distinct men’s and women’s wings. The separation is clear without being heavy-handed: womenswear leads from soft accessories and leather goods into ready-to-wear, while menswear occupies its own assured territory, with tailoring and outerwear given proper breathing room. Footwear (supple loafers, luxurious slides, pared-back sneakers) is particularly strong, and the sunglasses are a quiet standout: mineral-toned frames with a disciplined elegance that feels entirely of the house.
That same restraint carries into the interiors, where the surfaces do much of the talking. Walls are wrapped in the company’s own linen and cashmere; carpets are custom, dense underfoot, softening the acoustics and the pace. Oak and carabottino wood add warmth without fuss; marble accents introduce a cool counterpoint. The effect is a composed space calibrated around material, proportion and restraint.
The Spring 2026 collection now in store underscores that sensibility. Silhouettes are elongated and fluid; cashmere, silk and featherweight merino move in sandy neutrals, creams and muddied earth tones, with flashes of marigold and pale turquoise breaking the calm. Tailoring is softly structured and projects confidence without aggression. Leather goods arrive in buttery skins that feel almost pre-lived, as though time has already worked its magic.
What distinguishes Loro Piana, particularly in a market that has grown noisier by the season, is its refusal to perform luxury in an obvious register. There are no oversized insignias telegraphing allegiance. Instead, the status is encoded in fibre count, in hand-feel, in how a coat hangs from the shoulder. It assumes the wearer knows and, crucially, does not need to announce it.
Sydney’s luxury landscape has matured in recent years; global houses no longer test the waters but commit to them. Yet Loro Piana’s arrival feels different. It is not trend-driven expansion but material logic. For a country whose sheep stations have long contributed to the house’s fabric story, this boutique reads almost as a thank-you note written in cashmere.
If all you’re going to do is look at it, a leather Dopp kit from a fashion house is a fine choice. But if you take travelling seriously—and do it often, for business, pleasure, or both—such a bag will inevitably end up blemished with droplets of water or stained by errant flecks of toothpaste. Get stuck with a cavalier team of baggage handlers, and it can even get soaked in your favourite fragrance or anti-ageing serum.
But Patricks, the high-performance Australian grooming brand stocked in Harrods and Bergdorf Goodman, has a solution. Its limited-edition bathroom bag, called BB1, is purpose-built to protect everything inside and out. Conceived by industrial designer George Cunningham with brand founder Patrick Kidd, the cuboid design is executed in a water-resistant recycled nylon you can rinse clean. It’s lined with a thin layer of shock-absorbing foam to safeguard your products, but if a bottle somehow gets cracked in transit, the two-way water-resistant zippers and sealed seams (which keep liquids from seeping in or out) ensure that whatever leaks won’t ruin your cashmere. Inside, two dual-sided zippered compartments are ideally sized to fit toothbrushes, razors, and other small essentials.
And though its clean lines and rugged construction make it undeniably masculine, its greatest feature is borrowed from women’s makeup bags. Like the best of these, BB1 unzips to lie flat, giving you unobstructed access to everything inside. Well, you and the 999 other gentlemen who move fast enough to snag one. $289
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1. Hanging Loop
The G-hook system isn’t just a stylish handle: You can also use it to hang the bag from a hook or secure it to your carry-on.
2. Two-Way Zipper
The closures are water-resistant in both directions, meaning liquids won’t get in or out.
3. Fold-flat Construction
BB1 opens to 180 degrees, letting you scan its 4.2-litre capacity at a quick glance.
4. Technical-Fabric Shell
The durable recycled-nylon is easy to maintain and woven to survive splashes and leaks from your go-to products.
You can bet on pretty much anything these days, from when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will get married to who will be the next James Bond—and now that includes the Rollies on your wrist, or on your wishlist.
Prediction market platform Kalshi, regulated in the U.S., and luxe watch marketplace Bezel have teamed up on a new platform called Watch Futures that allows users to splash down cash on where they think the prices of a particular luxe timepiece are going, whether that’s a Rolex Submariner or a coveted Patek Philippe, Time & Tide reported.
You can also place a wager on which models might be discontinued, as well as any future launches from the top watchmakers on the new platform; with Watches and Wonders coming up, it’s certainly a well-timed launch that could see a lot of activity as a slew of new releases are announced at the event.
Watch Futures is all based on Beztimate, Bezel’s system (once used only internally) to help it accurately calculate the market price of a timepiece. It draws data from real-time transactions, live bids, verified sales, and other market offers to spawn its own series of independent valuation models to establish a watch’s value. From there, it’s up to bettors to place their wagers, and then the platform will showcase any price fluctuations or other updates as time goes on.
This new platform could have some pretty large implications for the watch industry. As any horological savant would know, the internet and collectors alike are constantly chattering about which models are on the way out or when a certain timepiece of the moment’s time in the limelight will fade, of course, having a large impact on the prices of said model. And now, a Watch Futures user can have a direct stake in where a model is headed—and if they own said timepiece, it can be a protection from dwindling values on the marketplace, say, if a user places a bet on their model losing value and that actually comes to fruition.
To see Watch Futures in real time (and scope out how some pieces in your collection are faring), you can use the Kalshi app or its website.
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