Weirdest and wackiest gadgets from CES 2021 From made-in-a-minute ice cream to face masks with smarts, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is full of surprises.
Technology by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Premium Content
Subscriber only The world s largest technology show shifted from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the dim blue light of computer screens this year, with 1900 exhibitors moving their product showcases into the virtual world. But there was still plenty of useful tech, forthcoming releases and conceptual creations on show, as well as some of the strangest devices you re likely to see. We ve scanned the virtual halls of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to find 10 of the weirdest and wackiest devices from 2021 and beyond.
CES 2021 gave PCMag editors their first chance to vet candidates for our new Technical Excellence Awards, aka TechX. The award is given to products, concepts, and services we think are going to be game changers in their respective markets. CES has always been a proving ground for new concepts, and even without a trade show floor this year, there were plenty of innovations to be found. Although there were fewer official exhibitors than usual less than half by some accounts the vendors that showed up (albeit virtually) came to play.
We found desktops with new form factors, slim, powerful laptops with clever external GPUs, refrigerators that use UV light to purify water, just to name a few. AMD continued its assault on Intel chip hegemony, and Nvidia strengthened its position in the graphics market. Of course, there were plenty of cool new variations in display technology as well particularly in the form of LG s rollable smartphone. When (or if) some of these innovations will actually
Friday 15 January 2021
CES 2021 may be absent the blinding lights of the sun and slots of Las Vegas, Nevada this year but the digital event is still awash with tech goodness (and some tech badness). The WIRED Gear team has searched high and low to bring you all the most interesting products, from Dell’s video conferencing monitors that are depressingly 2021 to eye-catching new TVs from Samsung and LG.
It’s not all about the traditional tech at CES though, with the annual event presenting some questionable gadgets including smart toilets, smart lipsticks, smart salad growers, smart baths. In short, more