Cool tech at CES 2026

[mylesillidge]

R150 lollipop which plays music in your skull and AI holograms that roast users

The 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) once again saw many of the world's leading tech companies and a few upstarts showcase many innovative and peculiar products.

The trade show was first held in New York City in 1967 as a spin-off of the Chicago Music Show, which was the US's first major event for exhibiting consumer electronics.

 

[now05ster]

R150 lollipop which plays music in your skull and AI holograms that roast users

But why?

 

[FiestaST]

But why?

Showcase, the vast majority of tech displayed at CES is all about showcasing with some instances of securing VC funding.

 

[now05ster]

Showcase, the vast majority of tech displayed at CES is all about showcasing with some instances of securing VC funding.

Yeah, I think I'm getting jaded as I'm getting older.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yeah, I think I'm getting jaded as I'm getting older.

Gone are days when ces was primarily about cool new useful tech, in my opinion at least.

Yes new stuff is launched at ces but it gets lost in the mess of useless crap that nobody actually wants.

 

[RaptorSA]

The future is stupid.

 

[Smiggles]

But why?

 

[Mirai]

Gone are days when ces was primarily about cool new useful tech, in my opinion at least.

Yes new stuff is launched at ces but it gets lost in the mess of useless crap that nobody actually wants.

To heck with CES. COMDEX was were it was at.

 

[FiestaST]

Modern day CES is all about appealing to the "tech boner people".

Yes, it's a very real subgenre.

 

[Mirai]

Holographic companions or brides.

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New term for you to put in your pipe to smoke, fictosexual.

Setting the psychology aside, CES is exhibiting an 8 year old product.

 

[FiestaST]

Here, some of our well loved cumrades can give Emily, Love Robot, a flutter:

 

[HumanShield]

Call me crazy, but didn't Chuppa Chups create a lollipop that plays music in your head in the mid 2000s?

Edit: Not Chuppa Chups. But I found the ad and it was in 1998