The standard suspects at all times present up at CES — new TVs, laptops, chips, robots and the like. However CES can also be a spot the place firms be happy to ask some very unusual questions on how expertise might additional infiltrate our lives. For instance, ought to your rest room analyze your poop? Ought to your nails change shade on command? From experimental laptops to well being tech that in all probability didn’t want a digital camera, these are the weirdest devices we noticed at CES 2026. Additionally, make sure to try our record of the finest CES tech we noticed this 12 months on the present.
Throne rest room pc
The Throne machine perched on the aspect of a bathroom. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget)
Throne is a toilet-mounted pc that makes use of cameras and microphones to research your bowel actions, which is a sentence we didn’t count on to kind this week. Designed to determine a private “baseline” in your rest room habits, it goals to flag adjustments that might point out digestive or metabolic points, together with for folks on GLP-1 medicine. We are able to’t converse to its effectiveness but… but when information is energy, this factor may know means an excessive amount of.
Vivoo Hygienic FlowPad good menstrual pad
Vivoo’s FlowPad (Vivoo)
Vivoo checked out at-home well being monitoring and determined the lavatory was nonetheless underutilized. Alongside its clip-on good rest room that analyzes your hydration by actually monitoring your pee, the corporate additionally unveiled a menstrual pad infused with microfluidics that may observe fertility and hormone markers when you scan it along with your telephone. It’s a daring reminder that CES 2026 is totally dedicated to quantifying the whole lot — even the stuff we’d quite not focus on over brunch.
Lenovo Legion Professional Rollable
Whereas it usually has a 16-inch show, the Lenovo Legion Professional Rollable idea’s display screen can increase as much as 23.8 inches throughout. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
Lenovo’s Legion Professional Rollable is what occurs when a gaming laptop computer decides it needs to be a widescreen monitor mid-match. Its 16-inch show can bodily increase sideways into ultra-wide codecs, turning flight sims and racing video games into full cockpit experiences on the press of a few keys. It’s impractical, faintly ridiculous and completely the type of CES idea we hope survives lengthy sufficient to flee the demo ground.
Lenovo ThinkBook XD Rollable
With its XD Rollable idea, Lenovo took the Thinkbook Plus Gen 6’s fundamental design and made it much more futuristic by permitting its versatile show to wrap round onto its lid. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
If the Legion Professional Rollable is extreme, the ThinkBook XD Rollable is philosophically complicated. Its versatile show doesn’t simply develop taller, it wraps over the lid to create a “world-facing” display screen for folks sitting throughout from you, which feels both futuristic or deeply pointless relying in your temper and scenario (perhaps that is the proper machine for resort check-ins and different factors of sale?). Nonetheless, it’s a beautiful piece of {hardware} theater and proof Lenovo is set to roll screens onto each floor it will probably attain.
OhDoki Useful 2 Professional
Picture of The Useful 2 and Useful 2 Professional (Daniel Cooper for Engadget)
OhDoki’s Useful 2 Professional arrived at CES with one clear message: extra energy, fewer limits and completely no chill. The upgraded intercourse toy mannequin cranks battery life as much as 5 hours and unlocks a Turbo mode so aggressive it was described as “overclocked,” which isn’t a time period we anticipated to listen to on this class. It may well additionally cost your telephone, as a result of apparently even pleasure tech must justify itself with productiveness.
iPolish
iPolish (Daniel Cooper for Engadget)
iPolish lastly made Whole Recall nail tech actual, minus the dystopia and Schwarzenegger. These press-on acrylic nails use an electrical cost to change between a whole bunch of colours in seconds, letting you alter your manicure as typically as your outfit. It’s delightfully impractical, surprisingly reasonably priced and probably the most convincing argument but for treating your nails like a customizable show.
Hisense S6 FollowMe show
Hisense S6 FollowMe show (Hisense)
Hisense’s FollowMe show is a display screen that bodily follows you across the room — which nobody actually requested for, however CES fortunately delivered anyway. Designed to reposition itself mechanically so content material stays in view, it feels just like the logical endpoint of good TVs changing into more and more clingy. We haven’t seen it in motion but, however the concept of a show that refuses to be ignored is deeply on model for 2026.
