Everything you missed on the first day of CES 2025

CES 2025 has begun, which means a whole fleet of new gadgets has been released into the world. As usual, the Engadget team braves the jet lag, sleep deprivation and static on those awful casino carpets to bring you all the news that’s fit to print.

But if you’re too busy to keep your browser locked to the site (or our handy dandy live blog), then here’s a summary. This may not be all we’ve covered, but it’s a roundup of the biggest, most important, and generally interesting news for your enjoyment.

There was a strong showing from the biggest names in the computing space, with Intel shows off its latest crop of Arrow Lake chips. These are AI- and gaming-friendly pieces of silicon that should appear in PCs and laptops from major manufacturers in the next three months.

Speaking of which, Dell appeared on the show to announce that it was destroying most of its brands in favor of copying Apple’s naming strategy. Instead of XPS, Inspiron and Latitude, you’ll have Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Max – which in the minds of Sam and Devindra, is a massive unprovoked error.

On AMD’s side in the chip war, she announced new Ryzen Z2which will power the next crop of gaming notebooks. Rumors suggested that the Z2 would form the basis of Valve’s next Steam Deck, which Valve quickly moved into obscurity.

But on the topic of pocket PCs, Acer wanted to show off its supersized rival the Steam Deck, Nitro Blaze 11. As the name suggests, it features an 11-inch display, a stand, and removable controllers, like a Switch that’s come out of its cage and found your secret stash of human growth hormone.

Samsung showed up at the show to brag about Galaxy Book5 Pro with Intel’s new Arrow Lake chips. But his real focus was on the new range of home entertainment equipment, including the new one sound tapes and 8K Neo QLED screenswhich you will also find in his new Frame Pro TVs.

CES is not a mobile show, but Samsung has announced that it is the first The Unwrapped 2025 Senior Note. will be released on January 22nd. but, pshwhatever: The real news for Samsung’s mobile devices is that its ball-shaped robot, Ballie, will go on sale later this year.

When it comes to things walking across your floors, many companies are trying to find a way to make their robots stand out. Dreame’s X50 can avoid getting stuck on difficult door sills as it can leap over obstacles up to… 6cm high via its ‘ProLeap System’. Considering that most robots can get stuck in a doorway between one room and another, this is a useful feature.

Roborock’s Saros Z70meanwhile, it has a small robotic arm in its hood that can pick up and move small objects found in its path. As a parent whose kids have some obsession with leaving their socks in stupid places, I already want one.

Speaking of things I want, despite my longstanding hatred of AI, I’m quite partial to the idea of Halliday’s artificial intelligence glasses. They are designed to help you navigate life by proactively answering your questions, helping you remember key information, and generally giving your tired brain a break.

Yukai Engineering also aims to take care of your tired brain, with its own Robot cooling designed to make you smile. The theory is that if you’re feeling down, it will stare at you until you experience a brief moment of confused joy that kicks you out of your insanity.

It wouldn’t be CES without an appearance from will.i.am, who LG recently appointed as the new CEO of will.i.am. The company was showing its new televisions and sound tapesas well as his new will.i.am-infused xboom speakers with built-in boom, boom and pow.

Moving on to the body fluids part of our presentation: two different companies showed up in Las Vegas with saliva testing devices that had users spit on the thing to monitor their stress. cortiSense and Hormometer are two products that will monitor the levels of cortisol (the “stress hormone”) in your saliva.

Day one ended with press conferences of several heavy players: Sony and NVIDIA. Sony showed very little consumer electronics, instead giving us (incredibly expensive) price for the car he’s doing with Honda and then we talk about broadcast stuff for an hour. Hey, at least we have meeting for The last of us season two. As for NVIDIA, CEO Jensen Huang talked about AI for 30 minutes, then announced some (incredibly expensive) new GPUs, then talked about AI for about 30 minutes. Exciting stuff!