eVTOL, AI home agents, smartwatches and more

Machines are taking over. CES 2024 was an absolute whirlwind of events artificial intelligence everywhere you look – from AI bird feeders to snoring tracking pillows to rolling (or walking) home assistants/pet sitters/baby sitters/security guards.

In addition to products from traditional consumer electronics manufacturers – LG’s Transparent OLED TV and Samsung’s Transparent MicroLED Screen, which impress with their elegant, transparent design – smart devices such as the Rabbit R1 AI notebook computer, which uses machine learning to help users automate tasks seamlessly, it has won their fair share of reach.

Amid the avalanche of AI, CES showcased a dizzying array of gadgets: AI-powered grills, body cameras, cat doors, race cars and go-karts, glucose predictors, and more.

This week’s trade show in Las Vegas has struggled to regain its former glory, but with 130,000 attendees and 4,000 exhibitors, it remains a bustling center.

As usual, Microsoft and Apple have remained tight-lipped (even with the Apple Vision Pro headset debuting soon), but CES 2024 still unveiled plenty of eye-catching innovations, indicating that creative minds in the tech industry are in no danger of running out of clever, wacky, and attention-grabbing technical ideas .

Among the hundreds – perhaps thousands – of tech items on display at CES 2024, we sifted through the show’s designs to pick out some of the standouts – from wrist-worn wearables to airborne electric vehicles, as well as some of the best smart home technology and foldables flat screen accessories.

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Those that are readily available have their prices listed so you can judge for yourself whether they are worth spending the money on, and some gadgets that are yet to come to market give you time to accumulate savings or at least offer an overview of trends that may be taking place at the fair CES 2025 and beyond.

These are some of the stars of CES 2024 – things that bring the future to life, ready to be touched, held, driven or worn.