CES 2026: The Good, Bad And Ugly

It Wasn’t All Bad … But A Lot Of It Was

If you were looking for interesting technology at CES 2026, your best bet was to keep an eye on companies showing off new monitors.  The release of RGB-stripe OLED monitors from LG and Samsung bodes well for the future of OLEDs as putting the three primary colour subpixels in a row gets rid of the text fringing which plagues OLED monitors.  Samsung’s 32″ 6K Odyssey 3D display still needs more titles to support their glasses-free 3D technology but certainly looks impressive when you can enable it in a game.

Lenovo also decided to release an interesting product, an old style all-in-one system with a 16:18 display.  That’s twice as tall as the aspect ratio we’re used to seeing and it has a 2560×2880 which should be perfect for working with multiple documents or big spreadsheets.  It might be a little odd to game on but welcome on a desk at work.  Meanwhile ASUS did something similar in mobile form with the ROG Zephyrus Duo.  It’s essentially two laptop screens with a hinge, who needs a physical keyboard when you could replace that with a touchscreen?

MSI put out the world’s first 5K Mini-LED and the G-SYNC Pulsar displays offer never before seen refresh rates.  You might want to invest in the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z to power it … or maybe buy a house instead, your call.  You probably don’t want an always on Lepro Ami AI “Soulmate” on your desk though, as the little holographic waifu will constantly monitor you with it’s built in camera and microphone.

It gets worse though, Lollipop Stars will play a single song for you in your mouth until it’s battery dies at which point you toss it in the bin.  Bosch decided bicycles are far too useful and created an app which will ensure you’re never able to repair anything which breaks on it unless you purchase the parts from one of their approved sources.

Amazon has found a way to make their Ring products even more creepy and intrusive while Samsung’s Family Hub Smart Fridge took two prizes, one for the utter nightmare which is their repair process and secondly because the fridge won’t open unless it hears you ask it to; there is no handle nor opening mechanism apart from voice activation.  Their PR photo deserves a third award.

Welcome to an AI ‘enhanced’ 2026.