10 Cool Tech Products Revealed Ahead Of CES 2026

These products range from a solar-powered smart birdbath and high-speed storage expansion for smartphones to a connected buoy for tracking dive teams and a 'powerful, non-invasive neural interface’ for hands-free and voice-free device interactions.

We have reached the end of the year, and that means CES 2026 is right around the corner with an untold number of devices of all kinds set to invade Las Vegas convention space.

Scheduled to begin on Jan. 6 next year, CES 2026 is expected to attract more than 140,000 attendees and will feature keynotes from big names in tech like AMD CEO Lisa Su and Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang to discuss their companies’ latest innovations.

Among the thousands of exhibitors expected to show off their wares are channel-focused vendors such as Nvidia, Dell Technologies, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and HP Inc.

But before these and other companies make any big announcements, there have already been dozens of new, cutting-edge products revealed ahead of their debut at CES 2026.

These products range from a solar-powered smart birdbath and a high-speed storage expansion product for smartphones to a connected buoy for tracking dive teams and a “powerful, non-invasive neural interface” for hands-free and voice-free device interactions.

You can even buy some of these products now.

What follows are these and other cool products that were revealed ahead of CES 2026. (The listed prices were based on information available at the time of publication.)

Birdfy Bath Pro with Stand

Price: $259.99 ($90 off list price)

The Birdfy Bath Pro is a solar-powered smart birdbath equipped with a fountain that can take high-definition videos and photos of birds using a dual-lens camera, thanks to its auto-trace and smart capture capabilities. Combined with a smartphone app and subscription, the system uses an AI model that can recognize over 6,000 bird species.

Planck CreatorSSD

Starting price: $189 (1 TB)

The Plank CreatorSSD is built to provide high-speed storage expansion for smartphones and other devices, like cameras and gaming devices. The product comes in a small form factor with USB-C connectivity, delivering transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabytes per second in 1-TB and 2-TB models. This makes the SSD capable of supporting the necessary speeds for recording video footage at a 4K resolution with a 120-Hz refresh rate.

AirJet Mini G2

Price: Not available for consumers

Designed to remove heat from laptops and other mobile computing devices, the AirJet Mini G2 is an active heat sink module that its manufacturer, Frore Systems, calls the “world’s thinnest and most powerful solid-state active cooling chip.” Using ultrasonic MEMS membranes to force hot air out of a device, the chip can remove 7.5 watts of heat to improve the underlying performance of a system, according to Frore.

Descent S1 Buoy

Price: $2,499.99

The Descent S1 Buoy from Garmin is a connected buoy that enables crew members on a boat to monitor and track the activity of up to eight divers. The buoy also facilitates communication using preset messages between the crew and divers equipped with a compatible dive computer and Garmin’s Descent T2 transceiver.

Dnsys Z1 Knee Exoskeleton

Starting price: $949 (36% discount)

The Dnsys Z1 is being called by its creator the “world’s first knee exoskeleton built for power and protection.” The exoskeleton combines motors located at the knee joints with a “unique transmission system” to provide “strong, precise and efficient force to both the thigh and calf.” This “significant reduces pressure and impact” on the knees when climbing stairs, walking up steep slopes and doing other strenuous activities, according to Dnsys.

Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED Smartwatch

Price: $1,999.99

According to manufacturer Garmin, the Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED is the first smartwatch to feature a MicroLED display, allowing it to offer a new level of brightness and detail. Garmin also says that it’s the first smartwatch to come with inReach technology “for on-wrist calling, messaging, location-sharing and SOS support.” Other features include map navigation, a built-in flashlight and strength training tools.

Delta Pro Ultra X

Starting price: $7,999 ($2,598 off list price)

The Delta Pro Ultra X by EcoFlow is a whole-home backup power system with a battery capacity that scales from 12 to 180 kilowatt-hours and support for a wide range of accessories. According to EcoFlow, the system “integrates effortlessly with solar panels, fuel generators and grid power,” and it comes with AI-driven management and modular accessories to help homeowners deal with issues like blackout protection, unused solar energy and high electric vehicle charging costs.

MLX-A1

Price: Not available

The MLX-A1 from South Korea-based Mobilint is pitched as a “compact, stand-alone AI box” that features the company’s Aries NPU, capable of 80 trillion operations per second. Combined with an Intel Core i5-13600HE CPU, 32GB of DDR5 memory and a “deployment-ready software stack,” this makes the system well-suited for running large language models, vision models and multimodal applications “entirely offline,” according to Mobilint.

Naqi Neural Earbuds

Price: Not available

The Naqi Neural Earbuds act as a “powerful, non-invasive neural interface,” according to Naqi Logix. This means the wearable can translate blinks, eyebrow movements and other subtle facial motions into various device inputs. While Naqi Logix is positioning the earbuds for accessibility use cases, the company said it is also exploring consumer, gaming, smart home and industrial applications.

Timekettle W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds

Price: $349

Timekettle says the W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds are the “world’s first in-ear translation device to combine bone-voiceprint sensor capture with LLM-powered, context-aware AI.” This allows the earbuds to pick up speech vibrations “directly from the wearer’s bones,” which gives the product “crystal-clear recognition” that is “immune to background noise,” according to the company. The AI models powering the translation capabilities can “anticipate context, interpret intent and correct homophones for natural, real-time conversations across 42 languages and 95 accents.”