The most effective of CES 2026

We’re wrapping up protection of the most important tech present on this planet. CES 2026 is nearly over, and whereas we’ve got extra tales and wrap-ups to return, listed below are probably the most attention-grabbing merchandise we’ve noticed, written about and critiqued/praised. That features our picks for the most effective of CES. We gave out 15 awards in addition to our greatest of present, and also you could be shocked by a few of our picks — I do know I used to be.

Learn on for among the greatest issues to return out of Las Vegas this week, however first up, our Better of the Finest winner, which was Lego Good Play. As Engadget’s editor-in-chief Aaron Souppouris put it, “Lego may virtually be seen because the antithesis of the standard CES product.”

No matter tendencies, Lego has all the time continued. And in 2026, it’s getting a lot smarter.

The system consists of a Smart Brick, Tags and Minifigures. They’re full of fashionable expertise, to allow them to reply to the way you play with them or the units you construct. The Good Brick has a 4.1mm ASIC chip, which Lego says is smaller than a regular Lego stud. It senses issues like movement, orientation and magnetic fields, but additionally has a tiny built-in speaker, which produces audio “tied to reside play actions,” not simply canned clips.

It’s laborious to elucidate it in just a few phrases (we’ve received a deep-dive hands-on ), however what instantly drew me in was the shortage of smartphone pairing and screens. The power of every half to detect and work together with others can result in some ridiculous setups, whether or not it’s geese and cops or a helicopter or an X-Wing.

Naturally, it’s a bit pricier than fundamental Lego, however not out of the realm of being a particular reward or birthday current. One of many first units, with a sensible Darth Vader Minifigure, one Good Brick and one Good Tag, is $70.

We’ll be again to our repeatedly scheduled e-newsletter subsequent week. Have a fantastic weekend!

— Mat Smith

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NVIDIA has began manufacturing of its Vera Rubin supercomputer.

On Monday, which appears like an age in the past, Jensen Huang shared the newest from NVIDIA. Whereas the presentation was extra a refresher than a barrage of latest bulletins, it was a reasonably low-key presentation, with a lot of AI chat. One announcement was Alpamayo, a household of open-source reasoning fashions designed to information autonomous automobiles by way of tough driving conditions. The centerpiece is Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter chain-of-thought system NVIDIA says can drive extra like a human.

In relation to tech all of us would possibly use, we needed to anticipate a separate occasion, when NVIDIA introduced DLSS 4.5 and G-Sync Pulsar. For each options, you’ll want a 50-series GPU. You bought , proper?

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