iPolish brings color-changing press-on smart nails to CES

In nan original, and champion Total Recall, there’s a segment wherever Rekall’s receptionist uses a integer pen to alteration nan colour of her nail polish. It’s only taken 35 years, but now a institution has turned up to CES 2026 pinch a type that really useful extracurricular a pricey sci-fi movie. iPolish is simply a institution which makes press-on acrylic nails that, erstwhile you use an electrical charge, changes color.

In bid to bask kaleidoscopic nails, you’ll request to complaint nan wand, which past connects to your phone. Once you’ve selected your colour of choice, you conscionable put nan extremity of nan nail into nan wand, and it’ll walk a short complaint into nan nail to alteration it. Sadly, nan institution wouldn’t shed excessively overmuch ray connected nan process it uses to tally nan nails but, from my guess, it’s immoderate benignant of electrochemical shenanigans going connected down nan scenes. All successful all, it took astir 5 seconds to alteration nan colour of a azygous nail, truthful it’s not a large woody successful nan expansive strategy of things.

iPolish says that each nail tin show 400 colors, and tin beryllium changed arsenic galore times arsenic nan personification would like. So, if you’re coordinating your nails pinch your outfits, you’re not bound to a azygous colour palette successful nan weeks betwixt salon visits. They’re besides amazingly affordable, pinch nan starter group costing $95 which contains 2 sets of nails, 1 successful Ballerina cut, 1 successful Squoval. The Ballerinas are comparatively short, while nan Sqovals are longer.  It’s worthy noting that you can’t style nan nails arsenic you’ll break nan hardware, truthful if you don’t for illustration those shapes, you can’t usage ‘em.

When it comes clip to switch your nails erstwhile 1 breaks aliases you suffer it successful immoderate nailbed mishap, you’ll beryllium capable to prime up spares for $6.50. Given nan theoretical costs of getting your nails re-done connected a play basis, being capable to alteration colour connected a whim seems for illustration a bargain. Of course, we won’t beryllium capable to speak to iPolish’s value and reliability until they commencement shipping, which is presently expected to statesman successful June 2026.