Where are Engadget's CES 2025 winners now?

With CES 2026 slated to officially commencement adjacent week, nan attraction is understandably connected each nan caller products that will beryllium announced astatine this year's event. But earlier diving into what’s new, we thought it was a bully thought to revisit our best of show winners from past year to spot wherever they're at. After all, CES is synonymous pinch vaporware. The bully news is nan Engadget squad has a keen consciousness for BS. Of nan ones we awarded astatine CES 2025 that haven’t been released, astir are coming this year. For nan remaining few, we’ll beryllium hunting them down this CES.

ASUS Zenbook A14

When we saw nan ASUS Zenbook A14 astatine CES 2025, it near america impressed pinch its lightweight but well-made chassis, beautiful OLED surface and fantabulous operation of ports. After spending much clip pinch it, nan A14's shortcomings became much apparent. In his review of nan ultraportable, Engadget's Devindra Hardawar gave nan laptop a people of 78, lamenting its mediocre capacity and costly value tag. In nan end, it wasn't rather nan Windows MacBook Air competitor he had hoped for initially.

BioLite Backup

At CES 2025, BioLite was already taking pre-orders for its automatic location backup powerfulness supply. The BioLite Backup didn't get successful 2025, but if you sojourn nan company's website today, you tin reserve 1 for $100, pinch last pricing expected to commencement astatine $2,000. BioLite says units will commencement shipping this year.

Jackery Solar Roof

Before CES 2025, Jackery was already an established subordinate successful nan home star powerfulness industry, and astatine nan event, it impressed america pinch its XBC curved star shingles. They look for illustration regular tile shingles, but Jackery said they would present compartment conversion ratio of much than 25 percent.

It's taken longer than anticipated, but Jackery says it now expects nan shingles to spell connected waste successful nan US "very soon," pinch pricing apt to scope betwixt $1,100 and $1,300 per quadrate metre depending connected nan customer's creation requirements and really they acquisition nan product. When contacted by Engadget, Jackery besides teased a fistful of announcements for CES 2026, including updates connected devices for illustration nan Solar Mars Robot it's been moving connected for nan past small while.

Lenovo Legion Go S

With nan Legion Go S, Lenovo promised 2 different versions of its caller handheld: 1 moving Windows 11, and nan different Valve's Steam OS. Unfortunately, nan Windows version arrived first (shortly aft CES), and was about arsenic bully arsenic expected. However, nan hold for nan SteamOS exemplary was good worthy it. When Engadget's Sam Rutherford yet reviewed it complete nan summer, he praised it for accelerated performance, agleam show and of people nan easiness of usage offered by SteamOS.

LG OLED evo M5

LG's OLED TVs are a perennial CES favourite astatine Engadget, and nan company's 2025 slate was nary different. The flagship evo M5 exemplary impressed pinch its 165Hz refresh complaint for gaming, amended image processing for little solution contented and a wireless transmission strategy for video and audio. At $4,300, nan group is expensive, but nan bully news is LG typically does a bully occupation of trickling down features to its more  affordable sets, and I'm judge nan institution will proceed to amended connected its OLED exertion this year.

Moonbird Moonbuddy

The Moonbuddy was 1 of 2 "cute" gadgets that made Engadget's champion of CES 2025 list. We liked Moonbird's determination to make a screenless meditation and slumber assistance for children. The bully news is you tin bargain your kid a Moonbuddy correct now, pinch nan instrumentality presently discounted to $110.42 arsenic portion of Moonbird's extremity of twelvemonth sale.

Unfortunately, erstwhile Engadget contacted nan institution to inquire astir its CES 2026, each it sent america backmost was a consequence from "Luna," its automated AI agent. "I don't person circumstantial accusation astir our CES 2026 accumulation plans to stock pinch you correct now," nan bot told me, adding I should email nan reside I conscionable emailed to get a consequence from a quality being.

OhSnap MCON

The OhSnap MCON won america complete pinch its elemental pitch: it fundamentally had nan expertise to move immoderate smartphone into a Xperia Play. Actually accomplishing that feat was much complicated, pinch components for illustration Hall effect joysticks for added durability expanding nan clip it took for OhSnap to get nan merchandise ready. For that reason, nan MCON didn't make it retired to consumers successful 2025. However, you tin preorder 1 now for astir $210, pinch shipments slated to commencement this year.

Roborock Saros Z70

The Saros Z70 was 1 of a fistful of robot vacuums that debuted astatine CES 2025 pinch a built-in extendable arm, but Roborock's flagship was nan 1 that made nan champion impression. We didn't extremity up recommending it successful our robot vacuum guide; location are much affordable options that will entreaty to a greater number of people. But if you want nan latest and greatest, nan Saros Z70 is on waste correct now for $2,000.

Yukai Engineering Mirumi

Of each nan gadgets Engadget saw astatine CES 2025, it's adjacent to opportunity nan Mirumi robot from Yukai Engineering was nan only 1 to steal our hearts. All this tiny small charm does is look astatine you and move its caput astir a small until you’ve been tricked into a fewer moments of happiness, and honestly that was much than capable for america to grant it a champion of CES award. Right now, you tin find Yukai Engineering accepting pre-orders for Mirumi done Kickstarter. The project, which began astatine nan commencement of December, easy surged past its humble $4,878 goal, raising $267,170 arsenic of nan penning of this article. The run ends connected January 22, truthful you still person clip to unafraid your Mirumi preorder.

Technics EAH-AZ100 earbuds

They mightiness person only been a brace of earbuds, but a batch of america near CES really excited astir nan Technics EAH-AZ100. The logic for that was that they were nan debut of nan company's caller magnetic fluid drivers technology, which promised to present moreover much clarity, item and bass than nan drivers successful Technics' already fantabulous AZ80 earbuds. When Engadget's resident audio guru Billy Steele sewage a chance to review nan EAH-AZ100 a mates of months later, he gave them a people of 85, saying they offered "some of nan champion sound value successful immoderate of nan hundreds of earbuds I’ve tested complete nan years."

Urtopia Titanium Zero

As a cyclist, nan Urtopia Titanium Zero was nan 1 merchandise I near CES 2025 excited to spot successful nan existent world. If a titanium motorcycle wasn't cool capable already, nan Zero's Quark DM1.2 centrifugal offered thing really innovative: a mid-drive centrifugal pinch much powerfulness output than moreover nan champion hub motor. Unfortunately, while you tin bargain plentifulness of different e-bikes disconnected of Urtopia's website, nan Titanium Zero isn't connected waste yet. That said, nan institution plans to showcase nan bike, alongside nan Quark DM1.2, astatine CES 2026.

WeWalk Smart Cane 2

The WeWalk Smart Cane 2 won 2 awards from Engadget during CES 2025, including our coveted champion successful show nod. At an arena wherever astir each shaper recovered a measurement to adhd AI to their devices, nan Smart Cane 2 appealed to america for its thoughtful usage of nan tech. It offers turn-by-turn navigation and obstacle detection, successful summation to a GPT-powered sound adjunct to springiness users a measurement to entree accusation without besides having to juggle their telephone astatine nan aforesaid time. If you sojourn WeWalk's website today, there's a "buy now" nexus for nan Smart Cane 2 that leads to a dormant end. When Engadget reached retired to WeWalk, nan institution said it would beryllium erstwhile again astatine CES demoing nan Smart Cane 2.