Mark your calendars. On Jan. 7, 2026, CNET Group will announce the most comprehensive and compelling class of official Best of CES award winners yet.
In 2025, we came together for the first time as a family of tech media brands to announce 11 Best of CES winners, hand-selected by the journalists at CNET, PCMag, Mashable, ZDNET and Lifehacker. Having discovered many fascinating new products at last January's show, we're going even bigger next year to bring the Best of CES 2026, presented by the CNET Group in partnership with the Consumer Technology Association.
Next month, we'll collaborate with friends from Ziff Davis brands IGN and Everyday Health for the first time to help us announce 23 winners across as many categories, with multiple finalists in each category:
Best Age Tech
Best AI
Best Audio
Best Deep Computing Tech
Best Energy Tech
Best Future Tech
Best Gaming
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