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Following a couple of news-filled days of press conferences and preview events, the CES 2026 show floor officially opens today. If you’re struggling to stay on top of all the new tech, gadgets, concepts, and AI-powered devices announced at the show, we’ve rounded up some of the best hardware and upgrades that have debuted so far.
There’s still lots more to come, so you can check back here every day, or catch up on all of The Verge’s CES 2026 coverage here.
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Acer announced several new laptops at CES 2026 but the standout is its Swift 16 AI featuring what the company claims is the world’s largest haptic trackpad. It will give your fingers a good workout as they slide back and forth across its wide expanse, but the laptop includes a stylus turning the trackpad into a tablet for sketching or annotating documents. The Swift 16 AI will be available with Intel Panther Lake chips (up to the Core Ultra X9 388H), plenty of ports, and an optional OLED display when it launches in Q1 2026.
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Want the portability of a laptop without the cramped keyboard? HP crammed an entire mini desktop computer into its new Eliteboard G1a keyboard, including an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, stereo speakers, RAM, storage, a cooling fan, and ports. It can be connected to up to two 4K displays using a daisy-chain connection, and paired to a Bluetooth mouse. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but the G1a is expected to launch in March.
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Samsung debuted one of the more impressive TVs at CES this year with a monstrous 130-inch Micro RGB TV featuring a frame designed to “appear less like a television and more like a vast, immersive window that visually expands the room,” according to a release from the company. Pricing and availability haven’t been announced, but the TV will mostly like be one of those upgrades that if you have to ask how much it costs, it’s probably not in your budget.
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