Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the new gadgets and gear debuting at CES. The show has once again delivered an avalanche of products, both innovative and vaporous, that will shape the industry in 2026.
The Verge’s team has been working around the clock to share the experience. Some of it wowed us while some of it weirded us out, but that’s part of the fun of CES.
After taking it all in over the past week, there are some gadgets that stood out from the rest. They innovated on an existing product, entirely rethought a category, or delivered something so delightful or dumb that we just had to share. These are the things that deserve to be recognized — our best of CES 2026.
Best monitor
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Samsung screens have dominated The Verge Awards at CES four years in a row, but it’s LG Display’s time to shine again.
Both companies have finally managed to produce gorgeous high-refresh-rate OLED panels whose pixels contain the proper number of linearly repeating red, green, and blue components to clearly render text — addressing the annoying color fringing that can sometimes make text hard to read on previous-gen OLED screens.
But after looking at LG Display’s and Samsung Display’s screens in back-to-back appointments, Verge display expert John Higgins and I had to give LG Display the edge. With 4K resolution at 27 inches, text and gaming graphics were both incredibly sharp and easy on the eyes. It’s also a dual-mode 4K 240Hz or 1080p 480Hz panel, so you can switch to an even higher refresh rate.
It’s not the brightest or highest-resolution screen we saw at CES, where brilliant 5K 1,500-nit monitors were also on display — this one has 1,000-nit peaks — but it’s the one I’d pick for work and play. Asus might be one of the first to use it in the ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM, which’ll have DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1, and a 90W USB-C port so you can dock and charge a laptop, but it didn’t share price or availability. — Sean Hollister, senior editor
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