Weird & Wonderful Unveils At CES 2025: FuFu Cat, Stick-Anywhere TV, More
CES 2025: A 'handy' vacuum cleaner, an electric spoon that can make you feel like you're tasting salt, CES this year was filled with several OMG gadgets. Check out.
CES 2025: While the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas showcased some of the most innovative and cutting-edge technology and products in the world, the show also had its crazy side. Rubbing shoulders with tech that could change the world and the way we live were a number of gadgets and concepts that seemed to exist on the thin line that divides the sublime from the ridiculous.
These products might seem relatively trivial compared to the supercomputers and AI-laden futuristic gadgetry on display, but it turned heads and got attention, and most important of all, reminded us that not all tech is about changing the world. A lot of it is just about making small things easier. Or making us smile.
So, as the curtain comes down at CES 2025, here are five gadgets that highlighted the lighter, weird, and downright crazy side of tech at the show:
Nékojita FuFu: Coffee-Cooling Cool Cat
Easily the cutest gadget of the show, the Nékojita FuFu from Japan's Yukai Engineering added a whole level of awwww to the art of cooling coffee that's too hot to drink. It is a tiny cat-shaped gadget, which is described as a personal meal partner and comes with a fan inside it.
What does it do? Well, you just place it on the edge of your cup of coffee or tea, and it blows on it to make it cooler, allowing you to drink it without scalding your tongue.
The Nékojita FuFu comes with different breathing modes such as "the Princess" (elegant, slow and steady breaths) and "Look at that" (which starts slow but then grows stronger) to make it appear more lifelike. Yes, we know we could blow on our coffee ourselves, but this seems to be a more purrfect solution.
Roborock Saros Z70: Truly 'Handy' Vacuum Cleaner
There were vacuum cleaners and household chore assistants aplenty in Vegas this year, but the Roborock Saros Z70 was different. Because it was armed. Literally. The vacuum cleaner not only gets rid of dust and dirt on the floor but also comes with a "foldable, five-axis mechanical arm," or in plain terms, an extendable mechanical pincer arm hidden inside the top of the gadget.
This arm, called the OmniGrip, comes with precision sensors, a camera and an LED light, allowing it to "see" its surroundings and identify items, with some AI help.
While the Saros Z70 does away with the dust and dirt, the OmniGrip can pick up any objects it finds on the floor, such as socks and shoes, and even put them in a particular place (a laundry basket, a shelf or so on). And well, if the cleaner encounters a pet, the OmniGrip can also be extended to give it a friendly pat or even play with it. Handy, very handy.
Kirin Electric Salt Spoon: No Need To Pass The Salt
This is a piece of cutlery with salty sorcery built right into it. Designed for people who have been asked to limit their salt intake (such as people suffering from high blood pressure and hypertension), the Kirin Electric Salt Spoon comes with special waveform technology that can actually enhance the perceived saltiness of food by almost 1.5 times, by sending currents from the spoon to your tongue.
In simple English, even relatively bland food can taste salty if eaten with this spoon. So if you have been asked to go on a low-sodium diet, you can munch on bland food using this spoon without missing that salty taste that you so love.
Some might worry about electric current going around in their mouth, but it is a very low one and totally safe. Health tech got several spoonfuls of innovation thanks to this neat gizmo.
Displace TV Pro: The TV You Can Stick Anywhere
Imagine a television set that you can carry around your house and simply attach to any surface - no adhesive, no special stand or attachments needed. The Displace TV showcased at CES 2025 does just that.
Available in 27-inch and 55-inch sizes, this 4K OLED television comes with a built-in battery and Wi-Fi, making it truly wireless. But we have seen that in other televisions (notably from LG), so what's different here?
Well, the Displace TV comes with specially designed suction cups on the back that let you simply stick it to any surface - a wall, a refrigerator, just about anything. And despite all this, it is light enough to carry around and also has a fancy remote and AI smarts up its sleeves. All this does not come cheap (prices start from USD 3999 and go up to USD 5,999), but that does get you a TV that you can carry around anywhere and simply slap onto any surface, without worrying about stands, drilling holes in walls and so on.
Lenovo AdaptX Mouse: Mouse For Cool (Tech) Cats
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For most of us, a mouse (in the tech world, rather than the feline one) is a pointing and pointing tool, with clickable buttons, a scroll wheel and some programmable options. The Lenovo AdaptX Mouse that wandered all around CES 2025 was all that. And it was a whole lot more.
A modular device concept from Lenovo, the AdaptX Mouse has different parts which can be added or removed to completely change its identity. In its most basic form, it is a sleek, compact Bluetooth mouse.
But thanks to different shells, it can do much more. A basic shell gives a slightly more substantial feel for those times when you want a larger mouse, another shell increases its battery and also lets it act as a power bank for a phone, yet another mod lets you store small items like SD cards and SIM cards in it, and then there is a mod that converts the mouse into a Type-C hub with USB-A and HDMI inputs for your computer.
And evidently, there are even more functions being planned. We really hope this concept mouse gets past the bean counter cats and makes it to the market!
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