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CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, unveiled the latest technology innovations this week, from smarter smart home tech, robots for aging in place, supercharged and adaptable laptops, and artificial intelligence baked into practically anything you can imagine (yes, even your eyeglasses!). CES 2025, which took place Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas, featured product debuts from 4,500 exhibitors worldwide. Several of these tech tools may be hitting the market soon or serve as a prototype of what the future could hold.
We rounded up some of the 2025 CES Innovation Award winners and honorees as well as other product debuts that could offer some real estate implications, whether it’s in helping to improve your business or even possibly changing the look of the homes you sell.
For Your Eyes Only
One of the most buzzed-about product debuts during CES came from the smart glasses market segment, with the latest models being more lightweight, identical to other glasses and packed with AI features. Halliday’s XR smart glasses grabbed media headlines at CES for what all was behind the lens.
Its XR smart glasses include a 3.5-inch DigiWindow projection display within the frames—a tiny display made for your eyes only. The glasses discreetly and privately display your messages and notifications, summarize meetings and take notes for you, and can even act as a teleprompter for your speeches or presentations. They come with a smart ring for added control of what you view on the screen. The glasses have AI tools that can flash on the screen fact-checked information or even propose answers to questions asked of you. The glasses include speakers for taking phone calls and can translate 40 different languages in real time. Not to mention, they look like just a regular pair of eyeglasses, meaning no one else knows what you’re seeing. Halliday plans to make the glasses available later this quarter for under $500.
Supercharged Laptops
Dell, a REALTOR Benefits® partner, showed off its Dell Pro 14 Premium, a tandem OLED display for personal and professional use. It earned recognition at CES for its artificial intelligence tools, with the Dell Pro 14 featuring a dedicated Copilot key. At just two pounds, it’s ultra-portable, touted for its quietness and boasts a battery life of 21 hours.
Lenovo, also a REALTOR Benefits® partner, featured several of its new laptop options, including its AI Now, a personalized AI assistant that can summarize documents, retrieve information and assist with everyday workflow tasks. Besides its AI offerings, Lenovo also debuted what’s being called the first laptop with a rollable screen. Its ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable can extend vertically at the touch of a button or hand gesture. The screen can go from 14 inches to 16.7 inches, allowing nearly 50% additional screen space in a still ultra-portable laptop.
Instant Phone Charge
No time to wait for your cellphone to charge? Swippitt wants to solve time-wasters from charging phones through its device that works like a toaster for your phone. Drop in your phone, and within two seconds, it’ll pop back up and be fully charged.
A smartphone case will include a second battery so that when you drop it in the Swippitt Hub, it’ll instantly swap out the batteries. The hub includes five fully charged batteries inside for quick swaps while on the go.
The AI-Baked Kitchen
Artificial intelligence is heading into the kitchen in a bigger way, from built-in AI capabilities in grills, countertop ovens and more. Samsung’s 4-Door Refrigerator with AI Home and AI Vision Inside 2.0 can automatically recognize and track food items that go in and out of the fridge, alerting you when items are about to expire and adding them to your grocery list when they’re running low. It also can make food or recipe recommendations based on your habits.
Another CES innovation honoree, the AI Plant Box, brings gardening into the indoor kitchen. The home-farming appliance uses an integrated camera with AI control for plant monitoring and growing, bringing fresh staples to your kitchen.
Robot Allies
The robots once again emerged at CES, and here’s one that could even help keep vacant listings tidy: Yarbo. It’s a modular robot designed to autonomously maintain yards and outdoor spaces, no matter the season. It can mow the lawn, blow off leaves and plow the snow off the driveway or sidewalk. It adjusts to different weather conditions and lawn maintenance needs. Yarbo navigates and operates independently but also can be controlled through a mobile app.
Another robot earning recognition this year at CES was “Lemmy,” a companion care robot for those desiring to age in place at their home. Lemmy, designed through a consortium with Shinsung Delta Tech, UNIST, and JDW, was created to respond to the physical, cognitive and emotional needs of seniors living independently. AI-powered sensors are installed throughout the home, allowing Lemmy to collect real-time information about the person and respond immediately to any necessary support. Lemmy operates through voice commands and connects with home appliances and healthcare devices, keeping seniors connected with friends, family, caregivers and their healthcare professionals.
Sleeker Screens
Another mainstay at CES each year is TVs, where the bounds of size and image quality are always pushed. This year at CES ushered in an era of transparent and hologram-like screens, although still in prototype form, screens that pushed beyond 100 inches or more, 8k picture quality, and paper-thin models. These high-tech screens could redesign home living rooms and theater rooms.
LG showed off wireless OLED models, like its 77-inch 4K OLED Zero Connect Wallpaper TV, a CES Innovation Award honoree. At less than a half-inch thick, the TV can blend into the wall without visible wires by using LG’s Zero Connect Box. It wirelessly sends connections to the TV, eliminating cable clutter and freeing up TV placement to wherever you want it.
Meanwhile, Samsung was recognized for its innovations in television imaging, including its RGB Micro LED TV, touted as the world’s first RGB microLED. The RGB model radiates more than 8 million points of light in red, blue and green lights that reportedly can offer deeper, more vibrant colors to the TV screen compared to previous models. The device, offered in models up to 98 inches, features an ultra-slim design and low power consumption. Also, Samsung’s The Frame Pro turns the TV screen into artwork when not in use. With The Frame’s latest iteration, Samsung boasts it has brighter colors and sharper contrasts and also comes with more wireless capabilities for installation.
Clearing the Air
With the wellness home design trend still hot, air purification continues to be top of mind. A2US’ MEW Air Purifier was recognized as a CES innovator for its portable, compact size, which can even fit into a vehicle cup holder. The MEW Air Purifier uses electrohydrodynamic technology—just water and electricity—to eliminate germs, viruses and dust. The device is also filter-free, offering a low-maintenance option for air purification.
Safety Devices
More than a quarter of real estate professionals report feeling unsafe when meeting new clients at secluded locations or properties, yet 40% admit still doing this alone, according to the 2024 Member Safety Residential Reportpdf, published by the National Association of REALTORS®. Safety protocols and devices can be important for helping to keep real estate professionals safe. Garmin’s inReach Messenger Plus allows you to call for help in an emergency—even when out of cell service range. This SOS satellite communicator—a 2025 CES Best of Innovation winner—can send photos and voice messages in an emergency. It offers two-way texting and location sharing and can send alerts to Garmin Response, a 24/7 staffed international emergency assistance coordination center. The device has a battery that can last for weeks.
Pet Care
Pets have been earning more attention in real estate, with some real estate pros even marketing a property’s pet-friendliness in their listings as a selling point. Twenty percent of consumers say a home with pet-friendly attributes would even make them want to increase the price they offer to pay for a home, according to a survey conducted last year by Quicken Loans. Pet tech innovations were hyped at CES 2025, including an attempt to reinvent pet doors. Pawport says its high-tech security door can retrofit existing pet doors, which they refer to as old-fashioned, flimsy, unsightly and vulnerable to bugs or other critters sneaking in and air leaks. The Pawport is installed inside and outside of the door and only opens when a pet approaches it. The pet wears a small Bluetooth device that can send an alert to the door when they’re near. The Pawport app also allows for remote or voice control, setting a curfew and other scheduling functionality.
