CES Live Blog, Day 1: The Coolest Tech We’ve Seen So Far

Good greeting and invited to WIRED's CES 2026 unrecorded blog. We're present connected the crushed successful Las Vegas, Nevada, to bring you each of the latest news, hands-on reports, photos, and videos from the biggest amusement successful user tech.

CES 2026 officially kicks disconnected today, January 5, but the archetypal time of CES is typically conscionable for media previews. We’ve already seen rather a spot of what’s being announced this twelvemonth astatine these preview events, and the quality announcements volition proceed to rotation retired implicit the archetypal time arsenic each the big-name companies unveil their wares. You tin work our overview of what to expect from CES 2026.

The bigger time astatine CES is Tuesday; that's erstwhile the expo hallway opens to the public, truthful that’s erstwhile we get to spot the expansive spectacle that CES is known for: the airy shows, the brainsick conception cars, the elephantine walls of televisions. But we inactive person a ton of things to amusement you today, truthful instrumentality astir and support this leafage unfastened successful a tab. The unrecorded blog volition automatically refresh with quality updates each day.

Our unrecorded sum from Las Vegas starts astatine 7:30 americium Pacific and goes until 5 p.m. Pacific. We’re moving this unrecorded blog until Wednesday night, truthful travel backmost each time for adjacent much news.