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The biggest week in tech innovation is here, and ZDNET is working both on the ground from Las Vegas and remotely to cover the best of the best of the world’s biggest consumer electronics show: CES 2025. Also: CES 2025: What to expect and how to watchWhile CES is full of prototypes and far-out tech ideas that may not come to fruition just yet, it’s also packed with tons of tech that has already hit the market or will within the year. Some of ZDNET’s favorite tech (and our readers’ most sought-after) are mobile accessories. Also: CES 2025: The 8 most impressive products so farLucky for us, CES is already seeing some top brands like Anker, Satechi, ESR, Belkin, and others roll out brand new mobile accessories — from MagSafe batteries to nifty camera add-ons and more. Here are a few of our favorite CES 2025 mobile accessories so far. Just be sure to follow along as more products are released throughout the week and we update this list with all our favorites.  More

Las Vegas Review-Journal/Getty Images The biggest week in tech is here: the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). ZDNET is on the ground in Las Vegas and also keeping a virtual eye on the products and concepts that debuted before the show’s first day. Also: CES 2025: What to expect and how to watch So far […] More

JMGO At CES 2025 in Las Vegas Day 1, projector manufacturer JMGO showcased its flagship ultra-short throw product, the O2S Ultra. Declaring the O2S to be the “world’s smallest laser TV,” the company touted its sleek aesthetics alongside some other impressive specifications and features. JMGO, to be clear, exclusively makes portable projectors, but the technology behind machines […] More

Matthew Miller/ZDNETWearables brand Amazfit debuted its second-generation smartwatch, the Amazfit Active 2, More

<!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Amazfit Active 2 is available in a premium package for $129.99 and standard for $99.99 It will start shipping to customers in mid-January The watch is small, lasts up to 10 days, has a brilliant AMOLED display, measures an extensive amount of data, and is inexpensive The small size is […] More

Sony/ZDNETNew year, new headset. Sony just launched its latest virtual reality headset, XYN, alongside software applications of the same name, the Japanese brand announced on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show. The headset is made for creatives seeking to build a new frontier of spatial content. The XYN headset will take real-world objects, motion, and backgrounds and recreate them in virtual reality using 3D graphics, according to the press release. Headsets like XYN are how creative industries get one step closer to streamlining the creation and product development process through digital twins, which are virtual versions of physical products, or creating 3D and XR entertainment, such as movies and games.  Also: ZDNET and sister sites to award Best Of CES, and you can submit your entry nowSony’s headset includes 4K OLED microdisplays and a video see-through function, designed for creative work in the spatial content realm. 3D production software applications will be supported in the headset for animation character modeling, among other operations. Sony mentioned that a proof-of-concept experiment using the prototype is in the works with Sony Pictures Animation, suggesting a new dawn of VR-created entertainment could be coming soon.  More

Kerry Wan/ZDNETSamsung is everywhere in January, from Las Vegas for CES to San Jose for the upcoming Unpacked event, where we expect to hear more about the company’s plans for Galaxy AI and the latest S series of smartphones. The phone maker confirmed today that the San Jose event will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 22 — only two weeks after CES.Also: The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 phones may come with this major AI upgrade for free”Get ready for AI that is more natural and intuitive. The next evolution of Galaxy AI is coming, and it’s going to change the way you interact with the world every day,” says Samsung in its Monday press release. What exactly the new AI features will entail is up for grabs, but the idea of a more burdenless, meet-you-where-you-already-are approach to software sounds promising.What we can make an educated guess about has to do with Samsung’s continuous partnership with Google in popularizing Android. As previously reported, the search giant is rumored to give Samsung users a year’s worth of Gemini Advanced access for free when they preorder the upcoming Galaxy S25 series. That’s $200 in value alone. More

Hisense Today at its CES 2025 press conference in Las Vegas, Hisense announced a big-screen TV with a new twist on Mini LED technology.  The company says its 116-inch TriChroma LED TV (aka, the 116UX) signals a new benchmark among large consumer model screens due to RGB local dimming technology, which serves as “a bridge between today’s […] More