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It's an extension of the tech that L'Oréal introduced at CES 2024 with the Airlight Pro hairdryer. In a nutshell, most conventional hair styling tools rely on heated coils and motors. The Airlight Pro hairdryer introduced infrared light to help speed up drying while reducing the overall heat required. (I've been doing some long-term testing of the high-tech hair dryer versus a standard one over the past year, and I can confirm that it is much faster.)

As a longtime Costco employee, I always look forward to scanning the shelves for new items. This month, the warehouse has lots of great products, from elegant furniture to tasty treats. The Touchland hand sanitizers, Canon Rebel T7 camera, and Tutti Bella pizzas all caught my eye. A new year means new opportunities to find great new items at Costco. And as an employee of 20 years, I love that I'm always able to get a front-row seat to the newest products.

The Motorola Signature features a 6.8-inch AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate, Full HD+ resolution, up to 6,200 nits peak brightness, and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection. The panel also supports Dolby Vision and HDR10+, and comes with Pantone Color and SkinTone certifications. It gets a triple rear camera setup with a 50MP Sony Lytia 828 sensor with OIS and an f/1.6 aperture. The phone also comes with a 50MP ultrawide camera with a 122 degree FoV and macro support,

Most TVs hide surprisingly handy USB ports on the back. Plugging into them can unlock extra features and convenience. They can even help breathe new life into an older TV. After the initial setup, most people rarely engage directly with their smart TV. With wireless connectivity, phone apps, and remote controls, there's little need to. Tucked next to the essential HDMI ports, a USB 2.0 port -- likely sitting unnoticed on the back or side panel -- offers more potential than you might expect.

The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is getting a SteamOS version, four months after the Windows-powered handheld was introduced at IFA Berlin. At CES 2026 on Tuesday, Lenovo unveiled a SteamOS variant of its second-generation gaming handheld. The device carries the same hardware specifications as the Windows-based Legion Go 2, except it runs Valve's SteamOS. Lenovo said that the new variant is expected to be available from June 2026.

Motorola's razr has generated quite a bit of attention and gained loyal fans in the niche flip segment. Now, Motorola is expanding the iconic razr family with a bold new chapter in foldable design, introducing the Motorola razr fold as its first book-style foldable. A lot is still under the cover, but here is what we learned from the preview at CES 2026, and even in this early look, the device already feels like a significant step for the razr line.

It's always refreshing when the new version of a product gets significantly better battery life than the last. And that's the case with the Moto Tag 2: Motorola's second-gen tracker tag can go more than 500 days before it needs a new battery. That's almost a year and a half that you can forget about charging at least one of your gadgets.

Your camera can make mistakes and might produce false positives (detecting fire when there isn't one) or false negatives (missing actual fires).

According to IGN and TechCrunch, sources say Intel is going to compete by developing a custom Intel Core G3 "variant or variants" just for handhelds that could outperform the Arc B390 GPU on the chips it just announced. IGN reports that by using the new 18A process, Intel can cut different die slices, and "spec the chips to offer better performance on the GPU where you want it."

There's no shortage of handheld gaming PCs to choose from lately, but the Steam Deck has been a popular option thanks in part to its operating system. SteamOS works far better than Windows on these machines, and fortunately, it's available on another device: Lenovo's Legion Go 2. The company recently rolled out the Legion Go S with SteamOS, but for anyone looking for a handheld with more heavy-duty hardware--and Switch-like controllers--the Legion Go 2 has been a solid option.

The good news was that I had a jump starter in the trunk of the car. The unit was a and is a 3,000A unit that's built to start engines ranging from small and huge -- gas engines up to 9 liters, and diesel engines up to 7 liters. Fully charged, this unit should be capable of up to 45 jump starts. There's a light built into the front.

Lenovo has brought a slew of updates to its Legion and LOQ line of gaming laptops for CES 2026. The refreshed laptops are all built around Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs. The new Legion 7a is both thinner and lighter than the previous generation and is aimed at gamers, creators, and working professionals. Lenovo says the new 7a will be powered by AMD Ryzen AI 400 CPUs and RTX 50-series GPUs, delivering up to 125W of total system power.

Lenovo's new pair of Yoga laptops for CES 2026 are its most powerful and most lightweight models. The flagship Yoga Pro 9i is a creator-focused laptop with a 16-inch 4K tandem OLED reaching 1,600 peak nits of brightness, Intel Panther Lake processor options, and up to an RTX 5070 for a discrete GPU. It also includes a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus that can magnetically attach to the lid, either on its own or in its protective case.

Not everybody agrees that replicating the four-limbed, bipedal shape of a human should be replicated in robot form. For one, walking with two feet is inherently less stable than four, nevermind a set of wheels. Replicating the dexterity and fine motor skills of human hands also remains a major challenge. In a modified approach, Boston Dynamics has clearly decided to loosen up some of the restrictions of the human form.

Hyperkin announced a new clamp-on style wireless controller created in collaboration with GameSir. The X5 Alteron features similar functionality to GameSir's GameSir G8 Plus that debuted in 2024 with an expanding telescopic mechanism that can clamp onto smartphones, tablets, and several versions of the Nintendo Switch, replacing the Joy-Cons. What sets the X5 Alteron apart is a modular design allowing most of the controls on the front to be swapped out with alternate layouts, buttons, and joysticks.