CES 2025: Day 4’s Practical And Peculiar Products

CES 2025 was scheduled to run for four days (from January 7 to 10) and we just got done with its fourth and final day!

However, before the world’s biggest consumer electronics show began it bore witness to a day dedicated to key announcements, called Media Day. Here, NVIDIA drew most of the attention, primarily due to the reveal of its new series of GPUs (graphics processing units), the GeForce RTX 50 series built on its flagship Blackwell technology.

Of course, there were other major announcements too from NVIDIA and other tech conglomerates.

Check out our coverage of Media Day and NVIDIA’s headline grabbers from the day, followed by Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3, as well as focused pieces about major breakthroughs in EV and transport tech, the cool AI hardware technology that was showcased, and the top weird and whacky products on display at CES 2025.

As CES came to a close, there was still a lot of tech that was left to be discovered, admired, and questioned. Here’s some of it. 

Augmented Reality And Virtual Reality

One of the biggest hits of CES 2025 was Xreal’s One Pro AR glasses.

The glasses come with a 0.55-inch Sony micro-OLED display, 12MP camera, Xreal’s custom and self-developed X1 chip, Optic Engine 4.0, 4 million pixels with 1080p resolution, 120 Hz high refresh rate, sound powered by Bose, three adjustable lens transparencies, 700 nits of Perceived Brightness, a new Side View that allows wearers to focus on the real world, and a price tag of $599.


Brooklyn-based startup Soliddd Corp revealed its SolidddVision prototype, which is a pair of smartglasses that’s specifically designed for people with macular degeneration.

Its smartglesses make use of unique and proprietary lens arrays that project multiple separate images to the areas of the retina that aren’t damaged, like a fly’s eye.

“This allows the brain to naturally construct stereopsis (the making of a 3D image in the brain) and a single full-field image with good acuity that feels like normal, in-focus sight.”

While the smartglasses are currently in beta, Soliddd plans to launch its smartglasses at some point in 2025, which should be an easy-to-hit target as it doesn’t require any FDA approval.


When it comes to VR, Forum8 showcased its VR360 simulator, which, if you love rollercoasters, you’ll love.

In addition to tilting forward and backward, it can rotate 360 degrees in either direction, taking immersive experiences to a whole new angle. Interestingly, this chair has been part of previous editions of CES and is likely to be back next year too.

Practical And Helpful Products

The whole point of technological advancements is to offer products that provide practical applications and are actually helpful. To be fair, Soliddd (mentioned above) did that.

So did Hong Kong-based agriculture technology startup Full Nature Farms, which introduced its Rocket 2.0 Smart Irrigation Platform, which uses data and AI to enable up to a 30% reduction in water costs.

According to the company’s website, it’s “a revolutionary irrigation system that optimizes water usage and crop yields using data-driven insights. It reduces waste, conserves resources, and replaces traditional timers with real-time scheduling.”

It features a Weather Station that offers precise real-time climate readings, is self-powered as it runs on solar panels, and a variation of sensors to track soil conditions, plant growth, local climate, and forecasts to adjust irrigation schedules in real-time.


Keeping up the spirit of helping people, London-based WeWalk showcased two walking sticks fitted with technological upgrades to help visually impaired people walk better.

It offers two options, the $850-priced Smartcane 2 and the $1,150 Smartcane+ 2, which comes with a voice-controlled assistant. Its system is capable of detecting ground-level and overhead obstacles, can connect to smartphones (iOS and Android) to offer walking directions, and can interface with the phone through a button on the handle.

In the same space was Glidance, which brought—Glide—a robot that had a handle attached to a wheeled base, or in the words of the company an “autonomous, self-guided mobility aid”.

Priced at $1,500 ($1,799 with a 1-year subscription and $3,299 with a 4-year subscription), this sophisticated device uses AI and a pair of cameras to detect obstacles and alert users when they approach a door, elevator, stair, or curb, and even lock at intersections.

Currently displaying as a soft launch, the company expects to begin shipping after around a year. Interested parties can join its waitlist.

Mixed Bag

Bringing back nostalgic gaming experiences is Atari (a name that inspires nostalgia in itself), which showcased its Gamestation Go.

This gaming handheld, made in collaboration with My Arcade, features a 7-inch display, 200+ games from various Atari generations, various buttons (including the classic X-Y-A-B diamond, which is backlit), a paddle, a trackball, and a number pad, among others.

Expected to arrive in Q3 2025, the device is priced at $149.


PocketBook Introduced its Color ePaper Digital Art Posters. This uses e-ink to display images and because it’s e-ink (E Ink Spectra 6), it doesn’t consume much power, other than when changing images.

The device sports an internal battery that can last up to a year, or in the case of heavy users, a month. Either way, it’s pretty easy to recharge using the USB port on the back of the device. It connects using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, where users can customize their art collection using the company’s app.

They come in 31.5-inch, 28.5-inch, and 13.3-inch models that cost $1,700, $2,400, and $600 respectively.


Making its debut as a new entrant not just to CES but also to the wonderful world of autonomous mobility is Zoox, which plied its fully autonomous, all-electric robotaxi.

Not quite ready to hit the streets as yet, Zoox’s robotaxi has been in its testing phase on Las Vegas streets over a year ago. Despite its humble beginnings in June 2023, the company is growing fast and will surely enjoy a full-fledged launch soon, considering it’s owned by Amazon.

Why AI?

We promised to bring you peculiar products and that’s what we’re about to explore now. Here are some more AI-powered wonders (which make people wonder why they were made) from CES 2025, adding to our previous list.

Dreo brought its ChefMaker 2, which is an AI-powered air fryer.

However, this infusion may be justified, as the machine can extract recipes from cookbooks, calculate cooking times and temperatures, provide step-by-step guidance, suggest ingredients and alternate recipes, and more. It will be available in Q3 2025.

Davy Robot unveiled a 33-pound, $1,000 AI-powered system that can throw a basketball back to you, provided you’re skilled enough to get the ball into the basket. The version at CES was a large net that would require you to be exceptionally skilled to miss.

Jizai’s Mi-Mo is a small table with a lamp on it. The table has six legs that work as real legs to help it move around, allowing it to carry items placed on it as it follows you. However, it’s recommended to not use it as a table. Also, it costs around $30,000.


What do you think about CES 2025 products, announcements, and reveals? Which product are you most excited about going into the new year?

Let us know in the comments below!