CES 2025: The Top Weird And Whacky Tech

While CES is the home to the newest and coolest gadgets and devices coming to the market soon and even bears witness to concept products, quite often people are treated to some seriously weird products that leave attendees and internet folk asking an age-old question—WHY???

This annual consumer electronics show’s 2025 edition also featured a range of products that had people wondering if the product was even asked for, and if it was, what was that extreme unique need that someone had?

On the other hand, not all such products are declared useless. Some of them are really good ideas and unique. However, they too get categorized as “whacky”.

Robot Cleaner

Roborock’s Saros Z70 robot vacuum cleaner was one such product, one that we already mentioned in our Media Day coverage.

To look at, the cleaner looks like any other robot cleaner on the market. Its unique feature is one that’s well hidden, or rather folded, within the cleaner.

The robot comes with an extendable arm that extends outward to pick up obstacles in its path, such as socks or other clothing. That is, as long as the obstacle weighs less than 300 grams. Using its dual cameras, the robot can also be used to organize such objects as the device identifies and places items in their intended designated spots.


The cleaner comes in two variants, where the second one offers an automatic water refill and drainage system.

Whacky definitely but an amazing idea, right? However, the company brought the weird element by displaying a giant version of the cleaner at CES 2025, one that looked big enough to pick up people!

Electronic Spoon

Who ever thought a simple utensil such as a spoon would need to be electric?

Japanese company Kirin Holdings did!

The company introduced a $127 spoon that uses electricity to make food taste saltier (to tackle the rising costs of salt?).

Essentially, it uses a weak electric current to concentrate sodium ion molecules and can be useful to people who need to watch their sodium intake.

AI-Powered Spice Dispenser

Spicerr brought its AI-powered smart spice dispenser to the party.

It’s pretty simple to use—choose your recipe, load its capsules, and the device will auto dispense the required spice using AI to detect how much is needed based on the recipe, or a user can just free style the entire process.

The device holds 6 capsules at a time, which can be swapped for any of the 12 capsules that come with the kit when a customer purchases the device.

The device is currently unavailable, but people interested in spicing up their lives with the power of AI can join the company’s waitlist.

Yukai Engineering’s Cute Engineering

A cute cat-looking gizmo that cools hot food such as soup, that’s what Yukai Engineering’s Nékojita FuFu is about.

Described as a “personal meal partner”, the gadget is useful when one is looking to cool down a child’s meal.

Remember, this is a concept product, and crowdfunding for it will begin in May 2025.


Yukai brought another cute item—Mirumi—a clip-on robot that spontaneously turns around to delight bystanders.

This “mascot robot” is literally designed to recreate the joy of encountering and interacting with a human baby, as it spontaneously turns its head to steal a glance at a nearby person.

Donning baby-ish googly eyes and a whole lot of sensors, some of its moves include turning back its head to hide its face when a person or object suddenly appears or if it’s tapped on the body and shaking its head to say, “No,” when jiggled.

Swippitt’s Battery Swapper

Gaining a notorious reputation for being compared to a toaster, Swippitt’s new product is actually a pretty cool idea. It’s called Hub.

In a bid to keep a user’s phone battery charged up all the time, Swippitt is offering a custom mobile phone case that stores interchangeable external battery packs that charge the user’s phone through a power connector integrated into the case.

Once the external battery runs out, the user inserts it into the toaster-looking device for a swap that takes mere seconds. The Hub manages, charges, and moves 5 extra batteries.

The cost? It starts at $450 with an additional $120 for the phone case = $570 at least.

On the bright side, the company was running a special where users could buy the $450 Hub for $350 if they bought it at CES 2025.

Other Weirdos

Paintcam Eve, which is coming in April 2025, is a security system that uses advanced facial recognition technology to identify humans, pets, and animals—and shoots paintballs at intruders.

Meticulous introduced an espresso machine that features a robotic lever, and 10 digital sensors that monitor water temperature, pressure, flow rate, and the weight of the liquid in the cup—and costs $1,350 for preorders, along with another $250 for its milk steamer.

LG launched AeroCatTower, a stylish cat tower where a customer’s cat can sleep peacefully—which doubles as an air purifier (purr-ifier?).

Razer unveiled a concept gaming chair—which can heat and cool your seat like a fancy car seat.

Meet EcoFlow’s Power Hat, priced at £99—which allows users to charge their phone using solar power.

Add to these two products that we already covered—Zugu’s $1,500 In Case of Death Case that self-destructs an iPad and Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, which can grow from a 14-inch landscape display to a 16.7-inch vertical display with a single button.    

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