Narwal is heading to IFA with three new cleaning products that span two very different categories: two robot vacuum and mop combos, plus a compact cordless stick vacuum. The new Narwal Freo 20 and Freo 20 Edge bring the company’s continuously self-cleaning FlowWash track-mop approach to lower price points, while the V50 Cube features a small, hands-off auto-empty dock that also stores its accessories.
The $149.99 beyerdynamic AVENTHO Y is a new wireless over-ear headphone introduced at IFA 2026 for people who want one pair to handle music, work calls, travel, gaming, and the daily commute without juggling several sets of headphones. It combines active noise cancellation, more than 90 hours of battery life with ANC turned off, Bluetooth 6.0 multipoint connectivity, app-based sound controls, and replaceable high-wear parts. Four color choices add some personality, while optional gaming accessories broaden its usefulness. The idea is straightforward: make one everyday headphone flexible enough to follow you from morning coffee to a late-night game.
Big-screen projectors have long asked homeowners to choose between cinematic scale and a living room that still feels like a living room. The XGIMI AURA 3 Series, debuting at IFA 2026, targets that compromise head-on. The new AURA 3 Max and AURA 3 Pro are ultra-short-throw 4K projectors that sit close to the wall, support native 120Hz playback, and use RGB triple-laser light engines. More interestingly, XGIMI is putting equal emphasis on contrast, gaming, built-in sound, and day-to-day usability, rather than treating projection as something reserved for dark rooms and dedicated home theaters.
Robotic lawn mowers excel at the repetitive parts of yard work, but boundaries, slopes, trees, tight corners, and uneven ground still expose their limitations. The MAMMOTION LUBA 4 AWD is designed to spend less time being confused by those problem areas. Introduced for IFA 2026, the new flagship series combines four cameras, 360-degree LiDAR, high-precision satellite positioning, all-wheel drive, and wider cutting decks for lawns ranging from 0.75 to 3 acres. It also adds optional automated edge trimming, because mowing most of the lawn still leaves you holding a trimmer.
Govee is using IFA 2026 to push smart lighting deeper into AI territory with the Govee Sky Ceiling Light, COB Strip Light 2 Pro, COB Strip Light 2, and Permanent Outdoor Lights 2 Pro. Govee’s pitch is simple: AI Lighting Bot 2.0 lets you describe the mood, color palette, or lighting effect you want in ordinary language instead of hunting through menus and sliders. That could make smart lighting less fiddly, assuming the software interprets requests reliably. The real test is whether AI makes these products easier to live with, not merely more interesting to demo.
At John Deere‘s media day at the Agriculture Innovation Lab at Iowa State University, the headline was JD, the new AI assistant inside Operations Center. But an assistant is only as good as what it knows, and the more interesting half of the day was spent on the machines that do the knowing. Boom height sensors, cameras buried in the seed trench, combines that read the field ahead and decide how fast to drive. This is the layer underneath the announcement, and it is the part that explains why Deere increasingly resembles a technology company that happens to build tractors.
Houseplants are remarkably good at making a room feel alive, right up until one starts drooping for reasons that seem deliberately mysterious. PlantSenso, from Shenzhen-based SoildTech, is a small AI-powered plant companion designed to turn those murky signals into something easier to understand. The device sits in a pot, monitors soil moisture, temperature, ambient light, and nutrient levels, and translates what it finds into pixel-art reactions instead of a wall of charts. It’s part sensor, part digital pet, and part reminder that the fern in the corner can’t water itself, no matter how independent it looks.
The POCO F9 Ultra arrives with a spec sheet that suggests restraint never made it onto the meeting agenda. The POCO F9 Ultra packs an 8,050 milliamp-hour battery, a 185-hertz AMOLED display, a 200-megapixel main camera, a 5X periscope telephoto camera, 100-watt wired charging, 50-watt wireless charging, Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon processor, and even an independent subwoofer. That’s a lot of hardware for one phone, but specifications are easy. The more useful question is whether the POCO F9 Ultra turns all those numbers into a phone you’ll enjoy carrying, charging, photographing with, and living with every day.
JMGO is bringing its new IRIS Series projectors to global markets at IFA 2026, led by the $3,499 JMGO IRIS Ultra Max and the $2,399 IRIS Ultra. Both models deliver true 4K@120Hz playback, a combination aimed squarely at gamers, sports fans, and anyone bothered by motion blur on a very large screen. The Ultra Max adds up to 6,500 ISO lumens, 10,000:1 native contrast, optical zoom, extensive lens shift, and a motorized gimbal, while the Ultra trims several specs and $1,100 from the price without abandoning the 120Hz headline feature. That distinction matters here.
Ames, Iowa sits about fifteen miles from Boone, where the Farm Progress Show opens this week, and in the days before the gates opened John Deere brought a group of journalists and content creators to the Agriculture Innovation Lab at Iowa State University to talk about the data collected at their farms and what the future holds for that data. The future, as of this morning, is JD: an artificial intelligence assistant built into John Deere Operations Center that lets a farmer ask a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from their own fields, machines, and records.
You probably know Ohsnap as the folks behind the incredibly thin Snap Grip, or, if you like mobile gaming, you may be familiar with their MCON magnetic gaming controllers. When they see the back of a phone, they see opportunity, and their latest way to maximize that real estate is their new modular Wallet 2, launching on Kickstarter today! We’re all familiar with the “usual” MagSafe wallet setup. Some sort of pouch or small snap-on compartment that holds 2-3 cards. And if you’re being really spicy, maybe a money clip. Ohsnap’s take is to tackle the idea that everyone’s needs and…
Plaud is moving its AI note-taking hardware off the desk and into your ears. The Plaud One Explorer Edition is a $249.99 pair of half-in-ear wireless earbuds with a recording case, built-in 4G LTE, and Plaud’s new Agent software, giving it ambitions well beyond music and phone calls. It can record meetings, calls, conversations, and spoken ideas, then transcribe, summarize, and turn that material into follow-up work. The pitch is simple enough: if much of your work begins with conversation, Plaud wants those conversations to become the starting point for whatever comes next.
You’re a gamer. You need hardware. No, I’m not talking about a PC or an Xbox. I mean the real hardware that will keep you going through your gaming sesh. To that end, Xbox and IKEA brought a collab to Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, and took me for a little tour. All told, nine different products are coming to IKEA shelves, none of which will have written instructions.
Flowtica is extending its smart-pen system beyond recorded meetings with the new Flowtica Scribe + Folio bundle, arriving August 25, 2026. The pairing combines the company’s $159 Scribe recording pen with a $39 refillable notebook whose pages can be photographed, cleaned up, searched, and turned into editable notes or follow-up tasks in the free Flowtica app. It’s aimed at people who still prefer handwriting during meetings but don’t want those notes disappearing into a desk drawer afterward. The idea is simple: keep writing on paper, then give that paper a useful digital afterlife that stays easy to find.
If you have been keeping an eye on countertop kitchen gadgets, Shark|Ninja has been on a run lately. Their latest release, the Ninja Crispi DualZone Countertop Glass Air Fryer, takes the popular dual-zone air fryer concept and swaps out the traditional opaque metal drawers for heavy-duty glass containers. In true Ninja form, the Crispi is full of features and works extremely well.
The DJI Osmo Action 6 brings several useful changes to the action-camera category, including an adjustable f/2.0 to f/4.0 aperture, a new 1/1.1″ square sensor, 8K/30fps recording, and 50GB of usable built-in storage. This Amazon bundle also includes two extra batteries, a 64GB microSDXC card, and a 58-piece accessory kit, so you won’t have to start hunting for mounts and spare power before you’ve shot a single clip. It’s still a small, rugged camera meant to go places your phone shouldn’t, but DJI is giving it enough flexibility to handle far more than bike rides, ski runs, and snorkeling trips.
RayNeo is heading to IFA 2026 with a smart glasses lineup that’s less interested in finding one pair to do everything than in splitting the job three ways. The RayNeo iO Smart Glasses focus on lightweight, glanceable information and translation, while the RayNeo GT and GT Max aim at private big-screen entertainment. A new Pocket TV Pro supplies Google TV and Dolby Vision playback for the GT models. Together, the products cover work, travel, presentations, gaming, and streaming, though each asks you to accept a different balance of weight, visibility, battery life, and price.
Good sleep is a thing to treasure. I’ve never gotten a mattress in a box before, but the SweetNight Coolnest Pro 16-Inch Mattress combines layered foam, cooling fabric, and solid support for comfortable sleep without lingering body impressions overnight. The mattress is excellent; it has multiple layers of materials designed to improve comfort and provide a durable, cool mattress. The layered approach prevents the mattress from being too soft or creating body-shaped divots that are hard to get out of, making it and strong option if you’re in the market.
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to dive into DIY crafting or want to upgrade your current setup, the timing couldn’t be better. Cricut is officially celebrating its 20th anniversary with a massive sale across its lineup of smart cutting machines. Whether you are prepping for the back-to-school rush or getting an early jump on holiday gifting, this milestone Cricut sale makes it an ideal time to pick one up.
On August 11th, 2026, I was invited to a Kickstarter Launch Event in San Francisco for the InfiMaker K1 5-axis CNC, a sleek desktop machine with powerful capabilities for experienced makers and hobbyists alike. I have personally stayed away from things like 3D printers– I’m not creating things to sell on Etsy any time soon. The learning curve seems slightly daunting. I’ve played with laser engravers and copycat CNC routers with varying degrees of frustration. But a 5-axis CNC? No way I’d be able to wrap my head around that. Or could I?
The Volkswagen Smart eBike is bringing a distinctly automotive approach to bicycle safety, pairing rear-facing radar and a camera with connected lighting, optional Smart Glasses, and a crash-detecting Smart Helmet. Developed and produced by n+ under license from Volkswagen, the new eBikes will make their public debut at IFA Berlin from September 4 through 8, 2026, with test rides available on the Mobility Test Track. The idea is straightforward: give riders more information about traffic approaching from behind without forcing them to look away from the road ahead, while making the rider easier for drivers to see.