Berlin's IFA trade show is often dominated by appliances, home audio, smart home, and other consumer tech. But last year's show saw the launch of Intel's Lunar Lake silicon and lower-cost Snapdragon X Plus chips from Qualcomm, proving IFA can also be a show about new PCs and platforms. The trade show is also a great chance to go hands-on with cutting-edge consumer tech that, while it may not be at the core of what we typically cover, has the potential to make our day-to-day lives a lot more convenient and enjoyable.
So we descended on Berlin once again, and quickly found ourselves immersed in demos and product displays of all kinds, from rotating laptop screens to gaming laptops designed to do double duty as serious workstations, and monitors that push the boundaries of speed and vibrancy at the same time.
AI was still a major buzzword for most companies, but this year it feels even more in your face, as companies are applying AI to everything from laptop docks to pizza ovens to stair-climbing vacuum cleaners.
As ever, there was a lot of new hardware on display at IFA to get excited about, giving us a glimpse of what to expect in the near and not-so-near future. We've gathered the best of what our editors saw at IFA below. What new products and announcements are you most excited about from the show? Let us know in the comments.
