The 4 Coolest Gadgets And Innovations I've Seen At Ifa 2025 (and That You Can Actually Buy)

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IFA is Europe's largest user electronics show, and this twelvemonth is nary different. IFA 2025 features immoderate of nan astir eye-catching innovations ever, truthful overmuch truthful that it's difficult to constrictive down nan database of astonishing products.

However, astatine a clip erstwhile nan tech world is saturated pinch artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, I recovered nan truth that nan champion products I've seen don't hinge connected AI. As I locomotion done nan halls of Messe Berlin, these are nan champion products I've seen and nan ones I'm decidedly going to watch.

1. Philips Hue MotionAware via Bridge Pro

One of nan coolest things I've seen astatine IFA is Philips Hue giving existing smart lights nan expertise to go mobility detectors for your smart home. Philips Hue conscionable announced nan caller Hue Bridge Pro, a caller smart hub for its Hue smart lights that has a 5 times faster processor and tin grip up to 150 Philips Hue lights successful your home.

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The caller Bridge Pro besides supports up to 4 MotionAware setups, truthful you tin group a group of Hue lights to activity together arsenic a mobility detector. Seeing this successful action, I was impressed astatine really a group of Philips Hue lights tin beryllium group up together, on pinch nan Bridge Pro, to observe mobility by recognizing changes successful nan wireless signals astir them.

This benignant of exertion sounds futuristic, yet Philips Hue managed to not only make it hap but besides make it disposable for nan immense mostly of its existing smart lights, excluding nan first-generation and portable lights.

2. Rokid Smart Glasses

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The Rokid Glasses are shaping up to beryllium 1 of Meta's biggest competitors successful nan smart glasses market. Rokid's latest glasses harvester augmented reality (AR) pinch AI, pinch nan capacity of showing you information and letting you interact pinch an AI assistant. As an AI wearable, nan glasses support real-time translator successful 89 languages, entity recognition, navigation, transcription, and more.

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These glasses are besides amazingly lightweight and thinner than different models, weighing only 1.7 ounces, which makes them a compelling action for all-day wear. Even astatine this weight, nan Rokid Glasses person a built-in 12MP camera for taking first-person photos and videos and integrated audio to interact pinch nan GPT-5-powered AI adjunct aliases simply perceive to your favourite music.

The glasses are disposable connected Kickstarter and person surpassed nan $1 cardinal milestone for pledges. Rokid plans to waste nan Rokid Glasses for $599.

3. Ecovacs X11 Omnicyclone

Ecovacs X11 Omnicyclone robot vacuum and mop

Aside from being nan longest-lasting robot vacuum and mop, nan Ecovacs X11 Omnicyclone is besides nan first mainstream premium robot to characteristic automatic cleaning without a replaceable particulate bag. This robot vacuum tin lavation and barren its mop roller astatine nan dock and automatically quiet its dustbin erstwhile full.

The biggest invention astir this is that it empties nan dustbin into a integrative particulate canister astatine nan dock alternatively of relying connected particulate bags. This intends that you'll ne'er person to bargain different dustbag for this robot vacuum, and tin alternatively simply quiet retired nan particulate canister erstwhile afloat aft a fewer weeks.

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Combining a ample 6,400mAh artillery and GaN exertion astatine nan dock, nan X11 Deebot tin quickly recharge each clip it goes to nan dock to lavation its mop pad, refill its cleanable h2o tank, and quiet its dustbin, gaining up to 6% of complaint successful only 3 minutes. This PowerBoost exertion lets nan robot cleanable a whopping 10,700 quadrate feet without stopping owed to debased battery, making it a reliable solution to cleanable ample areas.

The robot is besides 1 of nan smartest I've ever seen. Its sound adjunct tin interact pinch nan personification to reply setup questions, reappraisal troubleshooting guides, and grip analyzable commands.

Thanks to nan improved TruEdge 3.0 technology, nan mop roller tin besides scope nan separator of floors alongside walls aliases nether cabinets.

4. Olight Ostation 2

I was impressed pinch nan Ostation artillery charger astatine CES earlier this year, but Olight conscionable upped nan ante pinch nan Ostation 2, which automatically charges some AA and AAA batteries.

My family goes done much batteries than I'd for illustration to publically admit, truthful I've been looking astatine rechargeable artillery stations to make nan move to a much eco-friendly solution. The biggest problem pinch these is that they typically only complaint 1 benignant of battery, either AA aliases AAA, truthful you'd person to bargain abstracted stations to get some types of batteries recharged.

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The Ostation 2 solves this pinch a charging dock that tin grip some AA and AAA rechargeable batteries, tin of holding 12 of each. You don't moreover person to interest astir lining up nan artillery conscionable correct -- simply driblet it into 1 of nan slots and nan Ostation 2 will recharge it and merchandise it into a sorted tray erstwhile done. This position protects rechargeable batteries from overcharging by releasing nan relationship erstwhile nan artillery is full.