The Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025

Every September, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Berlin for IFA, one of the largest trade tech conferences in Europe. IFA heralds the unofficial start of Techtember, when companies launch products in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. For over 100 years, companies, financiers, and journalists have crossed the Spree and eaten cold liver sausage for breakfast, just to check out the latest innovations in consumer electronics.

This year, those attendees include me and Gear editor Verity Burns. Here are some of the new gadgets and trends, and the funniest things we’ve found.

Updated 9/6/2025, 2am EDT: We've updated this piece with details on We Are Rewind's Boombox, TCL's Playcube projector, Hypershell's new exoskeleton, Samsung's portable Movingstyle TV and Antigravity's 360-degree A1 drone.

Don’t let your tablet dreams die—if you’re an Android user, there’s now an iPad Pro for you. At IFA 2025, Samsung launched the next-gen Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra, which match Apple's iPad Pro in one regard: thinness. Both Apple’s and Samsung’s top-tier tablets are a mere 0.20 inches thick. That's sort of been the theme for 2025, especially with the upcoming iPhone 17 Air. The Tab S11 and S11 Ultra run Android 16 out of the box, have 120-Hz AMOLED displays, and can hit a peak brightness of 1,600 nits. The company also announced a fifth Galaxy S25 phone, the Galaxy S25 FE. This $650 Android phone offers similar specs to the Galaxy S25+, but cuts some corners here and there to bring the price down.

You can read more about Samsung’s new tablets and phones here. —Adrienne So

Rewind is a little French company that makes cassette players that are so gorgeous that artists like Charli XCX collaborate on releases. Next week, the company will release its first boombox, the GB-001. It's an equally beautiful, heavy boombox that plays cassettes, but also offers a full spectrum stereo image (the founders used Marshall speakers as test devices) with separate left and right woofers and tweeters.

You can pair with your phone and use it as a Bluetooth speaker and adjust the EQ right there on the machine. You can also plug in headphones or a mic (there are two backlit VU meters to check your playback) to record live music or use it as a karaoke machine. It's a little heavier than you might expect, but it feels delightful to use and sounds wonderful. Your tape collection deserves a great player, and so do you. —Adrienne So

TCL’s Playcube portable projector that was first spotted as a concept at CES is now a real, working product that’s available to buy.

Measuring just 5.9 x 3.8 x 3.8 inches and weighing 2.7 pounds, its design takes its inspiration from the Rubix cube, not only because of its cube-like design, but because you can twist the side 5W speaker around 90 degrees to help angle the projector lens any way you want—no stand required.

It’s a fully fledged Google TV product with Netflix certification, and while it’s only 1080p, it can create a picture on the fly of up to 150 inches, with auto focusing and keystone correction. It packs 750 ISO lumens and can playback wirelessly for around three hours, with an 30 minutes on the charger getting another hour of run time.

The TCL Playcube offers HDMI and USB physical connections as well as supporting Wi-Fi, with the full roster of Google TV apps and the ability to cast straight from your phone. At $799, it’s pricey, considering its specs, but it is undeniably cute. —Verity Burns

Lenovo debuted a concept laptop that can manually swivel from the standard landscape mode to portrait mode; it’s called the ThinkBook VertiFlex, and it’s perfect for when you need to switch from browsing the web in landscape mode to writing in a document or responding to coworkers in Slack in portrait mode. It’s not currently on sale, but it could be.

Lenovo had several announcements at IFA, like new Android tablets, fresh spec bumps and colors for existing laptops, and even a new gaming PC. But the most notable, outside of the twisty laptop, is pricing and availability news for the hyped up Legion Go 2. Originally teased at CES 2025, this Windows-powered gaming handheld is larger than its predecessor, sports an OLED panel with a 144-Hz refresh rate, has a bigger battery, and Hall effect joysticks. It'll be available in October for $1,049, a $449 price bump from the original.

You can read more about Lenovo’s IFA announcements here. —Julian Chokkattu

Exoskeletons are a strange concept, especially if you're not using it as a medical device. Basically, you need a wearable outdoor exoskeleton if you want to execute a tough outdoor mission but are not sure your poor office worker quads can handle it. If this describes you, then you will love the Hypershell X, which is the lightest and most natural-feeling exoskeleton that I've ever tried (and I've tried several).

Powered exoskeletons can feel janky or even terrifying to use if they jerk your legs in directions or at forces that you're not used to, but the Hypershell X feels remarkably natural. It has an AI-powered algorithm with 12 different sensors, including an accelerometer, a barometer, a gyroscope, and several different temperature sensors, and it weighs a mere 5 pounds. At about 30 percent assistance, it can help you cover about 18 miles, or less at max power if you need to get up some massive hill. It's also rated to -20 degrees Celsius, in case you need just a little help climbing Everest or finishing your bike tour—as long as you have a way to charge it. —Adrienne So

We’ve seen portable projectors, but how about portable TVs? The idea itself isn’t exactly new, LG has been making the StanbyME TV for a couple of years now, but Samsung unveiled its take on the concept at IFA 2025, with its Movingstyle TV.

Mounted on an adjustable stand, the TV can be oriented both in landscape and portrait, taken off the stand and carried with a handle, or propped up on a table using the built-in kickstand. It’s a 27-inch 4K display, but also a touchscreen, so menus on the Tizen operating system can be interacted with directly, instead of via remote.

There is an HDMI and a couple of USB-C ports for hooking up your sources, but also—of course—there are the streaming apps available via the Galaxy Store. Many more details were pretty light but Samsung did say the battery life would last about three hours before needing to be plugged in. Considering the weight of it, I don’t think you’d be lugging it too far anyway, but the flexibility is certainly appealing. Price and availability remain unknown … we’ll update you when we get more. —Verity Burns

Android users, you're getting a few new AI-powered features. First up is AI writing tools baked into Gboard, Google's default keyboard on many Android devices, including Pixel phones. AI-assisted writing features are fairly common now, and now it's a button on your virtual keyboard, ready to revise your tone, improve your grammar, or proofread your copy before you hit send. Google says this data remains on device and is private.

Another cool addition is Audio Sharing, allowing you to pair two LE Audio devices, which use the next-gen Bluetooth standard, to your phone so you and a friend can listen to the same music (or watch the same movie) together via one screen. Sharing audio in general is going to be easier thanks to a new QR code system. You can create a private broadcast, and folks can join by scanning your code.

Google is also deploying its Material 3 Expressive user interface to Pixel 6 phones and newer, now that it's been available on the latest Pixel 10 phones for the past week. (You can read more about it here.) Finally, Google has a fun new tool called Androidify that lets you build your own Android robot by using a selfie and a prompt. It's powered by a mix of Gemini 2.5 Flash, Imagen, and Veo 3 to understand the prompt and caption the photo, generate the bot image, and animate it. Every Friday in September, Google will let you animate your bot into an 8-second video. You can use Androidify via the web or an app. —Julian Chokkattu

Technics has been producing turntables for decades, but it has generally catered to audiophiles and DJs. However, as the popularity of vinyl among a much broader audience shows no sign of stopping, the company has decided to incorporate convenience into its decks: The SL-40CBT is its first turntable with built-in Bluetooth.

Technics hasn't said what Bluetooth codec is supported in the turntable, but it did acknowledge the compression that would take place by listening in this way. It's clearly not the best way to listen to your records, but it does add some flexibility to existing setups, or those with limited space to place speakers close to their turntable.

The SL-40CBT is also beginner-friendly, thanks to a built-in phono stage, making it ready to connect with active speakers right out of the box. This can be bypassed if you prefer, giving buyers an upgrade path to add a separate phono stage or use the one included in their amplifier. The new turntable features an S-shaped aluminum tone arm, Audio-Technica AT-VM95C cartridge, aluminum platter, and minimalistic MDF chassis. It'll launch this month in a choice of black, gray, or terracotta for $899. —Verity Burns

The biggest phones today top out around 6.9 inches, but TCL thinks that's child's play. Its new Nxtpaper 60 Ultra smartphone has a gargantuan 7.2-inch display. Remember phablets? Yeah, this is basically a phablet; it even comes with a stylus!

The highlight of this phone is TCL's Nxtpaper 4.0 technology. The company has been on a crusade for several years, prioritizing a display technology that's easier on the eyes. Nxtpaper screens are matte, anti-glare, and paper-like—I had a pleasant experience with the recent 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G. The 60 Ultra is the first deployment of Nxtpaper 4.0, and it ups the ante. The company claims that the light waves emitted from the phone rotate in a circular motion to mimic natural light, and it's anti-glare, doesn't show reflections, has zero flicker, and reduces blue light. The brightness of the screen can drop as low as 2 nits if it detects dim lighting, and the screen tone will shift to warmer hues as night arrives. All of this is meant to help reduce eye strain and potentially improve sleep.

The 60 Ultra costs €499 (around $582) and will eventually make its way to the US. It's an upper midrange phone, and one of the few at this price with a triple-camera system where one of the cameras is a 50-megapixel 3X zoom telephoto. Also a part of TCL Mobile's announcements was the Nxtpaper 5G Junior, a phone for teens that uses similar Nxtpaper display technology with a Digital Detox Mode to cut out distractions. It costs €249 and goes on sale in Europe this October. —Julian Chokkattu

Roborock, makers of our favorite robot vacuum, launched a few new products under the theme “Rocking Life, Inside and Out.” Roborock’s craziest new robot vacuum, the Saros Z70 with an automated, extendable robotic arm, debuted earlier this year, but the latest is an iteration on one of my personal favorite robot vacuums in the QRevo line. The QRevo Curv 2 Pro's dock has a distinctive curved dome that belies its powerful 25,000 Pa suction, and the vac has a new lifting chassis that helps it get over small obstacles and adapt to different carpet pile heights. (I also appreciate that it’s one of the slimmest robot vacuums on the market.)

The new F25 Ultra is Roborock’s first handheld vacuum that features both steam and hot water cleaning modes, and the company also launched a line of new robotic lawn mowers—the RockMow Z1, RockMow S1, and RockNeo Q1. All three navigate with Roborock’s AI-enabled Sentisphere system, which uses both real-time satellites as well as localized VSLAM (which takes into account relational navigational data, like how many times the wheels have spun) to get under trees and power lines when satellites fail. In my testing, I’ve found Roborock’s navigational systems to be top-tier, and I’m excited to see how they work in a more complicated environment involving trees, power lines, and pet toys. US pricing and availability are still unconfirmed as of the time of launch.

Eufy and Ecovacs, which also make some of WIRED’s favorite robot vacuums, also launched new models, but the most startling one is not currently available. Every year, we say there’s a new robot vacuum that can climb stairs, but the Eufy MarsWalker can actually do it. Well, it's not really a robot vacuum, more like a stairlift for your existing robot vac. Let's say you pair it with the new Eufy Omni S2 vacuum; when it's time to go upstairs, the Omni S2 climbs aboard the MarsWalker, which unfolds its skinny legs for balance and uses its wheels to motor up the stairs, like a mobile, miniature car ramp. We don't have many other details, but it's slated to arrive next year. Expect to learn more at CES 2026.

Neither my colleague Simon Hill nor I have had very much luck with testing the Switchbot as a robot vacuum—Hill found that while the robot vacuum is compact and adorable, it flings itself downstairs, and my tester dragged dog poop all over my house—so it makes sense that the company would try to pivot into a positively bizarre set of product launches. In addition to a new, soft-bodied AI robot pet that recognizes your family members and shows emotions, it also announced the AceMate Tennis Robot. It uses dual cameras, advanced algorithms, and AI to simulate rally play and coach you with performance insights.

Finally, Sir James Dyson was at IFA to announce a new, updated Dyson lineup at IFA 2025. The PencilVac came out earlier this year, but for 2026, Dyson will also have the AI-powered Spot+Scrub robot vacuum that will also mop, a new air purifier, and updates to its flagship line of handheld stick vacuums. The new V16 Piston Animal can detect what type of flooring it is on and has a swappable wet roller head with a wipe-clean mechanism, similar to technologies that we’ve seen before in the Wash G1 and the Dyson Submarine. You can read more about Dyson's new launches here. —Adrienne So

Antigravity, the spin-off brand from 360 camera company Insta360, was demoing its first product at the show—the world’s first 360-degree drone, called the Antigravity A1.

At 249 grams, it falls perfectly under the weight limit that requires a license, and offers 8K resolution video capture through a dual lens setup placed on the top and bottom of the drone’s body. This captures everything that can be seen above and below the drone, but makes the drone invisible in your footage.

You can view all of this in real time through the Immersive Vision goggles, which allow you to look all around you as you fly the A1, and get a full 360-degree experience of whatever the drone can see.

A screen on the front of the goggles lets others get a glimpse at what you’re seeing too, and Antigravity says it will offer a whole host of creative tools that give you a tonne of options for editing your footage after.

The Antigravity grip is how you control the drone, you can simply point in the direction you want the drone to go to have it fly that way. And boy, is it responsive. With a flick of the wrist, I nearly crashed it into the safety netting during my impressive, if slightly disorientating, demo. For this drone noob, more practice is definitely required. —Verity Burns

Urevo, makers of our favorite walking pad, debuted an entire portfolio solution at IFA that the company calls “3 x 8 Wellness.” Basically, your day is broken up into three 8-hour chunks, each of which can be maximized (health-wise, at least) with a different Urevo product. You can stay active while you're at work for 8 hours by walking on a CyberPad. For the second chunk of time, which Urevo calls your Life phase, you might recover by wearing the company's all-new compression and massage boots. Both of these will help you maximize your third chunk of time, which is sleep. You can control and track all of these activities and devices through the Urevo app.

Setting aside how depressing it is that we're expected to spend fully one-third of our lives working at a desk, it is interesting that Urevo has branched out into more wellness devices besides exercise equipment. We fully expect the company to launch an LED mask next.—Adrienne So

RGB LED, RGB Mini LED, even Micro RGB TV … whatever you call it, the latest TV tech that was announced by numerous brands at CES has been very much the talk of IFA too, as it creeps closer to a more mainstream launch. In a behind-closed-doors demo, Sony showed us more of the impressive prototype that we got to see in Japan earlier this year. Once again, it showed off the huge proposed benefits—much higher peak brightness, a wider color gamut, reduced blooming, and improved viewing angles. We saw it up against W-OLED, QD-OLED, and Mini LED, and it certainly appeared to blow them out of the water.

While Sony wasn’t ready to talk numbers, sizes, or very much at all outside of a 2026 launch date, it was keen to highlight the scalability of the tech—and not just to the huge screen sizes we’ve seen demoed so far, but hopefully to something the majority of people can actually imagine having in our homes.

Hisense was ready to show off the start of that, with an 85-inch RGB LED TV on display—the smallest screen we’ve seen yet demoing the tech. We were told to expect a 2026 launch for that one, but if you can squeeze a 100-inch screen into your living room, that now has a release date of October and a price of $20,000, to complement the already available 116UX.

Although announced a couple of weeks ago, Samsung’s 115-inch Micro RGB screen officially launched at the show, and is set to join the current lineup of Samsung TVs before the year is out—just expect prices of around $30,000 when it does. Its big claim is to cover 100 percent of the BT.2020 color space, a huge claim and a world first if true. —Verity Burns

High Dynamic Range (“HDR”) standards aren’t probably what you lie awake at night thinking of, but they have been important stepping stones to the ability for TVs, cell phones, and computer screens to display vivid modern color gamuts in a way that isn’t constantly wonky.

Dolby Vision has been a popular standard when it comes to helping TVs in particular (except Samsung models, which inexplicably never embraced it) look better than ever when showing premium content. Announced earlier this week, Dolby Vision 2 aims to also include motion handling in addition to color, as well as employ what Dolby calls “Content Intelligence” to tweak settings based on content. It can utilize ambient light detection sensors in supported TVs to, say, up the brightness when you’re watching dark shows in the daytime. Not to remind folks of a show they’ll probably never rewatch, but standards like this mean we may never have a “Battle of Winterfell is too dark” problem again. —Parker Hall

Everyone in the wearables space is acutely aware that Apple’s hardware event is in just a few days. There’s a palpable rush to launch new wearables before the next iteration of the category-defining Apple Watch. Earlier this week, Polar announced the Polar Loop, a screen-free fitness tracker wearable that looks remarkably (and unfortunately) like the Whoop MG. Unlike the Whoop, it doesn’t require a pricey monthly subscription, but the health metrics are quite limited (no Afib, no blood pressure monitoring). Garmin also announced the new Fenix 8 Pro, which is the first Garmin watch with satellite communication (that also costs a cool $2,000).

At IFA, Withings launched the next version of the ScanWatch 2, a long-time WIRED favorite for its long battery life, classy analog good looks, and comprehensive health tracking. The upgraded ScanWatch 2 has a new operating system, HealthSense 4, with advanced algorithms that will use predictive AI to anticipate health events, like getting sick or when your period is coming. The best of these new features will be paywalled behind the monthly Withings+ subscription, which also includes the AI-powered, personalized Health Assistant and Cardio Checkup. Budget brand

Amazfit also announced a new fitness tracker, the T-Rex 3 Pro, which is now on sale for $399. The latest iteration of the company’s outdoor sports watch now has, in addition to dual-band GPS and a sapphire glass screen, a Garmin-like flashlight, and a built-in speaker and mic. —Adrienne So

Philips Hue, makers of some of our favorite smart lighting, had a host of announcements at IFA this year. The long-awaited Philips Hue Bridge Pro has arrived to deliver faster performance, more device support, and Hue MotionAware to enable existing Hue lights (95 percent of the range) to work as motion sensors. (You need at least three lights for this feature to work.) The Bridge Pro supports Ethernet but can now operate over Wi-Fi, and you can migrate your existing devices and settings from an old bridge.

The new Philips Hue Essential range is simpler and more affordable, and the refreshed Ambiance range includes A19 bulbs with Matter and Thread support (though Hue remains committed to Zigbee), several new lightstrips for indoors and outdoors, and the headlining Philips Hue OmniGlow Strip Light, which goes up to 900 lumens per meter and features a spot-free gradient with densely packed LEDs.

The Hue Secure range gets a new Hue Secure Video Doorbell, Smart Chime, and a new 2K wired camera. The doorbell offers 2K video, can act as a motion sensor to trigger Hue lights, and has two-way audio. The Smart Chime plugs into any outlet and offers a siren to scare intruders away. Most significantly for loyal Sonos fans—and hot on the heels of Sonos parting ways with Ikea—Philips Hue announced a partnership with the home audio brand, so you can now use Sonos Voice Control to turn lights on and off and adjust brightness.

Another favorite smart light maker, Govee, has recently launched a new line of outdoor smart lighting. The IP68-rated Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism is designed to be permanently fixed to your home, ideally under the eaves, and features three LEDs on each point, empowering you to light up your home with the exact color, gradient, or animated lighting effect you want. You can remote control them from the feature-packed Govee app on your phone, and they can be cut, spliced, and extended to cover your roofline precisely. We loved the original version of these, and they are ideal for the holidays, saving you from the peril of climbing that ladder to hang your Christmas or Halloween lighting. —Simon Hill

Soundcore’s Nebula X1 Pro has to be one of the most fun things I've laid my eyes on at the show. It merges the superb portable Anker Nebula X1 projector (Soundcore's parent brand) into a 30-inch-tall party speaker, complete with removable surround sound speakers and a 160-watt subwoofer.

Those satellites come in two pairings—a pair of 80W speakers that fold out to the left and right of the speaker in a “soundbar” mode, but can also be removed and placed where you want around the room, while a pair of 40W speakers work as rears. The placement of these can all be configured and perfected in the Anker app, and when you’re done, they store away in the speaker itself—as does a remote and two karaoke mics.

The Nebula X1 Pro will launch on Kickstarter at the end of this month, with availability expected in March 2026. The earlybird price for Kickstarter backers is $2,999, but if you put down a $100 deposit before September is out, you'll get $500 off. —Verity Burns

Many of the best power banks are made by Anker, but the company is not resting on its laurels. The new Prime Power Bank offers a total maximum output of 300 watts, with a whopping 26,250-mAh capacity that brings it in just under the limit for flights. This power bank can also recharge fast with a dual port input, enabling it to hit 80 percent in just 35 minutes. There’s also a crazy Prime Docking Station that has 14 ports in one and can connect three displays at up to 8K, 4K, and 4K resolution. Anker also showed off a 160W charger that’s perfect for a MacBook, iPad, and iPhone, and a new 3-in-1 that supports Qi 2.2 for up to 25-watt wireless charging, and has spots for an Apple Watch and AirPods. —Adrienne So

With many European governments pushing for a switch to heat pumps instead of fossil fuel heating, anything that makes them easier to install, cheaper to run, and longer-lasting is a boon for adopters. Tado’s partnership with Panasonic aims to do exactly that by offering Panasonic Aquarea customers potential savings on their bills, room-by-room control, and a hydraulic balancing system that doesn’t require valve replacement or plumbing work.

​Tado makes a heating control system that allows you to set schedules and heat individual rooms by fitting radiator thermostats and a central hub to heating systems. I tested its previous system, Tado Wireless Smart Thermostat V3+, with my gas central heating and found it very handy. The new and improved Tado X system brings more to the table.

The new optimization feature, Aquarea Sync, is free for Panasonic customers and allows for up to 10 percent reduction in flow temperatures, a decrease in short cycling, and the ability to boost heat in the rooms that need it. It’s available now for folks with a Tado Heat Pump Optimiser X connected to a Panasonic heat pump.

From November, Tado is also rolling out hydraulic balancing, which aims to ensure that heat reaches every room that requires it by dynamically adjusting radiator valves. Currently, many large heating systems have radiators that heat up quickly, and some at the end of the piping system that never get particularly warm because the water has already cooled down by the time it gets there. Hydraulic balancing combats this and is a mandatory requirement for folks to claim government subsidies in countries like Germany, though not in the UK. It will also be free for Panasonic Aquarea and Tado X customers and available as part of Tado’s Auto Assist subscription (£4 or 4 euros per month) for everyone else. —Simon Hill​

Accessory maker Scosche had a few nifty releases. The new Scosche MagicMount supports the very latest Qi2.2 standard, enabling phones like Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL to connect magnetically and charge wirelessly at a faster 25-watt rate (the previous limit was 15 watts), and the unlosable FoundIT Car Charger has built-in tracking functionality by supporting both Apple Find My and Google Find Hub. It plugs into your car charging port and sports a three-month battery, alongside USB-A (12W) and USB-C (20W) ports. —Simon Hill

Reolink makes some of the best outdoor security cameras, and the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera packs tons of features. This is a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera that must be hardwired, and it boasts adjustable dual floodlights that can go up to 3,000 lumens, with a white light temperature of 3,000K to 6,000K.

The dual-lens camera combines a wide-angle lens that goes up to 4K with a telephoto lens offering 6X hybrid zoom. It can also track subjects 360 degrees and boasts a passive infrared (PIR) sensor with a 270-degree detection zone, enabling it to rotate to track any action even when it’s not in frame. You can insert a microSD card (up to 512 GB) for local recording, use Reolink’s NVR or Home Hub, or configure your own NAS server (RTSP and ONVIF are supported).

The company also unveiled new features for its recently announced ReoNeura AI engine, which enables AI video search for your recorded footage, so you can search terms like “man in black hoodie” or “red car,” potentially saving time. Smart detection can identify people, animals, vehicles, bikes, and parcels, and enables you to track deliveries. There’s also video captioning to offer natural-language summaries of your videos, so you don’t always have to watch them. —Simon Hill

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