Most dubious uses of AI at CES 2026
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Smart hair clippers that coach you through the perfect fade while you wear a face mask straight out of an eye exam. That's just one of the bizarre AI gadgets flooding CES 2026, where artificial intelligence has been crammed into everything from stick vacuums to sleeping pills.
A startup called SleepQ is hawking "AI-upgraded pharmacotherapy" — essentially using your smartwatch data to tell you when to pop a multivitamin. Meanwhile, the Fraimic picture frame generates AI art on command for $399, complete with 100 yearly image generations, though it might work better without the artificial creativity.
Perhaps most questionable is the Luka AI Cube, an AI chatbot toy for kids that offers conversations with avatars including a chibi version of Elon Musk. When reporters asked one phone manufacturer what made their modular accessories artificially intelligent, company reps eventually admitted the power banks don't actually have any AI at all.
From AI bartenders that guess your sobriety through webcams to microwaves running meal plans, this year's show reveals an industry desperately slapping "artificial intelligence" labels onto products that might work better without the digital enhancement.
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