The 11 most exciting tech trends of 2025, according to CES 2025

A postcard from the near future, courtesy of CES 2025

11 Jan 2025, 12:05 · TechRadar

News By Mark Wilson published 11 January 2025

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CES 2025 is over, and a frazzled TechRadar team has returned with strange memories of weird furry robots and light therapy face masks. Yes, CES can be an odd place, but it's also a reliable taster of the kinds of gadgets and tech trends we're likely to see in the year ahead – so we've gathered all the big ones here in one handy place.

Don't worry; it won't all be about AI. In fact, we've left that out of this list, given that everyone, bar uncontacted Amazon tribes, knows that AI will be baked into every product under the sun in 2025 – despite the lack of breakout CES stars like the Rabbit R1 at this year's show.

Instead, we've focused on the trends we think will make the most difference to the average tech fan. That means advances in TV tech (like wireless connection boxes and RGB backlighting), fascinating laptop screen innovations, and the rapidly growing world of smart glasses.

It's not all mainstream tech ideas, though, as we also shine a light on the gadgets coming to boost our coffee drinking and the lives of our furry friends in 2025. So take a break from your floundering New Year's resolutions for a moment and join us on a ride through this year's biggest tech trends, as predicted by CES...

1. RGB backlighting is the future of TVs

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Robots try to steal the limelight, but TVs have always been at the heart of CES. And this year's show's most significant TV trend was undoubtedly RGB backlighting tech for LCDs.

Naturally, the tech giants all have their own confusing names for this technology, with Hisense, Samsung, and TCL all showing off their versions at CES 2025. But all you need to know is that it's a new twist on making LCD TVs that will make them even brighter or at least more power efficient at the same brightness.

Currently, most mini-LED backlights use a grid of blue LEDs, which pass through a color filter to create the final picture. Instead, RGB backlights (as the name suggests) use red, green, and blue backlights, which means the color filtering layer does much less work and allows the brightness to shine through.

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