Best of CES 2027: LG’s transparent OLED, wallpaper TV, and record-fast gaming monitor

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Three hundred forty-nine products made the CES 2027 Innovation Awards list. Thirty-eight sit at the top with Best of Innovation honors.

LG’s display division collected three of the wins, one in each of three very different arguments about what a screen should be. A television you can see through took the program’s highest prize in Art Tech. CES 2027 opens January 6 in Las Vegas and runs through January 9, all three will be at LG’s booth, and an LG OLED TV has now carried a Best of Innovation award home from five straight shows.

LG Signature OLED T6: the Best of Innovation winner

Seventy-seven inches of self-lit 4K OLED, 3,840 by 2,160, sits at the center of the T6. For much of the day it isn’t a screen at all.

The panel is transparent. Art, widgets, and media designed for a see-through display run in LG’s T-Objet and T-Entertainment modes, floating over the room behind the glass instead of covering it up.

Press one button and a motorized contrast screen, the T-Shade, rises behind the panel. The room disappears. What comes forward is a standard, high-contrast OLED picture, and that switch is the trick the whole product hangs on: sculpture while it’s idle, serious television the moment a film starts.

Video and audio never touch a cable. A 60GHz Zero Connect system beams uncompressed 4K from a separate box to the panel, power is the only wire the display itself needs, and the modular stand turns the whole set into furniture that happens to show movies.

Price is where the T6 leaves normal television behind. LG sells the transparent Signature line at $59,999, built to order through its own store and a short list of retailers, and nobody comparison-shops a set like this against a 77-inch G-series OLED. The picture was never the point. A normal TV blacks out a room for sixteen hours a day; this one doesn’t, and nothing else on sale does what it does. The first transparent Signature OLED T reached buyers in December 2024 at the same money, sold through LG’s own store, Best Buy, and Video & Audio Center.

Price: $59,999
Where to buy: LG

A second straight Best of Innovation for the T line settles the argument about whether the concept was a trade-show stunt. It wasn’t. Expensive, impractical for most rooms, and still the most interesting television anyone makes.

LG OLED evo AI W7: the wallpaper, second act

Wallpaper TVs live or die on one measurement, how far the set sticks out from the wall. LG’s current W6 panel measures 9.9mm deep, mounts flush, and gets its 4K video and audio from a Zero Connect Box at up to 165Hz, in 77-inch and 83-inch sizes. The W7 picks up an Innovation Award in Video Displays as that design’s next generation, and everything LG has said so far points the same direction: thinner, cleaner, fewer reasons to notice the hardware at all.

Ultra-slim construction runs through every component this time, panel, main board, and speakers alike. The wireless link carries video and audio without loss or delay.

On top sits LG’s latest agentic AI, built to learn what a household wants from its TV and get there before anyone digs through a settings menu. Sizes and pricing aren’t public, and LG holds the full details until January 4.

So the W7’s real question stays open until Vegas. The W6 already solved the disappearing act. What nobody knows yet is whether the AI layer adds anything that a flush panel and a clean install don’t.

LG UltraGear 25G590B: 1,000Hz, no asterisks

Refresh-rate claims usually hide fine print, a headline number that only exists at a cut-down resolution. The 25G590B skips that game entirely. Its 24.5-inch Fast IPS panel runs a native 1,000Hz at the full 1,920 by 1,080, a world first for a gaming monitor, and an overclock mode pushes on to 1,100Hz.

Keeping up is the expensive part, and it isn’t the monitor. The top modes want DisplayPort 2.1, Windows 11, and a current high-end graphics card, an RTX 50-series or a recent Radeon, before the panel shows everything it’s got.

LG priced the 25G590B at $999.99 when it went on sale in the US in August, and that figure reframes the award. A thousand dollars for a 24.5-inch 1080p screen is steep by any ordinary measure. Competitive shooter players, the audience this thing was built for, pay for milliseconds instead of inches. Against the 480Hz and 720Hz esports panels around it, this is the speed ceiling, and ceilings always cost.

Price: $999.99
Where to buy: Amazon

Three displays, three different arguments

Side by side, the three winners argue three different futures. The T6 says a TV should behave like furniture. The W7 says it should vanish into the architecture. The 25G590B says a display is a weapon, and speed is the only spec worth printing in bold.

LG’s full award details land January 4, two days before the doors open. The T6 will stop the most foot traffic in the hall.

The monitor is the one people will actually buy.

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