CES 2025: Venetian Expo Show Floor

Article by Angie Kibiloski

Now that I’ve discussed all 3 of the media-exclusive product showcases of CES 2025 in previous articles, it’s time to tackle the main event, starting with the show floor of the Venetian Expo. The Venetian is my preferred CES venue, with its spacious exhibit halls and product categories that suit my interests, like health, home, fitness, and food tech. It feels more laid back than the LVCC, and far easier to traverse. I’m going to highlight just a few of the cool products I saw while roaming Halls A-D, but there were so many more that I could talk about at length, if I had more time and space. I hope to be able to provide full reviews in the coming months, on several of the products I mention below, and some others that didn’t make the cut for this particular article.

Beatbot is a name you likely recognize if you’ve ever shopped for smart pool cleaning robots, and they did come out with a cool new AI-driven model this year, but what I want to highlight is something a little different. Beatbot is putting the finishing touches on a prototype for ecological research, preservation, and disaster response, the Amphibious RoboTurtle. This little robot works similarly to their pool cleaning devices, using sensors and smart AI algorithms to detect impurities in the water and maneuver around obstacles, but instead of only moving across land, it can seamlessly transition to swimming on the water surface or at depths as well. It also looks and moves like a small sea turtle, so it’ll unobtrusively blend in with other sea life and leave delicate underwater ecosystems undisturbed. Using biometric tracking and monitoring of various elements in the water environment, RoboTurtle will be able to assist ecologists and preservationists in detecting levels of hazardous materials, keeping an eye on the health of a biome, and monitoring endangered species. It’s solar powered, so it will produce a minimal carbon footprint while doing its part to monitor and detect critical environmental situations in our waterways. Any advancement in environmental protection technology is a win in my book, but when it looks like a cute little sea turtle, that’s a bonus. The RoboTurtle is still under development, and will be available to environmental agencies and conservation researchers in the next couple of years, but you can learn more about Beatbot‘s consumer line of pool cleaning robots with similar sensors and AI-powered maneuverability at Beatbot.com.

The Roborock Saros Z70 is a very cool new robotic vacuum and mop, with a little arm that comes out of the top to pick up discarded items off the floor and put them back where they belong. I watched it roll up to a sock on the ground, extend its pincher-ended arm to grasp the sock, roll on over to a clothes hamper to deposit it, then retract its little arm and continue on with its vacuuming duties. I need this robot in my cluttered life! The OmniGrip foldable arm has 5-axis hinges for great maneuverability and retracts flush within the disk-shaped body when not in use. Together with AI-powered sensors that can recognize items you’ve taught it to detect, it can pick up small things like socks, towels, trash, and light-weight shoes, and move them to the spots you’ve designated for each type of item. First, the Saros Z70 will vacuum or mop around the space without removing items, performing its base cleaning functions while taking note of where it sensed obstructions. Then, it will go back and pick up any items that it found before doing a final vacuuming or mopping run across all the spots that were blocked by items, to finish its full area cleaning job. Like all of their models, it will then trundle itself back to its docking station to charge up for its next session. Robotic vacuums are pretty standard now, but with its extendable arm capable of providing that little extra bit of tidying up, Roborock‘s Saros Z70 is a step above the rest, and you can welcome one into your home later this year.

Last year I highlighted a great tower fan and air purifier combo from DREO, the MC710S, which I went on to review with stellar results, so this year I’m pleased to see them add to their home comfort series with the MC706 2-in-1 Tower Heater & Fan. This slim tower-style model easily fits in any space, at 42.46″ tall and 12.9″ wide, and is easily movable at just 13.46 lbs. Its 12 fan speeds will keep you cool in the summer, with the fastest wind speed on a DREO model yet, at a max setting of 29.2 ft./s of air flow reaching up to 40 feet away, and a customizable oscillation arc up to 120° in width. When you need to warm things up instead, switch with one touch from cooling to heating, and enjoy 75° F warm air in just 2 seconds, with a further max heating temp of 95° F across 5 heat levels. Speed, temp, and oscillation settings can be adjusted on the tower itself or with the remote, but more features and settings can be controlled by pairing with the DREO app, like a timer and more precise oscillation range. There’s no need for concern over fire danger with this space heater, as features like tip-over detection and overheat protection in their 8-layer Shield360° system will keep you and your home safe. This model lacks the air purification of some of their fans, and the humidification of some of their heaters, but maybe we can hope for an all-in-one device sometime in the future. Judging from my experience with their other quality home tech products, the MC706 2-in-1 Tower Heater & Fan at just $169.99 is definitely worth taking a closer look at, and potentially adding to your own home.

I hate ironing clothes, but using a steamer as an alternative can be ineffective, time consuming, and leave water spots on clothes. The Neakasa Magic 1 Vacuum Steamer seems to solve all of these issues, while remaining safe, portable, and very user friendly. The Magic 1 outputs a powerful ultra-fine mist, which steams through your fabric with ease without spitting out water droplets, while at the same time its vacuum nozzle with AirIron technology smooths the wrinkles out of your fabric, along with any residual water using 2300Pa of suction. No more waving your steamer up and down your clothing for long minutes, hoping the wrinkles will eventually fall away, then waving the fabric around when it’s left too damp to wear. Just one swipe of the Magic 1 and your clothes are wrinkle and moisture free. The vacuum element also means that you can steam one-handed, since the nozzle will grab and hold onto your clothing with gentle suction so you don’t need to anchor the fabric with your other hand, and risk getting your skin in the way of hot steam. The steamer/vacuum combo is great for all fabric types, but if you’d prefer to be extra careful with your more delicate fabrics like silk, you can turn off the vacuum function and use it like a traditional steamer. It’s great for everyday use at home, quickly heating up in just 30 seconds so you can go about the rest of your day, but especially perfect for travel at just 8.9″ long and super lightweight. Discover the joy of a wrinkle-free closet with Neakasa‘s Magic 1 Vacuum Steamer for just $149.99.

Flashlights might not seem like exciting bits of tech, but Olight has so many models with extra useful features, super bright bulbs, and attractive designs, they make this staple utility tool pretty fun. Their newest flashlight is the Oclip Pro, a small device that can stand on its own magnetic base, hang from a lanyard, or clip to your shirt, backpack, or anything else thin enough to fit between its hinge. This powerful little light has 3 modes for different situational needs, a 500-lumen white flood light for lighting up a room, a spotlight with a 120-meter range for focused tasks, and a red light for easier night vision, all of which can be easily rotated through with the dial on the side. There are 5 brightness levels in the white flood light setting, a flashing SOS mode when you need to signal your whereabouts, and a quickly toggled turbo brightness level when you need maximum intensity immediately. Made from durable aluminum alloy, the Oclip Pro can travel with you anywhere you choose to trek, and with 144 hours of battery life on a single charge from its dust and water-resistant USB-C port, it’ll last even on long adventures. Check out the Oclip Pro for $39.99, or any of Olight‘s previous flashlight models at OlightStore.com. I also found the Baton 4 Premium with charging case to be especially cool.

ColdSnap is a single-serve ice cream maker that functions similarly to a Keurig, by using small can-shaped pods to quickly produce delicious bowls of creamy frozen treats in minutes. It fits on a countertop, though it’s about twice the size of a Keurig, so you’ll need a fairly large countertop. Beyond ice cream, ColdSnap also has pods for smoothies, protein shakes, lattes, and boozy concoctions, with zero sugar and non-dairy alternatives, and more options on the way. The can pods themselves are shelf-stable and don’t need to be kept cold, and the ColdSnap machine is designed so that no element ever touches the consumable ingredients, so it doesn’t need to be cleaned between flavors or sessions. I sampled the chocolate flavor at their booth and it was some of the creamiest ice cream I have ever had. The fat and sugar content was quite a bit higher than I’m comfortable with, but they’re launching a more health-conscious line of pods this year, like their all-natural, zero-sugar Passionate Mango Smoothie, for those of us who need to watch things like that but still like to enjoy a nice frozen treat. While ColdSnap is mainly designed for the commercial market, like stadiums, convention centers, universities, and restaurants, their new Early Adopter program gives select consumers the chance to access home versions and provide feedback. If you own a small business and want to try out the ColdSnap with no obligation to buy, you can get one for a Trial period, and be sent the machine with 24 pods for 10 days, to see if you want to invest the $3,000 to own one. If you just want to purchase, go on to the store and order one today.

Jumping into at-home health tech, the Biopop Elixir aims to bring blood-based biometric health data, typically only accessed through a laboratory blood draw, into your hands at home without the need for needles or an office visit. This baseball-sized, hand-held scanner measures light absorption and reflection using Near-Infrared light, to analyze your blood right through your skin for easy, accurate, painless screening of your vitals from home, with the tap of a button and the touch of a sensor. Most of us think about our blood analysis once a year when we get our annual exam lab work done, but many people need to continuously monitor their health through finger pricks and blood tests. Devices like the Elixir can revolutionize this process for people, making it so much more convenient and less invasive, as well as providing instant results instead of waiting to hear from your lab. There’s app integration, to keep track of your results over time, and help provide you with tips for overall health and ways to improve your stats. Elixir will launch to market with just a glucose level sensor, but will shortly after be expanded to include other biomarkers and health indicators via remote firmware updates. Of extra interest is Biopop‘s plan for optional blockchain integration, allowing you to anonymously record your data on-chain to be easily accessed by you or any future healthcare providers regardless of their internal data sharing systems. This data will be interoperable, immutable, and secure, and most importantly yours to control. The Elixir isn’t out yet, but you can read a little more on Biopop‘s site, including their whitepaper outlining their immediate and future plans for development and blockchain implementation.

That’s where we’re going to leave the Venetian Expo product highlights for now. If any of these items sounded interesting to you, follow the links in their respective paragraphs to learn more about them, or go ahead and order them for yourself. I’m hoping to bring you full reviews of several of these products in the very near future, and others that I haven’t had space to mention. If this is your introduction to my CES 2025 coverage, I recommend going back and reading my product highlights from the 3 major media-only events: CES Unveiled, Pepcom’s Digital Experience, and ShowStoppers. Then, stay tuned for my coverage of the LVCC show floor very soon.