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The 13 best ideas, products and services of CES 2025 | The DeanBeat

The CES 2025 tech trade show is finally over in Las Vegas, after a grueling six days for me and crowds that numbered 141,000.

As one of 6,000 journalists at the show, I walked around a lot to find the coolest tech. At or ahead of CES 2025, I recorded dozens of press events, interviews, and sessions. My conclusion? The robots are coming. And I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. OK, maybe just a few of them.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.