San Francisco – January 16, 2026

Amid brain-computer interfaces, glucose-tracking wearables, luxury tech trailers, and AI-enhanced toys and pet gadgets, two explorers from Swissnex wander CES, from maze-like halls to tiki bars, collecting glimpses of a tech-soaked future they’re not sure they love or fear.

The world’s largest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas gives you a glimpse of the world of tomorrow. Within just ten feet, you can go from witnessing Swiss innovation to discovering Japan’s vision of tomorrow.

You hear VCs sealing deals with excited founders, and companies taking notes on one of the hundreds of stages, where great minds try to sell crowds their vision of the future. From speaking on stage to wandering through the maze-like convention halls, to meeting new friends in a Tiki bar, here’s what didn’t stay in Vegas for two curious explorers from Swissnex in San Francisco:

Decoding our Superpowers

Brain-computer interfaces have officially made it out of The Matrix. When speaking with the founders of Neurosoft, the winners of the Deep Tech Battle and fellow Swiss innovators (yes, we’re biased), we learned how greater visibility into brain activity can reveal hidden biomarkers, enable smarter adaptive treatments, and help restore movement or speech for people with neurological disorders.

Even though the Oura Ring was insisting it was time to go to bed, we had to stop by the Ultrahuman booth, where we learned that measuring glucose levels will soon become far more accessible (and way less scary) and how maintaining stable glucose can reduce chronic inflammation.

One floor up, still ignoring our Oura ring notifications, the Nutrix booth introduced the first at-home saliva-based cortisol measurement device. If we had tested it during CES, I’m pretty sure the readings would have betrayed our heightened state of awareness.

Live like a Tech-Queen

From Burning Man to trailer parks, the level of luxury in modern trailers now surpasses that of many aspiring tech founders’ studio apartments in Silicon Valley. And it’s not just the amount of space, but the degree of integrated technology in the new AC Future prototypes was astonishing. Even after growing up in the suburbs, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more lawn mowers and automated pool cleaners than I did wandering the halls of CES. I’m not entirely sure how relevant any of this will be to our collective future, but the sheer scale and spectacle of it all absolutely earned a spot in this blog post.

Everything for Your Little Ones (Furry and Human Alike)

Our mission outside the swisstech booth activities this year was simple: catch a glimpse of the new LEGO smart brick. Unfortunately, it quickly turned into mission impossible, as crowds and press restrictions made it nearly impossible to even spot the tiny block.

That said, we did stumble upon plenty of other curiosities including Luka AI’s Game Boy-like devices that double as museum guides, and smart pet bowls that monitor a cat’s health from AI-Tails.

A world of tech for users who likely didn’t even know they needed these “advancements”. To wrap up CES, we veered off the Strip and grabbed tiki drinks at Glitter Gulch, with our new friends from Baukunst VC’s community and pondered where our love-hate relationship with tech is headed next….