CES Unveiled, the official media event for CES, continued its tradition last night at CES 2025. Typically, three evening media events headline the first nights of CES, which starts a few days early for journalists, bloggers, podcasters, and influencers.
Unveiled, hosted by the organizers of CES, is the first of those. This event, where companies who choose to pay an extra exhibiting fee try to get ahead of the news cycle, is more of a preview of CES than a “best of” exposition (that’s tonight, at PEPCOM’s Digital Experience).
This year’s Unveiled included the usual suspects—plenty of startups looking for visibility, companies with gadgets and gizmos promising to make your future life easier, a few big names dropping largely iterative or otherwise head-scratching product announcements, a handful of products reanimated from last year’s CES that still haven’t gone to market, and, of course, AI in nearly everything. AI lawnmowers, AI glasses and earbuds, AI health monitors, and even an AI NAS. For some reason.
We largely cover home entertainment and automation technology here, so that’s what caught our eye. Here are a few of the things we noticed.
Yarbo. Yarbo is a modular yard work robot, consisting of a central roving core and modular attachments that can mow grass, blow leaves, or clear snow from your property. It recharges on an inductive pad/dock.

Schlage. Long-time lock maker Schlage announced the new Arrive line, an economical smart deadbolt with a keypad sporting physical buttons and keyway. It supports Google and Amazon’s ecosystems, but not Apple’s. Then today, the day after Unveiled, they also announced a new keyless (their first) deadbolt featuring Matter, UWB, and WiFi. This was not available to see at the Unveiled event.

Current Backyard. The maker of the impressive Current outdoor electric grill and griddle, Current Backyard, introduced a new electric pizza oven. The Current Model P promises to cook a full Neapolitan pizza in 2 minutes and can be used inside and out.
Lutron. For years, Lutron has offered automated honeycomb and roller shades compatible with its Caséta smart home ecosystem. However, this year, they’re announcing new (?) Caséta-branded honeycomb and roller shades with a relatively inexpensive ($399) starting price and simplified pricing structure. They’re available today, on Lutron.com only, in basically two colors—white and gray. We’re not really sure what problem they think they’re solving with this latest…iteration given that they continue to offer the previously mentioned Serena shades, and those remain compatible with Caséta.

There was lots more, but nothing there that struck as earth shattering or revolutionary. But of course, there’s much more CES to come….
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