IFA 2026 Berlin Will Show Why the Future of AI and Smart Homes Is Already Here, With the Latest Tech From Around the World

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Beginning on September 4 in Berlin, IFA 2026 will focus on one central idea: the technologies said to represent “the future” of consumer electronics already reside in most consumers’ homes. Most smart home devices were purchased without being marketed or sold as artificial intelligence products. Although digital health has become an important part of daily life for millions of consumers, it was once considered a product category available to very few. “The future is not waiting somewhere five or ten years away,” says Leif Lindner, CEO of IFA Management. “It is already in our homes, in our pockets, in our cars, in our health routines.” The greatest illustration of this trend has been in artificial intelligence. In the past, it had an entire exhibit area at a trade show made up entirely of companies and product categories that dealt with AI. Those days have gone. “AI is becoming the new infrastructure of consumer technology,” Lindner says. “It is not one category anymore. It is becoming part of almost every categor