The Best Gadgets of August 2026

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. It’d be easy to misconstrue August as the calm before the storm when it comes to gadgets. Next month ushers in new iPhones, a deluge of smart home gadgets from IFA 2026, and most likely new smart glasses by way of Meta Connect, which is a lot, to be sure. But just because September is going to be an onslaught doesn’t mean August is a flyover. This month, we ended up with a few fun surprises, including Pokemon tie-ins, flashy robovac updates, and one of the most fun phones we’ve seen in a long time. Here are all the gadgets you may have missed if you were conserving your energy and attention span for September. The Matic isn’t totally new hardware, but an impressive update compels me to put it on this list anyway. Thanks to a new feature called Matic Cues, the Matic robot vacuum gains the ability to act on voice commands. Those commands go beyond your typical “run the vacuum,” too. With Matic Cues, you can spot clean by pointing to a location and saying “clean this.” You can even have Matic’s robot vacuum follow y