In all the chaos of 2025, The Verge was able to see through the fog and focus on the consumer technology that really made an impact this year: robot vacuums, thin foldable phones, experimental laptops, handheld gaming consoles, and of course, generative AI. You can watch our standout picks in our video here.
We asked our staff for their 2026 predictions
From home robots to the much-anticipated Apple foldable device, Verge reporters give us their best bets on what to expect in the new year.
From home robots to the much-anticipated Apple foldable device, Verge reporters give us their best bets on what to expect in the new year.
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All this emerging tech is also signifying what to expect in 2026, so we asked Verge staff for their predictions on tech trends we could see in the new year. Will we finally see an Apple foldable device? Are we going to wear more AI hardware on our bodies? Will our homes be occupied by robots with limbs? Will OpenAI ready itself for an IPO? The Verge gives you our best educated guesses about these emerging trends and a few others for this year’s tech trend predictions video.
By the way, we tried this last year, and some of our predictions turned out to be right: an investment in nuclear energy, a focus on AI fitness, and a pullback on EV development. So with that context, maybe you can use our predictions video as a guidebook for tech in 2026.
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