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Our CES 2026 Smart Tangibles Digest breaks down the real signals behind the noise in Las Vegas: Matter everywhere, ultra-low-power edge AI, smarter and more secure home entry, and new connected toys and wall panels. Learn what these announcements mean for IoT product strategy, interoperability, and long-lived business models in the smart home and built environment.

Ikea smart-home rotary dial remote control Announcement IKEA j ust announced a full smart-home reboot – A barrage of 21 new Matter -based products launching in parallel. Bulbs, sensors, remotes, plugs – all redesigned, all cheaper, all built on an open source multi-vendor interoperability standard. What is the Matter standard, and why does it matter? Matter is a universal smart-home standard designed to eliminate compatibility problems between devices from different manufa