IFA 2026 Smart Home: LG Wallpaper TV, Pool Robot, AI Bird Feeder — SkimNews
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- LG OLED EVO AI W6 is a new wallpaper OLED TV designed to bolt flush to a wall, with the writer citing its thinness and color quality as reasons it topped his wish list.
- Xiaomi showcased a fully connected smart bedroom where AI cameras recognized a person reading in bed and automatically adjusted the bedside lamp, bed position, AC, and curtains — though the writer drew the line at having cameras watch him everywhere in the home.
- iGulu F1 smart home brewer lets users pour in ingredients for a chosen beer style and handles the brewing autonomously; the writer sampled multiple tasters on the show floor.
- Roborock Rockaqua P1 is the company's first pool-cleaning robot, capable of scrubbing grime from the pool floor and climbing the walls underwater.
- Mova Astra X lawn-mowing robot features a built-in robotic arm designed to pick up garden debris as it mows, and was demonstrated performing a synchronized fan dance on the IFA show floor.
- Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 is a bird feeder with wide-angle cameras and AI that identifies visiting bird species and alerts the owner each time a bird stops by.
- EcoFlow Stream 5000 is a home battery backup that connects to solar panels with a built-in inverter and can be daisy-chained to provide up to several days of home power during outages.
Why it matters: The IFA 2026 show floor pushed toward fully AI-automated home environments — Xiaomi's bedroom demo adjusted lights, bed position, AC, and curtains based on camera-detected activities, while Birdfy and Xiaomi both rely on always-on AI cameras inside the home. The writer's own discomfort with being watched by cameras in the bedroom surfaces a privacy trade-off the broader product category is racing past.
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