From Self-Emptying Vacuums to Perfect Pizzas, Level Up Your Smart Home With Some of the Top Tech at IFA 2023

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BERLIN—IFA 2023 has garnered some exciting innovations for the smart home.

Now in its 99th year, the IFA consumer electronics and home appliances trade show occupies close to 140,000 square feet of floor space at the sprawling Messe Berlin exhibition hall. With more than 2,000 vendors from nearly 50 countries showing off their wares, including 350 startups, there's quite a lot to see at this year's show.

Minus Apple, which generally sits out trade shows like IFA and CES, almost all the big names in tech are in Berlin for IFA, including Samsung, LG, Hisense, Honor, TCL, as well as new exhibitors SpaceX and Tesla, just to name a few. The show opened to the general public on Friday, but we spent several days ahead of the show running around Berlin meeting with companies to learn about their latest gadgets as construction crews prepared the booths at the Messe. 

If you're not local to Berlin, no sweat—we've gathered together the best smart home gadgets for you. Our list features everything from connected cleaning machines and smart kitchen gadgets to solar-powered speakers and residential battery backup systems.

In no particular order, these are the most compelling smart home products we saw at IFA this year. Most of them aren't available just yet (and some aren't even launching in the US), but even prototypes offer a peek at a more connected and convenient future home.

Sick of inhaling a cloud of dust when emptying your cordless vacuum's bin into the trash? The Shark Detect Pro is a cordless vacuum that can empty its own dustbin into a bagless 2-liter base that Shark says can hold up to 45 days' worth of debris. In other words, it only needs to be manually emptied a few times per year.

The Detect Pro, which Shark calls