There are ideas, and then there are ideas, man, and this time of year (at least in the gadget world), it’s more of the latter. For proof, I present to you a new gadget from Displace, which is unlike anything that exists in the TV world currently.
Displace isn’t new to the TV disruption game; they’ve previously showcased a cordless TV that employs some borderline absurd tech, including a battery that you need to swap out and a suction mechanism that adheres the TV to the wall without the need of a traditional mount or drilling. It’s a pretty wacky solution to eliminating power cables, but it’s at least entertaining.
This time around, Displace is offering a similar idea in the Displace Hub, which doesn’t actually come with a TV, but can be attached to other panels, allegedly making “any TV wireless” in the process. The Displace Hub, which will rightfully debut at CES 2026, the land of absurd gadgets, can apparently work with TVs between 55 and 100 inches, which is good news for the vast majority of people who own a TV. Inside the Hub, there are a few critical components that make the hub work, including what Displace calls its “active-loop suction,” which is a fancy way of saying battery-powered suction that can supposedly vacuum-seal a TV to the wall in under 10 seconds.
Then there’s the whole power thing. Since the electricity needs to come from somewhere, the hub also includes a battery, which will, of course, need to be recharged intermittently. Displace doesn’t expound on the battery front, but if it’s anything like the past models, there might be packs with about 6 hours of watch time each that can be swapped out when your fancy TV hub inevitably runs out of juice.
If you’re reading this and still have a lot of questions about the Displace Hub, I don’t blame you. I, too, would like to know a thing or two, but unfortunately, we may not have answers yet. There’s no official word, for instance, on weight capacity, which seems like a big issue considering you wouldn’t want your expensive-ass 100-inch TV to meet a swift end by the hands of a weird TV mount. For the record, a former colleague of mine saw a Displace TV fall straight off the wall, so… beware?
You may also be wondering about, well… wires. As great as cordless TVs might sound for anyone who hates looking at cables or having to meticulously tuck them behind a wall, there are still lots of things that you need to connect to TVs to get them to work. Sound bars, for example, or game consoles. For that, Displace says it’s also including two HDMI inputs that allow you to connect cables to the Displace Hub, which sounds like it kind of defeats the whole purpose.
This little issue is exactly why other hopefuls in the cordless TV lottery, like LG, include a box that you can plug things into and then wirelessly transmit that signal to the TV. It’s also kind of ridiculous, but at least you can theoretically stash it somewhere out of sight.
There’s also no price information, which is pretty critical. The last Displace TV cost about $6,000, so don’t expect the Hub to come cheap. Maybe we’ll get these questions cleared up, though. Displace will be at CES 2026, and so will we. Until then, cheers to our suction-based cordless TV future.
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