CES 2009

We've collected together all the greatest gadgets from CES 2009 to bring you the best product announcements and hands-on photos on one useful page

The (almost) ABC of CES 2009

CES is over for another year. Just how will it be remembered? We've compiled some highlights in handy alphabetical form, as we take a look at the tech week that was CES 2009
Video: Fingers-on the LG Watch Phone

Watch a video from CES 2009 of the LG Watch Phone, the mobile that's dominating the news at the Las Vegas show. It's got a touchscreen and can make calls!
Photos: Palm Pre gets Palm back in the game

Today Palm announced the Palm Pre, a super smart phone that does it all and then some. Read on for more information about this exciting device
Asus T91: Multi-touch tablet netbook

OMG! Asus has just announced the Eee PC T91 convertible tablet. A tiny netbook with a swivelling screen? NFW, homes!
Sony CES keynote: Wi-Fi-cam, bendy OLED and celebrity friends

Sony's head enchilada Sir Howard Stringer brought a touch of Welsh razzmatazz to his CES 2009 keynote speech, roping in a bunch of celebrity friends
Photos: Delicious LG OLED screens to drool on

OLED continues to draw big crowds at CES and it's not hard to see why -- insanely thin, amazingly colourful and brighter than two suns playing cosmic chicken. Here's LG's effort
Samsung TVs: All-new LED, LCD and plasmas

Samsung recently unveiled a dizzying array of new TVs and we were there to stare, slack-jawed at them, and ultimately destroy them with our thick and unrelenting saliva
Microsoft Surface is the star of NBC's booth

Microsoft Surface tables are all over CES, but NBC has one of the best implementations of the technology on display, with a matchbook and microSD card combining to create a technological wonder
Photos: Panasonic wants to kill your wires

Panasonic hates wires and so do we, for that matter. So instead of hating your home cinema, why not let Panasonic remove most of the cables? Why not indeed
Photos: Asus N20 12-inch touchscreen laptop

Remember the fantastic Asus M10 ultraportable – the 10-inch netbook that was capable of running 3D games and hi-def video? Its successor with a larger, touch-sensitive display

Photos: Yahoo Widgets invade Samsung TVs

If TV bores you, why not jazz the whole thing up by staring at some pretty little widgets while everyone on Hollyoaks carries on pretending they can act in the background?
Samsung speakers: The salty sound of the sea

If you thought Kevlar speakers were weird, just wait till you hear what those clever chaps at Samsung have decided to make speakers out of
RCA Small Wonder wandering to Europe

The range of RCA Small Wonder camcorders includes standard and high definition, and bits flipping and sliding out all over the shop. We could see them this side of the pond soon
pureSilicon Nitro Series: First 1TB SSD

Storage supplier pureSilicon has announced its Nitro Series of solid-state drives, with a maximum capacity of one-terabyte in a 2.5-inch format
Intel reveals tablet Classmate PC design

The chipmaker has signed up PC makers around the world to create local versions of the new, swivel-screened model of the netbook for schoolchildren
Panasonic's spring camcorders get three chips and long lenses

Before the world went high-def, Panasonic made a point of upgrading many of its camcorders to three-chip models. Now it's happening again, as Panasonic rolls out its 3MOS chipsets in its prosumer 2009 AVCHD camcorders
Photos: Sony's 2009 camcorder line-up

Sony emerged from CES with the most newsworthy line-up in the camcorder biz, with some hot new features at the high end and fresh young cuteness on the cheap
3D: The great unwanted TV technology?

This year at CES was the year of 3D -- evey manufacturer was desperate to show how great they think it is. The problem is no one asked for 3D TV, and no one cares
Video: Motorola Aura hands-on

Motorola's design-centric Aura is the only mobile phone with a completely circular display, and was inspired by high-end watches, according to the company
Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Surf A3100

At CES, Motorola put on display its Surf A3100, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phone with a touchscreen and customisable interface
Video: Powermat charges mobile devices without the wires

CES saw the launch of the Powermat, a wireless charging pad that uses magnetic-induction tech to charge any portable device attached to it
Photos: Asus S121 brings sexy back -- again

When we first laid eyes on the Asus S101 netbook, we wept, such was its beauty. When we saw the slightly larger, 12.1-inch ultra-portable S121, we began to well up yet again
Video: WarBeast Guitar Hero controller promises slicker licks

Dreamgear is aiming to give a slicker gaming experience with its WarBeast controller for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Photos: Toshiba creates leaning, mirrored TV

TVs should be something that sit in the corner of your room, show you a great HD image once in a while and then mind its own business the rest of the time. Unless you've got a Toshiba
Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera: Give it some stick

We've been wowed by zero-ink Zink technology for a while now, and it's finally made it into a camera at CES 2009, courtesy of Polaroid's PoGo brand
Video: Sony Walkman NWZ-W202 cordless MP3 headset

Sony's Walkman NWZ-W202 is a wearable, cordless MP3 player that clips into the ears and loops behind the neck
Video: Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle PC hands-on

CNET.com's Dan Ackerman gets his manly hands on a product he's terribly excited about: the Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle laptop, a tiny 'puter with considerable moxie
Video: iRiver's eye-catching P7 media player

At CES, iRiver showed off its touchscreen, feature-packed P7 portable media player, which also benefits from an eye-catching interface
Video: Asus Eee PC T91 transforms into 'netbook tablet'

With a touch-sensitive screen that twists around and folds against the keyboard, the Asus Eee PC T91 operates both as a standard netbook and as a netbook tablet
Video: Icephone aims to save lives

At CES, mobile-device maker The Medical Phone showed off the Icephone. With its on-screen first-aid kit, the handset is being pitched as a device that may save lives
Samsung unveils projector phone and PMP

Tomorrow's World didn't see this one coming: it's a projector built in to a mobile phone, so you can watch all your content like you're at a drive-in cinema anywhere you go
Video: Hands-on with the Palm Pre

The Pre is Palm's most exciting new handset in years. With a touchscreen and a Qwerty keyboard, it's the WebOS operating system that has been turning most heads at CES
Photos: Asus M50 packs touchscreen trackpad

It was raining Asus products here at CES 2009. The latest -- and potentially most awesome -- to fall from the skies is a new version of the Asus M50 with an innovative trackpad
Sony Walkman NWZ-W202: Wireless workout

Sony has unveiled the cordless Walkman NWZ-W202 for gym bunnies. Crave went to a gym once; it was so posh, it was called a James
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3: 4GB Wi-Fi wonder

The Sony Cyber-shot G3 is the first Wi-Fi camera to include a browser, on top of a ginormous touchscreen and 4GB of memory. No word yet on whether you can use it to look at porn
Samsung WB500: Wide-boy superzoom

Samsung has taken a leaf out of the Panasonic TZ5 book with the wide-angle, 10x superzoom WB500. We had a go in Vegas
Samsung HMX-R10, SMX-FX34: SD and HD in your pocket

Samsung has debuted two new pocket camcorders at CES 2009, the HMX-R10 for high definition and SMX-FX34 for standard def
Dell Mini 10 netbook revealed with built-in GPS

Dell has announced the Inspiron Mini 10 -- a luxury netbook packed with features like HD video support and integrated GPS
Sennheiser HD 800 headphones: Maybe the world's finest

These £1,000 ultra-high-end headphones are touted to be the single best pair of headphones in the world. If you're sitting wondering why, let us explain in plain English
Ion's vinyl to iPod converter, DJ equipment and more

Ion has made a pretty penny out of flogging boxes that convert Vinyl records to iPod tracks and now it's releasing a slew of DJ equipment to go with a new Vinyl converter
Hands-on with the Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC

Our US colleagues managed to be among the very first to snag a coveted Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC -- check out their in-the-wild photos, plus some first hands-on impressions
Photos: WowWee sheds light on Cinemin pico-projector range

At CES, WowWee showed off its Cinemin Swivel, Stick and Station ultra-portable projectors, designed to work with mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPod
Casio's new Exilims: Smallest and fastest yet

The EX-FC100 and EX-FS10 are small and easier to use than previous digital cameras in Casio's high-speed Exilim range, and boast some novel features
Photos: More detail on the LG Watch Phone

We've now had a chance to try out the LG Watch Phone and we're mightily impressed with what we've seen. Click through the photos to see more details on its features
iRiver Wave Home: All-in-one comms and multimedia hub

The Wave Home has caused a stir at CES, combining a networked multimedia device with a comms hub to create what is basically a digital photo frame on steroids
LG BD390: Blu-ray player with integrated Wi-Fi

LG's BD390 boasts all the features of its little brother, the BD370, with the addition of built-in Wi-Fi, 1GB of on-board memory and 7.1-channel analogue outputs
iRiver P7: Touchscreen PVP turns heads

iRiver has dropped a PVP-shaped grenade on CES, with a genuinely innovative touchscreen interface that has turned heads and taken breath out in Vegas
Psyko 5.1 gaming headphones: The speakers are in the head strap!

Watch a video tour of the Psyko 5.1 headphones. Unusually, the speakers are in the head strap -- see how the sound travels to the ear cups.
Panasonic TC-P54Z1: Inch-deep plasma TV

With the Z1 series, Panasonic has joined Samsung in slimming plasma TVs to an inch thick, aiming to overtake LCDs in the panel-depth arena
Panasonic DMP-B15: First portable Blu-ray player announced

The DMP-B15 aims to address the portability shortcomings of Blu-ray -- we'll discreetly file this under 'solutions in search of a problem'
Photos: The amazing world of OLED

Hanging out at the CES Digital Experience, we encountered a stand packed with funky experimental OLED displays. If OLED carries on like this, it's going to get plenty of love in years to come
SD and Memory Stick cards to hit 2TB: What you need to know

The 1GB card in your digital camera will look decidedly out of date in a few years once the new SDXC cards hit the streets. They could offer as much as 2TB of storage! How will you fill that?
Mattel Mindflex: Thought-controlled ball game

Hold on to your scalp: Mattel's new Mindflex game lets you control a floating ball with your mind, with a headset measuring your level of concentration
Photos: Sony Ericsson W715 Walkman unveiled

Sony Ericsson just unwrapped the latest and most stylish Walkman phone in its new line-up, the W715, featuring GPS, Wi-Fi and looks to kill for. But there's a problem
Netgear ITV2000: Internet TV Player

Netgear has pitched up at CES with a remarkably small set-top box that helps you search for and stream Internet video to your TV
Sharp LC-BD80U series: LCDs with built-in Blu-ray players

The company has announced a full line of LCDs with integrated Blu-ray players, in a sure sign that the high-definition format is going mainstream
Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD media player: Making it easy to play TV from a hard drive

If you have an external hard disk with all your videos and photos on, then all you need to do is dock it with this new device to see the lot on your TV
Photos: Sony X series supports BBC iPlayer and iTunes Plus

Sony has released a new Walkman to compete with the iPod touch, and we're mightily impressed by the thought the company has put into improving the audio quality
Pogoplug: Puts your hard drive on the Web

Cloud Engines is aiming for ease of use with a relatively cheap box that puts your external hard drive on the Internet, letting you take more control of files shared online
Sony Ericsson W508: Exchangeable covers for the win!

Sony Ericsson just lifted the lid on an affordable new music phone, the W508 -- a clamshell with a 3.2-megapixel camera and the wondrous gift of customisability
Sony Handycam HDR-XR500: GPS camcorder

Sony's hitting the camcorder market hard this CES, with a beastly pair of hard-disk shooters with GPS for geotagging and a new, better-in-low-light sensor
JVC updates iPod-friendly TV range

The company has rolled out the second-generation of its TVs with built-in iPod docks, offering better integration with the music players and connected PCs
WowWee's robots: From koalas to planes

The company's robotic lineup for 2009 include everything from plush, animatronic robots that mimic the behaviour of baby animals, to pocket-sized iPod projectors and miniature, motorised planes
LG GD910 Watch Phone: Surprisingly good

LG has seemingly done the impossible -- made a watch phone that's more than a pathetic gimmick. With HSDPA, Bluetooth and a touchscreen, this could finally be it
Sony P-series: A netbook in all but name

Sony announces it's new netbook. Except don't call it a netbook -- they might revive Aibo from it's deathly slumber and send him to get you...
Flexicord: Finally, an HDMI cable that stays put

If you need an HDMI cable that does what it's told, rather than acting like a petulent child in a supermarket, you might rather enjoy the Flexicord, which obeys your commands
Photos: Asus shared computing concept laptop

Asus' latest concept 'laptop' draws its inspiration from Japanese origami in that it can be folded into a variety of shapes to suit your individual needs
Sony Webbie PM1, CM1: Fun with li'l Webbie

Sony is getting cute with the Las Vegas launch of the Webbie PM1 and CM1, a pair of pocket camcorders for a budget price at CES 2009
Photos: Hands-on Asus Eee Keyboard that's a Media Center PC

Wow. We really didn't see this one coming. Asus has just shown off what is perhaps the most bizarre addition to the Eee range ever -- an Eee keyboard
Logitech boosts G-Series PC gaming kit lineup

The G35 Surround Sound headset, G9x mouse and G19 keyboard have been added to the company's G-Series line of PC peripherals, aiming to give gamers the upper hand
Dell Studio XPS 1340 and 1640: Sleek power

Dell has quietly published a heap of specifications for its new Studio XPS line of laptops, including the XPS 1340 and the top-end XPS 1640
Canon launches DC420 and DC410 DVD cams

Canon just launched a pair of new DVD-based camcorders aimed at families who are generally scared of technology -- the simple-to-use DC400 series
Canon launch Legria FS22, FS21, FS20 and FS200 camcorders

Canon has just let its new range of standard-definition camcorders out of bag -- the Legrias FS22, FS21, FS20 and FS200. We've got not only all the beef, but pictures of the beef, too
MSI X-Slim 320 and U115: Hearts go boom

Always wanted a MacBook Air but can't afford one? You'll be delighted to hear MSI is all set to unleash a MacBook look-a-like
HP Mini 2140: First third-generation netbook

The Mini 2140 heads the third wave of netbook laptops, as the devices begin to acquire useful extras and features largely missing from previous designs
HP Pavilion dv2 and dv3: Hotbooks hit CES

HP is barrelling into CES with some smoking new laptops, looking to edge the commoditised netbook market with more power and purdy designs
Lenovo IdeaCentre A600: All-in-one PC with motion control

The new IdeaCentre A600 includes a motion-sensitive remote that works as a Media Center control, VoIP phone, 'air mouse' and game controller, according to Lenovo
Canon Legria HF S10 and Legria HF S100: HD flash joy

The CES camcorder deluge begins with the Legria HFS10 and HFS100, two flash-memory, high-definition shooters with a funny new name
Kodak Z980: 24x superzoom Jack Bauer-style

The clock is ticking. Crave has dispatched agents to CES 2009 and already the announcements have started, with the Jack Bauer-approved 24x optical zoom of the Z980
Kodak Zx1: Hi-def pocket camcorder 2.0

Kodak is following up its first high-definition pocket camcorder with the new Zx1, including a smaller, weather-proof body. Crave wishes its body was weather-proof
Palm to launch iPhone competitor this week?

Is Palm going to launch an iPhone-killer this Thursday? According to CrunchGear it could be, in the form of a touchscreen phone with a full Qwerty keyboard
Lenovo IdeaPad Y650: Thinnest, lightest 16-inch laptop

At the Consumer Electronics Show, the PC maker will unveil its Y series of multimedia-focused 16-, 15- and 14-inch IdeaPad laptops
Crave does Vegas: CES 2009 is coming!

Forget Christmas, the time every good Craver looks forward to is the first week of January, when the gadget world descends on Las Vegas, Nevada, for the Consumer Electronics Show