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CES 2010

All our CES 2010 news, hands-on photos and videos on one page. Expect to see a bunch of 3D TVs, netbooks and Android phones galore, along with cameras with more megapixels than you'd ever need and a host of other surprises.

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Photos: Parrot AR Drone, Polar Bear TV, Edge Tablet PC/ ebook reader and more

CES 2010 has kicked off in Las Vegas. From the Parrot AR Drone drawing a crowd to what will be the first of many tablet/ebook mashups, click through our photos to see loads of cool stuff. And a polar bear

Panasonic launches 3D camcorder, television, Blu-ray player and TV channels

Panasonic has gone all out for 3D TV, with a Blu-ray player and television channels to watch on your 3D Viera, and a camcorder to make your own 3D entertainment -- if you're rich

HP Slate gets face time in Microsoft keynote

At Microsoft's CES keynote last night, CEO Steve Ballmer showed off HP's forthcoming tablet PC and, frankly, all we could think was, "Wow, that's a thick son of a gun"

Hands-on with the Lenovo U1: Two PCs for the price on one-and-a-half

We love the Lenovo U1, with its detachable mini-tablet computer and its funky Linux-based, Snapdragon-powered awesomeness -- so we've taken some photos

Polaroid PIC-1000: Instant film makes a comeback

Polaroid has taken it back to the old school with a retro concept here at CES 2010

Touch Revolution: NIMble touchscreen puts Android in a microwave

Touch Revolution is livening up lunch and laundry with a concept microwave and washing machine that run Android-powered Web browsing

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CNET UK Podcast 169: Natali Del Conte joins us in Vegas

In a special, one-off live show, Ian was joined by podcast regular Rich Trenholm and podcast megafan Natali Del Conte, who reviewed all the most exciting tech from the showfloor at CES 2010

Panasonic HDC-HS60, HDC-TM60, HDC-TM55, HDC-SD60: SDXC camcorders

Panasonic's quartet of 1080p camcorders are compatible with the upcoming SDXC memory-card format, so they'll have tonnes of space to store your japes, shenanigans and tomfoolery

Will 3D without glasses ever be anything more than a headache?

If you thought 3D required glasses to make it work, think again. Sadly, all the solutions that work without the specs are brain-explodingly bad

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH1, FH3 and FH20: First-time snappers

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH1, FH3 and FH20 are a trio of entry-level compacts ready to go with new SDXC cards

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP1, FP2 and FP3: Slidey face and SDXC

Panasonic has been proudly showing off the sliding faces and SDXC card slots of the Lumix DMC-FP1, FP2 and FP3 digital cameras

Sling Monitor 150: The place-shifting all-in-one beckons

CES 2010 felt rather samey with its '3D this, big-screen telly that' nonsense. But we were offered some respite from oversize pixels flying at us by the small, 2D Sling Monitor 150

CES 2010: Charge of the wireless brigade

CES 2010 saw a broad range of products in one particular category that take many of the headaches out of your everyday life. The humble charger is having a makeover

Kia UVO: Control your car with your voice

Remember Fiat Blue&Me -- the Microsoft-powered, voice-controlled entertainment system for your car? Well Kia's been busy working with Microsoft to produce a version of its own, dubbed 'UVO'

Sprint Overdrive 4G wireless router: WiMax? Why not

Sprint has launched the Overdrive 4G wireless router, a portable hotspot that taps into super-fast 4G mobile broadband

Intel Atom N450 chip: Modelled by lady

While we were out at CES, we stumbled across a lady on the Intel booth with the minuscule Atom N450 'Pineview' chip stuck to her chest

Peregrine gaming controller: Smell the glove

The Peregrine gaming glove puts more than 30 keyboard shortcuts at your fingertips -- all over your hand, in fact

Vuzix Wrap 920AR glasses: Next-wave specs

The opposite sex may not like specs but, with the Vuzix augmented-reality glasses, you'll be too busy to care

Sony Vaio F series: Fast is the new shiny

At CES 2010, we witnessed countless laptop manufacturers desperately trying to innovate their way out of a recession -- not Sony. It just yelled, "More power!" and laughed maniacally

Dell Mini 5: Android-toting 5-inch tablet

Bounding into the race to unveil unfeasibly large Android gadgets, Dell has given a sneak peek at a 5-inch, multi-touch tablet with a SIM-card slot

Intel Wireless Display and Netgear Push2TV: PC video on your TV

Intel and Netgear have teamed up to make the fiddly business of getting video from your laptop to your TV much more of a doddle

LG GW990: Notoriously big

You'll need megapockets to hold the new LG GW990 -- a beast of a phone with a huge screen and the first outing for Intel's new, more powerful Moorestown CPU

Dell Mini 3: Android-powered touchscreen

Dell joins Google as a newcomer to the smart-phone fray with the Dell Mini 3, an Android-powered touchscreen handset that's coming to the UK

Samsung ST5500 and ST5000: AMOLED screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, you name it

Samsung may just have come up with the camera highlight of CES 2010 with the CL80 and its little brother the TL240

Samsung BD-C6900: 3D Blu-ray player with glowy light and funky logo

Samsung is doing its best to persuade you to upgrade to a 3D system with this smashing little Blu-ray player. It's chock-full of features and cute as a button

Mophie adds a FLO TV receiver to its juicy power pack

If mobile TV interests you, you might find yourself hankering after a device that lets you watch it using a FLO TV adaptor for the iPhone

Hands-on with Plastic Logic's touchscreen Que e-book reader

We were hanging out at the CNET stage at CES, when who should we see, but someone brandishing the new Que e-book reader from Plastic Logic. Oh, we said, and took some hands-on photos

RCX4 Star Stryker: Don't call it an X-Wing

That's no moon... And this is no X-Wing Fighter. It's the remote control RCX4 Star Stryker mini-helicopter

Synaptics Fuse: Hands-on with the concept phone they just have to make real

The Synaptics Fuse is a concept phone showing off various new interfaces, but we've seen it in action and we're wishing it was real

Samsung MyFit: A gadget to fix your fatness

Samsung has come up with a gadget known as MyFit that can get you back on the path to not being such a disgusting slob

Samsung IceTouch hands-on: MP3 player with transparent AMOLED screen

The latest entry in Samsung's line-up of portable media devices is the IceTouch, which stands out thanks to its bizarre, but impressive, transparent touchscreen

Boxee Box media streamer: Hands-on photos

We've been excited about the Boxee Box media streamer since it was announced late last year. Now we've finally had a chance to have a little play with one, and we have to say that it's very awesome

LG eXpo: Like a phone, but bigger and with a built-in projector

Need a phone? Need a projector? Then how about you get yourself the LG eXpo handset, which has a built-in pico projector, and annoy people with impromptu presentations?

JVC Picsio: Hands-on with the pixie-sized HD camcorder

We took time out of staggering around CES to have a play with JVC's Picsio high-definition mini-camcorder

FLO TV is coming to the UK, hopefully in time for the 2012 Olympics

If mobile TV is of interest to you, then you'll no doubt be very pleased to know that FLO TV will eventually come to the UK -- pleased, that is, once we explain what FLO TV actually is

Asus NX90: Ears-on with the Bang & Olufsen super laptop

Remember the Asus NX90, the stylish multimedia laptop with the built-in Bang & Olufsen speaker system? We've just had a chance to listen to it and give it a good fondle

Eee PC T101MT: Multi-touch tablet netbook

Remember the Asus T91 netbook with the swivelling, twisting display that worked as a tablet PC or a netbook? Well, Asus has created a genetically modified successor known as the T101MT.

Samsung E101 and E6: Wireless ebook readers take on the Kindle

The 10-inch E101 and 6-inch E6 wireless ebook readers represent Samsung's attempt to poke Sony and Amazon in the eyes and run off with their market share

Samsung N150, N210 and NB30: Next-gen netbook nirvana

Samsung has just lifted a veil on three sexy new netbooks it expects you and all your mates to be buying in 2010. They incloude the entry-level N150, the gorgeous N210 and the ever-so-rugged NB30

Palm Pre Plus: Sadly loses nubbin, happily gains wireless hotspot

Palm has announced a new, more powerful Palm Pre Plus, along with the Palm Pixi Plus and a new lease on life for its developer programme and app catalogue

LG X300: Ultraportable laptop with fastest ever Atom

With the fastest Intel Atom processor ever made, solid state disks and a beautiful design, we couldn't not write about LG's latest ultraportable laptop

Beamz: Theremin hero

Beamz is a cross between a theremin and a burglar alarm in a heist film -- just don't call it a real musical instrument

Toshiba Cell TV: How its LED backlighting works

LED backlighting isn't much of a mystery, but we were still thrilled to see a Toshiba demo explaining it in considerable detail -- so have a look at these photos, and get to know LED TVs better

Hands on: Samsung R430 'touch of red'

Remember the Samsung 'touch of red' laptops launched a while back -- the ones that looked like they were painted with nail varnish? They've returned, but this time they're actually pretty good

Motorola Backflip: Hands-on with the flipped-out Android phone

The Motorola Backflip is an acrobatic Android phone, turned inside-out and every which way. We tied ourselves in knots to try it out

Intel 'Cube of Awesome': It's really pretty awesome

While we wandered the corridors of CES 2010, we stumbled across the Intel booth -- there, sitting in one corner, was the most awesome cube we've ever seen

Sony Dash: Wi-Fi touchscreen planner cuts a dash

We need a name for this kind of digital organiser, photo frame, alarm clock and Interweb browser thingy. For now, let's call it the Sony Dash

Sony HX5, TZ7 and TransferJet: GPS and wireless transfer, as if by magic

At CES, we got our hands on the GPS-packing HX5 and touchscreen TZ7 compact cameras, as well as the TransferJet wireless transfer dock. It's sheer wizardry, we tell you

Samsung unleashes app store for your TV, Blu-ray players and more

Samsung's app store, unlike its rivals, will offer applications that work across phones, computers and even televisions

Sony shows off OLED 3D TV demo: We're suitably impressed

We haven't always been the biggest fans of 3D, but it does seem that when OLED screens finally arrive, they'll have something worthwhile to bring to the third dimension

Sony Bravia LX and HX 3D TVs, plus BDP-S770 3D Blu-ray player: Monolith!

Sony has rocked up in Vegas with a stonking great pile of kit that'll turn your front room into a spec-filled 3D entertainment paradise. New Bravias and Blu-ray players this way...

Samsung NX10: Hands-on with photography's ginger stepchild

At CES, we gave the NX10, Samsung's first mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera, a quick spin. Click through to find out why we feel let down

MSI Wind U135: Pine Trail blazer

Behold the Wind U135. It's the first netbook we've seen to use Intel's next-gen, 1.66GHz Atom N450 processor, a clever little chip that gives this device several advantages over its predecessors

Neato XV-11: Robotic vacuum cleaner eats your dust

The XV-11 promises superior cleaning and navigation chops compared to its rivals, although it can't clean the bogies off your wall

Sony Vaio F series: Just call it 'The Beast'

The Sony Vaio VPCF11Z1E/BI is so powerful and awkwardly named that we're just going to call it The Beast. With a quad-core Intel Core i7 chip and 8GB of RAM, it'll knock your socks off

Motorola Backflip: Put your thing down, flip it and reverse it

The Backflip is a touchscreen Android smart phone with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard and a charming circus trick: its screen flips back at an angle

Samsung R-series laptops: Fade to red

Samsung has announced five new laptops -- the R780, R580, R730, R530 and R430 -- that all benefit from its, um, unique sense of style

Toshiba NB300, NB305 netbooks: Snow White's a dwarf

Toshiba has announced a pair of almost identical netbooks. Most such machines bore the pants off us, but these 10.1-inch models have a few interesting features

Samsung HMX-S15, HMX-S16: Wireless HD camcorders

Realising that Wi-Fi connectivity is to technology as bacon is to food -- it makes everything better -- Samsung's launched two camcorders with a distaste for cables

Sony Vaio S and Y series: Pick peformance or portability

Sony is still pumping out high-end ultra-portables, with its Vaio S and Y series offering 16:9, 13-inch screens, and top-notch computing power or extra-long battery life

Sony Bloggie mini-camcorder: Pocket HD

A range of new HD mini-camcorders from Sony, called Bloggie, offer 5-megapixel stills and 1080p video, taking on the Flip Video for teeny-tiny fun

Kodak Playsport waterproof mini-camcorder battles the elements

Kodak has waterproofed its latest mini-camcorder, the Playsport. It's perfect for swimming, and for trudging through the snow come to think of it

Kodak EasyShare Slice joins M530, M580, M575, and M550 at CES

Kodak has announced the superstoring EasyShare Slice alongside the M530, M580, M575 and M550

Casio Exilim EX-FH100, EX-H15, EX-Z2000 and EX-Z550: If anyone can, Kashio can

Casio's president didn't break any new ground with his CES announcements, launching four compact cameras and a Digital Art Frame that's every bit as rubbish as it sounds

Sharp announces QuadPixel LCD TVs with LED edge lighting

Sharp today announced it's adding an extra cell to every pixel on its high-end TVs in 2010. The company claims this makes for unrivalled colour reproduction and up to 1 trillion on-screen colours

Asus G73: The 'mega laptop' cometh

When it's not releasing flamboyant netbooks and laptops with audiophile speakers bolted onto the sides, Asus is busy churning out gaming laptops like the hyper-quick G73

Asus NX90: Bang & Olufsen-powered, dual-touchpad media laptop

The aluminium-framed Asus NX90 has enough design innovation to make an entire street of Joneses jealous, including dual touchpads and fancy speakers

Parrot AR.Drone: iPhone-controlled helicopter brings Airwolf to AR

The Parrot AR.Drone is a remote-controlled helicopter you fly with your iPhone, and it looks insanely fun thanks to the included AR games

Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid: Part laptop, part tablet, all awesome

Lenovo's just blown our tiny little minds with an innovative concept that melds tablet PCs with the humble netbook. Behold, friends, the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid -- the craziest thing since unsliced bread

Eee PC Seashell Karim Rashid: Suits you, sir

Somebody call the fashion SWAT team -- Asus' Seashell range of netbooks just started batting for another team -- a team captained by fashion demigod (and Sasha Baron Cohen lookalike) Karim Rashid

Canon PowerShot A3100 IS, A3000 IS, A490 and A495: First SDXC cameras

The budget-friendly Canon PowerShot A3100 IS, A3000 IS, A490 and A495 compact cameras are the first to support SDXC cards, keeping you snapping, well, basically forever

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t, S10-3: Netbooks for the multi-touch tablet generation

Lenovo has two new netbooks to kick-start 2010, one of which has a swivelling tablet display, while the other gets multi-touch. Children, meet the S10-3 series

Canon Legria HF S21, HF M31, HF R18 camcorders: Hi-def high jinks

Canon has unleashed a salvo of high-definition camcorders so you can record tedious events in excruciating detail before inflicting your films on uninterested parties

Lenovo X100e: Like a netbook, but good

For just £450, you can have this netbook-alike with a 11.6-inch screen and fast 802.11n wireless connection. With a full-sized, spill resistant keyboard and the infamous Lenovo nipple, it's worth considering

Sony Alpha DSLR-A450: Low-end high-end

Sony's dropped another almost affordable dSLR into the UK camera market -- the 14.2-megapixel A450 -- aimed at amateur photographers after something easy to use, it seems

Samsung IceTouch YP-H1: Transparent MP3 player unveiled

Samsung has produced an MP3 player with a see-through, colour AMOLED screen -- the IceTouch. We don't know why it's called that. Maybe it's coated in liquid nitrogen or something

Samsung N210, N220, N150 and NB30: netbooks with 12-hour batteries FTW

Samsung has announced a brand new line of netbooks, all of which are powered by Intel's latest Atom processor -- the 1.66GHz N450 -- which offers even lower power consumption

Samsung NX10 unveiled: Micro Four Thirds gets competition

The Micro Four Thirds camera system has some incompatible competition from Samsung: NX technology. And the first camera to use it is Samsung's 14.6-megapixel NX10