One of the issues that has been given some attention at CeBIT this year is creating more environmentally-friendly consumer electronics products. With ever-increasing regulations and concerns over spiralling energy usage, both in industry and amongst consumers, it's encouraging to hear large CE companies saying that they are working to develop more energy efficient products.

Traditionally, plasma TVs have been seen as more energy-hungry than LCD ones, but apparently a demonstration between the two (though the models and sizes were unspecified) showed that the plasma used, on average, about two-thirds of the electricity of the LCD.

ZDNet managed to scoop an interview at CeBIT with a senior manager at Microsoft who admitted that Live OneCare, the consumer security product, should not have been launched when it was, being far from perfect and having pieces missing.

The product has been plagued with problems since it was launched, including the failure to adequately protect Vista:

PQI is pitching its Intelligent Stick Interface as not just the smallest USB flash drive, but also lightest and thinnest too. They are pretty dinky too - the Intelligent Stick Pro measures 43x18x2.8mm and weighs 2.7g. If you think that's impressive, the Intelligent Stick Mini comes in at a mere 30x15x5mm and weighs just 2.2g.

Stuart Dredge writes...

We've come a long way since the 8-bit days, that's for sure. One of the key stories from this year's CeBIT show so far has been the fact that Commodore is back with a vengeance. And happily, that doesn't just mean trading on the past glories of its C64 home computer, but is instead based on an entirely new generation of gadgets.

Don't get me wrong. I loved the C64. In fact, in its day I singlehandedly funded a small industry of budget publishers churning out rubbish football management sims, through pocket money alone. There were great games too, of course, with the likes of Turrican, Creatures and Impossible Mission, to name but three.

I-Station is going the other way, claiming its G43 is the Smallest UMPC in the World. Specs were a little thin on the ground, apparently due to an accident with the leaflets. Here's what we do know though: it can run Windows XP or Linux, it has an 800x480 4.3in LCD screen, there's built-in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and touchpad, the processor is an AMD Geode LX800 or 900, the hard drive can be either 30GB or 60GB and it'll run for up to four hours.

While Sharp and Panasonic are claiming largest for individual technologies, TecnoVision is having none of it and pitching its 205in screen as the World's Largest Television full stop. The Luxio measures a whopping 455x256cm - that's enough to almost fill an entire wall.

Samsung's SyncMaster 940UX monitor can display images from a PC using only a USB connection.

It's the first model to feature Samsung's UbiSync technology and it's pretty cool. It works by emulating a VGA card in software and then passing the data over a simple USB cable.

The monitor contains a flash drive with the driver software on it, so all you have to do is plug in it in and it will prompt you to install the UbiSync utility.

UbiSync can support up to six monitors, so when combined with a traditional dual display PC allows for a total of eight screens.

The 19in SyncMaster is the first model to feature UbiSync, but Samsung will be including it on additional models in the future.

Remember the E-Ten X500? It was claimed to be the world's thinnest PDA last year. Well, the company is back with the E-Ten Glofiish X800 - still slim, but with a boost in specification.

Firstly, there's HSDPA connectivity to boost your download/streaming speed, while the operating system is the recently-unveiled Windows Mobile 6, which means all the Office functionality, plus improved email, messaging and blogging tools.

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to spend a week in Japan interviewing the likes of Sony and Panasonic about their visions of the connected homes of the future, where all your content (TV, music, internet data etc) would come into your house through a fat broadband pipe, into a media gateway device, which would then distribute it around the house.

It sounded ace. It also sounded about as far off actually happening as the whizzy robots that some of those companies were also showing off. Yet now, a few years later, it’s not such a far-fetched vision. We’re not all living with robots yet, but media adapters capable of streaming content around the home are popping up in increasing numbers.

One such device is Linksys’ KiSS 1600 wireless media player, which was announced at CeBIT this week. I had a chat to Tunji Akintokun, Linksys’ country manager for the UK and Ireland, to find out more, and discuss the wider implications of media sharing.

Panasonic may be lacking five inches to Sharp in the size stakes, but it's making up for it in quantity showing off two of its World's Largest 103in Plasmas.

German MP3 player maker Trekstor has managed to sign up singer Pink (or P!nk as she's officially known) to endorse its i.Beat MP3 player.

Slightly more bizarrely it's also managed to rope Depeche Mode into branding its i.Beat Vision too.

Your i.Beat P!nk is available in both 1GB and 2GB versions, can playback video, MP3, WMA and WAV and has an integrated FM tuner.

The i.Beat Vision Depeche Mode has a similar spec, but comes in 256MB to 2GB flavours and also features excusive Depeche Mode content preloaded.

It's presumably aimed at those that don't enjoy the silence...