Two Windows tablets were on offer from MSI at CeBIT this year in the shape of the Windpad 100W and Windpad 110W.

Both running Windows 7 Home Premium edition, the main physical differences come in the shape of hardware buttons on the Windpad 100W, while the Windpad 110W opts for soft-touch buttons and a trackpad. That trackpad could be particularly useful considering these are Windows 7 tablets, notoriously difficult to navigate through touch.

An Atom Z530 is the processor of choice for the WindPad 100W, while the 110W gets an AMD Brazos C50.

We have a quick look in the video above.

The Windpad 100A, MSI's Android-based answer to the iPad, has been knocking around for some time, but until now getting a fix on its specs has been quite difficult. MSI lifted the cover on the tablet at CeBIT 2011 this week, revealing some interesting and somewhat unexpected details about the device.

First of all, despite its relative age, MSI will make sure the tablet ships with the latest version of Android, AKA the tablet-optimised Honeycomb. Even better is the news that NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2 chip will be onboard, allowing for smooth HD playback and multitasking.

Elsewhere, connectivity includes a HDMI out, alongside full and mini USB ports as well as an SD card slot. No release has been finalised, but the MSI team on hand at the show suggested a late May/early June launch.

Check out the tablet in the video above.

Car giants Ford took this week's CeBIT technology expo in Hanover, Germany, as an opportunity to announce the global launch of their new connected dashboard system, SYNC. Already available in North America, the voice activated MyFord Touch interface opens up your dashboard to a whole host of connected devices, as well as promising increased road safety. Tech Digest went hands-on with the device at the show.

Embedded within the car dashboard, SYNC features a bright 8 inch touchscreen,with connectivity options for RCA cables, an SD card and two USB inputs. The screen suffers from a slight-but-noticeably present lag when pushed, but you'll be touching it very little in any case; SYNC's trump card is its impressive voice activated commands.

Pulling in the software expertise of Microsoft and voice-recognition experts Nuance, the SYNC system can recognise and respond to 10,000 commands in 19 languages. In theory, you should barely have to touch the screen in order to access SYNC's many functions. In our quick test the voice recognition software was very responsive, understanding various ways of asking for the same actions ie. "Play playlist X" or "Open and listen to playlist X" and so on.

The interface is split into four sections; phone, navigation, media and climate control. Each has its own lengthy list of associated voice commands. Syncing a phone via Bluetooth allows calls to be answered via voice activation alone, and received text messages will be read aloud by the system's HAL-like voice. You'll also be able to respond to messages by selecting from a list of presets, again adding to Ford's safety mantra that eyes on the road and hands on the wheel make for a significantly better driver.

Music controls are similarly intelligent. MP3 files are read from an MP3 player, mobile phone or directly indexed from a USB thumbdrive, and then churned through Gracenote to ensure suitable artwork and track names are applied. You'll then be able to browse your library and control playback by voice commands alone, with the superior voice recognition software and Gracenote's metadata intelligently understanding unusual characters in artist names (AKA Kie$ha) and even commonly used nicknames such as "The King" for Elvis.

Navigation controls are likewise voice operated, with the integrated GPS system making the likes of TomToms redundant. Again the clever implementation of Nuance software ensures that the system can account for variations in dialect and location nicknames; you'll just as easily turn up at Her Majesty's doorstep by saying "Buckingham Palace" as by asking for directions to Westminster, London SW1W 0. Also, the software can handle an entire address in one single voice command, rather than splitting it into street, city and postcodes, which is a plus.

Of course these controls logically carry over to the climate control system too, asking the car to warm up or cool down and it responding accordingly.

While USB inputs for music playback in dashboards aren't uncommon these days, the SYNC system goes one better by allowing you to power a mobile dongle from the port. Your car in effect becomes a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing up to 5 devices to pair with it. In an age where all the kids and the dog too have a smartphone or web connected games console, laptop or tablet, having an in-car internet connection will be a god-send on longer journeys.

SYNC runs alongside Ford's other in-car innovation, App Link, for which developers can either create dedicated SYNC apps for driver's smartphones, or submit SYNC-compatible variations on existing apps, allowing for hands-free control. It has already thrown up its first gem in the shape of the Emergency Assistance feature, which uses GPS and cell data to locate the vehicle in the event of an accident, immediately call emergency services, and relate accident information to the accident controller in the language most likely to be used in the location you're currently driving through.

"At Ford, we have always believed that the intelligent application of technology can help us deliver the very best customer experience and help us contribute to a better world, so we challenged ourselves to build technologically advanced cars that make driving greener, safer and smarter for all," said Ford CEO Alan Mulally.

"SYNC is a smarter, safer and simpler way to connect drivers with in-car technologies and their digital lives."

Ford plan to roll out the SYNC system across the continent in 2012. The new Ford Focus model will be the first off the production line with SYNC built in, with Ford promising to add the new dashboard to other models soon after.

Fujitsu are the latest company to show their tablet hand here at CeBIT 2011 in Hanover, Germany, showcasing the Windows 7 touting Stylistic Q550 at their booth.

A 10.1 inch capacitive touch slate, it's still very much a work-in-progress, with many software functions in need of a tweak before the planned May shipping date.

Still, there was a lot of interesting ideas at play, particularly when it comes to security. It's not merely password protection of facial recognition in the Q550, which instead employs a fingerprint scanner, SmartCard reader and high-end encryption methods. Fujitsu look very much to be aiming at an enterprise rather than consumer market here.

Pen input was not working on the demo unit we tried, but should be ready in time for launch. 3G and Wi-Fi connections come as standard, whilst a swappable 8 hour battery should ensure you never run out of juice on the go.

Hit the video above to give the tablet a look.

Among the many Android Honeycomb tablets ASUS have been displaying at CeBIT this week is the Eee Pad Slider.

Seemingly a bog-standard Android tablet, a little lip on the edge of the slate lifts up to release a hinge, revealing a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Powered by a dual-core CPU, the 10.1 inch tablet can then be navigated via a combination of touch and keyboard commands.

While the added ease the keyboard gives to typing is undeniable (most impressive considering the device's relatively svelte frame), the hinge on which the touchscreen then sits seemed a little suspect to us. It didn't look particularly sturdy, and we'd fear that regular use of the sliding function could cause the mechanism to give way, but we're happy for ASUS to prove us wrong on that count.

Check out our brief play with the slider in the hands on video above.

Mouse control is passé, let's face it, so it's good the alternative is waiting for us: eye control.

Swedish company Tobii Technology has developed a tracking technology that means the computer will be able to follow the movements of your eyes. Read to the bottom of the screen and the computer will automatically scroll up for you, or look at a point at the screen and it's like clicking a mouse.

A Lenovo laptop containing the technology is expected to be demonstrated at the CeBIT technology show in Germany on Tuesday.

The technology works by shining two invisible infrared lights at your eye, with two cameras looking for the "glints" off your eyeballs and reflections from the retinas. It will work even if you wear glasses, the company said, but needs to be calibrated for each individual.

For now we're looking at the technology as an addition to the mouse and keyboard, making the computer faster to use, but we're hopeful to be seeing blink-of-an-eye computing for the future. After all, eye-tracking devices for researchers and the disabled have been manufactured for years already, but haven't been cost effective for a general audience. This is now starting to change.

ASUS have had a strong tablet showing at CeBIT this year, with their entire range on display at the show. Perhaps the most impressive of all was the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. We give it a quick play in the video above.

Though it's called the Transformer, there's little Optimus Prime style robotics on show here. Instead, the name refers to the optional QWERTY keypad docking bay the Transformer can pair with, allowing for hardware controls should you need to do intensive typing.

Running Android Honeycomb, the tablet is powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core CPU. We found the touchscreen to be incredible responsive to touch, easily the equal of the iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab, with swift multi-tasking and impressive video playback. While the argument for and against a keyboard for tablets rages on (you're only a touchscreen away from a laptop at that point) we came away impressed by the Transformers slick, responsive touch controls, which made it far more user-friendly than many of the tablets we saw launched at MWC.

CeBIT may be more of an information and communications technologies showcase rather than a consumer focussed show, but that doesn't mean there aren't any wacky design concepts on show. Pick of the pile is the ASUS Iris gear.

They're calling Iris an "Adaptive Personal Device", and by that they mean it can transform into any number of forms. The concept video demo showed it working as a wristwatch, projector and tablet, with some sort of stretchable projection screen allowing the Iris to take many forms.

All very futuristic, and all very unlikely to ever make it into a real product. In our lifetimes at least.

Powerline networking is becoming an ever-more convenient way to manage a consistent connection to the internet at home without having unsightly Ethernet cables running along the walls, utilising the electrical wiring of your house to throw data around instead. Devolo are taking the concept to a whole other level with their dLAN 500 AVplus kit, capable of transfer rates of 500 Mbps.

Devolo have achieved this super-fast transfer speed by widening the kit's frequency range and employing a higher modulation rate, to the point where the dLAN 500 AVplus kit can now stream multiple 3D sources around the home. Data prioritisation means that video and voice streams remain stable, even if multiple users are connected to the network simultaneously too.

Fully-backwards compatible with older Devolo powerline kit, the dLAN 500 AVplus will be available by the summer for around 170 Euros.

We take a quick look in the video above.

If there's one unifying factor between all current desktop displays, it's that they need some sort of wired power connection before the screen will fire up. That may not be the case for much longer however, as Fujitsu showed off the world's first truly wireless display at CeBIT 2011 this morning.

The 22 inch screen has neither video nor power cables connecting it to a PC. Instead it uses a wireless data and power transmission protocol known as Smart Universal Power Access (SUPA).

Working on a similar principle to a Powermat or HP Touchstone, the Fujitsu wireless monitor will use magneto-induction and inductive charging to transfer both power and data to the screen. A wireless USB connection between PC and monitor will sync the two together, with the screen powered by inductive charge mats built into your desk. It will allow the user in a limited capability to move the screen around an office (providing there are more compatible workstations available, and no further than 10 metres from the paired PC) without needing to untangle a mess of wiring first.

Though only in the prototype stages at the moment, Fujitsu are looking to have a commercially avaialble model ready for B2B sale by next year. And while talks are already in place concerning implementation in public transport services such as trains and planes, they expect it to be the best part of a decade before the technology is widespread in the home.

Hit the video above to take a look.