Well, Bluray have got their first, by ensuring their press conference is the day before HD-DVDs, and therefore they're first to declare that they are winning the format war. But don't worry, no doubt you'll hear something to the contrary tomorrow.

This conference is a chance for spokespeople from the major studios involved to have their say about the format, as well as some other industry figures. First up: David Walstra from Sony Home Entertainment.

He's got some impressive figures. Apparently, in 2011 it's expected that whilst 60% of homes will have an HD- ready TV, only 20% will receive HD broadcasts. So, in order for that missing 40% to take advantage, they're going to have to invest in some discs. But which ones?

Look at you, being all blase. You've seen it all before, haven't you? Modern cynic. Try taking a look at this. He may be familiar from CES, but we got new footage of the R2D2 mobile media centre at London's Toy Fair yesterday, and we know you haven't seen it before.

Don’t you just love your iPod so much you wanna love it and hug it and squeeze it and hold it and caress it? You’re in luck then, because Princess International (what a name) has been showing off these Plush MP3 Speaker & Radios at CES. And there’s no chance of losing your iPod down the side of the sofa when it takes up most of the space anyway.

It is compatible with any iPod or MP3 player and holds your device in a pouch in the back. If you get bored of your own tunes, you can listen to the FM autoscan radio. Only the volume control and on/off switch are mentioned in the spec list so I’m guessing a few of those in the picture are purely ornamental. It is powered by 2 x AA batteries.

No word on price or UK availability yet, but it will come in a choice of three colours – blue, white, and pink.

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I feel like there has been a real lack of decent PC titles in the last few months (especially now that I’ve kicked my WoW habit) and that’s because there’s a lot riding on the back of Windows Vista and its snazzy new DirectX 10 capabilities. Once it’s out though we’re hopefully going to be inundated with great games – Crysis, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Age of Conan, UT 2007 and Quake Wars spring to mind – but you’ll likely need some new PC hardware to run it on any kind of decent setting. And fancy that, Alienware only has a range of snazzy new bits of hardware to get your game on – I checked out the booth at CES and had a quick chat with the product marketing manager, Marc Diana who confirmed the belief that “Vista will have a major impact on games and PC sales” and talked me through the new products.

First up was the Area-51 7500 desktop. Like most of Alienware’s machines, let’s say the design is, err, gamercentric. The cases are definitely a love it or hate it affair and I personally love the way you can program each of the eight or so case lights to show different colours or even shift when you get new email.

In terms of specs, it can all be tailored to personal preference of course, but by default it offers Intel Core 2 Duo processors, SLi graphics and the new NVIDIA 8800 cards (which support DirectX 10), Aegia’s PhysX system and DDR2 RAM up to 1066MHz – yep, that should just about handle Vista.

After the success of their first foray into the Skype phone market, Netgear has followed up with a new version. This time, the handset isn’t limited to Skype calls alone as it doubles up as a DECT cordless handset as well. The obvious advantage to this is that you can have multiple handsets dotted around the house, potentially allowing you to make one call on your normal landline while someone else makes a Skype call.

In fact, Netgear’s marketing person informed us that you can actually have each handset logged into a different Skype account, which in theory makes it possible to have up to four incoming/outgoing calls going through the system at the same time. Sweet. What isn’t clear though, is whether you’ll be able to input text for Skype chats. The previous version didn’t support it so we suspect this one won’t either, which is a bit of shame.

It’s one thing to get all your MP3s and DiVX movies all neatly arranged on to one PC, but it’s another thing entirely to try and get it all back to being shown on your nice big HDTV in the lounge without forking out for a full blown Media Center PC. And it’s even trickier to do so without leaving Ethernet cable coiling through every room of the house, just waiting to trip you up as you creep to bed after a late night Xbox session. Luckily, Netgear has a solution with its newly revamped Digital Entertainer HD, which will search for, access and organise media files from your home PC or Mac, and even access the internet to stream video from YouTube too.

Having seen it in action, it looks like Netgear has done a pretty good job of making the various menu systems easy to use and an extensive search system should be pretty handy if you happen to have a very large collection of porn digital media. The YouTube support looks like it may need some fine tuning before final release as it currently lacks any real resemblance to the site itself. And if you’re worried that YouTube alone is a bit of a narrow choice, there doesn’t seem to be any reason why a quick firmware patch or two couldn’t open up even more options for the device.

CES was festooned with robots last week, like the R2-D2 entertainment-bot, the Spyke spybot, and Honda's awesome Asimo. I didn't manage to hook up with French firm Aldebaran Robotics, which has been working on its own humanoid robot for a couple of years now. The company says it's aiming to create a robo-companion that's more than just a novelty toy.

Anyway, Aldebaran's AL-05 prototype has made a cheeky debut online, with four video clips released on the company's website.

You may have heard about Electric-Spin's Golf Launchpad product already: it's a golf product for PS2, PC and Mac that lets you swing proper golf clubs to take your shots. It measures your swing speed, path and angle, and then translates it into shots in EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour game.

Anyway, at CES, Electric-Spin was showing off the next version of the product, which is a collaboration with digital TV firm NDS. It's a set-top box edition of Golf Launchpad, which will let you play along with golfers during televised tournaments. Take on Tiger! And then look like a buffoon when you trail in 72 shots behind, obviously. That's it there in the photo, by the way.

While at CES last week, I caught up with Mark Heinrich, chief technology officer and co-founder of Phanfare. It's an online photo and video sharing service that stands out through its use of a subscription model, charging $54.95 a year.

"We have the audacity to charge our customers money!" he told me. "That's why we call them customers, and not users. And because there's no advertising, we don't turn your private photo albums into some kind of billboard for adverts or print-ordering services."

Phanfare started in January 2005, and now has over 5,000 users, 80% of whom pay the annual subscription fee (as opposed to the monthly or lifetime options that are available). And Heinrich has strong views on the prospects - or lack of - for Phanfare's free competition.

So it's over. The geeks have left town, and there's nowt to do in Vegas but drink and gamble.

Time, then, for us to show you the top 10 videos you've liked the most - the little things we filmed that our counters tell us were most popular with you, the readers. Not only are you everyone's person of the year, but you contributed to Tech Digest in your own special way. I hope that makes you feel good.

1. Asimo. Nuff said.

2. Feeling fat? Want exercise, but don't want to stop playing video games? Put down that Wii and get on your bike. Not that one, silly, the one that plugs into your game. Drive that car with your thighs of steel mush that will soon become steel. Unless you get bored and go back to killing hookers on GTA.

We featured the DocuPen RC800 not long back - it's a pen-sized tool that offers full colour scanning of documents, which can then be saved to a PC or PDA or sent via email. If that appeals to you, you will be pleased to know that it's been improved and now comes with a range of optional add-ons.

The latest DocuPen RC800 has a built-in processor, 8 MB on-board flash memory, a slot for MicroSD memory cards to further increase scanning capacity and is powered by a Li-Ion rechargeable battery. The latest version also offers a 24-bit colour scanning option as well as the 12-bit colour, greyscale and monochrome scanning modes.

The Hillcrest Labs stand was hidden away at the back of a distant hall at CES, but hid one of my favourite things from CES.

It's a remote control which can control all your media, thanks to their software. And it's operable simply by moving your wrist. Thanks to it's gyroscopic capabilities you don't even need to point it at the television, since it 'just knows' when you're moving. It's due to be integrated into televisions in late 2007, where it will appear under the brand of the television manufacturers.

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After two days walking the show-floor of CES ferreting out stories, I'm shattered. So when Chinese firm Shenzhen Breeze Technology asked me if I wanted to buy a $25 gadget that would relax me by massaging my eyes and temples, I signed up straight away.

It's called the iSee200 Eye & Brain Massager, and can apparently remove eye fatigue, prevent short sightedness, and eliminate bags under the eyes. Hurrah! It works by massaging you with rubber tippy things, while playing relaxing sounds like birdsong and waves. Watch the hands-on vid below for more details.

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Okay, I might be over-egging a bit. But it is pretty marvellous. This home audio system was on the Technosonic stand at CES, the same one that had the Mini Washer. And it looks like a tweaked version of the AEW411 Gramophone Style Nostalgic Music Center on the firm's website.

Anyway, it has a CD player, an AM/FM radio, and a turntable capable of playing at 33 and a half, 45 or 78 RPM. Oh, and a cassette deck, whatever that is. Anyone? Dad?

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Koss has unveiled a pair of rather swish pair of Bluetooth headphones called Cobalt. They have a unique white and gold finish and a behind the head design that looks similar to the Motorola HT820s. They don't specifically state A2DP but we're assuming that's what they use.

The internal Li-Ion battery give and approximate battery life of eight hours and it is designed to give an extended frequency response. Koss also supplies a Bluetooth transmitter that will fit your computer/MP3 player/whatever with it.

Check out the Koss Tugos on the turn.

This latest addition to the EXILIM series offers 7.2 megapixel picture resolution along with a 7x internal optical zoom. Despite the large zoom it is still enjoys a pretty slim form factor (just 1" thick) and that makes it the thinnest 7x zoom camera available. You can also pop into 3 megapixel shooting mode and enjoy a 10x zoom using digital enhancement without a drop in picture quality.

The new Auto Tracking AF function follows moving subjects, keeping them continuously in focus until the photo is taken and it uses a newly redesigned EXILIM 2.0 image processor. It also boasts a mechanical CCD image stabilisation function that works alongside Casio's Anti- Shake DSP to keep image blur to minimum.

Along with the usual array of picture modes, it has a new ebay mode. The eBay Best Shot takes photos at a size that is optimised for display on eBay, allowing you quickly create photos for selling items on eBay. eBay Best Shot mode also includes Auto Macro, a setting designed for capturing images of small items such as jewellery, tags, etc.

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One major advantage of Sonso wireless home music system is that the company can constantly continuing to upgrade its feature set via firmware upgrades. The latest addition is support for Windows Media DRM protected tracks - that means if you download music from the likes of AOL Music Now, MTV Networks’ URGE, Napster, Wal-Mart, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and the Zune Marketplace you'll be able to play them over your Sonos system. The news also earned Sonos a place at the luxurious Microsoft booth at CES.

“We’re excited about the tremendous support and enthusiasm Sonos is providing for Windows Vista at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,” said Brad Goldberg, general manager for Windows Client at Microsoft Corp. “By working closely together we are helping to provide technologies that will connect, entertain and hopefully surprise people by how easy this next generation of computing makes their lives.”

In other news, which Microsoft probably wanted to dumb down, the Sonos 2.1 software release also includes improved playlist and volume normalization support for Apple iTunes 7.0.

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When my mobile screen gets dirty, I tend to just give it a wipe on my jumper. But Alpine Innovations has other ideas, with its Mini Spudz range of screen cleaners.

They're basically a 2x6-inch micro-fibre cloth sewn inside a mini neoprene pouch, which clips onto your mobile phone, digital camera, PSP or whatever. When it needs a wipe, pull out the cloth, before stuffing it back in the bag when you're done.

Alpine doesn't sell them direct, mind. It manufactures them for companies with customised designs. But I thought they were pretty cool. If you fancy a few, you can order them in runs of 30, 150, 250, 500, 1,000 or 2,500.

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You know what's wrong with your house? It doesn't have enough PCs. You need a PC for your work (running Vista) a Media Center PC (or one running the right version of Vista) for your living room so you watch your digital media and record TV. And you need a laptop (running Vista) to keep you working hard on the way to the office, and a UMPC (with the new UMPC version of Vista) for when you want to travel light. Plus you need phone running Windows Mobile. Oh and get one of those HP TouchSmart PCs for your Kitchen - they run Vista as well. Now you're all set. No, wait - now that you've gone and bought all those PCs, you'll need a server to keep all your data safe and and well organised.

Fortunately for you, Microsoft and HP have just come up with the HP MediaSmart server. It runs the new and previously only rumoured Home Media Server OS and is designed to keep all your important home media - music, video, pics, documents, etc - in check when you're running a large home network. It can keep your data safe by duplicating information across hard drives. Interesting this doesn't use the traditional RAID system as that wasn't user-friendly enough and the advantage of the new system is that you can pop up to 4 SATA hard drives in and out of the unit without too much risk of mucking everything up. It also takes USB storage device in the front slots.

One of the more intriguing features of Windows Vista is Windows SideShow, which allows auxiliary devices to display information received wirelessly from a Windows Vista laptop or PC. Al's just done a post on some of its uses in other gadgets.

Smart fabrics firm Eleksen has incorporated the technology into a bag - or at least has created the module that will allow actual bag manufacturers to do it. For those of you with long memories, you might remember Eleksen head honcho Robin Shephard alluding to it when we interviewed him last year.

"The way it works is it exports data from your laptop, which you can keep in the bag, to the screen on the outside," John Collins, VP of marketing and business development at Eleksen, told me when I visited the company's CES stand. "You can have it waking up regularly to refresh the data, or just synchronise it once at the start of the day, and have that data on the bag screen all day."