At CES 2009, Dan got his hands (or eyes?) on Vuzix's Wrap 920AVs that I was getting excited about here. They're every bit as awesome as promised, apparently, but Dan also managed to wheedle out a price from them - they're looking at $399 (£274), and a 'summertime' release (for the US, presumably).

Vuzix

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While ecigarettes are ten-a-penny in the UK, there's only one manufacturer of them in the USA. Zara, ever the detective, managed to track them down. Not just cigarettes, though - cigars, cigarette holders, everything!

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The LOK8U GPS child tracker watch by nu.m8 has got a lot of servers wagging. I'll do my best to avoid all the usual outrage but suffice to say, I'm not convinced it's the best idea I've ever seen.

It's essentially just a standard watch with a GPS chip fitted and you can then go to the nu.m8 locator site and get a lock on your kid. The watch itself is waterproof, robust and "designed to look cool" so that your kid will a) wear it, and b) not get kicked in for doing so. The trouble is, of course, that all the other kids will know what it means.

I don't really have the cupboard space or the cash to fill my life with gaming furniture when I've got a perfectly good sofa, but then my sofa doesn't vibrate, output 2.1 channel audio or pulse with LEDs. That's what you'd buy the XRocker Vibe for, as pictured here beneath the feet of a concentrating GH player.

The chick with the heels in the background obviously can't handle the heavy vibrations the device shoots up your legs with the full power of an overclocked subwoofer. The idea is that you feel the game as well as hear it and see it, but then I suppose we're all familiar with rumble packs by now.

One of the quirkier stories to come out of CES this year was the partnership between Digital Blue and LEGO which will see a number of kid-centric gadgets produced with the iconic plastic brick look.

This isn't build it yourself, unfortunately, so don't think you'll be able to buy a box full of LEGO pieces, a CMOS sensor, LCD and a few buttons and create your own digital camera. It's just the look, rather than the actual coloured blocks, but that's probably just as well as it would be pretty irritating to drop said camera and have it break into a hundred pieces.

Susi was lucky enough to get her her hands on the swivelly Asus T91 in Vegas that we originally covered here. It's got a GPS unit, a touchscreen and a TV tuner - quite nifty for an 8.9" netbook. Can't wait to try Windows 7 on it.

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Last week's International Consumer Electronics Show drew just 110,000 visitors - the lowest turnout in many years. Last year, the show admitted 141,000 people and CES had predicted that 130,000 people would attend, but both of those figures proved unattainable, likely due to the state of the world's economy.

The robotics section is always a good place for a nose around if you want a few giggles at CES and there was certainly no disappointment this year after I bumped into the Yorisoi ifbot.

Made in Japan, of course, the ifbot is a prototype AI life unit designed as a companion for the elderly. It talks slowly and clearly, it's very respectful and it even looks a bit doddery as well with its half closed eyes and I'm-in-a-wheelchair-too look.

The Business Design Laboratory company of Nagoya, Japan, hopes future models will be fully networked and act as internet deterrifiers by offering services like online shopping and news through simple voice commands rather than a mouse and keyboard. For now though, the 17.5" tall ifbot is limited to 15 activities including calculation, quizes, old songs, old news (olds?), medical checks and being spoken to for hours at a time about the war - seriously. According to the literature, it "loves being talked to by his master".

After Dan covered the Wave-Home multimedia communicator the other day, I did a little more digging, and found a bunch of other matching products that iRiver unveiled at CES.

I've always quietly been a fan of iRiver's design work. Their latest MP3 players look incredible, and these sleek new gadgets wouldn't be out of place in a documentary called "The home of 2100". Click the Wave-Home below to view the gallery.

iRiver (via Akihabaranews)

At CES, Panasonic announced its latest line of Blu-ray players. The DMP-BD60 and DMP-BD80 offer all the latest features you'd expect from a decent player, including full high definition audio format decoding, upconversion of standard definition DVDs, VIERA Link and 24p processing, as well as VIERA Cast which allows access to Amazon's video-on-demand service.

There's also P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD) which gives a superior picture by processing over 15 billion pixels per second, PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus, and 96kHz surround re-mastering of audio.

Couldn't make it to Vegas? Fret ye not, we did and we'll be all over it until CES 2009 is done. We'll be updating this page with all the coverage we can unearth.

I'll be here representing for TD with Susi and Zara from Shiny Shiny and between us and Duncan, Gary and Andy back home, we'll fill this post with more stories than you can brush your teeth with.

Friday

Tasty dock/radios from Sonoro here
Motorola A3100 Surf captured on vid here
Sony Vaio P mini laptop on video here
Stream HD quality audio with the i2i Stream here
Novint Falcon gaming gone for first person shooters on the PC here
The Android running GiiNii Movit PMP right here
The Wave-Home multimedia communicator of next Tuesday from iRiver here
Seal Shield washable computer peripherals here
Sony Walkman W and Z series upclose and personal here
Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick here
Touchscreen gadgets alienate blind tech fans, says schoolground blind icon Stevie Wonder here
Pioneer unveils new Blu-ray and upconverting DVD players, new AV receivers here
HP Mini 2140 netbook here
Samsung reveals huge range of new LCD and plasma HD tellies here
Victorinox presents the Presentation Pro Swiss Army Knife here

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Susi went for a wander down to the Sony stand at CES 2009 to take a look at the latest Walkman the portable music original has to offer. Personally I'm not convinced by the song selection on the smaller and otherwise well designed W series but the touchscreen 32GB touchscreen Sony Walkman X looks very interesting indeed. See what you think.

The tech binge continues - more from CES 2009.

I put my socks through a dishwasher once when my washing machine was broken but I've never done the same for my gadgets. The idea of getting your keyboard, mouse, etc, clean as a whistle is a good one though and if you purchase a device from Seal Sheild, that's exactly what you can do.

No longer do you need to put up with sticky germ infested pieces of electronics. Now you can just wash and go to bring them back to a storefront shine. If you're still unconvinced, all devices come with a three year warranty and are 100% waterproof.

They also come with antimicrobial properties to make them even more hygemnic and wirless options to choose from as well. I'm impressed.

They start from $39.99 at Seal Shield

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You can get a Wii controller for just about anything now, from maracas to kitchen utensils, but it's good to see somone sticking to the basics - in this case, a gun. The Sure Shot Rifle from CTA is only available on Amazon at the moment but Zara and I had a look at one at CES 2009.

The idea of using gun controllers in games is nothing entirely new but what the Sure Shot does is integrate both the Wiimote and the Nunchuck very neatly into the top of the device which then takse over the functionality with buttons along the side of the gun.

Better still, and probably most gimmickly of all, you can take the barrel off to turn it into a sawn of rifle and then the stock to make it a sawn off shot gun. Sadly it makes sod all difference to the gameplay but it probably feels more appropriate if you're playing House of the Dead.

$57.99 here

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iRiver has gone pretty balls out with their lead product at this year's CES. The iRiver Wave-Home is the kind of gadget you'd expect to see in an early 90s Hollywood vision of the future. I'm thinking Total Recall here.

It doesn't look unlike a digital photoframe with its WVGA 7" TFT-LCD screen but that's about where the similarity ends. It's an attempt at what a marketing department might refer to as a game changer which is usually the prelude to a something falling on its arse, but I'm not so sure in this case.

The Wave-Home is a coffe table multimedia device. I can see it lurking on a kitchen work surface somewhere just out of reach of the fat spatterings of the hob and crumbs from a broken toaster. Is that just my place?

There hasn't been a massive amount of ground breaking stuff at this year's CES, but the MoveIt Mini from relative unknowns GiiNii has brought a warm glow to the depths of our cynical tech hearts. They're branding it an alternative to the iPod Touch, and for once, they're complete justified.

On the face of it, it's a WiFi enabled media player. With rubbish memory - just 256MB onboard. However, look under the hood and you'll find a MicroSD slot, so you can expand it to your hearts content. And even better, you'll find Android.

One of the CES 2009 innovation awards this year went to the i2i Stream which was initally explained very badly to me at the booth. I'll endeavour to do a better job of telling you why this little device is indeed an excellent gadget.

The Stream does what it begins to say on the tin. The system consists of two identical mini terminals which stream uncompressed HD quality audio wirelessly at 2.4GHz from one to the other. It doesn't matter which you choose to send with and which you use to receive. That can be switched at the touch of a button.

How do you make Left 4 Dead even better than it already is? The answer: play it with the Novint Falcon pistol grip mouse controller complete with authentic recoil action. It was hard to tear myself away from this one at CES 2009. Take a look and you'll see what I mean...

It's unlikely to be able to compete with the speeds of the trusty old mouse for hardcore PC gamers but it does add a certain edge to first person shooters, for how long though is another question.

More, more and more from CES 2009.

If the talk this year at CES 2009 has been about any one piece of hardware, it's been the Sony Vaio P Series non-netbook UMPC. We'd be doing you a serious diservice if we hadn't sent Susi down to take a closer, more camcodered look at the the full size keyboard, 8" LCD really expensive machine. So, we did...

Get deeper into CES 2009 with our wealth of coverage here.

There's a saying at Motorola that they never met a operating system they didn't like. Mercifully, the Motorola Surf or A3100, depending upon whether you're man or machine, works on a sensible if not particularly my favourite platform.

Zara took a look at the Windows 6.1, touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera plus trackball device. Not bad for the much maligned mobile company.

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