The benefit of owning a Sonoro dock is that you don't have to hate yourself. They actually look and sound pretty good. Two of the upgrades from CES 2009 are the Eclipse eDock and the Elements W internet radio - that's the one in the picture above.

Both feature the high gloss laquer and acrylic finish, the brushed metal navigation wheel and crisp and clear OLED displays. The Elements W is the simpler and probably less expensive of the two. It's an FM and Wi-Fi internet radio giving you access to Vladivostok FM and all the other 10,000 channels on the web.

Many of the companies exhibiting at CES have been going for years, but one company is making its first trip - Switzerland's Victorinox. The makers of the original Swiss Army Knife are exhibiting this - the "Presentation Pro", which comes with a flip-out 32GB USB drive.

Your data will be protected by a fingerprint scanner, and there's a laser pointer and bluetooth remote, as well as the standard knife, scissors and nail file. It'll be shipping in May in the US, and it'll cost $330 (£216). Just don't take it on business trips abroad.

Victorinox (via Engadget)

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I knew that not long after reeling off LG's massive line of new HDTVs then along would come someone else with lots of TVs to brag about.

That's Samsung.

Here we go, then, with the latest high definition TVs from the South Korean technology giant.

First on the list is the new 8000, 7000, and 6000 Series of LED HDTVs which boast better environmental credentials and over 40% less energy usage to LCD TVs of a similar size. Fortunately, Dan's already done a sterling job reviewing these tellies so I'll move on to Samsung's other new displays.

Here's HP's netbook, the Mini 2140. It's really rather nice, packing a good size keyboard, 10.1" screen and 80GB SSD. Decent price, too - but I'll let Zara reveal that one. Check out the video above to find out.

(via Shiny Shiny)

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Pioneer has been showing off its latest range of Blu-ray players, upconverting DVD player, and AV receivers.

First up is a new collection of advanced Blu-ray players, all capable of handling BD Live for advanced disc features.

The BDP-120 and BDP-320 are aimed at consumers who want a simple high definition disc player right out of the box and come with 1GB of memory (either via a flash drive or internal memory), full BD-Live functionality, USB and Ethernet ports, True24FPS feature for realistic reproduction of discs recorded at 24fps, full support of all high resolution audio formats including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD bitstream output, and up to 7.1-channel analogue output.

It's all well and good you sitting there, staring at the Palm Pre and imagining yourself navigating its menus after having successfully blagged one for free off your provider, but what about the needs of the blind? You haven't considered them at all, have you, you selfish little shit?

That's an issue Stevie Wonder is in Las Vegas to raise, highlighting the fact that the new wave of touch screen gadgets is making many of today's hot new electric toys impossible for blind users to operate.

I've just had a quick look in the archives, and it's been a long time since we covered an actual joystick product, as opposed to some sort of joystick-related piece of art or hackery. For the few of you who still use a joystick, then (flight sim enthusiasts?), here's the Thrustmaster T.16000M.

It's got some brand new tech, called H.E.A.R.T., which pretends to stand for "Hall Effect AccuRate Technology". Some "Hall Effect" magnets sit on the stick, giving the sensors far more precision than most other joysticks. On each axis, there's over 16,000 different values. That's a little ridiculous, but might be worth buying if the person with the steadiest hands in the world is your Secret Santa next year, and is a big flight-sim enthusiast.

The T.16000M is ambidextrous, comes with 16 action buttons, and offers a wide hand rest and weighted base as additional features. It'll be available in February and cost £50. That seems fairly cheap. Maybe I should give it a shot.

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There was a chap sitting next to me on the plane on the way out here from a company named Morel. It didn't surprise me that he turned out to be a CES 2009 exhibitor of a high end audio product after he pulled out a pair of electrostatic membrane in-ear headphones to plug into his arm rest. What did surprise me was that his product, The Fat Lady, won an award for innovation here at Vegas and, fortunately, I had a few hours for it to be explained to me in detail, and this is how it goes...

There's two reasons why these loudspeakers are called The Fat Lady. The obvious one is that they're shaped like the curves of a voluptuous woman. What's more the drive units were made in house to make sure the output matched and perfectly complimented the cabinet shape and acoustics. The second reason, however, is the more important of the two.

The insides of The Fat Lady, driver withstanding, are completely empty. There are no materials to dampen the sound and stop it from interfering with the output from the drivers which most speakers try to do. The trouble is, that as much as you can reduce the effect, it's impossible to dampen it out completely.

Gosh, what a long list of product names. No time for a long, gratuituous intro then, let's jump straight into specs.

The big hitters are the EX-FS10 and EX-FC100. The former has a 9.1-megapixel sensor and 3x optical zoom. It's 16.3mm thin, and has a 2.5" LCD display. The latter is also 9.1 megapixel, and expands to a 5x zoom and 2.7" display. It's also got CMOS anti-shake.

Impressively, though, they can both capture at amazingly high speeds - 30 shots-per-second 6-megapixel still images, and movies at up to 1,000fps. That speed is going to good use, too - you can set it to take a burst, and automatically pick the least blurred, smiliest, eyes-open photo, or you can pick the best one yourself. It'll also do 720p HD video. $350 (£231) for the EX-FS10, and $400 (£264) for the EX-FC100, both out in April in the UK, prices here TBC.

This has blown my mind. I'm sitting here, mind blown, and it's only day two of the show. Where to go from here?

This game, called the Mindflex, allows you to control the levitation of a ball, using just your mind. I know, right?

Previously known as "Nova", Palm has just rechristened and launched its new OS "Web OS". It's an amazingly dreary name for a collection of concepts that could reshape how we use our mobile mobiles (but probably won't). The bottom line is that Palm is bending head-over-heels to make their platform easy for developers - so easy that they reckon anyone who knows HTML, CSS and XML will be able to write an app.

The UI, even though I detest the comparison, is very iPhone-like. You flick the display to scroll around, and there's various gestures that you can use, too. Everything's managed with a 'cards' metaphor, where you see a deck that can be rotated with a finger and shuffled. The biggest feature, though, is something called "Synergy".

Dan got hands on with the latest media player from Samsung, which boasts a full touchscreen. You can read all about it here, but watch the vid for real life moving pictures.

Sony may have revealed its Cybershot G3 Wi-Fi enabled camera which we (apparently) are not going to get a sniff off in the UK, but we've got three Cyber-shot cameras of our own to keep us busy.

I'm not sure if these have been shown at CES or not, but everything else seems to have been, so this is where I'll pretend we've seen them first.

The W210, W220 and S950 are compact digital cameras with a fairly standard set of features. Is it worth getting excited about them? Read on and find out.

The Cyber-shot W210 and W220 models both offer 12.1 megapixels, Carl Zeiss lens, 4x optical zoom, smile shutter and face detection (so hopefully you'll catch shiny happy people in your photos), intelligent scene recognition, 30mm wide angle lens, and a range of body colours - silver, black, blue, pink and green, depending on the model.

The rumours were true. Palm's got a brand new device to go with its spangly new Nova operating system. All we knew previously was that it had a portrait touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but now there's a bit more info to go with it.

That touchscreen measures 3.1" diagonally, at 480x320 resolution. The slide-out keyboard doesn't come straight out - it sorta curves. There's oodles of connectivity - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and EVDO. There's a removable battery, 8GB of storage, microUSB connector, 3-megapixel camera, a nifty-looking wireless charger and - YAY! - a 3.5mm headphone jack.

It's running the new Nova OS, but more about that in another post. It'll be available in the "first half" of 2009. In the meantime, for more CES coverage, click here.

EDIT: Palm's launched a website for the device and OS.

(via Gizmodo's liveblog)

Below, you'll find the Sony keynote liveblog, but I feel I should warn you, it went on for two hours. I'd recommend reading this if you're completely up to date on every other CES related piece of news. There are, however, a few 'sleb spots for you to enjoy.

So we were expecting Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, and we got Tom Hanks. He looks... old. He needs his eyes doing. On the plus side, he's quite funny. Is he as funny as Howard Stringer? We shall see.

Oops. I've just fallen in love with Tom Hanks. He's fucking brilliant.

Oh, and Angels & Demons is out in May, which is a shame.

Oh god - from Tom Hanks to talk of the recession. Seamless.

By 2011, 90% of Sony products will connect wirelessly to each other. Finally. We're onto some product news.

Gosh, Sony's new Cybershot G3 camera has an inbuilt web browser! Eat that, Eye-Fi. You can log on to a wireless hotspot, and surf the web to your heart's content. Disclaimer - depending on the sites that your heart wants to render, it may not end up 100% content.

Sony provides a "Easy Upload" homepage, with quick links to Shutterfly, Picasa, Dailymotion, Photobucket and YouTube (no Flickr?). It'll store your login information, too, so you don't have to type it in on the 3.5" touchscreen every time. But what about the camera itself? It's got a 10 megapixel sensor, 4x optical zoom and Face Detection, along with 4GB of internal storage. Available right now, for $500 (£330).

(via Gizmodo)

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LG has decided that it hasn't released nearly enough high definition TVs already, and so is spending this year's CES showing off a jaw-dropping eleven new series (yes series, not just models) of plasma and LCD TVs.

So that you aren't bored witless with every detailed specification, here's an overview of what's on offer.

Let's take a look at the LCD TVs first.

I'm sure there's a competition among camcorder manufacturers this year to see what the biggest optical zoom they can put on their latest models is. Sony's latest standard definition camcorders boast a 60x optical zoom.

Sony's has launched nine new models in its SX range, with features including a choice of recording formats (DVD, hard disc or Memory Stick) depending on model, one second quick start-up, SteadyShot image stabilisation and Carl Zeiss lens.

Samsung is just one of several companies showing off its latest range of camcorders, with a model to suit most consumer needs, from YouTube enthusiasts to budding high definition filmmaker. We've already seen the H Series of HD handhelds, but Samsung is also catering for those who haven't jumped on to the high definition bandwagon yet, but are most definitely riding along on the YouTube train.

The SMX-F34 camcorder can't boast the same filming resolution as the H Series - we're talking strictly standard definition (up to 720 x 480) here -- but it does have a ridiculously large 34x optical zoom range that can be boosted to 42x with the Intelli-Zoom function.

This beauty is the new Sony WALKMAN X range - featuring a 3" OLED touch screen to make videos look marginally better than they have ever looked before. Although they won't look very good when you've had your fingers all over the screen for six months.

The X1050 and X1060 both feature digital noise cancelling technology, FM tuners, the 3" 432x240 screen and come with 16 or 32GB of storage space. Here's a big photo of it, as it's rather pretty. That's not my music. That's someone else's music.

The WALKMAN X is even packed with a wi-fi chip and custom BBC iPlayer tool for watching telly wherever there's some wireless broadband to nick, plus it'll do YouTube and play MP4 videos, WMVs and H.264 material. Sony says you'll be able to have a WALKMAN X in "spring 2009" - and we think quite a few people will be taking it up on that offer.

There's more like this on our vast CES 2009 mega-page.