CES 2006: Sony launches new Micro Vault flash drives

You can never have enough USB flashdrives, especially when they’re as good looking as the new Micro Vault models from Sony – even if the growing list of variations can be a bit befuddling on the old hungover brain


CES 2006: Panasonic SC-HT940 and SC-RT50 home cinema systems

Panasonic is building on the success of last year’s CES showstormer – its wireless home cinema system – by adding two new models which come with an interesting (and proprietary) variation on HDMI


CES 2006: Panasonic’s 103-inch 1080p Full HD TV

Panasonic wowed the crowds at CES with its biggest plasma TV to date – a 103-inch model that also happens to boast an image resolution of 1080p - the highest possible quality for a high definition set


CES 2006: Nokia heads-up for Bluetooth

We didn’t expect much from Nokia at CES 2006 and frankly we weren’t disappointed. The Finnish phone company announced just three new products and upgrades for two more


CES 2006: Blu-ray and HD DVD are go

This is it. After months – no years – of speculation, the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps have finally pulled on their boxing gloves and are going to be slugging it out in the only bare-knuckle bout that matters: the fight for the hearts, minds and, most importantly, wallets of US consumers


CES 2006: Canon widescreen camcorders

Canon has launched four new camcorders at CES 2006 – all with widescreen LCDs to help you create suitably cinematic movies at home


CES 2006: InFocus IN72, IN74EX and IN76 DLP projectors

InFocus has just announced three new DLP projectors at CES offering affordable 480p, mid-range 576p and hi-def 720p models


CES 2006: Sony takes on TomTom, Garmin with Nav-U NV-U70 satnav

Sony has been trying – and largely failing – to get into in-car satellite navigation for a while now, but this could be its best effort yet


CES 2006: The trouble with Sony’s prototype 1080p LCD TV

Howard Stringer’s non-apology for the whole rootkit debacle at his CES 2006 keynote Wednesday was joined by more disappointing news from the company - this time on its stand in the Central Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center


CES 2006: Innovation Award highlights

CES 2006 may still be two weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped the organisers from handing out gongs for the year’s most innovative products. Here are just some of the winner