We know there was an absolutely stunning amount of stuff going down at CES last week -- yet strangely enough nothing that really stood out. Before Macworld officially gets started let's bring it home with a few of the highlights of the news week you might have missed!
Bill Gates!
Mobile
- New Palm handset teased by Bill Gates himself
- Nokia N95 8GB US! (also, N95 gets red)
- Sony Ericsson announces W760 Walkman slider (hands-on)
- Motorola debuts ROKR E8 (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Mio's dual-front GPS phone concept
- OpenMoko to unveil consumer-minded Neo FreeRunner (hands-on)
- LG's Watch Phone: production please?
- Is this Windows Mobile 7?
- Sony's new mylo (2) now official (with hands-on)
- Sony officially announces Skype on PSP (with ears-on)
- iriver's new APlayer, Volcano and MPlayer Season II DAPs
- iriver's crystal ball predicts upcoming PMP sexiness
- Hands-on with iRiver's new toys
- iriver's CES teaser site fleshes out Lplayer, Spinn
- Sony's Rolly music player / robot coming to the US this spring
- Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive!
- Mitsubishi laser TV unveiled
- HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn
- Sling announces SlingCatcher (again), SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem (with hands-on)
- Sony XEL-1 OLED slips into US stores
- Pioneer's Project Kuro: The 9mm thick, infinite contrast 50-inch plasma HDTV (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Pioneer's extreme contrast concept plasma
- BT Group first to roll out Xbox 360 as IPTV set-top box
- Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system (plus hands-on)
- Live from Panasonic's CES keynote (with Gary Shapiro)
- Panasonic's gigantic 150-inch plasma is official! (with spy shot action)
- Texas Instruments shows off DLP DualView technology
