Consumer Electronics Show 2006

Those that pay homage, bended, at the booted feet of Pat Gelsinger or those who covet the curves of a Jobsian design or, indeed, those who embrace the spodliness of William Gates III's winderful vision of the future could soon be dancing in their pizza.

For the age is upon us where every consumer device will come sporting a chip. The computer boys always wanted to play ball in the consumer electronics marketplace. This year they arrive in force.

In Las Vegas, the geeks have been strutting around the Consumer Electronics Show like they own the place.

Luckily, raincoat-wearing hacks with INQUIRER business cards stuffed in their titfers have been on hand to record the happenings.

Here are their reports:

Tuesday 03 January 2006
Intel licenses tech from Taiwan audio firm
Wossat noise?
Microsoft makes bid to scupper Skype
Beast links with Uniden over VoIP phone

Vista logo, Intel spin, INQ gamblers jazz up CES
Opening Gambit
World's largest LCD screen shown off
Largest plasmas too
Blu-Ray disks get their cases
Neither pretty nor DVD-shaped

Nvidia's high end G71 to sample next week
No hard launch till February
ATI's RD580 is Crossfire Xpress 3200
Dual PCIe 16X get its name
ATI's X1900XTX name game explained
Platinum Edition tarnished
Cheer the INQ on in CES charity bash
Knees up

Wednesday 04 January 2006
Skype, Logitech team up on VoiP hype
Dancing with the devil
D-Link shows off streaming HD media server
Dribble
Real prizes available on Vodafone Live!
Up for grabs

Netgear gets into mobile handsets
Wireless phone for Skype
500 sardines watch 103-inch Panasonic plasma display
Hot and sweaty

Thursday 05 January 2006
Real-time traffic info launched for Symbian
Avoid those jams with your mobile
Bill Gates says Vista is fabtastic and convergent
And so it came to ke pas
Asus Lamborghini notebook arrives
Alongside a pink one

CES Setup: Chaos on wheels
And the new INQ wheels
Finally, a good HMD arrives
And a tiny projector
Leopard and flower print mice
And a Mac Keyboard

A real memory stick breakthrough breaks through
At last, it lives up to the hype
Cheap RC helicopter, the ultimate office terror device
And a cheap GPS nav system

Intel's Yonah pixellated in full
A team effort
Dell shows off 30 incher in spy shots
And HP's TV line
Dual lens Kodak camera released
And a bunch of LG phones
24 Karat PC revealed plus motor sickle roars
More stuff from around the show
Memorex to ship HD DVD and BD-R media in April
Priceless

Charlie run over by Intel car
Splat.
TDK shows off 100GB Blu-ray drives
Prototypes
Sony dead quiet on Playstation 3
Video whets appetite, a bit
Sony stands by 10-year console commitment
Easy PSPeasy
Commodore comes back as a handheld
Box of tricks
Panasonic to ship Blu-Ray drives in March
Hushed on HD-DVD
Samsung releases largest LCD camera
Battery packed
Nvidia found missing in action
Is it the night life, Baby?

Nvidia wants $250,000 to certify your memory
Quite a lot for a stamp, chaps
Toshiba shows off HD DVD player
Ready for home rock and role
Alienware showcases new laptop range
14-incher in the family
Intel has much better carpets than Microsoft
Viiv gets showing

Friday 06 January 2006
Ringtones tip up for your car
Inventor wins prize @ CES
Samsung taunts HD DVD camp
Questions marketing strategy
ATI puts two fingers up to Nvidia
Two X1600 cards inside and R580 behind the closed doors
Intel gives Microsoft last Viiv warning
Modifies Inside tune, concentrates Vole, pulls in Dell
Microsoft is Intel Viiv's evil twin
Services to come

ATIs new chipset support HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
Sandisk flashes drive for gaming systems
Flash git
Imation wrists flash drives from the jaws of de feet
Useful gizmo
Constructed Communities Association kicks out the jams
Lady Marmalade
FireGL R520 scheduled for spring
Waiting for the design refresh cycle

Nvidia previews Geforce Go 7600
Dell has the design
Google deal with Motorola expected
Plan to dominate 3G space
INQUIRER wins Charity PC race
$10,000 for a good cause
Voodoo PC has an AMD Turion design
It's a doll
Ferrari monitor arrives for Ferrari notebooks
Is it new?

Handtop PC uses dual chip at different speeds
Schizophrenic Cores
Nvidia's G71 still not in OEM, distributors hands
Behind the R580 schedule
Mobile TV demoed @ CES
Modeo TV on Motorolas and Nokias
AGEIA PhysX card demo pictured
BFG is exclusive for the states
X1900 XT All in Wonder to follow up R580 launch
Expected in February
Microsoft shows off Vista Beta 2
We saw it and tried it
Microsoft Explorer 7.0 looks and feels like Firefox
We tried beta, public beta in Q2

Saturday 07 January
S3 Chrome box heads into retail
Crows stoned
Odd Gadget of the Day revealed
Now you never have to move
Wild 'n Wonderful World of CES Exposed
Nuts, anyone?
AMD party so secret no one showed up
Who? What? Where?
Intel introduces cuddly
The inanity continues

Robin Williams upstages Larry Page
French jokes cause news blackout
No launch of low cost Google PC
Page couldn't possibly comment
Fatality mouse shown off
Rodentia Fatalis
Linksys shows off three new toys
Wireless spins of the old ones

Motorised pool raft floated
Can we cross the Channel on one?
Samsung and Pentax cameras snap to attention
Snip snap snorum
Monarch Hornet SLI SFF revealed
Shoebox meets twin cards
Nvidia and Dell announce quad SLI
Not shipping it till spring
Microsoft recommends ATI hardware for Vista
Hardware requirements revealed

G71 to arrive later than expected
R580 comes first
Toshiba to ship HD DVD drives in March
Both Desktop and notebooks
G7800 GTX 512 to ship in a week or two
Some volumes
INQ cleans up its act
When I'm cleaning Windows, Linux …

Voice privacy secret found in Italian bistro
Drown out boring tech hacks
MediaFLO discovered live @ CES
Working with Samsung, LG
Rok won't licence patented video tech
Hands off
Eva Glass may live in Las Vegas
She's everywhere and no-where, baby

Sunday 08 January
Viiv continues to confound
Just what the heck is it?
Sapphire X1600Pro HDMI gets sound
So far, they are the only one
Dell's Quad SLI: A story in pictures
Consumer Electronics Show 2006 A picture anyway

Mobile app was Yahoo, not Google
And Nokia not Motorola … pah!
Plasma wars cause hasty word changes
Samsung, Panasonic in war of the words

Monday 09 January
Samsung prepares Blu-ray, HD DVD combo drive
Standard wrangle buster

Tuesday 10 January
Mobile app was Yahoo, not Google
And Nokia not Motorola … pah!
Motorola and Google get cosy after all
Announcement got buried at CES
Pacman meets a squid
More toys from sin city
Sony showed off Playstation 3s at CES
But the boxes were empty
Motorised skateboards invade Vegas
More fun stuff from the show
Asetek Waterchill radiator gets monetary boost
And a pile of VC cash
What sort of mouse is a Skype mouse?
Really useful

Wednesday 11 January 2006
Memory keys reach status of wampum
Trinkets & beads
World's smallest PSU tips up
Smaller than most connectors
HD-DVD cases worse than Blu-Ray's
Dumb designers, no cookie
iPod-alike we like
Korean PMP firm offers anti-iPod
Gaming goodness served up at CES
D&D Online and Titan Quest
Ricavision impresses with a media-box beauty
Set-top VIIV

Thursday 12 January 2006
Norcent LCD TVs deliver on 2005 promises
Want a cheap LCD?
HD camera will fit in your pocket
Sanyo pulls it off
Coolest toy of CES unearthed: Robotis Bioloid
Lego Mindstorms step aside
Google brings death claw to CES
WMDs disguised as toys
Mew MVidia part at CES
Tight security, but we have pics
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