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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!

• Bill Gates: the exit interview
• Bill Gates: live at his 12th and final CES keynote

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?

Portable Media

• 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

HDTV / home theater

• 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

Good times

• You decide ‘08: The best of Crapgadget at CES
• CES 2008 Adwatch: Best of the worst
• CES 2008 booth gimmickery: Best of the worst
• CES 2008 product names: Best of the worst
• Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building

Computing

• Samsung intros Spinpoint M6 500GB standard height laptop drive, Hitachi be damned
• Samsung 128GB SATA SSD now official
• Video: Sony’s TransferJet gets demonstrated
• Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900 (with video, more details!)
• Hands-on with Lenovo’s new Ideapads
• Hands-on with Lenovo’s new Ideapad Y710 for gamers
• Hands-on with Intel’s MID platform
• Hands-on with Dell’s XPS 630i desktop and 16-inch concept laptop
• DirecTV’s PC tuner (HDPC-20) is real!

Digital imaging

• Sony Alpha A200 announced for US (with video)
• Casio gets official with the EX-F1 60fps prosumer camera / camcorder (with video)
• Canon’s VIXIA HF10 16GB dual-flash camcorder and more (with video)
• Sony cranks out too many camcorders to count

GPS

• Dash Express powered by OpenMoko’s neo open-source hardware platform
• Garmin’s new Forerunner 405 puts the ‘watch’ back in ‘GPS watch’
• Hands-on with Garmin’s latest GPS lineup
• Video: Garmin’s nuvi 880 on display
• Sony updates nav-u GPS line with NV-U73T and NV-U83T

Booth tours

• Microsoft’s CES 2008 booth tour
• Sony’s CES 2008 booth tour
• Blu-ray’s CES 2008 booth tour
• HD DVD’s CES 2008 booth tour
• Art Lebedev’s CES 2008 booth tour
• Sling Media’s CES 2008 booth tour
• Video: iriver’s wee CES 2008 booth tour

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