Aaron McKenna

Offline browsing is not a terribly difficult thing to achieve, if you do a bit of running around - manually downloading and saving a whole series of internet pages is no fun, however, and half of technology is making simple but tedious things easier. Enter Webaroo, who introduced us to their service for downloading a multitude of web pages for offline browsing.

Male size competitions, that's what the battle of 100"+ HD TVs is being termed here at CES. It's also a battle of timing, as two companies raced to announce their 108" TV's. LG has apparently got the first ever 108" to be announced to the world, though it was superceeded by their combo Blu-ray HD-DVD player.

LG is showing off its 2007 range at CES, with the usual gamut of 42" TVs and other such paraphanalia to eat up cash during the year. More interesting, however, is the touch-screen Micro DVD shelf system they showed us at Unveiled.

The surefire way to find a decent product at CES Unveiled is to look out for the nice innovation award plaques displayed on tables. Nobint Falcon was one such company able to wear their badge of honour with pride as they showcased their 3D touch device - basically a 3D mouse which also manages to convey a sense of real touch.

Ohh Christmas and a banana, even though Macworld is a bazillion miles away we can't escape the ubiquitous iPod accessories here at CES Unveiled in Vegas.

Digit Wireless showcased what could potentially be one of the widest disseminated products to come out of CES 2007 at the Unveiled event last night.

Asus's big product at CES Unveiled was their XG Station, an external graphics solution which turns a run-of-the-mill notebook into a gaming machine.

The upper-crust of earphone design is to be found coming from companies such as Shure; who sell high-quality noise cancelling, in-ear, headphones for which you can drop up to $500 for the pleasure of owning.

CES 2007 has taken off with the first major tradeshow event for the media- CES Unveiled. Most sane journalists are sitting in the press room already bemoaning the size of the line and just how big and unwieldy the show is.

Kudos is to be dished out to Kevin Poulsen, Wired Senior Editor and former code monkey (to say the least); who has written an extremely interesting article about how he, using a search algorithm he programmed himself, managed to do what MySpace has said is not possible in catching registered sex offenders on the site.

Intel is promising that its "Robson" technology will cut down computer boot times to as much as half of what they currently stand at. Based on NAND flash memory technology, Robson essentially holds the data one needs to boot an OS or fire up a program, and then accesses it at lightning fast speeds - at least if Intel can get it to work with Windows Vista.

Benq has been showcasing a full-HD (1200p) 24" LCD, complete with HDMI ports and everything else you would expect from a future high-end monitor on your desktop.

PQI announced at Computex that it will be shipping a 64 GB 2.5" SATA flash disk to the US, Europe, Japan and China in August of this year.