Aaron McKenna

Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.

There's something to be said for a company called "Honest Technology" selling DVD burning software, but I digress even before I begin the story.

All around Vegas there is to be found an enigmatic advertisement from Texas Instruments: "It's all in the mirrors." They are referring to Digital Light Processing, something Texas Instruments invented in 1987 and which they are today putting to use in HD TV's and projectors across the industry.

Every now and again we get to see a product being proudly displayed and trumpeted as the best thing since sliced bread when clearly it's a piece of crap. Enter The Edge: True Wireless Internet, a device bearing no small similarity to a 1990's pocket organiser.

At his CES keynote this morning, Michael Dell challenged the telecoms industry to roll out more fiber more quickly in order to help fuel the digital age - jumping on the bandwagon of praising "You" (and Co) for driving the digital age with bandwidth consuming content.

Dell CEO Michael Dell announced that the company will be offering an inexpensive, around $2 - $6, option when buying a new computer to plant a tree which should offset the energy consumption of that machine.

After announcing its newfangled 27" monitor and other such high-end paraphanalia, Dell has introduced a Home Media Suite which combines an XPS 410 desktop, 27" flat-panel monitor, speakers, printer, wirless and digital television tuner into one neat package to "gear up the home" - "gearing up" being a new Dell catchphrase.

More pun-prone journalists than I might be moved to wax lyrical about how Dell is getting into the business of selling trees... Well, not literally, but at his CES keynote this morning company CEO Michael Dell announced that the company will be offering an inexpensive, around $2 - $6, option when buying a new computer to plant a tree which should offset the energy consumption of that machine.

Two crappy things in this world: (1) Your car breaking down and you not knowing why; and (2) going to get it fixed and being charged an arm, a leg and some other essential regions in order to get it fixed.

It would seem that most of the HD TV manufacturers went out and stood in line for their Nintendo Wii's, and the Xbox 360's are out in force in demonstrations left and right. Less ubiquitous is the Playstation 3, which is hard to stop at even the Blu-ray booth.

MSN will be pushing everything from updates about traffic conditions, weather conditions and forecasts, fuel prices, to even movie times and locations to GPS devices, beginning with Garmin's $999 nuvi 680 in the coming months.

Yahoo has launched version 2.0 of its Go for Mobile online applications suite, with first runs going out to Yahoo! partners in crime Motorola on the MOTORAZR maxx V6 and MOTORAZR V3xx; with another 70 other mobile devices worldwide set to get the Go in the coming weeks.

Of all the SLR lenses and paraphanalia going around, Lensbaby is probably one of the most interesting. Called "selective focus SLR lenses", basically the bayonet mounted lenses are ajustable in multiple directions in order to achieve a very impressive and artistic effect on photos.

longside the feast of cool cell phones with all their new bells and whistles EA Mobile has been showing just how they have matured in the past year from JAMDAT, the developer of casual games like Tetris, into an EA powerhouse; taking advantage of the (relatively) huge amounts of power now available for gaming in mobile phones.

Another of the free web services being bandied about CES 2007 is ShoZu, a service which allows one to (more easily) share photos and video taken on a mobile phone.