Now maybe you're a budding Tony Hawk with a penchant for performing daredevil antics and then recording them for YouTube posterity, but up till now its been a bit tricky to get those really stunt-like shots down. Well with the ATC2K that should be a thing of the past as this portable cam is not only waterproof, it also attaches easily to any surface, be it the handlebars of your bike or your helmet. It weighs in at a measly 200g and delivers video at 30 frames per second. You can expand it up to 2GB with an external SD card and film in AVI format in different resolutions to capture all your video desires. Now all you have to do is find that half pipe...

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I've been inside the halls less than three hours, and already I'm more at home here than I was at CES. Maybe it's because I'm famously Mac-happy. Maybe it's because CES gave me a warm up. Or maybe it's because I'm sitting in the best damn blogger's lounge ever and my badge doesn't say "blogger".

So, number one will come as no surprise:

1. Press Registration

Okay, Macworld could do better. Registering in time to get access for the keynote is next to impossible if you're not planning this a year in advance, but nevertheless it is a great pleasure to have a badge that says "Alexandra Roumbas, Deputy Editor, Shiny Media" and nothing much else. No segregation, no confusion. And registering bloggers are, obviously, asked to present different credentials that are relevant to their medium.

Who do I remind you of in this photo? Phil Collins, right? Yep, my drumming prowess was a force to be reckoned with last week, when I found these MiJam Pro drum sticks. The idea is you can simulate a full drum set without any of the unnecessary equipment. A motion sensor recognises when you make a downward motion, and makes the corresponding drum noise. Pressing a button on the drum stick changes the drum sound, and a footpedal deals with that one on the floor that makes all the bass noise (my technical drumming knowledge may not be quite up to scratch). You can also plug it into your iPod, and drum away to all your favourite songs.

How much for at least 20 minutes amusement? Amazon are flogging them for $26.99 here!

I'm not sure when it was that the Disney franchise became Rawk, but it's great news for all those teeny boppers who want to be in a band, and yet still get taken to The Magic Kingdom.

This stand had a variety of pink and pretty guitars, in both child and grown up rock chic sizes. Most were also available as both electric and acoustic guitar versions. Reports that every time you miss a note a fairy dies are so far unconfirmed...

Well, we came, we saw, we blogged. Over 100 times, as it turned out. This year, the home cinema category was going for world domination, and sadly, there were less Segways to be seen. However, Segways aside, it was again jam packed full of both new and future technology. Here's a round up of what stood out for us.

1.The Sony Rolly
Is it an egg? Is it a robot? No, it's a dancing MP3 player. guaranteed to get any party started, we loved watching this bizarre little creature strut its stuff to Ricky Martin. Will anyone buy one? We're not convinced.

2. OLED screens
We were used to LCD screens claiming the size 0 crown, but now these OLED screens are bringing a new meaning to the phrase. No thicker than 3mm thick, they're got a perfect picture and practically disappear when turned sideways.

We played with a lovely pink iRiver Clix+ here
We drooled over a remote control booze bucket here
We examined a tiny flying toy resting atop a fake-looking hand here
We played with a tiny, solar-powered Freeplay radio here
We looked at liquid-powered batteries here
We were excited by talking gadgets here.
We looked at a voice activated Bluetooth headset here.

iriver was all about the OLED at CES this year, and it was also in the pink. Tech Digest's Stu Dredge got his big man hands on this delightfully, erm, masculine Clix+ but as with all of us was far more excited about what was on the inside anyway. Yes, of course there's a black version too, worry not.

Anyway, the player itself is nothing to be sniffed at. It's an MP3/MPEG4 player that not only looks great but the direction keys are all neatly hidden, giving it a really sastifying button action. The up and down keys are a little more fiddly as you invariably end up sticking your thumb right on the middle of the screen. However, whatever the screen is coated in doesn't seem to pick up thumbprints at all, so you don't need to worry about obscuring your few with greasy marks. It's due in the UK soon.

iriver

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Surely the Joey Tribbiani of gadgets, the RC Cooler is the ultimate accessory for the drinker who is just that bit too far from the next beer. It's so wonderously simple. Fill up the electric, remote controlled ice bucket with ice, pop in four bears*, and remember to take the remote with you. Then simply help your beer come to you.

If you're really lucky your partner / housemate might deign to refill it for you, since it operates from up to thirty feet away so you could send it back in from the garden. However, they might also send it back with a sign propped up on top labelled "I'm leaving you, you shiftless alcoholic", so do beware. It's set to retail for under £30.

Interactive Toy Concepts

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Dep Ed's Note: *Ummm. Yeah. Really small ones, maybe. Who can type.

I could use this opportunity to tell you all about Interactive Toy concepts, who are taking advantage of the ever decreasing size of technology components and producing truly tiny remote control toys. I could discuss the one in the picture, which is based called the Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Ornithopter and is based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous designs. It has a wingspan of less than 5” and has an on-board rechargeable lithium polymer battery, which allows for 7 miuntes of flying time from a 5 minute charge.

Or I could draw your attention to the fact that the hand in the picture looks really, reallly, *really* fake.

Freeplay has a new and compact radio / flashlight on the market which is lighter and cheaper than most offerings we've been seeing lately. The lovely Richard also gave us a quick insight into the technology behind their next project - a completely solar-powered DAB radio that should land around March.

Freeplay Energy

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Clearly, it's been all about the urine this CES... Although thankfully, as demonstrated at the stand, you can also look to water, OJ, Coke, beer, coffee and other liquids to power this battery, not just resort to bodily fluids.

The batteries, by Japanese firm Aqua Power, rely on using liquid as a catalyst to generate a reaction between magnesium and aluminium inside the battery. The name stands for Non Pollution Power, and in fact there are other reasons why these batteries are eco-friendly: no mercury, no lead, no cadmium and they're non-combustible, so can be chucked safely.

Aqua Power System (Japanese)

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Trawling some of the smaller stands in the Sands Expo centre, I was stopped dead by the magic word "talking". Everyone knows that talking gadgets are just plain infuriating brilliant, so we had to take a look.

And a goodly collection there was too, including several talking watches , the jewel in the crown there being the "Muslem Talking Watch" which audibly reminds you of prayer time, talking calculators, talking timers and thermometers and the inevitable talking photo frame. Although I can't help feeling the last one is cheating - it's not talking, it's recording.

Utmost

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Let's face it, Bluetooth headsets aren't too sexy, but voice activation is definitely a useful feature in something that's designed to make life as hands-free as possible. Back in the day of the wired hands-free headset I used to be completely perplexed by people who would use one and then hold their phone in their hand and stick their finger in their ear holding the earpiece in place. Pointless much?

Blue Ant

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There has been some mumbling, which is gradually turning into a chorus, that not only is the format war over, it's basically redundant. Because no matter who wins the war, given enough time what discs we use will be irrelevant. It'll be download all the way.

That's where services like VideoGiant come in. A development from purveyors of digital music (MusicGiant, natch), it delivers either pre-defined collections or individual "a la carte" choices straight onto your home cinema. VideoGiant has struck a deal with Paramount for movies from their back catalogue, and the MG Mediastore software will begin to be preinstalled in various devices over the coming year. MusicGiants is already built in to media servers for Crestron, Imerge, ReQuest, Cutting Edge and quite a few more.

MusicGiants | VideoGiants

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There’s a lot of competition between us Shinies here in Vegas for who can find the coolest gadget on the show floor. I think I can now fairly declare myself the winner with the iPod Boombox,

Pimping out your wheels with massive base bins and LCD displays is great for sharing your love of music (and video, and colourful lights), but how on earth are you meant to be demonstrating your musical altruism to everyone around you when you’re just walking to the cornershop to buy some tea bags? I know it’s a problem we all have to deal with on a daily basis.

Not any more though; with the Lasonic iPod Boom Box sat squarely on your feminine shoulders, you can blast out tunes direct from your iPod with a set of 2 x 12 watt speakers. The system is even powered by batteries – how old school is that?

Hanspree - who you may know as makers of televisions disguised as apples and other quirky gadgets - have unveiled at CES their first ever mobile phones. As you might imagine, these aren't particularly tech-heavy, and will probably be aimed at the the tween PAYG market. They're fairly chunky, come in black, white or red with added embossed logo, sparkly bits and 2 megapixel camera.

I like a good graphic design gadget; my skills might be few, but my interest is great. At first I thought this was a 3D printer, which made me all girly and giggly, as one of my friends likes to say, but when I found out it was a 3D camera box thing, I was still fairly impressed.

Basically, you pop an item into the box, preview how a 3D image would look and jiggle it around until you're happy with the result. Then you get snap-happy and use the software to create shadow-free images, 360 degree product tours or 3D spherical Flash files. As far as we could tell, it's not yet a market product by a working prototype (we saw it in action and it was rather cool). Still, enough interest ought to garner the requisite deals and investment to see it in production.

A newcomer to CES, iSeat was stuffed in a corner where we nearly missed the colourful display. The range of high grade optical glass stands for gadgetry, they aim to be a more elegant and arty alternative to the usual mobile phone rests and chairs. There's the plain variety pictured above, and globular, paperweight styles too; see over the jump for more.

Of course, they're not just for mobiles but for all varieties of compact gadgetry. Somehow, even though I never wanted a stand for my gadgets, I'm not fond of pink (although I know some of you are, hence the picture) and I'd probably just knock it over scrabbling for my glasses in the morning, these proved to be surprisingly tempting. Perhaps because the stand happened to be run by a Very Nice Lady, but I suspect mostly because there was no Comic Sans in my eyeline for the first time in two hours.

Team Group had a clutch of cutesome USB drives on show in some of the weirder areas of the Sands Expo at CES, including the T-bot Drives (elegantly displayed against various mini modes of transport) and the Couple set, a red - not pink, yay! - and blue toilet-sign-style duo pictured after the jump that I actually really liked, almost despite myself.

Both T-Bot and Couple come in capacities ranging from 256MB to a much more useful 4GB, and are handily small enough to be carried around without being so miniscule that they're easily lost (about 30mm x 13mm if you want specifics).

Kids watch too much TV. We know that. Mostly because adults do as well. And as a parent you're probably concerned with raising a generation of TV zombies and you might even be sick of having regular fights with your kids over when off means off.

Maybe it's time to invite Bob into your life. Set up users with separate pin codes, and create hourly, daily or weekly limits. Once your children have exceeded their limit, the TV simply shuts down. The plug is fastened within a locked compartment, so although a strong / determined / devious child could break the device, it would probably work very well for younger children. It can't, of course, control the quality of what they watch or when they watch it, neither can it stop teenagers from switching to their media players onto which they've industriously downloaded all the content they want, but it's a nice idea nevertheless.

UseBob

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