The Consumer Electronics Show is like a giant ice cream sundae – it’s big, wildly colourful, takes some real effort to get through and is a delicious mix of different ingredients. All covered in a glitzy Las Vegas sauce. So what’s hot at this year’s show? The technology trends at CES 2010 included: 3DTV, ultra-skinny HDTVs, motion controlled gaming (Kinect and Sony’s... 

The iPod touch is to get a gaming makeover in 2011, courtesy of the Mophie Pulse. Shown off at this year’s CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, with TechRadar in attendance, the Mophie Pulse is a pretty cool gaming case for the iPod touch. Using the speaker of the touch, the Mophie Pulse adds stereo sound and also a bit of vibration to your gaming. Apple’s PMP is a pretty decent gamer in its own... 

The staggering Christmas sales of Amazon’s third generation Kindle reader has propelled it to the company’s best-selling product of all-time. The aggressively-priced Kindle 3, available for as low as £109 in the UK, overtook the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows book as the online retailers top seller. Amazon reckons that the new low price has encouraged more buyers as customers don’t... 

Samsung is set to launch a new 4-inch screen Galaxy Player at CES 2011, according to latest reports. Samsung Hub claims that the new Galaxy Player will be unveiled in Las Vegas next week. Samsung’s new Player at CES The Samsung fansite claims that the new Samsung Galaxy Player will feature a high res 4-inch LCD display with an 800 x 480 resolution. The Galaxy Player is said to be running Android... 

Amazon has announced its biggest Christmas sellers, and is its own Kindle device that tops the chart, beating the Toy Story 3 DVD into second place. In fact, the top four sellers are all from different genres, the Kindle from electronics, Toy Story 3 from DVD, Call of Duty: Black Ops from gaming and Take That’s latest album Progress making up the best-selling quartet. But Amazon’s well-priced... 

Sharp has suggested that it could expand its Galapagos e-reader into the UK and Europe in the coming months. The UK has a burgeoning e-reader market, fuelled partly by the popular Amazon Kindle, and Sharp is keen to extend the first Galapagos device beyond Japan. The first new market to be tested will be the US, but Sharp’s Masami Ohbatake has indicated that China and Europe will be next. “After... 

Amazon will sell 8 million Kindles in 2010, with the e-reader selling 60 per cent more than analysts had suggested. The latest Amazon Kindle 3 has really caught the wave, and a big marketing campaign has been in evidence across the UK. And the device is a success on a global level according to Bloomberg’s Businessweek, who suggested 8 million of the devices have been sold. Low price-point The... 

Those that still like to buy their tunes on ‘physical’ media such as CDs or even good old vinyl will be intrigued to find out more about an innovative new music delivery format called the ‘Playbutton’ badge. Whether or not this intriguing new promotional tool will take off amongst music fans, many of whom now download their tunes (legally and illegally) from the internet, remains...