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Most of the major keynotes and technology launches at CES are out of the way and it's got to be said, there's been very little in the way of game-changing revelations at the Vegas gadgetfest this year.
Sure, there's plenty of innovative new stuff - like these Panasonic
The SlingCatcher, which allows broadcast TV, internet-based content and personal media to be sent to other TVs around your house, is a neat device. SlingBox Pro HD, which sends high-definition video content also looks promising.
If anything, this CES will be remembered as the beginning of Yahoo's fight back against Google - it had a wealth of new announcements - from its mobile phone application development platform to revamped Yahoo webmail.
But it is the HD-DVD Blu-ray format war, the TV makers' battle to assert new technologies, such as OLED and keep existing technologies like plasma alive that dominated.
Adding technology to cars, so they can drive or at least park themselves and the greening of technology, have also been key themes. Then the show's creators went off on a random tangent and started lobbying for greater free trade in technology products.
I haven't seen a single announcement or new product release that indicates a revolutionary new way of thinking, a development that's going to change the landscape in the world of consumer electronics.
Maybe Gene Munster is right (), and Apple is the real innovator in the industry at present. After all, last year's CES show was overshadowed by the release at MacWorld of the iPhone, which went on to be the defining gadget of 2007.
Many of the new gadgets at CES follow the trend set by the iPhone towards simpler hardware design (the all-in-one design of the iMac is popular) and touch screen interfaces.
MacWorld kicks off next week, so we'll soon see what Steve Jobs has in his bag of tricks.
Meanwhile, a leaked document at Vodafone in Britain suggests what the mobile giant's future smart phone roadmap may look like.
And Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has received a drubbing from critics of his new search engine, Wikia Search, which isn't even picking up all of Wikipedia's entries.
