CES 2010 – the most bonkers gadgets

Monday 11 January

What we'd look like on Hansprees's Polar Bear TV

The Consumer Electronic Show has thrown up a massive amount of important tech in the last few days. But with every 3D TV or eBook reader, there’s also a Polar Bear-shaped TV or an Android-powered microwave. Read on for my favourite bonkers tech of CES…

Samsung TicToc An iPod shuffle for the rather more flamboyant, the Samsung TicToc is seethrough, sparkly and barely bigger than a dice, but will pump out MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV and even FLAC files for up to 12 hours. It pauses, plays, skips tracks and changes volume by simply tilting and comes in 2GB or 4GB flavours.

Hanspree Polar Bear television Hannspree never fails to disappoint with a novelty TV or two, and this year, it was a cuddly 19-inch polar version aimed at children. It joins the company’s roster of animal-shaped TVs that includes a giraffe, elephant and panda too.

Qualcomm Teleepoch The Qualcomm Teleepoch WMDP (Wearable Modular Device Phone if you didn’t know) is a bonkers mobile prototype which has no buttons whatsoever. The only way you can dial a number is by tilting the phone to scroll through every name in your address book.

Samsung’s transparent display Samsung has really embraced the transparent gadget idea, already featuring it in the IceTouch MP3 player and the TicToc (above). This is FAR more impressive and Minority Report – a 14-inch AMOLED display that’s 40 per cent transparent. Great news for bosses who want to check on skivers.

Light Touch Light Blue Optics’ magic little box beams a touchscreen on to any surface using lasers. It’s touted to support lultitouch in the future too – could this cahnge the form factor of all our mobile computing in the future? Or is this mere witchcraft?

Android-powered microwave Our favourite convergence of the entire CES – Touch Revolution’s Android-packing microwave. The company has created the prototype, along with a hand-dryer model, to prove that the Google OS can be fitted to any appliance. The idea is that you can download cooking and microwave guide apps straight to your machine. Ace. Bonkers but ace.