Maybe, only maybe, you’ve noticed which Engadget relocated this past week to a City of Sin for CES 2011. Oh approbation, we set up stay in the double-wide trailer, liveblogged our hearts out, combed a uncover floor, as well as worked the back ends off to bring you some-more gadget news than you ever suspicion probable. It’s loyal, we’ve created over 720 posts (40 or so about tablets alone!), shot more than 180 videos, as well as brought you over 350 print galleries in a final seven days. That’s a ton of technology news as well as products, though of course, only sure ones have been means to climb on top of the rest as well as stick out in our frightful common hive-mind. With which pronounced, we’ve complied the annual best of list for you, so hit the mangle as well as feast your eyes upon what are bound to be a little of the most appropriate products of a brand new year.

Best smartphone

 
Motorola Atrix 4G
Does a Motorola Atrix 4G even need an introduction during this point? Not usually was the Tegra 2-powered handset a most appropriate phone during a show, it’s hands-down one of craziest products we’ve seen in quite the whilst. The handset itself is stately with the 4-inch QHD display, front-facing cam, and fingerprint reader, though its 11.6-inch Laptop Dock as well as its Webtop operating system spin it into a single singular beast. You do not wish to skip our video demos of this one.

Other sum: 1GB of RAM, Android 2.2, AT&T, 1930mAH battery 

Runners-up… 

Motorola Droid Bionic

Verizon LTE? Check. Front facing VGA camera for Skype video job? Check. Packing the same 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 internals as a Atrix? Yeah, Moto’s 4.3-inch Droid Bionic is a single insane phone. 

Vizio Phone

Vizio kicked off the show in the large approach with a Android-based Vizio Phone as well as Vizio Tablet — not usually is a company’s skin incredibly well-done, though both devices feature IR transmitters which spin them into concept remotes as well as integration with Vizio’s VIA Plus scheme for seamless calm playback from phone to tablet to TV. 

Best tablet

 
Motorola Xoom
Moto’s pretty much cleaning up house. Amongst a 40 something tablets at CES, the Xoom was a one to really capture our hearts. Besides its 1280 x 800-resolution 10.1-inch arrangement, 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, and 5 megapixel camera, the Xoom was a usually inscription during the show to actually uncover off Google’s Honeycomb (aka Android 3.0). We similar to what we see, even if a 4G version won’t arrive until Q2.

Other details: Available in Q1 2011 from Verizon, annals 720p video 

Runners-up… 

BlackBerry PlayBook
RIM has been fooling around a PlayBook for months, but it wasn’t until CES 2011 which we finally got to play with it. Headed to Sprint this summer, we dig the 7-inch arrangement and QNX OS, we’re just not certain about that total overpass thing.  

Notion Ink Adam

After the year of delays and suspicions, we finally got to see a operative Notion Ink Adam. Packed with the 10.1-inch Pixel Qi arrangement, Tegra 2 processor, and the own Eden UI, this hardware start-up can essentially compete with a large boys… that is if it can work out the supply and sequence issues. 

Best inscription / laptop hybrid

 
Razer Switchblade
Whoa, Razer! The Switchblade was a single of the greatest surprises of a uncover, and it’s a single insane-looking inscription / netbook hybrid. The Windows 7 device has the 7-inch touchscreen along with a set of keys which has “enchanting” LCD keys. Say what? Yep, those keys change depending upon what you’re you do. You should review our in-depth preview as well as afterwards stick on the rest of us in praying that this thing hits a market someday this year.

Other details: Intel Atom Oak Trail processor, Windows 7
 

Runners-up… 

Samsung Sliding PC 7 Series

We saw lots of Windows 7 tablets during CES, but there’s no disbelief that the most appropriate ones are paired with the physical keyboards. Samsung’s Atom Oak Trail-powered tablet has the slide-out set of keys that converts a 10.1-inch slate into the netbook. The units we saw weren’t last, though the entire package, together with Samsung’s Touch Launcher, looks promising. 

ASUS Slider

ASUS made it transparent it has the thing for earthy keyboards this week, that is all cool with us. The Slider will in the future run Android 3.0 upon the 10.1-inch IPS arrangement, as well as has a slip out QWERTY set of keys. It’s powered by a Tegra 2 processor as well as has two cams. It looks genuine great, we only goal a last unit’s slider resource feels some-more stable. 

Best laptop

 
Samsung 9 Series
Finally? A PERSONAL COMPUTER that can opposition a MacBook Air? We consider so. Samsung’s 9 Series 13.3-inch laptop isn’t usually 2.89-pounds and .68-inches skinny — it’s got a Sandybridge Intel Core i5 processor, 128GB SSD, and the splendid 300nit arrangement. It’s a single pleasing scheme, right away let’s just hope the last section can last longer than 5 hours on the charge.

Other sum: Core i5 2537M processor, $1,600, dual USB ports
 

Runners-up… 

HP Pavilion dm1

AMD is behind in a diversion! That’s right, HP’s brand new Pavilion dm1 packs AMD’s brand new Fusion APU as well as the 11.6-inch ultraportable (or notbook) is said to container lots of graphics energy as well as 6 hours of battery life. For $499, it’s slightly pricier than the netbook, but this a single could be your first system. 

Alienware M17x

The M17x is still one beast of the system, and this time around it’s been updated with Intel’s brand new quad-core Core i7 processors, ATI Radeon / NVIDIA graphics, 3D capabilities, and extremely unique wireless arrangement technology. While you can get a 17.3-incher with WiDi 2.0, you can additionally get it with the built-in SiBEAM WirelessHD conductor that can tide full 1080p calm with zero lag. 

Best HDTV

 
Samsung Smart TV In the CES where each TV manufacturer was touting its connected TV platform, Samsung’s rested Smart TV sticks out as the most well-rounded. Its capability to bypass or magnify a reach of cable and heavenly body boxes, tide video from other DLNA inclination, pull info from the web around the web browser or a Apps Store, makes it one very constrained package. Sure, our touchscreen remote demo did not enthuse the lot of certainty as well as we’re severely endangered about interface usability, though a program as well as capabilities have been all there in the slim bezeled pattern.

Other sum: Based on Adobe Air 2.5 

Runners-up… 

Vizio VIA Plus

Vizio again filled up the off-the-show-floor exhibition with treats. The tall finish of the line will be the part of the full upon Android attack this year, and the TVs — finish with their own UI as well as baked in await for OnLive and Vizio On Demand film service — have been a most engaging. Sure, we’re not certain which passive 3D screens can really stand up to a foe, though during least we’re awaiting semi-affordable prices. 

Philips Cinema Widescreen TV

The ultrawidescreen arrangement from Philips wasn’t a first or usually shade of the sort we speckled during CES, but deliberation how long we’ve been drooling over the overseas cousin the participation was a most acquire. We can worry about little details similar to “who actually needs a 21:9 aspect comparative measure screen” or “what happens when you’re examination 16:9 calm” after, right right away we’re only pressing a want symbol. Hard. 

Best camera

 
Sony Bloggie 3D (and other 3D Handycams)
Sony boarded a 3D sight with lots of baggage this past week, though a Sony Bloggie 3D — a world’s first affordable 3D cam — might be the many critical satchel. The $250 cam packs two lenses and dual images sensors to capture the universe in, you know, 3 dee as well as full HD (1920 x 1080-resolution). And approbation, you fire through a 2.4-inch 3D glasses-free LCD.

Other sum: Available in April, 8GB of storage

 

Runners-up… 

RED Scarlet

We’ve been eyeing RED’s Scarlet for the year now, and when a working version showed up in the trailer we flattering much couldn’t carry out ourselves. Sure, it’s done for veteran cinematographers with the 3K fortitude and 120 TENDER frames-per-second, though there’s no denying which its fixed lens, touchscreen monitor, as well as wireless remote interest to us all. Now, if only we could afford it… 

Olympus XZ-1

Olympus’s XZ-1 is flattering most a inbetween-y camera we’ve been waiting for. The 10 megapixel shooter isn’t the Micro Four Thirds, though it’s not utterly the point-and-shoot with tis 4x optical wizz, TENDER await, primer controls (including focus), as well as $500 cost. Still, with the 3-inch OLED screen as well as 720p 30fps HD video constraint this thing will undoubtedly be upon our instruct list come after this month when it hits stores. 

Best travel

 
Ford Focus Electric

There are lots of firsts with this a single. The Focus Electric is a first automobile to be unveiled by a vital automobile manufacturer during CES and Ford’s initial electric automobile. With the large cell in the case, a Electric will conduct a operation of 100 miles as well as offers the MPGe higher than a Chevy Volt. It should usually take 4 hours to assign via a 240 volt outlet, but sadly, you’re starting to be watchful a lot longer than that until it is expelled — Ford is observant is should hit the US in late 2011 as well as 2013 in Europe.

Other details: Includes MyFord Touch as well as MyFord Mobile
 

Runners-up… 

General Motors EN-V

One of the greatest highlights of this year’s uncover was removing inside GM’s electric EN-V. Sure, it looks funny, but the approach it moves is even more crazy — the body slides forward or backwards to change. Oh, as well as did we discuss a cars can promulgate with any alternative? Seriously, check this thing out. 

BPG Uno motorcycle

Indeed, the future of travel consists of some uncanny looking, uh things. The three-wheeled Uno is similar to the Segway and motorcycle baked into a single. You can drive it with its dual back wheels or you can reduce it to the belligerent, eject the front circle as well as renovate it into a 35mph tricycle. Now if usually it could go faster! 

Best peripheral

 
Microsoft Touch Mouse
How mostly does a badass Microsoft Research device go straight into manufacture? Not often enough, but come June, $80 will buy your Windows PC’s brand new most appropriate friend. Apple fanboys will probably only see the Magic Mouse with a hump, though these multitouch gestures put that aspect to shame — two fingers snap windows into place, 3 fingers fast switch tasks, and your ride can pierce forwards as well as backwards by websites, photos as well as papers.

Other sum: Supports up to 3 finger gestures, coated with a capacitive layer
 

Runners-up… 

Razer Hydra

Razer’s motion-sensing Sixense sticks essentially debuted at CES 2010, though in a intervening months they’ve gone from would-be Wii remotes to violent game-destroying machines. No camera or IR here, only an electromagnetic universe which calculates just where the sticks have been relations to a globe and translates the interpretation into 1:1 control in 3 measure. You won’t have to track for quality program that uses the full potential — it’ll be the preferred controller for Portal 2, as well as it’s not tough to see why. 

Nox Audio Admiral Touch

This is a noise-canceling, wireless, 7.1 practical surround tune headset with an Android 2.1 mechanism inside. It connects to your diversion scheme, your audio components, as well as your phone. Its controls and rechargable, user-replaceable battery container are cleverly built right into a support. What some-more do we need to say? 

Best enabling record

 
Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Okay, so Google didn’t betray Android 3.0 or Honeycomb at CES, though it may as well have. The forthcoming Google tablet OS stole the uncover as nearly each inscription manufacturer betrothed to its slates preloaded with the future OS. We also got a initial look during a interface interjection to Motorola as well as T-Mobile’s videos. On tip of all that, we sat down to talk to Google’s Matias Duarte upon what’s entrance. It is protected to contend, Honeycomb is starting to shakeup up a tablet marketplace this year.
 

Runners-up… 

LTE

So most LTE. Motorola, Acer, HTC, Samsung, and LG all showed up in Vegas with LTE devices, creation it clear transparent which Verizon’s 4G network is starting to be a pass ingredient in loads of arriving handsets and tablets. Sure, there were lots of other carriers with 4G inclination, though can any of them explain to let 4 players jam over Rock Band Mobile? 

Glasses-free 3D

Naturally 3D was another major thesis of this year’s CES, though we’re some-more impressed during a impulse with a glasses-free 3D technology that’s upon a setting. StreamTV showed off the 42-inch 3T, that will be streamer to marketplace this year. Toshiba additionally showed off a unequivocally constrained 52-inch set. Now we only have to hope that we’ll be means to buy one of these before it’s time for CES 2012. 

Best crapgadget

 
ioPrego Electronic Rosary
It’s hard to be the most appropriate of a crap, though ioPrego has managed to pull it off.
 

Runners-up… 

Konka g-baby

No it’s not LG’s Migo or the Tamogotchi… it’s a g-baby as well as it’s a genuine phone with no dial pad. 

Taser C2

Pink tasers with the smiling family on a box? Classy. Real classy. 

Best press discussion

 
Samsung

Press conferences aren’t unequivocally gadgets, but we felt it was usually right to call out a most appropriate pressers of CES 2011… as well as when we say “most appropriate” for Samsung, we unequivocally meant “many treacherous.” There’s only a single word for its keynote: Zoll. This pre-tween layabout in an animal top danced around theatre observant foolish things while Samsung boss BK Yoon sternly warned us which “tellurian life contingency be our priority” as well as trotted out a pickup of high-powered CEOs to make known all from Adobe as well as Samsung’s SmartTV partnership with Comcast and Time Warner formation to Hulu entrance to Galaxy S phones. Everyone additionally got the gratis box of caramel corn and front-row seats to interpretive ballet. This was a single presser we’ll never ever dont think about… ever.

 

Runners-up… 

Microsoft
Microsoft didn’t exactly mangle any headlines at the press discussion, though which doesn’t meant a kickoff keynote wasn’t filled with Ballmer-isms, a woman strung out on too most WP7, and lots of sales numbers. 

Sony

Sony, as regularly, you certain know how to put upon the uncover. We can’t confirm if we were more interested in a Cirque de Soleil’s Elvis tribute, Seth Rogen understanding cornball lines about Sony’s mass from outside the bullethole-laden Green Hornet automobile, or a intro of the Xperia Arc as well as consumer 3D cameras. Thanks for not making us select, Sir Howard. You charmer, you. 

Via Engadget