Xbox Catching Up in 2006 by Chris Robertson
Although there was a delay in delivering the number of Xbox 360s that consumers demanded for the 2005 holiday season, Microsoft is expected to manufacture over 2 million of the gaming consoles in the first quarter of 2006. It's estimated that about 1 million Xbox 360s made it to stores in time... At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, a number of manufacturers of cell phones will be honored with innovation awards. ... Consumer electronics continue to be integrated into car design and sold as after market features.

The Future of The iPod Movement by Lance Winslow
Everyone is buying iPods these days and all the retail stores are out of stock. Many parents had to buy gift certificates for their children for Christmas having missed getting into those stores early enough to get them an iPod. This is one massive consumer movement; can you believe it? ... We already have the iPod Nano and at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw the announcement of the Eyebud, which is a tiny head and eye mounted unit allowing you to watch music videos or Pod Casting with full motion video.

Water Proof iPod Now Available by Lance Winslow
Everyone loves an iPod yet prior to now they have had some serious limitations. For instance you could not take them into the water or surfing? So for an avid surfer who spends hours in the water why would you bother to own one? Well all that has changed now; introducing the H2O Audio... At the World Famous CES Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas H20 Audio had one of their units dunked in water and playing away. ... You need this in 2006. ... The cases are not really out of line either, for instance you can get a waterproof iPod Shuffle case for only forty bucks.

Beyond the Battlefield by Jo-anne De Peralta
Flash solid state disks (SSDs) have undoubtedly gained a strong foothold in the military and enterprise markets. Its capacity to withstand extreme conditions made it fit for on and off ground military operations while speed has been its passport to the enterprise market. ... According to the Consumer Electronics Association’s Annual Industry Forecast, factory sales of consumer electronics in the US alone is expected to reach a new high of $135.4 billion by the end of 2006. ... Judging by the way things are going, there is no doubt that flash SSD deployment in consumer electronics is...

Working Together: Your Music, Movies, Photos on Your iPod, Cell Phone & PDA by Mike Valentine
Electronic device manufacturers and content producers have got to back away from the forest and see the light filtering throught the trees. Consumers want to control the content they purchase and want to be able to use their electronic devices together without restrictions placed on them. ... Standards and interoperability will have to come to digital devices, just as Google co-founder Larry Page said in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote speech when he introduced Google Video. ... They do this via automatically updated internal software because advertisers screamed at them for several...

Can Hard Drive Phones KILL THE iPod? by Daniel Dwase
A new wave of mobile phones equipped with tiny yet powerful hard disk drives is threatening to put an end to the meteoric rise of the iPod as the public's favourite portable digital music player. When you look at the typical consumer, there are three things that they may come back to their house... This makes one wonder whether digital camcorders might be the next consumer electronics gadget to suffer from the mobile phone's ambitions to become the single device we need to carry. ... Current market trends show that consumers are now replacing their mobile phones approximately every 18 months.

The Kick-Off To The Best Rated Laptops Of The Year by Garry Allen
The best rated laptop award changes not only from year to year, but it can and does change just as quickly from month to month. Heck, with the major players out there like Dell, IBM, Compaq and HP just to name a few, competition is absolutely fierce! ... Apple has taken this honor from several leading computing and electronics magazines, and the trend in sales seem to suggest that consumers are feeling the same way about them, as well. ... In 2006, we will see Apples with intel chips instead of the current IBM chips.

A Peek Into the Near Future of Electronics Technology by Terry Mitchell
How long do you think DVDs have around? 20 years? 10 years? Actually, they have only been around for about seven years, but it seems like they have been around much longer. Many of us can hardly remember life before DVDs. That can be attributed to how rapidly we can become acclimated to some... They allow you to watch the part of a show that has already been recorded while the remainder of that show is still being recorded. ... Obviously, not all of the cutting edge electronics technologies mentioned above will meet with great success.