Sony doesn’t seem to have gotten around to an official announcement for this one just yet, but its WHG-SLK1 iPod shelf system was on hand at CES 2010, and the folks at Sony Insider managed to get a quick peek at it. Designed as much for video as for audio, this one packs a fairly large 9-inch screen front and center, and promises a full 100W of power, along with an iPod dock, a built-in DVD player, a USB port, and accommodations for both Memory Sticks and SD cards. You’ll also get video in/out ports to connect other devices or connect the system itself to a larger screen, but there’s unfortunately no indication of a price or release date.

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Sony WHG-SLK1 iPod shelf system surfaces at CES

Since the original Kaoss pad was released in 1999, Korg has been steadily improving the thing, adding crazier effects, more features, and earning the undying love of Brian Eno in the process. The Kaossilator , released a few years later, took the same X-Y controls and wide array of effects and added a synthesizer. What’s this, then?

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Korg Kaossilator Pro makes its NAMM debut

If you liked what you saw of Dell’s Mini 5 / Streak Android tablet-MID-phone-thing at CES but didn’t feel like you had enough of a chance to really see it in action, the gray market has come through for you again. We’ve just gotten pinged with this video of our friend Six-fingers handling what looks to be a fully functioning device, replete with Dell’s custom Android skin.

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Dell’s Mini 5 / Streak tablet UI exposed on video

Every January, the consumer electronics industry (and those of us who write about it for a living) descend on Las Vegas for the undisputed Champion of American trade shows. CES has come to mean many things to many people, and let’s be honest here — most of us are a little conflicted. After all, this event is our raison d’etre , and while there is plenty of geeky fun to be had, Las Vegas and the milieu of consumer electronics in general can be creepy and unsettling — at least as creepy and unsettling as a city that feels the need to simulate the New York City skyline within spitting distance of the Sphinx

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Parts of Darkness: The other side of CES

CES is Engadget’s biggest event of the year, but for the most part we don’t have any requirements on what editors should bring other than “a laptop” and “a camera.” That means there’s usually quite an array of devices and tools on hand — and every year we try some new things that make an immediate impression. We threw out some basic gear statistics in our annual CES wrap-up post , but we also wanted to highlight some super-useful new tools we brought to Vegas with us this year

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Engadget’s gear of CES 2010

Philips’ 2006 spin-off Liquavista hasn’t exactly had a lot to show for itself since it earned its independence, but things seem to finally be coming together for the company, which had a suite of e-paper displays to demonstrate at CES last week, a show that was absolutely chock-full of e-readers .

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Liquavista’s monochrome and color e-paper displays get demonstrated (video)

Sherwood has been running with the network connectivity ball ever since it adopted Verismo’s VuNow hardware into its receivers.

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Sherwood’s internet-enabled receivers, tabletop radio hands-on

Whoa! After two months of delay Sony Ericsson’s finally done something with the Xperia X2 — giving it an extra ‘a’ (for North America) instead of pushing it out to us mere mortals. Mind you, the number of times we’ve seen this thing — even as a KIRF — may fool you into thinking it’s been out forever, but the reality is it’s slowly morphing into a unicorn

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X2a appears on US site screaming ‘I’m coming!’

There’s always someone that will tell you that you can make the Rock Band experience more “realistic,” as if there was something more realistic than pressing buttons on a piece of plastic that vaguely resembles a guitar. And believe us, there was no shortage of companies with Guitar Hero / Rock Band controllers at CES — including Gambridge, whose Z line of dual game / MIDI guitars are full-sized instruments with built in sound modules that also function as game controllers, compatible with all major music video game titles

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Gambridge Z line MIDI guitars compatible with Rock Band, sort of sound like guitars

What happens when you let all comers batter, submerge, and otherwise abuse your so-called “unbreakable” handsets on the show floor at CES? Well, sometimes they break — as a certain BBC News video makes abundantly clear.

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Sonim’s ‘unbreakable’ handset shattered on the BBC