Blame (or Thank) nVidia for the Tablet Craze: If you're already sick of , you can blame nVidia's revamp of the . Tegra allows devices to be smaller and more power efficient by bundling multiple processor cores onto a single chip, and scaling their power consumption to fit the task at hand. There's a lot of promise here: 1080p content on a 3-pound device with all-day battery life will be sure to please any gadget-junkie. We'll just have to wait and see if the performance lives up to the hype. --Nate Ralph

E-Reader Done Right: I've seen a lot of e-readers lately, and in spending some quality time with , I came to appreciate much about the company's approach to e-readers. It doesn't have the biggest display, nor the most colorful one. But this Android-based device does have a highly usable and well-integrated LCD, and its ability to flow content browsed anywhere on the Web to the e-reader gives this model a unique edge over the competition. --Melissa J. Perenson

Actually, I Liked This One Better: E-readers were one of the hottest categories of the show this year, and the most compelling new model we've seen is the . This 10.7-inch reader sports a capacitive-touch display that lets you gesture through page turns; it also downloads books from Barnes & Noble's e-book store. It will be available in April in a 4GB Wi-Fi version for $649, and an 8GB version with Wi-Fi and 3G for $799. --Robert Strohmeyer

Crushed by an Avalanche of E-Books: A slew of new e-book readers (including the much anticipated Plastic Logic Que and iRiver Story), plus Amazon's announcement of a global Kindle DX and the unveiling of Microsoft-centric for graphics-heavy content, were the major symptoms of e-book fever at CES. If the makers can get the prices down, e-books could really go mass market. --Yardena Arar

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