Sony joined the small laptop crowd with its Vaio P -- an interesting widescreen design that allows for a larger keyboard than on competing netbooks -- and impressed with a flexible OLED screen. Samsung showed off a thin TV, while Panasonic debuted a portable Blu-ray Disc player, and perhaps the most futuristic of the gadgets we saw was a watch-phone from LG.

Sony Vaio P

After several weeks of leaks and teasers Sony took the wraps off its anticipated Vaio P-series mini-laptop at CES. It has a widescreen 8-inch display and measures 24 centimeters wide by 11 cm deep and 2 cm thick, giving it a form factor that, according to Sony, allows it to be slipped into a jacket pocket or handbag. An advantage of the wide form-factor is that the keyboard can be made slightly larger. The key pitch on the Vaio P (the distance from the center of one key to the center of the next) is 16.5 millimeters, considerably more than on keyboards used on some of the small form-factor netbooks currently available. It's based on the Intel Atom processor and will be available in North America from February for around US$900.

LG watch-phone

One of the most futuristic gadgets at CES could be one of the quickest to hit the market. LG Electronics' watch-phone is a complete 3G cellular phone in a wristwatch-style form factor. The LG-GD910 phone has a 1.4-inch touchscreen display and is based on the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) mobile network standard. It packs the latest 7.2Mb-per-second HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) data system, so downloads should be fast. It can also make video calls via a small camera above the top right corner of the screen. Other features include Bluetooth, an MP3 player, a speakerphone and a text-to-speech function. The watch-phone is also waterproof. It's scheduled to go on sale in the second half of 2009 in Europe. Pricing and plans for other markets were not announced.