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Retailers and distributors show what they will offer in the year ahead at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. By Charles Arthur

More gadgets and innovations from the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas

The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but on Monday the press got an early look at some of the gadgets that could well be the next big thing

2011 brought the release of game-changing gadgets, and it delivered news to the tech world that brought some of the good, bad and bizarre.

Consider this your top travel guide for all things tech. You won’t want to leave home without it—or, at least, without saving a copy of this guide on your traveling tablet PC!

You're a veteran tech geek. You build all your own systems. Your friends and family always look to you for advice when buying PC gear or gadgets.

Yet there's still stuff you don't own, and don't realize you need.

A dozen plus ways to waste money on Apple gadgets this holiday season

Now that we have all the fancy gauges and buttons modern life provides to us, we may have gotten a little bit overdependent on them.

As it turns out, many of these gadgets are scarily inaccurate or even deliberately configured to lie to and appease us.

Didn't think there was such a thing as a wearable emergency toilet? Or how about a goatee saver that makes you look a bit like Darth Vader shaving.

And what would life be like without a full-sized zoom lens for your iPhone -- that probably weight 10X what the phone does?

Take a look at some of the most drool-worthy, lust-inducing products.