Hot: Gestural interfaces At the consumer level, 2007 was the year of the touchscreen. Products like the iPhone, iPod touch, LG’s Prada phone and HP’s TouchSmart PC made it perfectly acceptable to stroke the screens of your gadgets in public. What we’ve seen at CES this year is more advanced interactivity — gestural interfaces where you don’t even need to …

There are many people in the world who don’t like Microsoft. You could hardly argue that it has made some mistakes over the years. But as Bill Gates prepares to bow out of running Microsoft — a company he’s grown into one of the biggest in the world — I can’t help thinking we’re going to be worse off without …

While enjoying the plush carpet and pleasant surroundings at the Samsung CES stand, we happened upon a charming TV, which promptly informed us the temperature was 51 degrees Fahrenheit and that stock in Apple was down by $2.56. What we’d stumbled upon was an RSS TV. This is a really simple concept, but it’s one of the best things we’ve …