THE WISE VCR/TIVO -- Television recording gadgets already let you fast-forward over advertisements, and the TiVo device automatically records programs that it discerns we might like.
At CES, I came across a few items that made my inner musician geek out, including a self-tuning guitar and a pretty sweet drum synth pad, plus a couple of new recording gadgets for capturing your awful performances of "She Bangs" on the go.
Multimedia players Small record Gadget website BoysStuff has unveiled what it is billing as the smallest recordable multimedia player.
And the number of gadgets recording and transmitting data, from smartphones to intelligent fridges, industrial sensors to CCTV cameras, has also proliferated globally, leading to an explosion in the volume of data.
The Dash is also a fitness-tracking gadget though: recording your steps, pace, distance, heart rate and other stats as you go about your business.
Colours flickered and flashed, as did cameras and every other gadget capable of recording the event.
There is strange pop music playing as tech bloggers and reporters power up their gadgets to begin recording the main event.
The country imposes an indiscriminate levy on all gadgets capable of recording or storing sounds and images, but the EU has ruled this illegal and Spain says it will modify it.Change may be slow.
