Archos popped out two AV devices, the AV700, a media player/recorder with DVB-T tuner, and the 104, a small flash drive with customizable UI. They showed both of them at a special meeting at CeBIT.

MSI makes some pretty good gear, although they're not horribly popular over here. This is the Mega Player 540, a 4GB HDD MP3 player with a built-in solar panel and a sassy aesthetic.

Another item in the "Huh" category. This thing is a haptic MP3 player that vibrates in time to your music. Hot little OLED display and up to 1GB storage are nice, and this thing is tiny. Why a vibrating MP3 player, you ask? Who knows. Let's just assume that this thing doesn't necessarily have to go on the hand.

I'm not going to dump my standard mouse for this, but it's nice for sufferers of carpal-tunnel syndrome. This is a pen-shaped mouse with scroll wheel and two buttons on the front. It was actually very responsive. Although I wasn't able to sign my name with any fidelity, I was able to make curves and circles, which…

I'm not going to lie and say this isn't really just a boring cable-laying robot, but the entire system is pretty cool. You've got this snake-machine with on-board cable stays that moves through live, but clean, sewer pipes. Every meter or so, it releases a spring-loaded ring and then another robot comes by to place…

We talked with some of the folks at BenQ and they're basically saying that we probably won't be seeing a lot of these phones in the U.S. this year. For example, you've got the E61 with dedicated music keys on top.

This is another one of BenQ-Siemens' brushed aluminum composition phones. This phone is extremely slim at .75 inches and is nothing more than a phone. There are no extra add-ons. Yep, that means no media player and no camera. It is a basic, slim, phone

Still no sign of Robosapien yet, but we did catch the Robonova. This is a fully customizable and programmable aluminum robot. The movement of this robot is done with HiTEC "muscles." These smart muscles and joints give complete control of torque, speed and position. The programming software is simple, so advanced…

We stumbled upon the case modding competition entries. Most of the entries ended up being ho-hum:mdash;full of big fancy windows, neon lights, water cooling and crazy dials, but this mod won the heart of Gizmodo by representing the average house in Anytown, U.S.A. It is fully equipped with a floppy drive above the…

Day Two here at CeBIT in Hannover and we can safely say that we've trundled past all the big announcements. This is a huge show, but all of the real announcements seem to happen at U.S. and Asian shows unfortunately. But if you noticed what those announcements were—Origami, improvements in flash drives, lots of PMPs…

Look familiar? We saw lots of these on the floor, but this was the only one with a vacuum tube. Can't comment on sound quality, but a special hug goes to the reader who can point out what other C&D worthy tomfoolery you can find on the SonicGear web page, below.

We were so happy to see the Viliv P1 on display here that we kind of scared the guy at the booth. The PMP is much bigger than I expected, with dimensions in the husky PSP range rather than the slick iRiver range. The video quality was excellent and the UI was pleasing and easy to understand. At a tech show chock…

This company makes fully customized PCs, laptops and media centers. This laptop caught our eye because it was as bling as bling can get. It is the Rio model that is constructed out of gold and rosewood. Every part of the PC or the laptop is customized including all of the components inside and especially the design…

It's just so hard to look at Asian phones. They have so much to offer and tweak so many pleasure receptors that you just want to hold on to them and walk out of the booth. The G-3700 here is really sexy, nice bright screen, and it looks like the RAZR if the RAZR wasn't trying to act all art deco.

We don t have a damn clue what this company makes, but they did have a sweet dinosaur made entirely out of old computer parts. Coincidentally on the other side of the hall a completely different booth had an old-style wagon made out of old computer parts. If only the dinosaur could haul the wagon around, it would…

The Intel booth was also featuring the Asus R2H UMPC. Luckily we got a chance to take a look at the unique keyboard interface that has been oh-so-talked about and we missed in our demo yesterday. There was a button that brought the keyboard interface up. A traditional keyboard "click" noise was made when a key was…

While waiting around to get our hands on the Asus R2H we spotted these beauties. These were part of a leather-clad designer series of laptops and mice, which we've talked about before.

Motorola doesn't just make shiny phones. We stumbled into the Moto booth to discover that their traditional product lines are alive and well, including CB radios and this Half-Life 2-esque death pod, the MEA "Rapid Response" Mesh Camera. It's a bit old, but it really looked scary. Put a gun on there and you're…