HP’s TouchSmart sub-brand and its other AIOs should be no stranger to many PC advocates, but in case you’ve never come across one before, the company’s laid all of them out on one side of its Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai. Models range from the TouchSmart IQ770 launched back in 2007, all the way to the recently shipped Z1 workstation and even the just-announced t410 Smart Zero Client ; but the real gem of the booth is that little beige HP 150 right in the middle — it’s one of the first-ever touchscreen PCs, dating back to 1983, powered by an 8MHz Intel 8088 chip, ran MS-DOS and cost a mere $3,995. Whilst on the topic, HP’s Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff shared some interesting stats: his team found that much like laptops , there are very different screen size preferences across different regions, with the US showing strong interest in 20-inch and 23-inch HP AIOs, whereas China much prefers 20-inch over 21.5-inch and 23-inch
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Visualized: HP’s all-in-one PCs over the years, one from 1983
By now you should already know that the brand-spanking-new 
We know what you’re thinking: It’s white . But the truth is, there’s something intangible about these snow-colored slabs that cause humans to lavishly drool
Like that one friend who cares enough to update everyone about a “killer party” they’re headed to without saying where it is, the official ASUS Facebook page has dropped a teaser that is as tantalizing as it is frustratingly vague. The note promises “awesome new features” in the next update for its Transformer Prime , but has absolutely no details on what that means
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. According to Wikipedia, the mountain lion, also known as the cougar, is distinguished by having the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial animal in the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, from what we’ve seen so far of Apple’s forthcoming Mac operating system , its new features will likely find favor with a broader range of Apple users than Lion
One of the many new products we spotted at Oregon Scientific’s CES booth was the App In Sports range of watches. 
Toshiba announced yesterday that the super-skinny AT200 tablet would be headed to the US mid-Q1 as the Excite X10, and we wasted no time in grabbing some more play with the 0.3-inch slate. 
Remember our lovely leak of Lenovo’s Tegra 3 tablet from last November? Well, it showed up here at CES under the LePad K2010 moniker for China, while elsewhere it’ll likely be known as the IdeaTab K2. We won’t comment much on the unfinished software (so no luck with controlling the cursor using the fingerprint scanner on the back), but build quality wise we enjoyed the faux brushed metal cover on the back, and similarly, the sharp 1,920 x 1,200 IPS display between the speakers was very impressive (yes, we double-checked with Lenovo on these numbers). 
We get to see a lot of amazing concept cars throughout the year, while some get the chance to make the leap from concept to production, others don’t. With the year coming to an end, check out our list of the Best Concept Cars of 2011.
