CES 2010: a snapshot of new camera offerings

Even when the world’s biggest trade show isn’t running, you’re never far from a freshly released digicam.So trying to cover every camera launched at CES would be like trying to eat all the rice in China. Pointless, and tedious to watch.In the edited highlights, then, we’ve seen Kodak winning points for style with the Slice, a sliver of a point-and-shooter with a 3.5-inch touchscreen on the back. As well as that big viewing surface, the company reckons the snapper is a dab hand at searching ‘by person, place, date or occasion’. Just as well, since it’ll hold up to 5,000 14MP images. Available from April across the pond. News of its arrival here to come.Over at Polaroid, personnel changes were the big news, with pop warbler Lady Gaga getting her feet under the creative director’s desk. Thankfully, the instant camera folk managed to push out some new hardware before Gaga could make her mark. Their retrotastic OneStep cameras use old-style instant film in another attempt to revive the fortunes of the classic technology. Coming this year, apparently.Also from Polaroid, a new Zink inkless printing cam – the Instant Digital Camera (really) – dropped with 12MP resolution and 3x4-inch prints.And Sony knocked out the 10MP HX5 with GPS for geotagging and the TX7 (pictured) 3.5-inch touchscreen cam (also 10MP) with 1080i video skills.Elsewhere, things were more pedestrian (Canon, for example, tidied up its budget-end A-series), but Samsung made a splash with its NX10, a new contender in the micro four-thirds camp. Read our hands-on with the Samsung NX10.More CES stuff:Check out the details of the new Palm Pre & Pixie phonesWatch our CES 2010 preview video and CES 2010 press day round up videoRead about our other CES themes: 3DTVs, pico projector phones, and ereadersHands on with Google Nexus One, Intel InfoScape, Skype on TV and the Alex eReaderPaddy's CES predictions: 3DTV, eBooks and tabletsFollow the Stuff CES team on Twitter:Stuff editor Fraser MacdonaldStuff.tv editor Simon Osborne-WalkerConsulting editor Tom DunmoreReviews editor Mark Wilson