Glance Into the Crystal Ball of CES: Our Top Picks for the Best Gadgets of 2011

Your fancy iPod case, your Palm Pre, even your fantastic GPS-enabled directional unit: it all originated here. This is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where every tech company worth its salt comes to show off its wares, and where tech writers, for the most part, question the validity of their jobs. In the past, we at Switched have been pretty right on: we still think 3-D TV is a fad, tablets are here to stay, and those rechargeable, reheatable gloves are simply ridiculous. So, even though we are a mere day into the USB-fueled, jargon-laden and hype-infested CESpool of the show, we've come to find some things we are actually pretty thrilled about. Our picks are innovative and interesting products that we are proud to stand by -- and, dare we say it, the types of things you'll be craving to find under your Christmas tree at the end of 2011. (If you even want to think about next year's holiday in January, but alas... )  Read more…