CES hasn’t all been about Warner Brothers, Blu-ray and HD-DVD, although you could be forgiven for thinking that this whole event was organised by one format to embarrass the other.

No, there’s been other things happening, too, such as the launch of a whole raft of handheld gadgets and accessories. Okay, so they’re not going to be the saviours of our industry during the next 12 months, and many are ‘me too’ products that demonstrate a breathtaking lack of originality. Coloured headphones, anyone? Yawn…

Perhaps the one area where things have progressed noticeably is in TV design. There’s been plenty of hot air expended banging on about ‘full HD’ – that’s 1080p in case you didn’t know, which I’m sure you did – despite a lack of content at that resolution. That might explain why gaming has been so prominent this year – the one area where 1080p currently makes sense.

So forget 1080p and instead marvel at how thin TVs will soon be. LG, JVC, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung, Sony and Pioneer all unveiled super slim panels. You know how flat panel TVs were promoted as saving so much space when compared to old CRT sets… well, that’s nothing. The next generation of next gen flat panel TVs will be even flatter – sorry – thinner than ever before. Wow!

While it’s perfectly understandable that we expect that as technology advances components will get smaller, is there any reason to believe that the public is really clamouring for even slimmer TVs? At a price premium?

One industry pundit here at CES said the show this year was more about evolution than revolution. This is almost certainly true but if evolution is currently only developing the slimming gene then I think that natural selection has dropped a wheel along the way.