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This years Panasonic booth featured the prerequisite giant flat screen and seemingly thousands of others, but the really promising products, were not the ones in the bright spot light.

Take the bluetooth femtocell unit that allows you to put the home base in a spot in your house or apartment and then transfers the calls to the units wireless handset.  At $99, it is a really smart solution to a problem many of us face.  Panasonic will also have a version that combines your landline and your cell phone into one line.  Best of all, the unit relies on bluetooth, so when your phone comes back into range, it Panasonic unit picks it back up.

Or the DVD home theater in a box.  These units all feature a drop down iPod dock, even the $299 model.  The top of the line model showcases a Blu-ray player and a wireless rear speaker.  The wireless speaker can even be added to the lowly $299 version.  Nice.

And speaking of Blu-ray, Panasonic loves it.  Panasonic showed off Blu-ray drives and discs as well as a really interesting potential application that overlays a game on top of a movie.  Imagine watching Aliens and being able to shoot the bad guys.

All the Plasma TVs will have an SD card slot capable of watching images from digital cameras.  Panasonic has worked with Comcast and will release a set top box utilizing “tru2way”.

Their small camcorders feature both waterproofing and shockproofing technology. 

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