Every end of August/beginning of September we go a bit nuts at Pocket-lint and start prefacing just about all of our articles with the letters IFA followed by whatever year it might be. Hardened readers will know exactly what’s going on, but...

On to September, which started with a bang at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin. Not one of those flat, comic-book style bangs, either - a massive 3-dimensional bang as just about every manufacturer in the world unveiled a 3D product.

There was 3D...

There's nothing wildly spectacular about the looks of the refresh to the Samsung N-series netbooks but then there isn't supposed to be. The tech giant has affordability in mind with the N130 and N140 which are designed to take over from the popular NC10.

While Samsung's Galaxy i7500 Android handset is struggling to make it to the UK's shores following a series of delays, that didn't stop us hunting down the new model at IFA to find out whether HTC finally has a competitor.

The Samsung...

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 is the company's latest Micro Four Thirds camera and takes a different approach to the models previous released.

Rather than come as a miniature version of a DSLR camera, as before, Panasonic have followed Olympus...

LG's first Android phone - apparently called the "Etna" - has been leaked by mobile phone operator Vodafone.

German website "Chip Online" spotted the QWERTY keyboard-equipped Etna at the Vodafone booth at the recent IFA 2009 show.

When it comes to TVs, 3D is the new buzzword. Well it certainly was at this year's IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics show. But is the technology at a point that we really will be embracing it in our living rooms in 2010? We took a long hard look...

Wandering the halls of Berlin's IFA trade show, we came across a company called Krator, whose website claims it just sells speakers. It was exhibiting a lot more, though, including this awesome guitar controller for PC and PS3.

It's called...

In dark corners of the IFA trade show floor lie stalls from obscure Chinese companies that make the weirdest stuff. We've seen self-cleaning toilet seats, all the odd-shaped thumb drives you could imagine, and more circuitboards and cables than at a robotics...

Although we've seen press shots of Logitech's Darkfield mice, which claim to be able to track even on glass surfaces. Here's a few photos of what they look like outside of studio lighting. They're rather pretty, we think.

The larger, weird-shaped...

A Korean company called Moolsarang was getting a lot of attention at IFA 2009, so we took a closer look at its stand to see what the fuss was about. Turns out that Moolsarang makes all manner of toilet seats.

Its flagship product is the MS-3100,...

Prowling around the quieter corners of the floor of the IFA tradeshow, we discovered a company from Shenzhen in China called Hoshino that's selling what it claims is the world's first biodegradable USB flash drive.

We were told by the company...

We showed you press pictures of HANNSpree's cuddly animal televisions back in July, but here's a few pictures from the IFA show floor of what the cute little tellies look like in the flesh. Or in the fur, perhaps.

The Polar Bear, Giraffe,...

Chinese case manufacturer XSKN, which is infamous for correctly revealing the shape of the iPhone 3G, as well as offering a case for the "iPhone nano", also produces a range of keyboard skins for Apple software, like Final Cut Pro, and Logic.

Philips has unveiled a new range of kitchen appliances for hard-working kitchens, the "Robust Collection".

Described as "advanced, durable and stylish", Philips promises the the new line "delivers professional results and long-lasting performance,...