While the world makes plans for New Year’s, tech enthusiasts look forward to the annual Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner. Every year at the beginning of January pretty much the entire technology industry descends on Las Vegas to show off the latest gadgets and gear from all over the world. But you don’t have to wait till 2010 to find out what those toys are going to be. DVICE has had its ear to the ground the past few months, listening for advance buzz about what the biggest CES stories will be. Here are the Top 5 CES trends that will set the agenda for the tech world in the New Year.

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5 tech trends to watch at CES 2010

Another holiday gift-giving frenzy is almost upon us. It’s that special time, when all of your careful planning and shopping coverts — with seasonal alchemy — into smiles, squeals of joy and piles of discarded wrapping paper and boxes. But did you remember to buy something for your mother? No, not the one that makes the best mac-’n'-cheese in the world. We’re talking Mother Earth. Click Continue to check out 5 gifts that give back to Gaia this holiday season.

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5 holiday tech gifts that just might save the planet

The Amazon Kindle is on several gadget gift lists this year, and why not? After all, it’s a sleekly thin e-reader, has a nice price (now $259 — with no monthly subscriptions or contracts, thank you very much), its wireless service just went global, and there’s nothing else like it, right? Not so fast. Before you pop that Kindle in your shopping cart, take a look at some of the many other e-readers out there. There are actually a lot more than you might think, and each one has something it does better than the Kindle. Continue e-reading for more.

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Giving a Kindle? Check out these 8 other e-readers first

It can be hard to give a gadget as a good gift. Finding that thoughtful addition to someone else’s high-tech arsenal means giving something they’ll always have a use for. It’s daunting, sure, but with a little forethought the awkwardness of a useless gizmo as a present can be easily avoided. Or, hey: skip the forethought and let us do it for you. Click Continue to see seven gadget gifts that will never go out of style.

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7 gadget gifts that will never go out of style

Could the best Halloween costumes be the ones made by fans of old-school games? From titles as ubiquitous as Tetris to obscurities like Day of the Tentacle , this list has it all. Just about the only one that’s lacking here is Pong — although, dance too much in that nylon costume and you may well find yourself being batted away by anyone you get too close to.

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10 retro-gaming costumes for Halloween

Much like dogs in sweaters , kids don’t always get to decide how they’re dressed. This is doubly true on Halloween, when cruel parents can turn their beloved youngsters into anything at all. Typically this means cute animals or movie characters, but sometimes it means horrible, horrible lapses in reasonable Halloween attire. Lucky for us, they then upload pictures of all these adorable mistakes online for the rest of us to see. Click Continue to see 10 geeky, life-ruining costumes for kids.

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10 geeky, life-ruining costumes for kids

In the gigantic Apple App Store with its vast selection of nearly 100,000 applications, there are bound to be some stinkers. Amid such a garden of delights, most of us are vulnerable to being lured into a regrettable purchase. That’s just what happened to us as we hoarded apps with reckless abandon. We’ve picked out 10 of those apps that initially intrigued us but ultimately disappointed us. At first glance, they seemed so wonderful, filled with such bounty and promise, but ultimately didn’t hold our interest enough to get us to launch them again. Ever. Have your own regrettable, loathsome app downloads? Spare all of us the anguish by warning us about them in the comments. Love some of the apps we didn’t? We want to know! Continue reading to see our by-no-means-comprehensive rogue’s gallery, and consider yourself warned:

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10 iPhone apps we downloaded and never used again

This post is an advertorial, brought to you by Toyota Prius. Visit Syfy’s Prius site here. The Toyota Prius breaks serious new ground for hybrid vehicles. Beyond just statistics, the 3rd generation Prius has a multitude of features that help keep it safe, modern and green. Here are 10 reasons that the Prius is harmony between man, nature and machine.

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10 ways the 3rd generation Prius is harmony between man, nature and machine

The laptop of yours has a screen that’s plenty big, has enough storage for whatever you want to do, and has versatility out the ying-yang. But it’s expensive. It’s heavy. Your aching back tells you there must be a better way. There is. It’s a netbook, a smaller, lighter portable PC designed to give you the best of both worlds. With the portability and cheapness of a smartphone and the keyboard of a laptop, a netbook just might hit that sweet spot. Let’s look at the positives and negatives, figuring out if netbooks are “just good enough.” Join into our argument with ourselves in the comments section at the bottom of the article, pointing out the good and bad points of this exploding computing phenomenon.

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Netbook or Notebook? 5 ways to decide

Swine flu seems to be popping up all over the globe, and so is information (and misinformation) about it. Cooler heads prevail here at DVICE, where we’ve decided to use the power of technology and the Web to help us survive the deadly outbreak. Here’s where to find reliable information, and where not to go for updates:

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Swine Flu Survival Kit: 5 essential websites