Home Server Technologies Inc. (HSTi) showcased an innovative new technology called Wireless Media Stick, a simple and affordable ($119) product that allows media connectivity between mobile devices, TVs, DVD players and other devices. What’s especially interesting about the technology is that you can also stream on-the-go; the Wireless Media Stick app is downloadable for smartphones and by taking the Stick to any location you can directly stream data from a mobile device to any TV, computer or stereo that is USB playback compatible.

Pocket projectors are making great strides in brightness every year while still maintaining surprisingly low power requirements. Appotronics, Optoma and Microvision continue to drive incremental but promising improvements in this market, hopefully guiding it ever closer to a more mass market product category instead of the (micro) niche category it is now.

Samsung announced a tablet that runs on Windows instead of Android. The Sliding PC 7 is a touch-screen device with its own slide-out keyboard, giving users the option of a multi-touch display or full keyboard and mouse. Larger than an iPad but smaller than many Netbooks, the 10.1-inch Sliding PC 7 features a multitouch screen so it can operate in both tablet- and Netbook-like formats.

Vidtonic provides open source hardware solutions for tinkerers hoping to build their own Android TV platforms. When the SageTV, MythTV and current Android hacking communities get their hands on these units we’ll see a wave of incredibly innovative applications for media hubs.

Ecovacs specializes in home automation robots that clean your floors, clean the air and even wash windows. Winbot attaches to your windows and scrubs them clean. The newer model can even cling onto double pane windows with a 1-inch gap. Airbot is equipped with 2 HEPA filters and an activated charcoal filter for tackling poor air quality.

Sensio has announced a 3D VOD channel available for network streaming customers and VOD providers. Sensio has also announced increased efforts at enabling 3D console gaming by providing a software kit to developers that will encode the 3D game output into a number of 3D formats. Additionally, Sensio Autodetect technology can detect and display a wide range of 3D formats.

RIM hasn’t kept the BlackBerry PlayBook much of a secret, but there was one specification it saved to announce at CES — the PlayBook will be a 4G device. Sprint Nextel will offer a version of the PlayBook that runs on Sprint’s next-generation network. The 4G PlayBook is expected to be available this summer. Unlike most of the iPad competitors, PlayBook does not use Android, but will run on the BlackBerry Tablet OS that uses QNX technology.

Jetlun offers residential/commercial home energy monitoring and management solutions that utilize powerline networking. Placing a module between your appliances and the wall allows very granular control of anything connected via one of these modules. Using a web interface hosted on the Jetlun base station, you can manually turn appliances on/off and even create custom profiles that toggles power automatically at certain times of the day.

Aztech demos the world’s smallest 85Mbps and 200Mbps adapters while also bringing energy consumption down on some units to a miserly 12W/hour. A 200Mbps Wireless-N HomePlug extender rounds out the product line. While HomePlug solutions have struggled to catch on, they are clearly become robust, fast and flexible enough to solve a lot of consumers’ home networking challenges.

Cobra Electronics’ iRadar becomes GPS-enabled via a downloadable app that syncs to an iPhone. The app will be upgraded in spring to include a real-time data gathering component that collects information from all mobile users and distributes it live, via the cloud.