Stories by: Nick Barber

Klipsch has developed a device that combines a wireless speaker and LED light and installs into most standard light sockets. Called the LightSpeaker, it uses a base station transmitter to stream music to each unit, up to 50 feet away, using 2.4 GHz wireless technology.

In this week's show Google introduces visual and real time search, Acer rolls out its first Android handset, BenQ shows off an e-reader, Cisco holds its annual financial analyst conference and talks about its future initiatives, Facebook privacy changes take effect, Panasonic shows off LED light bulbs at the Eco Style Fair and an iPod karaoke machine lets you sing along with your favorite tunes.

The smartphone goes on sale from China Mobile in December

The European Union published findings of an 18-month investigation Tuesday finding that 301 Web sites that sold mobile phone ringtones, wallpapers and other services had "serious breaches of EU consumer law," according to a statement.

Japanese telecommunications company KDDI showed a low-cost, 3D joystick for mobile phones at Ceatec on Wednesday.

Muratagirl, the unicycling robot, is back at Japan’s Ceatec with improvements and some new tricks.

Samsung has developed an outdoor digital advertising system that tailors ads based on its audience.

Thumbs up, lights on. Thumbs down, lights off. That's all a user would need to do with the GestureID project from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. After more than a year of intensive research, the group presented its project at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin.

Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso Plattner Institut in Germany called Nanotouch allows a touchscreen device to be controlled from its backside, preventing fingers from occluding the screen.

President Barack Obama plans to answer questions on Thursday that were submitted to the White House through Google Moderator.