such as intel and hewlett packard as well as parallel conference sessions on gaming storage broadband and the future of digital music about 50 000 new products will be unleashed at the techfest which is the largest yet consumer electronics and gadgets had a phenomenal year in 2004 according to figures released by ces organisers the cea on tuesday the gadget explosion signalled the strongest growth yet in the us in 2004 that trend is predicted to continue with wholesale shipments of consumer technologies expected to grow by 11 again in 2005 do with highcapacity storage devices like ipods and creative zens mobiles do not yet have this capacity though and there are issues about the ease of portability of mobile music mr mcguire said apple was ensuring it kept a foot in the mobile music door with its recent deal with motorola to produce a version of itunes for motorola phones