‘Tis the season for new cameras here at CES, and Canon has just revealed a few new point-and-shoots, bright and early in the morning of course. These new Powershots fall under the budget and semi-budget category, so there’s nothing too fancy about them. But let’s take a quick look anyway, shall we?

You might remember a while back when I reviewed the ContourHD camera, a tiny, water-resistant 1080p camera for sticking to your bike frame, helmet, car, whatever. I thought it was pretty great, with the usual caveats for small camcorders, but one major limiting factor was that you couldn’t… well, you couldn’t tell where you were pointing the thing. I mean, it had handy laser guides to keep it level, and it’s reasonably wide-angle, but there was still some estimation in framing. Switching video modes and such was also less than convenient.

No longer: the latest version of the Contour camcorder connects to your phone via Bluetooth, allowing you to see your shot live, replay stuff instantly, change settings, and more. This is good.

We may as well be up front about Pandigital: we weren’t impressed by the original Novel e-reader. But maybe they’ve learned from their mistakes and have produced something a little more worthwhile. At any rate, AT&T seems to think it’s worth your time, since they’re adding the new Multimedia Novel to their selection.

These new monitors aren’t the most exciting things I’ve ever seen — in fact, to say that even one atom of me is excited by them would be a gross overstatement. But we would be remiss not to report that they exist. And they do exist. That’s about all they can do.

Thinking of getting a new notebook? HP sure hopes so. They’ve got a refreshed lineup (wait, didn’t we just do this) and they want you to buy, buy, buy. The new iterations of their classic Envy and Pavilion lines incorporate the new Sandy Bridge Core processors, but beyond that, the info here is distressingly thin. Let’s see what we can figure out here, starting with the biggest laptop and working our way down.

Just yesterday we saw a trademark request from HTC for something called the Scribe. It sounds very tablet-ish, and of course in the request itself, it’s described as a “handheld wireless device, namely, a tablet computer.” Kind of a giveaway. Well, we have a smidgen more info now courtesy of Digitimes, which reports that component makers put the size of the Scribe at 7″ and identify the OS as Android 3.0.

This kind of thing happens during the run-up to CES. Casio will be showing off this neat little camera at their press conference, no doubt, but in the meantime they’ve got it plastered all over the convention center and even had the press pics go live for a few minutes.

Not too much to say here; I mean, it’s an iPad/iPhone dock. But it’s got a modern, space-age look at an easy way to put your photos and video up on your TV, so hey.

With gadgets like the ContourHD and GoPro Hero out there, you’ve got plenty of choice when it comes to the “sports cam” category of cameras. These waterproof, mountable camcorders can take abuse and keep recording. This new one from Swann Security forgoes the HD thing, unfortunately, but the price sure is right.