Krups is a German kitchen appliance manufacturer that has for many years been the world's leading manufacturer of coffee and espresso machines. The company also produces a number of household appliances, including meat slicers, food processors, blenders, coffee grinders and BeerTender. The company competes with DeLonghi, Sunbeam-Oster, Braun, Salton, Proctor-Silex, and Black & Decker (Applica Home Products).Krups is owned by Groupe SEB of FranceKrups once had a factory located in Limerick, Ireland which employed 800 people until its closure in 1999. See alsoTrojan Room coffee pot

Panini-pressing issues: Electric units prove superior (Tacoma News Tribune)

Things I love: perfectly cooked panini, anything cast iron (also steak weights and bricks). Things I don’t love: single-use kitchen gadgets, nonstick coating, anything I have to plug in.

Our picks of the best new gadgets (San Francisco Chronicle)

After a long, hard week of walking the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, The Chronicle's team of tech writers acquired a serious case of sore feet to go with a list of the coolest gizmos and gadgets out there. Featuring thousands of...

Welcome to the fabulous consumer electronics show (Rocky Mountain News)

Check out the latest gadgets from Colorado exhibitors and other vendors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

CES roundup: Eye-Fi applauded; a techie's dream (Chicago Sun-Times)

Eye-Fi Inc.'s memory card that wirelessly sends pictures from a digital camera to a computer — letting you skip the tedium of plugging the camera in to upload images — beat nine other contenders for the top spot in the traditional Last Gadget Standing session, a breezy and informal CES contest staged by Yahoo Inc.'s technology section.

Seen This Weekend: Links to Info (WABC-TV New York)

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