Steve Ballmer announced on stage at the CES keynote that Microsoft has sold over 8 million Kinect units. Microsoft had initially preditced to 5 million but sold over 8 million at the initial launch. Ballmer promises that the innovation with Kinect will continue throughout this year including new features incorporated into Xbox Live.

Were live at the Microsoft opening Keynote at CES. We will be live blogging it below so stay tuned at 6:30PM PST. Update: Keynote is live press read more for the live blog.

The rumors that the iPhone will be on Verizon soon are solidifying as now the company is buying domains with the word iPhone in it. Domains like verizononiPhone.com are now owned by the same entity that owns Verizon.com. These domains currently consist of ads and a survey that asks do you use the iPhone on Verizon. It looks like Verizon has yet to change the content on the site since the previous owner. We will keep an eye on these domains to see when and if they will redirect to an iPhone sales site for Verizon. Stay tuned as we head to CES on the 6th with more news on Verizon.

There has been many rumors that Verizon may announce their own version of the iPhone 4 at CES this year. Well Verizon has released information on what they will be previewing while at CES and it doesn't include the iPhone. It makes sense really because Steve Jobs would want to take control of the announcement anyways and we know that he will not be at CES. Verizon will however be introducing more 4G LTE devices at CES this year such as 4G dongles and Android phones. We may not see the Verizon iPhone announcement at CES but that doesn't mean that it will not happen with an Apple announcement later in 2011. According to 9to5Mac they have heard rumors that Apple may have an announcement on Jan 6th as well, so we will just have to wait and see.

Elliptic Labs is about to introduce a new iPad dock that offers touchless control almost identical to the Xbox Kinect sensor. The company's Touchless Gesture User Interface uses ultrasound waves to track hand movements in a zone that extends approximately one foot beyond the front of the dock and the sides of the device. CEO Stian Aldrin says

The technology is designed to make basic input gesturing easier when the tablet is docked and potentially further away from the user, or for situations when you have wet or greasy hands in the kitchen.

From the Youtube video it makes it look like the controller is not as complex as the Kinect controller. It looks like you must be within about 3 feet from the controller. Also it seems that the controller is limited to only a few hand gestures. Elliptic Labs will unveil the iPad dock at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Pricing and launch information is unknown at the moment. Click read more for a video demo.

Motorola has released a video that goes through the evolution of the tablet till now. They call the iPad an oversized iPhone and the Galaxy Tab, Android for a phone. The camera then pans towards a red Motorola logo displaying an item under a sheet. The end of the video again shows the new logo with a bee buzzing around it. The bee hints and the new Android 3.0 OS called Honeycomb and this new tablet will be revealed at CES. We will be there at CES to bring you shots of the new tablet as soon as we see it.