If you needed any more proof that the future is already upon us, take a gander at the LG Styler. It looks like a refrigerator at first glance, but opening the door reveals that it isn’t meant for food — rather, it’s your clothes are meant to go inside. While we first thought the Styler was just a concept design, it turns out that the handsome clothing refresher has been on the market in South Korea for a while now.

While there wasn’t much to say about the recently announced Droid RAZR MAXX to begin with (it’s essentially the Droid RAZR with a bigger battery and more storage ), Motorola and Verizon decided to leave out one key bit of detail: the launch date. While it’s still not 100% confirmed, Motorola’s own RAZR MAXX product page now pinpoints the big day as January 26th

Without even having to build any of its own devices, Facebook was everywhere at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As more products are designed to connect to the Internet, developers are integrating Facebook into everything from televisions to cameras to cars. Users are spending more and more time on the social network, but it is unclear how much of a draw Facebook integration will be for consumers who might start to grow tired of seeing the service in so many products.

Walking around CES this week it’s easy to see the future: just look at the components being sold in the nether regions of the show. These include specific things – Bluetooth powered electrical cords, for example – and “pieces” like smaller motherboards, cases, and materials.

It’s true. CES is out of control . I have no reference point since this was my first show, but from the first second you disembark the monorail and look down over the sprawling campus of the LVCC, you know you won’t see everything.

You’ve just got to love the timing. First, Apple announces their education-focused media event smack dab in the middle of CES.

Blue Mics showed up to CES 2012 with three swanky mics. No, really

If Twitter continued to sell its firehose to Google, fewer searches would occur on Twitter’s internal search engine where the microblog platform can serve its own ads. That’s why sources familiar with the negotiations tell me Twitter wouldn’t renew the data access deal at any price, or at least set a ludicrously high price to sink the deal. Cash and increased visibility on Google Search was more valuable to Twitter in 2009 when it was still trying to gain serious traction.

Here at CES 2012, phones are a bit in short supply.

An app that allows users to personalize football jerseys and then share them to the stream, and act testing how many types of beers a user has tried, as well as a few Connect integrations and professional apps comprise our list of the fastest emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. The apps on our list grew from between 110,000 and 470,000 MAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook