Asus kicked off this year's Consumer Electronic Show with a pre-show briefing that showcased touchscreen netbooks and notebooks, as well as several digital home devices.

The company will soon add two new devices to its netbook lineup: a glamorous, 12-inch netbook called the S121 and a touch-equipped convertible tablet, called the EeePC T91 Touch Screen.

Asus also demoed the N20 touch-screen, which will incorporate the company's AI Touch Media software to let users navigate all media like music and movies using touch, and the M50 notebooks, which Asus dubbed as two separate notebooks in one chassis.

On the digital home front, the Eee Keyboard will be the first wireless media center enabled by ultra wideband HDMI. "It looks like a keyboard, but it's actually a computer," said Asus chief executive and chairman Jonney Shih.

The Eee Top, meanwhile, is a touch-screen interface intended to connect family members throughout the home. It will include a stylus that lets users write digital post-it notes, and incorporates an enhanced Opera browser with touch capabilities.

More details after the jump.

The EeePC T91 is its first netbook with tablet capabilities. It incorporates touch capabilities, one of which is the ability to manipulate images. The machine can also manipulate maps, since the unit comes with a built-in GPS and features both a TV tuner and FM transmitter, both first-to-market netbook features.

Asus elected to go with an 8.9-inch widescreen display, not the more popular 10-inch ones, and will be using both a spinning hard drive and SSD, for a combined storage capacity of 52 Gbytes. It runs the Windows XP Home package, which includes 1 GB of memory and Intel Atom platform. Different colors are also available.

Dave Fester, general manager of marketing for Microsoft's OEM division, said the device will eventually support Windows 7 as well.

The T91 is about 1-inch thick and weight approximately 2lbs.

"This new generation of netbooks actually is a multi-touch network," said Shih. "It's the superset of the original tablet PC."

Adding functionality for other operating systems like Linux is "possible" but there are not definite plans at this point, Shih said.

The S121, meanwhile, is a more luxurious netbook, which is why it doesn't carry the EeePC moniker. Additions such as the leather palm rests, the edge-to-edge glass, and Swarovski crystals on the hinge are Asus engineering at its best.

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