Unless you’ve been living under a large rock (or, for that matter, a fallen meteoroid) for the majority of your life, you’re probably uncomfortably aware that humanity, as a whole, just doesn’t seem to be too confident about its ongoing survival. Let’s face it: here on Earth we spend a wildly disproportionate amount of time worrying about all sorts of cataclysmic events blowing us all to Kingdom Come, ranging from ancient Mayan calendars, to zombies or robots gone wrong, all the way up to international wars, global warming and unfortunate cosmic collisions.

Rather than reassure you of the relatively low probability of you actually experiencing these calamities within your dwindling mortal lifespan, we’d like to take the time to remind you that it isn’t only the disasters you’re aware of which can well and truly ruin your day.
Nanotechnology Crisis

Collection of best pictures in the month of January.

 In pictures: the Sony Tablet S and other top IFA 2011 gadgets

Once a year, the eyes of the gadget industry turn towards Berlin. It's here that the annual IFA event takes place, where the biggest tech companies come to show off what they think we'll all be craving in the coming months.

MSN Tech & Gadgets was at IFA reporting on the biggest launches and the quirkiest gadgets, direct from the show floor. Here's the kit we think was the best of IFA 2011.