It’s tinkertoys for musicians and aspiring musicians. Create your own songs using pre-built mixes and personalize tracks with special effects on your iPhone. Record it, export it, or take it with you to hear time and time again. Aaron Higgins showed reporters at Lunch at Piero’s during CES 2010  just how easy it is to bend, blend and publish your own music mixes.

LifeLock provided this chilling look at just how many ways one’s identity can be stolen. The company has a strong focus on educating consumers and working with law enforcement and elected officials to better understand the increasing threats of identity theft.   In this interview with Betty Chan-Bauza shot at the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and media event during CES 2010,  LifeLock showed off its proactive tools and programs to protect consumers from identity theft.

Seth Socolow, head of the SF App Studio shows Mobile Music Messenger, an easy app that lets you share your music recommendations with friends and easily buy the piece of music.  SF App studio was joined by five App developers at the special App section of the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and media event during CES, just one way that the company helps developers market their mobile applications, taking charge of PR, events, social media and even direct contact with enthusiasts.

The award-winning Alex eReader promises a new era of richer digital publications, according to Dr. Priscilla Lu, CEO of Spring Design.   The dual-screen, Android-based Alex eReader is making headlines as Spring Design promises new opportunities for authors and publishers with “Link Editions”:  books that already have links to multimedia resources built into them.  Spring Design showed the Alex eReader to reporters from around the world and announced relationships with Borders and Google at the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and media event January 7 and 8 during CES 2010.

D-Link showcased its CEA Innovation Awards winners including the Boxee Box, the Pebble media players, the D-Link Home Monitoring Starter Kit and the D-Link Home Energy Starter Kit.  Also at the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and media event during CES 2010: D-Link showed the industry’s first 600Mbps home wireless access point with four data streams, a very fast 450Mbps touch screen and a portable N pocket router that lets users set up a hotspot anywhere, and the D-Link 3G Door phone, which acts like a standard doorbell, but is anything but ordinary.

Knocking Live impressed us with their direct smartphone to smartphone visual communication app. Truly the fastest and most intriguing way to share pics, and it is truly live.  This technology turns a storage network into a simple relay, making it possible to instantly receive pics on their Apple iPhones and even iPod Touch.  Watch this interview shot at the Lunch at Piero’s media and innovator event during CES 2010.

If you like shiny bright objects in your performance PC, look no further as Jim Jardine, senior product manager at Crucial.com gave reporters a hands-on look at the latest bling for your RAM at the Lunch at Piero’s media and innovator event durig CES.  In red, green or blue or a combination of the three, a twinkling module indicates the performance of the RAM in your PC.   The company also announced  the latest addition to the Crucual SSD product families – the fasted SSD in the world available in February, a fitting followup to last year’s Shake-O-Matic demonstration, which proved that you can play perfect HD video from a Crucial SSD drive undergoing the tortures of a paint shaker.

Imagine the many times that you’re busy pulling luggage through an airport or otherwise have only one hand available to do things.  Using voice recognition, Promptu’s ShoutOUT for the iPhone lets you create and edit a text message instantly and send it to your contacts with only minimal keystrokes.  At the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and media event during CES 2010, Matteo Monteverdi gave us a quick demo and we were very impressed with the accuracy of the voice recognition.  Even if a message needs editing or you decide to expand it, there’s always the keyboard.  Oh, and did we say the messages are free?  Now isn’t that sweet for all of us busy multitasking people?

Nimbuzz, compatible with over 1,000 mobile handsets on the market, enables free calls, chats, texting.  It is the equivalent of at least four different applications, consolidating your voice and social media contacts so you can call them, text them, or chat with them from a single screen.  Demonstrated at media and innovator event, Lunch at Piero’s during CES 2010, Nimbuzz offers a selection of different operators and even a cheaper version of Skype, as well as easy on-screen monitoring of the cost of the calls.  Oh and did we say this versatile all-in-one communications app is FREE?

Toktumi’s Line2 is an app for the iPhone that allows you to place calls over Wi-Fi when it is available and over cellular when it is not, overcoming the biggest problem with competing VoIP apps, which only work over Wi-Fi and must be running to receive a call. It also links into Toktumi’s hosted PBX platform, allowing small companies to set up an entirely iPhone-based office phone system. Demonstrated in the special iPhone section of Lunch at Piero’s, the media and innovator event during CES 2010.