From personal printers to home office colour, we put 12 lasers through their paces. Some are lightning fast; others produce dazzling colour. Some are tiny, and some are surprisingly cost-effective.

Laser weaponry looks like becoming part of future army's arsenal, including non-lethal "flashes" designed to stop car drivers.

When it comes to getting real work done, there’s still nothing to compete with a laser printer’s combination of quality, speed and economy. We tell you how to choose a busines laser, plus review 3 examples.

We put a selection of high-capacity office printers to the test. We analyse what printer is best for your workplace and what dosn't work.

Petawatt laser activated in Texas.

A tiny, fast personal laser printer with a temping price and great quality.

Logitech extends their solid reputation by creating a highly sensitive, portable mouse for notebooks with the V450 Nano Cordless laser.

20 billion trillion watts per square centimetre.

Well-equipped and quite quick, but the quality is patchy

There isn't much point, after all, in owning a network printer capable of printing thousands of pages per month at a ridiculously low price per page if the people that use it don't print out that much on a day-to-day basis.

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

Taking a page out of the popular science fiction series, scientists have managed to turn aluminium into a new transparent form of matter, after it was placed under extreme ultraviolent radiation.

Logitech has launched a new range of laser mice that can work on glass or shiny surfaces. The new mice use two lasers rather than one to work on a variety of previously unusable surfaces.

30 major consumer electronics firms under the spotlight.

Impressive print quality, a good turn of speed and decent features, but it simply costs too much to own.

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

Devices can fetch items indicated with laser pointer.

Ignore the price – incredibly low running costs Make this a winner.

An uncompromising monochrome laser that gets the job done with speed and precision.