Small, sleek, easy to use and capable of producing excellent results, no matter where you are.

Beautiful, ultra-compact, super-slick and friendly to use, plus great quality. A winning combination from Canon.

Garmin’s Nuvi 265W offers a clean navigating experience with a host of useful features and suffers only a handful of small issues.

The wireless feature is a neat touch, but the iBall's core function – sounding good – just isn’t there

Once you’ve mastered the touch-screen you’ll have plenty of fun with this great effort from LG

An excellent player from Samsung, combing outstanding innovation with great sound and picture clarity

If you want an alternative to Apple, here’s a great (and cheap) place to start

It may be pricey, but Sony's Walkman is a fine MP3 player and a good alternative to everything Apple

Smart and easy to use, and can be positioned vertically or horizontally

Zyxel's build-your-own approach offers good value

A quiet and efficient device, but expensive at 48p per gigabyte

Lack of online content and copy-protected music are problems, but no HDMI is a major headache

Small enough to fit in your pocket but with enough power to make light work of rusty screws and flat-packed furniture

Almost on a par with the best value sat-nav – TomTom’s ONE – and with features that might make it more attractive to you

Expressive, clever navigator would like to meet confident, slim-fingered driver for long drives and fun

An inexpensive, neatly designed sat-nav that happens to offer additional travel info if you want it

Cheap robo-vacs used to be a no-no, but this one is top-notch. Not Dyson standards admittedly, but far more relaxing

Packed with features, works like a dream and can take pictures of your cat from the other side of the world. What more do you want?

Movie and photo transfer capability, MP3 playback, bearable speakers… this is the best portable gaming machine ever

No sane gamer is going to head out and buy this as their new console, but we'd advise 360 and Wii owners not to forget about Dre - there's some truly superb games still coming out for PS