Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has taken the wraps off the world's first 2TB 7,200rpm desktop hard drive..

High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

Hitachi’s ingeniously hinged screwdriver is your flexible friend when it comes to awkward screws and looks remarkably like a Halo 3 gun

They're not obsolete yet. Capacity isn't the only saving grace for hard drives, with Hitachi spinning out 7,200 rpm devices.

Joint project to develop 32nm and 22nm processors.

Joint project to develop 32nm and 22nm processors.

Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita join forces.

Travelstar 5K500 due next month.

Nanotech breakthrough sees quadrupling of capacities.

Company should act now, say analysts.

Burn straight onto a disc or choose the hybrid HDD model.

A month's worth of HD news in digest form.

Video-on-demand servers running smoothly.

Good colour reproduction at a bargain price.

Five 200GB platters spinning at 7,200rpm in a 3.5in form factor.

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

Huge capacity, but not very quiet or good value

Hitachi’s PJ-TX10 is the monster of the group – in that it’s by far the biggest and the heaviest projector.

Hitachi pioneered the idea of consumer cameras capable of recording video direct to DVD. The early models were large and relatively expensive but high quality. It has taken a while for the idea to take off but it is certainly gaining momentum with a number of competitors now coming into the market. Hitachi has responded by progressively making its cameras more compact and adding extra features such as a SD memory card for storing still images or compressed video clips.