What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

Is it possible to run all your electronic gadgets - even your laptop - on renewable energy sources? PC Authority's eco-warrior Matthew Sparkes gets on his bike.

In a world filled with gorgeous Sony, Apple and even Dell laptops, a sober, matte black machine aimed at consumers has to be truly special to turn heads. The IdeaPad Y430 is a well-built Centrino 2 machine that lacks nothing in the way of features, speed or value

Good looking and easy to use, the Squeezebox is also well featured. The only downside is the price.

Feel the power of 256 computers connected to your fingers.

Cebit is the showcase for future industry trends and technologies. Everything you need to know.

A decent LCD in its own right, but the speakers are poor and the dock isn’t much more than an expensive gimmick.

An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.

A wireless music player that performs audio magic through its LCD enabled remote control. It’s easy to use, quick to setup but lacks video functionality. But we still really liked it.

Nominating Sato as our winner for the desktop machines this month was fairly straightforward, especially when compared to deciding the outcome of the closely-fought notebook war. Because, even though the Sato was outdone by one or two systems in terms of performance, nothing beat it on pure value for money.

The Hi-Grade Xperian can simply be described as a bundle of essential technology ingeniously put together in one desirable package.

There is barely an area of consumer electronics that Sony does not have a hand in, and its contributions are seldom substandard in quality.

A decent PC with media abilities bolted on, transforming this into a good lounge machine.

Despite the fact that Australia is practically the sunshine capital of the world, solar-power for your portable gadgets has been ... mostly absent. But that's about to change when PowerTraveller launches its range of products next week.

The 240Hz TV isn’t the only thing coming to home cinema in 2009. Onboard Internet looks set to be the next big trend in flat screens with Toshiba and Samsung jumping onboard.

This is one of the most complete office multifunction printers we've ever seen. but the MFC-885CW can’t overcome its price or quality issues.

A fine combination of remote management, all-round fault tolerance and top build quality

The USB port is a great feature, but we’d still choose the Squeezebox.

An impressive paperback replacement with a remarkable display: it’s only let down by the unintuitive software.

Print, scan, copy and fax with one single device. We put 10 all-in-ones through their paces.