Simple controls, friendly design and a tiny size make the Nikon Coolpix S220 a great choice for summer snaps.

Superb print quality at consistently high speeds, and it’s packed with useful features too.

MP3 fans will either love or hate the Cowon D2+ design, a player squarely aimed at the iPod crowd - but with more multimedia options that most Apple offerings for the same price.

Inexpensive, but a frugal assortment of features

For the best part of a decade PC sound boffins have been trying to convince us that we need to hook our desktops up to surround speakers to make the most of games and PC video.

The Xerox Phaser 3125N isn’t much to look at, with a design not unlike business lasers from the early nineties. Unlike its ancestors, however, it’s only a fraction of the size and significantly more powerful.

The Maxtor Blackarmor has one thing that other USB hard drives don’t - military grade data security in a very stylish package

Dubbed the 'Facebook phone', this small and stylish social-networking phone will connect to you to your favourite net apps including MySpace and MSN.

Although its design is no more exciting than a grilled cheese sandwich, the Billion BiPac 7300N is functional and easy to set up.

The first Corel-branded VideoStudio adds one exciting new tool and lots of little improvements.

A fast, high-quality all-in-one, but for running costs look for the MP610 first.

Fine performance and features make this a worthy winner.

Quick, packed with interfaces, but just a little too expensive.

It may lack eSATA, but this is a fast and cheap terabyte drive.

Relatively quick and cheap, but not quite up there with the best

Slow speeds and a high price make this an underwhelming offering

Good value, but without the decent performance or the feature set of our current award winners this time

Striking looks but limited features, average performance and a high price put paid to the Netgear’s chances

A complex but powerful tool that’s made simpler by its new Dashboard interface