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With the explosion of the iPod, broadband and wireless, a traditional living room stereo is not really needed these days. Enter the JBL Creatures which as well as having superb quality sound-wise, are pieces of sculpture in their own right. Ideal if you are fully immersed in the tech world. (50 words)

Good bits - sound, footprint (credit card size) and interface. But you only discover these once you have negotiated the shocking software which enables you to get files onto the thing in the first place. Reasonable value at £150, but if less impatient than me, wait for the iPod mini. (50 words)

This is the way that tech kit should be. You plug it in and it just works. Within 5 minutes I was connected to the internet via by ADSL provider. Another 5 and the wireless network was up and secure. It is fast, easy and seems secure. What more's needed? (50 words)

As your computing world expands backups become essential rather than advisable. This external hard drive covers all the bases with a huge, fast capacity. But the real boon is the connectivity, it offers both USB2 and FireWire so you can connect it to two machines at once. (47 words)

I was quite happy with my old phone but if you get offered a free one you'll take it. This K700i does exactly the same as I'm used to-Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP but with a colour screen, camera and radio as well. Call quality seems good and the toys are fun. (50 words)

Quite simply superb. The image quality is crisp and clear and adjusts to light conditions so it is as good on a bright day as a dark night. The virtual surround sound is pretty impressive and the various sockets (scartt, VGA etc) provide all the options you could ever need. (50 words)

This combination printer, scanner and photocopier offers the small home office or business a great tool. With quality output and a (relatively) fast throughput of pages this is a good, cheap option. Not good for high volume or really high end photos but as a general workhorse can't be beaten. (50 words)

Sysinternals offer a suite of extremely detailed system analysis tools for most Windows versions. They are not for those scared of computers but for the serious Windows user (and there are a few!) they are invaluable. Special mention for Process Explorer which is an excellent Task Manager replacement. (48 words)

If you are a techie and you use Windows this is simply a must-have. Beyond basic text editing feature you get colour coding for Java, HTML, JavaScript and various other text based features such as a clipboard history, ansi character sets and HTML character codes. It is cheap... buy it! (50 words)

As a Lotus Notes/Domino developer there is little choice but to be looking at Websphere etc. To this end there is the DeveloperWorks Professional Subscription. Now, it is expensive, but if you want to pick up Websphere, DB2 or, indeed, Lotus Notes/Domino there is no cheaper legal way. (48 words)