The Sony ICD-SX800 is a high-end digital notetaker suitable for musicians, journalists and other media professionals. It combines an ultra-portable design with advanced audio features, including three integrated microphones and a Noise Cut function to ...

Superb audio quality, plenty of advanced tools and features, includes Dragon Naturally Speaking 10

Expensive, so-so speaker quality, Dragon software incompatible with Vista 64-Bit

$749 is not the kind of money most people would spend on a digital notetaker, but if you're a media professional who takes their job seriously, the Sony ICD-SX800 will not disappoint.

Fast, cool and quiet

Very expensive, only 80GB

The Kingston SSDNow M series SNM125-S2/80GB is a small, cool, quiet and quick 2.5in solid-state hard drive that will fit into your laptop hard drive bay or mini-PC. Its has a very high cost per gigabyte, however, and a relatively low total storage ...

Celestia's a free download with dozens of worthy applications in the real world and many reasons for us to recommend it. It's even cross-platform and will happily run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The only real reason you need though is that it's ...

Stretching muscles you never knew existed is, believe it or not, a great feeling ; great to find software that is promoting healthy living

Easy for the user to ignore the program when it activates

Employers genuinely interested in the health and comfort of their desk-based employees should take note of products, such as this one, that promote wellbeing.

Relatively fun and easy to use, plenty of graphics and animations

Layout could be better

Even though its interface isn't perfect, Driving Licence Success is a great way to learn the road rules. Parents can use it on their home computer, and teachers can even install it on a server and allow kids to log-in across a local area network.

The software is free, simple and easy

You're limited in creativity due to cost of Lego pieces

Lego Digital Designer 2.0 is an easy to use accessory to a childhood staple -- and it's free.

Stylish and eye-catching design, external display can read messages, external music controls, interface speed

No HSDPA, flip design, only a 2 megapixel camera, impossible to keep clean, headphone jack obscures flip, rear cover difficult to remove, flimsy SIM card adapter, battery life

The N76 is an attractive multimedia phone with a fair features list, but a few issues in design prevent it from being great.

Hybrid recording, Good image quality, 30x optical zoom

A little chunky

A great digital video camera from Hitachi, the HS500SW combines two recording formats for added convenience and offers great quality video footage to boot.

Easy access video capture on the front panel, Personal Media Drive Bay for external storage newcomers, 15-in-1 media card reader

Performance results

For its price the HP Pavilion m8075a is a neat little unit with some good basic features for the budding media happy user. It's clearly not a high end machine for power users, but for those looking to get a little extra media functionality out of ...

Good Bluetooth functionality, great design

Problems with audio clarity, volume controls are hard to access

A lack of audio clarity is probably the biggest fault of these speakers, however their support for Bluetooth, their design, and price-point make them a viable option for users looking for these things.