Archos AV 500
Ever since the company's inception in 1988, Archos has steadily churned out a line of functional portable media players to fit all budgets and pockets. In today's tougher and fast-moving audio player market, Archos have felt the need to step up their efforts to come up with a player that will blow off the doors of the competition. Enter the Archos AV 500...

Canon EOS 30D
Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras are becoming more and more accessible to the masses. Granted, DSLR cameras are still far from cheap, but with ever-increasing features thanks to very large scale integration circuitry, the feature-to-price ratio is becoming more and more attractive for amateurs and enthusiasts. Suddenly, dedicated photographers and students of photography can afford a DSLR more easily...

Creative Zen Vision
Hot on the heels of Apple's latest iPod, Creative releases the Zen Vision. With their latest gadget, Creative hopes to compete with the iPod on similar grounds; that is, audio, photo, AND video capabilities. Portable music players have certainly come a long way, and the market is in a constant flux thanks to the myriad players out there. Will the Creative Zen Vision steal the iPod's glory and become the new king of portable media players? Let's try to find out...

iRiver Clix
Not one to be left out of the booming portable media player market, iRiver has released their iPod Nano equivalent, the Clix. The iRiver Clix is actually a rebranded version of the iRiver U10 which was introduced in 2005; it revamps the U10 design with a nicer user interface, better performance, increased capacity, and a lower new price. The Korea-based iRiver is on a roll with their high quality portable media and music players. Let's see how the Clix clicks with the pack of similar offerings from the competition...

Olympus SP-500UZ
Way before the super zoom digital camera gained substantial popularity and before we saw super zooms from the the big names such as Canon, Kodak, Minolta – and pretty much everybody else – Olympus already had their first super zoom out in the market, the C-2100UZ. With only Sony to worry about, with their bulky floppy disk-based cameras with camcorder lenses, enthusiasts and professionals gladly welcomed the Olympus C-2100UZ and made it a big success...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7
In the realm of superzoom cameras, Panasonic has turned out some really impressive cameras that are also great values for the money. Following up on the success of its FZ30, FZ20, and FZ15 superzoom models, Panasonic has introduced the FZ7. The FZ7's predecessors combined super optical zoom with top-notch optics and excellent image quality and stabilization in compact packages (with the possible exception of the FZ15, which was somewhat bulky for a superzoom). Additionally, the FZ30 approached DSLR prices and was not exactly cheap...

Sony Bravia KDL-V40XBR1
When flat-panel LCDs started appearing in the form of computer monitors, few doubted that the regular television set will be next to receive a huge (or thin?) revamp. One nice advancement afforded by LCD technology is that LCD displays offer more pixels per given screen size than any other consumer display technology, such as the age-old cathode ray tube or CRT. They also produce less heat, take up less space, and possibly require less energy...

Sony DCR-DVD505 DVD Handycam Camcorder
Sony's Handycam is among the pioneers of portable camcorders. Introduced shortly after the bulky VHS/Betamax camcorders of 1983, the Handycam took portability and ease-of-use to a new level. Since then, the Handycam has become one of the most recorded names in camcorders, allowing millions of people all over the world to record their own home videos, thus preserving memories and keeping them alive for years to come...

Sony Ericsson W600i
Technological trends continue to astound us by cramming ever-increasing features set into ever-shrinking packages. While 2004 was the year of the camera phone, 2005 has proven to be the year of the music phone. Evidence? The Motorola ROKR, the LG CE500, and the Samsung SCH-A950. It’s just fitting that Sony Ericsson would join, nay, crash the party with a music phone of their own. Hence, here is a look at their latest bad boy, the W600i...

Sony Ericsson W800I
Sony Ericsson is one of the few mobile phone companies with such an impressive pedigree. A merger of two giants: Ericsson, a mobile phone company, and Sony, the consumer electronics giant, Sony Ericsson is poised to take the mobile world by storm with its Walkman-branded line of music phones...