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 For your home Celestron C9 1/4-SGTJune 2006 | Celestron
Celestron revolutionised enthusiast astronomy with the first mass-produced Schmidt-Cassegrain reflectors. The Schmidt-Cassegrain is a popular design because of its quality compared to its size. Because the light bounces off a number of mirrors internally, it can deliver the quality of a substantially larger refractive telescope in a squat form factor that is easily transportable.  Meade ETX-90ATJune 2006 | Meade
One of the biggest barriers to rewarding amateur astronomy is the challenge of actually finding objects of interest, and keeping them in view. The heavens are far from static, with the Earth's own rotation as well as the movents of other celestial bodies confounding the efforts of even the steadiest hands. Without accurate control, objects wobble, blur and disappear.  Meade LightbridgeJune 2006 | Meade
If your priority is a big, bright and clear image, and you're happy to track in and find your own celestial objects for viewing, then the Meade Lightbridge series could be the telescope for you.  Vixen Porta A80MfJune 2006 | Vixen
For stargazers on a budget, why not start off your astronomical adventures with something simple yet effective, such as the Porta A80Mf from the company Vixen.  Sony RDRHX1010June 2006 | Sony
PVRs, or Personal Video Recorders, have been slowly gaining in popularity over the last few years as people realise their tremendous benefits. They not only allow you to record television like a VCR, but they entirely change the way you watch T.V.  Asus Lamborghini VX1 Performance notebookJune 2006 | Asus
What's black and yellow and reaches 350 km/h? A greased banana? Nope. It's the 390 kW Lamborghini Diablo. And what does the Diablo have in common with a notebook from Asus? It's black and yellow, and they both mount the same badge.  Apple iMacApril 2006 | Apple
Recent reports indicate a pig has just taken flight over the snow-covered vistas of Hell. Yep, Apple is using Intel processors in its new line of iMacs.  Optimus keyboardApril 2006 | Art. Lebedev
It's the 21st century, and we're still using keyboards with static keys. What's with that? Well, a Russian design company is coming to the rescue with an invention that seems so obvious you wonder why you never thought of it (or demanded it) before.  Samsung DVD-HD850 DVD playerFebruary 2006 | Samsung
It might look just like a DVD player, and, well, it is - but this is not your ordinary DVD player. Inside the DVD-HD850 is Samsung's special Hypervision chip, a deviously clever little device that takes conventional DVDs and scales them up to highdefinition resolution. This is especially good if you've just forked out several thousand bucks for a brand new widescreen high-definition television, and you're a bit miffed that DVDs still look like they used to on your old box. Epson EMP-TWD1 home-theatre projectorFebruary 2006 | Epson
The problem with projectors in bygone eras was that most of our home entertainment equipment was located at the front of our rooms while projection was set up at the back, necessitating an ugly cable winding its way around the walls between the projector and its 'target area' for your guests to trip over. Epson eliminates this worry (and mess) by the simple but ingenious move of integrating a DVD player and audio stereo directly into the projector itself. Now all you need is a big, blank wall.  Cowon A2 portable video playerFebruary 2006 | Cowon
It's a tough ask to have a device that has a big enough screen to make television watchable, but is also small enough to be genuinely portable, but Cowon is having a crack at finding the perfect balance with the A2. The A2 can handle a wide range of media formats, including MP3, OGG and WMA audio, DivX, XviD and WMV movies as well as text files and JPEG images. It can also record programs straight from your television.  Samsung TX-R3080WH slim HDTVFebruary 2006 | Samsung
Flat-screen LCD and plasma televisions are all the buzz these days, but the old cathode-ray tube isn't about to give up without a fight. Given that the technology behind CRT televisions is over 100 years old, it's not surprising that it's undergone a tremendous amount of refinement in that time, culminating in the Samsung slim TV design. CRTs might not have the same crisp picture as LCD and plasma screens, but they are usually superior when it comes to brightness, contrast and motion.  Intel Viiv media-centre PCDecember 2005 | Intel
It's taken several years, but finally the manufacturers of personal computers have realised that we don't want big, ugly, beige computers in our living rooms. As such, the next generation of digital home and media-centre PCs will look and behave entirely differently to the current behemoth sitting in your study, home office or bedroom.  Siemens liftMatic OvenDecember 2005 | Siemens
Every time you open your oven all the hot air escapes, dropping the temperature from 200 °C to 100 °C in a matter of seconds. The canny team at Siemens have thought long and hard about this issue and come up with the liftMatic oven. It's a wall-mounted unit, and instead of opening with a door like conventional ovens, the liftMatic has a platform that lowers, giving you easy access to your food, but keeping all the toasty warm air captured inside the oven itself.  Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 5 speaker systemDecember 2005 | Bang & Olufsen
There's something eerie about Bang & Olufsen's new BeoLab 5 speaker. Not only does it have a slick and unearthly appearance, it is also packed with so much technology and intelligent software, we're not entirely sure that it's not superior to humans in just about every possible way. Resembling a cross between a Tesla coil and a Dalek, the BeoLab 5 uses acoustic-lens technology, based on the unique properties of the elliptical shape, to deliver an equally unique sound. 
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