The challenge: turn the poor TV reception of a London flat with no access to an outside aerial into a televisual delight for its inhabitants. The challengers: the classic £14.99 ring aerial every student has owned at one point and the £39.27 powered One For All HD Aerial. So, how did they stack up?

With a curved skin facing your photographic subjects the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is wearing the clothes of a camera - and that’s quite appropriate, as it’s a fab little snapper.

Oregon Scientific makes everything from funky alarm clocks and relaxing tech toys to water and shockproof HD videocameras, and our gadget girl Hillary spent a day being pampered by the company while checking out its products. Here she tells us about the things she liked that you should be considering for loved ones when Christmas time rolls around.

With the launch of the Blackberry 6 weeks away, Blackberry look into the six top new features that will power the company’s smartphones and make it a more formidable rival to the iPhone and Android devices.