It's another special edition of the Pocket-lint Podcast, as Rik Henderson, Stuart Miles and Chris Hall look at each of the winners of the 10 categories that made up the8th annualPocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011.

They explain how every category...

The 8th annual Pocket-lint Gadget Awards was held last night, 29 November, in London. The dust has now settled, the winners are jubilant, the losers nurse sore heads after consolatory drinks at the bar and we've all had the chance to reflect on what...

After much deliberation, voting and a year of mulling and musing over every piece of consumer electronics we see, Pocket-lint is proud to announce the winners of the 8th annual Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011.

If you’re reading this, thank...

Our final round of nominees for the prestigious 8th Pocket-lint Awards finishes today with the blue ribbon category itself - Product of the Year 2011. Let's face it, we've written about a hell of a lot in the last 12 months and we've seen some absolute...

Identifying the best innovations of 2011 is no easy task but trying to compare one to another is even harder. Innovative, ground-breaking ideas come from all sorts of fields within consumer technology and just because something hasn’t sold as...

Home entertainment can mean a few different things as our nominees for the best home entertainment device 2011 reveal. We’re talking audio, video, radio; amp, dock, set-top box and even games console too - and that makes for an incredibly competitive...

It's the awards show that everybody is talking about. Apparently Angelina is going to be wearing Dior and Brad's tux is a Hugo Boss vintage number. Not Jolie or Pitt you understand - Angelina and Brad who work in the bookies near Pocket-lint Towers....

The best TV of 2011 is going to be a tricky category to judge in the 8th Pocket-lint Awards. Panel quality continues to increase as ever, set design is fast catching up and suddenly we have a huge proportion of the market filled with televisions that...

The laptop has undergone a few exciting developments this year, helped along by low power processors and space saving parts like the SSD. Laptop graphics have also taken a significant jump in the right direction, as portable GPUs get closer to the...

The tablet has now joined the ranks of the technology elite. Alongside its smartphone brethren, it has become the must have gadget this year. Plenty entered the arena of tablet battle and few have emerged victorious.

With the 8th Pocket-lint...

We enjoy a good game over at Pocket-lint. We are masters of everything from Mousetrap, to Scrabble and even Mastermind. Hours are spent in our custom built gaming room throwing dice and building up fortunes from paper play money ... or not.

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What a year 2011 has been for the smartphone.Consumers have been left with such a wealth of choice that the average phone shop has been transformed into a veritable pick 'n mix of mobile excitement. There have, however, been a few handsets that shone...

The digital camera continues to make our photographic lives a doddle. Year on year the technology improves, gets cheaper and more compact. 2011 was no exception with plentiful powerful snappers flooding onto shop shelves. Not an easy task picking out...

It's a super special edition of the podcast this week, as Rik Henderson and Stuart Miles look at the recently announced shortlist of nominees for the 8th annualPocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011.

The duo go through each category, explaining why...

Voting for the 8th Pocket-lint Gadget Awardshas now gone live, giving you the chance to say which gadgets you think should be crowned top for 2011.

As you will see over on thevoting page, each of the 10 categories has five products that have...