T3 Awards 2008 winners

2008's tech winners and what we said:

Gadget of the Year: Apple iPod Touch
“The Touch beats off all comers to thanks to sterling music features, plus web and email gubbins. Why, with much finer audio quality and twice the storage, you could even say it’s better than the iPhone.”

Best Music Gadget: Apple iPod Touch 32GB
“Roundly trouncing all comers in our music gadget category, the Touch, now in silver trim, is the best music and video player ever. It’s also a great little browser, emailer and mapper, thanks to Wi-Fi…”

Best Imaging Gadget: Nikon D60
"Nikon’s D60 is the finest consumer SLR on the market today. It’s all in that blend of user-friendliness and pro-quality snappage. Whether beginner or expert, you need to feel the quality of its 10.2MP images."

Drop Dead Gorgeous: Audi R8
"As 1,560kg lumps of metal, plastics and futuristic fibres go, this is unchallenged in the desirability stakes. Possibly the only car in existence to look good in white."

Best New Media: BBC iPlayer
“So monumental was the demand when it launched, the Beeb’s on-demand miracle almost forced the internet to its knees. World domination looks assured.”

Gaming Gadget: Wii Fit
"If staying fit is your aim, then Wii Fit is your game. Burning calories by stealth and wearing a tray-shaped groove in UK carpets, Wii Fit is the new drug of a nation. Television will feel put out."

Toy of the Year: Guitar Hero
“Bring out your inner Hendrix with this guitar-toting music classic. If only we’d had the good sense to spend our time at university playing this instead of studying words and suchlike, we’d be rock gods by now.”

Commuter Gadget: Apple iPhone
“The 3Gesus phone has generated more column inches than something that comes free with a contract – as long as it’s a sufficiently premium contract, at any rate – has any right to.”

Gadget Candy: MacBook Air
“A masterclass in notebook design. We praise the day that Jonathan Ive picked up a pen and wrote the words “Very thin laptop” in the middle of a big sheet of graph paper.”

Retailer of the Year: Dixons.co.uk
“The king of the high street – in its currys.digital guise – is now king of the web according to you, the T readers. First for service and boasting a massive range, Dixons shows online retailers the way.”

Innovation of the Year: Sony XEL-1 OLED TV
"It’s so thin and so tiny it has no right being a fully functioning TV, yet the XEL-1 has blacks as black as your black heart. It’s gorgeous, it’s a cracking telly and it’s about the width of celery. Bring it to the UK. Now."

Green Gadget: Honda Civic Hybrid
“With petrol now pricier than gold, we’re none too keen on gas-slurping motors. That’s why the Honda Civic Hybrid gets our nod for Green Gadget of the Year. Lean, clean, and reassuringly perky too…”

Home Gadget: Sky HD
“Pulping burglar alarms, fancy back-up hard drives and self-cleaning paint rollers in the battle for the nation’s living rooms, the Sky+ HD box combines the twin powers of stopping time and super hi-def vision.”

Hi Def Award: Sony PS3
“It’s hardly surprising the PS3 pipped the other contenders to the crown, since it’s a dashed good Blu-Ray player and a fully featured multimedia hub of a console. The PS3 seriously ain’t nuthin’ to mess wit’.”

Gadget you can't live without: TomTom GO 930
“If, like us, you’d sooner be seen buying lingerie from a cross-dressing Michael Winner than asking directions from a passer-by, you can keep your manly veneer intact by asking the 930 instead.”