• Pole Position
Meet the Jack Bauer of point-and-shoot cameras

• Showdown
Armani and Prada strut their stuff-together with Samsung and LG-on the tech fashion runway

• Form Factor
The phrase "form follows function" holds true when you talk about sports shoes. Hop on to our feature and see what we mean

• Movie Tech
Watch Nessie's best CGI rendition yet in Sony Pictures' The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

• Proving Ground
On test this month: Apple iPod classic, BMW X5, CECT C828, Chevrolet Captiva, HP Officejet Pro L7580, Prince O3 Speedport Tour, Samsung SGH-D880, Samsung SGH-F330, Sony Ericsson S500i, Sony Ericsson W910i, Sony Rolly, Suunto T3

• Tech Frontiers
An intricate honeybee dance inspires an Internet server system while a high-tech football tells referees when it has crossed the line.

• The Grid
'Tis the season to be geeky: we cover CES in Las Vegas and Macworld in San Francisco

• People@SPEED
It's our Sports Issue, so who else to feature than a techie female exec who joins international triathlons just for the heck of it

• Gaming
Contra and Kane & Lynch reviewed

• Cyberspace
Get fit even when you're in front of your computer with Gyminee

• Speed Reading
Microsoft's loss is the world's gain. Ex-Microsoft executive John Wood chronicles his evolution from high-tech whiz to "social entrepreneur" in Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

• Future Tech
High-tech police cars and a Superbus

• Tech News
The Queen launches her own YouTube channel, AOL pulls the plug on Netscape, and Warner ditches HD DVD for Blu-ray