At gadgetshop HQ, we like to think we're serious about gadgetry of all shapes and sizes. So it's not every day we ask the ultimate in rhetorical questions: "why didn't we think of that?". It took this cunning device to bring us to that point... and dashed clever it is, too.

Enabling those of us who can remember a time before digital photography to make high quality digital versions of our old 35mm slides and negatives, at a stroke it liberates millions of dusty old images from their analogue prison. And offers the chance to turn them into beautiful digital stills to enhance, edit and share. Fabulous.

Scanning original negatives and slides in high resolution using a powerful and pure LED backlight, the scanner automatically converts the outputs into high quality JPEGs or your choice of a range of other digital formats. It even includes software that enables you to edit, crop and resize your new digital images.

In short - and we could go on and on about this device - it provides a high quality, all-in-one solution to a thorny (and previously highly specialist) challenge. And now your slides of that 1975 holiday to Brittany can live and breathe for a new digital generation. Hurrah.