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Stuff Gadget Awards: what’s been your favourite gadget of 2021?

We’ll be revealing the winners of this year’s Stuff Gadget Awards in the January issue of Stuff magazine on sale 23 December as well as on this very site after Christmas – vote for your favourite gadget of the year now!

The Readers’ Gadget of the Year is always hotly contested and 2020 was no exception. As in 2020 it’s worth reflecting on a gadget industry that has provided a rare glimpse of of joy in a year that could otherwise be considered extremely sub-optimal.

At the tail end of last year we had the launch of once-in-a-decade next-gen consoles that cast a long shadow over 2021 as more people got hold of them and more games appeared.

We also had Apple’s continued march as it rolled out Apple Silicon to even more devices and there were so many advances in the areas of electric cars, TVs, noise-cancelling headphones and Bluetooth speakers, high-end audio and more.

Now it’s time to vote!

Click here to choose your favourite gadget of the year

Last year’s Gadget of the Year: Sony PlayStation 5

Readers’ gadget of the year: Sony PlayStation 5

It’s still hard to get your hands on one, and yet we fully understand why the PlayStation 5 edged out the MacBook Air (M1) as your gadget of the year for 2020. Sony has not only delivered an almighty powerful console to transform loading times and take HDR gaming to the next level – with all the ultra-realistic joys of ray-tracing – but it’s done so with a mouthwatering selection of launch titles, a haptic DualSense controller that’s central to the extra-sensory experience, and a price that isn’t as scary as we thought it might be. The wait may have been excruciating but Sony definitely delivered – even if the courier didn’t.

Runners-Up

Apple MacBook Air (M1) (2nd place) OnePlus Nord & Marshall Emberton (joint 3rd place)

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About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home