PCWorld have recently sat down to think long and hard about what they feel are the best 50 tech related products of all time, these not just hardware based but software as well.

'Tis a great read which brings back many fond memories for us oldies too.

So what's the best tech product to come out of the digital age? And what qualifies a product as being "best"? First and foremost, it must be a quality product. In many cases, that means a piece of hardware or software that has truly changed our lives and that we can't live without (or couldn't at the time it debuted). Beyond that, a product should have attained a certain level of popularity, had staying power, and perhaps made some sort of breakthrough, influencing the development of later products of its ilke.