About 10 years ago, I bought a Canon PowerShot digital camera. It was heavy, it took up my entire pocket and the 32MB memory card it came with meant it did not have the capacity for many pictures. The performance was slow, the flash was awful and the zoom was even worse. I loved it. I carried that camera with me everywhere for years. Sure, it was only two megapixels, but that was basically cutting edge for point and shoot cameras at the time, and leaps and bounds better than any cell phone. Things have changed since then. As iPhones and phones like it become more commonplace, and the cameras …

Each Monday, Patch will be throwing some gadget gift recommendations your way. Your Gadget Gift Guide continues with a look at printers. Best all-in-one printer: If you're looking for something that will print black and white as well as photos quickly and professionally, your best bet is the HP Officejet 8600 Plus. It scans, it copies, it faxes, all for about $200. The biggest downside? It's a little bulky. Best photo printer: Though it's a little bit pricier, the Lexmark Platinum Pro 905 is easy to set up, wireless and great for high quality photographs. And while it costs $300, it has a …

Each Monday, Patch will be throwing some gadget gift recommendations your way. Your Gadget Gift Guide continues with a look at monitors. Best movie-watching monitor: In an age of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, there's increasingly less of a need to waste money on channel packages for televisions. So if you're thinking of converting your laptop into something to work on by day and watch movies on by night, the Samsung SyncMaster S27B970 is your best bet. At $1,140, it's certainly not the cheapest monitor on the market, but this 27-inch screen offers "superhigh XHD resolution, a high contrast …