This year marks the 9th edition of the annual HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards, the tech industry’s premier event where we recognize the best brands, products, and services.

Hear the word ‘drone’, and you’re probably thinking of the kind that fiies, but this drone is designed to swim instead. The PowerRay is a lifestyle underwater robot, featuring multiple conflgurations and add-on components that will allow you to do anything from shooting cool underwater photos and videos, to finding fish through sonar detection. It has a 4K 95-degree wide-angle underwater camera, and can operate at depths up to 30 meters in both freshwater and saltwater environments with a four hour battery life.

The SanDisk X400 is speedy and one of the few entry-level SSDs to actually support hardware encryption.

Choose your prize among some of the best gadgets in the world, curated from our tech awards 2016 winners!

SD cards are easily available today, but with the mainstream adoption of 4K video recording and cameras that keep pushing megapixel boundaries, you’ll want high-speed memory cards that can play nice with your camera. Here are some of the best out there.