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Five ways the Japanese are technically better than us

Crave Selling cigarettes from a machine means there's no one to squint at the fake IDs of kids trying to score a pack of Marlboro Lights, so cunning vending machine designers created a system that would examine the face of the person purchasing and...

9 October 2008, 16:58

Win a 32-inch HD Ready LCD TV from Panasonic!

Crave One person will be very glad they did. As promised, here's the second of this month's competitions and, again, we're kicking ourselves at our bewildering generosity. This time we're giving you the chance to win a brand-new 32-inch HD Ready LCD...

Tags: panasonic, hd, hd dvd, def

4 July 2007, 11:51

Xbox 360: Going Live

Crave We've also been playing Condemned -- a first-person actioner from Monolith, the same people who made F.E.A.R.and it shares that game's oppressive atmosphere. There will be two sorts of people with Xbox 360s this morning.

Tags: microsoft uk, console, xbox, weekend

2 December 2005, 11:08

Zattoo: Watch TV online, live and free but with a catch

Crave Never before has it been possible for one person to watch 22 straight episodes of Deal or No Deal or an entire waking day's worth of Dragons Den with such ease and without fracturing a few laws. iPlayer and 4oD have changed our lives.

Tags: country, watch, channel, channels

12 May 2008, 10:51

Win Things: Win over £1,000 of gaming gear!

Crave Yesterday we launched our Digital Christmas competition -- a festive frenzy in which one lucky person will win the entire contents of Santa's tech-laden sack, worth over £4,000! But it doesn't end there.

Tags: section, lcd, samsung, inch

2 November 2006, 12:09

F.E.A.R.: Fantastic Expectations, Amazing Revelations

Crave The big guns of the first-person shooter world are coming out to play this week, with F.E.A.R.and Quake 4 both released on the PC. Our sister site Metacritic is placing F.E.A.R.slightly in the lead over the Doom 3-powered sequel to Quake, so we...

Tags: vivendi universal interactive, released, face, shooter

21 October 2005, 10:35

Sony Ericsson C702: Geotagging your mobile pics

Crave If you're the kind of person who enjoys taking pictures of your mates when they least expect it, then a camera phone is always a good way to go. Sony Ericsson recently announced a beast of a camera phone called the C905, boasting an impressive 8...

Tags: sony ericsson, cover, megapixel, ericsson

14 July 2008, 11:43

Crave Live: Making sweet music with iPhone 3G

Crave It's an English person at the 3G iPhone launch! Oi! Not to be confused with other English people such as Mark Thatcher or John Terry -- easily done, easily done -- MooCowMusic's CEO Mark Terry introduces the Band app, an easy way to make your own...

9 June 2008, 20:08

Panasonic TH37PV500: Vive la Viera

Crave If you're the sort of person that buys furniture at Heals and clothes from Dolce & Gabbana, then this new Viera television will fit right in to your highly coiffeured lifestyle. It's not cheap at around £2,700, but this 37-inch TV looks gorgeously...

Tags: panasonic, xbox, viera, downloading

20 January 2006, 10:49

Jabra JX20 Pura: If Zoolander owned a Bluetooth headset

Crave In the past, you'd probably cross the street if the person walking towards you was talking to himself. Nowadays, you'd be the chump -- Bluetooth headsets have given people a bonafide reason to blabber into the air.

Tags: talk, bluetooth, headset, carphone warehouse

2 June 2008, 10:29

Open-source software rated: Ten alternatives you need

Crave Each person works on small portions of a project, and anyone is welcome to contribute. Open source products comprise the work of many collaborators -- sometimes thousands of them, and often separated by oceans.

19 November 2007, 8:00

Backstage at CES

Crave Last year we ran a competition to send one lucky person to CES 2006 as part of CNET.com's Backstage Crew, a gang of nine real-world reporters from around the globe. The winner was James Davies of Cambridge, and here's how he introduced himself on...

Tags: players, portable, ces, coverage

9 January 2006, 14:28

Crave Podcast 104: Airport scanners will read your mind

Crave Instead of our customary four-person squad, we're experimenting with a threesome, consisting of Rory Reid, Nate Lanxon and Rich "I'm too hungover to speak" Trenholm. Another week has passed, so it's only right we bring you another podcast...

Tags: podcast, bbc, theory, google phone

26 September 2008, 13:17

Hands-on with the Nokia N82: Best camera phone ever?

Crave In person, this candybar phone is a different story. On paper the Nokia N82 is almost identical to the juggernaut Nokia N95. There's GPS, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, a 5-megapixel camera, an expandable microSD slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Tags: nokia, style, megapixel, sony ericsson

20 December 2007, 11:59

HD DVD disc sales figures: Blu-ray gets really cross

Crave In the latest skirmish in the hi-def format war, the HD DVD promotion group announced on Monday that in Europe, HD DVD is the king of the 'attach rate' -- the average number of discs each person buys for their player.

Tags: hd, rate, ray, discs

14 November 2007, 10:05