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Photos: Hands-on with the Casio Exilim Z19, Z85, Z250 and Z300

Crave The Exilim Card EX-Z19, pictured, is a 9.3-megapixel point-and-shoot with a 3x zoom and 37.5-112.5mm equivalent focal length to 35mm film. Next up, the £150 Exilim Zoom EX-Z85 is a dainty 9.1-megapixel point-and-shoot available in six colours, and...

20 August 2008, 10:28

Photos: Asus Eee PC S101 hands-on

Crave The high-gloss mocha-brown lid, brushed aluminium wrist rest and electro-plated frame are all stunning, with the only questionable point being the inclusion of a small Swarovski crystal in each of the hinge edges.

15 October 2008, 11:13

Crave Talk: Why do all our gadgets break?

Crave Consumer electronics have largely reached a point where their top performance already far outreaches any demand the average user will put on them. The evolution of the microchip to a point where the average consumer cannot tax it technically has...

Tags: consumer, upgrade, mobile phones, technical

28 November 2006, 12:16

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Sweet like chocolate

Crave The FX500 is a 10.1-megapixel point-and-shoot with a whole host of treats up its sleeve. The touchscreen also allows you to input text, and set focus and exposure to a particular point in the the frame by prodding it with finger, stylus or...

18 March 2008, 16:00

New camera round-up: Six of the best

Crave It shoots an eye-watering 9 frames per second, has a completely new 51-point autofocus system, and boasts a 76mm (3-inch) LCD screen with live view. The body is a respectable 21mm at its thinnest point, and contains a thumping great 7.1x optical...

31 August 2007, 13:27

Sony PS3 rumour control no. 327: multi-region games

Crave If gamers can import titles from anywhere else in the world, there will be no point in continuing the tradition of delayed releases for Europe. Of course, that's the idealistic point of view, and there's nothing to stop Sony allowing publishers to...

Tags: sony, europe, import, american

24 March 2006, 11:18

Kodak Easyshare C513: CMOS definitely

Crave So what's the point of adopting CMOS now? The technology has matured, to the point that Kodak feels it can compete with CCD on image quality. Picture quality of the new breed of CMOS point-and-shoots is unproven as yet, and the C513 only manages to...

Tags: kodak, compact, image quality, sensor

27 July 2007, 10:32

Crave Podcast 80: Is BBC iPlayer breaking the Internet?

Crave Telly man Ian thinks it's ridiculous for ISPs to ask for more money on top of what they get from subscribers, but Rory thinks innocent little Tiscali and friends may have a point. By 'imminent' we mean some time in the next few years, and by...

Tags: tech, isps, robotic, downloading

11 April 2008, 9:00

Photos: Cracking open the fourth-gen iPod nano

Crave It's difficult to find a Phillips-head screwdriver with a small enough point and a large enough handle to apply the appropriate torque. At this point the nano is still working. Our buddies over at TechRepublic have a nasty habit of cracking open...

13 October 2008, 10:52

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: Captain Jack lays the smackdown on Neo

Crave Another point being made is that, quite simply, the second two Matrix movies utterly, utterly sucked and as such, no one in their right mind would admit they exist, let alone pay good money to own them.

Tags: point, box, hd, ray

5 June 2007, 10:51

Philips-Nike MP3Run: you are very slow

Crave The MP3Run's unique selling point is that it not only plays music, but also -- after a certain amount of button pressing, swearing and synchronising -- makes a wireless connection to a Bluetooth pedometer mounted on your shoe.

Tags: philips, victory, ears, workout

15 August 2005, 11:39

Lego Digital Designer: Block on

Crave In fact, the main point of the program, from Lego's perspective, is the link to its online store. Seamlessly, you can zoom in and out, rotate your point of view 360 degrees, connect bricks to each other, rotate them and move any hinges that they...

Tags: rotate, designer, sub, bricks

27 February 2008, 9:53

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio BZ Series (VGN-BZ11VN)

Crave Instead, with an opening price point of roughly £799, Sony's essentially pitching this as the kind of businesstop (yeah, we made up a word) that could be deployed en masse around the office, given its decent spec, solid build and, above all, the...

16 July 2008, 16:21

Samsung BD-UP5000: Sit on the high-definition fence

Crave At this point, it only costs around £50,000 to convert a DVD plant to an HD DVD-capable one, whereas Blu-ray facilities cost as much as ten times that. At this point, Blu-ray hardware is still slightly more expensive, so that will no doubt push the...

Tags: samsung, discs, interactive, ray

16 April 2007, 10:30

Canon Selphy ES1: From box to print in 9½ minutes

Crave Canon thinks the convenience of having ink and paper in a single cartridge is a major selling point, but right now we're more concerned about the green plastic spacer that has been protecting the innards of the printer during transport.

Tags: canon, insert, sort, hand

15 November 2006, 8:46