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IXOS XMI308 iPod speakers: Tubelicious

Crave It's a silvery contraption that runs on four AAA batteries, from a USB power cable (which doesn't carry data) or from an AC adaptor.The XMI308 has a pair of 25mm (1-inch) drivers, each capable of outputting 2W of power.

Tags: ixos, power, speakers, speaker

13 September 2007, 10:11

Blue Nova Mediabox

Crave There are three sockets on the Mediabox, one power supply plug, one USB 2.0 connection, and one AV-out port to hook this diminutive drive up to your TV. TV playback requires a power cable. The Mediabox is a munchkin-sized 40GB hard drive that plugs...

Tags: power, usb, playback, port

14 March 2005, 9:05

Hands-on with the Scandyna Micropod SE and Minibass

Crave These uber-curvy Nordic desk speakers pack 15W of power per channel with The Dock, which will host any iPod with a dock output. The time wasn't quite right to exploit this system's true power, so that remains to be tested -- we'll wait until...

Tags: scandyna, setup, speakers, bass

6 July 2007, 11:05

PlayStation 3: Hands-on with Sony's new console

Crave Unlike the Xbox 360, there's no bulky power brick. Setup was a cinch: HDMI in, power cable in, power on, a few settings, and we were ready to play. First up: the PlayStation 3 does look very pretty. Product shots we'd seen had made the unit seem...

Tags: sony, sign, playstation, controller

24 November 2006, 9:37

Nabaztag/tag: Robo rabbit returns

Crave Nabaztag/tag is equipped with all the power of his predecessor plus the power to hear and 'smell' his surroundings. Remember Nabaztag? He's back, and he's badder than ever. The plastic Internet router rabbit that wowed geeks across the globe with...

Tags: tag, aloud, rabbit, rfid

17 January 2007, 7:00

Intel's new Core 2 Duo L7200 and L7400: Completely pointless?

Crave The chips are said to have a thermal design power (TDP) of 17W, which sounds good on paper, but we wonder just how much benefit this will bring the consumer. If there's one complaint we have with ultraportables it's the fact they run out of battery...

Tags: intel, power, battery, law

8 February 2007, 10:44

Griffin AirCurve and Clarifi: Boosting iPod touch speaker, optical zoom for iPhone

Crave It does so by using a coil waveguide within its base, and therefore doesn't need batteries or another power source to work. Other than that, the Clarifi's case design, like other cases, allows for access to the power switch, headphone jack, volume...

Tags: charge, sync, optical, dock

18 September 2008, 9:59

Home on the range: Buffalo 5,400rpm drive

Crave Surprisingly, this isn't a winch system to pull your laptop over rough terrain or out of a muddy field -- instead, it's a power boosting system that supposedly makes the drive more reliable. Whether power loss to external USB drives is a problem...

Tags: crave, usb, problem, usb drives

1 September 2005, 10:23

LG Flatron W2284F: Nipple-powered monitor

Crave Our favourite thing about the screen is the touch-sensitive power button, which one Craver noticed looks like a slightly deformed nipple. Bizarrely, you can actually tweak it to switch the power on, which causes the Perspex button to glow blue, and...

Tags: contrast, glow, response, knowledge

13 November 2008, 11:13

Lenovo ThinkCenter A61e: Green midget

Crave It's designed for businesses that want to cut their power bills or for individuals with a pathological desire to lower their carbon footprint. It uses a lowish voltage AMD Athlon X2 dual-core or Sempron single-core CPU, 1 GB of RAM, an ATI X1200...

Tags: lenovo, cent, core, mother nature

23 October 2007, 11:00

Alternative energy gadgets: No battery, no cry

Crave One way to save money and the planet simultaneously is to ditch the fossil fuels and electrical leash and seek alternative sources of power. We've picked you out an elite bunch of the best money- and power-saving gadgets our eco-expert buddies have...

12 March 2008, 7:30

ATI X1900 XTX graphics card delivers teraflop performance

Crave Codenamed 'R580', the card is said to have 100 times the power of a Pentium 4-based PC, and provides over half a teraflop of computing power. There's also the All In Wonder X1900 with an integrated TV tuner, and an X1900 Crossfire Edition card...

Tags: power, computing, graphics, ati

24 January 2006, 13:00

Crave TV: Club4Climate at Surya eco-club tour

Crave It uses an unusual selection of methods to generate green electricity: solar power, natch, plus some kind of clever trickery under the dance floor to turn the movement of people bopping into power. Here we are again in our quest to bring you the...

26 September 2008, 13:55

Canon Selphy ES1: From box to print in 9½ minutes

Crave We don't seem to have a manual or a software disc, so Canon has probably sent us an early sample (which also explains the power cable). We power up, insert a memory card and press random buttons until the correct photo appears on the screen.

Tags: canon, insert, sort, hand

15 November 2006, 8:46

Mustek DTV-407: DVD & Freeview on the go

Crave The player itself has a 7-inch widescreen display and the battery pack needed to power the thing is downright ginormous, but the package comes with everything you need. It has a power cable, a mini aerial and video cables for outputting to a TV or...

Tags: mustek inc., players, portable, freeview

15 March 2006, 8:17