reality

Asus W2V: The best of both worlds

Crave Why, for instance, do people say "the alarm just went off" when in reality it just went on? The universe is filled with unanswered questions. What was Captain Hook's name before the accident? Why is the word 'number' abbreviated to 'no' if there's...

Tags: asus, laptops, questions, laptop

12 December 2005, 11:11

Creative HQ-2300D: Home cinema in your ears

Crave Prefer to blank out the horrific reality of verbal communication in favour of cynical, made-by-committee tweeny-pop? Do you have a complete disrespect for your co-workers? Well, it's how we live our lives, so it's lucky we've got these new Creative...

Tags: creative, box, headphones, headphone

14 September 2005, 10:04

Nuance & Mobience: Death of the mobile keypad?

Crave In reality they seldom attack a human', then you obviously haven't tried to break the Guinness World Record for the shortest time required to type a 160-character SMS message. If you're not familiar with the sentences 'The razor-toothed piranhas of...

Tags: speech, layout, mobile phone, phrase

14 November 2006, 11:50

Philips Cineos 42PFL9632D: 1080p LCD TV with Ambilight

Crave The reality of it is quite different, because once you've seen Ambilight working, the scientist doesn't seem quite so mad anymore. Ambilight is one of those ideas that sounds like it was cooked up by a mad scientist who had a quiet week and a...

Tags: philips, hd, wall, leds

30 October 2007, 11:16

Stay on target: Kensington WiFi Finder

Crave Kensington have made your wish reality. Remember those rangefinders in Alien, the ones that beeped more enthusiastically as the acid-for-blood creature from outer space got closer and closer? Ever wanted one of those to detect WiFi?

Tags: bluetooth, wifi, detect, hands

28 June 2005, 8:39

PDT Eye-Theatre: An eyeful for your iPod

Crave Would it finally allow us to enter the William Gibson-esque world of virtual reality immerso-specs? Crave was tantalised by the idea of the PDT Eye-Theatre. Would it afford relief from squinting at the beautifully clear but frustratingly small iPod...

Tags: tag, price tag, ray, eye

12 October 2006, 10:48

Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor: Qosmio X300, F50 and G50

Crave Today, that technology has made the leap from concept to reality, as it reaches a range of new laptops. Back in January, we intrepidly voyaged to Las Vegas, to check out casinos Toshiba's Spurs Engine -- laptop technology that could turn standard...

18 June 2008, 9:35

Sharp as a tack: the new 65-inch Aquos LCD

Crave The Japanese company not only had an endless supply of 65-inch LCDs, but four dancers would come on periodically and dance along to lyrics such as "Aquos -- better than reality" and "You need a second TV".

Tags: sharp, lcd, aquos, entertainment

8 September 2005, 10:47

Photos: Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 rock-solid emailers

Crave Anyway, back to reality, and while these handsets don't come with touchscreens they're very classy indeed. Yesterday we popped along to the global launch of the Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 -- no, it wasn't the Nokia Tube -- but Nokia did confirm that a...

17 June 2008, 12:00

BT Vision: Future of TV or a cheapo PVR?

Crave The reality, as always, was somewhat more prosaic. BT has a Vision. You can tell it's important because of the capital V. It's going to be a revolution in television -- in BT's words it will be 'the next generation of television'.

Tags: bt, installation, broadband, self

4 December 2006, 14:20

Barbie MP3 player: Exploitation for the digital girl

Crave We're not sure why children should be encouraged to spend yet more time within the confines of virtual reality, but the notion of squeezing yet more money out of their parents' pocket seems very traditional.

Tags: mattel, girls, clothes, second life

30 April 2007, 11:02

Philips SPR550BN: The squid of power awaits you

Crave The Philips SPR550BN also differs from aquatic reality in its colour, which is black, rather than the more realistic white or slightly translucent skin tone of most squid. Water and electricity: that's a winning combination if ever we heard one.

Tags: philips, colour, socket, squid

23 October 2008, 11:39

Blu-ray and HD DVD movies: Time to order?

Crave Online retailers Amazon.co.uk, Play.com and HMV.co.uk have now started accepting pre-orders for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, bringing high definition another step closer to reality. By the time JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was...

Tags: ray, hd, discs, pre

12 September 2006, 15:36

Nick's Christmas shopping: fly me to the moon

Crave And no, I don't want to go on reality TV, I want to really go into space. I managed to blow my entire Crave Christmas wad on just two products, the Samsung LCD and a supernova of an Alienware system. But Santa has promised to give us each one thing...

Tags: christmas, lcd, crave, space

21 December 2005, 8:56

Sim2 C3X: cinema projection 'for the (rich) masses'

Crave Last year, three-chip DLP projectors made this dream a reality. The incessant march of technology can be a bad thing -- you finally get your hands on that Motorola V3 and then Nokia's 8800 comes along and comprehensively out-styles it.

Tags: high definition, definition, hands, colour

24 August 2005, 10:17