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Crave Podcast 13: Who's bored of blogs?

Crave Are blogs an essential alternative news source and a massive tool for freedom of speech, or merely glorified diaries that make you reach for the snooze button? Everybody's doing it, from government ministers to that guy in class who never utters a...

25 September 2006, 16:19

Car Tech: Fiat 500 -- the iPod of cars, powered by Windows

Crave The 500, voted European car of the year, uses Microsoft Automotive technology -- a special combination of hardware and software that lets drivers interact with the vehicle using speech. Can you believe it?

30 June 2008, 17:00

Planet CNET Episode 7: Talking plants and cars

Crave Next, we're off to Japan for a toy plant that reacts to speech, and finally Rory Reid takes a look at the talking Fiat 500 -- check back on the site soon as we'll have more on this in a new episode of Car Tech.

25 June 2008, 10:08

Canon DW-100 portable DVD recorder saves the day

Crave A quick bit of in-camera editing while the best man makes his inappropriately revealing speech, and you're ready to start handing out DVDs by the time the toasts come round -- in theory anyway, as there's no word on burn speeds yet.

Tags: canon, definition, camcorder, footage

26 November 2007, 10:54

Nokia 6220 Classic: 5-megapixels for lost, travelling bloggers

Crave Other features include up to 8GB of internal memory, an FM radio, Web functionality and something Nokia calls 'Adaptive Multi Rate' -- a "wideband speech-coding technology, giving a more natural sound to human voice in phone calls".

Tags: nokia, carl zeiss, speech, megapixel

11 February 2008, 10:17

Samsung Q35: Gorgeous little darling

Crave Being so young, it hasn't developed the power of speech as yet, but it still manages to communicate using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, though only to other baby laptops -- we can't understand a word of it. We just love baby laptops.

Tags: samsung, core, inch, laptops

12 May 2006, 10:53

Photos: 8-year-old tests XO laptops

Crave Among the built-in programs in the Linux version is this animated speech synthesiser that reads aloud anything typed onto the screen. Our friends over at sister site CNET News.com wanted to find out how the two models of the XO-1 (One Laptop Per...

27 October 2008, 10:00

Photos: Motorola Razr 2 V8 and V9, Rokr Z6 and bendy Z8

Crave Other features include a new and improved user interface, which seems much better than any of its predecessors, and a text-to-speech system, in case you're driving and want to hear a text message. In what can only be described as a cave, Motorola...

17 May 2007, 9:33

Sennheiser PCX 450: Peace at last

Crave They do have a button that will allow speech to pass through, so if someone has something important to say, you'll still be able hear it, if you so choose. If there's one thing Crave hates, it's commuting.

Tags: battery, noise, train, cancelling

23 February 2007, 11:07

KingNeed iBible Pro: Yes, it really is an e-Bible

Crave A 'wisdoms' button gives you selected important quotes from the Bible, and the text to speech function means you can simply listen to the verse if you so wish through the built-in speaker. Here's something you don't see every day, to put it mildly.

10 January 2008, 7:00

Crave Talk: Apple could set eBooks on fire

Crave It doesn't mean having tweaks like text-to-speech, if-you-liked-that-you'll-like-this, signed copies from the author and so on. If there's a vowel in the month, it must be iPod rumour time. One of the better ones is that the next round of iPods...

Tags: apple, matter, reader, battery life

28 July 2006, 11:07

Nokia 5500 Sport: The Ronaldinho of phones

Crave There's also a feature called text-to-speech that will read your text message out to you, so that you're not distracted from running or playing hopscotch. Phone design is getting more and more specific.

Tags: nokia, sport, corner, rubber

11 May 2006, 10:42

LG 50PG6900: 50-inch plasma goodness with built-in Freeview+

Crave Luckily, LG has put some effort into perfecting this as well, and backs up cunning speaker placement with a technology called 'clear voice', which you'll be surprised to hear is designed to make speech as clear as possible.

Tags: lg electronics, waiting, lg, panel

6 October 2008, 10:57

Toshiba Regza 26WLT66: A small screen with lots of inputs

Crave Sound was also not fantastic, especially at lower levels where we felt speech was indistinct. It's sleek, it's black with a hint of silver, it has a 26-inch screen and it's HD Ready. Say hello to the Regza 26WLT66.

Tags: toshiba, input, hd, hdmi

30 January 2007, 12:03

LG 50PG6000: A plasma TV that will make you go 'ooohh'

Crave There's even something called 'clear speech' that aims to make dialogue easier to hear. Here at Crave you can usually tell when an interesting product turns up, because a little crowd forms, making comments, coming over to have a look and possibly...

Tags: lg electronics, box, inputs, plasma

3 April 2008, 15:13