star trek

Photos: Acer Aspire 8920 18-inch widescreen laptop

Crave Lights follow your finger as you slide it across the volume arc -- a bit like the transporter control panel in Star Trek. Today Acer sent us a pre-production Aspire 8920 to play with, so it's only right we take a bunch of photos and show it off...

27 March 2008, 11:45

Top ten off switches

Crave Yes, you read that right, one of the best off switches ever is fitted to the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation. But we miss good old offy -- his sturdy construction and good humour were a welcome break from the monotony of day-to-day life.

12 November 2007, 8:00

Top ten evil computers

Crave NomadStar Trek: The Changeling If any proof is needed that Nomad is the king of evil computers, witness Star Tek: The Motion Picture. Ah, computers. They make our lives so easy.but we should fear them, for they may yet turn on us.

1 November 2007, 9:12

Retro phones: Thick as a brick

Crave Or skip forward a couple of years to the Motorola StarTAC -- the first digital clamshell phone and the first device that beat Star Trek's prop designers at their own game. Fashionable mobile phones fall out of favour in a fortnight: style abides.

Tags: motorola, age, monsters, analogue

28 June 2006, 9:45

Samsung CLP-300: Honey I shrunk the colour laser printer

Crave Replacement toner comes in the form of cylindrical cartridges that slide directly into the front of the unit -- it all feels very Star Trek. Yesterday we went hands-on with the Samsung CLP-300 -- which claims to be the world's smallest colour laser...

Tags: samsung, printer, colour, pages

26 September 2006, 11:00

Hands-on with mobiles2go's i-Kids phone

Crave This might look like a kitchen appliance you'd use to test the temperature of pies, but it's actually a mobile phone designed for children. Crave is still a little sceptical of small children running around with mobiles beaming radiation into their...

Tags: kids, children, mobile phone, child

23 March 2007, 10:45

Let them listen to cake: Toshiba Gigabeat P-series

Crave Someone in Toshiba's design team clearly stared at a Battenberg one minute too long. It's especially odd given that Japan is not renowned for its love of this German cake -- the one made of pink and yellow squares of sponge, stuck together with...

Tags: toshiba, german, gigabeat, love

14 November 2005, 10:43