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Logitech launches its PS3 assault

Crave The latter features Logitech's 'floating D-pad' thumb controller and can play wirelessly for over 150 hours on a set of two AA batteries. UK consumers may be feeling PS3 apathy, but that hasn't stopped Logitech from launching a range of new...

Tags: logitech, gaming, controller, gamers

15 March 2007, 9:05

Best of the forums this week: Why Earth hasn't imploded

Crave So if I can make five shelf loads of CD's disappear into my laptop, or a thumb-drive, then that makes me really happy. As if all the iTunes news this week wasn't enough, our forums have been burning with musical discussion with the fury of a...

Tags: physics, hole, drm, steve jobs

15 September 2008, 10:23

Photos: Hands-on with the Toshiba Camileo Pro

Crave Beneath that is a thumb-level zoom rocker, playback button, and all the connections. The Toshiba Camileo Pro has moseyed into Crave on a mission to prove that eight into one will go. This entry-level, lightweight digital camcorder packs in a whole...

15 November 2007, 10:00

Hands-on: HTC TyTN 2 P4550

Crave The HTC TyTN 2's Qwerty keypad is easy to use and leaves acres of space for manoeuvring your thumb. Here at Crave we've been lucky enough to get our hands on the HTC TyTN 2 P4550, which is the successor to the much-loved HTC TyTN.

31 August 2007, 11:32

Hands-on with the Ricoh R10: None more black

Crave Functions are controlled by a flattened joystick, for the thumb of the right hand. Bow, mortals! Bow before the satanic majesty of the Ricoh R10, a camera as black as the depths of your soul. This 10-megapixel point-and-shoot is the Johnny Cash of...

13 November 2008, 10:58

Christmas gift guide: Great presents from £15 to £150

Crave It slots on to the bottom of your 360's gamepad and gives you a full Qwerty thumb pad that makes tapping out messages a breeze. The curse of Christmas is traipsing around the shops on Christmas Eve, wasting your money on naff slippers, rubbish...

11 December 2007, 16:02

Gadget Love: Valentine's Day gifts for single geeks

Crave Before engaging in physical contact, simply remove it from the packaging, hold it between forefinger and thumb (get your potential love match to do the same) then get to kissin' or huggin' -- it's all in the name of research, innit.

13 February 2007, 12:06

Photos: Motorola's sexy new Rokr E8 and Z10

Crave The E8 vibrates just under your thumb rather than the whole handset. Let's not beat around the bush. We went out to the Mobile World Congress expecting Motorola to be a little depressed post-lacklustre 2007 financial results and the loss of its CEO...

18 February 2008, 10:04

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 40D dSLRs: 21 not out

Crave A new addition is a dedicated autofocus on/off button that allows you to enable and disable autofocus with your thumb. It showed off 30 photography, video and printing products at a white-draped warehouse on London's Brick Lane, complete with...

21 August 2007, 11:37

A blueprint for the perfect phone

Crave The keys should also be slightly raised in the middle, similar to the Motorola Q 9's keypad, so that they're easy to find with your thumb. I wish it wasn't true, but believe me -- I've looked high and low.

18 June 2007, 12:24

Photos: Samsung F480, G810, i780, F490 and Soul

Crave The Qwerty keypad felt easy to press and there's an optical sensor in place of a four-way mechanical key, allowing you to scroll through emails or contacts by just brushing your thumb against it. We've simply never seen so many handsets being...

18 February 2008, 14:04

The five best game console controllers of all time

Crave Gamers love banging on about how good their favourite console is, but there's one thing and one thing alone that makes a good game system great, and that's a brilliant controller. The controller, also known as the gamepad or joypad, is what gamers...

22 May 2007, 11:30

Sony Ericsson W890i: Hands-on with the lean Walkman phone

Crave When we first got our hands on the Sony Ericsson W880i, we thought, "Great phone, shame about the keypad" -- which is why we're delighted to see its successor, the Sony Ericsson W890i Walkman phone. Wave goodbye to your metacarpal worries, Walkman...

Tags: sony ericsson, sony, pair, ericsson

13 March 2008, 11:27

Guy's Christmas Shopping: Arcade cabinet

Crave For us, this Christmas is going to be all about excesses -- drinking port all day and playing Xbox 360 online in the nude are just two of the things that we're looking forward to. But the real event will have nothing on our pre-Christmas spending...

Tags: arcade, sort, pre, christmas

7 December 2005, 11:11

Wasp T12 - the speechtool revolution has begun

Crave Thumb the case open and you're at the helm of the T12's Full Spectrum Audio Dominance tech. Forget smartphones. Forget portable gaming consoles. The Wasp T12 is the first of the new generation of speechtool: convergent, contextual, concave.

Tags: tech, london, pool, cast

3 February 2005, 17:50