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Hands-on with the ironically skinny Casio Exilim EX-S10

Crave It's ironic that Casio has named this latest Exilim point-and-shoot the EX-S10, because every gramme of excess weight has been trimmed from its waif-like frame. It's a 10-megapixel camera with YouTube mode, and it's so slim we're worried we'll lose...

Tags: casio, frame, youtube, ex

6 March 2008, 10:56

Alienware Aurora mALX: Six-toed gaming ninja

Crave When the folks from Alienware came to visit us last week, knees buckling beneath the weight of an enormous rucksack, we guessed they were about to show us something special. Inside the sack was the Alienware Aurora mALX -- a laptop that does for...

Tags: gaming, laptop, paint, chassis

2 August 2006, 13:00

Samsung SGH-T509: Fight for the thin king title

Crave Crave's American colleague Kent German has just reviewed the Samsung SGH-T509, which was announced at the beginning of the month and is a similar size and weight to the Motorola Slvr L6. But can this South Korean slim contender defeat the American...

Tags: samsung, colour, american, colour screen

28 April 2006, 11:00

Samsung K3: Touch it when you're feeling blue

Crave It looks similar to the iPod nano and is only 7mm thick and 50g in weight, making it very pocket friendly. This sexy device is the YP-K3, one of Samsung's latest MP3 players. The casing has a Chocolate phone feel to it, with a seamless black front...

Tags: samsung, nano, ipod nano, yp

11 January 2007, 22:13

Personal trainer turns to the Wii

Crave Research has suggested that digital games can help people lose weight, and at least one blogger says he lost several pounds playing Wii Sports 30 minutes a day. Crave US: It was bound to happen, wasn't it?

Tags: playing, exercise, wii, burn

13 April 2007, 13:19

Toshiba Portege R500: The lightest laptop ever?

Crave It's so light, in fact, that Toshiba has asked feted explorer David Hempleman-Adams to carry it on a world-record hot air ballooning attempt -- where weight is of the utmost importance. Some models even use a 19.5mm thick optical drive, and a...

Tags: toshiba, inch, weight, hard drive

22 June 2007, 10:15

HTC P3470: Mid-range GPS, high-end price

Crave All-in weight: 122g. HTC has made some smashing devices over the last year or so, and we're pretty excited about its new P3470 -- a Windows Mobile 6-powered GPS handset.The P3470 boasts a 71mm (2.8-inch) screen, a 2-megapixel camera, TomTom...

Tags: htc, handset, inch, gps

11 February 2008, 12:36

Profigold PROV1015: Long-distance 1080p with 15m HDMI cable

Crave But not just any HDMI cable, a 15m-long Profigold PROV1015, which went some way to explaining the prodigious weight. Yesterday a package arrived here at Crave that weighed as much as a fairly hefty puppy, which was slightly confusing.

Tags: cable, hd, hdmi, puppy

15 August 2008, 11:41

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung VP-HMX10

Crave The first thing to impress us was the size and weight of the camcorder. When our intrepid mobile phone Craver went to Mobile World Congress last month, he took with him a plethora of lightweight gadgets for staying connected on the go.

25 March 2008, 11:18

New, improved Ask.com buckles under pressure

Crave But the minute it was officially announced, Ask's server seemed to buckle under the weight of a trillion curious Web users. Ask.com has launched an updated version of its search engine, but rather than bringing Jeeves back, it's gone all high-tech...

Tags: beta, algorithm, clicking, searches

8 June 2007, 11:04

State of Play: Xbox 360

Crave But the Xbox has had a haircut, been to Specsavers and lost a lot of weight. The Xbox 360 has been hanging around for a year now, like the dork who got to the party too early. Now the cool kids have turned up: the PlayStation 3, the rich kid with...

Tags: microsoft, party, dvd player, care

22 November 2006, 10:23

Archos AV400: well weapon

Crave First impressions of the AV400 are good -- it has a nice weight that will certainly hurt an opponent should we need to use it as a weapon, but with soft rubbery corners to help protect it when we inevitably drop the thing.

Tags: archos technology, portable, pvr, archos

20 May 2005, 11:16

Lenovo X300: MacBook Air Murderer? Yes. Sort of

Crave Its 1.33kg weight is comparable though, and it's packed to the rafters with features that make the Air look a little stupid, really. Laptops such as the MacBook Air and Sony Vaio TZ series have proven that slim is indeed the new phat.

Tags: lenovo, usb, air, macbook

26 February 2008, 14:32

Citizen Vain: The best looking filmmaker's camcorder

Crave About the size of a mini-bar can of Coke and a fraction of the weight. See that gorgeous black camcorder over there to the right of these words, do you have any idea how small it is? Of course you don't, where's your reference point?

Tags: jvc, camcorder, gz, dolby digital

5 July 2005, 10:31

Michael's Christmas Shopping: Bulletproof music

Crave Favourite toddler wrestling moves include the Disc Slammer, in which the full weight of the child is brought down on the fragile mechanism of the CD tray. For my Crave Christmas shopping, I'll be focusing on toddler-proof technology.

Tags: sonos, case, digital music, christmas

13 December 2005, 10:47