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Tri-bot and Rovio: New WowWee robots

Crave It packs a webcam on an extending arm, as well as three-wheel go-anywhere drive. The webcam arm allows you to see things from a different perspective than floor level. This being CES, there's always space for some crazy robots.

Tags: wi fi, base, ces, guard

7 January 2008, 5:48

Photos: LG gets its kit out for Crave in South Korea

Crave A camera takes a snap of your face and a computer analyses the picture and feeds information about your individual features to the robot arm, which draws a picture. This robotic arm has been designed to accurately draw sketches of human faces.

16 November 2006, 15:33

Photos: Hands-on the Samsung Dual Display 2263DX

Crave The rear bracket houses the extendible, rotating arm. The arm extends by a fair amount, but to do this you'll need to spin the monitor around, grip the hinge, and pull the arm separately. If you prefer, you can disconnect the secondary display from...

15 May 2008, 12:15

Toshiba's Portégé S100 laptop is all business

Crave Are you an elite business node, sharp suited, one arm swinging an attache case stuffed with embezzled pension funds, the other clasping a Motorola Razr, shoes glistening like justice -- freshly polished by the hotel bell boy?

Tags: toshiba, ram, motorola razr, goldman sachs

18 October 2005, 11:58

Sony BMG to ditch music DRM: One step at a time

Crave Just as Sony gets its groove on after Warner's recent decision to exclusively support the Blu-ray HD disc format, the company's musical arm is apparently preparing to wrap DRM up in a black bin liner, drag it kicking and screaming to the nearest...

Tags: sony, labels, label, store

6 January 2008, 8:32

Mobile entertainment: Stick it like Glu

Crave Luckily for those who see their mobile as a natural extension of their arm, mobile entertainment company Glu is on hand. With the success of the Nintendo DS and the rumoured imminent demise of the Nokia nGage, mobile phone gaming needs all the help...

Tags: nintendo ds, grand theft auto, amiga, entertainment

17 June 2005, 10:29

Top ten animal geeks

Crave Luckily for Ham, his little arm reached out tentatively and pulled the lever soon after his capsule entered space, on 31 January 1961. Other than sitting calmly in his biopack, Ham's only task on his Project Mercury space mission was to push a...

Tags: age, talking, television, expert

20 December 2006, 14:44

Panasonic plasma TVs: Now with added Wii-proofing

Crave Well, it's Wii-proof as long as you don't have the lobbing arm of a caber thrower. At its 2008 product showcase in Valencia, Panasonic revealed that every year, literally some people manage to hurl their Wii controllers at their expensive flat...

Tags: panasonic, panel, lcd, tvs

14 February 2008, 13:02

Sennheiser PCX 450: Peace at last

Crave Then it's on to the late-running train to stand around with a sweaty commuter's arm in your face while you have to listen to the banal chatter of someone whose friend has a disease they caught from a piece of cheese.

Tags: battery, noise, train, cancelling

23 February 2007, 11:07

Olympus mju 790: Unshockable camera likes it wet

Crave The Olympus mju 790 is one such gadget.This 7.1-megapixel compact camera swaggered into the Crave nerve centre with its surfboard under one arm and a sticker on the front proclaiming how tough it is.

Tags: olympus, water, crave, mju

21 September 2007, 11:22

Roberts solarDAB: Pray the Sun keeps his hat on

Crave But Roberts Radio knows something more powerful than the human arm: a little thing called the Sun. As the Earth's population gets more and more obsessed with making friends with trees, being nicer to clouds and refraining from weeing in rivers, the...

Tags: roberts, radio, powered, socket

2 July 2008, 11:27

Panasonic SDR-SW20 and SDR-S7: Holiday in camcordia

Crave A secondary record button means that they can be held in the standard elbow-bent fingers-pointing-up eye-level camcorder grasp, or in a straight-arm fingers-down grip. Panasonic has given us the 32GB SDHC card, and clearly sees cheap and plentiful...

Tags: panasonic

3 March 2008, 10:29

Crave Podcast 59: Bionic limbs -- armless fun?

Crave This week's stories include the accusation from UK children's minister Beverly Hughes that MySpace makes children fat.We also tell you about a forthcoming brain-controlled bionic arm, and how it could get you into trouble.

Tags: children, episode, crave podcast, kids

16 November 2007, 10:46

Hands-on with the Pure Digital Flip Video: Flippin' 'eck

Crave It runs off AA batteries and has a dinky flip-out USB arm so you just plug it straight in. "Good morning, sceptical Crave! Is it, optimistic Crave? Is it? Yes it is, sceptical Crave. Hey, what have you got there?

Tags: flip video uk, crave, inch, states

13 May 2008, 11:18

Route 66 Mobile 7: Use your mobile for satellite navigation

Crave The box contains a Bluetooth-enabled GPS receiver, a CD with software for your computer, a card reader, a memory card with the Route 66 software preloaded, an in-car charger for the receiver, a lanyard and a holding arm to mount your phone on your...

Tags: car, battery, gps, problem

28 February 2006, 10:27