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Olympus C-180: just press the button

Crave Olympus is pitching this as a 'one button, one function' camera. Olympus has announced the C-180, a digital camera that makes a virtue out of having no interesting new features whatsoever. If you stand on the bleeding edge of technology, turn...

Tags: olympus, function, country, languages

23 May 2005, 10:06

The zero-button Apple mouse

Crave We waited for years for a two-button mouse from Apple and now it's given us a no-button one. One-button mice are for retards", used to be the rallying cry of PC fanboys across Usenet, but Apple has really thrown its sushi at the critics this time.

Tags: apple uk, buttons, multi, ball

3 August 2005, 11:46

Cute as a button: iPod nano

Crave Apple aren't short of successful MP3 players at the moment, but old Steve Jobs has decided to scrap the company's most popular player at the height of its success and replace it with this: the iPod nano.

Tags: apple uk, jobs, apple, steve

8 September 2005, 12:30

Casio Exilim Z-1200: Photo-taker's dozen

Crave Here at Crave, we tend to get excited about anything shiny with an on/off button, yet even we occasionally tire of all these grey 8-megapixel compact cameras with 3x zoom and yet another 64mm (2.5-inch) screen.

Tags: casio, compact, megapixel, face

16 July 2007, 11:47

Logitech Harmony 885: Infrared blaster

Crave Our AV setup is so complicated that just watching a DVD these days requires a complex series of button presses on three different remote controls. All you need to do is tell it which equipment you own, and it will come up with a set of macros that...

Tags: logitech, lcd, console, watching

26 January 2006, 11:05

Crave Talk: Should user interfaces cater for the intoxicated?

Crave Why is the button that connects your mobile phone to a premium-rate Internet service twice as big as the button that answers calls? Why do you go to the 'Start' button in Windows to shut down? Why do you drag disks to the 'Trash' to eject them in...

Tags: cash, mac os, machines, london

6 February 2007, 12:24

Top ten off switches

Crave In the last ten years, the off switch has seen something of a decline, being replaced by its trendier sibling, the standby button. We love this button -- its classical good looks make it a universal crowd pleaser.

12 November 2007, 8:00

MSI Turbobook GX600: Bringing turbo back

Crave They all had a few things in common, such as being beige, being enormous, and having a button labelled 'turbo'. Those days are back, thanks to the MSI Turbobook GX600 -- the first laptop we can remember to sport a turbo button.

Tags: msi, button, laptop, inch

21 April 2008, 11:13

Where's my hoverboard? And other movie tech we want now

Crave According to the official Star Wars databank, "at the press of a button the energy contained within is liberated and forms as a shaft of pure energy about a meter long". Many argue that you can learn practically everything off the Net, and while it...

19 February 2008, 14:24

iPod remotes: there's something in the air

Crave Ok, the iPod has a Pause button, but pressing it doesn't do anything, as we always have the Hold switch on. You'd be able to configure the Pause button to override the Hold switch, in the same way that the Answer button always works on your phone...

Tags: griffin technology, volume, usb, switch

13 April 2005, 14:20

Seven days of Vista -- day 2: User interface enhancements

Crave Start OrbTop of our fiddlage list today was the new Start Orb, which replaces the Start button in XP. Live Taskbar Our next bit of fiddling concerned the addition of Live Taskbar Thumbnails (the taskbar is the bit that runs parallel to the Start...

Tags: microsoft, tab, icons, thumbnails

24 January 2007, 15:51

Crave TV: Kenwood-modded 1956 Chevy Bel Air

Crave Hit the button on the key fob, and out pops a tray containing an Xbox 360 controller and an iPod nano. Hit a button on the key fob and an oyster-shaped panel flips up, followed by a 10-inch screen and two Kenwood amplifiers.

17 January 2008, 8:54

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. Holidaymakers will also benefit from a time-switching feature that allows you to...

Tags: panasonic

3 March 2008, 10:29

Logic3 Jivebox: Hands-on with our first cube

Crave The only controls sit on the front and include an off button (we love a good off button) and volume controls. Remember that movie Cube? We think the designers of Logic3's new iPod speaker system were watching it and thought, "Guys, y'know what?

Tags: logic3, box, style, cube

12 November 2007, 11:14

Apple Time Machine and Seagate 750GB EHD: Sexy backups

Crave Seagate has just released the 750GB Pushbutton Backup external hard drive for PC and Mac -- a device that can create copies of your entire hard drive at the touch of a button. push button at the front of the unit that automatically launches the...

Tags: apple, creating, hard drive, operating system

8 August 2006, 12:05