crime

Crave Talk: iPhone equals iMuggers' dream

Crave Yesterday the Metropolitan Police published their annual crime figures, showing an overall reduction in crime in London. The Apple iPhone will trigger a revolution in street-crime convenience. Interestingly, however, street robberies in the capital...

Tags: apple, wi fi, jobs, story

18 January 2007, 10:54

Crave Talk: Robberies rise, escape with your iPod

Crave Rise in crime blamed on iPods", yells the front page of London's Metro. A separate British Crime Survey, however, suggests robbery has risen by 22 per cent, to 311,000. If you've got any of your own tips on avoiding iPod crime, let us know -- leave...

Tags: london, tape, hole, crime

20 July 2006, 12:29

Crave Podcast 91: The Wiibrator is real

Crave And nor is it as deranged as the Portsmouth University boffins working on CCTV that can detect 'crime sounds'. Oh, and Gordon Brown wants to release a map of Britain that highlights crime hotspots -- bad news for anyone in Croydon that's trying to...

Tags: tech, crime, nintendo wii, house

27 June 2008, 12:00

Crave Talk: London police to get 'RoboCop' cameras

Crave Witnesses to a crime would have pre-emptively testified to the guilt of the perpetrator via their head-cams. Prosecutors could use sophisticated video editing packages like Final Cut Pro to add flashy transitions and a dramatic soundtrack to make a...

Tags: country, london, safety, police

20 November 2006, 11:31

Betaminds M2i Heliodisplay: Images appearing out of thin air

Crave Remember the scene from Minority Report where the Pre-Crime cops are using hand gestures to interact with a computer screen? It works in exactly the same way -- minus the ability to catch criminals before they commit a crime.

Tags: water, air, mirror, infrared

5 July 2006, 12:31

BenQ-Siemens E61 mofi: If the A-Team designed a mobile...

Crave In 2006 a crack commando unit of mobile phone designers was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.

Tags: benq-siemens, mobile phone, designers, siemens

17 May 2006, 12:17

Word up! Talking books go online

Crave No, not gun crime, but Audible -- the spoken word MP3 website. The Americans have had it for years, but it's only just begun to arrive here. We all listen to music on our iPods, but you might not have considered listening to books-on-tape.

Tags: books, listening, tape, audio books

16 June 2005, 11:54

Apple's September event: Definitive rumour round-up

Crave Frank Lucas, the drug baron played by Denzel Washington in Ridley Scott's epic crime film American Gangster, was also born on this day in 1930. September the ninth is an important date in music and media.

Tags: apple, wi fi, subscription, air

4 September 2008, 13:02

Crave Podcast 78: Should Wi-Fi thieves be arrested?

Crave Lister Rory Reid reckons it's a crime, pure and simple, but Rimmer Ian Morris says "if you leave something out in the open, it's fair game. Something for the weekend, squire? Yes? How about episode 78 of the Crave Podcast?

Tags: wi fi, trial, compare, develop

28 March 2008, 9:00

Crave Podcast 10: Google on trial

Crave Also discussed in the podcast are the latest developments in cryogenics research, the link between iPods and street crime and the wonders of the gigantic Dell laptop. Google is watching you. It knows what searches you do, what emails you send, what...

Tags: crave, trial, laptop, google

25 July 2006, 10:06

Philips DCD778: An iPod dock to blight your kitchen

Crave Why, then, would any style-conscious member of the Ainsley Harriott For Prime Minister Society stoop low enough to commit the heinous crime of installing one of these brutally ugly appliances under a kitchen cupboard?

Tags: philips, kit, kitchen, children

22 March 2007, 11:06

Holy F1 Batman: The Batpod bike gets a public outing

Crave The Dark Knight hits the UK's cinemas on 25 July and is sure to be excellent, with a cast of some of Hollywood's best, but sadly not featuring Alicia Silverstone, which is the single biggest crime in the history of filmmaking.

7 July 2008, 12:42

Crave Podcast 81: The Jesus laptop

Crave It's designed to help them co-ordinate their policing efforts more effectively, but perhaps they haven't banked on geeky criminals who can hack the system to find out where police aren't before going on a crime spree.

Tags: laptop, man, podcast, police

18 April 2008, 12:02

Crave Talk: Should 'stealing' Wi-Fi be illegal?

Crave The issue here is crime. Most Crave staffers gasped in astonishment when they heard a UK man was arrested for piggybacking a Wi-Fi network. Why wouldn't we? Most of us have done it before -- usually when our home broadband is broken or unavailable.

Tags: man, wi fi, fi, communications

23 August 2007, 11:55

Crave Talk: To slim or not to slim?

Crave Forgetting the artistic and philosophical implications, what if the composite picture records a crime that wasn't happening while you were there? In particular, it's happy to announce that many models now have a slimming feature, a bit of internal...

Tags: hp, cameras, reality, photograph

22 September 2006, 11:46