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InFocus ScreenPlay 7210: Death Star Projector

Crave The projector world moves fast, and sometimes you've got to stop and take a look around. No sooner have we finished lusting after the InFocus ScreenPlay 7205 than the new model arrives to make us moist with anticipation once again.

Tags: infocus, definition, high definition, projector

13 December 2005, 11:28

Glass tombstones: light after death

Crave After last week's trip through the lights fantastic, we were delighted to discover the glass tombstones at Lundgren Monuments. Why settle for plain old granite when you can have a "luminescent, organic, rugged and incredibly beautiful" cast glass...

Tags: glass, embedded, night, discover

30 March 2005, 17:27

Hands-on with the Asus EN9800 GX2: Faster than death

Crave Want twin graphics cards, but your motherboard only has one PCI Express slot? We think we may have found the solution. We've just been playing with the Asus EN9800 GX2, a graphics adaptor that combines two separate graphics processing units in a...

Tags: core, anti, frames, graphics

4 April 2008, 12:36

Mac vs PC: A fight to the death!

Crave Hear ye! Hear ye! Before us we have two gallant fighters preparing to do bloody battle for our affections. In the orange corner we have Baron Vista, representing Windows' finest, and in the black corner is Count OS X, representing Apple.

Tags: os, count, style, vista

27 April 2007, 17:22

Apple: Avoid death -- integrate iPod with your car

Crave Can you imagine a more impressive podcessory than the very thing that will ultimately deliver global environmental apocalypse: the glorious motorcar? Although there's reportedly been an overall slump in car-stereo sales, iPod-enabled automobiles...

Tags: apple, integration, mini, car

17 July 2006, 12:51

Nuance & Mobience: Death of the mobile keypad?

Crave If you're not familiar with the sentences 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human', then you obviously haven't tried to break...

Tags: speech, layout, mobile phone, phrase

14 November 2006, 11:50

Life without Google: A fate worse than death?

Crave Google, during its inexorable rise to Internet stardom, has become a byword for 'search engine'. Nowadays people don't search the Web for information, they 'google' it. But in our haste to obtain information from the veritable fountain of knowledge...

Tags: google, aol, searches, yahoo

29 November 2006, 14:02

The death of TV: Google to smack down UK's top channels

Crave The deformed children of the first dotcom boom roam the streets like dogs, but it looks like background radiation must be reaching safe levels again because new heroes are rising. Google's purchase of YouTube for $1.65bn and Murdoch's acquisition...

Tags: television, advertising, streets, advertisers

2 November 2006, 11:05

Tech is good for you: Quit smoking with ludicrous gadgets

Crave Yes, it's a bit like having a grandmother telling you what to do, but look on the bright side: at least it'll stop you dying an excruciating tar-related death. Once they were trendy, twiddling their cigarettes with disdain, force-feeding innocent...

9 July 2007, 12:07

FM transmitters: iTrip vs everyone else in our real-world test

Crave What do The Smurfs, thrash-metal band Napalm Death and FM transmitters all have in common? No, not the extraneous brutality of Napalm Death, nor the complex musical intricacies of our beloved Dream Theater.

2 August 2007, 11:37

Crave Talk: Consumer electronics ate my child's imagination

Crave Whether beating prostitutes to death with baseball bats (Grand Theft Auto) or murdering uncatalogued lifeforms by stamping on their heads (Super Mario Bros) they careen through a high-speed existence with little care for politics or history.

Tags: adjust, children, entertainment, human

12 September 2006, 13:26

The five best game console controllers of all time

Crave If we were feeling particularly daring, we might say it heralded the death of the arcade. The controller, also known as the gamepad or joypad, is what gamers use to perform death-defying skateboard tricks, score Ronaldo-beating goals or shoot their...

22 May 2007, 12:30

An obituary for the floppy: RIP the 3.5 incher

Crave It claimed the death of the video recorder back in 2004, but still sells stand-alone VHS recorders. Then, two years ago, the death of the 35mm camera -- yet Dixons (or Currys.digital, if you can say that name without throwing up at the thought of...

Tags: disks, machines, floppy, floppy disk

31 January 2007, 11:21

Crave Talk: How to punish a boy spammer

Crave Horror fans will recognise this line from The Ring, a film in which a mysterious videotape brings death to all who watch it. What scourge can we deliver on our gadgeted-up youth to persuade them that spamming ex-employers with death threats is not...

Tags: sounds, ring, death, ex

24 August 2006, 12:24

Top ten terrible tech products

Crave While an MP3 player running on removable media sounds moderately useful, bear in mind it sounds about as pleasant as a baby seal being clubbed to death. The death blow for a gaming device is rubbish games.

20 November 2007, 14:50