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Nikko R2-D2 projector to go on sale: Beep boop woooo

Crave You can move it forwards and make him do a 360 degree turn, so expect to see plenty of dancing Artoos on YouTube. Okay, it looks like you might need a degree in engineering to work them, but when you're dealing with an object from 'a long time ago...

9 January 2008, 5:52

Have gadgets, will travel

Crave The Degree Confluence Project has pictures of GPS units in nearly 4,000 locations. There's a degree (sorry) of legitimacy here, since the goal of the project is to visit all the places where parallels of latitude cross meridians of longitude.

Tags: gps, section, ipods, proves

4 April 2005, 13:20

Crazy cameras: Seven strange snappers

Crave The resulting image is created by stitching together a panoramic, 360-degree triptych. Keep rollin'While we're on the subject of panoramic cameras, let's roll on with our heads held high and take a look at Yanko Design's rolling 360 degree camera.

20 November 2007, 8:14

Top ten girl geeks

Crave She went to Cambridge University, but wasn't given a full degree because girls weren't allowed them at the time. She suggested that the device might "compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity and extent".

21 November 2006, 15:54

Crave Podcast 71: Extra penis with your phone, sir?

Crave Aah, 71: The natural number following 70 and preceding 72, the algebraic degree of Conway's constant, the atomic number of lutetium and for one week only, the latest episode of the Crave Podcast. This week's crew is a little different to the norm.

Tags: shannon doubleday, crave podcast, scam, installed

8 February 2008, 12:55

HD DVD 'shock': Price cut encourages people to buy

Crave We don't have a degree in business, but it stands to reason that reducing the cost of a formerly expensive item down to a rock-bottom price might possibly produce a sales boost. In the US last weekend a number of stores reduced the price of the...

Tags: players, high definition, ray, definition

8 November 2007, 11:42

Seven days of Vista -- day 1: Let there be new applications

Crave Windows 3.0 was rubbish so he said something along the lines of "Let there be 3.1", but he saw that 3.1 was bad -- as were its subsequent evolutions Windows 95, 98, and (to some degree) XP. In the beginning, Lord Gates created all Windows and saw...

Tags: microsoft, updated, solitaire, outlook express

23 January 2007, 11:21

Nike + iPod running kit makes a dash for it

Crave Launched yesterday in the eight billion degree heat of Regent's Park, the Nike + iPod kit consists of a small radio transmitter, placed in your shoe, and a little receiver that plugs into your iPod. This is Apple's new pedometer.

Tags: apple, kit, receiver, sends

14 July 2006, 10:20

Elonex Artisan: a thing of beauty

Crave We've never had this degree of success with a Media Center PC. Just when we'd given up on Media Center PCs as a bad job, the Elonex Artisan parachuted in and made us think again. Three seconds after opening the box, we had it up and running.

Tags: elonex, pcs, media center, media center pc

9 June 2005, 11:21

LG Flatron L197WH: OMG! A 10,000:1 contrast ratio?!

Crave Other specs include a 2ms response time, 300cd/m2 brightness, 1,440x900-pixel native resolution and 170-degree viewing angle. The tech stork just dropped off LG's new 19-inch L197WH monitor, which the company claims has a contrast ratio of 10,000:1.

Tags: lg electronics, contrast, lg, angle

5 March 2008, 12:00

Give it a damn good thrashing: Qoolqee X3

Crave If you fancy a bit of Coldplay to make the rain that important one degree more depressing -- the Qoolqee doesn't mind getting drenched. Most MP3 players shatter into shards of tastefully expensive translucent plastic when you bowl them into the...

Tags: person, earth, night, hand

28 December 2005, 10:24

Mustek PL510: 10-inch 'Portable' DVD

Crave It has a viewing angle of about 1 degree, so while it's actually more detailed than Toshiba's SD-P1600, you have to keep your head perfectly still to see a picture that isn't too bright or too dark. We're amazed that we haven't been mugged for our...

Tags: dvd player, portable, lcd, angle

19 July 2005, 11:14

Marantz ZR6001 and ZC4001: Plug and play music

Crave Fortunately for all you audiophiles, there's an easier and slightly cheaper solution that lets you stream digital sound around your house without needing a degree in engineering. If, like Crave, you're a sound junkie, then getting decent audio...

Tags: remote control, house, wireless, listen

6 June 2006, 12:50

Nissan BR23C robot car: Japanese Bee craziness

Crave Where a bee will change direction if an obstacle enters its safety zone, the BR23C will likewise react by turning its wheels at a 90-degree angle or greater, sending it in another direction. With the admirable goal of cutting accident rates in half...

Tags: robot, safety, car, engineers

30 September 2008, 10:36

Photos: Garmin nuvi 200 sat-nav range

Crave These new systems work right out of the box and require absolutely no experience with GPS or a degree in cartography to operate. Today, CeBIT sees the arrival of a new range of budget sat-nav GPS systems from Garmin -- the nüvi 200 (pictured), nüvi...

15 March 2007, 15:42