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iAxe 393: Shred face via USB

Crave We don't even know what half of that means, but it sounds like it'll let you shred some serious face. Crave loves tech arguably as much as we do music, so we can be excused for nearly soiling ourselves when the iAxe 393 USB Guitar showed up.

Tags: usb, rock, guitar, vintage

26 April 2007, 12:36

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS: Let's face it

Crave We like the sound of the souped-up face-detection system. It has all sorts of knobs on, including real-time red-eye correction and tracking of an individual face. Data from face detection, scene brightness, subject movement and the optical image...

Tags: canon, detection, iso, face

29 January 2008, 13:06

Face-hugger: Arcam rLead

Crave Like Ridley Scott's famous alien, the rLead runs an umbilical cord from an acid-for-blood creature (the iPod) into an unsuspecting host (your Arcam Solo hi-fi). Unlike the alien, the rLead's relationship with your Arcam is symbiotic -- the Arcam...

Tags: ipod, port, fi, alien

28 April 2006, 11:47

Denon S-101: Body off Baywatch, face off Game Boy

Crave Whenever we review new products, we spend a lot of time thinking 'wouldn't it be great if it had this' or 'we wish that would have worked better'. Denon, like Apple, seems to nail what we fickle reviewers are looking for, resulting in some of the...

Tags: denon, filters, edge, cable

25 August 2005, 11:06

Nintendo DS : turning blue in the face of competition

Crave All these cool gadgets are a big strain on the pocket. Not just in terms of cost -- the back pockets of your Levi 501s are going to be stuffed to the brim come Christmas. There's the PSP, the V3, the Ixus 40, and of course the Nintendo's DS, which...

Tags: nintendo, strategy, ds, pockets

25 April 2005, 10:14

Akai LM-H30CJSA: low-cost display

Crave In the face of a capitalist marketing regime that aims to turn us into brand-loyal consumer monkeys, it takes a brave person to buy from a relatively unproven name. So if you're the sort of person that likes to fly in the face of convention and...

Tags: akai, lcd, person, lm

14 May 2005, 13:18

Sony DSC-T70: Touchscreen compact makes us smile?

Crave "Why the long face? It's a 8.1-megapixel compact camera, with the ubiquitous face detection, optical image stabilisation and ISO 3,200 maximum speed. At first glance, this seems to be the most facile twist on face detection we've ever heard of, but...

5 November 2007, 11:23

Photos: Hands-on with the slinky Samsung NV15

Crave Face detection is no longer the groundbreaking feature it once was, and some manufacturers are even resorting to facile nonsense like the 'smile shutter'. You get face recognition -- of course -- as well as in-camera red-eye fix, aperture and...

2 November 2007, 10:55

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix F60fd

Crave There are loads of burst modes, all the usual scene modes, and also face detection 3.0. Fujifilm is already way ahead of other manufacturers in terms of face chasing, with glasses and profiles presenting no significant problems.

5 September 2008, 11:47

Nintendo: is that a Game Boy in your pocket?

Crave Nintendo's strategy in the face of the imminent PSP launch? It even has removable face plates! Why, release an even smaller version of the Game Boy. We thought the company had all but ditched the Game Boy brand with the launch of the DS, but it...

Tags: nintendo, console, psp, face

18 May 2005, 11:28

Crave TV: Defcon, the nuclear war simulator

Crave This game may lack the face-to-face brutality of Battlefield II, but you'll rest safe in the knowledge that you're causing destruction on a seriously mammoth scale. Those who feel compelled to wage global thermonuclear warfare should check out...

19 October 2006, 17:53

Super phones: Nokia N96 vs Samsung G810 vs Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 vs LG KF700

Crave There was a time when the best thing your phone could do was send black and white pictures ingeniously created by arranging letters and punctuation marks in a text message to look like a cat's face or -- better still -- a stick man holding, er, a...

20 March 2008, 15:17

Motorola Rokr E8 vs Sony Ericsson W890i: Music, mano a mano

Crave At face value it looks fairly straightforward, but it's got more than a few tricks up its sleeve to give it a real edge. Underneath that is a dynamic touch-sensitive keypad that changes its face depending on the feature you're using.

26 March 2008, 15:59

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

Crave Even image stabilisation and face detection are becoming a bit yeah, whatever. But it's hard not to be excited about a compact that looks so tidy and packs optical image stabilisation -- moving the CCD sensor to compensate for the vibration of...

Tags: casio, compact, megapixel, face

16 July 2007, 11:47

Nikon D90: Video thrilled the dSLR

Crave Ideas are flying about all over the shop, with consumer-friendly features such as live view and face detection appearing in compact cameras first and then trickling up into dSLR territory. Features include face detection, which finds and tracks up...

27 August 2008, 12:07