first person

Photos: iPhone celebrates its first birthday

Crave Mark Conn, the 10th person to line up for an iPhone at Apple's Fifth Apple sold iPhones during the first weekend it went on sale, with supply finally starting to wane after a few days. Here, we give you a pictorial of some of the highs and lows of...

27 June 2008, 10:36

Vapourware: The tech that never was

Crave Windows Vista ran the risk of joining the club, and the terrific multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 was in production for almost a decade before it was released in 2007. The follow-up to the massively successful first-person shooter...

11 March 2008, 7:30

Nintendo's post-E3 shakedown

Crave As an assassin with seven different personalities, you run around in a third-person room and then kill members of the Heaven's Smile organisation in the first person. The preview allowed us to sample the brand new horse-riding sections first-hand...

Tags: nintendo, title, gaming, wars

15 June 2005, 9:23

Sonim XP1: Push to talk is back

Crave In order to talk to someone you pushed a button and then let go of it to hear the other person speak. The XP1 can make push-to-talk calls and normal calls, and it comes with a loudspeaker so you can hear the other person loud and clear.

Tags: unlimited, person, talk, manufacturers

9 October 2006, 12:31

Crave Talk: Dumping by text is very British

Crave Instead, they use a system called 'toque', which literally translates to 'touch' and involves one person ringing the other person just once to express a pre-decided message -- one ring I love you, two rings I hate you.

Tags: employees, love, pre, messaging

10 November 2006, 11:38

Xbox 360: Going Live

Crave We've also been playing Condemned -- a first-person actioner from Monolith, the same people who made F.E.A.R.and it shares that game's oppressive atmosphere. There will be two sorts of people with Xbox 360s this morning.

Tags: microsoft uk, console, xbox, weekend

2 December 2005, 11:08

F.E.A.R.: Fantastic Expectations, Amazing Revelations

Crave The big guns of the first-person shooter world are coming out to play this week, with F.E.A.R.and Quake 4 both released on the PC. Nope, F.E.A.R.has a pretty standard videogame plot -- you play an elite soldier in a hard-ass government agency named...

Tags: vivendi universal interactive, released, face, shooter

21 October 2005, 11:35

PlayStation 3: Hands-on with Sony's new console

Crave If you want a first-person shooter, with plenty of jumpy moments and great weapons, you'll not be disappointed. First up: the PlayStation 3 does look very pretty. The good news first: the PS3 runs silently, no fans to be heard here.

Tags: sony, sign, playstation, controller

24 November 2006, 9:37

Hands-on with the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z1080

Crave If you're into shooting grainy video of people doing embarassing things and posting it to the Internet for the world to see and that person to get fired/dumped/into a spiral of depression, then you'll be aware of the phenomenon that is YouTube.

Tags: casio, youtube, compact, iso

30 October 2007, 11:06

Top ten nerds and geeks

Crave He designed a floppy disc controller from scratch, met his wife on a Dial-a-Joke line he set up, and was the first person to buy a Segway PT.And the grand winner, the greatest and geekiest of all is. While Jobs was the entrepreneur behind the...

16 November 2006, 16:11

Amputees' phantom limbs return in virtual reality

Crave Intriguingly, researchers have discovered that if a person's brain can be tricked into believing they can see and move a 'phantom limb', this motion reduces the perception of pain in PLP. The virtual reality system, developed at the University of...

Tags: virtual, person, movement, reality

14 November 2006, 14:45

Real Life: From office employee to assassin with StreetWars

Crave As for tracking down your victim, the StreetWars Web site says "you can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a delivery person and jack them when they open the door, disguise yourself and take them out on the street, etc.

Tags: tournament, water, part, measures

8 August 2006, 10:24

Top ten girl geeks

Crave She worked in her shed with some of the most dangerous substances known to humanity, and is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize in two different scientific disciplines. Charles Babbage may have invented the programmable computer, but it was...

21 November 2006, 15:54

Amazon's Kindle versus Sony's Reader

Crave This is all based on what I've seen and read; I haven't seen a Kindle in person. First, I'm surprised by Kindle's industrial design. I am constantly worried about my Reader getting broken just from normal use -- since exactly that happened to my...

Tags: books, edge, translation, landscape

20 November 2007, 9:32

E3: Next-gen console scrap kicks off in earnest

Crave Ubisoft has made a cracking start with Red Steel, though -- a first-person actioner where you swing the Wii remote around to control your sword. First up on Monday was Sony and its PlayStation 3 hoopla.

Tags: developers, press, windows vista, gaming

10 May 2006, 17:59