italian

Top ten girl geeks

Crave Although Simpson is only 8, she has an IQ of 159, and has been observed to be fluent in Italian, Chinese, Spanish and Swedish. She translated Luigi Menabrea's notes on Babbage's machine from Italian, and added her own ideas on how to calculate...

21 November 2006, 15:54

Fujitsu Aviamo: The new plasma diva

Crave If you want to invigorate your TV brand's recognition, dear reader, all you need is a vaguely Italian-sounding moniker -- think Sony's Bravia, Toshiba's Regza or Panasonic's Viera. The marketing men at Fujitsu have weathered a brainstorm and come...

Tags: fujitsu, definition, processing, hd

14 November 2006, 13:57

Samsung Tocco: A phone that wants to be touched

Crave Tocco isn't a taco gone wrong: it's the Italian word for touch and Samsung has seen fit to use it as the name of its latest touchscreen phone. Bene! Previously known as the Samsung F480, we saw this bella down at the Mobile World Congress earlier...

23 May 2008, 12:21

Lamborghini laptop looms large

Crave Posers rejoice -- our spies in Asia inform us that Intel is about to join forces with Italian sports car giant Automobili Lamborghini to produce Lambo-branded laptops. According to Intel, the collaboration is a match made in heaven, as laptop PCs...

Tags: intel, laptop, notebook, branded

15 November 2005, 14:00

Exclusive: Google Translate comes to the iPhone

Crave Either way, we've all got stuck ordering a bottle of the local plonk on holiday or at the local Italian eatery. Ever tried to convince a Bulgarian that you were the real Slim Shady? No? But wouldn't it be cool if you could use your phone to get...

Tags: google, phrases, iphone, translate

8 August 2008, 6:00

Segway on hire-purchase: only daredevils need apply

Crave Cars have to jostle for space next to the stream of brightly coloured scooters that transport a cross-section of Italian society from A to B. In Italy, it's hard to cross a road without getting run over by a speeding Vespa.

Tags: cross, electric, financing, segway

5 June 2006, 10:47

A cigarette case for the iPod

Crave The international purveyor of luxury goods has proven that point with its limited-edition Narita iPod case, a handcrafted work of Italian leather that Popgadget says weighs more than the media player itself.

Tags: case, ipod, style, luxury

11 April 2007, 11:15

A shower for the millionaire geek

Crave Consequently, we're totally drooling over this shower from Signorini Design (yup, it's Italian,) courtesy of Geeksugar. Crave US: At Crave, we're all about living the high life, or at least pretending we can -- it sure beats nerding out on Hello...

Tags: water, life, shower, hello kitty

13 April 2007, 9:00

Crave Talk: iTrip and the fall of the Empire

Crave Then an aristocratic Italian tinkerer called Marconi shows up with a marvellous invention called the wireless. Cast your mind back to the British Empire at the turn of the 20th century. It is at the very height of its pomp.

Tags: government, wireless, act, empire

18 July 2006, 13:13

Photos from CES Unveiled: Vegas' opening night

Crave Not many of the big guns were plying their wares at the relatively intimate event, held at the Italian-themed Venetian Hotel. The Consumer Electronics Show has officially kicked off with CES Unveiled, a chance for the assembled tech reporterati to...

6 January 2008, 9:34

Samsung Armani phone: Hands-on with the compact catwalker

Crave The Armani logo is subtle and the casing comes in a stylish Italian-footwear brown. Crave tends to cringe when a fashion house teams up with a consumer electronics manufacturer, as it usually means some abomination is about to be exposed that...

Tags: samsung, casing, armani, samsung armani

26 February 2008, 10:46

Is O2, T-Mobile or Vodafone getting the iPhone?

Crave Telefonica has operations in the UK, Germany and Spain, but not in the large French and Italian markets.If Apple does go with O2, there are clear issues regarding Europe-wide coverage and the current lack of a flat-rate data plan.

Tags: apple, europe, plan, rate

5 July 2007, 12:33

Wacky tripods: If ninjas took photos, they'd use these

Crave corner is the Klikk, an Italian design. We've all been there: breathlessly plugging your camera into your computer, firing up your photo software, and stopping dead at the sight of horrifically blurry pictures.

13 November 2007, 8:00

Motorola and D&G: Gold Razr V3i unpacked

Crave When you turn it on and off, a man says "Dolce e Gabbana" in a mystical Italian voice. Last Christmas, the gold Motorola Razr V3i D&G handset made a celebrity appearance on Crave's virtual shopping list.

Tags: motorola, silver, box, gold

14 June 2006, 12:39

Mummy, where do baby geeks come from?

Crave The pervy leather interior smelt of torture dungeons and expensive Italian sports cars. Crave confesses: there's an autistic side to the whole digital experience. The geek fantasy is to retreat into your little digital womb, geek out on World of...

Tags: input, egg, leather, fantasy

7 November 2005, 9:32