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NoPoPo Battery: Power from water -- are you taking the piss?
Crave Incredibly, these batteries also work with other types of liquid: we saw them tested with beer and apple juice, but the makers say they can run off cola, saliva or even urine. That's apple juice in the picture, although now we come to think about...
Tags: power, battery, batteries, juice
3 September 2007, 10:43
Toshiba Regza 37XV505: Reveal the off switch
Crave There was a time when it was a given that something with electricity flowing through it would have some means for cutting the juice, if need be. We mentioned some time ago that the new Toshiba TVs were being touted by the company as eco-friendly...
Tags: toshiba, switch, pixel, mapping
22 April 2008, 12:25
Ricoh Caplio RR770
Crave AA batteries give the RR770 its potency, which means you should always be able to find replacements should you run out of juice. Ricoh has quietly launched the 7.16-megapixel Caplio RR770, a sleek new compact camera to succeed the budget Caplio RR750.
Tags: ricoh, compact, scene, budget
23 November 2007, 10:06
Mobcharger: Extra power when you need it most
Crave Fortunately, a company called Mobcharger has come up with a fun set of disposable batteries that simply plug into your phone and give you up to 60 minutes more talk time and 480 minutes more standby time -- enough juice to forward a few funny text...
Tags: battery, plug, batteries, shops
12 October 2006, 12:15
Hands-on with the Kodak EasyShare Z1275
Crave It's not thin, but that's mainly because it gets its juice from AA batteries. There are plenty of 12-megapixel cameras on the market these days, and the Kodak EasyShare Z1275, which just arrived in our office, is one of them.
Tags: kodak, easyshare, scene modes, kodak easyshare
6 December 2007, 10:59
Elgato Turbo.264: Time-saving, frame crunching
Crave Elgato's Turbo.264 is the size of a USB memory stick and it's designed to take the strain of H.264 video encoding from your CPU.The high-quality MPEG-4 video codec is a really modern compression tool that's supported by loads of devices...
Tags: elgato, perform, tasks, usb
7 June 2007, 11:01
Haier Elegance: Listen, don't swallow
Crave It has a good battery life due to the OLED screen, which doesn't use up too much juice, and you can charge it using a standard USB to mini-USB cable, which is handy since there's always one about. The Haier Elegance might look like a giant pill...
Tags: usb, elegance, mini, bluetooth
6 June 2007, 11:35
Crave Podcast 37: Has the Internet killed TV?
Crave We also don our green hats for just a minute and discuss a new effort to get more PC juice from power supplies, as well as investigate whether there's any spark in the wireless energy claim. We prepared to clean up our act this week and welcome a...
Tags: crave, podcast, proof, punch
15 June 2007, 12:51
Green Plug: Standardise plugs to save the planet
Crave As USB wasn't originally designed for power transfer, Green Plug has designed a more efficient connector in the USB form factor that can dose devices from digital cameras to drills with up to 24V of juice.
Tags: usb, plug, manufacturers, sorts
8 January 2008, 8:53
Genius G-Shot DV1210: Camcorder for under £150
Crave One cool feature is the option to replace the included lithium-ion battery with readily available AA batteries should the juice run out halfway through shooting. Genius is a word that gets used all too often these days.
Tags: genius, cute, sd card, wish
16 August 2007, 11:30
Alcatel OT-E201: A phone for three fivers
Crave The 250-hour battery life will provide enough juice for a festival and the design is basic enough that it won't get nicked when you get it out. With expensive and powerful gadgets taking the lion's share of tech coverage, niche budget products...
Tags: tech, messaging, mobile phone, amazingly
8 August 2007, 15:59
Mary's Christmas shopping: pocket fillers
Crave It still works, but it runs out of juice in an hour, whether I'm using it or not. Three shopping days until Christmas and I still have £1,175 Virtual Crave Pounds burning a hole in my virtual pocket. Better start filling my pockets with an...
Tags: bluetooth, shopping, christmas, handheld
22 December 2005, 14:19
PURE Digital Siesta: DAB radio for treehuggers
Crave Build quality feels lower than the company's usual efforts, but it's a pleasant design and PURE's comparison charts claim the Siesta is much less power hungry than the average portable DAB radio, using one tenth as much juice on standby as leading...
Tags: pure digital, environment, radio, standby
3 August 2007, 11:27
Logitech G5 & G7 Mice: Gaming rodents
Crave The package even includes a dock for the batteries that recharges them from the USB port, so if you keep one of them in the dock you should never run out of juice. There are plenty of traditional ways to impress someone on Valentine's Day, be it...
Tags: logitech, port, man, ultra
14 February 2006, 11:08
BenQ-Siemens E61 mofi: If the A-Team designed a mobile...
Crave The top of the phone features dedicated music buttons that let you control the music player from the top of your pocket, and there's apparently enough juice to play 10 hours of music in flight mode. In 2006 a crack commando unit of mobile phone...
Tags: benq-siemens, mobile phone, designers, siemens
17 May 2006, 12:17


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