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Crave TV: CNET attacks man with MP3 Taser!

Crave If you've ever wanted to see a grown man cry, now's your chance! Convergence is all well and good, but a few manufacturers go too far. That includes Taser International, a US company that has combined an MP3 player with a taser.

17 January 2008, 9:47

WEEE Man: not so tiny

Crave It is the WEEE Man, built by Canon and currently sitting on the bank of the Thames oppostive Crave HQ. The WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Man is seven metres tall and if he could actually move, he'd be yelling at you not to...

Tags: canon, equipment, waste, electrical

5 May 2005, 10:53

TAG Heuer Meridiist: Because you're the man

Crave At a time when people danced to Duran Duran and yuppies piddled away cash on debauched nights out, there was one piece of kit that defined you as the man -- an enormous, expensive watch. This is a phone that shouts "You the man!

Tags: watch, tag, cash, man

21 April 2008, 11:32

Hands-on with the Pentax K200D: Fanfare for the common man

Crave So the K200D, Pentax's latest dSLR for the common man -- and woman -- has a lot to live up to. We like the Pentax K100D an awful lot. In fact, we'd go so far as to say it's one of our favourite cameras around.

Tags: pentax, resolution, colour, memory card

4 April 2008, 11:51

Toshiba unveils slim HD DVD-Writer for the man-purse

Crave These things will slot into your man-bag or purse and leave plenty of room for your moisturiser and lip balm. Toshiba has just given us a peek, out here in Berlin at IFA, at its external HD DVD writer and Super-Multi drives for the PC.

Tags: toshiba, hd, multi, writer

31 August 2007, 11:25

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Poor man's Xbox 360

Crave When our editor first said we'd each be given £5,000 Virtual Crave Pounds to spend on whatever Christmas gifts took our fancy, I immediately logged on to the Autotrader Web site in search of a second-hand but still terrifyingly fast TVR Chimera.

Tags: microsoft, console, hard drive, value

2 December 2005, 17:00

Sony DCR SR100: hard man of camcorders

Crave We fondled this in the flesh at CES in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and everything about the DCR-SR100 screamed "victory! Given our experiences with hard-drive-based camcorders, the true success of the SR100 will depend on how easy Sony has made it...

Tags: sony uk, hard drive, motion, sony

23 January 2006, 10:48

NEC 61XR3: rich man's plasma

Crave We've seen a few nice TVs at Crave recently -- Samsung's rear pro was a beacon of light during our late-night testing sessions. However, nothing quite prepared us for The Simpsons on a 61-inch plasma, something which attracted the attention of half...

Tags: nec, inch, rgb scart, value

11 May 2005, 12:21

Nikon P50: Downtown man

Crave The Nikon Coolpix P50 has arrived in Crave, and it's a blue-collar, down-to-earth workhorse of a camera. Modelled after the uptown, high-class P5100, the P50 is a stripped-down, straightforward Billy Joel of a point-and-shoot.The P50 packs an...

Tags: nikon, earth, coolpix, silver

29 November 2007, 10:26

HTC Athena: The sane man's UMPC?

Crave Crave can't wait for CES 2007. There will be hustle, bustle, gambling, the international porn-star awards (which take place next door), oh and shed-loads of technology. One of the things we're most excited about seeing is the HTC Athena -- or X7500...

Tags: keyboard, ces, htc, gsm gprs

27 December 2006, 9:45

Crave Talk: Zune must go wireless

Crave That's going to change with Zune -- soon you'll see the man shouting "Communities! You may already have seen the man's near-psychotic performance at a developers' conference where he chanted "Developers!

Tags: microsoft, man, community, wi fi

27 July 2006, 12:31

Movie & TV sell-outs: When tech product placements go bad

Crave Cue gravelly voiced trailer man: "In a world where tech companies desperately want to look cool, there's only one thing they can do -- give ginormous sums of money to film and TV producers to use their stuff.

23 June 2008, 15:22

Crave Talk: Should 'stealing' Wi-Fi be illegal?

Crave Most Crave staffers gasped in astonishment when they heard a UK man was arrested for piggybacking a Wi-Fi network. The man arrested in the most recent case was charged with "dishonestly obtaining electronic communications services with intent to...

Tags: man, wi fi, fi, communications

23 August 2007, 11:55

BlackBerry 8110: Hands-on with the stylish GPS emailer

Crave There was a time when man had to navigate the land using the stars, and man regularly got lost, especially in cloudy old Britain. But lo, there was progress, and now man has GPS-enabled smart phones. Enter RIM's latest addition to its BlackBerry...

Tags: rim, gps, blackberry, pearl

3 March 2008, 10:58

Photos: PlayStation 3 finally hits the UK

Crave The lucky first man in the queue to buy a PlayStation 3 at Game in London's Oxford Street this morning met the Virtua girls, who were there to promote Sega's Virtua Tennis 3 (left) and Virtua Fighter 5 (right).

23 March 2007, 12:00