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Hands-on with the Wacom Bamboo tablet

Crave The idea of a graphics tablet -- drawing on a flat pad with a stylus pen and having the resulting squiggles appear on screen -- has always appealed to Crave's illustrative side. You can switch back to mouse-style relative positioning if you prefer...

Tags: wacom, paper, hand, pad

10 March 2008, 10:16

Crave Live: Samsung Soul hands-on video

Crave It flaunts a funky touchscreen navigation pad that changes its icons depending on which features you're using. A contextual navigation pad is an interesting idea that's also being used in the LG KF600, but we're not sure whether it's necessary and...

28 February 2008, 9:57

Nike / Philips MP3 Run: dirty jogging partner

Crave This player arrived pre-soiled; the sweat of a dead man barely dry on its control pad. Like a shin-pad, the MP3 Run is hardy and easy to use, but not the sort of thing you'd want to take to a dinner party.

Tags: sports, pad, sweaty, playback

21 April 2005, 19:30

Wacom Bamboo: Pen tablet in mouse-banishing shocker

Crave The idea is that you use the stylus and digitiser pad to move your cursor around. The digitiser pad has a few shortcut buttons of its own, plus an iPod Click Wheel-style zoom thingy, which is nice. An ordinary mouse uses relative positioning: when...

Tags: edge, sign, buttons, mouse

24 May 2007, 10:56

Crave TV: Sony TransferJet is like USB -- but wireless

Crave TransferJet contact pad, and a modified Sony camcorder, also equipped with TransferJet technology. TransferJet can be built into a PC at the time of manufacture, or added later via a USB transfer pad.

7 January 2008, 19:37

LG KF600 and KF700: We touch the touchscreens

Crave The top screen acts as a normal display, where you can view all of your phone's content, and the bottom one serves as a navigation pad. Unlike a normal navigation pad that stays static, though, the KF600's changes depending on what you're using on...

13 February 2008, 8:56

Hands-on with the LG KF510: Adding a little sparkle to your life

Crave Similar to LG's Chocolate phone, the KF510 features a touch-sensitive navigation pad, but this one comes with a little extra sparkle. Whenever you press the touch-sensitive pad you'll see a very cool mini light display on the pad, depending on your...

Tags: lg electronics, keys, press, pad

10 April 2008, 11:49

Photos: Hands-on for longer with Apple's MacBook Air

Crave The most fun element is the multi-touch track pad. If you can imagine rotating a physical photograph with two fingers on a table, you can have a pretty good guess at what it's like to rotate a photo on the Air, since it works in exactly the same...

16 January 2008, 11:59

Hands-on with the iRiver E100: nano botherer hits UK

Crave Navigation is very simple -- if sluggish to use -- and requires the use of a simple four-way control pad underneath the screen. This is the four-way control pad used for navigation, with the select button in the centre.

9 April 2008, 12:58

Photos: Samsung i900 hands-on

Crave Like the i780, the i900 also has an optical sensor for a directional pad. This can be used in two modes -- as a regular four-way directional pad or as an onscreen mouse pointer. Leaked images and specifications have led to much speculation about...

6 June 2008, 11:38

The five best game console controllers of all time

Crave Not only was the SNES pad very comfortable to hold, it was also responsive and incredibly well built. This was the pad that made Sega Megadrive owners cry, with their big, clumsy, three-buttoned monstrosity -- okay, the Megadrive brought the curvy...

22 May 2007, 12:30

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio FW Series (VGN-FW11ZU)

Crave Just look at that big ol' track pad. True, there's nothing particularly notable about it -- it's just a track pad after all. It's not just the business end of the market getting all of Vaio's attention.

16 July 2008, 15:07

Logitech launches its PS3 assault

Crave The most innovative of the bunch was the Logitech ChillStream Controller, a pad with an active cooling system. The latter features Logitech's 'floating D-pad' thumb controller and can play wirelessly for over 150 hours on a set of two AA batteries.

Tags: logitech, gaming, controller, gamers

15 March 2007, 9:05

Samsung Soul: Making menus easy

Crave More impressively, Samsung has included a new navigation pad with a display that changes its icons depending on what feature you're using. Today Samsung announced a new addition to the Ultra Edition range called the Samsung Soul.

Tags: samsung, hands, soul, congress

8 February 2008, 6:59

Set Logitech mouse laser on stun

Crave It's supposed to sit there, harmless, on your mouse pad and be used for all that pedestrian pointing and clicking that office drones do for a living. The MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse feels a little dangerous in a normal office environment.

Tags: logitech inc., silver, buttons, instant messenger

20 September 2005, 11:22