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Crave Talk: Sony's thumb toy can't quite connect

Crave It would make a good pub quiz question: who, what or why is Mylo? Was it Mylo T. Farnsworth, the spotty red-haired kid on I Love Lucy? Is it 'Apple' in Greek? Is it a portable Wi-Fi device from Sony, introduced in the middle of the Apple developers...

Tags: sony, portable, fi, wi fi

21 August 2006, 11:17

The TAD: A ring that helps you ring

Crave It's pretty simple really, you insert the pointy bit and then slip the ring over your thumb -- hey presto, you've got a pointy thumb. This is not a sex toy, this is the TAD, a mobile phone accessory for the long-nailed or keypad-confounded.

Tags: ring, thumb, tad, sports

15 May 2008, 11:17

Hands on with the Ricoh R8: Putting the R8 in gr8?

Crave The R7's nippy joystick has been squashed and flattened -- like a cartoon character having an anvil dropped on their head -- to make a more thumb-friendly control. The thumb control gives you one-touch access to exposure compensation, white balance...

Tags: ricoh, modes, zoom, compact

21 February 2008, 11:10

Hands-on with the Panasonic SDR-S7: A small gift

Crave But even with our big hands it fits snugly into the palm, and includes a second record button should you wish to grip it thumb-forward than thumb at the back. Christmas 1989. This Craver had been good all year, and all we wanted was Batman for the...

16 April 2008, 12:10

Photos: Hands-on with the HTC Touch Diamond

Crave Click on the next page to see more photos of the Diamond and HTC's new interface -- TouchFLO 3D -- which aims to make using Windows Mobile a little more thumb-friendly.Update: Read our full HTC Touch Diamond review.

6 May 2008, 18:01

Hands-on with the Samsung VP-HMX20: Flash! Ah-aaah!

Crave Speaking of which, the HMX20 has a neat swivelling grip, which allows you to switch grips from thumb backwards to thumb forwards without taking your hand out of the grip -- if you're smooth enough, perhaps even while shooting.

23 May 2008, 17:07

Pioneer BDP-LX70: A Blu-ray player with a little extra

Crave The good news is our thumb twiddling hasn't been for nothing, because Pioneer has come up with a fantastic-looking player with some nifty features: pray silence for the BDP-LX70. It's not a surprise to see Pioneer launching a Blu-ray player -- we...

Tags: pioneer, players, ray, compressed

10 May 2007, 9:32

Crave Talk: Nintendo must make a mobile phone

Crave Don't get me wrong -- things are getting better -- but for the love of thumb-tapping, Nintendo must make a mobile phone. Playing games on a mobile phone is about as enjoyable as untangling a pair of headphones when you're stuck in the middle of a...

Tags: nintendo, wi fi, mobile phone, gaming

21 November 2007, 11:44

Kanguru Flash Drive Max 16GB: Not big or cheap

Crave Now you can get up to 64GB of memory on a USB memory stick the size of your thumb. In 1972 the most memory you would be able to carry around with you was 1.5MB, on a large and unwieldy 8-inch Memorex 650 floppy disk.

Tags: kanguru solutions, usb, space, memory

18 October 2006, 11:55

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS

Crave You get raw shooting, a thumb dial for adjusting exposure and manual control over the lens -- you turn it and it zooms. The Fujifilm S100FS is at the top of the Finepix tree. It's an 11-megapixel bridge camera with a 14x zoom.

14 May 2008, 11:05

Logitech MX Revolution: Hot new wheels

Crave The most striking is the scroll wheel in the thumb position. The lovely chaps at Logitech recently sent us their new MX Revolution cordless laser mouse and we've been getting to grips with it. It's a sleek black son of a gun, with two wheels and...

Tags: logitech, press, wheel, scroll

31 August 2006, 11:01

HP unveils iPAQ 600, 900 smart phones

Crave You simply circle your thumb clockwise or anti-clockwise around the buttons to navigate through menus, and zoom in and out of maps and whatnot. HP launched five new mobile devices when we were in Noo Yoik last week, extending its long-running iPAQ...

Tags: hp, enterprise, inch, wi fi

10 September 2007, 12:16

Samsung Q1 Ultra HSDPA: UMPC broadband on the go

Crave The thumb-operated split keyboard on either side of the 7-inch screen is fiddly as hell to operate, the mouse takes some getting used to, and the whole unit is actually quite large -- you'll need a bag to carry it in.

Tags: samsung, battery, broadband, keyboard

19 December 2007, 12:12

Hasselblad H3D II: Megapixel madness

Crave There's also a whopping 76mm (3-inch) screen for previewing images, and Hasselblad claims that handling is better than on the original H3D, as the controls have been moved to within thumb reach. If you thought 12 megapixels was impressive, or that...

Tags: hasselblad, megapixel, sensor, price tag

24 September 2007, 12:12

Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS20: Purely belter

Crave It's controlled via a small joystick, flattened into a mushroom shape for maximum thumb-related grippiness. Compact cameras: we love 'em. They slip in your pocket, you whip them out, you take a picture, put the picture on Facebook.

15 April 2008, 10:54