juice

Lindy mains conditioner: Cleans filthy power

Crave So worry no more about unlaundered juice clogging up your AV equipment and upsetting your ears. You may not know it, but your electricity is dirty. Very, very dirty. Lindy has the solution to this problem you never knew existed -- an amazingly...

Tags: electronics, power, problem, equipment

3 December 2008, 11:22

Wilting flower dies as your energy use blooms

Crave When you're using very little juice, it's a perky little flower with its petals open, but as you use more energy it goes red and -- if you maintain your prolifigate ways -- eventually wilts and closes up.

Tags: energy, smith, meter, flower

27 November 2008, 13:19

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung NV40

Crave So if you're running low on fuel while out and about and you don't have your plug, you can connect to a computer to juice up. The Samsung NV40 is one of the cameras debuted at CES way back at the start of the year.

3 November 2008, 11:24

Sanyo VPC-CA8: Waterproof camcorder braves British weather

Crave It will be available in ice white, sea blue or orange juice orange and will set you back £239.99. British summertime: cricket and cream teas, beer gardens and barbecues, Pimms and patios. And rain. Sleeting, sheeting rain.

Tags: sanyo, orange, faces, xacti

7 July 2008, 10:48

TVonics MFR-300: Tiny Freeview receiver for old TVs

Crave We'd dispute that -- in fact, for such a small device, we think 1.5W is rather a lot of juice to drink when it's supposed to be off. In a few years the heady days of analogue will be over, and we'll all be forced to watch TV via digital.

Tags: tvonics, tvs, analogue, description

2 July 2008, 10:43

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix S1000fd

Crave The AA batteries also make it easy to buy more if you run out of juice even on holiday, where they talk funny and have the wrong type of plugs. Sometimes things are too far away to see properly. Crave says "Fie!

26 June 2008, 11:29

Hands-on with the Olympus LS-10: 24-bit voice and music

Crave AA batteries will give you about 12 hours of juice, but we've not been able to confirm this, though we're very grateful to Olympus for not using a pain-in-the-arse internal battery that requires a degree in Engineering to get at.

Tags: olympus, recorder, recording, recordings

13 May 2008, 10:46

Hands-on with the Lenovo IdeaPad U110

Crave It's been just over an hour since we unplugged the fully-charged laptop, and the battery indicator is saying it has six minutes' worth of juice left -- and all we've done is type some documents and surf the Web.

Tags: lenovo, battery, laptop, cell

8 May 2008, 10:25

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, 11:25

Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups

Crave Inexplicably, having stuffed the show with not one, not two, but three awesome high-concept hooks, the Hasbro toy team that developed MASK apparently ran out of juice. You're making a movie, or a TV show.

21 April 2008, 16:48

Photos: Hands-on the Samsung R700 with Intel Penryn

Crave This is very handy, as you can learn how much juice you have left without switching the laptop on. Last month we put you on to the Samsung R700, a 17-inch desktop replacement that was fantastic value for money.

8 April 2008, 11:30

Alternative energy gadgets: No battery, no cry

Crave The smart ed is like a smart fortwo coupé, except with electricity providing the juice instead of nasty old fossil fuel. Thanks to modern technology, we can waste time in ways our ancestors could only dream of, while they were working down the mine...

12 March 2008, 7:30

PMA 2008: New consumer Canon EOS 450D dSLR

Crave To cope with the demands of live view on that giant screen, the new battery shovels out 1,080mAh of juice, instead of 720mAh. With the massive PMA 08 photo convention only days away, Canon has jumped the gun with the 450D, the latest consumer dSLR...

Tags: canon, consumer, frames, capacity

28 January 2008, 16:26

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

Christmas gift guide: Great presents from £15 to £150

Crave When it runs out of juice, just hook it up to your PC's USB port to top it up again. It retrieves electricity usage wirelessly from a sensor mounted on their meter and then glows aggressively if they're using so much juice they're about to...

11 December 2007, 16:02