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Lindy mains conditioner: Cleans filthy power

Crave It comes with a screened 2m mains cable, to prevent any radiated noise. 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 practical six-way power...

Tags: electronics, power, problem, equipment

3 December 2008, 11:22

Car Tech: Volvo XC60, safer than houses

Crave There is also a lane-departure system, which makes a warning noise if you accidentally veer out of your lane and lights that alert you when another vehicle is passing in your blind spot. Join Rory Reid as he takes drives the new Volvo XC60 in the...

1 December 2008, 14:31

Humax 9300T: Company listens to us, fixes gutaching racket

Crave When we reviewed the Humax 9300T recently, however, we noted that the fan noise was more than a minor issue. The PVR will download the update automatically and you should find greatly reduced fan noise as a result.

Tags: humax, noise, fix, problems

24 November 2008, 11:01

Aston Martin DBS: Bangin' with Olufsen

Crave The Beosound DBS system uses advanced audio adjustment to overcome changing environment sound, monitoring engine speed and noise in the cabin. The system changes levels quickly to compensate for noise in a manner that is supposed to be seamless to...

Tags: car, kit, driver, played

20 November 2008, 10:32

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave There's even an accompanying zapping noise.i-Buddy, from Firebox This is the perfect pressie for that friend who's always on MSN. Christmas isn't just about family arguments, bad Cliff Richard records and improbable plot twists on EastEnders, it's...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Shuttle x27D: Dual-core Atom 330 desktop

Crave The only drawback was that it generated a fair bit of heat and noise. Be jealous -- very, very jealous. We've just got our filthy paws on the Shuttle x27D -- the first Shuttle PC to use an Intel Atom 330 CPU.

Tags: core, intel, usb, ports

7 November 2008, 12:01

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung NV40

Crave For darker conditions, the NV40 goes up to a maximum of ISO 3,200, and we'll be testing it in our forthcoming review to see how it copes with the resulting noise. The Samsung NV40 is one of the cameras debuted at CES way back at the start of the year.

3 November 2008, 11:24

Hands-on with the Samsung VP-MX20: Credit crunch camcorder

Crave The MX20 also features the intriguing-sounding 3D noise reduction. This analyses motion between the frames, splits the frames into different types, passes them through filters to launder out the noise, then recombines them.

Tags: samsung, lens, hand, shooting

15 October 2008, 12:12

Photos: RUF's electric Porsche 911

Crave If you saw this in traffic, you'd assume it was a standard 911 -- until you realised there was no engine noise. Porsches aren't known for their eco-friendliness, but that could soon change if German modifier RUF Auto Centre has anything to with it.

14 October 2008, 15:31

Opinion: Why Yahoo Buzz will benefit Digg

Crave What did it think it could bring to the market: news or noise? Who was it who said, "Yahoo Buzz could drive millions of visitors to anyone's site, thousands of stories to peoples' parents, and hordes of spammers away from Digg"?

Tags: visitors, tech, story, scene

29 September 2008, 16:50

Photos: Shiver me timbers, it be the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD!

Crave ISO speeds go up to 1600 for shooting by the light o'the moon, or even higher at 5-megapixel resolution, but ye will have some noise issues if ye do venture that high. Avast, ye scurvy dogs! International Talk Like a Pirate Day it be, an' the good...

19 September 2008, 10:24

Photos: Canon PowerShot SX1 IS and SX10 IS bring SX-y back

Crave Nothing wrong with a bit of noise when you're going at it, we say. No SX please, we're British. Oh go on then, Matron: Amongst the bumper crop of new Canon cameras are the 10-megapixel PowerShot SX1 IS and PowerShot SX10 IS, which jointly replace...

18 September 2008, 12:14

Photos: Canon PowerShot G10 hands-on

Crave The larger-than-most 1/1.7-inch sensor is teamed with Canon’s new DIGIC 4 image processor, which is claimed to boost speed and cut down on noise. The Canon PowerShot G10 is the latest entry to Canon's G unit, dropping beats and rhymes all up in...

18 September 2008, 11:10

Photos: Canon EOS 5D Mark II hands on

Crave That means the sensor is the same size as a frame of 35mm film, so it can capture more detail and is less prone to noise than typical CCDs found in compact cameras. Sequels were extensively discussed in now-dated clever-dick teen horror spin-off...

17 September 2008, 16:01

Expert audio quality test: 5th gen iPod vs. iPod classic

Crave Lossless, a total harmonic distortion (plus noise) of -69.26dB, and an signal-to-noise ratio of -84.42dB (CNET ATS-2 Audio Analyzer results). The debate has been raging among audiophilles for months now -- which has the better sound, the 5th gen...

Tags: apple, edge, listening, models

17 September 2008, 12:25