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Nokia's Home Control Centre lets you manage devices via mobile

Crave It's still unclear how an infrared or standalone product such as a flat-panel TV can be integrated into the Nokia system. Wouldn't it be nice if you could manage all your home appliances, electronics, entertainment and security, plus your climate...

Tags: nokia, mobile phone, wi fi, control centre

1 December 2008, 9:44

Polaroid Photo Frame and Weather Station: Fairweather frames

Crave Beneath this main screen is a second LCD panel that displays weather information, with an indoor temperature and humidity sensor and a wireless link to a supplied outdoor sensor. Astonishingly, it's nearly the end of November, and in Crave's part...

Tags: polaroid, frame, frames, wireless

24 November 2008, 10:48

Philips 42PFL9803: Best LCD contrast ever?

Crave Philips wants in on the diode action, so its Cineos PFL9803 Ambilight range features an LCD panel backlit by white LEDs, rather than the traditional cold cathode florescent lamps. The world has gone LED crazy -- you can't throw a light bulb without...

Tags: philips, background, fans, scenes

18 November 2008, 11:37

HP Dreamcolor LP2480ZX: One billion colours!

Crave It has a 30-bit LCD panel and a tri-colour LED backlight, which allows it to display over one billion colours. It has, unquestionably, the best picture we've seen on any flat panel display, ever. The generous chaps over at HP have just sent us what...

Tags: lcd, colour, panel, colours

18 November 2008, 10:48

Toshiba Regza 42ZV555D: 'World's first' upscaling TV

Crave This features alongside a 10-bit LCD panel and contrast ratios of 30,000:1 on the 46-inch model and 17,000:1 on the 42-inch TV. That's right, you read the headline correctly: Toshiba just claimed to have created the first upscaling TVs, the Regza...

Tags: toshiba, cell, processor, definition

11 November 2008, 11:59

Welcome to the CNET UK Editors' Choice awards October 2008

Crave Stunning black levels and truly jaw-dropping detail make this the champion of all flat-panel televisions. As the largest consumer tech site in the UK, we review hundreds of products every year. Some are average, some are plain awful and some are...

Tags: editors, sound quality, ground, freeview

31 October 2008, 16:52

Hands on with the Casio Exilim EX-Z19: N-n-n-n-nineteen

Crave It also features a 66mm (2.6-inch) widescreen LCD panel, on which you can play back images at high speed, scrolling through 100 images in 10 seconds. In the week that MTV released every video ever shown on the channel to people in the States -- and...

Tags: casio, scene, ex, portrait

31 October 2008, 11:20

Pioneer KRL-32V: Unboxing the Kuro LCD

Crave The channel information panel is the same as the one found in Sharp TVs. Although there was some concern that a Kuro LCD could never be as impressive as the plasma range, we were still keen to see smaller TVs that could compete with Loewe and other...

30 October 2008, 16:31

New netbooks: HP Mini 1000, Compaq 7000, Vivienne Tam edition

Crave They also use 10.1-inch screens with 1,024x768-pixel resolutions -- a change from the 2133 Mini-Note's 8.9-inch 1,280x768-pixel panel. Just when you thought the netbook market was congested enough, in comes HP with not one, but three new models.

29 October 2008, 10:58

Photos: Windows 7 'quicker, less annoying' than Vista

Crave The Windows Security Center appears to be gone as well, incorporated into the maintenance section of the Control Panel. In particular, Microsoft is focused on improving the time it takes for Windows to start up and shut down.

28 October 2008, 16:59

Olympus FL-50R Flash: Get the light right

Crave A built-in wide panel promises a focal distance of 8mm (equivalent to 16mm). Flash photo­graphy is a tricky thing to get right. Counter-intuitively, it's often better in bright light to turn the flash on and fill in stark shadows, and in low light...

Tags: olympus, signal, adaptor, shadows

27 October 2008, 12:01

Photos: Asus Eee Top all-in-one, touch-sensitive PC

Crave We can imagine it makes an ideal second PC, a kids' computer, or something geeks might want to use as a central control panel for their digital home. The speaker panel below the screen has a Denon logo on it, which bodes well.

14 October 2008, 11:25

Video: Aptera and Fisker Karma electric cars

Crave First up is the Fisker Karma, a hybrid car with extra eco-friendliness: a solar panel on the roof. Like the new Toyota Prius and the Lotus Eco Elise we saw recently, the panel is designed to power systems such as the air conditioning and the CD...

7 October 2008, 12:27

Photos: Chevy Volt electrifies Paris Motor Show

Crave Taking a cue from Volvo, GM interior designers use a floating instrument panel to give the car's cabin a clean look. The car's gear stick is also inset into the instrument panel. The instrument panel itself uses touch controls, something that would...

6 October 2008, 11:25

LG 50PG6900: 50-inch plasma goodness with built-in Freeview+

Crave The front panel is basically one large piece of glass, which gives the TV an incredibly sleek, modern look. The other good news is that the plasma panel in this TV will last 100,000 hours, which means it will be many years before you have to...

Tags: lg electronics, waiting, lg, panel

6 October 2008, 10:57