plastic

Mobile industry not green enough, report says

Crave Samsung released three models encased in corn-based plastic this summer in Asia and Europe. Among this year's concept designs, Nokia's Remade flip phone (pictured) uses recycled cans, plastic bottles, and car tires.

Tags: ericsson, electronics, mobile phones, cent

4 December 2008, 9:22

O2 Xda Zest: The Xda brand lives on

Crave You get HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi and a 3-megapixel camera -- all lovely, but let down by an inexpensive plastic casing that picks up fingerprints very easily. Before O2 got involved with the iPhone and its wondrous touchscreen, it used to shout about its...

Tags: o2, deal, handset, windows mobile

28 November 2008, 12:05

Asus unveils upmarket Eee PC 1002HA

Crave That model was aimed at business and educational users, and the recent consumer version, the HP Mini 1000, has a plastic body. At a media preview event Thursday night in New York, Asus showed off for the first time a new brushed-metal design for...

Tags: metal, eee, eee pc, brushed

21 November 2008, 10:51

Hands-on with the 64GB Corsair Voyager flash drive

Crave We won't beat around the proverbial: our 1GB and 2GB flash drives are chock-full of photos of ourselves greased and naked, posing in the shape of Tetris blocks. There's literally no room for spreadsheets.

Tags: corsair, backup, voyager, encrypt

31 October 2008, 11:29

T-Mobile G1 vs iPhone 3G: Can Google bite Apple?

Crave When it comes to raw materials the G1 keeps things simple with a matte plastic casing that doesn't attract fingerprints and is pretty light. We've managed to get our hands on a T-Mobile G1 here in the UK, to see if it's worthy of all the hype and...

29 October 2008, 22:59

Ears-on with the Shure SE102 earphones

Crave But they're distinctly bulkier than other Shures, with lightweight plastic enclosures that understandably reflect the SE102's affordable price tag with a lower-cost feel. Shure surprised us when it released the SE110s.

Tags: shure, entry, earphones, sennheiser

29 October 2008, 10:45

Kiss axe: Gene Simmons Guitar Hero controller

Crave How about stand around in your living room clicking a plastic guitar? Helloooo, England! Are you ready to rawk? No? Yes? Cool. To make the whole thing a little more authentic, Kobian has made a fully equipped, axe-shaped guitar controller for...

Tags: bar, guitar, playstation, paint

29 October 2008, 10:02

Nokia E63: Qwerty hits the comeback trail

Crave Annoyingly it's rumoured to be made out of plastic instead of the E71's luscious metal, which was part of the reason we liked it so much. We love the Nokia E71: it's the best email phone around. So when we found out there might be a successor...

Tags: nokia, keypad, handsets, touchscreen

23 October 2008, 11:22

Hands-on: Apple's new MacBooks

Crave And we can't imagine too many people will want the old white plastic design (couldn't they have at least made the £719 model black? Tuesday's announcement of new and updated MacBook laptops from Apple could never have lived up to the hype of the...

Tags: dedicated, gaming, edge, air

15 October 2008, 9:39

New Apple MacBook: Thinner, faster, shinier

Crave It's just 24mm thick and weighs a relatively slim 2kg.It's also got the same glass trackpad and LED-backlit display as the Pro, but Apple will continue to sell the existing plastic MacBook, with integrated Intel graphics, at the increased base...

Tags: hard drive, models, apple, ram

14 October 2008, 18:42

Samsung PS50A756 1080p plasma: Come on you Red Devils

Crave This particular TV has a thin strip of clear plastic around the outside, which we think is a very stylish accent to the red-orientated set. Samsung is, you may be aware, an official sponsor of London-based Russian football team Chelsea.

Tags: samsung, colour, football, hdmi

9 October 2008, 11:39

Hands-on with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone

Crave The plastic doesn't exude quality and it's not as attractive as some of Nokia's other phones, such as the 6300 or E71. We'd like to be able to say that Nokia's first touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic, blew us away.

Tags: nokia, touchscreen, filled, iphone

3 October 2008, 16:20

Sony not alone in displaying OLEDs at Ceatec 2008

Crave NEC is showing a 9-inch LCD display a 3D image without the need for those silly plastic frames. Sony has an entire wall of its 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TVs set up here at Ceatec 2008 in Chiba, Japan, but in contrast with past gadget shows, it's not the...

Tags: sony, inch, lcd, tvs

2 October 2008, 9:08

Griffin AirCurve and Clarifi: Boosting iPod touch speaker, optical zoom for iPhone

Crave The compact dock is made of translucent polycarbonate plastic, revealing the graceful curves within that magnify the sound. At Apple Expo in Paris on Wednesday, Griffin Technology unveiled its latest iPhone accessories, including the AirCurve...

Tags: charge, sync, optical, dock

18 September 2008, 9:59

Video: Rock Band 2 unboxed and ready to rock

Crave The original Rock Band drum kit had hard plastic pads, which made a fairly annoying clacking sound when hit with a drum stick. Mock rockers around the US will be warming up their fingers this week for Rock Band 2, the sequel to last year's hit...

15 September 2008, 10:26