rainbow

Philips Cineos 32PFL9603: Bonnet de douche, Rodney

Crave Make a massive hi-def rainbow? One of the questions we're asked an awful lot is, "Can I get a 32-inch 1080p TV? Until recently the answer was no, because the economics of squeezing more pixels into such a small space just didn't work.

Tags: philips, colours, frequency, inch

22 August 2008, 12:29

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd: Fairweather friend

Crave What better time to get our hands on the Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd, the latest in Fuji's rainbow-hued Z range of compact cameras? It comes in a rainbow of colours: light green, blue, pink, red and black, and is available now for a very summery £99.

Tags: fujifilm, finepix, rainbow, clips

9 May 2008, 11:18

Vapourware: The tech that never was

Crave The Rainbow encoder must utilise an exceptionally efficient lossless technique, the likes of which would be so ground-breaking it would overturn the entire storage industry. Perhaps taken aback by the sheer indifference to his peculiar system, Mr...

11 March 2008, 7:30

Top ten terrible tech products

Crave And with such titles as Colors, Milo and the Rainbow Nasties and the seriously enticing Momma Can I Mow the Lawn? A year never goes by without someone inventing something hilariously useless. Over the next ten pages, we'll take you on a guided tour...

20 November 2007, 14:50

Top games for the new slim Sony PSP

Crave Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six VegasVery few people get their names on a hugely successful series of games and Tom Clancy has done even less than John Madden to contribute to his, which happen to be the greatest line-up of team-based shooters ever to...

16 August 2007, 12:55

Toshiba Gigabeat U103: Over the rainbow

Crave The nay-sayers among you may argue that MP3 players really don't need to be available in six colours. Get ready, sceptics -- you might want to Sellotape up your cranial blood vessels -- Toshiba is releasing its Gigabeat U103 MP3 player in 24 colours.

Tags: toshiba, players, colours, microsoft zune

25 July 2007, 12:45

7digital: Legal MP3s from EMI, linked to Last.fm

Crave There are thousands of videos on offer too, such as Bob Marley's legendary 'Live At The Rainbow' concert in its entirety. We have some Cravetastic news for the online music world -- 7digital just cornered us in a dark, very comfy room in Soho, and...

Tags: 7digital, digital music, labels, itunes

12 June 2007, 14:33

projectiondesign M20: Add 200 trillion colours to your life

Crave The problem with colour wheels is they can produce an ugly rainbow effect, which can be very distracting. There are pros and cons to video projectors. On the one hand, films can look stunning when blown up to the size of a wall.

Tags: projectiondesign, colours, colour, wheel

13 April 2007, 12:13

Canon Selphy ES1: From box to print in 9½ minutes

Crave The glossy coating gives you an oil-on-water rainbow effect when the light strikes it at the wrong angle, but if you're actually looking at the photo, rather than playing spot the difference, the ES1 does your snapshots justice.am Playing.

Tags: canon, insert, sort, hand

15 November 2006, 8:46

BenQ W100: No more acid trips

Crave The cheaper end of the DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector market is plagued by the dreaded 'acid-trip', or 'rainbow' effect, a kind of visual distortion that causes red, green and blue motion-blur artefacting when you flit your eyes across...

Tags: benq, def, projector, channel

1 June 2006, 12:54

Apple and Nike partnership: A brand too far?

Crave The Apple logo itself was once rainbow-coloured -- it was almost as if the designers had stopped just short of a tie-dyed peace sign. Here's a conundrum for you. What do you get when you mix Nike, a company that ranked just below McDonalds in a...

Tags: character, consumer, marketing, logo

25 May 2006, 13:09

Sony says: I can sing a rainbow too

Crave Sony isn't the first company to sing a rainbow, of course. We recently exclusively reported on Sanyo singing a rainbow. Who knows which manufacturer will sing a rainbow next? Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue, I can sing...

Tags: sony uk, range, colours, laptop

11 October 2005, 11:25

Sanyo says: I can sing a rainbow

Crave These MP3 players could double as drumsticks for the wealthy, spatulas for doctors who need to check tonsils in an emergency on a long-haul flight or splints for wounded fingers. Like colourful little twigs fallen from an electric tree, they're...

Tags: sanyo, players, part, tree

27 September 2005, 11:12

Vigilante projector: NEC HT410

Crave Sure, there's still some odd rainbow effects when you scan your eyes quickly from left to right across the picture I project, but why would you do that? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?

Tags: nec, picture, man, talking

22 June 2005, 11:33

Canon IXUS 40: shaken, not stirred

Crave Best of all, if you shake the camera gently, the background colour changes, cycling through a red, orange, green, purple, blue rainbow. We're tired of shaking our Powerbooks, and we aren't brave enough to drop them.

Tags: camera, clock, james bond, colour

31 March 2005, 9:03