receiver

Photos: Ears-on with the wireless Sleek Audio SA6 earphones

Crave Audio is sent wirelessly -- up to 18m away -- to the earphones, which couple together with a small loop and lightweight receiver around the back of the neck. Sleek Audio's SA6 earphones were previously just available as wired earphones, but can now...

20 November 2008, 11:53

Philips designs 'smart' camera pill

Crave Announced at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' annual meeting and exposition this week in Atlanta, Georgia, the capsule is also designed to measure data such as local temperature, and report measurements wirelessly to an...

Tags: medicine, drug, patients, pill

13 November 2008, 9:47

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave Digivox is a tiny Freeview receiver that plugs into a spare USB port on your laptop or PC so you can watch telly on your 'puter. Christmas isn't just about family arguments, bad Cliff Richard records and improbable plot twists on EastEnders, it's...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook U820 and P1630: Tiny tablets

Crave The 5.6-inch LifeBook U820 updates last year's U810, adding a GPS receiver, plus integrated Garmin Mobile PC software for driving directions and points of interest. Fujitsu has announced updates to two of its LifeBook lines, the UMPC-like U series...

Tags: intel, cell, connectivity, webcam

5 November 2008, 11:01

Humax Foxsat-HDR: Finally, a way to record freesat HD

Crave Humax has also planned ahead, because its receiver supports the DVB-S2 broadcast system. We've certainly had a bit of a pop at freesat in the past, but it's not because we don't like it -- we just think it could be a lot better.

Tags: humax, definition, channels, hd

4 November 2008, 11:46

Pioneer KRL-32V: Unboxing the Kuro LCD

Crave You also get optical digital out, for hooking up an AV receiver. 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 premium...

30 October 2008, 16:31

Limited edition Pioneer Kuro: Perfect black meets perfect beige and white

Crave That means these TVs are provided with a media box, which has a built-in Freeview receiver, as well as a high-definition satellite decoder -- note this isn't the same as freesat, but it will pick up BBC HD.

Tags: pioneer, screens, brightness, tvs

28 October 2008, 15:02

Samsung LE40A856: Size 14 features in a size 8 case

Crave With this TV being so thin, we aren't quite sure how Samsung has managed to fit everything in the case -- Hitachi had to resort to using an external media receiver with its (admittedly thinner) XV700 LCD.

Tags: samsung, eye, depth, sockets

14 October 2008, 11:26

Panasonic DMP-BD35 and BD55: New ultra-sleek Blu-ray players

Crave Both of these players support Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD for lossless audio joy in your living room -- indeed, both can decode internally and send via HDMI if you have an external surround-sound receiver.

Tags: panasonic, ray, players, profile

7 October 2008, 10:44

Onkyo TX-NR906: Darth Vader endorses this AV receiver

Crave A 7.1 AV receiver like the TX-NR906 needs to be certified as capable of producing sound as the sound engineer intended it. He may enjoy killing the innocent, blowing up planets and generally keeping a stranglehold on those around him, but that...

Tags: onkyo, planets, hd, inputs

3 October 2008, 11:01

HTC Touch 3G and Touch Viva unveiled

Crave Native support for Google Maps makes the offering more attractive still -- Google's mapping software, when combined with a decent GPS receiver, is a robust and extremely useful navigational tool. As if giving birth to the Touch HD wasn't an epic...

Tags: htc, hd, bluetooth, fi

15 September 2008, 16:43

New Apple iPod touch: Talks to your shoes

Crave The receiver is also onboard, so you just need a transmitter and the iPod can talk to your shoe. Next up from the Jobsinator is the new iPod touch. It boasts the same 91mm (3.6-inch) display as the current model, but is thinner and made of...

Tags: apple, ipod touch, inch, speaker

9 September 2008, 17:56

Photos: Pioneer Kuro KRP-500 and KRP-600 aren't KRP at all

Crave Without such things a TV isn't a TV at all, but fear not, because Pioneer has solved the problem by providing a media receiver -- a little box of tricks that takes all your devices and sends their signals to the TV down one special cable.

4 September 2008, 11:09

Photos: Popcorn Hour B-110 DIY media motherboard

Crave The good news is there are both coaxial and optical digital audio outputs, which means you can pass Dolby Digital and DTS out to a separate AV receiver. We've been hugely impressed with the two Popcorn Hour media streamers so far, the A-100 and A...

13 August 2008, 10:00

Photos: Popcorn Hour A-110 does media streaming even better

Crave This doesn't sound like a big deal, but if you have a media server with DVDs and DTS sound, you'd need to pass the audio to an external receiver with the A-100 -- now you'll be able to watch (and listen) on any standard TV.

12 August 2008, 12:04