safety

Car Tech: Volvo XC60, safer than houses

Crave It’s been fitted with some of the most cutting-edge safety tech available today, most notably the City Safety feature. Join Rory Reid as he takes drives the new Volvo XC60 in the highlands of Scotland.

1 December 2008, 14:31

Planet CNET Episode 23: Lasers on a Volvo

Crave This week, our very own Rory Reid is in Scotland to drive a car with laser beams mounted on the front.No, he hasn't been recruited by MI6, it's a safety feature on the new Volvo XC60. Join CNET Australia's Ella Morton from the premiere of Baz...

19 November 2008, 15:42

Sony battery recall affects HP, Toshiba, Dell laptops

Crave Sony and the Consumer Product Safety Commission were set to announce yesterday that Sony is supporting the voluntary recall of 100,000 notebook battery packs powered by Sony's 2.15Ah lithium-ion cells.

Tags: battery, dell, problems, batteries

31 October 2008, 9:30

Five ways the Japanese are technically better than us

Crave But the Japanese just don't care for such ludicrous concerns -- either their gadgets are all waterproof, or the health and safety inspector was too busy on the techno-toilet to take a look at the studio.

9 October 2008, 16:58

Ford MyKey: Forcing kids to drive safely

Crave It uses a special ignition key that enforces a pre-determined list of vehicle options geared towards safety, and prevents certain systems -- such as traction control -- from being deactivated. We're used to parental controls on gadgets such as TVs...

Tags: kids, car, road, vehicle

7 October 2008, 12:30

Nissan BR23C robot car: Japanese bee craziness

Crave Where a bee will change direction if an obstacle enters its safety zone, the BR23C will likewise react by turning its wheels at a 90-degree angle or greater, sending it in another direction. Nissan describes the avoidance technology used by this...

Tags: robot, safety, car, engineers

30 September 2008, 10:36

Helium leak shuts down Large Hadron Collider

Crave Some have theorised that the black hole experiments could go wrong with catastrophic results, but CERN has done extensive safety analysis and has repeatedly denied any such threat. The world's largest particle collider has been shut down for at...

Tags: physics, tunnel, particle, experiments

22 September 2008, 8:10

Lotus Eco Elise: Solar-powered sports car really is dope

Crave It doesn't compromise on safety either -- all the parts that are important for structural integrity are metal. Sports cars aren't supposed to be green. They're supposed to snort petrol, belch fire and cause innocent passers by to develop nasty...

28 July 2008, 11:03

Doro HandleEasy 330gsm: Less is more

Crave You can use the 330gsm to make calls and send and receive text messages, there's a hands-free option over a loudspeaker, a safety alarm just in case you get into any bother and an LED torch, which is particularly useful for finding keyholes in the...

Tags: hand, alarm, mobile phone, interest

30 June 2008, 10:48

Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups

Crave The intervening years haven't made this -- or the hateful duo's real-life safety tips at the end of every episode -- any less mystifying. You're making a movie, or a TV show. You've got the awesome concept, you've got the heroic lead and a staunch...

21 April 2008, 16:48

Altec Lansing inMotion SoundBlade: If your tent's rocking

Crave The advantage here is that anyone in your tent circle will be able to beam their choice of album to the system from the safety of their smelly canvas home. With festival season just around the corner -- don't forget your wellies, kids -- it's time...

Tags: altec lansing, operation, battery, bluetooth

16 April 2008, 10:41

iPod 'safety' ban proposed for London Marathon

Crave Hurting yourself is a great way to learn lessons. We learn to take extreme caution with boiling water as a child, commonly as a result of scalding ourselves at some point. We also learn, albeit a little later in life, that blindfold bondage with...

Tags: apple, london, ipods, lessons

1 April 2008, 10:53

Dell laptops in electric shock shocker

Crave The electric current on all Dell products have been measured and proven to be well within the safety limits per safety standards -- IEC950, EN60950, UL1950, etc, even with an input voltage of 240 Volts.

Tags: dell, laptops, risk, safety

17 January 2008, 15:03

Crave TV: Microsoft pushes journalist out of plane

Crave Stupidly, we went along, and this accompanying video is proof that we've no regard for our own personal safety, and a distinct lack of common sense. You can call Microsoft many things -- but you definitely can't call it boring.

11 October 2007, 14:33

Win a Mio P550 sat-nav PDA!

Crave You can then use the optional MioMap v3 software to calculate routes at high speeds and the integrated safety camera database will keep you informed of any potential checks on the road ahead. Listen up roadrunners, we've got another competition for...

Tags: mio, gps, fi, windows mobile

7 September 2007, 9:37