Smart gadgets and accessories for film fans
God rest ye merry gentlemen, 'tis the season for giving and we've delved deep into Santa's sack to come up with some choice gift ideas for the movie buff in your life.
Starting from an affordable £20, and going up to more expensive gifts, there's something here for every budget.
So whether you're after a stocking filler or some
The best budget gadgets this Christmas
Buying for discerning tech savvy people can be an expensive pastime.
And the latest top gadgets such as the iPod Touch, HD video cameras or Blu-ray players can set you back hundreds of pounds.
This year don't fill your loved one's stockings with novelty mouse mats and USB mug warmers, as there's a world of great technology which can
Getting a good deal on consumer electronics these days often seems akin to trying to time the stock market-you may get lucky every once in a while, but more often than not, it's a fool's errand.
We at Crave are deeply thankful for family, friends, our jobs, health, and homes, among other blessings. But we're also grateful for memory cards, DVRs, floor-scrubbing robots, and electric toothbrushes, to name a few. We do write about tech toys for a living, after all.
To mark Thanksgiving, we've rounded up the gear we're feeling most grateful for--this week at least.
Inspired by the James Bond Film “The Spy Who Loved Me”, the SQuba is an amphibious car designed by Frank Rinderknecht. The SQuba will operate like a boat if driven into the water, and is propelled along the surface by two propellers on either side of its license plate.
Bring a touch of Italian style to your hot bread with this pillar-box-red version of culinary gorgeousness. The most stylish toaster ever, the Volo features a motorised lifting system, six browning control options ranging from "bread" to "house fire", and a rack to warm your crumpets on.
In an era when fanboys start throwing tantrums if the iPod hasn't been updated in a couple months, and new cellphone models hit the store every week, we find comfort in tech that is made to last long enough to get a little dusty. Granted, that's increasingly harder to do, what with the explosion of new digital technologies in the past few decades and that pesky Moore's Law breathing down engineers' collective necks. But it's still possible. We've collected the dozen greatest gadgets of the ages that were built right the first time and therefore continue to stand the test of time.
When traveling, whether for business or leisure, it’s always important to gather the gadgets you’ll need for your trip. Some are essential, some are fun, but forgetting any of them can make for an unpleasant trip. For the sake of being obvious, we’ll assume that you don’t forget your laptop or cell phone. Here are some of the less-obvious gadgets that you may want to consider when traveling:
Ask your parents, and they'll probably tell you Polaroid cameras were the iPhone of their day. I'm not that old, but I still remember them being all the rage when I was growing up because you could see your snapshots almost instantaneously. Thank goodness for the digital camera though, because no matter how awesome Polaroids were, the quality of those photos was just terrible.
I think the first time you think "kids today just don't understand...", you officially become an old person. I crossed that line last week when I came across an old cassette tape in my car and found, to my excitement, that the very faded label read "Always Blue". It was one of my last mixed tapes ever- something from the 90s, complete with melodramatic title, and catchy, anthemic songs of woe, suicide, and repression (and not all by the Smiths).
