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OLED chair lights up when you rock - Oct 24, 2009

Crave A rocking chair with an integrated OLED lamp would in and of itself be cool enough to feature here on Crave, but the Murakami Chair is different. The power to ... Read story »

Swine flu cases soar from 1 to 3 in India! - May 19, 2009

Blogs The number of confirmed cases of swine flu was only one in India till last evening. This morning I was shocked to read reports that another two more cases of swine ... Read story »

Wefew.net, the latest designer marketplace - May 7, 2009

Blogs Like the recent Aware saga, citing Dr "Feminist Mentor" Thio Su Mien, I have been monitoring this new marketplace Wefew.net for the last couple of months. It's a new marketplace which ... Read story »

Microsoft hit with software sales ban in China - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Microsoft is in hot water in China this week, after a court ruled that it infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property by including certain fonts in its operating systems. The ruling ... Read story »

Ultracompact beamer for the mobile warriors - Sep 24, 2009

Crave Singapore-based Technologies and Systems Research (TSR) has announced its first Pico projector targeted at working professionals and students. Weighing only 180g, the miniature TP-100M combines an LCoS engine with LED ... Read story »

"Unfriend" is Oxford's word of the year - Nov 17, 2009

Crave Perhaps in a sign of how the plague of social media has numbed us all to the value of legitimate human connections, the New Oxford American Dictionary has picked the verb ... Read story »

Study: Air travelers prefer Wi-Fi over meals - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Wi-Fi Internet access could help airlines win over customers who are looking to stay connected while en route, a recent survey concludes. According to a study published this week by ... Read story »

Asus preps Eee e-book reader for 2009, MSI may follow suit - Aug 28, 2009

Crave The Koreans are also tapping the e-book reader market, with Samsung's SNE-50K joining the race in July. Asustek plans to launch an e-book reader under its popular Eee brand by ... Read story »

TomTom Start entry-level GPS goes back to basics - Oct 7, 2009

Crave The TomTom Start will be customizable, inexpensive, and unavailable in the US. The Start is TomTom's newest entry-level car navigation device for the European market. Featuring a smallish 3.5-inch color ... Read story »

Fil-Am Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake has hunch about new company - Sep 3, 2009

Blogs Can we teach a Web site to help us make better decisions? Caterina Fake has a hunch that this is, indeed, the case--and that it can be the basis for a ... Read story »

PS3 and Xbox 360 finally outsell Wii in US - Sep 7, 2009

Crave As expected, recent price cuts to the PS3 and Xbox 360 helped boost sales of the two consoles, and a strong showing for both helped propel them past the Wii in ... Read story »

My take on the international version of Kindle - Oct 27, 2009

Blogs Well, my international version of Kindle arrived last Thursday and pretty much has been with me ever since, even in bed. Since the Kindle was released in the US for quite some ... Read story »

Xbox Live bannings leave Chinese and ex-pat gamers stranded - Nov 25, 2009

Blogs Microsoft's recent piracy clampdown in its Xbox Live online gaming service is leaving a lot of gamers in China stranded. They're now finding that their modded consoles or pirated games are ... Read story »

2010, and all that... - Dec 25, 2009

Blogs  First up,a very merry Christmas to all readers who celebrate it. Secondly, apologies for no posts this week, caused by my being out of China for just over a week for ... Read story »

ST DuPont joins the luxury phone race with Pantech's "Sky" - Sep 27, 2009

Blogs Korea's other mobile giant Pantech has announced a new luxury mobile phone with French brand ST DuPont. The product name is Sky DuPont IM-510LE, and it will be available through number ... Read story »

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