Articles on Consumption

Imagining recovery - May 15, 2009

Blogs I wrote this while thinking about how the technological developments of the past decades have led us to believe we should consume ever more at ever-increasing breakneck speeds... There is a ... Read story »

Check out your electrical consumption with this power strip - Apr 29, 2008

Crave Ever wondered how much power is being consumed by your LCD TV or desktop PC? Well, now you can find out exactly how much electricity your appliances at home are drawing ... Read story »

On green tech--data centers - Mar 6, 2008

Blogs So this geek has been musing about green tech and how to save the world with it. After all, every geek dreams of being a hero deep inside, right? So in ... Read story »

Aftermath of the iPhone price war - Dec 14, 2009

Crave Unless you've been living under a rock, you'd have read or heard that Singapore telcos StarHub and Mobile (M1) announced and then revised their iPhone price plans early last week. This ... Read story »

Sharp prepares for 4K and 3D LCD displays - Sep 21, 2009

Crave The Japanese company has recently developed a new UV2A technology which can "significantly evolve LCD TVs to the next generation", according to its press release. Some of the key benefits of ... Read story »

VIA's Mobile-ITX platform is just half of Pico-ITX - Dec 2, 2009

Crave At 6 centimeters square, VIA's new Mobile-ITX platform is half the size of its popular Pico-ITX model, but it still manages to squeeze in enough computing to handle next-generation embedded devices. ... Read story »

Eco-friendly PS3 Slim runs on half the power of the PS3 - Aug 28, 2009

Crave Sony heralded the new PlayStation 3 Slim as more energy efficient than previous models, but that's an easy feat considering the older PS3 "Fat" models were some of the most ... Read story »

The New BMW Vision EfficientDynamics - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Every new BMW is already fitted with EfficientDynamics, a list of checkmarks that ensures only cars that are fuel efficient and low emission pass through the gate. But recently, it unveiled ... Read story »

BenQ's LED monitor actually lets you grow a garden - Nov 26, 2009

Crave Seriously, a plant pot in your monitor. I bet you'll never question the "greeness" of this monitor now! LED monitors were the new hotness at CES last January, but it ... Read story »

LG adds gyro sensor to its HDTVs - Oct 8, 2009

Crave LG has just announced two new LED-edgelit LCD TV lineups in Korea. The XCanvas SL90- and SL95-series not only offer ultraslim 29.3mm bezels and a full glass front a.k.a. borderless ... Read story »

Get longer uptimes with Windows 7 - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Ruston Panabaker, Microsoft's principal program manager of strategic silicon partnering, shows how later builds of Windows 7 were able to let the processor enter low-power states for longer periods of time, ... Read story »

One-third of Internet users in India carry out digital transactions--good growth - Nov 30, 2009

Blogs Last week, Mr R Chandrasekhar, who happens to be Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Indian Government, made public some startling finds ... Read story »

Asus announces Pine Trail Netbooks - Dec 21, 2009

Crave CES might be just a couple of weeks off, but Intel just can't wait and has announced its second-generation Atom platform, Pine Trail. One of the first machines to come with ... Read story »

More affordable Casio cameras announced - Sep 1, 2009

Crave Casio's going full force after consumers shopping for digital cameras in the US$100-US$200 price range. First, the company announces the Exilim EX-Z450 and EX-Z90, US$199.99 and US$149.99, respectively. And then ... Read story »

Hitachi launches high-performance 500GB 2.5-inch drive - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Less than a month ago, Hitachi announced its 2TB hard drive for desktops. The company brought the same speed to its newest Travelstar hard drive for laptops. The new hard drive ... Read story »

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