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2010 Olympic medals to be made from used gadgets

Crave (Credit: Vancouver2010.com)) Medalists at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will celebrate with circuit boards hanging from their necks. That's right. Gold, silver, and bronze medals for the upcoming ... Read story »

Photos: Tech timetable to 2012 Olympics

Features The company overseeing the tech for the London 2012 Olympic Games has revealed how it's warming up in preparation for July 27, 2012.  Read story »

It's time for HD galore during Beijing Olympics

Crave The upcoming 11th Olympics is setting a new milestone in being the first in its long history to receive a complete high-definition makeover. NBC Universal which is undertaking this HD initiative ... Read story »

YouTube Olympics channel brings games to multiple nations

Crave Citizens of Ethiopia and Thailand (we originally said Taiwan here, which is not included) are among the international Web users who will be able to view online content from the Beijing ... Read story »

NBC Olympics site: Sorry, video not available in China

Blogs NBC apparently has a kick-butt video site for watching the Olympics video. Imagine my surprise when I tried to play one of its demo vids, only to get the following message: ... Read story »

Beijing threatens cyber war for Olympics

Crave Wars have been started for many reasons. Money, oil, love and even by mistake. So it is quite ironical that for an event which is supposed to promote international peace and ... Read story »

Free Olympics coverage coming to StarHub cable soon!

Crave Catch the Beijing 2008 Olympics fever on StarHub's upcoming dedicated Olympics channels for free! There are six dedicated channels in total covering games from soccer matches and athletics, to swimming events, ... Read story »

Wii's winning moment at the Beijing Games

Crave Score gold for Nintendo who's found a spokesperson in Japanese Olympic swimmer Kosuke Kitajima. The gold medallist who truimphed in the men's 100m breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics apparently credits Mario ... Read story »

Wave the torch to see a message at the Olympics

Crave Spectators at the Games will get a chance to touch the flame-bearing torch, but only a replica of it, that is. Instead of fire, the torches have a microelectromechanical system (MEMS), ... Read story »

Olympics at 8,000 frames per second

Crave The biggest sports event deserves the best equipment to capture the show in all its glory. So it's no wonder I-Movix clinched the deal to provide its SprintCam to capture the ... Read story »

IdeaPads and videocams supplied to athletes to blog during Olympics

Crave Worldwide Olympics partner Lenovo is certainly making its presence felt at the upcoming Beijing games. Besides designing the Olympic torch and providing most of the computing equipment used for running the ... Read story »

Beijing 2008: A new evil awakens?

Blogs NBC has released this wacky promo mashup of the Beijing Olympics with... get this... The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Given that the tagline for the movie is "A ... Read story »

New return policy during Beijing Olympics

Crave Buying Chinese-made products tends to be a hit-and-miss affair. On the one hand, the Middle Kingdom manufactures high-end consumer electronics for brands known to offer quality merchandize. On the other, there ... Read story »

RFID goes primetime in Beijing Olympics

Crave Radio-frequency identification technology or RFID will be facing it first major test during the Beijing Olympics, taking care of ticketing for the estimated 3 million athletes, journalists and spectators. Despite the ... Read story »

Dreaded Blue Screen of Death strikes Olympics

Crave The world watched in awe as China put on what some say was the best-ever Olympics opening ceremony ever. The proceedings culminated with the lighting of the Olympic torch by one ... Read story »

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