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Using RFID to ensure that the cows come home - Aug 8, 2009

Crave Whenever a story about RFID tagging comes along, we feel we should milk it for all its worth. Literally in this case, as Danish cows have been fitted with radio ... Read story »

Twitter to make retweeting official with Project Retweet - Aug 17, 2009

Crave Twitter is baking the popular custom of retweeting into the service as a native feature. Phase one of "Project Retweet" is the release of a retweet API to developers. This ... Read story »

Research: Predictive texting makes kids less thoughtful - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Onscreen QWERTY keyboard on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Scientists--what would we do without them?--reckon that predictive texting teaches children to act first and think later. New research suggests that increased use ... Read story »

Bluetooth Mini Phone for the lanyard crowd - Aug 17, 2009

Crave A Bluetooth piece that snubs the headset form factor. Here's something out of the blue--a Bluetooth Mini Phone (US$49) that puts the the phone back into the whole idea of ... Read story »

The firefighting "Godzilla" - Aug 18, 2009

Crave Firefighting just got a lot faster. What happens when you mix a fire engine with a 310kmh supercar co-designed by the makers of Gran Turismo? Well, if these pictures are ... Read story »

Three-seater Smart in the works? - Aug 6, 2009

Crave And you thought the Fortwo's cabin was cramped... The patent drawings also outline airbag and seatbelt placement, as well as alternate configurations. Recent patent filings by Mercedes-Benz indicate that a ... Read story »

New superchip speeds up Lab experiments - Aug 7, 2009

Crave The microfluidic device can perform over 1,000 reactions in parallel, according to UCLA researchers. Microchip technology can now enable chemists to perform more than 1,000 experiments at once, according to researchers ... Read story »

Nissan's all-out war on bad smells in cars with Forest AC - Aug 7, 2009

Crave We thought we'd seen it all: Cars with OLED displays on the outside... cars that talk to you... cars that brake automatically to prevent accidents. Clearly, we've haven't, because Nissan ... Read story »

HP's makes creased photos from flatbed scanners straight - Aug 13, 2009

Crave A crease can ruin (or sometimes improve) an often-irreplaceable printed photograph. But new research from HP Labs points toward a future where this is much less of a problem. Scientists ... Read story »

Rilakkuma Netbook: Bear-y cute? - Aug 17, 2009

Crave Some may call this a bear-y cute Netbook. Bear-y...get it? Being incredibly hungover can sometimes mean you're still hammered from the night before. Add a Netbook with a picture of ... Read story »

Digital shower Grohtherm Wireless - Oct 30, 2006

Crave Sorry, you can't surf and shower with this. What the Digital Shower Groththerm Wireless does is let you preset--by remote control--the temperature for your next bath, besides customizing different settings for ... Read story »

Candy Floss Maker - Mar 14, 2007

Crave If you fancy playing the strange Willy Wonka, churning out candy galore for your mates on the next sugar rush outing, this Candy Floss Maker is a more fun carnival take ... Read story »

Dell to launch Android phone? - Aug 13, 2009

Crave "A source with knowledge of the situation" tells TechCrunch that Dell plans to introduce a mobile phone in China in the next few days. "The information we’ve received is extremely thin," ... Read story »

CMX music downloads: A born failure? - Aug 12, 2009

Crave It was a bigger deal a few years ago: Stick a popular music CD in your computer and you"d be greeted by a Flash application containing some music videos and maybe ... Read story »

Google Chrome 4.0 for OS X: 34 percent faster than the competition - Aug 14, 2009

Crave Safari, eat Google's dust--its Chrome Web browser--under its developmental title Chromium--has hit version 4.0 on the Mac, and our tests confirm it's the fastest browser in the world on both PC ... Read story »

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