From IFA with love: Crave goes wild in Berlin

It's always the same: you wait ages for the world's first 200Hz TV and then two come along at once. It was all about the televisions at IFA 2008: bigger tellies, faster tellies, little tellies in other tellies. Kodak even put a telly in a digital photo frame that also had an iPod dock and great big speakers. Crave succumbed to TV fatigue pretty quickly, wandering dazedly past even the biggest screens without a second look. After two days on the show floor the only thing that could grab our jaded attention was the hypnotic robo-music of Animusic, or, failing that, the Iron Man trailer for the squillionth time.

But occasionally we stumbled across something so ludicrous it penetrated the gadget-fog, like the street dancers connecting with the emotion of, er, big tellies at the Panasonic stand, or the dancers on stilts at Samsung, or the people dressed as robots every-bloomin'-where.

Being young and rad, we loved the Canon halfpipe. Apparently the 'freecording' slogan sounds even more ridiculous in German than it does in English, because the philosophy of being all extreme and rad and shooting things differently because we're young and extreme and rad is called Freefilming over here. Which isn't even a pun and is therefore rubbish.

Anyway, the skaters were a bit pony, but the BMXers were sick. That means good, we're reliably informed by people familiar with the matter. For more of the good, the rad and the smutty, click through the photos. -Rich Trenholm

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