Crave Podcast 101: Gadgets we despise

Crave Podcast 101: Gadgets we despise

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Rory, Nate, Kate and Ian are your hand-picked hosts this week, as the Crave Podcast returns to its audio roots in episode 101 after last week's motion-picture extravaganza. As ever, our mission is to bring you the latest industry news, hands-on gadget fingering, plus technical help, and that.

First on the agenda is spam. A recent study has revealed you'll get more unsolicited email if your email address starts with the letters A, M, P, R or S. That probably explains why Rory has such a large supply of Viagra.

In other news, a US appeals court has ruled that Wikipedia is not authoritative. Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security should not have consulted the user-generated encyclopaedia before deporting an Ethiopian immigrant. Duh.

Elsewhere, hackers are targeting self-service supermarket checkouts with fake credit cards, Mythbusters was allegedly forced to scrap an episode on how easy it is to hack RFID technology, MySpace is removing 'offensive' images that aren't offensive, and Ofcom wants to know what you hate about UK mobile phone networks.

Elsewhere, we've decided to tell our listeners which gadgets we hate. It's all here in a new feature called Room 101, where your hosts reveal the two gadgets they'd most like to banish forever. Props to Ian Rendall in the forums for that idea, and high fives to all the other folks in the forums whose questions we answer in the feedback section. As ever, we end the show on a WTF?, which this week concerns a new range of kitchen appliances that can be controlled via iPod.

Subscribe in iTunes or right click this link to listen. -Rory Reid

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