Crave Podcast 35: Should the humble mouse scroll no more? 
After 40 years of faithful service, isn't it about time the humble mouse was laid to rest? In this week's Crave Podcast we put the "wretched rodent of a computer interface peripheral" on trial -- listen now to find out whether we think it should be strung up by its own lead or set free to inhabit desktops for many mouse-years to come.
Also subjected to gruelling interrogation this week is Google's new Street View feature on Google Maps, Microsoft's Milan tabletop PC (aka the Surface) and the British Lonelygirl15 copycat which is about to hit Bebo -- this time it's all about the fashion brands, darling. We also eagerly anticipate another marketing twist -- the live Nintendo Wii ads about to hit cinemas. Anyone for tennis? Continue reading...
Crave Podcast 34: Is Wi-Fi a killer?
Welcome podophiles, open up your aural vents and bung them with this brand-new episode of the Crave Podcast. This week we're asking if Wi-Fi is more dangerous than a razor-blade lucky dip, and putting CCTV on trial.
We're also calmly pondering the wireless broadband features Sony will soon introduce to the PSP. And there's some great news about reductions in European mobile roaming charges -- they're going to stop ripping you off... quite so much.
If that's not enough to tighten your bandana, then witness us launch our new jingle competition, and pick out the five best games controllers of all time. Happy listening, geekpies. Click here to listen. -Chris Stevens
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Crave Podcast Episode 33: Fed up with Facebook?
Is Facebook driving us all to become mute, social recluses, or is it the best way to keep in contact with friends and organise parties? We decide in this week's trial.
Other treats in this week's podcast include news that students have created sensual phones that 'tingle' when friends are near. We also ponder why the US military has blocked its troops from YouTube.
We dissect Google's revamping of its search engine, play with a new Santa Rosa laptop and reflect on a few holes in Apple's ad campaigns. Plus we have a smashing sing-along, to tunes that were sent in by our dear listeners.
If you'd like to comment on the podcast, be sure to leave your thoughts below. We'd love to hear from you -- you might even get ripped apart in next week's show. Happy podding, geekos. Click here to listen. -Chris Stevens Continue reading...
Crave Podcast Collector's Edition: The Trial
This week we have an extra special treat for you: a collector's edition podcast. There's a staggeringly limited number of these, so download them quick. In a couple of years, this podcast will be worth more than a Kenner Bobba Fett on his original 1979 cardback.
We won't spoil the surprise by letting you know which trials we've picked, but believe us when we say they're three of the finest debates humanity has engaged in since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Rory and the team will be back in full-force next week, but until then, lather your brain stem in the warm bubblebath of this Crave Podcast retrospective. And to anyone who says this is a cheap trick designed to get around the fact Rory is on holiday this week: take your horrible cynicism and shove it up your USB slot. Click here to listen. Continue reading...
Crave Podcast 32: How green is your PC?
Is your computer a little metal hippie, or a horrible, belching mass of arsenic and lead? Only we in the Crave Podcast can decide, as self-appointed bastions of all that is environmentally good and true.
Other treats include the news that digg has had its stoner-hacker users up in arms because it censored stories that linked to HD DVD encryption codes.
If that's not enough to tickle your turnip, we also take a look at Apple's new green image, pick apart the BBC iPlayer announcement and try our luck at staying upright on the gymnastically challenging BT Balance. If you're very good, we'll tell you about the new and improved Xbox 360 chips, due to be released in the autumn.
If you're still eager for more after that, there's videogames, Santa Rosa, the iRiver Clix, Sony Ericsson W610i, T-Mobile Ameo, and a reflection on this week's battle between Mac OS X and Vista. Click here to listen.
Group hug! -Chris Stevens
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Crave Podcast 31: Should robots have rights?
We've all seen what happens when we give robots an inch -- Terminator 2: Judgement Day -- but perhaps we should consider passing laws to make robot murder, if not a crime, at least something we socially frown on. The delicate issue is put on trial in this week's Crave Podcast. If that subject doesn't slice your pie, then what about city-wide free Wi-Fi networks? Or does the iAxe 393 USB Guitar appeal to your rockstar daydreams? We review it in this episode.
Other treats include the Crave team's reaction to news that Bob Geldof plans to launch a 'Dictionary Of Man' online -- an idea he apparently came up with before the Internet existed. What a visionary.
We also take a look at motion-sensing phones and controversially compare the image quality on the Nokia 6300, Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson K810i, Canon IXUS 70 and the Canon 400D. We review the Toshiba Regza 37X3030D and OLED TVs also get a mention. Continue reading...
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Crave Podcast 30: This time it's pearl
Greetings Podypusses, it's episode 30 and golly gosh do we have some plush content for you this week! Resident mobile phone limpet Andrew Lim lays serious cusses on the Motorola Motofone and Rory Reid tries hard to convince us all that operating systems are redundant -- such as Windows and Linux -- in the face of Web-accessible software.
Meanwhile Chris Stevens probes the latest outlandish Apple rumours and Kate Macefield keeps the motley crew under control with Tasers and her rusty medieval torture equipment.
Tune in and bong out to the 30th edition of the world's finest audio experience. It's all free! Click here to listen.
Crave Podcast 29: This time it's televisual
Come on in out of the spring sun geeks! Your ghostly World of Warcraft skin won't offer protection against the deadly bright weather outside. Come back in to the dark safety of your parent's basement and listen to another episode of the uniformly delicious Crave Podcast.
This week we're putting Apple TV on trial -- does the shiny white beast pump us up? And what about Apple TV, is that any good?
We'll also reveal to you the finest gadgets on offer in the last seven days. Thrill as Rory 'Buster' Reid takes you on a journey you'll never forget, aided by his malformed henchmen, Ian and Rupert. The only sane individual among them is producer Kate Macefield, but she's no longer allowed field artillery in the podcast room. Is there any chance of keeping them under control? Click here to find out...
Crave Podcast 28: Mobile TV on trial
Hey geeks! Feast your audio receptors on this! It's the apocalyptic showdown between mobile TV and rational thinking -- who will win? The mad, or the good? The latest Crave Podcast also tackles the practicalities of real-life jet-packs, as well as the latest developments in consumer tech.
Our discussion orbits the news that an Everest mobile call effort is underway -- apparently a British climber has begun an attempt to make the world's highest mobile phone call. We analyse the Apple/EMI deal, get hands on with the iRiver X20, give you a chance to win a bucket-load of SanDisk booty and bring you the latest in the HD DVD vs Blu-ray saga. Happy listening podonauts... to the stars!
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Crave Podcast 27: Twitter on trial
Rory Reid, Andrew Lim, Kate Macefield and new boy Nate Lanxon take to the podcast dinghy this week and go snorkelling through the hazy seas of consumer tech and popular science.
Amid the random rambles and hearty guffaws, this episode takes a microscopic look into the lives of nanobloggers as social-networking site Twitter is put on trial. The caring team investigates whether anyone actually gives a monkey's what you're doing every second of the day. Can Twitter cure depression? And are Twitterers really at the bottom of the food chain, existing for the sole purpose of being gobbled for lunch by hungry bloggers?
They also glance back at the PS3 launch -- 165,000 consoles sold in just two days, and the team knows of the existence of... one. They hear from disgruntled Virgin Media customers, who seem desperate to switch to Sky, and find out why dangerous criminals in Mexico may soon be battering your door down with a Dell. Can you possibly take any more?
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Crave Podcast 26: The PlayStation 3 has landed
This week we discuss the launch of the grossly maligned PS3, and ask: why did so few geeks queue outside our great nation's consumer electronics retailers to get their hands on its glossy husk? We also run our hypocritical gaze across the dirty bedsheets of the porn industry, pondering the wisdom of Ron Jeremy's appointment as a gadget guru -- is he really up to the task, or will his show be a massive anticlimax?
If that's not enough to tickle your mouse finger into giving us another ad impression, then consider the future of Google, which our team puts on trial in the pithily named Trial section of the podcast. Lock and load geeks, it's time to get funky.
Join Rory Reid, Andrew Lim, Rupert Goodwins and Kate Macefield as they explore the badlands of consumer tech and popular science. Click here to listen now.
Crave Podcast 25: Is there a Google phone?
Hell, we just popped our hearts! This week's podcast is so bastard* great that you'll listen to it in a dazed euphoria comparable to the mind-state of post-80s Jackson.
You'll hear why the world's largest videogame publisher expects the "expensive" PlayStation 3 to be much less dominant than its predecessor, according to outgoing exec Larry Probst. We'll treat your listening-nipples to the robust laptop, or 'pupil device', a computer for kids designed to withstand rough handling, and we get all Sherlock on the rumoured Google phone.
As if that weren't enough, we'll badger you about a new generation of robots in training to serve tea, and we'll investigate a survey by the British School of Motoring that found young drivers are more likely to speed and drive recklessly after playing a racing game.
Put your old IBM t-shirt and Coke-bottle glasses on, geek, it's time to get funky. Click here to listen.
*It was born out of wedlock.
Crave Podcast 24: PlayStation 3 in the dock
We can hardly believe our brains! It's podcast number 24 coming right at you like a Glock popping bad caps in a street hustler (that's you). In this week's show we look at the PlayStation 3 and ask: is Sony making a horrible pudding of its new console?
Yeah, that's right geekfaces, we're putting the much-maligned PlayStation 3 in our version of The Verdict. Except without Jeffery Archer. Is it the ultimate games console, or the dying gasp of the world's most-hated technology company?
If that weren't enough stimulation for your skull holes, we'll also tell you about the pigeons Chinese scientists are mutilating with electronics. Once the stuff is soldered in place, these scientists can manipulate the pigeons like radio-controlled aeroplanes. The question on everyone's lips is: "When can they do this to babies?" Click here to listen.
Take our hands as we skip into tech nirvana. To the stars, podheads, to the stars!
Crave Podcast 23: Linux on trial
Join Rory Reid, Chris Stevens and Rupert Goodwins as they explore the latest developments in consumer tech and popular science.
This week we put Linux in the dock and give it a good old-fashioned going-over -- is it a utopian marvel of freedom or a total pain in the motherboard? The trial will decide.
We also bring you a quick run-down of the week's tech news, and help out a listener who has emailed us gadget-snuff movies.
There's joy and laughter aplenty elsewhere in the world, but this week's podcast is a sombre affair where barely a giggle was heard -- our team was so intent on bringing you frills-free information from the heartland of the digital universe. Click here to listen.
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Crave Podcast 22: Music phones on trial
Join Rory Reid, Chris Stevens, Jason Jenkins and Kate Macefield as they explore the latest developments in consumer tech and popular science.
They put music phones in the dock, bring you a quick run-down of the top ten geek lovers for Valentine's Day and help out a Linux lover who feels affronted at the team's disparaging remarks in previous episodes.
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Happy listening, geeks!
Crave Podcast 21: Mitchell and Webb on trial
This week's podcast sees Rory Reid, Chris Stevens and TV reviewer Ian Morris wrestle with the giant mammoth that is consumer tech and popular science.
The team discusses the motives behind Steve Jobs' call for DRM-free music, mulls the whys and wherefores of Penguin's first 'wiki' novel and gives you details of MySpace's 1m competition to direct a feature film.
They also put Apple's Mitchell and Webb ad campaign in the dock, arguing to save its scrawny neck from the savage wrath of the hangman's rope, in some cases more convincingly than others.
Plus, they bring you a quick run-down of tech ideas for Valentine's gifts and help out a dear "old fool" called Terry.
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Crave Podcast 20: Five reasons not to use Vista
Join Rory Reid, Chris Stevens, Rupert Goodwins and Andrew Lim as they explore the latest developments in consumer tech and popular science. Our hapless team discusses the future of Vista, the danger of attaching adverts to YouTube content and puts iTunes on trial.
Andrew (CNET.co.uk's version of Bez from the Happy Mondays) beats his tambourine on the subject of Japanese mobile phones. Chris jabbers about the latest robots -- and, finally, Rupert tells you why he thinks Vista is a disease.
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Crave Podcast 19: The iPhone is here!
Join Chris Stevens, Rory Reid, Rupert Goodwins and Andrew Lim as they explore the latest developments in consumer tech and popular science. They discuss the future of the iPhone, the danger of sentient robots that may enslave us all, and put Microsoft Windows Vista on trial.
Our hapless team of gadget monkeys also take a look at the gadgets they saw at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and discuss whether a 'consumer' taser is morally acceptable.
Rupert Goodwins unleashes a completely unhinged rant against the iPhone and is quickly put in his place by the forces of good. Rory Reid makes a similarly disastrous defence of Windows Vista and is publically shamed in a ritual of humiliation not seen since the Middle Ages. Yes, geek-face, this is a good one. Click here to listen.
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Crave Podcast 18: The desktop PC is dead
Rory Reid and his elves bring you another exciting edition of the Crave podcast, and this week they take a look at Christmas in all its garish horror. From the boy who was arrested for opening his presents early, to the latest in TV-enabled mobile phones, come gather under Crave's magical star and worship all that is the tempestuous world of consumer electronics.
They also ask if the new artwork on the Microsoft Zune installer is suitable for all ages, Rupert rants on the crazy warnings that Wi-Fi is bad for your health and Guy Cocker brings snowy greetings of the most perilous kind.
The show shines like a Christmas tree bauble, and the guests laugh merrily like Santas half-cut on Sherry. Conversation flows like mincemeat out of a hot baked pie, intelligent thought and opinion flickering occasionally into earshot like the distant bleating of a countryside choir. Load up your hamper, hand-crank the Model-T and get ready for a ride through the sparkling winter wonderland that is the Crave podcast.
Happy listening, reindeer geeks!
Crave Podcast 17: Ten reasons to hate the Zune
Join Chris Stevens, Rory Reid, Rupert Goodwins and Guy Cocker as they explore the latest developments in consumer tech and popular science. They discuss the violence surrounding the US Sony PlayStation 3 launch, cuss the Microsoft Zune to bits, and put the Nintendo Wii on trial.
They also take a look at the future of cooking with consoles, and ask if Chris Stevens should be shot for his outlandish decision to include Paris Hilton in a list of top ten girl geeks.
For all this and much more, much of it frankly very curious indeed, click here. -CS
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