Panasonic is promising a plasmatastic (Crave’s word, not Panasonic’s) year. The company continues its whole-hearted support of plasma televisions, claiming they offer the best picture quality of any flat panel. (Despite this, it continues to make smaller screens using LCD, because it’s much cheaper.) The most exciting announcement from Panasonic this year was that it’s working on bringing 1080p to …

We do so love cracking open a new gadget, but we also love animals. So imagine our surprise and delight when the HANNspree HANNSZ.elephant arrived in the office. The HANNSZ.elephant is a 10-inch LCD TV which has an appealing, soft-toy elephant cover. HANNspree doesn’t just do elephants (or capslock) either: there’s a zebra, a giraffe and even a lion — …

TVs aren’t supposed to be clever. They’re supposed to sit quietly in your lounge showing reruns of Emmerdale, but HP in its infinite wisdom has decided to increase their IQ exponentially by releasing what it calls the HP MediaSmart TV — a real boffin of a telly. What makes it so smart is networking capabilities. The MediaSmart TV is fitted with …