We all know children should be doing homework, running errands for elderly neighbours or sweeping leaves off your driveway, but thanks to television, they’re a bunch of drooling, brain-dead idiots. So it makes perfect sense for Hannspree to make a range of televisions aimed squarely at this demographic. We spotted a range of the company’s heavily stylised TVs at IFA 2006, …

Crave has just come back from IFA 2006, the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin, Germany. ‘Funkausstellung’ means ‘radio show’, but IFA has moved on since the first event in 1924, when 180,000 visitors examined the first valve radio receivers. Today IFA is a consumer electronics show covering six main areas: television and entertainment, personal computer and games, sound and car media, …

Panasonic chose the Abbey Road Studios — the spiritual home of The Beatles — as the venue for the press launch of its first Blu-ray DVD player. Crave followed in the footsteps of the Fab Four across the famous zebra crossing and into the Abbey Road Studios, where we were greeted by several Japanese execs who proudly unveiled the DMP-BD10 Blu-ray …