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This week, we told you about a contest that tasked high school students with envisioning the car dashboard of the future--with an eco twist. Participants came up with some great ideas that 10 years ago would have sounded like science fiction but today make you kind of go, "Well, yeah, of course."

I don't drive. But if I did, I'd want all of these as standard features. What about you? Which of these would you most like to see? Some of the options in the poll come from semifinalists in the contest, others from me. As … Read more

This week brought the first official Twitter app for the iPhone--called, alarmingly enough, Twitter for iPhone. It's based on the popular Tweetie 2.0, an independent app from Atebits, which Twitter recently bought. The general consensus appears to be that it's pretty good, though not a huge upgrade over Tweetie 2.0.

But not everyone has an iPhone, and those who do may opt not to send tweets from the device. Some people have Android devices or regular ol' cell phones that they use primarily to text. Some people spend more Twitter time on their laptops than they … Read more

Space shuttle Atlantis is set to launch at 11:20 a.m. PDT Friday on its final scheduled mission: a 12-day rendezvous during which the craft and its six astronauts will deploy new parts for the International Space Station, including the awesomely named Integrated Cargo Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable.

Like all current-generation space shuttles, Atlantis--which had its first flight on October 3, 1985--is notable for its impressive track record, as well as several important missions to the ISS and flying many of the secret Department of Defense missions that conspiracy theorists love to hate.

But this looks to be it. After … Read more

You're reading Crave, so there's a pretty good chance you're something of a geek at heart. As such, there's a very good chance your Mother's Day gift this year will be of the tech variety, or at least have some kind of a geek slant. Because as a geek, you know that even non-geeks' lives can be better with tech.

I, for example, plan on getting my mother the boxed set of every episode of "Lost" so far, as well as a Netflix account. My friend Mike is upgrading his mother's computer … Read more

As you've probably heard by now, Steve Jobs this week posted an open letter on Apple's Web site outlining the company's reasons for not adopting Flash on i-products like the iPad and the iPhone.

Jobs outlined six points of contention Apple has with Adobe over Flash. They are, in order: that Flash isn't an open platform; that it's not needed because H.264 works fine for streaming video; that it kills a mobile device's battery in short order; that the Flash interface was designed for mousing, not touching; and that with HTML5 and the … Read more

This being the week of Earth Day, we're hearing quite a bit about green tech--and green practices.

This week, we talked about new electric cars, green cell phones, a Denver bike-sharing program, and which TVs use the most juice. Eco-friendly tech is now something you drive, something that entertains you, and something that fits into your pocket, and more and more people are taking sustainability and energy efficiency into consideration when making big purchases.

But how much does the average person go out of his or her way to live an eco-conscious life? Sure, you try to recycle cans … Read more

You know the story by now. Some Apple guy leaves his iPhone prototype in a bar. Some guy finds it. A few weeks go by. He then leaks photos of the thing to both Engadget and Gizmodo. Then he sells Gizmodo access to it for $5,000.

It's a good story, with a lot of ins, outs, and what have-yous, as Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski would say. But while a lot of attention has been focused on whether it was, like, cool, for Gizmodo to have paid for information, man, the real question is what would you … Read more

This week, on its Facebook page, Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC asked fans for help naming its next phone.

Since the Razr and the iPhone, manufacturers are thankfully giving their handsets real names instead of monikers like the T4-839i or the 4Fgi0s319zl3 or the EIEIO.

Instead, we get names like the Glide and the Touch. Much better.

Now it's your turn to help. To the right are the names HTC fans can vote on (Jovi, Zeal, Wildfire, or Festi), and we encourage you to go do so. But just for good measure, we've thrown in a few ideas of … Read more

I just wrapped up reviewing Canon's second go-round using a touch-screen LCD on a compact camera, the PowerShot SD3500 IS. Unlike its first one, the SD980 IS, this model has few physical controls for operating the camera, so it relies almost entirely on pokes and swipes with your fingers. While I liked the camera overall, the touch-screen interface doesn't add much to the experience of using it and ends up feeling unnecessary. About the only benefit is the ability to tap on your subject for focus and exposure--something all touch-screen cameras do.

Other touch-screen models from Sony, Samsung, and Nikon … Read more