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November 26, 2008 10:28 AM PST

Photos: Black Friday deals you should know about

by Erica Ogg
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Nikon D40

Best Buy will sell the Nikon D40 with a two-lens kit for $549 on Black Friday, or with the single lens for $449. Click on the above image for details on more post-Thanksgiving deals.

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For many, nothing says the day after Thanksgiving like queuing before dawn outside their favorite store.

To help you out, we here at Crave have compiled some of the best Black Friday deals (both online and off) we could find.

Click here or on the picture above for a link to all the discounted goodness.

June 20, 2008 8:36 AM PDT

The top 10 spacecraft

by Ian Morris
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In The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote, "Space is big--really big--you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

Space's roominess is good news for us rapidly multiplying humans, because it seems logical that we should one day want to expand into our solar system--and possibly further. But because of our frail and squishy bodies we need some heavyweight protection to leave the cozy home comforts of our bijou atmosphere, and great ingenuity to even have a look around. This list celebrates the best spacecraft--those that have taken us to new places or brought us information about what's out there. Take the intergalactic tour here.

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June 18, 2008 1:36 PM PDT

Images: Death to the beige box

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Napkin PC

The Napkin PC won first place in the Next-Gen PC Design Competition. Click photo for gallery of winners.

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Microsoft's fourth annual Next-Gen PC Design Competition put entrants to the task of dreaming up concepts that not only offer eye-catching aesthetics, but also cater to people's passions.

Check out News.com's gallery on the competition, featuring designs that tap into niches like travel, sports, fitness, cooking, and children. Winning concepts were inspired by everything from napkins to building blocks to the everyday book.

June 9, 2008 7:12 AM PDT

Home theater for the art lover

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You can now give your home theater an art gallery-quality treatment with VisionArt's canvas and framing solutions. Imagine the wow factor of winding down an exquisite masterpiece in front of your guests to unveil a flat-panel TV and mulitchannel speaker array at the touch of a button. Even better, the latter is no sub-standard component. It's manufactured by established U.S. company Triad.

According to Electronic House, there are also options to customize the system with additional subwoofer and surround-sound speakers to reproduce full 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS sound. Same goes for the canvas dimension right down to the width to cater for any brand and make of TVs. Prices start from $3,500 for a 42-incher.

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November 22, 2007 5:10 AM PST

Photos: Seven crazy cameras

by Rich Trenholm
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Those zany camera manufacturers. We know they have a sense of humor: Just look at the tiny internal memories they slap in our compacts! And those noisy high-ISO settings! What a bunch of jokers.

But sometimes they excel themselves with some truly wacky designs. Click through our gallery and check out some of the ke-rr-rr-aziest cameras Crave has ever seen.

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October 16, 2007 1:34 PM PDT

Video stores getting crushed by Web

by Greg Sandoval
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Video stores appear to be heading the way of the car hop and drive-in theaters.

Movie Gallery, which operates under the names Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, and Game Crazy, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, according to a story by Bloomberg. The collapse of the country's second-largest video-rental chain is staggering when one considers that only two years ago, Movie Gallery's stock was trading at $33.

On Tuesday, the stock closed trading at 22 cents, less than the cost of a movie rental.

Netflix and video-on-demand services being offered by cable companies have cut deeply into the traditional video-rental business. Video stores can't compete with the convenience of the Web.

Sure, I'll miss the strategically placed ice cream and Junior Mints at the store checkout, but I won't miss late fees, out-of-stock titles or the hassle of driving there in the first place.

But companies like Netflix shouldn't be too quick to take a victory lap.

Netflix users order films on the Web and then the company delivers DVDs through the mail. The service may beat the old brick-and-mortar guys, but I wouldn't think twice about dumping it the second someone offers a wide range of films at a good price and then delivers high quality images to me over my Internet connection.

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