Nate Lanxon
Nate Lanxon is CNET UK's Senior Editor of News and Features, and covers every aspect of technology for Crave. He also enjoys popular-science books, obscure Japanese animation and plays 'technical metal' on the drums, whatever that is.
Tuesday 15 December 2009, 5:43pm
Borderlands: Like Fallout 3, but backwards
"Like playing Fallout 3 in reverse" is about as close to describing 2K's RPG Borderlands in a nutshell as I can manage. Click here for more
Monday 2 November 2009, 4:52pm
Digg that anatopism!
In a moment of what I shall call 'Gladwellian mis-thinking' earlier today, the universe suggested that I spend too much time on the Net. And digg.com. Walking back from lunch earlier today, I saw a yellow poster on the back of a lorry. My first, split-second thought was, "Weird. Why's there a 'Digg This' button on the back of a lorry?" Click here for more
Friday 16 October 2009, 4:30pm
Giraffetweet: A geek, a girl and a weird use of Twitter
If you've never had a restaurant get in touch with you because it heard you had a crush on one of its waitresses, you might not fully appreciate how weird I found Twitter recently. Click here for more
Monday 21 September 2009, 4:05pm
Who the hell buys Crane Simulator games?
If you've exhausted every adrenaline-lined avenue of excitement thrown your way in life, perhaps it's time to sample the very latest in high-octane industrial lifting-machine simulation. Behold: Crane Simulator 2009 is now available! Click here for more
Tuesday 8 September 2009, 6:25pm
Twitter coming to Sonos
"See you at our stand tomorrow? Have something I want to show you." That was a message I received from Fiede Schillmoeller -- European PR for Sonos -- on Twitter, while on the site complaining about my hotel. Appropriately then, what he wanted to show me was a brand new Twitter-related Sonos update. Click here for more
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 5:11pm
Problems plague GoW2's Horde mode
Gears of War 2's Horde mode is the greatest multiplayer game ever made for a console. It's better than anything in Halo or Call Of Duty, and anyone who tells you otherwise is certain to be one of the fly-bitten foot-lickers who plays Gears 2 with a golden Lancer and have upper-case letters interspersed throughout lower-case in their Gamertag. But several problems prevent it from attaining perfection. Click here for more
Friday 21 August 2009, 10:36am
A bullet: I'd take one for Dropbox
If I ever meet the stranger who suggested I try Dropbox, I'll buy them ten beers. See, when Dropbox earned its place in my cloud storage feature, it also bagged itself a spot in the deepest recess of my aortic pump. For sharing files with friends and family, it's unrivalled in my opinion. Click here for more
Monday 17 August 2009, 3:09pm
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta DLC tested
A vast, eclectic wasteland of disturbed, often deformed bi-polar characters created a schizophrenic atmosphere in Fallout 3. New downloadable expansion Mothership Zeta abducts you away from all that -- and took my love of Fallout 3 with it. Click here for more
Articles by Nate Lanxon
HTC Smart: A smart phone that's cheap as chips -- Qualcomm chips, that is
Crave HTC has unveiled what it is claiming is a new type of smart phone, focusing on ease of use rather than advanced features, running on a platform built by chip-maker Qualcomm
Touché: UK Apple Stores to use iPod touches as credit-card readers
Crave Apple is preparing to phase out its portable credit card machines in UK Apple Stores, in favour of using iPod touches loaded with a special application and hardware adaptor
Toshiba NB300, NB305 netbooks: Snow White's a dwarf
Crave Toshiba has announced a pair of almost identical netbooks. Most such machines bore the pants off us, but these 10.1-inch models have a few interesting features
HP Slate gets face time in Microsoft keynote
Crave At Microsoft's CES keynote last night, CEO Steve Ballmer showed off HP's forthcoming tablet PC and, frankly, all we could think was, "Wow, that's a thick son of a gun"
Sennheiser RS 180: 'Lossless' wireless headphones
Crave Sennheiser's new £220 RS 180s are open-backed hi-fi cans but, unlike most, use a lossless wireless transmission system. This means CD quality audio gets to you without data being lost
Kindle DX now available in UK: It's not fat, it's big boned
Crave Amazon.com has announced it'll now ship an international version of its massive, designed-for-newspapers-and-textbooks Kindle to the UK -- but it'll cost you a fortune
Tablet PCs: Can we please calm the hype?
Crave Consumer demand is what you'd see if Ford said it was working on building a car powered by sneezes. It's not what we're seeing for tablet computers, so let's all calm down shall we?
Sony Alpha DSLR-A450: Low-end high-end
Crave Sony's dropped another almost affordable dSLR into the UK camera market -- the 14.2-megapixel A450 -- aimed at amateur photographers after something easy to use, it seems
