Apple's new iPhone 3GS is not only fast, it's reportedly ludicrously hot, capable of burning man and beast. So with the help of science, we tried to see if ours would generate similar issues

Three decades ago, as people hefted boom boxes off their shoulders, they oooh'ed and ahhhh'ed in fascination at a little machine called the Walkman

During the day, we're mild-mannered tech bloggers, wearing glasses and looking moody in our vast, yet innocuous, Crave penthouse. But at night, we fight crime. We take on the persona of a creature of the night, black, terrible, shadowy -- we become the Ghost Pigeon.

To protect our loved ones, we have to keep our secret identity super-duper seekrit. That means hiding our calls and texts to the police commissioner, especially when we send him MMS messages with videos of us collaring a miscreant.

Luckily, just for people like us there's Ghost Pigeon software, a secret-phone-within-a-phone, which will hide your texts, MMS messages and calls.

Ghost Pigeon is invisible on the phone -- there's no icon in the menu. Instead, you launch the application by typing in a password. We installed Ghost Pigeon on our Nokia N95 8GB, and although it's visible in the list of installed apps, its name is well disguised.

Give your Web surfing a little more pizzazz with Cooliris, which renders your image search results in a cool 3D effect -- it's damn fast, too

Chris Anderson's controversial new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is not only a free download, but the first free audiobook on the popular streaming music service

The console maker is bringing the might of its marketing machine to bear on prime-time TV, as it teams up with Five for a new eight-part show

We spent a morning playing with the new 9-inch Windows 7 tablet PC coming later this year from Archos. It's both impressive and, crucially, not that expensive

At a press conference here in broiling London, Archos showed off its new line-up of MP3 players for the autumn, including the first sub-£100 model we actually like

Here are some things that aren't dead: Jeff Goldblum and plasma TVs. Of course, if you're reading this in 2050 there's a good chance that Jeff Goldblum is now dead, but if it's 2050, why on Earth are you reading about a plasma from 41 years ago? That's like us reading about a black and white TV in a little wooden cabinet. Anyway, how is the future? Are there hoverboards yet? Is 3D TV still a dismal waste of time? Please, do tell us all about your exciting futuristic lives via the comments section -- it's been fitted with a flux capacitor which should enable your thoughts to transcend the usual rules of linear time. So, as we were saying, plasma isn't dead, despite rumours to the contrary, and LG's 50PS6000 should help persuade you of this unassailable fact.

If you're sick of looking at that boring pre-Raphaelite masterpiece on your living room wall, get yourself a Drawbot -- everyone knows robots keep things interesting

The LG GT500 is a touchscreen phone with a 5-megapixel camera and HSDPA that won't break the bank, released this week exclusively on T-Mobile

The social network is gearing up for a major revamp of its privacy settings, which had become so sprawling and unmanageable that many users ignored them

Sony has unveiled its Europe-only NAS-Z200iR and CMT-Z100iR, a pair of feature-packed all-in-one iPod speakers. Allow us to take you on a whistle-stop tour of their finer features

2009 is the year of the Web browser. We've had the best version of Opera in history, the most impressive version of Safari, the beginnings of Google's Chrome on the Mac, and now a brand-new version of Firefox -- version 3.5, as we discussed this morning.

Three release candidates were released before the final version went public this week, and we've been using them for a couple of months. New features, all of which we've been testing, include an enormous speed boost, a private-browsing function to help keep sensitive data from prying eyes, and a feature that lets Firefox know where you're working from. But we'll come to those shortly, because we're going to talk about JavaScript first.

Sure, you got an iPhone to look cool on the train on to work, but don't forget that it does more collect face grease and make amusing fart noises. So whether it's from the patio of your Tuscan villa or from your sweaty commuter-packed carriage, this collection of iPhone apps will transform your iPhone into an office. Some are paid for, but many are free, and all links will take you direct to the iTunes App Store.

On its various digital channels, ITV shows three hours of Jeremy Kyle every day. That means there are 15 hours worth of glorious chav-baiting each week that we can't watch because we're busy writing terrific stories here. So what we need is some sort of device that can store massive amounts of non-ironic velour tracksuits and chunky gold identity bracelets. Luckily, Sagem has come to the rescue with a 500GB, twin-tuner Freeview+ PVR.

The ability to record the very scrapings of society's barrel is just the start. Sagem claims the 67500T is also eco-friendly, which means we'll still have a planet for people to argue on in 100 years.

Today is the 37th anniversary of the first Gay Pride march in England. More relevantly to our concerns, it's also the day new EU regulations come into effect that could slash the cost of using your mobile phone while abroad by more than half. So, a good day to be gay and on holiday.

There's a short version and a long version, after the jump.

Skype is the heavyweight champion of cheap Internet calling, and it's launched three new versions for Windows Mobile phones, iPhones and PCs

Remember the Samsung R610 laptop with the 'touch of red'? You know, that look like a small child had smeared red nail varnish over the front? It's being replaced with the red-free R620

Aimed at nail technicians and boxercise instructors who want a pretty little computer and not leave themselves too out of pocket, Dell introduces the Vostro 1220

Mozilla's attempt to "upgrade the Web", is now available for Windows and Mac, with a bunch of new features including a new JavaScript engine and private browsing

The Pet's Eye View Camera makes it easy to keep track of your dog or cat when you're not around

Doom Resurrection is a completely new game developed exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch by iD software. We've been smearing brains against walls all afternoon

From next year, Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others have agreed to use the same type of phone charger -- no more hunting round for a plug that fits just one phone

Having an iPhone means being chained to your charger -- but are Apple's promises of better battery life for the new 3GS model backed up by icy-cold facts? We lashed our smart phones down and found out

Online retailer Play.com has started offering unlocked, SIM-free versions of Apple's brand-new iPhone 3GS -- at a staggering price

Aston Martin looks set to translate the netbook philosophy to the world of cars with the Cygnet -- a dinkier, less expensive take on the luxury supercar

Celebrity deaths took on epidemic proportions on Twitter recently when a hacker used the site's allied picture service to break into famous accounts and get all Mark Twain

The Pirate Bay has been sold for £4.6m to Swedish Internet gaming cafe operator Global Gaming Factory AB X. CoughNapsterCough

Our favourite Apple joke is that the Mac has one game -- Marathon -- and Apple users are still playing it 250 years after it was first released. Horrifically, it seems we won't be able to use this time-honoured material much longer, as Apple is on its way to becoming one of the leaders in mobile gaming -- all because of the iPhone. It's not the only smart phone platform, of course, and Google's Android OS is building up a fine library of its own.

We've put together a list of the best value (free) games you can lay your hands on at the moment for Android. If you've got one of the rapidly expanding number of Android phones, this should help you get more out of it.

After taking a medical leave of absence in January, Steve Jobs on Monday officially resumed his work as chief executive of Apple.

"Steve is back to work," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, told Bloomberg News. Jobs will be working at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, for "a few days a week", and working from home on the rest, according to the report.

Jobs was initially said to be taking a break from work to focus on recuperating from a hormone imbalance. But, in April, he received a liver transplant from a hospital in Tennessee.

The HTC Hero will be made available SIM-free in the UK on 15 July, as shown by its pre-order status on Amazon's UK site.

The Hero will cost £430 through the online retailer. The handset is the first Android-based phone not to be tied exclusively to one operator, and will be available in the UK through Orange and T-Mobile, as well as unlocked and SIM-free.

Amazon put the Hero up for pre-order on 24 June. Orange has said it will sell the handset on contract from early July, and T-Mobile intends to begin sales from mid-July. Neither operator has given more specific timings.

Besides integrating into your Facebook profile, the 'social-media companion' can develop its own personality over time, move around your desk and react to physical stimuli

Dell is developing a pocket-sized Internet device using Google's Android operating system that could take on Apple's iPod touch, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

Two people who have seen early prototypes of the device told the newspaper it looks like the touch but is slightly larger. And, like the touch, the device isn't expected to include a phone. The device is considered part of a category of gadgets called 'mobile Internet devices' (MIDs), which are designed to fit into the market between a mobile phone and a laptop or netbook computer.

The device could go on sale as early as the second half of 2009, according to The Wall Street Journal's sources.

Continuing our sporadically added-to series of iTunes guides, here's a collection of four more-than-just-the-basics tips for getting more out of the software -- multiple libraries on single machines, the best uses for Smart Playlists, getting true CD-quality rips from your CD, and tips for getting perfect album art.

The new generation III Prius is greener and cleaner than its predecessors -- so we're keener. Especially when we learn it's faster too. Check out our video road test

Join us for our step-by-step, easy-to-follow, couldn't-be-simpler, seriously-your-gran-could-do-this guide to creating a compact disc full of tasty MP3-format music tracks

Good day, and welcome to today's Crave Live, from your humble Interwebitude compendium CNET UK, gathering gadget news and reviews for your delight and edification. Today we hopped on an omnibus and headed for swinging London Town, where skirts are short and the future is now: no, it's not a prop from Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future -- it's the new Olympus Pen E-P1. This 'retro-styled' technological marvel, known as a 'digital' camera, dispenses entirely with film -- whatever will they think of next?

Green light! As the XFR's accelerator pedals met with its soft downy carpet, so the guttural bellow of its V8 met the summery evening air. The race was on

Forty of the current top 100 songs, nine of the top 15 albums, and 25 of the top 30 music video downloads -- Michael Jackson's dominance in the iTunes charts must be making and breaking new records

The newest version of Sony's PlayStation Portable console -- the PSP Go (pictured) -- isn't even on sale yet, but the company is already looking ahead to what's next, according to Reuters.

The electronics giant is looking into making a combination gadget that would meld its PSP gaming system with the mobile phones made by Sony Ericsson, its joint venture with Swedish electronics maker Ericsson, according to Reuters, which cited the Nikkei business daily.

Sony reportedly plans to put together a team as early as July to begin development of the new device.

The Swedish High Court of Justice has ruled that the judge in the Pirate Bay trail was not biased, despite being a member of several intellectual property groups

Mattel is to release a game that lets players navigate a floating foam ball around an obstacle course using mind control.

Mindflex comes in two parts: a plastic obstacle course for a series of small foam balls, and a wireless headset. Control is by brainwave -- the headset measures the level of your concentration, and the more you concentrate the faster a little fan spins that's blowing the ball up in the air, which controls its height.

The goal is to move the little orb around the customisable course as quickly as you can (you control the speed of rotation with a hand-operated knob).

One of the hallmark features of the iPhone 3GS is video recording. Waterproofing, however, is not part of the package.

YouTube user KhenaKara was filming some poolside footage on his shiny new iPhone 3GS when disaster struck: the phone slipped out of his hand and into the depths of the swimming pool. Lucky for us, he put the video up on YouTube -- check it out after the jump.

Microsoft may sell Windows 7 on thumb drives so that owners of machines without a CD or DVD drive can upgrade to the new operating system

The penny has finally dropped on Windows 7 pricing here in Europe. The short version is that we're getting our own European version (Windows 7 E), of Microsoft's new operating system, at a selection of discount prices, depending on when you buy it.

Let's get one thing straight from the start: if you're in Europe, Microsoft has decreed you can't upgrade from your existing version of Windows to 7 E. You'll have to install 7 E from scratch, wiping out your current version and all your existing data.

Even though there's no upgrade version and you won't actually be upgrading, Microsoft has confused the issue by referring to the pricing as an 'upgrade price'. Confused? We don't blame you, as we certainly were. To make things clearer, we'll call it 'switching' to 7 E instead of 'upgrading'. Questions? Fire away!

We love HD -- that shouldn't come as much of a surprise -- but we're very worried indeed about Ofcom's proposals for Freeview HD. Find out why

Sony Ericsson's recently announced T715 slider features large buttons and fonts, and promises to look pretty sharp, too

When you want to know what's happening on the Web in real-time, Google won't cut the mustard. Here's some sites that will

On Wednesday, Apple allowed a developer to add images of topless women to the Hottest Girls app, potentially ushering in a new era of nudity on the App Store