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Zoom H1: Studio-Quality Audio Recording On a Stick

The Zoom H2, an ice cream sandwich-shaped portable audio recorder, has long been a favorite for its sturdy build and studio-quality mics. Now there’s the H1, its smaller, popsicle-shaped brother; it still sounds great, and now it looks great, too. The H1 is Zoom’s smallest recorder to date, but nothing is sacrificed for its size;…

Military Roomba Cleans Land Mines With Explosions

Like its domestic ancestor, iRobot’s new military robot is also a cleaning machine. But instead of dust devils, this one cleans land mines and barbwire obstacles. It works using the Mk7 Anti-personell Obstacle Breaching System. Not subtle, but extremely effective. The robot—called Warrior—is like a light version of the British Python and the American M58…

Show Your Love of Music (Even If It Is Just Prince You Listen To)

I’m imagining pre-teen boy’s bedroom, rather than aging audiophile’s listening-room, but wherever you stick this cassette deck shelf or the equalizer coat-hangers, you’ll be able to smugly answer “they’re Italian” whenever visitors ask where they’re from. Rocket is the name of the company, which specializes in music-themed furniture, including guitar-shaped coffee tables and headphone-shaped napkin…

Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen

It’s easy to forget how much time computer word-processing programs have saved the writing public. Before computers, any typewritten document that needed revision had to be retyped again and again. And that’s hardly the end of it. Photos: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Total up all the hours that people spent whiting out errors before the Delete key…

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The United States of Supercomputing Against the World

Without counting secret machines, this is the state of supercomputing in the world: The United States’ government, companies, and universities have more computing power than the rest of the world combined. Each square within each country represents one supercomputer. The first position goes to the 1.75-petaflop-per-second Cray’s Jaguar, housed at the Department of Energy’s Oak…

Android Head: Updates Coming Once a Year Eventually

Andy Rubin—Google’s lead Android—gave a brief interview with the San Jose Mercury News that yielded one big nugget: at some point in the not too distant future, Android updates will scale back to once a year. That might seem like a step backwards, but it’s actually likely in the best interest of the platform. It’s…

Gadget Deals of the Day

Another reason why three day weekends are awesome: the four day work week. If skipping Monday doesn’t bring a smile to your face, then these latest deals should. Dealzmodo is bringing tons of savings today. Check them out! Top Deals: • 1TB Western Digital Elements WDBAAU0010HBK-NESN External USB 2.0 HDD for $69.99 with free shipping…

Can Your External Hard Drive Make a Latte?

Neither can a Seagate GoFlex drive—but you can save all of the recipes you want on the world’s most upgradable portable drive. Reliable, secure storage, plug-and-play design, remote content access, and the ability to use it on both Mac and PC are just a few reasons to check out the GoFlex drive family. Meet some…

Play Top Trumps With Valuable Artworks Using the Tate Museum’s iPhone App

You remember the Top Trumps games right, where you have to outdo your opponent with a stronger/faster/leaner/meaner dinosaur/footballer/celebrity/poo? The Tate museum of London has created a decidedly more high-brow version, in the form of a free iPhone app. It’s a fun and interactive way to make visiting the Tate museum more entertaining, with various games…

Spot the IT Guy

Okay, time to play a little game. Looking only at the profile pictures—and not the job descriptions—which of these Deans Property employees is the IT guy? Hint: it’s definitely not a trick question. [Deans Property via Buzzfeed]

Microsoft Isn’t Worried About This Android Tablet Nonsense

Android tablets? Sure, Microsoft exec Steve Guggenheimer’s heard of them. That doesn’t mean he thinks they’re worth a toot, at least not in this WSJ interview. A bold stance! And one that doesn’t really hold up. Guggenheimer was speaking at Computex, and may have just been flush with excitement the announcement over Asus’ Windows 7…

HP’s New 30″ ZR30w Display Can Show Over a Billion Colors

HP’s new ZR30w S-IPS LCD display has a color resolution of 30-bits per pixel, resulting in some 1.07 billion displayable colors. If you’re keeping count, that’s about 64 times as many as you can see on an average LCD. The ZR30w has a 2560 x 1600 resolution—over 4 million pixels in all—though it’s targeted towards…

Smokescreen Converts Flash to JavaScript On the Fly

Now this is interesting. Smokescreen, written by Chris Smoak, is a “Flash player written in JavaScript” that takes Flash objects and converts them to JavaScript in real time. What’s that mean? Well, it means it can allow Flash to work where it isn’t supported, such as on the iPad. Here’s how it works: It runs…

168 Gizmodo Reader Self-Portraits

For this week’s Shooting Challenge, 168 of you were brave enough to not only share your photography, but to share a little piece of yourself with it. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes haunting and sometimes beautiful. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-self-portrait-5548426 Lead Shot Black backdrop behind my head 2 Costco cat food containers on either side of my…

Shooting Challenge: Self-Portrait Gallery Part 3

My trusty Canon PowerShot SX200 IS @ ISO 800, f3.4, 1/8th of a second. No flash. -Steyn De Klerk I am submitting this entry in behalf of my 2 year-old daughter Elizabeth. This photo perfectly captures my daughter’s yearning to be a beautiful princess. D300 18-200 @ 18mm 1/40 sec f5.6 ISO 400 -Lance Sugden…

Shooting Challenge: Self-Portrait Gallery Part 1

I took this picture using a complex series of mirrors and the Nikon D80 featured in the picture. The composition is actually my reflection. The lens was a Nikon Nikkor 50.0 mm f/1.4. It was shot in manual mode. The Shutter Speed was 1/25 with an F-Stop of 3.5. The ISO was set at 500.…

Shooting Challenge: Self-Portrait Gallery Part 2

I took this shot with my Sony a200. Settings 1/40 F5.6 and ISO 1600 -Ashley Young Camera: Canon 20D Lens: 24mm F: 2.2 Speed: 1/40 ISO: 100 the flame is real as well, ie not photoshopped in. i set up my camera on a tripod, set up the lights and had to take the picture…

Splinter Cell Conviction for iPhone: Stealth!

There are games where you blast, and there are game where you sneak. The iPhone has a wide selection of the former, but real stealth games, not so much. Splinter Cell, then, is more than welcome to the App Store. It’s always interesting to see a well-known game franchise fold itself up, suck its belly…

One Day, Steve Will Announce This Crap and You’ll Buy It

Sure, the iPad weigh is a stupid concept but, one day, someone in black and denim will say “Boom! Isn’t that great?” and some people will think is the magicalest gadget ever. [Walyou via Krapps]