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Is music your life? Those who put up their hands to second that suggestion would definitely find the Zoom R8 to be at the top of their wanted list, or perhaps somewhere up there. Just what is the Zoom R8? This is touted to be the perfect tool if you need something to capture audio whenever, wherever you are. The Zoom R8 will merge a quartet of production tools in a single compact, versatile device. Apart from being an 8-track playback/2-track simultaneous recorder that makes sure all of your recordings end up on a SD memory card, the R8 will also double up as an audio interface, a control surface and a pad sampler.
According to James Tsaptsinos, Samson’s VP of Sales, “The R8 will fit in a guitar case, for a flexible, multi-track solution. More than ever before, Zoom users have all the tools necessary to create studio-quality recordings on-the-go.”

Since summer is already upon those of you living in the Northern Hemisphere, just what the heck are you doing at home, reading online news and staying cooped up all day long? Why not head outdoors and enjoy the sunshine while it lasts? After all, before you know it, autumn will be upon you and when you want to bask in the warmth of the noon day, that is no longer as fun as during summer itself. Not only that, gusts of wind will certainly thwart the flight of your Lateral Drift Remote Controlled Helicopter.
This remote controlled helicopter will offer more than just upwards, downwards and basic movement – it will also throw in side-to-side drifting movement that is something you hardly see. This is made possible thanks to a couple of horizontally oriented mini-rotors located on either side of the fuselage, and controlling this puppy is a snap. 40 minutes of charging will deliver seven minutes of flight – diminishing returns at its best for a $69.95 purchase.

What you are seeing here is an OLED “geo-cosmos” display at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.
It is designed to show images of the Earth taken from a meteorological satellite, along with all the clouds and storm fronts. It is about six-meters around, and it has a resolution of about 10 million pixels across 103,620 PMOLED panels, each measuring 96 square millimeters.
The OLED globe will be unveiled on June 11th, and will hang on the ceiling. I honestly wish that I was going to be in Japan at this time, just so I could see this thing. It looks like something that an evil overlord would have hanging on his headquarters ceiling like a disco ball.

Do you think that you have a respectable music collection that deserves the other people around you to learn how to appreciate what you have been enjoying all this while? If the answer is in the affirmative, then might we add that you will need to ditch that pair of earphones and settle for the TDK 3 Speaker Boombox instead. Why, you ask? Well, let me list down the reasons.
First of all, this £499.99 device looks great as a portable sound system in this day and age, where it will pay homage to ghetto blasters of the 1980s. Of course, expect top notch technology crammed inside, where you will be able to enjoy touch-sensitive controls as well as hook up a wide range of devices to it thanks to multiple audio inputs.
A 6″ subwoofer does a pretty bang up job of delivering bass, while the cassette deck is no longer there to keep up with the times. There are also two 6-inch drivers located on either side of it, and you can even blend inputs together if you want to let that creative music beast inside of you loose.

When it comes to making sure that you have the fastest rig in the market compared to the rest of your mates, surely overclocking your computer processor as well as other chips that are able to be overclocked is a great idea – but there is always the downside of voiding the warranty should something go awry, not to mention a higher level of power consumption. Oh yeah, there is the other problem that might literally get too hot to handle – the heat that builds up within a chassis due to an inadequate cooling solution.
Enter the NZXT Havik 140 CPU cooler which is actually a high-performance CPU cooler that comprises of 6mm heat pipes, in addition to dual standard 140mm fans and expertly engineered fan blades that will be able to offer unparalleled cooling performance. Not only that, Havik 140’s fan blades were specially designed to slice through the air with little or no effort at all, helping maximize ventilation (90.3 CFM) at drastically reduced noise levels (25db).

I guess that there is nothing that can be done with “pet” games other than linking them with real pets, but until that day, there is Wappy Dog.
Wappy Dog is from video games industry giant Activision, and the toy that you see in the picture is designed to wirelessly work in sync with a 3DS game. The Wappy Dog toy has light up cheeks that can express Wappy’s different mood states from unhappy to fully content via different colors.
As you might have guessed, the object is to make certain Wappy is a happy puppy, and to keep its cheeks the color of contentment. The player/user can talk to Wappy as it recognizes more than 18 different voice prompts, and it can respond with more than 350 barks that are “translated” with the 3DS.