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GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab – Gadget Zone

Gadget — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:58:16 +0000

GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab

Kids absolutely love making a din, and if your house has kids and it is too quiet for comfort, you can bet your bottom dollar that they’re up to something. Why not get the GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab to augment their latent musical abilities? This device helps them learn more about sound and electronics without coming across as boring, offering up to 59 projects in total. The GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab will enable your little one to learn how to build various devices like a rhythmic sound generator, a digital voice recorder, an electronic parrot, a voice alarm and a voice changer among others.

All the components for these projects are permanently installed on the GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab; all your little ones will have to do is connect them in the proper sequence using the connection wires. The project guide will not only show them the order of the wires, but also explain how the different electronic parts (transistor, capacitor, resistor, etc) are actually working. Your kids will start with the GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab and learn so much they will quickly ease into a career designing layered sound effects for Skywalker Sound. Trust us.

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Roxio makes VHS to DVD conversion a snap – Gadget Zone

Gadget — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:54:37 +0000

Roxio

While the world has long stopped worshiping VHS tapes, that doesn’t mean there isn’t anyone on this earth using VHS tapes in their hopes or offices any more. After all, many Third World countries that have yet to make the jump across the digital divide still rely heavily upon this analog format to store their favorite memories on video. Granted, finding a working VHS player these days is pretty hard to do so, and if yours is still working, take good care of it! The repair cost will be astronomical, where most repairmen would recommend you to pick up a new DVD recorder instead. For those who still have a working VHS player and a bunch of VHS tapes sitting at home, why not immortalize them for posterity in a modern digital format? This is made possible with Roxio’s Easy VHS to DVD for Mac – a choice combination of hardware and software.

All you need to do to convert your bunch of analog content into the digital format would be to hook up the included USB video capture device to a Mac’s USB 2.0 port, where it allows you to record from virtually any analog video source. Both S-Video and composite-video input cables allow for full resolution DVD recording from a plethora of ancient devices including VCRs, VCR/DVD combo players and analog camcorders like those archaic Hi8 and V8 models. When transferred over to DVD, the story does not end there since you will have the advantage of exporting it to iMovie for further editing. In fact, I remember walking past a photo shop just last night when it had a banner hanging outside, saying “Save is not safe!” – so saving all those analog VHS tapes might be folly in the long run, why not transfer them over to the digital format for added peace of mind? Roxio’s Easy VHS to DVD for Mac will cost you $79.99.

Scratch: The Ultimate DJ – Gadget Zone

Gadget — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:24:35 +0000

Scratch: The Ultimate DJ

“Go DJ! Yeah DJ!” That’s the jingle for Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, a new video game with a controller that is quite similar to DJ Hero.

As you can see, it comes with a turntable with a somewhat authentic vinyl record attached to it. There may not be an arm for you to scratch up the vinyl, but there are five buttons with a cross-fader. Scratch will allow the player to upload samples with a compatible USB mic, as well as use the preloaded ones.

As of now, I am not certain what console this will be available for. You might be able to see that there is an X, circle, square, and triangle for the buttons, so is it for Sony Playstation? The peripheral certainly seems versatile enough to be used for any console system, even a PC.

I believe that I previously mentioned how the controller on Scratch resembles the one for DJ Hero. If I had to choose the one that I would use, I would probably use the one from Scratch, as its buttons are on the side of the turntable and not on the turntable itself.

By the way, the Scratch controller can be used by both left-handed and right-handed players. I’m not certain if DJ Hero allots for that.