Science Week: What’s the next gadget that you want to buy?
Thursday, November 15th, 2007To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics - each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition.
“Q2 - What’s the next gadget that you want to buy?”
There are about a million and one gadgets that I’d love to get my hands on as soon as possible if I could afford it but the next gadget that I need and want to buy has to be the Zoom H4.
The Zoom H4 is a portable digital audio recording device which I’m looking to invest in for the production of my side-project Dáil30. Without a decent audio recorder the project just isn’t going to take off and that’s not something I want to see happen.
What’s so attractive about the H4, besides the fact that I can use decent quality external microphones and record at a decent quality on the go, is its storage medium - SD card.
I’ve just ordered myself a 2GB SD Mini card with an SD adaptor which I plan to use for this device. What that basically means is that I can pop my adapted SD Mini card into the H4 and record an interview; then on the bus journey home I can take the card out of the adaptor, slot it into my Nokia N80 and listen back to see how it sounds; then once I get home I can drop it back into the adaptor and slide it into my laptop’s built-in SD card reader for editing and production. Now if that isn’t some form of convergence, I don’t know what is.
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November 17th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
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