In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, we breeze through our review of the iPad 2 (thinner, lighter, faster — you get the point) to get to a more interesting point: You don’t need to buy a 3G model thanks to widely available hot-spot capability.

In other tablet news, some chip analysts shaved away at the processor in the Samsung Galaxy Tab and found a secret message hidden inside, along with some quirky toons. Clever.

By the way — we have a winner for our Zibits giveaway: Congratulations, Wyatt Roy!

Mike Calore, Wired.com Reviews editor, joins the show to nerd out about some weapons of massive distraction: an automatic Nerf dart gun and a crazy bow-and-arrow toy — perfect for office warfare.

Calore closes the podcast with a look at the Buddha Machine, a handheld box that creates musical loops and plays them from a tiny speaker.

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Gadget Lab audio podcast No. 108