Gadgetory

hey it's Brian Cooley again in for Molly Wood who finally realized being spit up on it's still better than a day back at the office welcome to the buzz report first our gadget of the week it's the iphone not wait wait the refurbished iphone apple just added these hand-me-down versions of the most desirable thing ever to the apple store for a 100 dollar discount each that's about twenty percent off the 4 gigabyte model not bad but the damn things will have been on the market a couple of months how many retrans can they have already well let's see there was buzz a couple weeks back that Apple was doing a lot of warranty exchanges due to low caller volume and lousy battery life and there will be some masochist who bought their iPhone and then brought it back deciding they just didn't deserve the coolest gadget ever invented but I bet the iphone refurb warehouse smells like beer never before have so many folks made so many friends at so many bars just because they bought a new cell phone and there's always that guy who knocks over the pitcher and then your new iphone suddenly stopped charging right right thought so now the news what do you get when you combine the power of Microsoft with the massive hypnotist a bunch of crap that would be the urge music service those two companies ran jointly non-starter so the rumor is MTV is now going to try hooking up with real networks to make another run at building an iTunes killer this time based on rhapsody i'm not sure which of these two should be more nervous about the other real by teaming up with perhaps the hippest major media company that doesn't have an important internet play or MTV if it gets in bed with rhapsody which is way past the go big or go home point in comparison to itunes maybe MTV should just purge itself of the whole idea and stick with what it knows best TV for by and about morons oh it may be the 21st century but a pair deals done in smoky back rooms over rubber banded wads of filthy lucre still happen I mean what else could explain paramount and DreamWorks announcing they will embrace HD DVD / blu-ray exclusively huh I'd have an easier time understanding a bet on Michael Vick to be super bowl MVP in this season but paramount and DreamWorks are now committed to the distant runner-up in the high-def disc sales race I guess in a way they're doing their part to end consumer angst over which format to buy because with this much confusion now it's easier than ever to just get both and finally frozen smoke sounds like a hallucinogenic you'd buy from the back door of the musical ice cream truck doesn't it but it's not rather scientists are proclaiming this a material that will change the world and no these aren't the same scientist who did the Segway this is a silica gel which has the water removed and co2 added back in and result is it looks like frozen smoke but it's able to withstand the force of a bomb blast or heat as high as 1,300 degrees Celsius finally a material they can make sony laptop batteries out of i'm brian cooley thanks for watching the buzz report you