Gadgetory

hello it's Brian Cooley in from hollywood whose home debugging the world's first gps buoy diaper locator welcome to the buzz report first our gadget of the week this week the first gadget of the week with a lineage to a double 07 villain phantom 337 isn't she Goldfinger who drove a 1937 rolls phantom today's rolls-royce phantom is a little more pricey starting at three hundred and thirty three thousand dollars and rising quickly with options like $10,000 rear seat video screens a three-thousand-dollar front bow camera and this trick double oh seven ish nav screen but here's what I like best if you own and drive one of these you can actually go to a party in mutter know Mr Bond I expect you to die and people might actually not think you're a total dork I'm not making this up by the way we had one here at CNN check out my brand new video in the car channel here on cnet TV now the news the scale lies the mirror lies the camera lies but your printer you betcha a new study just found that when many inkjet printers say they're out of ink they're lying and that's expensive tuv did this study at the request of epson which wanted to prove that its single ink cartridges are less wasteful so yeah the results labeled lexmark Canon an HP all as big ink liars telling you to toss the cartridge when there's a bunch of at least one color left and one printer the kodak easyshare 5300 lies like a rug wasting sixty-four percent of its ink but here's the worst part Epson printers from the company that commissioned this study waste twenty percent of their ink do they really want a printing merit badge for that okay time to dig into the goofy things Google does folder it's a thick one the company has just kicked in 10 million dollars to incent development of plug-in hybrid cars these are hybrids you plug in at night to get even more electric driving range an MPG of near a hundred now there's no business goal here the 10 million came from google's charitable arm and you may scoff at funding plug-in hybrids but for me anything is better than one more Silicon Valley billionaire launching a damn rocket ship and this fall's new version of grand theft auto GTA 4 is going to offer to downloadable episodes available only for the xbox 360 the execs at Microsoft paid 50 million dollars for this but reportedly left all the creative control in the hands of take-two interactive so gameplay like Busta 40-ounce then relieve yourself in Google's lobby or empty your mac-10 into a Sun server or chillin the crib with a copy of windows server 2003 those were all taped tues idea or so I'm told I'm Brian Cooley this has been the buzz report thanks for watching