Gadgetory

bye hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everybody's talking about this week it's star trek windows 7 and the new kindle speaking of which let's get to the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the amazon kindle DX of course it's the new much larger version of the kindle two and it's aimed at college students and newspaper readers it's not much different from the standard kindle aside from the colossal size it has a little more storage capacity there's PDF viewing mm the ability to switch from landscape to portrait mode by rotating it oh and did I forget the headline it costs four hundred and eighty-nine dollars yeah I guess they figured that once you drop in the word textbook you can charge whatever you want but so okay now there are two Kindles and ones for newspapers and text books and one is just for regular books so like I've got my old kindle two for books but apparently that's no good for textbooks or newspaper subscriptions so I'm going to need the new giant kindle but then neither of those can really surf the web or anything so like I need a netbook to so that I can surf and do email but then this can't make phone calls so I also need my iphone which can surf and do email and read books but the screens not really big enough to do all of those things all the time I guess and then anyway I can't watch DVDs on any of those or use Photoshop or play games and they don't have enough storage so i need this bigger laptop right here and actually maybe I mean if I really need horsepower now I'm gonna need a big old pc like those are here and then now I need a way bigger house and a back brace too far amazon too far and now for the news the windows 7 release candidate hit the tubes on tuesday with pretty cool new support for streaming media between two windows 7 enabled computers and some other nifty features but like most windows news it came with a pretty big buzz kill the XP Mode that's supposed to make it easier to use older software with windows 7 won't work on a whole lot of intel laptops I mean it's probably not a huge deal for most people because there aren't that many XP specific apps but you know like come on Microsoft just have a good day will ya killing me okay in geek pop news of the week there's a certain movie opening that's got everyone a buzz and it sent me on a pretty nifty little field trip now I'm here in the hallway at Industrial Light & Magic or as i like to call it nerdvana where we got a sneak peek at the new movie star trek what kind of comment Randy huh fancy Ridgell beyond I think the characterizations and the emotional connection between the characters you will see something else that I think you've never seen before in the Star Trek stories are took movie brought you know platform film which is visual effects at a quality that it deserves gentlemen we're approaching the drop zone get one shot to land on that wet they have defenses employer shoots late as possible three two one remember the enterprise won't be able to beam you back so you turn off that drill good luck we had these wind machines I I mean it's sometimes I could barely stand in it and our suits were though gorgeous we're difficult to move in there to being so it took some effort to just do to get a cup of coffee to your mouth oh okay I don't want to do a big star trek ad I mean whatever I want to see it but dudes you should see Industrial Light & Magic check it out also I wonder if those ILM people feel like star traders you know they're owned by Lucasfilm right awkward and finally I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped seen at TV when a people's voice award in this year's webbie's I know we nagged you a lot to vote but you did you are awesome it means a lot to me personally and everyone else here at cnet TV so thank you and I just hope they let me go to the party and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching