Gadgetory

uh-huh welcome to the buzz report hmm I'm Brian Cooley in for Molly Wood who is busy with a real time critical message deployment in other words she just called in sick first the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is Bailey okay sick hi whatever here's the real gadget of the week the speaker I pig iPod docking station yep shaped like a little piggy who spent too much time at the trough you stroke the years to adjust the volume the little mouth lights up and the eyes belly and ears all contain speakers how stupid don't they know super lucky kitties forward-facing ears accommodate tweeters in a way that creates a much more accurate soundstage blockbusters doing its damnedest to stay irrelevant again this week announcing it will soon be an online service on tivo's this will be the first time you find the internet movie blood rivals Netflix and blockbuster on one box but there the similarities end netflix streaming on tivo great blockbuster streaming on tebow a rental fee Netflix pioneer DVDs by mail blockbuster still operates 4,000 stores based on the idea that deploying a 4,000 pound car to go pick up a one ounce plastic disc is a good clear piece of thinking and Netflix as well as TiVo both pioneered new media delivery models blockbuster pioneered well chasing company's that pioneered new delivery models you'll be hearing lots of new promos for HD radio on your local broadcast stations that's because industry research this week showed that most people don't understand they need an HD radio to hear HD radio they think they're already getting it Wow if all those listeners think no improvement in quality sounds good they're going to flat-out faint when they hear the real thing it was easier back in the day they gave us clues when color TV came out it was real easy to tell you weren't getting color this HD radio things kind of slippery and finally one of those stories that makes your local six o'clock news anchors crack their makeup as they bend their faces into one of those looks of fake Ernest joy after 21 years in a wheelchair a paraplegic man in California has a tingling sensation and movement in his legs again Kristin and he's now walking cured by the bite of a brown recluse spider our Tom Merritt kicks off team coverage sorry interestingly the buzz online is that this story may be a crock you see you don't really find brown recluse spiders in California speculation is the guy's legs have probably been healing gradually on their own and it took an insect bite of some kind to get him back into a hospital where the staff noticed I'm happy for him but for all of you who are about to drop a brown recluse spider down your pants hoping for a tingling sensation and movement stop that's the buzz report I'm Brian Cooley molly's back next week you