Gadgetory

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 a google double latte astronomical mtg's and yeah twitter but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the logitech harmony 900 which are normally reserved New York reviews team called the best universal remote control we've ever tested yeah what that means is that it's easy to set up it looks pretty and it actually works with all your home theater components no matter how many you have and it doesn't like fail to turn on the TV when it turns on everything else and it can do this because it now includes RF yeah and it's awesome and I love the part of my job is to get this excited about a remote control fired up and I don't mean to be a buzzkill but it does cost four hundred dollars just a little side note we love it though google is testing out a new version of google they're calling it google caffeine and they invited people to try out its next-generation infrastructure on a special sandboxed page now I tried it and I found that the search results weren't significantly different from regular Google so congratulations Google you're already perfect sorry Bing in other news GM announced this week that its electric car the 2011 Chevy Volt could get an epa fuel efficiency rating of 230 miles per gallon and then Nissan immediately came out with the trash talking saying that its electric vehicle the leaf will actually get 367 miles per gallon and you are pathetic chevy volt and you should be ashamed for trying to kill the environment like that see but because i personally think that since my car it's 25 miles per gallon that once you're up to like 200 miles per gallon it's a slightly academic argument and i will take one of each and now here's the latest on the ill-fated large hadron collider plagued by helium leaks the LHC is now set to restart in november but at only half the and it was designed for or as the Silicon Valley com blog cleverly put it it'll restart as the mid-size Hadron Collider and at this rate by 2010 or so it'll be the extremely sorry forget we were ever here never mind about us just a big hole in the ground really Hadron Collider poor thing at least it's probably not going to kill us all and now for the big buzz of the week non stop freaking twitter news twitter seems to be on some sort of rampage of popularity and pop coverage this week it was all about how the wife of twitter co-founder evan williams was twittering her child birth and the uk's Royal Opera House has pledged to perform an opera that will be written entirely by Twitter users Oh God and also government documents show that the military is monitoring Twitter to see how people react to high-profile events and to try to engage in damage control where necessary and of course the world was struggling to recover from last week's Twitter outage which appears to have been a malicious attack launched by some people in Russia trying to take down a single Georgian blogger who was stirring up political tensions on twitter and facebook and our relief was short-lived as more attacks hit the service on tuesday so I'm wondering is twitter just too big of a deal right do we all just need to take a break yes yes it is but it's okay friendster myspace Facebook Google blogs YouTube news groups and the World Wide Web have also all been at some point too big of a deal all this has happened before and will happen again and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching