Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wooden welcome to the bus report this week a mini-computer 7 billion baht murders and android falls apart but first it's the gadje of the week the gadget of the week is the cherry pal desktop it's a computer although you'd hardly know it it's super tiny it cost two hundred and forty nine dollars there's no operating system and it's got only four gigabytes of on-board storage it's a terminal computer my friends it's just a super cute one the operating system is the Firefox browser and the idea is that you buy one of these little jobbies get on the internet and you store all your information in the cloud like facebook or myspace or amazon s3 or gmail well except not facebook so they can't be trusted but anywhere else I love this and now for the news according to Oh gizmodo com the official body count for halo 3 has surpassed the population of Earth almost seven billion enemies have been killed in the halo verse while the world population is hanging in there at roughly six billion 705 million 66,000 871 the milestone was apparently reached sometime last month and they say the video game world is too violent I mean what's a little virtual annihilation of the human race it's just for fun analysts are starting to wonder whether Android the big open source mobile software platform headed by Google is falling apart word has it that Google is spending so much time getting t-mobile's Android device done by the fourth quarter that sprint won't get a phone out this year plus developers are starting to revolt over what they see is poor communication and a lack of openness in the super open standards project trouble in Android land um yes why because Google is like a five-year-old with a billion-dollar allowance I want a video sharing site I want to do an office suite I want to do VoIP I want to go to Mars I want to build cell phones wait you now I want to go to Mars on a robot Teletubby and then the cell phone industry is like mean parents with lots of rules because they secretly rather die then allow totally open devices on their networks that run any old application or service that they don't get to charge for and me while the developers are like out of control monkeys who are thinking I can build any app I want that does anything on a cell phone okay this one is going to remote control satellites up in space while video conferencing with the Norwegian Lyon babies and it's also going to write term papers using an advanced algorithm that makes it sound like a kid wrote it oh yeah the interface will be super simple though recipe for disaster am I the only one who saw this coming really and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes this week it's the culmination of the where the hell is Matt adventure this guy's been traveling around to different places doing a little dance since like 2006 with corporate sponsorship and last year his sponsor set him around the world to the dance with other people the final video went up on YouTube about this time last month and I dare you not to watch it and just like maybe cheer up a little bit it's just that song so good and all those people look so happy you shut up you just watch the whole thing you're gonna cry you'll see I'm Molly wooden this has been the buzzer board thanks for watching