Gadgetory

hi everybody I'm Molly would welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week I know you're watching this from an ipad line but hey at least you didn't lose your phone that would be terrifying plus the end of the encyclopedia age but first the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the HP envy 14 Specter and man is this thing pretty the design is pretty brand-new in the laptop world and that is saying something the lid is one hundred percent Gorilla Glass the body is a 14-inch ultrabook and once you open it up it looks just enough like a macbook air to make sure you feel like one of the cool kids I do wish it how to standard 256 gig solid-state drive instead of 128 don't get me wrong this ain't no netbook the spectre starts at 1399 so plan to pay extra for the design although it is the kind of design worth paying for if you're not a fingerprint phobe of course because smudge central and now for the news the only gadget will be talking about come next week is of course the third-generation iPad which goes on sale on Friday Apple has cleverly stopped taking online orders so that they can guarantee big lines of excited people out front and that's actually really all we have to say about it except you know expect the normal like the big lines and the excitement and way too many news stories then the iPad actually seems to warrant and of course are full and in depth review on cnet com it's actually pretty amazing that iPad hysteria is getting kind of boring while no android tablet has really made it off the ground yet ouch in other news this week Walmart's will allow you to bring your old DVDs into the store and buy some digital access to them so you can stream your own movies back to yourself for a small fee about two to four dollars Walmart is using the new movie studio drm and digital distribution scheme called ultraviolet or as i like to call it pay me again this is why they won't let netflix have any good movies really speaking of coming into the digital age after two hundred forty-four years the encyclopedia your Britannica is going out of print and it's going online only the president of Encyclopedia Britannica said the web is just a better tool for information it's constantly updated and it's much more interactive and man somehow this seems like huge news I mean I really thought they'd get rid of the a and encyclopedia way before they would go digital and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes it's you on your phone constantly and so connected that you're actually afraid to be without your phone a new study finds that a fear called nomophobia is on the rise noma phobia is the fear of being without your cell phone this digital password company did a study and reported that sixty-six percent of the people polled said they were terrified to lose or be without their phones and women were more afraid than men also seventy-seven percent of people aged 18 to 24 reported feeling noma phobic treatment includes gradually spending more time away from the phone or just imagining spending time without it that's just ridiculous I mean come on people it's ridiculous and that's the buzzer port for this week everyone I'm Molly wood and thank you for watching you