It lwill be longer thinner it will have the next generation wireless which means it will be super fast. alof the buzz is about the dock connector on the bottom. this thing is about 10 years old the one i am holding in my hand it has the long dock we had it for the ipod many years. it will be shorter tinier dock. if you have an old alarm clock you like to set your current iphone on top of time to make an upgrade because this will be gone. that s the thing. then you have to buy all of these other products to be compatible. 10-year-old technology look how large this is now. i am one of the folks who likes to keep stuff for a while. you still have an 8 track? i do. no. i am kidding. thank you clayton. cool tips. the time right now 54 after the hour. coming up a raging electric fire due to last night s severe weather. something turned even more dangerous. we will have that story. it s your word of the day all scrambled up. can you figure out what it is?
That crash coming ahead of today s 2012 olympic openings in london. that is expected to light up the major social networks. twitter went down twice in the same day in late june. do you feel like all of today s pop songs sound the same. you may be right. a new study shows today s music has less variation in cords and melodies than music from the 50s and 60s. the study also shows today s music is louder than it was 50 years ago. it is time for gadgets for dummies. our own tech guru clayton morris is here with all of the latest going on in this tech world. at first we are going to talk about google trying to get into the high speed internet game. google fiber rolling out in kansas city. they teased us with this saying hey one lucky city we are going to create high speed internet in your town 100 giga bites. this is sauper fast internet so
Details for the kentucky derby. have you girls been? no. have you? i haven t. all of us. we will do fox friends first there. yes, let s do it. it is gadget time and our tech guru clayton morris has must have gizmos. thank you for joining us. this is luggage. i know, luggage. it was one of the big hits at the travel show this year. the company launched biaggi. other wheel rollers exist. they pop out of a little tote bag fully unhook and extend to a full suitcase. when you are done you flip the little switch down inside and it pops back up. folds back up and can slide right back under your bed or in your hotel space or in your home you don t want to have a full
Hopefully a back facing camera, also, so you can do face time and do skype chat as well. it s going to be much lighter. one of the big complaints, gretchen, you were saying it s so heavy, the current ipad. you sit in bed with it and fall asleep with it, it smashes you in the face a little bit. the new ipad will be much, much lighter. that was going to be my question, a woman who puts it in the bag, it s a little heavy. how much is this thing going to cost, though? well, i really think it s going to probably stick to the same price point or drop a little bit. it s $499 for the current ipad. and that just shows you the competition out there, motorola zoom tablet is $600. so they ve got the supply chain locked up and no one can really compete with them. clayton, you take your ipad to bed? i do. i sleep with it every night. i give it milk and cookies. oh! as a newlywed, i would suggest not. that s why you re the tech guru. all right, clayton. thanks for getting up so early. s
Descending on this building behind me here. and think about it last year at this time. we had just learned about the first ipad, the first ipad launch. no one knew if it would be a success. now they ve sold 15 million of these bad boys in one year. it was the hottest gadget for christmas according to consumer reports. so we are expecting to see some pretty big changes for the ipod 2, guys. in fact, really the thing that apple has to do, clayton is really outdo the competition because there are other tablets out there that already have cameras where you can talk and stuff like that. they got to really hit the ball way down the road. right. and a little bit later today, there s going to be a moot point because all the tablets we ve seen, the motorola zoom tablet is competing with last year s ipad. we ll see a super fast high processor, not fast but wicked fast. it s going to get 10 to 12 hours on this current ipad and you ll have the new camera, front facing.