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Alicia from the Independent Living Center in San Francisco. It is great for all of you to be here today. People will be trickling in over the next half hour. We will give you a taste of what wii is like. We have set up the game. I will start by playing mackeena in a game of tennis. The interesting thing about wii is we use this little remote. Just by moving our arms, we can control movement on the screen. You will be watching up on the big screen as we play a game of tennis. Are you ready . All ...

Yeah, tweezers. So the manufacturers could see if they were stocked properly. Tight about five minutes. I picked up the extra work through an app called gigwalk. Turns out gig walkers are all around us, regular folks with regular jobs and a smartphone doing small tasks for a little extra pocket money. A mobile workforce of more than 300,000 users and growing all controlled by a small startup in san francisco. Matt is one of three gigwalk founders, all former yahoo engineers, cnn calls the compan...

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the technology summit. We are looking forward to a fantastic day. We are going to start with a demonstration of the wii system. It is an Interactive Gaming system that allows people to play different activities and participate in different fitness activities together. A lot of wii systems, about 40, are being deployed around the city to different Senior Centers and residents facilities to encourage older adults to get more involved with physical activity using...

We use the wii. Questions . The question is, do you have to have a special computer to connect the wii to a television . The answer is no. This box is the council. You plug the cd into it and plug into the tv. Any television will work with the wii. It works well with a big flat screen tv because you can see the action better. Good question. One more question. Allen . The average cost . If you are one of the contract in city Senior Centers, this is part of our Broadband Technology grant, the aver...

Welcome back welcome back to squawk. Lets get back to our guest host mark zandi who has the last word. All morning ive been talking about the next couple of quarters and i sound dark, and i dont mean to. I am very optimist being. What happened to the last two hours . You forced me. In the next couple of three quarters we cant look past that that i do think we have issues in the next few months, but ill give you one more last statistic. Every housing start requires five jobs for one year and Hous...

Of the screen. They will choose two players. We have created a character that looks a lot like alicia and another character that looks like mackenna. They will be playing against each other in a game of tennis. All right. All they do is simply stand facing the television. You will push a. Hit ok. Hit a. Hit a and b together. Here we go. Single game start. Alicia will be serving. Mackenna will be receiving the surf. We will see what happens. By using her head, she is able to serve. Nice shot. Mac...

Im john berman. Hello. Im kate would jua by our count it has been about 12 hours since Donald Trumps last comments on the feud with the family of the fallen u. S. Soldier. Well have to see what he says when he takes the stage. Were also watching the white house right now. President obama about to hold a joint News Conference for the Prime Minister of singapore. Thats the main subject. You can bet the president will be asked about donald trump and about gold star parents khizer kh khan. It will b...

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The latest poll Shows Hillary clinton enjoying a surge after the Democratic Convention. In a cnn poll taken over the weekend, clinton leads trump by nine points and its the third survey to give her a convention bounce. Here is our political panel, charlie hurt, columnist with the washington times. Charles krauthammer, editor at national journal. Charlie, hillary is up, got that convention bounce. The question is how long can it last . Can she keep it . Both candidates are donned by controversy w...

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