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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 right. We will select two players. That is me. Does that look like me . It kind of those of does. Do...

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 company brilliant, one of the most Innovative Companies in mobile. Joined by chris from eweek and the repo...

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 technology. Were going to spend the first 30 minutes or so demonstrating the wii. Not only will we ...

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 average cost is zero. [laughter] if you were to buy this for your home, it costs a couple of hundred dol...

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 Housing Construction will double in the next four years. Thats great news. Mark zandi, thank you for bei...