this is darrick.hat he did starting his freshman year is create a room that is entirely controlled by either a wireless remote control, by voice commands. >> and motion detection. he uses his phone or his computer to open the curtains, close them, turn on the lights, turn them off. i hate getting up at night to turn off the lamps. i hate it. he just sees, sleep mode. and everything goes off and the curtains close. >> that's cool. >> i love this. i hope he gets class credit. no wonder he went to berkeley, smart kids go there. >> romantic mode. >> no dorm room is complete without the romantic mood. >> what happens if he says party mode. >> music, disco balls, colored lights. >> this got a whole lot cooler. first cool but nerdy. now he's got the whole party theme going on, too. it's a nice mix of tech, nerd, and cool. >> wake, sleep, party, party, wake, sleep. >> the room goes crazy. >> that's it for our show, everybody. we're going to leave you with a cool music video that's been number one for a couple

as soon as it was obvious that she wanted to play with other kids we sent her to darrick. to do what's best -- day care. we wants to do what's best for the children. the childcare supplements make that possible. >> nina receives money for looking after the children at home. the 30-year-old also works evenings as a nurse when her husband is at home. norway is an expensive country. >> even though we get the childcare supplement, which is a great help, in the current situation, the fact that nina stays home is unusual, and especially in oslo, where everything is extremely expensive, many couples don't have a choice, both have to work full time. >> most mothers are forced to work all day as well as run the house hotel. i don't know. i think it has something to do we quality. >> fewer and fewer families are drawing the suppments. in 1999 almost 3/4 of women stayed at home with their toddlers. last year, it was just one in five. annie of norway's mini city, thinks the supplements should be abolished. she said the results of the study and their social consequences were alarming.

darrick brown is a democrat of course. what was unexpected about the budgeting process? caller: people were very hopeful this year. of the deposition would be only around $9 billion. they thought the economy was rebounding fast enough and tax revenues would come in and a higher rate. what surprises some people with the deficit was much larger, $16 billion. for people who were talking about turning the page on california's budget problems, this was an awakening. host: let's take a look at some of the cuts we are talking about. $0.3 billion in spending cuts. reducing the state's work week. -- $8.3 billion in spending. spending and what else might be on the chopping block for kids and the elderly? caller: medicare is one of the biggest items where there will be a cut its governor brown oppose the plan goes forward. -- medi-cal. the state has had problems with the federal government and the federal government rejected some cal. to accoumedi- the state is trying to find other ways to save money, by cutting different programs or retooling their proposals from before. up evene