sam grobart reports. racks and shelves contain a lot of books. >> for thousands of years, we humans have been pretty good at the whole reading thing. in most places we do at the same way. restart start with our eyes on one side of the page and remove them across to the other. and a company called spritz is looking to change all of that. consider presenting words and sentences that i scan over, it presents words sequentially, one after another. why would you want to read this way? there may be to benefits. for starters, if you are presenting things were better word, you don't actually need a very large display to read longer texts. in fact, samsung has hooked up with spritz to include the technology on its latest line of smart watches. there may be a second benefit heard 80% of our time reading is actually spent moving our eyes from word to word and refocusing on each one. if we are have to do that anymore, in this case, the words come to us, we can read, spritz says, faster. the company's research, people

for more on what to bring in sam grobart.k peek of the series or this first episode. what did you think? >> i thought it was fantastic. i really enjoyed it. it is perfect that mike judge would be the person to finally figure out how to satirize silicon valley properly. "office-based," which i would argue has been one of the "office space" which i would argue has been one of the most funniest. and a look at this crazy world that has developed in the meantime is just a perfect match. >> in his early career had worked at a startup, so he knows you did a lot of research, had to get it right. he spent a lot of time developing this. you say you can tell, the this is a very smart take. >> this is the smartest take i've seen on silicon valley is using it as material for entertainment. there was a reality show on bravo that was terrible. there was the vince vaughn movie was internship" which terrible. this one gets it. it is very subtle. even if you're not familiar with silicon valley, a really delivers the absurdity of that community

here is sam grobart.> these racks and shelves contain a lot of books. >> for thousands of years we humans have been pretty good at the whole reading thing. in most places we do it the same way, we start with our eyes on one side of the page can and we moved across to the other. a new company is working to change all of that. it provides words one after another. sequentially. want to read that way? if you're resenting things word by word of you do not actually need a very large display to read longer text. samsung is hooked up with them to give that technology on the latest line of smart options. 80% of our time reading is moving our eyes to the next word and refocusing. if we do not have to do that, and the words come to us, we can read faster. according to the research people using the program people read about 400 words per minute. it is twice as fast as normal, and there are some outliers at 1000 words a minute. after about 650 words a minute, comprehension also for -- falls off a cliff. they want to a

sam grobart, thanks for giving us that update. we will have more on samsung coming up.e will sit down with one of the makers of a fitness app that is using samsung's biometric sensor. and, watch is on your phone and tablet. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm emily chang. >> and i'm cory johnson. i well rested. likes good for you. we are talking about fitness apps. monitor that can monitor heart rate activity. apps are plugging into that. i am all about them. my -- i can't handle my life being analyzed in that way. helping people understand their sleep patterns, there have interesting twists. right when this new samsung used to talkys about this. >> now on every single phone, you can have a personal coach that uses your phone as your activity tracker. then it figures out what is the easiest way to be healthy. and, it coaches you on that. us how it works. >> we are different in a few ways. the first one is now you do not need someone strapped on your wrist. this does everything. it doesn't kill battery. it is a personal assistant. doesn't just, it track and monitor your data. it has

our very own sam grobart explains. >> amazon announced fire tv.t is their streaming device to rocha. with apple tv and i wanted to find out more about it. so, i went to firetv.com. it is a streaming video site. it has more than 17,000 titles. those titles have names like "stick it to the man" and "sl uttier and sluttier." om is a tviretv.c site. and has been for some time, i am told. this gentleman running firetv.com may have run into a windfall. >> i love that guy. finally, in an exclusive interview with "market makers" a schatzker, barry diller shared his two cents on the set top box. >> for those of us who have apple tv, you know, no set-top or any of them -- no set-top box. little tiny thing. , no bigs, no wires deal. just plug it into the television set, have a broadband collection. amazon certainly would be a player in this. many, many others would be. i think it is great. addressed the issue of whether we are in another tech bubble. >> we were in the bubble in the 2001 internet collapse. that was when there was very little revenue going aro

sam grobart says just watch a bad movie. >> michael lewis' latest book sets its sights on the world of high frequency trading. the complex practice performed by the most sophisticated investors with the most powerful computers. i set that is not that complex. it was a major plot point of "superman three." the crappy one with richard pryor. his character engages in fiduciary malfeasance, or salami slicing. >> why would you do that? >> i don't know, i just did it. >> an employee's paycheck is always rounded down to the nearest whole cent, raising the question where do they go? what pryor's character does is take all those fractional cents leftover and deposits them into his own secret account. in each case, each individual effect is very strong. in the aggregate it nets him a ton of cash. in many ways, this is a lot like what high-frequency traders do. they buy stocks just before other people do and then resell them at a small increase, pocketing the tiny profit. like pryor's scheme, each transaction is so microscopic, no one would know. over millions of trades it adds up. all you need i

sam grobart reports. opens onaptain america 4, it willril fo be marvel's fourth movie in six years.ey do it? here are four he's to marvel's success. stick to the comics. for years, hollywood screenwriters tried to redo marvel's ironman origin story because they thought the one in the comic books didn't quite work. marvel said, no. let's just do that and ironman grossed $585 million in its first year. the company has tried to stay faithful to the comic books ever since. don't cast megastars. chris tends worth was a relative unknown when he was cast to play thor. sequel made thor $640 million. his celebrity didn't overshadow the character and marvel didn't have to pay him a ton of money for either movie. it takes a universe. years ago, marvel sold the rights to spiderman two sony for a pittance which the company now knows which was a huge mistake. marvel has a universe of more than 5000 characters with storylines like ironman and thor that can weave in and out of each other culminating in a moment -- a megaproject like the avengers. finally, never forget the sequels. you might think m

sam grobart explains the details. >> by now, you may have heard launched in 2012 and backed by barry diller. it allows you to broadcast tv over the internet. but is it legal? here's how it works. products muchave like the rabbit ears you have at your home. they receive free over the air right caps off are cbs, abc, nbc, and fox. broadcast that over the internet and then you can watch tv. the service costs eight dollars to $12 per month. but here is where it gets sticky. before aereo, there were three ways to watch broadcast television. you could bolton and tenant to your roof and yet it for free, pay for a cable box, or satellite dish. while you are paying cable and satellite companies, they are paying the broadcasters so they can retransmit their programming to a tune of about $2 billion to $4 billion a year. argues it is pulling down the same free signal anyone can get with their own antenna. the fact that those antennas happen to be in a warehouse and not on subscribers roofs, they say, should not matter. broadcasters say they are no different than a cable company. in march, 2012,

sam grobart explains. >> bag now, you may have heard about aereo.aunched in 2012 and backed by barry diller, it allows you to watch broadcast tv over the internet. but is it legal? in 13 cities so far, they have created antenna farms, warehouses full of dime size antennas that work like the rabbit ears you would attach to your television. they receive free signals from broadcasters like abc, cbs, and fox. they take the signal and sends it to subscribers over the internet. you can then watch it on your phone, tablet or you can watch it later on the cloud. the service cost eight dollars or $12 a month, but here's where it gets sticky. before that, there were three ways to watch broadcast television. you could bolt an antenna and get it for free, pay it company for a box or pay satellite company for a dish. while you are paying cable and satellite companies, they are paying broadcasters to retransmit their programming to the tune of about $4 billion year. but do you know how much they pay the broadcast networks? zilch. they argue it pulling down the sa

sam grobart explains the details. >> by now, you may have heard about aereo, launched in 2012 and backed by barry diller. it allows you to broadcast tv over the internet. but is it legal? here's how it works. so far, they have products much like the rabbit ears you have at your home. they receive free over the air signlas from broadcasters like cbs, abc, nbc, and fox. aereo broadcast that over the internet and then you can watch tv. the service costs $8 to $12 per month. but here is where it gets sticky. before aereo, there were three ways to watch broadcast television. you could bolt an and tenant to your roof and yet it for free, pay for a cable box, or satellite dish. while you are paying cable and satellite companies, they are paying the broadcasters so they can retransmit their programming to a tune of about $2 billion to $4 billion a year. aereo pays zilch. aereo argues it is pulling down the same free signal anyone can get with their own antenna. the fact that those antennas happen to be in a warehouse and not on subscribers' roofs, they say, should not matter. broadcasters say th

sam grobart explains. >> you may have heard that area. it allows you to watch broadcast tv over the internet. is it legal? here is how it works. farms.ve created antenna these work like the rabbit ears you use to attach to your television at home. they receive a free over the air signal. they take that signal and re-sends it to subscribers via the internet. you can watch live tv on your computer and smartphone. puto will even let you shows on the cloud. here is where it gets sticky. before aereo there were three ways to watch broadcast television. company. pay a cable you could pay a salary company -- satellite company. you could use an antenna and watch it for free. you know how much area pays broadcast networks? zilch. they argue that they are just pulling down a free signal that anybody can get with their own antenna. the fact that the antennas are in a warehouse should not matter. the broadcasters say this is bunk and they are no different than a cable company. .hey sued area of -- aereo the lawsuit hangs on one thing. if this is a pu

sam grobart reports. >> pretend you are a criminal that is carrying around a big bag of money for alleeds. so big that the cash in your back will get you a visit from shadowy men in dark sunglasses. you need to launder the money. here are the two common methods. the first is digital. people hide large amounts of money by setting up an offshore company to park cash. there are companies online that start one up in minutes. a few clicks of a mouse and jim's caribbean imports exists. it may be hard to believe, but this is legal. from here, money can be wired to new companies in small amounts. keep in mind that the feds track any deposit over $10,000. small deposits can fly under the radar. of course, criminals can also go analog. then, it is as simple as assembling no good friends and handing them cash. unlike betting on course races or playing slot machines, casinos are not required to issue tax returns, regardless of the amount. a few bets later and the chips are cashed in. anything over $10,000 is likely to catch somebody's attention. the only way to make sure you avoid the tax man is

sam grobart says all you need to do is watch a bad movie. >> michael lewis's latest book sets its sightsn the world of high frequency trading, the arcane practice only done by the most sophisticated investors with the most powerful computers. except it's not that complex at all. it was a major plot point of superman 3. it's the crappy one with richard pryor. they engage in a little fiduciary malfeasance commonly known as salami slicing. >> i don't know. i just did it. >> an employee's paycheck is always rounded down to the nearest full scent. where do all of the fractional cents go? pryor takes all of the fractional cents and deposits them into his own account. this individual theft is very small but in the aggregate it nets him a ton of cash. is a lotany ways this like what high-frequency traders do. the fourstocks just others do and resell them at a small increase pocketing the tiny profit. like the paycheck scheme, each is so microscopic that no individual would ever notice or care what was going on. over thousands of millions of trades it begins to add up. all you need is a very high

sam grobart explains. >> you may have heard about aereo, launched in 2012 and backed by barry diller, it allows you to watch tv over the internet. is it legal? has created, aereo warehouses full of antennas. they work much like rabbit ears you would attach to your television at home. they receive free, over the air signals from broadcasters like cbs, nbc, and fox. race fans that signal to subscribers via the internet. you can watch live tv on your computer, and smartphone. thecan even record shows to cloud for later viewing. the service costs eight dollars or $12 a month. pre-aereo there were three ways to watch broadcast television. antenna to your roof and get it for free, get a cable company or satellite company for a box or a dish. while you are paying cable and satellite companies, they are paying broadcasters to retransmit programming to the tune of about $4 billion a year. you know how much aereo. pays networks? zilch. it is pulling down the same free signal anyone can get with their antenna. the fact that the antennas are in a warehouse should not matter. broadcasters say aere

sam grobart explains. >> you may have heard about aereo, launched in 2012 and backed by barry diller,tv over the internet. is it legal? has created, aereo warehouses full of antennas. they work much like rabbit ears you would attach to your television at home. they receive free, over the air signals from broadcasters like cbs, nbc, and fox. race

sam grobart reports. it is the world's biggest flying machine. is larger than a bowling 747 and 24 feet longer than the previous title holder. shift -- this air blimp-like airship uses helium to get off the ground. it can hover in the same spot for five days straight and land on sand, water, ice or snow. british aeronautics company hybrid air vehicles developed the original model for the u.s. army but the program ran out of funding. later, hybrid air bought back the airlander project for $301,000. the company plans to sell the massive airship for $40 million to oil and mining companies that need to transport cargo to remote parts of the world. the airlander has attracted some unusual fans. bruce dickinson, lead singer of the british heavy metal band iron maiden has invested $450,000 in the project. worldts to fly around the and stream the trip over the internet. the maiden voyage is scheduled for 2015. >> love it. you know me, anything that flies is pretty cool. it is big and it flies and it is really cool. >> and it looks good. for our bureaus,