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You know those plasma balls you had when you were a kid? The ones that arced electricity to your fingertip when you touched it? Well, this is just like that, except smaller and USBier.
You probably guessed by now that it was from Brando, but only costs $16, so it makes for quite a cool desk toy. We suppose that it’s only fitting that other 70s tech makes it into USB form now, so look forward to USB eight-balls, USB goldfish platform shoes, and USB really, really tight pants from Brando. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Brando]
Sony’s BDP-S1 has just got a two hundred dollar price drop from $999 to $799. While still not the cheapest Blu-ray—Samsung’s BD-P1000 is $439 and the PS3 is $499 for the lower version—it does reflect on the lower Blue Laser diodes we reported on before.
If you’re curious as to whether the firmware problems that affect this player have been fixed? Yeah, they have—with a firmware update. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Amazon]
If you were at all impressed in Netgear’s first Skype phone—or maybe even more so if you weren’t—you should be intrigued by what Live Digitally (Netgear’s guest blogger) managed to capture from Netgear’s CEO on a visit of their Digital Lifestyle living room. It’s the second generation Netgear Skype phone, and for the most part looks almost exactly like the first.
The CEO says it’s smaller, lighter, brighter, has a better UI, longer-lasting battery, and supposedly an easier-to-connect Hotspot interface. Watch, as the CEO bypasses the entirety of their PR dept. and goes and drops a bomb that probably wasn’t supposed to be dropped.
