| Slideshow: Hot products of the week
Our round-up of intriguing new products from Avaya, Aruba, CA among others. AT&T unveils dual-mode Genus smartphone
AT&T and TerreStar Networks today announced the TerreStar Genus, a smartphone that can use a satellite network when AT&T's cellular wireless network is unavailable. Discovery 975 headset melds noise improvements with style
The scoop: Discovery 975 Bluetooth headset, by Plantronics, about $130 (available at BestBuy.com and Amazon.com). Europe mandates MP3 player volume warnings
MP3 players to feature health warnings, safe volume settings . Slow going on motion gaming
Motion gaming systems from Sony and Microsoft are both due in 2010 as the two companies play catch-up with Nintendo and its Wii. Honda's UX3 personal mobility device
Look out, Segway! Honda's U3-X lets riders travel in all directions on a single wheel. Grab Screens and Details With HyperSnap
Image capture software, like a lot of utility software, is of the sort in which 95% of the functionality you need is well-defined and shared by every program in the category. It comes down to those bells and whistles which most users rarely need--but you just might. HyperSnap ($40, free demo with watermarking) does all of the basics, capturing windows, regions (rectangular or freehand), menus, and so on. It can scroll large images to capture an entire Web page, and of course you can save in a variety of formats. So what are the goodies? Windows 7 Performance Tests
Windows Vista never was particularly speedy in most people's eyes. Whether it deserved the reputation or not, the word on the street was that Vista was both slow and bloated. Buffalo's BR-816SU2 External Blu-ray Burner
Buffalo's BR-816SU2 external USB/eSATA Blu-ray burner ($310 as of 9/3/09) is a winner, at least in performance--in my tests the drive performed as advertised, writing in times commensurate with its rating. It also played Blu-ray movies nicely, without stutters or slowdowns. HP DreamScreen 100
With its new DreamScreen, HP reaches out beyond the familiar digital photo frame concept to include applications normally associated with stand-alone tablets. This 10-inch, $250 model incorporates wireless support for popular applications such as Facebook, Snapfish, Pandora, and HP's own packaging of Net radio stations, among other built-in audio and visual functions. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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