I had the pleasure of speaking to Derek Dotson at CES 2010 about the Pleo’s second coming and the improvements made to the unit for the second release. Check out the interview in the YouTube embed and see more of my CES coverage and see all the videos the team produced at CES at TechPodcasts at blip.tv

The media player of CES this year was Nuu Media’s Nuu Player, not the Boxee Box. Hidden in one of the back corners of the South Hall of the Consumer Electronics Show was the people at Nuu Media with their player that will retail for a bit more than the other media player boxes, but it’ll also do more than the other media player boxes.

Polaroid had a few announcements at CES, including a digital version of their classic idea of instant gratification of having a photograph a few moments after taking it. the camera is called the POGO and it prints 2″x3″ prints.

The real story was something that wasn’t available in the digital press kits that the company was handing out. It was three cameras sitting unassumingly in a glass display, pictured to the right. Polaroid is bringing back it’s iconic Instant Camera. It’s not the new digital version, it’s the honest to goodness old-school version of the Instant Camera and the original chemicals and film. It’s a shame that they closed their plants in Massachusetts and fired the 150 who worked at them. the guys in the booth said we can expect the film to be returning in the summer time and the cameras to return in October of 2010.

Last night I got my hands on a Scarlet RED prototype and was able to snap some photos. This was a non-working prototype. The camera will be around $2,800 for the body. The prime lens shown will run about $1k and there will be a zoom lens kit that will run about $5k. Click the [...]

Many people use the New Year to start or stop certain habits. I’m not different in my previous resolutions. I’ve said I will stop drinking sodas (failed), only eat pizza once a week at maximum (failed), stop drinking caffeine (failed) and countless other resolutions without actual solutions. I went into this year with no plan to resolve to do anything in 2010, but an iPhone app changed that.