Weird product of the week must come from Arris at NAB in the US. Arris seems to us, on the back of the FCC open set top saga, a highly threatened business, in part because it has such a weak retail brand, and the US set top future may become retail. Here it unveiled a retail product called SURFboard home networking, using RipCurrent (read G.hn) technology. Arris may be keen to throw out as many retail products as it can, to begin building that retail brand. What this amounts to is an off the shelf family of products which uses something like IEEE 1905.1 translation technology so that WiFi and G.hn powerline can speak to one another easily. If this…