Vol. 05: Weird USB

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Why in the world is this available only in Japan? We'd actually use this.

Eyes hurt from staring at the screen all day, but don't want to leave the umbilical cord? We see a USB Eye Massager in your future.

USB fobs are handy, but not something you wear rocking out Bo Bice style. Now you can.

Get on down with the USB badness, if you can dig it. Also makes the cat act weird.

Nothing cramps up your back worse than staring at an RSS reader all day, but the sweet warmth of the USB port makes it go away--at least until the next refresh.

Why go all the way to the kitchen to keep that Hot Pocket warm and toasty? With the awesome 5V cooking action of USB, you can stay parked at the desk.

If you're male and own an Apple PowerBook, you need this, enough said.

For the modder in all of us. That new blinged-out PC is drab with IBM-grey cables. These light up!

What's the sense of transferring all this data unless you can see it? Routers get the blinky; why not a USB hub?

When the feds bust in looking for that Bit Torrent collection you've been squirreling away, the USB destruction box is the way to go--quickly and discreetly hit the nuclear option.

For that smoker who has everything, a USB ashtray. We're waiting for a version that emails your insurance company.

You know Scooby and gang need more than just to store photos of the mean old men who run the amusement parks on some type of USB drive--this one detects ghosts too. Zoinks!

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