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- USB Battery Recharger
Why in the world is this available only in Japan? We'd actually use this. - USB Eye Massager
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 for Rock Stars
USB fobs are handy, but not something you wear rocking out Bo Bice style. Now you can. - USB Disco Ball
Get on down with the USB badness, if you can dig it. Also makes the cat act weird. - USB Heating Pad
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. - USB Hot Plate
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. - USB Laptop Cooler
If you're male and own an Apple PowerBook, you need this, enough said. - Light-Up USB Cables
For the modder in all of us. That new blinged-out PC is drab with IBM-grey cables. These light up! - USB Light-Up Hub
What's the sense of transferring all this data unless you can see it? Routers get the blinky; why not a USB hub? - USB Self-Destruction Box
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. - USB Ashtray
For that smoker who has everything, a USB ashtray. We're waiting for a version that emails your insurance company. - USB Ghost Detector
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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