The USB Crunching Dog seems to be a clear cut knock-off of the USB humping dog, just a bit more PG13 for the corporate world.  The USB Crunching Dog will begin it’s endless “set” of sit-ups while you data transfer those MP3′s from your DAP to your Laptop.

Being a USB powered gadget, the little dog has an endless amount of energy and will make your sit-up routine look like a joke.  All this gadget goodness for $16.

Mimoco just released the second Mimobot of their Series Three in the Star Wars line, this one is Wicket.  I guess this would be about as cute as one could get for a USB drive.  It’s a complete opposite of the Darth Sidious release last week.

The remaining two characters will be revealed in the next two weeks, and the entire series goes on sale July 23rd. Check out the closeups and a little diorama of Wicket standing on an Imperial Speeder in the woods with several other characters.

After all, what good is a USB drive if it doesn’t look like one of your favorite movie characters and can’t be set it up in little dioramas?

Source: Mimoco.

I don’t have USB connectivity issues, but I believe many do.  The super 16 port USB hub will help in those situations.  The plethora of ports will give any computer uber-geek the ability to connect just about everything in his office to a single computer.  But even then, the uber-geek has the ability to split up those 16 ports to be shared with two computers…thus spreading the geekness all around.

The super 16 port USB hub has a switch for setting ports to computer A or B.  Or you can simply keep all 16 ports designated to a single computer.  Connect your printer, several cameras, web-cam, your handful of USB drives, USB fan, another USB fan if you overheat easily, maybe a USB mask, or USB wrist pad, and of course a USB aroma drive.  I think you get the picture.

The super hub comes in at $140.  Fully supports the USB 2.0 specification and has a designated power line to insure optimal performance to all those USB powered gadgets.

Dimensions are: 116 x 67 x 63 (mm)

LED lights are leaking there way into many things these days, and this over sized LED light tube speaker from Brando is another classic example.  It doesn’t pulsate with the beat, but it does glow your speaker system into a cool looking desk fixture.

It’s USB powered and the USB powered gadget costs just $22 so an ideal gift for a kids night-light who needs some music to help fall asleep.

Source:  Brando.

Darth Sidious is making the first appearance from the new line of Star Wars Mimobot USB drives.  This is one cool looking drive too, check out the detail in the hands with blue electricity emanating from his finger tips.

The Mimobot Darth Sidious is one well designed and crafty looking gadget and will become available from Mimobot within the next couple of days.

Darth Sidious Star Wars product page.

We’ve seen plenty of data encryption solutions for USB, but what about true Digital Rights Management for USB drives and their content? Well, Nexcopy seems to be thinking the same thing. Nexcopy has teamed with TrusCont to offer true DRM to flash drives.

The USB Copy Protection includes the ability to copy protect .exe files and .pdf files. With both formats you can set time limits, password protection, anti-copy and anti-rip protection. In addition, the technology will apply copy and paste restrictions and printing rights to pdf documents. Sounds like real digital rights management to me.

The enhanced USB drive has more in it’s back pocket than just copy protection – which is ground breaking enough – but includes the ability for end-users to configure a USB CD-ROM partition, USB Read Only partition or combination of those plus an Open partition for general read/write use.

For the ultimate in flexibility, the flash drive can be configured again and again with the USB CD-ROM partition or USB Read Only partition so if you’re looking to make your own custom U3 drive, looking to mess around with auto-launch software or need a combination of both for some high end application, this is it.

Nexcopy is offering a TSFD Publisher Kit which is a combination of the USB duplicator plus, TrusCont’s USB copy protection and USB configuration utility along with various bundles of enhanced TSFD USB drives (qty 50, 100, 300, 500+).

I’ve requested a drive to see what this is all about and will report back.

Source: PRWeb. via Nexcopy Inc and TrusCont.