Ever need to leverage the plug-n-play ease of USB with extended coverage that current USB cables can’t handle? Well, the folks at Icron figured things out and developed something called ExtremeUSB Technology allowing you to span up to 1.2 miles away.

So the traditional keyboard is a 104-key Qwerty keyboard, but do you really use everything day-in and day-out, couldn’t some time and space be saved? New Standard Keyboard believes so, GetUSB.info just hopes they understand that old habits die hard…and in this case, very hard.

Lost your cell phone and all your critical phone numbers with it? CellStik will ensure that those numbers are safe and easily accessible to be transferred into your new cell phone.

The Jack PC is a revolutionary new ‘thin client’ computer small enough to fit in a wall outlet. Thin clients are effectively desktop computers designed to connect to a ‘terminal server’ or Citrix based environment where processing is handled by servers instead of PCs. Thin clients have been getting smaller and smaller over the years however this is the world’s first Windows-based thin client small enough to fit in a network wall port.

How far would half a billion USB controllers stretch if laid end-to-end? Try from NY City to Los Angeles and back again. That is how many USB controllers Cypress has shipped since their inception of the USB controller product line in 1997. Fueled by growing consumer demand in USB-enabled applications such as mice, keyboards, hubs, media and video players, mobile phones, mass storage (external hard disk drives & enclosures), set top boxes, photo printers and video capture peripherals, Cypress shipped over 130 million USB controllers in 2005, the most in its history, and is already approaching 600 million units shipped from inception to date. This press release in conjunction with our recent article about USB devices reaching 2.8 billion units by 2010 means GetUSB.info we’ll be busy for a while…

Ergodex is the authority in custom keyboards, in fact, their DX1 lets you build the exact placement for each key. Designed for a wide range of applications, including AutoCAD, graphic design, video editing and our favorite – gaming, this input system is definitely high end.

A division of US Music Corp, SoundTech, just introduced the LightSnake USB cable, dubbed as a soundcard in a cable. The LightSnake effectively eliminates the need for a dedicated external USB audio interface.