AudioCubes introduced their USB Owl a couple months ago and I heard about it, but didn’t re-discover the Firefox bookmark until tonight. Sad, but that’s OK as when the story broke the product wasn’t available, now it is [$39].
The USB Owl will shimmy it’s head and blink her eyes while you type on the keyboard, all the while making you feel as though you are not alone. To me this seems all a little creepy – some nice tunes in the background would do me just fine.
The USB Owl is available in four different colors [white, silver, brown and pink].
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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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
So here’s a slick setup for your USB Missile Launcher. Rig an ultrasound radar and sync that hacked mod to your launcher for lights out fun.
Source: HackedGadgets.
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Targus launched this ultra portable, yet powerful iPod speaker system, AEM0702AP, for music on the go. The speaker system can be powered by a handful of AAA batteries or via USB power.
Why Targus hired a marketing firm who places their speakers in a pile of rocks with weeds sticking out is a complet mystery. If these folks are trying to send the message of a lovely afternoon at the park, then grass, picnic basket and a couple glasses of wine should have been the props here.
Maybe they are trying to convey the portable iPod speaker system will get you to “rock out.” Doubt that.
In either event, the Targus speakers will run you about $45 bucks plus a plane ticket to Korea.
Source: AvingUSA.
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Mimoco is on the verge of announcing another set of Star Wars Mimobot USB drives. This next line is their Series 3 and Mimoco will be announcing new drives between now and July 23rd. Mimoco is having a Star Wars Mimobot contest – you can enter here – so enter to win a free drive! I did. It’s a fun little guessing game.
The Series 2 Mimobots are still available. Maybe they aren’t as hot as we are led to believe (announcement of 2,000 available back in Nov ’07).
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“It’s a USB hub two computers use.” Sounds off doesn’t it? It’s not. What the Kensington ShareCentral does is provide a single USB box you can plug your USB devices into so they maybe shared between two computers. This is ideal for printers or scanners that need to be shared between computers (small office). Or ideal for placing a USB hard drive on a small network for automated backup. Or simply a KVM switch to centralize your keyboard, video monitor and mouse between two PCs. Actually I could use that now between my “work” computer with dual monitors to my “test” PC which could use dual monitors.
I spotted the ShareCentral while over at GizmosForGeeks earlier today. They had a good point:
Chances are that if you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably got multiple computers in your household, but on the other hand, you’ve probably decided against cluttering your home with multiple printers, external hard drives and the like. But it can be such a pain to keep swapping those devices amongst your various computers. Enter the Kensington ShareCentral USB sharing device.
Alesis ProTrack is a buddy device for the iPod turning it into a Pro Audio digital recorder. Not that many of use would need up to 160GBs of high quality audio recording, but it’s out there if you need it. The Alesis ProTrack includes 2 combo XLR input jacks for in line mic recording [or other line recording] that will digitally record those spoken word masterpieces at 16-bit, 22kHz or 44.1kHz stereo. The ProTrack offers up 1/8 output stereo connection along with limiter and volume control.
Designed for any on-spot location the ProTrack will run solid for five hours with just four trip-A batteries. The little guy is also threaded for tripod mounting to set it & forget it.
ProTrack is ideal for capturing sound effects, recitals, jam sessions, speeches, interviews, rehearsals, performances, meetings, lectures, notes-to-self, or any other audio material directly to iPod. It will be available from pro audio dealers Q3-2008.
“It’s a USB hub two computers use.” Sounds off doesn’t it? It’s not. What the Kensington ShareCentral does is provide a single USB box you can plug your USB devices into so they maybe shared between two computers. This is ideal for printers or scanners that need to be shared between computers (small office). Or ideal for placing a USB hard drive on a small network for automated backup. Or simply a KVM switch to centralize your keyboard, video monitor and mouse between two PCs. Actually I could use that now between my “work” computer with dual monitors to my “test” PC which could use dual monitors.
I spotted the ShareCentral while over at GizmosForGeeks earlier today. They had a good point:
