Tag: USB
Foldable USB hub from Museum of Modern Art really is modern art
The average computer doesn’t come with near enough USB ports, particularly when you consider all the glorious tat peripherals that Brando offer for your USB needs. A hub is a great way to expand the number of ports you have, and this foldable hub from The Museum of Modern Art is an attractive way to do so…
Bop It updated for the download generation
The highly addictive and frustrating game, Bop It!, has had a makeover for the download generation, to become… Bop It Download!
It features the same gameplay as before, but now allows you to replace that irritating bloke that shouts and screams at you when you “pull it” when you should’ve “twisted it” with your own sounds.
Get bragging rights with a USB mini lamp that glows as you type faster
Bit of a self-indulgent post, this, mostly because I’m hoping someone in Japan can pick one of these USB-powered mini lamps up for me and DHL it over quick-smart. Any stalkers out there? Time to come out of your mothers’ basements and send me presents. Or else, Mum, I guess you’re reading this…feel like spoiling your favourite daughter?
As anyone within a five mile radius of my desktop computer can attest to, my biggest claim to fame in Shiny Towers is that I hold the award for being the world’s loudest typer. I can’t help it, it’s because I’m a swift typer with skillzorz bettering the average courtroom typer…
Try to control yourselves boys, it's just a girl wearing a USB keyboard bra
Like some bizarre hybrid Hello Kitty and a geek’s wet dream, this Angel Kitty USB keyboard bra is…well…it does what it says on the tin. If your £39.99 Ikea-special desk doesn’t quite meet the mark in terms of keyboard-housing capabilities, how about a real life woman with one stuck to her boobs? Just manage to rope one into wearing the outfit (I’d suggest a good few Cosmopolitans laced with Rohypnol followed by a couple of shots of Bacardi), plug ‘er in to the USB slot and off you go. Let’s try and see you pull off this computer peripheral in the office next week!…
Shiny Video Review: Brando USB products
Ahhhh, USB tat. The new office toys. Susi and Katie rummage through the latest and occasionally greatest offerings from those wonderful USB-meisters from Honk Kong, Brando.
Brando…
Warm up those RSI-ridden hands with a pair of USB heating gloves
It’s bizarrely chilly in these parts of the world, due to those insane floods we’ve been having, so a nice pair of USB gloves is nothing to be laughed at. Even if they do adopt the colour and pattern that your grandfather’s socks are made from.
Starting at just £7.95, these USB gloves will warm you up in no time, and are compatible with anything containing a USB port. Just don’t forget to take them off when you get up to go to the loo, as your whole computer…
Shiny Video Review: Swarovski bling flash drives from Philips
Back when I was on Shiny Shiny and more concerned with sparkly, pink and fluffy gadgets than robots and all things geektacular, I went to the launch of the Swarovski and Philips flash drives. You’ll be pleased to know, months later, that they’re finally launching in the UK this week (Harrods, to be precise), and that Zara recently got all hands-on with them. Boys, forget diamonds – if you want to get jewellery for your geeky girls, head on down at the end of this week, where prices start at £50…
Shimadzu head-mounted monitor / HUD
Japanese tech company Shimadzu has created this fashionable piece of headwear for the discerning Facebook addict – the DataGlass HMD.
You whack it into your USB socket and are greeted by the impression that a 10″ monitor screen is floating in front of about two feet away. But only in front of one of your eyes.
Win ultra-rare, limited edition Mimobot USB memory sticks with Mimoco
Mimobots are those USB memory sticks for the design-fussy amongst us, who just won’t accept a bog-standard job from Dixons. Normally coming in limited edition sets of just a few thousand, and even Star Wars characters, which Firebox.com will be stocking shortly apparently, a UK exclusive we hear, they’ve suddenly got a lot more attractive.
Mimoco, the company behind the addictive geek apparel, have created a scavenger hunt where between now and the 24th of July (the day the annual Comic Con falls on, which I’d give my right leg to attend) they’ll be revealing one of the nine new Core Series 2 Mimobot USB memory sticks each day. If you happen to be the first to find the site with the ‘breaking news’…
Nimzy ProtoKey: padlocks your files and makes them invisible to others
Widget UK has come out with a USB device for the security-conscious PC users who wants to protect their files.
Though it looks like a fairly standard memory stick, it isn’t. Instead, it allows users to encrypt and hide the personal and sensitive data on their PC hard drive, and any external storage devices attached to it, so that it effectively becomes invisible, secure, and untraceable, to anyone else who uses that PC.
