USB Gadget Of The Week: USBCell

What is the Universal Serial Bus all about?
1. connect a device to a computer
2. supply the device with power.

This week's USB gadget benefit from the power supply. The USBCell is a rechargeable battery and it can be recharged with our USB port.
We need batteries for all kinds of devices such as digital cameras or flashlights. If you have some sort of environmental consciousness, you use rechargeable batteries. Common batteries need a charge adaptor to get recharged, but USBCells doesn't. Just pop up the top and plug it in our USB port. It will take about 5 hours to fully charge a USBCell. USBCell.com offers a variety of batteries such as AA, AAA, 9V batteries and even cell phone batteries.

However I wonder: If you plug a USBCell into your computer at work, could you get sacked for stealing electricity?

USB Gadget Of The Week: The Human Skull Drive

This is the first edition of 'USB Gadget Of The Week'. Every week I want to introduce a new USB device. The Universal Serial Bus is the source of a lot of useful, funny and wacky inventions and I will show my favorites.

This week's item is the USB Human Skull Drive from USBGeek.com. Halloween is already over, but the skull design is timeless. What's inside the skull? This is an ordinary USB thumb drive with 2GB storage. As a matter of course the USB Human Skull Drive features USB 2.0 and supports Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS. And it costs $19.

Why did I choose the USB Human Skull Drive?
I really like the special designed memory sticks. And in this case I favor the little details of the Skull Drive: the detachable jaw, the teeth and the cheek bones. And as I said before, the skull design is timeless and definitively attracts attention. Two thumb drives up!