Prawns, rubber duckies and bunnies — hmmm, about as seasonal as strawbs, I suppose. As well as being pointless, the hub is expensive. A set of four cakes will cost you 50,000 , that's around $450. [Solid Alliance via Akihabara News]

[Solid Alliance via New Launches]

Park the Mini in the garage for just 10 minutes to charge it up. Then, you can make the car zoom all over your table, re-enacting scenes from the original version of The Italian Job, via the desktop application.
Costing $30, the RC Mini and USB Garage charger will be available at the beginning of next month.

Weighing just 4 grams, the Hadaka is Vista Ready Boost-compatible, and comes in 1GB and 2GB sizes.

Product Page [Solid Alliance via Akihabara News]

Not only is it a three-port USB hub, it actually makes engine noises and vibrates up and down. It's very unlikely that you'd want to keep this motorcycle-esque racket going the entire time you're using the hub, but revving up the engine once in a while seems like lots of fun. Your cube mates probably won't agree.

Head over to Akihabara News for a video demonstration.

Product Page (sell starting tomorrow) [GeekStuff4U via Akihabara News]

There are six different Ghost Radars and they cost between $60 for 128MB and $220 for 4GB. And when I read that, I heard a mocking "BWAH-HA-HA-HA echo eerily round the room. I'd have named it the Dr Beat USB, after my favorite Miami Sound Machine track—but then, while I don't believe in ghosts, I DO believe in Gloria Estefan. – Ad Dugdale

Product Page [Ghost Radar via Product Dose]

Essentially a giant mood ring, the Aura Monitor changes between eight different colors depending on your mood. So yes, it's just as useless. But it does look pretty cool as a cellphone strap. – Jason Chen

Solid Alliance does something crazy [Akiba News via Uber Gizmo]

If you take a close look, you'll see that the rice is a 4-port USB 2.0 hub, and the four other things (pudding, chicken, and two bits of seafood) are USB sticks. Together, they form something so awesome that the USDA changed its name to the United States Department of Awesome just to regulate the import and export of it.

Way to go, Solid Alliance. We salute your handmade goodness. – Jason Chen

Press Release [Solid Alliance via Akihabara News]

Wanting desperately to stimulate 2 senses instead of just one, Solid Alliance has announced its fruit fragrance iCool MP3 players in Japan. The players come in 6 flavors (and include chocolate- and rose-smelling products, as well as fruity scents) and come with 256MB of internal memory and an SD slot, with USB 2.0 connections and MP3/WMA playback, FM-Tuner, and voice recorder.

You might be surprised to hear that this is not the first smell-enhanced MP3 player on the market. Audiotronic has a line of smelly players out as well, including a marijuana-scented model.

iCool MP3... come and smell my MP3 player [Akihabara News]

This is a USB memory stick, and a pretty ugly one at that. But wait, before you all say "meh" and start throwing rocks, look at the screen on it! For behold, this memory stick has a neat little dot-matrix screen, onto which it can display useful data such as the amount of free space or, uh, the date and time. There is also a "custom" mode enabling you to put your own text message on the screen. A nice idea, if a little generic-looking.

Special mention must go to the actual company behind all this. The curiously-named "Solid Alliance" is a company obviously made up of post-cyborg-war human survivors, determined to take back the planet they once owned by using human guile, the power of hope and the desire for freedom—all supported financially by their penchant for producing innovative yet reasonably-priced consumer electronics.

Solid Alliance's USB memory stick with screen [Solid Alliance Store]

Press release [Solid Alliance]