Gizmodo: swing

Boynq Swing USB Hub Inspired By Newton's Cradle

Sean Fallon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

You don't know what happens on your desk when you are out of the office. What if your 4-port USB hub is carrying on a torrid affair with your Newton's cradle? Well, the cat will be out of the bag if you show up to work one day and find a Boynq Swing USB hub sitting on your desk. Outside of the unique design, the Swing hub also features a DC power jack and surge protection for around $24. [Buy.com (currently sold out) via Gadget Life via TRFJ via Dvice]

iPod Swing Speakers Are Snap-On, Kinda Neat

Jason Chen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

These Neoneco Swing Speakers from Korea hook onto your iPod nano, classic or touch and provides sound where there was none before. It's not made for any sort of high fidelity sound reproduction, but at a battery life of 10 hours (it's got a separate power source) it provides bare-minimum sound on the go. Grab one from Korea if you really want one, but it is quite good if you want to share YouTube or iPod videos with other people and not get their earwax all over your earbuds. [Neometrokhan via AVING via Wired]

World's Highest Swing Looks Terrifying

Adam Frucci — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:45:00 EDT

You think you aren't afraid of heights? Well then, tough guy, why don't you hop on this swing and allow yourself to fly over the edge of a TV tower 1,100 feet off the ground?

It's the world's highest swing, aptly dubbed the "Game for Brave People," and just thinking about it makes my stomach shoot up into my throat. Luckily, no one will have a chance to dare me to go on it, as it's in Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of China. Game for brave people indeed. –Adam Frucci

Ananova [via Spulch]

The 33-story Swing: This Ain't Your Father's Swingset

Adam Frucci — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:45:00 EDT

The world's highest swing is 33 stories high. Yes, 33 stories. It's in South Africa, and you jump off the huge Oribi Gorge. The video above makes it look like a hell of a lot of fun (and a lot safer than this human slingshot), but be warned: you're gonna want to keep it on mute unless you're a big fan of brain-meltingly crappy techno. –Adam Frucci

Didn't You Hear? [via Neatorama]

Noiseblocker NB-X-Swing Silences Those Hard Drives

Jason Chen — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:50:02 EST

Unless you've switched to a liquid cooling system in your PC, the loudest component probably wouldn't be the hard drive, it'd be your fans. But if you have, then these NB-X-Swing hard drive silencers could be just the thing to keep you throwing your dog out of a window over drive noise.

How does this work? You screw your hard disk into the swings, mount it into an empty 5 1/4" bay, and fire up your PC. By cushioning the contact between your disk and your case, the X-Swing takes out (from xsreviews' test) all the noise generated by vibrations. You can still hear the disk spinning—it's not meant to stop that—but everything else is dead silent. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Noiseblocker via XSReviews]