Gizmodo: usb gadget

Japanese Developers Make a Game to Go With Hands-Free USB Pleasure Gadget

Jason Chen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:00:00 EST

Japanese engineers have been making automated masturbation devices for a while now [here and here], but as Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku finds, they've finally made a game to go along with the action.

The SOM, a USB-connected wank toy, comes packaged with a game called Cross Days. Developers hooked up the SOM to be coordinated with the action on screen during the "climax scenes", which is so obvious execution of the two products that we're sure this has been done before.

Would we recommend it? That's tough to say without trying. But at the very least it'll prevent:

[Japanese Site via Some Other Japanese Site via Kotaku]

Brando Clock Thermometer Has More USB Than We Know What to Do With

Elaine Chow — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:15:00 EST

I sometimes wonder if the people at Brando have a competition going to see how many USB ports they could possibly put into one gadget. This alarm clock hub comes with seven, as well as a calendar and thermometer. With seven hubs (and knowledge of your room's exact temperature), you could charge your iPod, warm your feet, warm your hands, heat your coffee, heat your lunch, humidify your cubicle and still have a port left over. Sure, having all those things running at the same time could cause some massive electrical shortage, but at least you'll be toasty, moisturized and you'll know what time it is. [Brando]

USB Gadget Display is Like Vista Sideshow, but Supports Windows XP

Jason Chen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:00:03 EDT

When is Vista Sideshow not Vista Sideshow? When it does the same thing as Sideshow—display little widgets on an external device—but doesn't use Vista's Gadgets. The USB Gadget Display does look like a little 2-inch LCD display, which shows clocks and various other things like CPU and RAM usage (but mostly clocks) outside of your machine, but it works with Windows XP, something Sideshow can't claim. Though, looking at the quality of these widgets, it might be worth it for you to upgrade to Vista. [Everything USB]