Very Exclusive Gadgets & Gizmos

If you have USB devices coming out of your ears, then you might need a hub to help you out with that. This hub manages to keep a full 24 ports available for you to jam your USB related items into. For the average person you might have to get extremely creative in order to fill up all of those ports. However, I’m sure there are others out there that are fully capable of finding a use for a hub of this size.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a laptop these days that didn’t have wifi built-in but if your service is sketchy, or the built-in just can’t lock on to the free McDonalds wifi down the road, then try one of these USB Wifi Mini Wireless Adapter doovers. The tiny little USB dongle support an enormous 5dBi antenna. The specs claim an operational range of 200m indoors and 830m outdoors, conditions permitting. I’d say quarter those numbers and you might be close.

It must be time for a new USB standard if people need things like this 10 Port USB Hub. It comes with it’s own power supply and there’s a port selector switch which allows you to disable the last 4 ports. Useful if you don’t want certain things to connect but can’t be bothered unplugging them. Priced around US$55

Want to know what’s going on behind the scenes with your desktop at work whenever you leave the office? The Spy Keylogger ought to come in handy, featuring 2MB of internal memory to store all the keystrokes made whenever you’re not around. Of course, it works with most wired keyboards, so those who are using wireless keyboards will be able to get away scot free.

What you see in the picture here is the iTwin. It isn’t a thumb drive with two USB connections, but a way of transferring your files from one computer to another.

Sure, you could just set up a mainframe network, send a file as an attachment, or just put the file you want on a thumb drive and plug it into another computer. Yes, there are a lot of ways to do file transfers from one computer to the other, but iTwin makes the process a lot easier.

This USB Windows Icebox gadget is pretty…ahem…cool. Just plug it into the nearest USB port of your PC, and it will immediately freeze any changes on the hard disk. You can keep using the computer – or let your kids run free on it – safe in the knowledge that when you switch off next, all changes will be deleted and the machine will return to its original state.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a helicopter with a USB port but this Tiny USB Helicopter from Brando is pretty darn cute. With twin LEDs for night missions and gyroscopes for stable flight it should get where it’s going and get back safely. It’s controlled via an infrared controller which can also recharge the helicopter, however the controller needs six AA batteries. It also looks like it comes with spare blades and tail rotors. There’s also a range of colours and a screwdriver. US$39.90. I wonder if a FireWire one would be faster?

The WOW-PEN ECO’s unique ergonomic design helps eliminate carpal tunnel stain. The WOW-PEN’s sleek and modern shape is the result of lengthy study and research by the award winning INNO DESIGN of Silicon Valley. Traditional mice put unnecessary stress on the user’s wrist and forearm with extended use–often leading to painful carpal tunnel stain. User fatigue is great reduced.

The Mimo 720-S is the touch screen version of the freshly minted Mimo 710-S USB auxiliary screen. It’s a 7″ 800 x 480 USB monitor but it’s been redesigned to fold flat against its base to protect the screen and to give you multimonitor mwa-ha-ha wherever you deploy. The price of portability is a decrease in versatility as the screen can still be rotated but you lose the height adjustment. No word on price as yet but the non touchscreen version is US$149.99 and available now for shipping around the end of August.

Looking for new ways to turn your computer into an all-round entertainment system? Perhaps it might be lacking the GV-SC31 1Seg USB TV tuner from IO Data of Japan, where the free TVStation application that can be downloaded enables you to view live TV as well as recorded programs right off your computer. Just make sure you have sufficient storage space on your machine if you’re prone to record more than you watch. This USB device can also allow you to view said programs on your iPod touch or iPhone as it streams video straight from the PC onto said devices.