Show of (USB) Hands: Imm Livings Hand Sign USB Keys

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Put your hands together for IMM Living‘s Hand-Sign USB Keys. The 2GB drives come in four “gestures”—East, West, Rock Out, and Change—that “pay respect to the remarkably expressive human hand.”

Raise your hand if you want one! The, er, handy little drives will be available at Sirtified in late March for $35 each.

Four Eyes: because nerds love USB specs

Ah, horned-rimmed glasses. A style that simultaneously provokes taunts of “four eyes” from cruel children and squeals of muted delight from urban hipsters. Starting in March, this 2-mm thin, 2GB USB bookmark (yes, bookmark) can be yours for $29. A few more pics after the break to ease your confusion.

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USB-Powered Breast Warmers: Valentines Day Gift?

USB-powered Bust Beauty Pad

I don’t know about you, girls, but my breasts stay perfectly warm throughout the winter season. But judging by Thanko’s latest creation, the USB-powered Bust Beauty Pad ($22), there must be some women out there suffering from a chilly chest.

Plug each warming pad into two open USB ports, insert the pads into your bra, and heat up your lady loves to a toasty 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

[[via Boing Boing Gadgets]]

Travelmate USB Power Adapter does just what its name implies

If you’re a serious gadget-head we don’t need to explain just how convenient a USB power adapter can be (especially one that won’t shock you). In the case of the Travelmate, USB Geek really does Apple one better, offering a device with two USB ports to Apple’s one — for a sweeter price, to boot. This guy works in your home or your car (or anyone’s, for that matter) and includes connector tips for juicing up almost any handset. And if that weren’t enough, we hear that the included “carrying pouch” also works with twenty-sided dice. You can’t say that about just any pouch, can you?

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Buffalo’s 802.11n WiFi dongle: small in size, tiny in price

Small, fast, and cheap… what could be better? Buffalo’s WLI-UC-GN 802.11b/g/n dongle measures just 16 × 33 × 8-mm and costs a mere ¥2,100 (about $24). It supports both Buffalo’s proprietary AOSS and the Wi-Fi Alliance’s WPS to simplify the process of connecting to secure WiFi networks. Look for the USB 2.0 adapter to ship in Japan and beyond starting next month. Check the hot male-to-female USB bunging after the break.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Sirtified throws up hand USB flash drives

Let’s face it — it’s hard to connect with kids these days, but Sirtified clearly knows what’s up. The outfit’s forthcoming line of Hand USB Sticks include 2GB of storage space and arrive in three street-approved models: Rock, West Side and a version that looks awfully similar to the Engadget logo. Hold the hand of your choice next month for $35.

[Thanks, Kyle]

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Smartfish Pro:Motion Keyboard prevents carpal tunnel syndrome, bops ’round your desk

Take it from us, kids. Computer use — with its carpal tunnel-wrecking input devices, spine-bending office chairs and eye-straining displays — can wreak havoc on the body of even the healthiest young blogger. And even though there are a million products out there to help us work in a more ergonomically correct fashion, many of them seem just plain silly. If you’re looking for something that actually looks like it belongs on a desk, however, be sure to check out the Smartfish Pro:Motion Keyboard. Pretty standard gear, except that it’s outfitted with motors that subtly shift the keyboard’s angle throughout the day — ostensibly eliminating the cause of repetitive stress injuries. If this weren’t enough, the device can track your typing speed and self-adjusts its angle and separation according to your needs. There have been no clinical trials for the device yet, but if you’re desperate for relief — or feeling daredevilish — you’re not gonna let that stop ya, right?

[Via Everything USB]

Read: Pro:Motion Peripherals [caution: PDF]

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More details on D-Link’s upcoming 7-inch SideStage USB monitor

More details on D-Link's upcoming 7-inch SideStage USB monitor

We swung by D-Link’s booth at CES to check out its upcoming SideStage USB-powered monitor, hoping to see the thing in action and get some more details ahead of its release. What we found was quite familiar looking, to say the least. D-Link was disappointingly just demoing a Nanovision, but was quick to point out this would not be the product destined for a full US release sometime this summer. That new display will still be produced by Nanovision, but will be modified to better suit our market, graced with a different logo, and cheaper, too. No firm price yet, but the company is targeting sub-$100, which sounds good to us.

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Flexicord cables get bent… and stay that way

Ever have a cable you wanted to strangle? Well you’re not alone, apparently. A company called E-Filliate issued a new series of USB, HDMI, Cat5, S-Video, and composite cables called Flexicord at CES this year which will bend — and stay — in any position you please, thus eliminating that frustration you must feel every time you plug in your camera or hook up your high fidelity sound system. The cables act like pipe cleaner or Gumby, so you can twist and shape them as you please, though apparently Pokey had to be killed and dissected so the technology could be obtained. Enjoy your new cable, murderers.

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SuperSpeed USB 3.0 in action

We dropped by to get a look at Symwave’s SuperSpeed promised USB 3.0 setup, and got a real earful on the technology and its potential. Due to start shipping in devices near the end of the year, Symwave’s chipset will hold up the device-end of the transaction, communicating with SATA for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives. Since the host end of USB 3.0’s plug is fully compatible with USB 2.0 (and 1.0, as it turns out), they expect folks to start buying future-proof USB 3.0 hard drives and wait for computer manufacturers to build it in — or just grab a PCIe card if they’re really enthusiastic. With around 10 times the headroom — about 500MB a second — of USB 2.0, the real bottleneck now is hard drive speeds. In the test we saw, the drive averaged around 78MB per second, and we can easily see SSD and RAID scenarios exploring this transfer speed. Their prototype setup to accomplish this was sprawling and a little bit ghetto, but by the time this is shipping in devices the chip will be shrunk down to about the size of a stamp. Action video is after the break.

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