These speakers from Yamaha boasts of mobility, as in you can carry it anywhere you want since it has a USB point and its compact. We’re talking 248×33x100mm and 500g. Sound wise, it is better than the cheap speakers you bought during the last minute sale. For those who don’t like to wear headphones, you can bring this to your office space too - we all know no music, no life..:) God knows my laptop’s speakers sucks; it’s no different than the sound my neighbor’s cat makes when its on heat. I should probably get one. But I already have my trusty iPod…so money is better saved somewhere for my retirement fund!

The Yamaha USB Speakers also run on 4 AAA batteries too if you can’t find a USB plug point and it also has an audio port too for whatever device you might have at home that might be able to spew music. That means you can also connect your iPod or other MP3 player to the speakers via a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Pricing is set at 149 pounds (about $293 dollars) and availability is set for later this year.

Source: Akihabara News

Homer: “Marge! My beer’s cold - why can’t drinks stay cold when I leave it right next to my computer?”

Random inventor: *lightbulb* USB BEVERAGE CHILLER

Holy cow… the USB Beverage Chiller is a real weird invention, wait weird isn’t the description I was looking for - decadent? sloth-like? piggish? cool…no, not cool…. I mean can see how it can useful but if your drinks doesn’t stay cold it’s not really a big huge deal, is it??

It’s one of these days that you think about the good old days before we depended on cellphone and snail mail was still a major tool of communication between ppl living on a different area code…or the time when cold drinks with melting ice was a novelty and because of its novelty, you’d finish your cold drink before all the ice melts…you know those days…*sigh* What’s going to become of our kids!!

And now, if you want your Coke to be cold, you put it into a USB Beverage Chiller and your drink will stay cold for as long as you’re on your computer (or away from it)….god, aren’t we all just spoiled rotten these days!

The USB Beverage Chiller has:-

* Connection via USB
* Coldplate chills to 45˚F
* Helps keeps your beverage cool
* USB cable length: 5 feet
* Dimensions: 5.25″ x 3.25″ x 1.4″

Source:ThinkGeek; CoolIT Systems

Here’s the very thing that every Star Wars fan is waiting for - a skype phone in the shape of a light sabre. The very thing is the latest from Nikko Japan. The phone uses a USB point to plug itself into your computer and from there, you will use it like a receiver, except that it’s way cooler because it goes zing! just like a real light sabre.

Anyhow, the price for this ultimate geekdom gadget is not for the little ones, anakin would have to be grown up to play this baby because it’s perhaps worth $2500. I am pretty sure all the star wars fan (ones who can afford it) will be harping about having one in their bedroom and one in their handy pouch.

May the force be with you.

Souce: Gizmodo, Engadget

I was blog hopping because I like to stalk blogs and I stumbled upon AkibaLive’s post about a squid. Yes, a squid that glows everytime you poke it into a USB point! Now, this is truly inventive and cute. For about USD51 this Glowing Squid (site is in Japanese, so if you don’t read Japanese here’s an alternative site)is a 512MB USB storage device; and isn’t all about the storage space now is it? I mean, you have to appreciate its design ingenuity. Now this is art that sells - cos god knows, we all just LOVE cutesy stuff!

Dokodemo Issho is a Sony-created game for the PSP. It stars the latest in a string of cute Japanese characters - a cat named Taro.

This gadget was bought on it’s cuteness value. Also, because I like lame puns. Dokodemo means ‘anywhere’ or ‘everywhere’. So, you can take this USB memory stick anywhere and everywhere!

128MB and it also has a little hook so you can hang any number of ‘danglies’, like what that Japanese are renown for doing to their phones. It also came with a choice of colours. Picked up in the shady back streets of Akihabara for under 3000 yen.

Actually, the title is a small lie. Today’s gadget was actually a Christmas present from my lovely housemates.

It’s a Hoover Duck! It plugs into a USB 2.0 socket (it must be USB 2.0 because it draws power from the computer) and when you press the button on it’s back, it becomes a mini vacuum cleaner for your keyboard and general computer area. And yes, it sucks up the dust and food crumbs through it’s beak!

Unfortunately it’s not terribly powerful but it is more convenient than dragging out the big vacuum cleaner, plugging it in, putting on the correct attachment and then sucking up your mess. It’s handy in a nacho spill emergency.

My duck’s name is Wade, in case you were wondering.

PingMag recently wrote an article about 10 of the bizarre USB objects you can buy these days, both in Japan and around the world.

From the list, my favourite would probably be the USB food drives, which you can find easily in Japan. As it is, Japan is famous for having very life-like plastic food on display in the windows of restaurants everywhere! It would only be a small jump to turn these plastic food models to portable USB memory sticks.

All of the objects are functional, even if they are just a gimmick and can actually be bought now or in the future. But there are a few things missing from that list. Maybe I’ll write up a list one day…

Link:
PingMag - 10 Unusual USB Objects