USB powered Holiday Tree – prepare yourself for next Xmas

* USB-powered mini holiday tree with blue LED light
* Power Supply: 5V/1A, Standard USB
* Works with USB 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 ports
* Connector: USB Type-A Male Plug
* Dimensions: 3.2″ dia x 4.5″ tall

USB Microscope

* Take snapshots, video, and time-lapse movies
* 3 magnification levels – 10X, 60X, and 200X
* Super-brite LED lighting for bright top and bottom illumination
* Video playback at 15 frames/sec
* Resolution of 640×480

USB Rocket Launcher

This rocket launcher connects to your computer via USB. This Rocket Launcher, with 360 degree horizontal rotation and 45 degree vertical rotation, the USB Rocket Launcher can fire over six meters! Cool! Nice toy for your kids, or maybe for yourself…

Fun in office with USB Rocket Launcher

USB Snowbot

* Rotating, articulating metal arms

There is a chance that the artificial intelligence which created the robot armies of the future originated from a massive connection of small USB desktop devices plugged into computers connected to the Internet. Please don’t blame us if, by attempting to find a way to save humanity, we have inadvertently doomed it. Thank you.

* Scanning LED Robotic Eye
* Rate of sweeping is controllable via knob
* Selectable LED Robotic Eye Colors (Blue or Red)
* Authentic Snowbot Sound (on/off switch)

…and USB powered color-changing Snowman

USB Beverage Cooler

* Coldplate chills to 45˚F
* Helps keeps your beverage cool
* Dimensions: 5.25″ x 3.25″ x 1.4″

USB Mug Warmer & Hub

* Heats up to 80 degrees celcius
* 110mm wide by 110mm deep. 120mm high.
* Insulative section (metal part) diameter 72mm
* Weight 110 grams
* On/off switch with LED indicator

Legendary Swiss Army USB

* USB storage in Swiss Army knife design
* USB Flash Drive (easily detachable)
* Includes: Red LED light, ballpoint pen, knife, scissors, file with screwdriver, keyring

USB Aquarium – add water and conect to USB, and voila!

* USB-powered desktop aquarium with aquarium tank, USB cable, 2 fish
* Works with any computer or gaming console with a USB port
* Swimming fish with hinged tails and life-like motion
* Blue LED can be used to light-up the aquarium or for night operation
* Dimensions: 3.75″ wide x 3.5″ high x 2.5″ deep

This USB aquarium looking cool in the dark – the soft blue light creates very cool nightlight

USB powered Pole Dancer

USB powered Santa Drums

USB bra!!? Yeah, unplug and play!

USB belt – for hidding some private “data files”

USB drive for doctors

Misc USB devices

“Edible” USB drives

Bulletproof USB drive

Lego USB Drive

More geeky USB powered devices and USB drives @ ThinkGeek Gadgets

The 2008 U.S. presidential election is the most Internet-fueled race to date. Check out these related tweets.

1. Abandoned by John Edwards: Before John Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, he dropped out of the Twitter community without a word.
2. Debate Torrent: USofA discussed torrenting the Democratic Debates.
3. Downing Street Shirks Back: Downing Street doesn’t engage in emotive political dialogue.
4. Barack Obama Gets Snarky: Sen. Obama mused about a second-place vice-presidency offer.

Popular Culture

These tweets focus on shameful pop-culture conversations.

1. Predicting “American Idol“: These users shared their “American Idol” preferences on Twitter.
2. “Showgirls“: This Twitter user admitted to watching “Showgirls.”
3. “American Idol” Spoilers: There were a variety of funny and embarrassing posts about spoiling the “American Idol” finale.

Corporate

See what kind of hilarity ensues when corporations try to use Twitter.

1. Comcast Complaints: Comcast found out what customers really think of it on Twitter.
2. Moonman: MTV Networks tries to reach out via Twitter.
3. The New York Times: The New York Times uses its Twitter feed to push headlines, so it’s no wonder that the majority of subscribers are just other The New York Times feeds.
4. Innocent Drinks on Twitter: Innocent Drinks has been criticized for creating a one-sided, underused Twitter account.
5. Comcast’s One-Person Outage: Michael Arrington publicly complained about his Comcast connection and got results.

Society

These tweets highlight a few embarrassing social moments.

1. Banned from The 2008 Time 100: Julia Allison realized that she’s in a class of her own.
2. Laurel Touby Brags: Laurel sent out a few tweets about her dinner with two “Bloomergonians.”
3. Drunk Twittering: Zappos.com Inc. offers a warning against Twittering while drunk.
4. Twitter Wine Tasting: Project Vino held a Twitter wine-tasting party.
5. Arrested: A University of California, Berkeley grad student told his Twitter followers that he’s been arrested, and they came to his rescue.

At Work

Twitter isn’t all fun and games — sometimes, you bring it to work.

1. Fired: Former Yahoo! Inc. employee Ryan Kuder used Twitter to document the progress of his layoff from the company.
2. Hard at Work: Alex Payne revealed the real reason behind Twitter’s scaling problem.

Love and Family

These tweets get a little bit intimate.

1. Twitter Marriage Proposal: This couple got engaged via Twitter.
2. Forgotten Engagement: This couple forgot about their anniversary.
3. Getting Personal: This user told Twitter about her sexual needs.
4. Twitter Baby: Robert Scoble microblogged his newborn son’s hospital delivery.

Mistakes

Check out these tweets that highlight accidents like unintentional pornography and needle-swallowing.

1. GroupTweet: A user of GroupTweet accidentally posted her direct messages to the group account, sharing private conversations with a number of different people.
2. Unintentional Pornorgraphy: One Twitter user checked out translation work, which turned out to be pornography.
3. Twitter Suicide: A man contemplates suicide, and his Twitter friends sort of come to his rescue.
4. Matching Titles: Mashable used the same title as SocialTimes.com about an hour after the original article was posted.
5. Opposite Day: Twitter had a bug that caused some users to log in and send updates as other people.
6. Trashing PC Magazine: Steve Rubel, of public-relations firm Edelman, posted that he throws his free PC Magazine in the trash, which prompted a backlash from clients who pitch to the magazine.
7. Needle Swallowing: Jenny of The Bloggess worried that she might have inadvertently swallowed a needle.
8. Primal Tweet: One user let out a primal scream of 140 uppercase A’s with no breaks, screwing up the formatting for his own Twitter and his followers.

Spoofs

In these tweets, the joke was on the readers.

1. PayPerTweet: On April Fools’ Day, ProBlogger launched PayPerTweet, an advertising service.
2. PodTech.net Firing: Chuck Olsen tweeted that a PodTech.net employee was fired, and everyone believed him.

Anger

Tweets may grow old and tempers may calm, but these messages will live on forever.

1. An Interviewer’s Shame: This interviewer defended her highly criticized questions.
2. Unfollow Me: Leo Laporte called for a boycott of Kevin Rose but later regretted it, as he was “drunk and out of control.”
3. Blaine Cook on Downtime: Blaine Cook, former architect of Twitter, took a cheap shot about Twitter’s downtime using Twitter.
4. Twitter Racism: Hayden Black posted a surprisingly rude tweet about Kanye West’s dead mother.
5. Name-Calling: After Twitter founder Evan Williams overheard a woman call the service boring, he mockingly called her a bitch via Twitter, and Valleywag posted it as a serious story.
6. A Tweet Too Far: Although Twitter’s terms of service forbids harassment, one user has trouble with enforcing this rule.

At Home

Twitter is often used for mobile updating, but these users decided to take home use to a whole new level.

1. The Clapper: Justin Wickett set up a remote switch triggered by Twitter.
2. Alarm-Clock Shame: Chris Adams uses Twitter to shame himself into getting up on time.
3. Botanicalls: This tool will let you know when your plants are low on water.

Fakers

It’s hard to say who these tweets embarrass more — the people who wrote them or the people being impersonated.

1. Dvorak Versus Rupley: The Cranky Geeks practiced Twitter impersonation.
2. CNN: A CNN spoof poked fun at Hillary Clinton’s emotional state.
3. The Dark Lord: Darth Vader tweeted about the balance of evil and more.

Funny

These tweets are shameful but funny.

1. Toilet Humor: This comic followed a few Twitter updates that are a little immature and best kept private.
2. Plane Crash: One user said that he or she can’t wait to crash on the plane.
3. Twenty-Two Incher: This tweet discussed a computer monitor, but it sounded like it was referring to something else.
4. Twitter Cough: In Michael Arrington’s test of TwitterFone, he sent out a coughing tweet.
5. Awkward: Michael Arrington tweeted about Robert Scoble visiting his house after writing a critical post about advertising.

List from: insidecrm

Personally, I like to think that the reason for this is simply because men love them. Nothing sexist about that at all.

However, there are some people out there — most of them women I must confess — who claim these are called “she” because men like to have control over them. I argue that’s just a bunch of drivel. Name me a ship or a car or a country that won’t punish you if  you don’t treat it with the necessary care and attention. It’s just not possible. So who’s really calling the shots?

If cars were completely under control there would be no bumps and bashes on the roads. If ships were fully under control there would be no sunken wrecks. If countries were fully dominated there would be no wars.

Yes, women have been and many remain oppressed. That’s unacceptable, regrettable and a bunch of other -ables, but we’ve made and will continue to make a lot of progress.

Men and women may be equal when it comes to quality, but they are not the same, no matter what anyone might say. Apart from the obvious physical differences, there are some advantages women have over men.

Generally speaking, women live longer than men. Some studies show women cope better with pain then men, too (perhaps it’s from going through something painful every month – I’ll leave it at that). Fewer diseases affect just women.

Think about it. It’s a compliment of the highest order to refer to anything as female.

And so, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that laptops are like women. And here’s 10 reasons why:

1. Physical attributes

Laptops come in all different shapes, sizes and textures, just like women. Some are slender and ultra light whereas others are more chunky and rugged.

You’ll find some with curves in all the right places and others with long, straight lines.

You can find many that are perfectly smooth to the touch; others are a bit rough around the edges.

No matter what sort of man you are there’s a laptop to suit your personality whether that’s a larger model, full of surprises, or a neat and compact ‘what you see is what you get’ netbook sort of thing.

Laptops and women can be exquisite, elegant and expensive, smooth, soft and sexy, or cheap, cheerful and cheeky. Men really are spoilt for choice.

2. Processing Power

Some laptops have more processing power than others.

No one would argue that even less powerful laptops can still handle mathematical functions faster than men (OK, and women, too) but the main similarity between laptops and women regarding processing power is that even the most basic laptop can do more than one thing at a time.

Even the slowest woman can multitask. Men? Not so much.

Just take men watching sport as an example. When they’re watching the game, they don’t hear the phone or doorbell ring and you can call his name a dozen times and get no response. Everything around them is filtered out.

While there’s something to be said for such focus, there’s perhaps more to be said for the ability to multitask.

Women can watch television, surf the ‘net, write lists and send e-mails or text messages. And they’re still holding up their end of the conversation at the same time.

Even women who don’t score too highly on the intelligence quotient (i.e. have low processing power) still use a larger portion of their brains than men and brain imaging scans prove it. Women apparently have more connections between both sides of the brain than men.

Of course, some women move a bit faster on all these tasks than others, just as laptops vary in speed. Some whiz around getting things done at lightning speed, while others reluctantly plod through the day’s tasks.

Regardless, most women and laptops can process more information in a single day than the average male can get through in a week.

3. Memory Matters

Most men will surely have experienced this at some point with their mother, sister, girlfriend, wife — or any other female, for that matter.

During an argument, debate or even simple conversation, a woman is able to recall not only word for word what you said two years ago last Wednesday, she also can mimic the expression you had on your face, describe what you were wearing and tell you who else was there.

The only explanation for this is that, like laptops, women have more RAM than men. Emphasis on the “random.”

4. Costs and Maintenance

The sensible thing to do when buying a laptop would be to buy a model according to your budget and your needs. But, then, men aren’t always sensible.

Even if you like the idea of having a top-of-the-line model, it might be more prudent to go for the cheap and cheerful version that’s more than capable of giving you everything you need and stays within your budget.

Remember, though, that with both laptops and women appearances can be deceiving, so be careful. A lot look pretty damn good on the outside, but don’t have much going on under the hood. These models, no doubt, prove to be high maintenance in the long term.

Others may not be as aesthetically pleasing, but they will function beautifully and give you everything you could ever want and more.

It’s a sad fact there will always be men prone to splashing out more than they can realistically afford whether on their laptop or on their woman to look cool on the street. Trouble is, back at home when there’s no one to impress, they secretly wish they’d gone for something else.

5. Temperament

Some laptops have a tendency to respond well one day and simply refuse to cooperate the next — and for no apparent reason. If I’m being completely honest here, there are plenty of women like that. Mysterious creatures, we are.

It goes without saying that if you treat your laptop badly, you run the risk of it shutting down on you, when it will absolutely and resolutely refuse to play and exactly at the moment you need it most.

Women are more than capable of responding in exactly the same way. Treat them (both) well.

6. Risk of theft

Judging by the number of laptops stolen on a daily basis, they are highly attractive to opportunist thieves. So if you pay it no mind and leave it unattended for too long, you may well find it has disappeared, and right from under your nose.

Take heed: if you take your attention off your woman for too long, don’t complain if someone else nabs her. It/s a distressing experience you won’t want to repeat.

Remember, you will never ever be able to replace everything you lost no matter how well you thought you had everything backed up. (That goes for both laptops and women.)

7. What about networking?

Some laptops are just made to connect well with others and can significantly enhance your social life whereas other laptops only capable of only a one-on-one relationship with you, and you alone. When on the lookout for a new model, consider this point carefully.

Do you want a life in the fast lane of the information superhighway, linking up with other computers both in your house and over the World Wide Web? Or would you prefer to cozy up at home with just you and your beloved for company? Make your choice carefully as there will be trouble ahead if you change your mind after you’ve committed yourself.

8. Noise Pollution

We have to face it — noise can be a significant factor in your relationships with your laptop or your female companion.

Some laptops are so loud that they get on your nerves and you can hardly stand to keep them on. You’re in a pretty sorry state if you find yourself with a woman like that, too.

You might spend your days envying other guys who are able to sit in comfortable silence with their lover or laptop, because yours just won’t shut up no matter what you do. If this is the case, it’s probably better to ditch them both and get some peace.

9. Troubleshooting

Trouble is inevitable from time to time, to be sure. But the worst kind is when you go to turn your laptop on and it starts protesting and you hardly get anything done before it suddenly shuts down on you.

Is it your hard drive? Is there some sort of software conflict you’re unaware of? Have you forgotten an important update or done something you shouldn’t have done?

This is serious stuff as you’re left without a clue what to do to put it right and it’s going to take some time and effort to sort it out, if that’s even possible.

Better to do the proper research before bringing it home and don’t do anything at all without the correct protocols and permissions.

Oh, I was talking about the laptops there. As for women … well, I don’t think I need to repeat everything I just said.

10. Efficiency

Men just can’t function efficiently without them.

images and story via: geekwithlaptop

Angry woman with computer

Which type of woman do you like?

1. HARD-DISK Woman: She remembers everything you say and do, FOREVER.
2. WINDOWS Woman: Everyone knows that she can’t do anything right, but you can’t live without her.
3. EXCEL Woman: They say she can do a lot of things but you mostly use her for only your basic needs.
4. SCREENSAVER Woman: She is good for nothing functional, but at least she is exciting, colorful, and lots of fun.
5. INTERNET Woman: Difficult to access and hard to keep running.
6. SERVER Woman: Claims to be available to you, but Always busy when you need her.
7. MULTIMEDIA Woman: She has a way of making horrible things look very beautiful.
8. CD-ROM Woman: She always has you on the move, going faster and faster.
9. E-MAIL Woman: Out of Every ten things she says, eight are plain nonsense.
10. VIRUS Woman: Also known as “WIFE”; when you are least expecting her, she shows up, installs herself, and starts gobbling up all your resources. If you try to uninstall her, you will lose almost every thing. If you don’t try to uninstall her, you will still have nothing.