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Welcome to the USB Hub, where our crack team of nerds are chained to computers with lots of USB ports trying out every USB device we can find. We let you know what we think of them and give you a place to share your thoughts on them as well.

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USB Pig Radio/Speaker

The USB Pig Radio/speaker is an amazing example of a product that sounds much better than it is. And I don't mean the sound is good. What could possibly go wrong with a plastic pig that lets you listen to your favourite radio station and/or works as a speaker to amplify tunes from your ipod or PC?. Well for starters, the radio function is pants. The manufacturers have gone for the one button push-to-scan radio carcass that comes in your average free drug company distributed radio. So to say find

LaCie Huby - Rockin USB Hub
The LaCie Huby is the best looking usb hub I have ever seen. And I've seen one or two. Obviously LaCie realised that consumers are after useful things that look good on the desk. The Huby provides 4 U

USB Missile Launcher
The USB missile launcher is probably not what the boffins who invented the USB protocol had in mind when they created our favourite port, but I truly believe that it is the very pinnacle of USB device

The USB coffee warmer and hub combination.
    The USB coffee warmer and hub combination that we tested is of the cheap, mass produced and Chinese variety. The warming part consists of a circular metal pad that heats up in

USB Massager
    Our next entry in the cheap and superfluous dept is the tiny but mighty USB massager. I wasn't sure what to expect when the box arrived in the mail, and, truth be told I was s


What have our readers been up to?

From: Anon(13)   on 2006-11-15 05:03:28
Cool - pymissle already imported into the OpenBSD ports tree (-current).

From: Anon(13)   on 2006-10-10 06:14:18
http://java.roysolberg.com/usb/ <-- Java version

From: Anon(13)   on 2006-10-01 00:33:00
Have a look at this - http://crave.cnet.co.uk/peripherals/0,39029462,49283728,00.htm?r=2 A battery that charges over USB!