USB Engine Hub

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Tired of looking at the conventional USB hubs? Why don't you have a motorbike engine or USB engine hub on your desk? This device comes with 3 ports to enable you to connect to any laptop or PC via a USB port. When you plug it into the USB port, the engine revs up to tell you that it is connected. The main feature of this device is that it has a starter pedal and gearshift which make realistic engine noises when pressed. Perhaps, the video here will demonstrate it better for its engine sounds and powerful vibrations.

Donut Flash Drives

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Are you hungry? Would you want to have some donuts? You can choose from three flavors: traditional chocolate frosting, strawberry and a weird green color. These delicious looking donuts are not served for you to bite on as it stores bytes and bits instead of calories.

Gundam USB-Powered Air Ionizer

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Are you a fan of the Gundam anime series? If yes, you will fall in love with this device. This USB-Powered ionizer is useful to keep the air around you ionize as long as your computer or notebook that it is plugged to is turned on.

USB Lighter Flash Drive

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This USB Lighter Flash Drive might not be caused you concern as it does not use a flammable liquid. Rather, it builds on the same concept as the lighter in most cars. It uses small resistance coils powered by a rechargeable battery, in which you can plug it into an available USB port for recharging purpose.

The Smallest USB hub

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This USB hub is claimed to be the smallest USB 2.0 hub in the world, which is designed to help you connect more peripherals to the PC without occupying too much desktop space. It measures 5.8mm x 28mm x12mm to make it travel-friendly. Though it is small, it manages to cram in four USB 2.0 ports. From the above picture, you can see that it's shorter than the length of two SD cards, weighing about 21 grams.

USB Fibre Optic Christmas Tree

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This USB Fibre Optic Christmas Tree will definitely get you into the Christmas spirit. When you plug this device into an available USB port, you'll experience a warm glow as the tips of the branches glisten with a bright blue shimmer. The sparkling lights from this Christmas tree will give you soothing as well as hypnotic effects besides adding a festive spirit.

USB Owl

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This USB Owl is a cute and friendly-looking little owl which is one of the weirdest USB products. The owl will blink sagely, move and roll his eyes around, and rotate his head which will definitely provide you inspiration to any home and office computer users.

USB “Timeless Watch”

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This USB “Timeless watch” is a combination of a digital watch and a USB. It was designed by the Czech designer, Ondrej Vaclavik. The watch is lightweight while providing time and information. After connecting to a computer or a notebook, it will remain the status of charging.

USB Animal Drives

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These USB drives are Swedish products. They're shaped into animals like a gorilla (Fredrik), a sheep (Jan), a turtle (Göran), and a pig(Maud). Each of this USB drive is available in four memory sizes: 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB.

USB Eternal Love Rings

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Are we matched to each other? How long will our love last? Now, let's synchronize these USB Eternal Love Rings to a laptop or a computer to “connect” our mutual love.

USB Hub Photo Frame

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This USB Hub looks like a digital photo frame. It comes with four ports and is USB 2.0 compatible. It matches the photo size of 62x 53mm. It's one of the devices to put on your desk to brighten your memories. Besides that, its back light picture frame will brighten up your paper pictures anytime and anyplace you get it plugging into your laptop or computer.

USB Mini Fan

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This super cute USB Mini Fan is shaped into animals like a little pig and a little ducking. If your indoor air is not thoroughly ventilated, don't forget to let this cute little pig or a little duckling to ventilate your surrounding air.

2008 Beijing Olympics USB Flash Drives

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In conjunction to 2008 Beijing Olympic, the USB flash drives took a theme of the Olympic Games in China. They were released with a very limited edition. The 4GB thumb drive of the Olympic torch features the game logo in its centre, with some swirly red cloud around its surrounding. The Mascot-series which consist of 4GB flash drives have their front side printed with images of Fuwa besides the Olympic logos.

Mini cars USB Flash Drives

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These mini cars USB flash drives are one of the weirdest products of USB. They won't take you go downtown but they help to store data of pictures, MP3 and some movie files as well.

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When you plug this mini car into a USB port, its headlight will be immediately lighted up. It's cool, isn't it?

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They also come in a freight car and a patrol car. It's such the weirdest and coolest products ever made!

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If you're pregnant or you want to be a mother, it's time for you to have one USB Pregnancy Test device. It's 99% accurate to detect hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin), hCG-H (hyperglycosylated hCG - for detection before your first missed period), and LH (luteinizing hormone - for detection of your most fertile days). Note that these hormones don't indicate pregnancy or ovulation respectively as the extenuating circumstances may have affected the levels of these hormones in your body. In addition to these hormones, the device will show you the symbol of a baby, no baby, or multiples and your estimated delivery date based upon your concentration of hCG, hCG-H, and LH in your urine via its onscreen interface.

To use it, you pee on a stick, specifically the absorbent test strip at one end, then you remove the cap from the other end of the stick (to keep you away from casually contaminating) to reveal the USB connector. Next, pop it into your computer and you'll see your USB port starts the electrospray ionization process with a created spectrograph of the various masses for your analysis and urinalysis. After reviewing your test results, just pop the device out of your computer and change the test strip. The display will remain lit for five minutes before power off. It is recommended to use the horizontal USB drives for this USB product to avoid accidental moisture transference.

USB Wheel Phone Stand

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Can you feed your eyes with a visual stimulant instead of hearing the phone rings? Of course, with a device called USB Wheel Phone Stand, you can achieve your desire. However, this Ferris wheel only works for VoIP phones.When a call comes in, this device which is connected to your PC will spin. It's indeed an interesting stuff!

Popdrive Bottle Drive

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The Popdrive Bottle Opener is a 1GB thumb drive that is both USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible. This device comes with an attached bottle opener with its entire length in 3.75”, 1.5” in width, and 0.5” in height. Now, you can have this device to transfer your file and open those cold beverages without using your teeth. It also has an attached carabineer-style key chain to enable you to clip to your belt buckle, backpack, purse or set of keys easily. Its unique feature is that it lets you transferring files and opens the frosty beverage with the pesky bottle caps all at a time.

“I Love You” LED Laptop Light

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“I Love You” LED Laptop Light is a device that adds a little more light to your laptop or computer. It might be a perfect gift to give for Techie girl.

Star Wars USB Hubs

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For both computer Greeks and Star War's fans, the invention of R2-D2 and Darth Vader USB Hubs seem to be good news for them. Undoubtedly, the addition of these USB hubs will bring more joys to the computer users. Once you plug one of them into the USB port, it will operate automatically. You will see its eyes get blinking, its head moves and you will listen to sounds actually to what you listen in the Star War movie.

USB Fridge

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This USB Fridge will keep your beverage chilled while you're at your computer. It gets 5 minutes to bring the fridge down to 8 degree Celsius (47 degree Fahrenheit) after plugging it to your laptop or computer.

USB Illuminated Roll-up Keyboard

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This USB Illuminated Roll-up Keyboard is made by high-quality silicone and it is washable, water resistance, soft touch while typing without creating sounds and foldable. It comes in white and pink color. This device is so convenient that it can be rolled up and put easily in your briefcase, notebook carrying bag or backpack.

USB Data Injection

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This is not made for the injection purpose; rather it is used for data junkies. It might be simply made your daily data storage easier and interesting.

Stethoscope looks like USB

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Please don't be mistaken! This is not a stethoscope that a doctor uses to place on your stomach to diagnose to sounds of your heart, breathing, intestines and blood flow in arteries and veins. This USB is used for a direct individual data connection. It is equipped with the properties of hearing, scanning and checking.

Strange looking USB Drive

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This is a very creative designed of a USB drive, featuring in a delicate art in its design. It is a tool for theft prevention on a laptop or a computer that is essential for data security, virus protection, industrial or individual espionage and video piracy.

USB Apple-shape Speaker

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This is an interesting design PC speaker used particularly for a notebook. That means the desktop computer users cannot use this device at their computer desks.

USB Monster Hub

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This monster has six-legged attached beneath its body. It has the ability to hook up to USB devices via any of its highly adjustable limbs. Its furry legs are pretty cool looking. This monster resembles the Dark Star that I watched from the Slayers series.

USB & FireWire Hub

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This stylist USB & FireWire combination Hub is designed by Ora-Ïto for your PC or Mac. The hub is round in shape, and has a white polycarbonate appearance. The add-in 4 USB ports and 2 FireWire ports allow you to connect iPod, PSP, mobile phone, movable keyboard, camera and printer simultaneously. That means you can connect up to six devices at a time. It comes with 8 flexible and twistable cables (5 USB 2.0 & 3 FireWire 400), a USB fan, a USB light, a USB extension cable and a FireWire 400 extension cable to make it fully equipped for all the connections the computer users required. Indeed, the connectivity with this interesting USB hub will let you experiencing the creativity and beauty of the art.

A Purse's U-disk

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Nowadays, a USB is like other fashionable hairstyle and clothing has become a modern trend to suit different requirement and situation. Like what you see in the picture, this is a female-like modern purse U-disk. It is particularly favored by females, spy agents or female detectives.

A Porcupine fish's U-disk

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Hey, you, SpongeBob, don't make me angry; I'll stab you!

Christmas Cake USB Hub

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This creamy cake is a product of Japan. It has 4 ports that are decorated with four USB strawberries, measures 120x120x130mm, and weights 650g. It offers up to 1GB memory and is compatible with OS Window 2000 and later. This sumptuous like creamy USB Hub cake looks like a real cake but unfortunately you're not tempted to have a slice of the cake.

Wooden USB Memory Sticks

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These wooden USB Memory Sticks are available in memory sizes of 512Mb, 1GB, and 2GB. They're USB 2.0 Memory sticks which are compatible to Window, Linux and Mac. These memory sticks are useful to have around when transferring files from a computer to another computer.

So you're fed up of downloading torrent files at 5kB/s? Then you have come to the right place. I'm going to go through the process of setting up ports to allow your torrent program to download at top speed! The first half of this article is for all windows users. The second half is for windows users on a wireless network. So here we go, for all the windows users who want to give their torrents a little boost:

Go to the control panel and open the windows security center. From here, look at the small security settings section at the bottom of the window. See the windows firewall? Click on that. If you're using any other firewall and the windows one is off, open that firewalls settings instead. This process should be almost identical.

After this, click the exceptions tab at the top.

Now, we're first going to make sure the torrent program itself is being allowed by the firewall. Just go through the exceptions and try to find it. If it is, it's being accepted. If it's not, click "add program" at the bottom and either select the program from the list that appears, or browse to its location. Now, once your program is being allowed by the fire wall, it's time to set it's default port as an exception in the firewall. Open up your torrent program (I'm using Utorrent).

Click options/preferences. In this window, go to the connection tab on the left, then look at the port number. Highlight it and copy it!

Now, go back into the exceptions window in your firewalls properties and click "add port". Call it what you want, but I would recommend something related to the torrent program, and then paste in the number in the port section. It should look like this:

Do the same thing again, but give it a slightly different name and select the UDP option. Now you've opened your firewall ports for your torrent program! Those of you using a LAN or other wired connection can now go and enjoy your improved torrent speeds. Those of you on wireless, continue reading. Your time with me is not yet over.

Next we're going to open up the ports exactly as we just have done, but instead of doing it in the firewall options, we'll do it on the wireless routers options. You should still have the torrent's port number ready to paste, so open up your web browser and access your router through the routers IP address. This is usually either "192.168.2.1" or "192.168.1.1". If one doesn't work, try the other. If neither work, continue without this for now and I'll show you where to get it in a later picture. Now, I'm going to be giving screenshots of my routers virtual servers (ports), if you need instructions for your specific router I recommend going to PortForward.

Now, the first thing we need to do is find your static IP address. The shortest and easiest way of doing this is just to double click on your wireless connection in the tray, then clicking the support tab.

This is your static IP address given to you by your Router. Remember it for later, or just keep this window in your taskbar. The default gateway is your routers IP address, in case you didn't find it earlier. Now, with this new found information we're going to be jumping into the inner workings of your router. Get on your web browser and type in your routers IP address. Log in.

You should see a section about a firewall somewhere in the routers settings. In this section, you should find an option called virtual servers, ports or something like that. Click on this and you should see a big list of empty boxes like this:

or something similar.

Now, we're going to open a port just like we did in the windows firewall. First, check the grey box on the left to enable the port, then type in a name for it. The same names as before will do, or you can think of something new. Depends how creative you're feeling. Next, in the inbound port, put in your torrent programs port number. Do this for both boxes. You should still have this copied. Do the same thing for the private port, then finally put in the extension for your private IP address.

Do the same thing for the next port down. Give it a new name, fill in all the rest of the boxes exactly the same, and then select UDP from the dropdown box. Apply the changes and you're all done! Go and enjoy your full download speed like you were meant to! Just to double check though, this is how it should look (not the same for every router though).

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What are these things, anyway? Here’s a simple explanation:

PERIPHERALS

Peripherals are external and optional devices that you add to your computer to make it easier or more fun to use. Peripherals DO NOT include devices that are absolutely necessary for your computer to work, like the monitor. Some common peripherals are:

• Mouse/trackball
• Joystick
• Modem
• Webcam
• Flashdrive
• Floppy disk drives
• CD-ROM
• Microphone/headset
• Speakers
• Printer
• Scanner

PORTS

Ports are the little holes where you plug in your peripherals. You can find them at the back of your laptop or CPU (the big box part of your PC that contains your CD-ROM and hard drive).

Ports have different shapes and sizes. A few of them are:

• A rectangular hole with holes or pins, where you plug in your keyboard
• Another rectangular hole with holes or pins for your printer
• Small, round holes for plugging in your speakers and headset
• Small, squarish holes where a phone jack fits, for your modem
• A small, rectangular hole for your mouse
• A black pentagon for the main plug/ electric supply

USB (Universal Serial Bus)

The Universal Serial Bus was introduced to standardize ports into just two shapes: a small rectangular plug or a small, squarish plug. They have no rows of pins or holes.

Unlike ports, which have differently-shaped holes for different peripherals, USB has only one kind of hole for all peripherals. A new model computer usually has at least two USBs where you can plug in your USB mouse and USB keyboard. If there is an extra USB, you can use it to plug in your flashdrive, digital camera, or webcam. All these USB devices can fit into the same USB hole.