SolidAlliance's USB 2.0 Engine HUB drives up your geek cred
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 26th 2007 4:17AM
posted Jun 26th 2007 4:17AM
Update: Priced at ¥5,250 or about $43, vroom vroom daddy, vroom vroom.
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Will this work with Windows VISTA ?
I thought this was a meat processor.
its loud and annoying and has only three ports. GUARANTEED SUCCESS!
That has to be the most useless product I've ever seen.
"You can put a computer mouse in the usb engine!" HOORAY!
Does it come with the hardware to mount it to one of the legs of your rolling office chair?
Aside from the cable length issues something like THAT would be cool, because you could operate it the way it's supposed to be operated, and not by hand.
-and hey, if you plug it into a battery-operated USB charger you'd probably still get the sound effects! :D
Modeled after a British unit twin ala Triumph 650/750... I wonder if it leaks oil? No matter, as long as the prince of darkness (Lucas...) didn't do the electricals!
Did you say something about oil leaks? Here is the perfect companion product:
http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Fake-Oil-Pools-p-17073.html
How many MPG does it get?
Ohh this has inspired another of my million dollar ideas -
USB-powered air compressor for blowing dust out of computers :P
not a shabby idea actually.
Awesome idea for a prank: get someone new to computers and tell them that they need the engine to run USB peripherals, and that they need to keep the engine constantly making noise. See how they go!
Say what you want about the likes of me...
I want one!
Yup... me too!
Make another one like a Hit-n-Miss flywheel engine and make it sound right. THEN I will buy one. OR 20.
only three USB ports?
And how much ghz does that thing do? and can it be overclocked?