SolidAlliance's USB 2.0 Engine HUB drives up your geek cred

by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 26th 2007 at 4:17AM

Oh dork lord incarnate, meet the SolidAlliance 3-port USB Engine Hub. Modeled after a motorcycle engine, SolidA's latest features a kick starter, gear shift, and enough faux-engine revving effects to drive everyone around you nuts. ~~No word on price yet~~, but it's available starting tomorrow in Japan. Now check the video action after the break.

Update: Priced at ¥5,250 or about $43, vroom vroom daddy, vroom vroom.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: engine hub, EngineHub, solidalliance, usb, usb hub, usb power, usb powered, UsbHub, UsbPower, UsbPowered

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David @ Jun 26th 2007 4:20AM

I thought this was a meat processor.

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INTERNETSAVIOUR @ Jun 26th 2007 5:10AM

its loud and annoying and has only three ports. GUARANTEED SUCCESS!

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Mark @ Jun 26th 2007 7:16AM

That has to be the most useless product I've ever seen.

"You can put a computer mouse in the usb engine!" HOORAY!

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strider_mt2k @ Jun 26th 2007 8:16AM

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

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popeye @ Jun 26th 2007 8:34AM

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!

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Lyle @ Jul 9th 2007 1:30PM

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

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Matt @ Jun 26th 2007 9:24AM

How many MPG does it get?

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pete @ Jun 26th 2007 10:18AM

Ohh this has inspired another of my million dollar ideas -

USB-powered air compressor for blowing dust out of computers :P

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deltaco @ Jun 26th 2007 12:10PM

not a shabby idea actually.

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Taylor @ Jun 26th 2007 11:01AM

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!

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Spyvie @ Jun 26th 2007 11:45AM

Say what you want about the likes of me...

I want one!

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Blakamin @ Jun 27th 2007 3:06AM

Yup... me too!

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Rustaholic @ Jun 26th 2007 12:35PM

Make another one like a Hit-n-Miss flywheel engine and make it sound right. THEN I will buy one. OR 20.

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adrian @ Jun 26th 2007 4:40PM

only three USB ports?

And how much ghz does that thing do? and can it be overclocked?

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Lynne Wilkinson @ Oct 3rd 2008 6:04PM

Will this work with Windows VISTA ?

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