Severed USB cable is really a 2GB flash drive
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 15th 2008 3:35PM
posted Jul 15th 2008 3:35PM
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Simply brilliant
How about it. I'd love to replace 10 or 15 cables at work with these things just to see how people reacted.
That thing is so full of win! I'd love to have one if for no other reason than to have it sitting around. ^_^
Until some neat freak pulls it out and tosses it figuring it's trash :(
Other brilliant products from the same company:
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Captain, I am detecting large quantities of win in this sector.
This is a innovative and clever design. Seriously.
Just make sure your girlfriend does not mistakenly throw it away!
Yeah clever design it is! Take that apple
That is the first thing that came to my mind. My girl would definitely throw it away, lol.
what is this gyrl-frend you speak of?
This would only be 'practical' for a prank joke, as you'd look like a complete tool with this sticking out of your USB port.
"Here's your external USB drive back Bill, but I have to warn most you, I think most of your data is gone..."
The definition of "tool" has certainly morphed over the years. Used to be that you'd be a tool if you had a USB drive with Prada stamped on it, or an Apple logo, etc. Now: a frayed chord = tool?
Would this be 'prank' for a practical joke though?
I remember when that guy made this and it was posted on engadget like a year ago.
ya someone already did this, but cool nonethe less
Guess that's why Engadget put right in the write-up, "HACKED! is a user creation-gone-commercial"
@Khris,
You really think I have the energy to read all 3 sentences? Sheesh, I'm not superman
cute
That would so get thrown away at my house.
"My porno!!!!"
Sold!
If somebody tried to steal mine, I'd throw my foam brick at them.
Oh yeah?
If someone tried to steal mine, I'd shoot them with a Nerf gun.
Not a polystyrene rock?
Ethan, I prefer polystyrene cocks.
@Sam
I prefer polystyrene cups.
I LOVE LAMP.
Great Idea. Even though its a small Size on the GB side, I wont mind buying it just for jokes. Great idea,
This is a much better idea than the half-baseball and bullet hole stickers that people put on their cars.
Agreed. If I see another skinny tattooed 17-year-old with a backwards hat driving a lowered '96 Civic with ground effects, a custom muffler, and fake bullet holes, I might just shoot myself.
A custom exhaust is one thing (>$200), but an el cheapo "fart can" off ebay (
Well thats the first time I've ever had my reply textually mangled?!?
Engadget commenting system FTL!!!
<
(without the spaces)
but i wonder, does the coment system just ignore html? ...if so, why not just auto-translate the < symbol?
ftl indeed.
@Craig
Would you shoot yourself or would you put fake bullet holes on your chest?
to Craig...
why shoot yourself? just shoot at his car and give him REAL bullet holes... like those barb wire tattoos... "come over here and let me wrap some real barb wire around your arm and squeeze it real tight!"
The shear number of these that will get tossed out by accident doesn't even bear estimating...
Make sure anyone you live with or cleans for you gets the joke (thus runining the joke) or you may find your data truely was disposable.
This reminds me of those bluetooth adapters which just turned out to be a chopped off USB plug inside a plastic casing.
Make your own.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey
Great. now its commercial. which makes it not so smart and cool anymore. Gonna have to find a new place to hide my pr0n.
Great now its commercial meaning everyone's going to know. gonna have to find a new place to put my pr0n.
Yeah your second comment worked better. Too bad they both showed up. I guess you didn't get a second chance like you thought.
...like you had one to start with.
/foghorn
Ahhhh, when I was a kid my mom had one of those arms in the trunk of her car. She named it "Jeff." Yes, the arm had a name, but after one of the most notorious "hackers" of the nineties!
Ahhhh, when I was a kid my mom had one of those arms in the trunk of her car. She named it "Jeff." Yes, the arm had a name, but after one of the most notorious "hackers" of the nineties!
Looks like I can approach from a running speed some stupid nerd using this and easily yank the flash drive off.
It was great last year when the guy made it but now that its something you can buy everyone will recognize it.
i think most people do not shop at ThinkGeek.
Why would anyone actually want this? Someone would find it somewhere and just toss it in the trash, thinking it was a torn cable.
this is almost as bad as the hanging testicles that I see several hillbillies driving around with their pickup trucks. may as well hang a sign on their bumper with "HEY I'm a REDNECK".
with geekdom in mind. that would be a Paleneck
the guy in the picture types like a ninny.
:P
Dont u get what they say .You need to stuck a usb flash drive inside the usb plug and cut the wire .thats why it looks it just a cut off usb cable
I cut all my USB cables but XP does not recognize any of them. Does this work only with Vista?
LOL
Good luck flying with one of those. The TSA and wire-looking things don't mesh.
Added to my list of things not to buy on eBay.
haha
I wonder how many people are going to buy these, go home and cut up some USB cables and return them to get their money back.
like a "Geek On Board" sign on your car.
This thing is not a really new idea... and everyone who is not double left handed can build its own instead to buy it: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey
dude...weak. read the article and comments; you're so far behind.
The dog ate it.
Very cool and a great attention getter!
Perhaps it's supposed to be like those "coke can safes". You could store really sensative stuff on it and nobody would even think to use it.
But that doesn't stop people from throwing it away or trying to get a bit of money for recycling it.
I'm waiting for the network plug version...
"whip"???
My, aren't WE getting ghetto in Engadget-land. . ?
lol, good luck selling that on ebay
Now, if they could make the tip of each of the wires seem to glow red, now THAT I'd buy!
I want one.