Severed USB cable is really a 2GB flash drive

This one goes out to the same folks who buy bullet hole stickers for their whip, hang stuffed arms from their tailgates and have those half-baseballs suctioned to their windshield -- all in the name of garnering attention. HACKED! is a user creation-gone-commercial that features a severed USB cable with 2GB of internal capacity. For those not in the know, it looks as if you had a nasty encounter with a vicious canine (or a hacksaw), but in reality, it's simply a 2GB flash drive in disguise. This has success written all over it.

[Via MAKE]

[thirdopticaltool Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:01PM]

the guy in the picture types like a ninny.

:P

[nGmze Posted Jul 15th 2008 8:58PM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:03PM]

I cut all my USB cables but XP does not recognize any of them. Does this work only with Vista?

[akhan360 Posted Jul 15th 2008 6:09PM]

LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:08PM]

Good luck flying with one of those. The TSA and wire-looking things don't mesh.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:35PM]

Added to my list of things not to buy on eBay.

[thirdopticaltool Posted Jul 16th 2008 11:08AM]

haha

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:49PM]

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.

[noreallyanything Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:48PM]

like a "Geek On Board" sign on your car.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:53PM]

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

[corp Posted Jul 15th 2008 5:59PM]

dude...weak. read the article and comments; you're so far behind.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 7:11PM]

The dog ate it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 2:02AM]

Very cool and a great attention getter!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 8:08PM]

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.

[mgrochowalski Posted Jul 16th 2008 1:02AM]

But that doesn't stop people from throwing it away or trying to get a bit of money for recycling it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2008 11:45PM]

I'm waiting for the network plug version...

[ZeroCorpse Posted Jul 16th 2008 1:48AM]

"whip"???

My, aren't WE getting ghetto in Engadget-land. . ?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 16th 2008 8:04AM]

lol, good luck selling that on ebay

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 16th 2008 10:59AM]

Now, if they could make the tip of each of the wires seem to glow red, now THAT I'd buy!

[ran Posted Jul 16th 2008 10:05PM]

I want one.