plankton's nailed USB drive: perfect for handymen, frustrated computer owners
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 30th 2008 7:53PM
posted Jul 30th 2008 7:53PM
[Via technabob]
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Ah yes, random objects turned into usb drives...never ceases to amaze me what some people do with theirs...
A USB drive that size should be able to hold over 10 times what it does... What a rip off.
I'd hit it!
took me a while, but i laughed.
I got it immediately, but didn't laugh.
quomen: i think they have seminars for that kinda handicap
phanbouy: Who needs seminars to cure handicaps when you can use a baseball bat to induce one?
With a hammer. A USB Hammer that is.
i see, so you're really really angry. thanks for the update.
I dont know, I dont think im desperate enough to nail my computer.
No, I love the world. Stop trying to portray me as the enemy.
haha
Unless that's a 3" laptop this thing is huge! I mean, look at the VGA connector next to it!
thats what she said!
on another note, i think a better comparison would have been the hammer that is off to the side of the picture.
Not on my Mac. On my DELL and Gateway, sure I would love to hammer these substandard products.
here here.
and yes, that counts even on boot camp
at least for me it does
Well, it gives us geeks a way to say we nailed something at least. :P
Oh snap!
didn't Frankenstein's monster have a nail sticking out of his head? that is very important.
As much as I really dislike the massive amount of redundant iPhone posts, lets be realistic now. Engadget is a website.. websites for the most part want traffic. Engadget at the moment is one of the bigger gadget websites and a new popular gadget just came out with a new revision..
They are posting updates for it that are likely gathering them a very large amount of traffic. Why would they stop just to please the people who are too lazy to scroll or download a Greasemonkey Firefox script? Get real. If any of you guys (or girls) had nearly as much traffic as I bet Engadget has right now, you would be orgasmic.
OMG! Please ignore this guys, Roboform somehow loaded up a previous post of mine.. ignore this.. thanks.
WTF?
LOL Roboform.
At least it didn't load up a list of passwords? (Darn!)
Is there any significance in the fact that the head of the nail is positioned off the table? It looks to me like it wouldn't fit properly and would cause the laptop to rise a few millimeters off a flat surface if you tried to insert it without it sticking out into clear air.
While kind of funny, I think I would not like it in my pocket, no sir.
Is that a giant-usb-nail in your pocket, or are you just...
That's hillarious..and a great little gift for our it staff.
Did anybody else look at it and consider using it for cord management? Just me?
I'd run my power cord and other usb cables over top of it so they don't hang down and pull on my mouse or power brick.
Any laptop that places its USB port back behind the screen deserves to be smashed.
This is actually the EXACT laptop that I use at home, and those three USB ports are the only three on the entire machine. It is a huge pain.
You might look like a tool having this
In fact, I might just bolt out and buy one
If it fails though, ill go nuts
Clever.
you need to make like a pile of bricks and get laid.
http://www.worldwidefred.com/hacked.htm
That is one old, low-end Dell laptop. I should know, my household owned one for a while.