Video: USB powered chainsaw makes short work of a fake plastic tree
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted July 8th 2009 12:24AM
posted July 8th 2009 12:24AM
As far as USB gadgets go, this is one of the more unique ones, that's for sure. And while we usually don't have much opportunity to play with chainsaws 'round these parts (not in an official capacity, at least), the recently launched usbchainsaw.com has us wondering: perhaps we could stand to be a little more bloodthirsty in our Engadget labs torture testing -- if not for reasons of journalistic excellence, then at least for our own gratification. Of course, the i.Saw product website has all the hallmarks of a hoax -- but at least the video has provided some inspiration for the next time we're ready to wig out during a staff meeting. Check it out yourself after the break.
now you can destroy your mac with the power from your mac!
yup, typical Mac experience.
You could always do that.
Macs are technically indestructible unless dropped or squashed.
............isnt that how most things are destroyed?
@Kamil
Good point, Kamil! Who would've thought of that?!?
(Watches the Onion News : MacBook Wheel)..
...unless dropped or squashed, or looked at funny, or talked back to, or left sitting alone for any period of time. Then they corrupt your permissions and burn.
that's actually pretty cool.
It would be even cooler if the video worked.
is this for killing co-workers?
Should also come with a fake plastic watering can.
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth.
appropriately she is a fake plastic person
that she bought from a rubber man
dammit cy.
In a fake plastic house, on a fake plastic street in a fake plastic city on a fake plastic earth in a a fake plastic galaxy in a fake plastic universe
Whom is Michael Jackson.
It wears her out.
It WEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRS.......
A cracked polystyrene man
I feel like crumbling and burning after seeing how people have mangled a perfectly cool thread of replies.
But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling
... if I just turn and run...
Give it motion sensing ability, then merge it with a machine gun, and it would be a pretty serious Gears of War experience.
A real life lancer.
Did you ever play ZDoom? It's an excellent clone of the original Doom. There was a version of that which had a gun which launched chainsaws. It was excellent.
god, this thing is perfect, if only I knew it was real :(
I got no real use for this, but all I know is I want one.
What? You mean you don't take your laptop with you when you cut down trees? :P
hoax indeed... the "rigid body enclosure" looks like its made out of cardboard... heh
USB = 500mA @ 5V = 2.5 W
electric chainsaw = 10A @ 110V = 1.1kW
The biggest thing that makes me think this is a hoax is the little thing: the USB connector.
They have an "A" connector on the saw. That means you'd need to use an "A" to "A" cable to connect the thing to your computer. The problem is that such a cable is in violation of the USB specs and they are very hard to find (for good reason).
Anyone making a product for distribution would have put a "B" connector on the thing so you can use a spec-legal and comonly available A-B USB cable.
for mother china
This should liven up the security process at the airport.
I sure love Radiohead.
You, sir, have great taste in music. And so does Joseph Flatley, apparently.
Doesn't work.
"cuts through any wood"
Nah, this isn't fake.
i.Saw?
i.Came.
i.Conquered.
i.Hurt
i.dethroned
i.Wasted an i.Kea stool
i.Peed in your pool
i.Ran over to the douche on the corner. i.Raq'd him in the nuts and poked out his i.Balls. i.Tuned my vision towards his hot girl; i.Rene. Took her for some i.Scream.
Fake plastic tree? Like it's not really a plastic tree?
It's a clever reference to the song 'Fake Plastic Trees' by Radiohead
Looks like someone took an iSaw to their webserver
1. Are you gonna have your laptop outside when your cutting trees?
2. What if you own a desktop and not a laptop or netbook?
3. Why isn't it plugged in when shes cutting the "trees"?
Wrong your, You're*