Oh, brother. As we all know so well, the office can be a draining place. But devices such as these could make even the most burnt-out middle manager excited to clock in. The
USB PC Prankster looks like a stock flash drive, but as you can clearly see above, a few toggle switches enable it to become quite the headache. Once plugged in, the unlucky PC that it's attached to will have its Caps Lock enabled and disabled at random, see garbled text splattered about quarterly reports and be victim to uncontrollable, erratic cursor movements. Thankfully, the drive will never activate the Enter key nor close or save documents, so you can rest assured that it's all in good fun. Turning your office up on its head costs just £19.99 ($33), but you'll have to wait a tick 'til it comes back in stock.
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posted Oct 18th 2009 3:33PM
suck my d!@k!!!
There is still lots of potential to overwrite any selected text etc..
⌘Z???
no, it doesnot know what ur doing it just acts as a keyboard and presses buttons, like if u had two keyboards plugged in with an annoying person pressing buttons...sure it can shift arrow key to select but it would not know what it was selecting
Am I the only one who would automatically press ctrl/alt/delete and check my processes?
I am sure I could kill this thing within seconds.
As if you only have computers at work or as if at work you work with stiff idiots. This device is perfect to use in a more relaxed environment, such as home for wifey or kid's computer (Did you fixed it?). However if indeed you got fired for less at your old job, it was pointless to waste your time with them in the first place. And no, not every program is displayed in the task manager.
@ sacapuntas Nothing will appear in task manager. It is an effectively an external keyboard and mouse, not a program. Your only chance to catch it would be if you went into the device manager and saw the extra devices.
Not only that... what about auto save in an unattended station?
Imagine using this with windows vista's readyboost.... ready... set... crash...
The first thing even tech-challenged people will do is look if their keyboard is plugged in right, and likely see the thing and steal it and leave you out $33.
They should have one that launches Word and sends out TPS Reports to the printer at random intervals...
I think the Wiebetech (fast) mouse wiggler is the better and funnier option.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/wiebetechs-mouse-jiggler-usb-stick-prevents-sleep/
Because nobody would notice something that isn't their's jutting out from their computer.
There are USB ports in the back of computers.
Unless you're blonde....
Thats why you use the rear usb ports.
not if its in the back of a desktop in a cramped cubicle
Well they probably won't notice if you stick it round the back where they can't see it, and given the IT literacy of some office workers they probably won't notice it at all.
I'm with comanches66 on this. It's not worth going through the hassle of struggling to get to a back USB port in a cramped cubicle.
Your second comment was even worse than the first. Well done.
Actually, the link shows a laptop with this thing plugged in which is dumb.
@kyoukoku
That's what she said.
When I fix computers I routinely use the front ports.. the once a week that I forget and leave a thumb drive in there people rarely notice and remind me.
Kinda sucks.
Another good one is you take all of the RAM out of their computer so it doesn't work.
You fail at prank. You only take out 3/4 of the ram, alternatively replace everything with 32 mb. Unplugging the cpu fan is also a stealthy but harmless one.
making someones computer stop working isn't really a prank. I was joking.
You could also burn someones house down. That's another good one.
get it?
Or you like format their hardrive or spill water in their power supply LOL
I really like the one where you kill your bosses mother and rape her, gets me every time xD
My favorite thing to do is take their new LCD panel and rip off the top and the insides. Then you fill the screen case with water and put some fish inside. When your coworker comes back you say, "Hey, I put this neat aquarium screen saver on your computer". You should just see their faces... .teeheeheehee
Another thing I like to do is fix my ramen by disabling the fan and removing the heat sinks from a coworkers desktop and boiling the noodles with the resulting heat. mmmmm... ramen.
Why are we even replying to MONKEY's comments, especially since he raped and killed that poor girl in 1994. It's just terrible, if it happened, which it probably did.
killin me here!
Or you like format their hardrive or spill water in their power supply LOL
I really like the one where you kill your bosses mother and rape her, gets me every time xD
so you kill her and rape her... necrophiliac? whatever gets you off bro
Yep. "Rape there horses and ride there women out of town!" (The Three Amego's)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/
I first saw it a year ago. Don't know how much longer it's been for sale.
I like the $13 USD price better than the articles $33 usd price!
That`s where I got mine. Had it for a while now, didn`t know that the Engadget staff wasn`t aware.
Variations on these have been around for at least 10 years.
Good luck using this at the office and not getting fired or even arrested. I can't see any boss in a corporate office putting up with this sort of behavior. I've seen people get fired over way less than this.
That is, unless, you ARE the boss.....:-D
like a boss
@silversun shit on deborah's desk
@silversun
like a boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c
So wear powderless gloves to stealthily apply the product into a computer.
Then when they go up to get support, remove it, and make them look INSANE \o/
PROBLEM SOLVED LOL
I got fired for less. But then again, it was worth it... jobs come and go, epic pranks are timeless.
I'll buy bulk and put them on every computer at my college
Especially good if you plug it into a port that's inside the case. Like on a USB expansion board. ;-)
why buy this when you could just write a program to do the same thing, put it on a standard usb flash drive and set it to autorun?
cause not everyone can write a program to do the same thing, put it on a flash, or set it to autorun
Because Vista SP2 and 7 no longer allow any device to "autorun"
This is available much cheaper at ThinkGeek.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/
Thanks!
I love ThinkGeek
bwahahahaha
I've got another hoax coming
19.99 GBP is not 33€, today it's 21.80€
Except the unit of measure was dollars not euros.
hahaha this is awesome
Worst computer prank I ever pulled on someone: I set their swap file to 5MB. I watched him try to fix it for like half an hour. I was going to tell him but he got so frustrated by it that I got kind of scared to tell him and fixed it while he wasn't looking. lol
good thing your "friend" didn't call GeekSquad or else you'll stumped both of their "knowledge" lol
Another good one: Throwing a shortcut to "Restart" in the Startup folder. That usually has them going red for a while.
My favorite prank is snapshot their desktop, set it as the background, and stack all of their icons in the corner on top of each other.
Nice one, Tommy Five.
I'm particularly fond of taking a screenshot of someone's desktop and then setting it as their wallpaper and turning off icons. >:D
I did a simple prank a few years ago to a fellow worker. I stuck a small post-it note on the bottom of his mouse, so that the mouse ball wouldn't roll - I guess it could work with IR and laser mice. Took him 5 minutes to work out why his mouse wasn't responding.
@ sweet greggo When you take a snapshot of the desktop include the taskbar, then hide the taskbar to the side and flip the snapshot you use 180degrees when you make it the wallpaper...... they cant find the icons, the task bar etc AND everything is upside down. I've done that more times then I can count!
This is good...but thinkgeek has some WAY better things, like the annoy-a-tron.
I had some asshat install one of these at work about 2 months ago. He was summarily dismissed for wasting IT resources. Hope he thought it was worth losing his stupid ass device and his job.
That was no reason to fire the guy ! No sense of humor
@Greg if you have an external support contract that charges by the callout you might take a dim view of this sort of thing. If you have IT rules in place to avoid tampering and you break them, the consequence is the same whether prank or malicious damage.
Lets be real... who wants to work at a tight ass place like that anyway? They did him a favor letting him go. :)
While i'm at it... "Hope he thought it was worth losing his stupid ass device and his job." Ok, nobody wants to work at a dry humorless place like that anyway, let alone one were they will steal your stuff too! And tell me just how much precious IT resources were wasted before finding a gag device plugged into a USB port? Are we talking about minutes or hours here? LOL
I need to get my hands on it!
It looks like this thing can't be actually used as a flash drive.
*downloads like an idiot because he wan'ts to be part of Enigma's botnet for his next DDOS attack*
I would love to see this used by jim on a prank to dwight in a future office :)
Hopefully the company doesn't have on call IT support. Yah know. The ones who get paid for each call out. I can easily see such a prank being reported to the prankster's manager for interfering in the operation of business systems and costing the company money.
This is great for that lazy IT department at your job
Features:
>> Looks like a USB Flash Drive
>> Takes over victim’s computer by typing gibberish and controlling mouse.
>> Time delay
With flashy marketing like this, they're bound to corner the market for stupid things that cost money. All five are currently sold out.
Imagine fooling some one to think that you could use this as a readyboost drive....
In hindsight i realize the sketchy ness of my post, i also realize the lack of forsite of by just zipping the project folder as a way to be open...
I have uploaded all the source code as google doc and here is the code, don't trust the complied version? the compile the code ur self, u can compile each code indivudle of there results or complie the main code and have the option to enable time delay and choose which action...even someone with out programing knowledge can read the code and see they are safe, it is basic code,
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B38Z4oqKZlAfMmU4ZDAxNWEtM2U2YS00MGE1LWI2YmEtZDFlNDU1YjRiY2Uw&hl=en
as a side note, the quacker, and screen assulter will not work unless there is media located in proper directory when it is complied, if u read the code and judge it is safe, please comment
@anticrawl, I understand where you are coming from and if you have a background in Coding please look at the code
P.S. I will update the code with comments to make it more readable later on tonight
We had a young fellow who connected one of these devices to one of our computers at Cern.
We discovered the device and he confessed. He thought he was being funny.
10 minutes in the particle accelerator made it hard for his parents back in Connecticutt to affirmatively identify the remains. Needless to say, his scholarship went to another young American desirous of understanding particle physics who had less of an MTC sense of humor.
in that case...
...Gordon Freeman to the rescue!!!
something like this would probably get someone fired.
I too wrote a very sketchy program in VB Express that randomly pops up a box with a picture and flashing text while playing the WTFBOOM sound. It hides and goes off every 30 minutes. It hides in the steam folder so its quite hard to find One of my first apps; I'm a student that has only learn't VB for around 20 hours. Ovbiously not as good as this but good for laughs anyway
mind doesnot hide itself, actually i am thinking about it place a text file explaining what happened and encouraging him to prank others...
but when it runs, it is ran through the java environment, which means if the user doesnot have java then it wont work. and by hiding setting the java windows to invisible it is virtually undetectable, a simple restart of the computer and it is disabled...that is unles you put it in the start up folder...i actually looked into it moving itself there, but for that you need authentication, which i dont feel is necessary for this kind of program
this exact item almost got someone in our office fired. The random mouse movements is the culprit. Think if you click on a button by accident and up pops the dialog box asking if you want to delete or not...you hover the mouse over "no", but the random mouse movements, moves the mouse over to "yes" just before you click...In today's web based apps, this is a very possible scenario!
Two of the best tricks is to take a screen shot of the person's desktop and set that image as the screensaver. or if the user is a hunt and peck typist, swap the "m" and "n" keys. most people won't notice this until it is too late!
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ohh sorry i was replying to a spammer.
those spam comments just vanised for some reason after i commented and must have gone to you.
I got one of these when it first came out. It got me suspended from school, and lost me my job. Boy, was that fun.
I bet!
I would recommend putting it at the end of a long usb extender cable, tangle the extension up with the spaghetti mess under the desk and maybe put the device somewhere you can get to it without going into the target's cube. And then never owning up to it when the target explodes.
I HAVE this and we use docking stations @ my work -- punked my co-worker for a good hour and a half. He thought he had conficker or some virus so he went through and ran a bunch of scans. ;-)
Still some of the old jokes are still the best. Used to love going into the secretary's MS Word options and fiddle with "auto correct" so that common words would be automatically changed. Like the boss' name etc. Also random expletives would just "show up".
But .. will it blend ?
these comments- thanks for the laughs- I sure did need them!
My wife works for HP..................I'll take 2700 units please
HAHAHA, I found one of these in my brother's storage compartment. The drawer was translucent and I grabbed it thinking it was a thumb drive. At second glance I thought it was a keylogger or something. Then I figured out what it did and I laughed.
Why the eff do you want to spend 19 Pounds for a prank?