There’s a lot of USB stuff out there and a lot of it is great, but some of it is total crap. These 5 are things you should never buy – not even for someone else.
Let’s start with 5 and work our way down to 1.
5. Darth Vader USB hub
Just because it’s Star Wars themed doesn’t mean it’s good, and this isn’t. What once was a nice, small-and-tiny 4-port USB hub is now a hulking mass of cheap black plastic.
4. USB Light Saber Lamp
Another Star Wars themed piece of crap; this lamp barely qualifies as such as it barely throws any usable light you could actually use. It’s also very easy to knock over.
Oh, and by the way, this thing is small. It’s barely over 12 inches/30cm tall when in its base.
3. USB Desk Vacuum
So cute! And so stupid. The "bag" barely holds any dust at all, and you can’t even vacuum your keyboard keys with it, which is where you’d need it the most.
2. USB Pole Dancer
I like a hot woman as much as the next man does, but this USB device looks like Barbie’s ugly stepsister.
1. USB Pet Rock
What does this do?
ABSOLUTELY FRICKIN’ NOTHING. No, I’m not kidding and yes, this is a real product.
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I can’t believe number one and two are real products. Very pointless and a total waste of money. It reminds me of another useless USB device sold from ThinkGeek, the humping dog.
I LOL’d so hard when I saw the pole dancing chick video. It kinda reminds me of some of the old skanky strip joints I occasionally visited. I think the music was better though. Hard to remember since I was usually plastered. The Star Wars crap is pure sh*t though. Even if i was a die hard Star Wars freak I wouldn’t buy it.
@Aaron, I remember seeing the humping dog gadget once recently. All that thing does is hump while it’s plugged in. LOL!
6. USB powered battery chargers.
Hilarious!
Now as to the USB Pet rock. . .you just have to think like a Paranoid schizo on too many red bulls.
It was probably made in CHINA.
And they KNOW a lot of Americans and Europeans would buy it just because it was too stupid NOT to buy.
And they’ll leave it PLUGGED IN. And NO-ONE will even QUESTION whether it DOES anything At ALL.
So How can you be SURE it isn’t DOING SOMETHING?
Aggh! Excuse me, my aluminum hat slipped off. . .
I found the Dr. Who USB Hub to be equally useless. Especially since the voltage required to make the TARDIS light up and make noise required you to add an AC adapter to the hub if you wanted to use it for something requiring any power such as a scanner. I tossed mine pretty quickly and went back to the old reliable low profile hub I used before.