As geeks, we have slightly skewed and sometimes inappropriate ways of handling stress. Most of the time we like to mix in some humor with our mourning. It helps to lighten the mood.
This keyboard mod memorial renames the “Caps Lock” key the “Billy Mays” key. Your loud, boisterous voice will forever live on in our hearts and keyboards, Billy.
Apparently your mousepad is in dire need of a social life. And who are we to hold it back? The Twitter and Facebook Mousepads give your mouse and mousepad an outlet for social networking.
It’s about time the mouse showed the keyboard who’s in charge. The keyboard has been walking around with its nose up in the air for far too long. Grab your own for $18.
I knew Optimus could transform into some groovy vehicles and even become a peripheral or cool tool every once in a while, but I had no idea that he was in the home entertainment biz as well. The Optimus Prime USB Speaker Set is a three-pound faux Transformer robotic head, with a helme which folds out to be a pair of speakers.
Word on the street is that there will also be an Ultra Magnus version. But why bother when the Opt-man is available anyway? Now, I can’t guarantee an audiophile listening experience (in all honestly, the speakers look sorta shoddy), I can very well affirm that you’ll probably be the only guy on the block listening to J-pop through the ears of a geek culture icon.
Leonard Nimoy will be honored to discover that all of his promotion of living long and prospering has paid off. Forget the reams of fans and the flocks of trekkies. Spock can now find comfort in the fact that he has been immortalized as a USB flash drive which more closely resembles an Asian teen dressed in a Spock outfit.
Seriously, look at those eyes and tell me Spock doesn’t love kungfu fighting.
As per usual, once the personified drive is decapitated, the storage fun begins. Grab your own from Etsy for $35.
All of the fun of cigars, without the smell! This helpful step-by-step DIY allows you to create your very own USB Cigar Flash Drive. A perfect gift for expecting fathers and dudes who like smoking cigars after successfully fending off an alien invasion.
The drive glows orange like the hot embers of the finest stogies. When you delve into disk access, the glow gets even brighter, much like a cigar in the process of being inhaled.
Live near a Gamestop? Most likely since they’re more common than McDonald’s these days. The retailer is selling a new silver-colored DualShock 3 controller for the PS3 now. It’s $55 and will get you nothing but street cred*.
*- Actual street cred may vary.
Holy shit. Do you see what I see? I think so. It looks like a fucking pizza oven that plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter. Amazing. Forget delivery; I can only imagine going 80 down I-95 while popping in a fresh DiGiorno with the works. What will they think of next?
$36 and an extra $100 a month on your car insurance bill.
I can hardly pretend to love soccer with the same devotion as some of you. Here’s how you know someone doesn’t love soccer as much as you. Number one, they don’t drink tea at a certain time every day. Two, they drive on the right side of the road. Three, they say mile instead of kilometer.
But if you are one of those soccer-frenzied hooligans and don’t mind a little decapitation to go with your data storage, these World Cup Player USB drives might be a nifty little gadget to tote around in your pocket.
I’d like to share with you a bit of my childhood. After I bitched enough that SEGA Genesis wasn’t making the grade, my parents got me a Super Nintendo. A few years later, I would be in Babbages (remember those before GameStop bought ‘em out?) and spotted this Capcom Pad for the SNES for a mere $14.99. I bought it.
Apparently this controller is worth a little money nowadays if you have a sealed version. I don’t know why. It basically made it downright impossible to play some games. The only title I managed to sucessfully use it with happened to be F-Zero. Nonetheless, it still brings me back to the days of useless peripherals and 16-bit graphics.
Don’t go getting any ideas with the title, mister. This here is straight out of the Doom and Apogee days. Shareware anyone? Keep your games, movies and other things totaling larger than 1.44MB on this floppy disk flash drive. I have no idea who made it, how much it costs or if it requires OS/2.
