Wednesday, October 4th 2006
USB hamster wheel great pet for typists
When most people get pets, they have to keep them clean, groom them, feed them, take them to the doctor when necessary, and play with them. This is one pet that really doesn't need more then a free USB port and 2 AA batteries. For just 25 pounds (or 38 Euros, or 50 dollars), you can get a USB hamster wheel from crazyaboutgadgets.. Aside from being cute, this electronic hamster enjoys running faster the faster you type. So if a user is a slow typist, the electronic hamster will take a relaxing stroll on the wheel, and if the user is a very fast typist, the hamster will sprint.
Source:
The Register
30 Comments on USB hamster wheel great pet for typists
Not all those hamsters need die needlessly!
Perhaps, since they 'multiply like rabbits'?
Well, you can get a couple of them (1 male, & 1 female) & then, + let them breed like mad first, so you get your workers count up there, first!
Then, (with "mad scientist" laff) -> Use them to generate more power than USB consumes, & power things in your home w/ it!
:)
* NOBODY STEAL THAT IDEA, it's mine, lol:
"Bioelectric Hamster Fleet FUSION!"
(Ya, right... lol!)
APK
Edit: Zerk, you KNOW someone is going to rip of the "fake" hamster and put on a real one...
:)
* Nobody take us serious... lol, then watch: Someone will come up w/ something like it...
APK
:)
* Going off on that first word in this post thread, aren't I?
APK
P.S.=> But, you HAVE A POINT: If/when I try? I can rattle off 80wpm, & 100% accurate (making corrections as I type, I usually do, can't help it... lol!) & editing?
Man... I could power my PC via "bioelectric hamsterfleet FUSION", lol! 80wpm to run IF I could get up to 3 watts per key typed here, & AT FULL LOAD (gaming)? I'd need 6 watts per keystroke (lotta hamsters? I don't know, lol!).
Who cares? I could have them make more, & they'd like it, lol! The perfect trap, removes the desire of the prisoner to escape, & all that, hehe!
I can picture myself yelling at them to "row!!!", when I hit a power-spike, or need to play a game (powering vidcard)... apk
:)
APK
P.S.=> LOL, consider them edited, per request... "keeping down the "R" rating" lol, enough to fool spellcheckers hopefully... apk
AHH: Edit: Misread your post zerk, sry... but Alec, i dont care if you say dam (o noes big bad zerk, I won't say it :) )
Did you know, that technically? Words of that nature aren't 'swearing', unless the word GOD appears in front of them... otherwise, it MAY be considered 'profanity' though.
(Some techno-FYI, that iirc, is right!)
APK
:)
* I wonder how many hamsters on a wheel generator engine would it take to power up my pc, & how fast of a typist you'd have to be, for "Bioelectric HamsterFleet FUSION USB POWER 1.0" (still working on "THE" name, via edits)? lol...
"Work WITH your environment - use hamster power!"
APK
:)
* Feed plants around yard with the 'waste' lol, "stay green" too...
(What will we think of next? Gotta cost it out, but, lol... might be doable, feeding & clean up after them... @ least to charge power cells like big NickelCad deals for powering runs on PURE "Bioelectric HamsterFleet USB POWERED FUSION 1.0"... lol!)
* Ah, this is nuts! lol... but watch, it wouldn't surprise me if someone turned around & tried this... lol!
(Running the most powerful generators possible from a hamster... lol, perhaps giving them ROIDS & such for that 'extra kick', lol!)
Oh, ok - maybe not the last one... that'd upset animal rights & all that, but this whole thing probably does anyhow (disclaimer - this is NOT serious! Or, is it? Inquiring minds want to know!)
APK
P.S.=> "We DON'T want imitations! We want the REAL thing... no 'cyborg hamsters' here, for serious overclockers!"... apk
And also, how could you offend me but not saying g-d instead of writing his full name... :shadedshu (im jewish mind you)
but seriously, don't take offense I really don't mind :)
Yea, but what if the hamsters decide to revolt (pun intended, last 4 letters, lol!) & use the Flux Capacitor to go back into time, & stop humans from ever being?
:)
* Ok though, enough for me... I am outta this one, as we are "warping into the 5th dimension by now", or worse...
APK
P.S.=> Plus, I really DO NOT need "animal rights activists" (I like animals actually & treat them as well as I can in fact) on my case either, lol... Headline would read:
"ANIMAL RIGHTS BROKEN WHEN INVENTOR USES IDEA"
When interviewed, after being released (for implementing this), the accused stated: "BUT, I read it @ TechPowerup Forums" etc.)... apk
Whaddya think of the prototype, Alec?
:)
That is beta, is what I think...
(Drawing quality = ok because I like the lightning bolts inside the "gigawatt transmogrifier", the details (lol) & little fluorishes there "show you care", but, some of your circuitry, & ... I mean, what is this? Giving me ONLY 1 hamster to work with... !!!)
And, where is the 3dStudio (OR, @ least AutoCad) version at?
YOU ARE TRYING to make this look like a BAD IDEA, or what?? lol...
APK
P.S.=> It's ALL in the presentation man! Why do you think VISTA is going to sell so well? apk
That hamster's bigger than a Rottweiler... & he has almost NO LEGS? How's he going to peddle w/ spindly legs like those (he must need those ROIDS & such, lol!)... ahhh.
:)
(You need to work on your "scaling" skill imo... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> "S.O.S." to reality... "S.O.S. to reality"... help! lol... apk