USB Relationship Lifesavers

With the general hustle and bustle of life, relationships can become strained. We spend the majority of our lives in our place of employment or clambering to chisel in those few precious hours of “me time” and, naturally, our relationships with those we know and love can become a little neglected.

Fear not though, as the mightily versitle USB connection could be your savour. With this brief article about how USB devices can enrich and enliven your relationships with those closest to you, you can hardly go wrong.

The USB won’t let you down.

USB Drink Warmer

If you’re anything like me, you make a cup of tea or coffee and sit at the computer for what seems like only a couple of minutes only to find that your drink’s already cold. Of course, as your spouse is all to willing to point out, you’ve actually “been sat on that bloody computer all night”, but that doesn’t change the fact that you have now got to either drink cold tea/coffee or actually lift yourself from your seat and step foot in the kitchen – following extensive, helpful directions from the aforementioned spouse.

If any of the above seems horribly familiar to you, the USB drinks warmer could be the answer.

Featuring a mini hot-plate that attaches to your computer via the USB port, this device is guaranteed to keep your drink warm thus absolving you from the responsibility of making any further drinks in the house until your drink is over. And the fact that is also has a little LED that lights up to inform you that the stainless steel hot-plate is active can only be a bonus.

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Wireless USB Timer Controlled Lock

If your house is anything like mine then, having been in receipt of a particularly impassioned if not somewhat bitter monologue from your spouse concerning the benefits of human interaction, and, acting as though you are interested in said human interaction, you depart from the computer room (you actually want a drink, but there’s nothing stopping you from having a discussion on the way) only to find that she/he/they have suddenly taken over your computer – this is a big sentence, isn’t it – then this device is for you.

Now you can leave to haven of security that emanates from your multi-lingual adding machine safely in the knowledge that, if you have to be away no one else is going to take your place to either a) deliberately start browsing sites at random as if they are actually looking for something in particular or b) start playing the Sims.

With the USB Timer Controlled Lock you can be sure that the moment you venture anywhere further than two metres away your computer will lock itself automatically leaving you to make a drink, run into the toilet or grab a revitalising freeze dried meal with a knowing smile on your face.

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USB Self Destruct Box

We have all, at some point or other, been in a position where, if we had a self destruct button beside our computer, we would have closed our eyes, thought of all the people we have known, and pressed it - whether it be because you have just sent an email saying how much you dislike someone to them instead of who you intended to send it to (who, let’s be frank, you don’t much like either), or perhaps because you have just been caught surfing the sort of sites that your parents told you would make you blind – and, in fairness, the vision is getting a little hazy these days.
Or perhaps, in a bid to feel like you did when you were younger, you decided to remove your slippers, roll up the tank top, and take on a group of strangers at Unreal via your fat pipe connection only to be well and truly hammered by characters with silly names made up of a liberal use of capitalisation and symbols who you strongly suspect have barely got out of nappies.

Whichever the case, this could be the answer.

Enter the USB self destruct button. If it all gets a bit too much, its nice to have the option of saying goodbye and getting out of whatever mess you now find yourself in. And the fact that it’s also a four port USB hub surely can only be seen as a bonus.

Oh, and it also has a light (which is bonus number two).

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USB Lava Lamp

Those who have little interest in computers, and technology in general, will often claim that people who sit at computers all the time lack social skills and are not especially interesting. Well, let’s dispel this myth straight away. I for one have more friends than I can count on my thumbs and, as for excitement, I have really met anyone who can keep up with me. In fact, whenever I am out, its almost impossible not to notice that the people I am with aren’t keeping up with me as they make concerned attempts to fall back – by walking into alleyways, suddenly staring at the ground and whistling for no particular reason, claiming they have a migraine, that sort of thing.

But if that’s not enough to prove just how interesting and fun you are, this USB Lava Lamp could be your salvation. With this on your desk never again can anyone call you uninteresting, or boring, or generally brain dead.
And, if only to add salt to their wounds, you could dim the lights and play ABBA in Winamp as you shuffle around in your computer chair lit by the ghostly, disco ambience of your USB Lava Lamp.

Consider them told.

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USB Heated Gloves

Lets, just assume, merely for the sake of argument, that you have employed all the above measures to impress upon your spouse that you are a highly dynamic social magnet who’s not only great fun to be around but who also happens to have some pretty cool dance moves and it has not worked for you. Unlikely, I know, but these things happen. Fear not, for the mighty USB will not let you down.

Whilst the fact that you’ve been thrown out of the house could initially be construed as a negatively charged occurrence, and the fact that winter’s descending upon you perhaps only adds to this feeling that something, somewhere, may have been taken the wrong way by those you live with, its not all doom and gloom. Obviously, as you were removed from the house you had time to clutch at something, anything, if only to remind you of the world you’re leaving behind (hey, it’s a fresh start – a world of opportunity) and that thing just happened to be your laptop then there’s no reason to let the bitter, penetrating wind, the frost and the snow get you down.

With a brain the size of a planet, you remembered your USB heated Gloves that you stored in your coat pocket just in case of such emergencies. A brilliant piece of forward thinking on your behalf therefore accords you your heater mittens courtesy to your lap top and the mighty USB connection contained therein.
You may be facing the future alone, but at least your hands are warm.

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