Gadgets that would be useful

GreatAuk

GreatAuk

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While trying to move my laptop across my desk and simultaneously trying to make sure the cables hanging off it didn't snag on anything, it occurred to me that a wireless USB hub would be a brilliant gadget. I know you can get routers etc with USB ports on them, and many devices like printers have wifi built in, but I don't always have easy access to the router to configure them (e.g. on University wifi), and routers aren't really what I want.

I have had a google and can't find anything that looks like what I want, but basically I want a USB hub that would connect to your PC via a wireless technology like bluetooth, so all you'd need to do is stick a small dongle in a USB port, and it would be as if you'd plugged the hub in by a cable. Maybe even a pair of dongles, one male USB, one female that would transmit data just like a cable would be a better solution. Supplementary power supply might be needed I suppose. I imagine I have neglected technical problems that have prevented this from being built already, but a device like that would make using limited desk space so much easier.

I was wondering, what other gadgets would people like to have that aren't currently available?
 
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I would like a device that I could attach to myself that would switch channels whenever I walked past a TV that was showing America's Next Top Model, X-Factor, I'm a Celebrity or Dancing on Ice.

PLEASE!
 
A talking/animated clock modelled on a fish that tells you the time followed by a humourous pun.

Not sure what type of fish would be suitable, I guess a bass would be the most comical.
 
GreatAuk said:
While trying to move my laptop across my desk and simultaneously trying to make sure the cables hanging off it didn't snag on anything, it occurred to me that a wireless USB hub would be a brilliant gadget. I know you can get routers etc with USB ports on them, and many devices like printers have wifi built in, but I don't always have easy access to the router to configure them (e.g. on University wifi), and routers aren't really what I want.

I have had a google and can't find anything that looks like what I want, but basically I want a USB hub that would connect to your PC via a wireless technology like bluetooth, so all you'd need to do is stick a small dongle in a USB port, and it would be as if you'd plugged the hub in by a cable. Maybe even a pair of dongles, one male USB, one female that would transmit data just like a cable would be a better solution. Supplementary power supply might be needed I suppose. I imagine I have neglected technical problems that have prevented this from being built already, but a device like that would make using limited desk space so much easier.
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Your google fu is weak. :p
Wireless USB hubs as you describe were made in the ancient times (a couple of years ago IIRC) but I don't think they are any more.
However a Belkin Network USB hub is still available.
 
if NFC takes off and gets developed.. usb will be a thing of the past.

I personally I want a STFU button.. not for OP or anyone here as I have one, its called the power button on my computer.. :) it be for all the real people I have to deal with.
 
King Damager said:
What's NFC transfer speed? Does it compete with USB?

kd
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Its pants at the moment, and it needs much development but wifi doesn't compete with ethernet yet more people use it at home than ethernet.

Who knows; Bluetooth may get a revamp and move to higher speeds but a lot of company are working on NFC at the moment for mobile phones.

I just like the idea of having a credit card size item that I can place near my computer to transfer data. :)
 
slinxy said:
Its pants at the moment, and it needs much development but wifi doesn't compete with ethernet yet more people use it at home than ethernet.

Who knows; Bluetooth may get a revamp and move to higher speeds but a lot of company are working on NFC at the moment for mobile phones.

I just like the idea of having a credit card size item that I can place near my computer to transfer data. :)
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My garmin running Watch does this through ANT+ you place it near my PC and it uploads the latest data, no wires or opening programmes, uses a dongle thing in a USB
 
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