Born in the USB!

Friday 29 May

Ah, the humble USB port! It’s the choice method for hooking up your MP3 player, your digital camera to your computer. But its universal standard has given rise to all manner of USB gadgets – from bizarre ‘humping’ dogs and ‘weaponry’to eye-rolling chameleons that sit motionless on your computer. Yawn.

Jason decided to scour the Earth for his top five USB gadgets. Ranging from a USB paper shredder (which has no doubt seen a rise is sales since the MP expense scandal) to the Tape2PC digital archiver – a tape deck that hooks up to your PC via USB and converts your old Paula Abdul cassettes to digital format – he made sure none of his USB ports were left empty.

But what tops the list? The USB Mini Paper Shredder? The Tape 2 PC Cassette Tape Archiver? How about its cousin the VHS 2 PC video tape converter? Or maybe the handwriting recognition tool – the DigiScribble? There’s only one way to find out… watch the video!