Air purifiers have become something that many people want to have in their homes to make the air they breathe healthier. The only problem with traditional air purifiers are that they often take up not only space but they have to be plugged into the wall. These air purifiers can’t be taken with you when you go somewhere either. Now there is an air purifier that can be connected through the USB port.

This is the USB Anion Air Purifier. The way this purifier works is that it emits healthy negative ions into the air. These ions then attach themselves to air molecules and negatively charge them. The emitted negative ions purify the air and remove the toxic substances. These toxic substances include odors, dust and molds. The Anion Air Purifier is effective for prevention of certain diseases that are caused by pollutants in the air. This gadget can be found in red/black and yellow/white and weights only 101 grams. This makes the USB Anion Air Purifier perfect for taking anywhere you take your laptop.

Rechargeable batteries have changed how many people use batteries. They are also much better for the environment than standard batteries because you are not throwing the alkaline chemicals out and into the ground. The only downside to using rechargeable batteries is that you have to have the charging stations plugged in to make sure that it is ready to charge the batteries when needed. Or you have to hunt down the charging station when you need it. Well now you don’t have to do that, all you need is the USBCell batteries.

The USBCell battery is unlike anything else because the charger has been built into the battery itself. This solves the problem of finding the charging station to recharge the battery because this one can be plugged into any standard USB port. When your battery’s power is gone, all you have to do is pop the cap and plug it in. Within a few hours you will have a fully charged battery. The convenience of being able to use any standard USB port whether it is on your computer, PS3 or XBox 360. Fully charged you get 1300mAh of power and the battery can be recharged up to 500 times. For around $20, you get two AA batteries which will give you the freedom to go where you want with your battery powered electronics.

This one is for you geeks – the bottle opener USB. Nothing seems more comfortable than drinking a beer in front of your computer when you get back home in the night. Some geeks have mini-fridges full of beer and energizing drinks, so a bottle opener should be around.

Thus, to be completely a geek you could find this device perfect. It’s called the TrekStor CO and it’s a flash drive and a bottle opener at the same time. The gadget goes up the list of USB geeky tools. So, it will look nice beside your USB mini-fridge. It can be an useful device when you attend at geeky parties. It’s up to you where and whether you will use it.

The TrekStor USB Flash Drive Bottle Opener will be available starting from October at €6.99 Euros (US$10) for the 1GB model and going up to €49.99 Euros (US$71) for the 16GB model.

You may also be interested in the Swiss Army knife with USB. I don’t know if the USB could help you when you camp in the woods, but it is there.

via Everything USB

We’ve told you about USB 3.0 some while ago, but now we have most of the details after AMD, NVIDIA and a bunch others, came out with the controller specifications.

The most interesting things are that even though it will provide faster rates (10 times faster – up to 4.8Gbps) than USB 2.0 it will still be backwards-compatible. Trying to offer higher transfer speeds, it can both read and write at the same time from your portable storage device, while the downloads and uploads are separated on different lanes . Apparently, that’s going to help charge gadgets or any other devices much faster.

Now that you know most of the things about USB 3.0 a test is needed. Fresco Logic took care of that at IDF 2008 using a development platform based on Xilinx Inc’s FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), that managed to go over 350MBps. That’s not bad for a dry test, right ?

via TechOn, MaximumPC

I’m not really sure if you are going to need a couple of crystal USB desktop speakers, but I’m going to mention them anyway. Why, you may ask? Because of the looks.

These crystal designed speakers can be connected to your PC or laptop via USB 2.0 and should output (only) 1 watt per channel even though, the producer considers them as “audiophile” grade. Talking about the producer, it’s not a big company or anything but even if it doesn’t sound THAT good we’ll take the looks for a $39.99 price.

Too bad we can’t get more specs from the manufacturer, except the “these are amazing speakers” line.

via Random Good Stuff

Instructables came up with the USB Popcorn Maker. What will they think of next? Maybe the USB Back Scratcher.

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But back to our popcorn machine. It’s made from a high intensity heater light, aluminum cup, and mason jar. I can build one of these like everyday. It seems that while the credits are over, the popcorn is done. Or not, because the pop and corn machine uses a 5V USB source.

That means that by the end of a season of a show, you can enjoy the pops and corns. Cheers to all you who will just go out and buy a pack of popcorn from the store.

Ever wanted to own a very funny (good looking) flash drive? Then it’s time for a Mimobot USB flash drive. With so many happy/weird faces I’m sure you’ll get noticed in no time. The prices are $39.95 for the 1GB version, $59.95 for 2GB and $99.95 for 4GB. You’ll get to choose from the mimobot Core Series, artist series, Domo, Halo, Happy Tree Friends and Star Wars Series. The pictures will speak for themselves and if you want to see more check Mimobot.

Luxury has no limits… Yes, my friend, some people have too many money that need to be spent anyway. For those people, others conceive all kinds of flashy, glamorous stuff. In this category I will include the diamond-studded flash drive. This is like the million-dollar notebook. Why would someone pay $5,650 for a golden flash drive with three diamonds?

And it seems they buy it since the so called Golden Store company produces the Adamant flash drive. Nevertheless it comes in a limited edition of only 50 pieces. The Adamant is studded with 3 diamonds, 0.15 carats each and Lapis Lazuli gemstone deposits. Furthermore the case has another diamond like someone would carry the box in the pocket. The flash drive offers 16GB storage and weights 54 grams.

via BornRich

These USB keys look very funny. They were discovered on a Japanese website and for the moment are available in Japan. The USB brick has 1GB of storage and costs £20 (4,280 Yens). They come in five color choices and have the official Lego bricks size. Thus your kid might be interested to use one in his Lego game. Perhaps you would love to play too…

Product page via The Telegraph

That’s a cool idea someone would say. I find it very interesting too and somehow very simple. Chris Armstrong, the business founder, started wondering about how difficult it is to rent a movie when he spent time in line to get one at a local store in Galway, Ireland. Then he thought to create a company that rents movies on flash memory cards.

The company called PortoMedia has kiosks where people can download movies directly on flash drives. The kiosks will have hard drives that can hold 350 to 5,000 titles. Depending on hardware speeds a movie could be download in less than one minute. PortoMedia will use IBM’s help to develop the transaction system, hard drives from Seagate Technologies, and Samsung’s flash memory devices. Toshiba will fabricate the chips for the high-speed interface.

Armstrong said, its company has signed deals with several retailers from US. The MoviePoint kiosks have already been tested in Dublin at the end of 2007. PortoMedia will sell a proprietary ultra-fast USB interface for customers. A start pack will cost $60 and will include a flash key, a dock, and six movies. Then the customers will use the same flash key to buy other titles from the MoviePoint kiosks. As Armstrong said, the company will establish the future fees for the number of viewings.

Renting movies on flash memory cards will be a great business for movie makers, as well as for the stores. There are many advantages upon DVDs or Blu-Ray discs. First of all, delivering the movies on flash sticks will reduce cost for transporting and packaging the DVDs. Furthermore, the stores won’t have the shelves full of DVDs. Comparing with the Internet downloads, this solution is faster and safer. I hope PortoMedia will be successful in this business.

The original story here.