From the Boys in the “What Else Can We Plug Into a USB Port” Dept.

Hey, we can imagine a situation where you might use this. Your computer’s on all the time anyway, and maybe some of your USB ports are just sitting idle.

Ours never are. Between printers, scanners, webcams, music hardware and what-have-you, our USB ports are in scarce supply. We’ve got a couple expander things plugged in all the time, and we’re still lucky to have a space available to plug the camera in when it’s time to import photos, or to use a jump drive to move files.

But maybe you’re not like us. Maybe you have lots of extra USB ports with which you’re not doing anything useful for long periods. How many novelty animated pole-dancing figurines does one workspace need, anyway? Go ahead, then; you might as well charge a couple batteries.

It just sort of seems to us like the equivalent of deciding to keep chickens in one of your cars, since you never use it for driving.

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