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The USB Hubman

Offbeat By Shay

Bring your USB hub to life with the delightful USB Hubman.

The soft-looking, smiley-faced USB hub Hubman (USBハブ「ハブマン」) is a cute little guy with some great practicality. His arms and legs serve as four high-speed USB 2.0 ports.

Get him, name him, plug him in and have him chill on your desktop while you work. He’s comparably compact to his boring, non-human-like counterparts too.

The Hubman is pretty popular and available at Japanese convenience stores like Lawson.

The USB Hubman runs for 2000-yen ($19 USD).

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(via Gizmodo Japan)

8 Responses to “The USB Hubman”

  1. By Apple on March 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Awww..he’s so cute, he has a smiley face just like my Kuma-Kuma avatar :P

  2. By Shay on March 3, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    haha I love the resemblance!! ^-^

  3. By Todd on March 4, 2008 at 12:48 am

    Reminds me of the Rubber Rubberband man.

    http://www.rubberrubberbandman.com/store.shtml

  4. By Shay on March 4, 2008 at 12:55 am

    Those are pretty cool too. haha “Rub-origami” – I get it ;) that’s the coolest name

  5. By HardwareKid on March 4, 2008 at 10:15 am

    That looks so cool, I’ve got to go and find myself one of those :D

  6. By Sanjo-chan on March 4, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    It’s so cute… I want one! ^_^

  7. By Todd on March 4, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    I wonder if he would be able to feed in enough power for the devices.

  8. By Windsor on May 27, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    @ 7: He should be able to provide extra power if you connect a power adapter to the USB-man’s power port (just barely visible in the image on the center of *his* left side). I have no idea if the adapter is included with the hub, since I don’t own this (my coworker does).

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