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Yes! It's the USB typing-speed indicator lamp!

Many fingers make light work, etc...

If only Pitman's typing training courses provided its pupils with one of these puppies: a Japanese-made USB lamp that shines with varying intensity and hue... according to how fast your fingers are cruising over your keys.

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A slow typist (left) and a faster typist (right)

The USB Typing Measurement Lamp weighs 58g, and is Windows 2000 and XP compatible. Supplied software detects how fast you're typing and shines at five levels of brightness according. So if you're something of a hopeless case when it comes to QWERTY, don't expect this gizmo to give out too much light.

The lamp is available here now, priced at ¥1980 (£7/€11/$16), but no light has yet been shed upon a European release date or price.

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Anonymous Coward

The perfect companion product (?)...

...would have to be the "USB Exercise Bike Mouse with LCD Word Counter" http://jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=GE4086

I might have to go and find a USB hub...

Paul F.

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The USB Keylogger?

How fast can you type your password today?®

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Er...

Ian Ferguson said: "I think I'll strap one to the head of each employee in the typing pool and fire the ones who are blue for too long"

I wouldn't do that.. those are the ones that are typing fast!!

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humping dog? pfffft!

How can you go past the glory that is... wait for it... the USB pole dancer!

http://jaycar.com.au/products_uploaded/productLarge_10142.jpg

My guess is NSFW by the way...

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re: Track and Field

Would that be the game where kids were packing modified electric toothbrushes?

(at least for the coin-op version, anyway)

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