{"id":8728,"date":"2005-12-23T18:01:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2005-12-23T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T18:01:03","slug":"usb-plushies-when-trends-go-from-bad-to-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8728","title":{"rendered":"USB Plushies: When Trends Go from Bad to Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/plushyUSB.jpg\">We&#8217;ve spent the year cataloging the weird, wonderful, and frequently whacked world of USB-borne devices. The latest to be filed under &#8220;Whacked&#8221; is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingusb.com\/imation_plush_animal_usb_drive.html\" target=\"new\">USB Plush Animal<\/a>. Released by Imation Japan, the USB 2.0 drives have 128MB of capacity inside of a wee plushy dog, hippo, or gator. They sell for 3,480 yen (about US$30). Is it just me, or do you also get hysterical visions of some housepet going feral over one of these, a.k.a. some poor sap&#8217;s accounting files or corporate report. And then the ensuing embarrassing vigils during evening &#8220;walks&#8221; with Rocco in an icky attempt to try and &#8220;recover the data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spent the year cataloging the weird, wonderful, and frequently whacked world of USB-borne devices. The latest to be filed under &#8220;Whacked&#8221; is the USB Plush Animal. Released by Imation Japan, the USB 2.0 drives have 128MB of capacity inside of a wee plushy dog, hippo, or gator. They sell for 3,480 yen (about US$30). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USB Plushies: When Trends Go from Bad to Worse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}