LaCie Huby designer USB and FireWire hub

HOT HOT HOT!!!

I so want one.

This is really cool. The flexible connectors will make life much easier on my crammed desk. Plus, when I put it next to my PowerSquid, it will look like the Octopus tank at SeaWorld. I can hardly wait to get this one!

I honestly think that, while attractive, it's highly impractical. Unless it's very heavy, it for one seems like it will roll off the table due the weight of the connected cables. And besides, it doesn't seem like it will look as cool with some cables actually plugged in.

Looks decent on its own but there's an obvious reason they don't show it when everything's plugged in. it would look absolutely awful. Rather than distract from the mess, I think it would just be a complicated tangle of wires and a cumbersome ball that you have trouble keeping still etc...

To me the hub looks like an overgrown version of one of those squeeze bulbs you use to suck snot out of babys' noses or irrigate your ears with. But yeah, it looks like it might keep your cables untangled.

As for the Porsche drives, I must come to their defense....sort of. I agree with Teejay: the power supply connector is inexcusably poor, and the case looks and feels as if it was made in my middle school's metal shop. But, I gotta tell ya, handsome is as handsome does. The 80gig I have just works. I bought an EZquest drive, that looks like it could withstand a nuclear blast, after the Lacie, but it's worthless because I can't keep a power supply fan in it.

Heh, looks like PowerSquid's cousin.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/77e6/

I think it is ugly. What do suppose to do with the fan. If it got that hot around my computer I would have a whole lot bigger fan to cool things down with. The price is a bit much also since I got a 7 usb hub for far less. I do like the flexable cable connections though, but with all of them hooked up it would look like a vase with a bunch of wilted flowers in it. Oh well if your into something artsie then it might be worth the price.

that small connector looks like a mini-usb or unpowered fw400. It's definitely not a fw800. The design is certainly interesting, but I'm a little skeptical that it won't look very cluttered with everything attached. I can also imagine the fan running and chopping into the neighboring cables. I guess I don't really see the point to this product? if you want to get rid of the clutter, why not use the cable yo-yo or something similar that HIDES the cables instead of shows them off?

Can I attach the fan to my beanie? Tres chic.

I could be wrong, but doesn't the plug to the left and a bit down from the fan look like FW800? And it has a little gray thing on it, which none of the other connectors do.