We live in the 21st century. Even the lowly piggy bank has to go digital willy-nilly. The inevitable fate of our time. We have to resign ourselves to this trend.

Keian's I-PANDA and I-PIGGY.

A Japano-Taiwan peripheral/component merchant, Keian Corporation of Ikebukuro, Tokyo, is selling just this kind of digital bank. Oh, don't expect this "intelligent" piggy bank to have a connection to the network. Squirreling away virtual money or Net currency to buy some nasty weapon for the network battle? Sorry, no. This is absolutely a straightforward piggy bank, basically the same product you could have bought from an Athena agora of 2,500 years ago.
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One more of those silly USB-powered gears... er, it's a bit overdoing it to call this tiny object a gadget. A silly piece of toy, it should be called.

A toy developer/manufacturer of Off-Akiba, Cube Co. Ltd has released two USB toys of PC Gadget series that do not enhance nor hamper the performance of your beloved laptop, even the slightest. Cube Co. firmly guarantees it, along with the total compatibility of any, I repeat, any OS and hardware.

USB doggies in heat from Cube Co. They erroneously attack your laptop, not your leg.

USB Humping Dog crouches over the USB plug. Once inserted into your laptop, this male canine suddenly turns his libido switch on. He starts humping his lower body as if he were engaging himself in that all-important reproductive procedure. Well, it's rather comical and, at the same time, very sad to watch this toy doggie mistake the laptop as his bitch friend. You can see how he pumps a laptop futilely, here.
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Fallin asleep while driving is fatal. I guess nobody in Singapore worries about this phenomenon because drivers have no chance of dozing off on the cluttered roads in this small island. You need a long and straight stretch of highway, kilometers after kilometers of it wihout a traffic jam, to fall asleep behind the wheel.

Your Mobile Ojisan, too, has had his share of scary moments. Once upon a time on a bush highway in far off Nigeria, he dozed off while on the saddle of a motorcycle, running at more than 100kmh. Next moment, I found myself lying flat on my back in the roadside shrubland, staring into the sun. My motorcycle also was lying somewhere 100m ahead, its engine still running strong. Luckily, both myself and my motorcycle did not receive considerable damage.

Of course, there is an instant remedy against this danger. Almost all drivers in West Africa constantly chew Kola nuts while behind the wheel. Yes, once one of the two infamous ingredients of Coca Cola. (The fate of the other ingredient, you know very well!) Kola nut, which comes from Cola nitida, a native plant in West African rainforest, contains enough dose of tannin and caffeine to make even the diehardest zombies insomniac.
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A confession: Your Mobile Ojisan has a rather hush-hush hobby. Sewing.

The needlework/sewing is a very creative technique, if not an art form. It turns 2D base materials into 3D objects, like Origami or joinery does. Majority of the societies of this world, though, regard this interesting activity as an exclusive domain of womanhood. Why do the humans assign this pleasant craft only to women? I think it's outrageous.

Anyway, I still keep my dear ole sewing machine in immaculate condition, an antique Singer hand-cranking job bought in India some 40 years ago. I was extremely good and adept in handling this black beauty.

Was? Yes, unfortunately. Because my eyesight had deteriorated (or advanced?) with my advancing age and I can't thread the upper needle of the machine anymore. So, my black Singer has been resting under its cover for the past several years.

Brother B-500 easy-threading machine. A perfect sewing machine for dummies.

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Everybody loves USB. USB jack is so accessible to everybody, while other I/O bretheren, PS/2, DVI, D-SUBs and RJ-11/45 are usually hidden behind and very hard to reach without dirtying your hands with tons of accumulated dust. USB jacks are usually showing their presence on the front panel of your machine.

Even in the Internet cafe where all kinds of I/O interfaces are strictly untouchable, USBs are somehow allowed to be fondled at will by customers .

It's not a toy car. It's not a mouse. Yes, it's... they're notorious USB ashtrays from Green House Co. It sucks up nasty smoke, too, with a little help from USB power.

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