Lamp with USB Charging Port
- December 20th, 2006
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Since we’re in the mood to plug stuff haphazardly into USB ports, we thought we’d share this soon-to-be-released lamp that caught our wary but wandering eye. The SI561 is, by most accounts, a standard desk lamp, featuring a regular 3-prong power socket on the base to provide convenient power to your laptop or what have you.
The fun here is that the lamp, which just cleared FCC for some reason, also sports a secondary USB port. There’s no data here, it’s not a hub. The port is there solely for the purpose of charging gear that charges via USB, and that is all.
We love the idea of random USB ports for charging integrated wherever they can be. We’ve seen desks with the feature, but desk accessories sporting USB power is a great match. When it comes out, look for it exclusively from Sharper Image.
Sharper Image integrates USB charger into desk lamp [Mobile Mag]
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Attractive, probably cheap and if it only had a few extra USB ports, I would buy it just to get rid of my USB connections brick - I was needing a lamp anyways. There should be tonnes of these on the market as Scott and others are too busy buying up the USB pole stripping dancer. The planets have finally aligned in my favor… whooo haaa haaa haaa!
Jon
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Why does it take so long for a manufacturer to come up with an idea like this? With some slick marketing, which undoubtly Sharper Image has, they could market an entire line of items with USB charging ports.
It is a great idea, but how much you can expand this to everything else is a different question/ballpark I think. I don’t have that many items that require USB ports to charge, but I guess it would be nice to charge via USB port on my lamp than to take up another two powerslots with my various powerbricks behind the desk…
Isaiah (Who am I?)
1 year ago
There’s only a matter of time before someone attempts to set a record for daisy-chaining USB products. :o
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Isaiah:
I can see new UL and fire hazard codes being written right now, but I can also hear the crack and sizzle of electrical fires happening simultaneously across high school drama departments. Well you’d need USB powered spot lights first, but you get the idea.