The World's Silliest USB Device?

Posted by Anita in Gadget on April 23, 2007 at 5:44 pm


Mouse Jiggler

The Mouse Jiggler has to be one of the strangest USB devices with a real purpose (as opposed to the Sushi USB Drives. It does exactly what the name states – when plugged in it jiggles your mouse around.

Why? Either to make sure your screen saver doesn’t come on, or as a practical joke (depending on which mode you select). It was originally marketed towards security professionals and forensics experts who needed to ensure a laptop wouldn’t go into a password-protected screen saver mode while they were away.

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5 comments to "The World's Silliest USB Device?"

  1. max
    April 23rd, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    Oh yeah, check this out,
    my co-worker made it and used it while i was working,
    it actually makes circles...

    http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/04/20/garretts-usb-mouse-prank-device/

  2. Carl Huber
    April 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    Can we please clarify that it moves your mouse pointer around on the screen? Correct? I mean...there's no motor in a mouse itself to allow it to move autono"mouse"ly (heh). Unless it was one of those vibrating force-feedback ones. Hmm.

  3. artbot
    April 23rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    I'm not clear on this. Is it being marketed to morons who don't know how turn off their screensavers?

  4. Megan Taylor
    April 23rd, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    The computers in the labs at my school log off after 10-15 minutes of inactivity. I found a program that I could download and run off my USB to move the mouse every five minutes, so I don't lose all my work just because I went to ask the teacher a question.

  5. Michael
    April 24th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Silly? No.

    Many work sites, including mine, will lock out the computer after 15 minutes of inactivity (as a security precaution). And the users have no administrative privilege to disable this.

    Which is no problem,,, just type in your password again.

    However, if I bring my laptop home, and wanna watch a movie on it, I have to move the mouse every couple of minutes to it doesn't go into sleep mode. It's annoying.


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