We’ve all dreamed of having a mini-greenhouse that we could plug into our computer, but until today it was just that — dreams. But dream no longer. Geeks.com is selling a USB-powered Mini Greenhouse that includes a computer interface which helps you monitor growth rate and that includes a calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings to aid you in monitoring the growth of your greenhouse.

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Who needs new and slick when you can have old and wooden? The Shadow hard drive from Suissa is a beautifully-made wooden 750GB external hard drive that faintly resembles something your grandmother would store jewelery in. Compatible with any computer, the inappropriately-named Shadow has four USB 2.0 ports that are prominently visible on the front of the drive and is made out of sustainable, harvested maple.

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Remember those old Bluetooth laser keyboards from a few years back that projected a laser image on the desk that you could type on? Celluon’s releasing a new version of that old device, but this time it’s connected over USB instead of Bluetooth. Still compatible with Windows Mobiles, Palm OS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows 2000/XP/Vista though. Of course, you’re still typing onto a desk without any kind of “give,” which means painful fingers just like the old version.

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We’ve posted our share of crazy awesome USB hubs, but “The Hub” from Ora-Ito actually looks great and looks like it works great. Not only does it have two Firewire cables, it’s got a miniUSB, two USB extension cables, a regular USB cable, a USB light and a USB fan. But the good news is that it looks somewhat like an electronic plant, so you’ll feel real great knowing you spent $90 on a USB/Firewire hub.

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Love comes in many forms: roses, chocolates, consensual anal relations, and now, USB drives. The AIGO his and hers flash drives will not only prevent USB mixups, but they’ll further reinforce necessary gender roles in a relationship.

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Looks like Sony finally took the wraps off its Network Walkman NWD-B100, which we first heard about months ago. The featherweight player is landing in Europe come August (sorry, no US release info as of yet), and has a 3-line color LCD, comes in 1GB (NWD-B103 / B103F) and 2GB sizes (NWD-B105 / 105F), and features an FM tuner, mic / voice recorder, up to 12 hours battery life, and perhaps best of all, it’s now ATRAC-free (MP3 and WMA only) with mass-storage mode, meaning you can officially throw out your copy of SonicStage. Sony, welcome to 2007 — we could almost kiss you.

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The ole ExpressCard seems to be the apple of many adapter manufacturers’ eyes, as here we have yet another way to integrated an ExpressCard into a machine that wasn’t originally made to play nice with ‘em. Of course, we’ve already seen other methods of getting your ExpressCard to function via USB, but the MicroU2E iteration is a simple, small, one-piece device that works solely with USB-based cards (read: not PCIe flavors) and provides all the power it should need for that HSDPA / HSUPA card to function as advertised. Not a bad piece to keep in your arsenal for $38 — and fret not, as it gets along just fine with Vista and OS X, too.

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If you’re wearing one of those colorful wristbands anyway, might as well store some data on it, and this USB Flash Drive Wrist Band from Brando is more than happy to help you pack 512MB on board. No, that’s not much data, but this is about the most painless way to carry around data there is. The price is right, too.

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Leave it to Brando to fill in the hole of USB warming by providing an actual stainless steel camping-like cup to the equation. So not only does this USB cup warmer warm cups, it provides its own cup to warm. Other than that, there’s a four-foot USB cable, a lid, and an LED indicator to tell whether it’s on or off. It’s pretty barebones, and the $16 reflects that.

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We’ve had our hands on these super-green Linux-and-Via powered babies for a little while, but now it’s your turn. Even though the beta program is expected to run until September, Zonbu is confident that the hardware on 1.0 is locked. That’s why today, the company started selling the little box, but will cover the first three months of software support, technically a beta run, for free.

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