Infinite USB Plug. Someone Make This Now!

[Look]

You guys are taking all the fun out of this. Live a little!
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[Guest]

Amazing idea. Kudos

 

[JohnnyLucky]

The danr thing needs a brick that has to be plugged into a source of power. There goes convenience right ou the door.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Uhhhhh. Stupid. Let's say, 1:camera 2:hdd 3:iPod 4:Midi Keyboard annnnd... I am transferring stuff to my iPod and all of a sudden I need to remove my camera USB plug. :|

 

[Guest]

Old concept... see TI-99 sidecars and PC-Jr. expansion modules.

 

[bundlebr]

Already seen this (real part with male/female USB plug-through) about a year ago. The idea is not new.

 

[davendork]

I might be too careful about this, but I don't want to put that much downward force on one of the USB ports on the back of my expensive X58 motherboard.

 

[adipose]

> Old concept... see TI-99 sidecars and PC-Jr. expansion modules.

Well, duh. Daisy chaining is an old concept. See electricity.

Anyway, this has multiple issues: the longer it gets, the less stable it is. You can't disconnect something in the middle. One port has limited power. The plugs will have to be built-in to devices, or you will have to carry a bunch of adapters. Etc.

However, the idea is better than nothing, and better than the status quo. Heck, even the right angle is a huge improvement over your average usb connector that wants to break off if you tug on it...unless you wanted it to bend the other way.

 

[JonathanDeane]

Its for limited situations but I can think of some situations where 2 or 3 of these things might have been handy and saved some swapping for me. I agree saying that 128 devices is a bit much and I would worry that pulling that much power from that single connect might do bad things.... So could this be modified to be a USB keyboard passthrough for capturing those naughty passwords?

 

[sixbone]

funny how daisy chaining up to 128 devices was part of the original USB 1.0 spec, like what 13 or 14 years ago...and virtually no manufacturers included the extra usb port on their device to daisy chain.....sad

 

[m-manla]

Good idea.

 

[lamorpa]

"five or six leeching devices on one port can't be highly effective, especially those connected towards the end of the train" What? Do you think the 'electricity' will be 'drained off' by the nearer devices? Do you have even the most basic understanding of electrical principles? Maybe the electrical 'pressure' will be reduced for further out devices??

 

[loomis86]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]"five or six leeching devices on one port can't be highly effective, especially those connected towards the end of the train" What? Do you think the 'electricity' will be 'drained off' by the nearer devices? Do you have even the most basic understanding of electrical principles? Maybe the electrical 'pressure' will be reduced for further out devices??[/citation]

LOL!

Well sure. Just like an irrigation ditch...the water tends to run out of "steam" after a certain distance. It just "peters" out ya know, and kinda settles into the dirt and is gone forever.

 

[Glorfindel]

Am I the only one who sees a reference to Portal in this?

 

[botabota]

so if i have 4 usb ports on my laptop that means i can hook up 512 usb device? ....simply AWESOME

 

[Micropat]

I couldn't possibly imagine what would happen if I had 128 devices plugged in and then clicked the "safely remove device" icon. XD

 

[JonathanDeane]

[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]LOL!Well sure. Just like an irrigation ditch...the water tends to run out of "steam" after a certain distance. It just "peters" out ya know, and kinda settles into the dirt and is gone forever.[/citation]

I think it might be called resistance but I could be wrong... lol but honestly USB was never realistic with that many things connected and anyone who has used a cheap non powered hub will tell you that too many USB powered things connected at one time will do a few bad things, anything from devices simply not being detected to slow speeds when they do work.

 

[Guest]

Dude, this can't work unless he's got a hub in the extension USB port, and you can only go five hubs deep per the USB specification. Also, you are limited to 127 total devices (including hubs). The USB address is 7 bits (128) but address 0 is reserved for enumerating newly attached devices.

 

[frish]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Uhhhhh. Stupid. Let's say, 1:camera 2:hdd 3:iPod 4:Midi Keyboard annnnd... I am transferring stuff to my iPod and all of a sudden I need to remove my camera USB plug. :|[/citation]
well if they replaced the wire with a usb port where the usb cable of ur gadget goes in, that wud work

 

[Burodsx]

I've had some USB ports go bad before. I think I like it the way it is currently.