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They've gone and done it: USB 2.0 connectors can now be reversed! Taiwanese company Jpower has done the deed by putting a hinge on that little white wedge of plastic in the middle of the USB 2.0 Typo A connector. On the company's stand at Computex, the colossal Taiwanese tech trade show, it was showing off USB cables that just …

  1. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
    Flame

    RE : Lego is an obvious health and safety risk in the office.

    It's not Lego that's that the risk to my health and sanity in my office. It's Minions. Every other dodgy f**cker seems to have a f**king Minion on their desk. Including some of those I'd previously thought to be relatively sane of mind.

    I f**king hate those yellow f**king Minions.

    1. Lee D Silver badge

      Re: RE : Lego is an obvious health and safety risk in the office.

      Calm down.

      Banana?

      1. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

        Re: RE : Lego is an obvious health and safety risk in the office.

        Yes, I'd love a banana thanks. As long as it's a green one i.e. not Minion coloured... obvs.

      2. Slartybardfast

        Re: RE : Lego is an obvious health and safety risk in the office.

        Bottom! He he

    2. ssharwood

      Re: RE : Lego is an obvious health and safety risk in the office.

      I saw a Minions store in a Taipei mall. Nothing but Minions. On every conceivable product.

  2. Stuart Halliday

    Reversible USB 2?

    Didn't we get told this last year?

  3. Christoph

    Dual Cameras?

    "the 7 will have dual cameras"

    Will it run SCORPION STARE?

    1. ssharwood

      Re: Dual Cameras?

      Well we do know the iPhone's appeal comes from a powerful glamour!

  4. IanRS

    What a useful keyboard!

    It would give me something to fasten the lego-style cased Raspberry Pi to to stop it floating loose around the desk.

  5. AbelSoul
    Trollface

    Re: USB 2.0 Typo A connector.

    Now *that's* a Typo!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Obligatory TAIWAN #1

    (body)

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