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If you’re a musician, Dream Cheeky is probably not a name that comes to mind when you’re thinking of instrument manufacturers; in fact, unless you’re a connoisseur of USB gag gadgets, you’ve probably never heard of Dream Cheeky at all. However, I guess everyone has to start somewhere, and Dream Cheeky’s starting with two USB instruments: a USB Roll-Up Drum Kit, and a USB Roll-Up Piano. Will these two devices prove themselves to be good starter instruments for the aspiring musician, or even a good substitution of the real thing? Or will they be musical versions of the USB Missile Launcher, providing fun with an emphasis on diversion? Today, we’re going to find out.
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This one goes out to all those companies that like to take a standard and screw it up. We’ve all see it with a ton of different devices, for some reason manufacturer’s like to take that wonderful little standardized USB connection and turn it into something else on their side of the device thus completely negating the whole purpose of standardization. Standards exist for a reason and choosing to ignore them should simply be a sign that a product probably isn’t worthy of your money.

Hell, my brand new $400 camera has one and frankly I feel the same way that Chris Pirillo does too. Do I really need a cable that lets me connect my camera to my TV and or computer in one when I still have to purchase a different cable to do it via hi-def anyways? No. The last thing I need is another cable to stuff in my “drawer of random cables” so that it can add at least another minute to the time required for me to find what I need. Crazy Chris video after the jump.
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No, we aren’t talking about sheep or cats, but your hard drive. Most of us have replaced a hard drive and hated that a reinstall of the OS and everything else was forced upon us. Usually only businesses have the software to clone your old drive to the new, such as Symantec Ghost. Apricorn seeks to change that, by bundling their DriveWire universal hard drive adapter with their EZ Gig II cloning software.

The DriveWire HDD adapter works just many of the adapters available on the market today allowing you to connect any drive, SATA or PATA to your computer via USB and access the data on the drive. What makes this setup so special is their EZ Gig II software that is a bootable CD and lets you clone the drive connected via the HDD adapter. To top it all off, it doesn’t matter what OS you are running since it you boot from a CD and aren’t interfacing at all with your currently installed OS.

This is great and all if you need the ability to clone a drive but very few of us do and we often have other ways of doing what is needed. If you are simply looking for a SATA HDD adapter for your desk, GeekStuff4U and Logitec probably have better offerings for you and they’ll look a lot better sitting there too.
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