Friday, April 04, 2008

USB-Home-Pregnancy-Test


Alright, this obsession with using the USB ports on your computer has just gone too far. I’m sorry, but when did plugging something that was just urinated on into your computer ever sound like a good idea? The worst part, plugging it in to the USB port actually offers up a useful function, namely displaying more data regarding what was found in what you just leaked onto the thing. Sure you can get the standard results of any other home pregnancy test right off of the electronic surface of the stick, but if you plug it in you get charts and graphs, all sorts of useful stuff.

The name is absolutely horrid too, PTeq, really? That’s the best you’ve got for $17.99 a pop? So you pee on it, plug it in to your USB port and that starts the whole mass spectrometry process informing you of hCG, hCG-H, and LH hormone levels with a 99% accuracy, and yes, it works with Macs as well as Windows machines, and Linux kernel 2.4 or higher. For the $18 you get the unit and 20 test strips, lets hope you don’t have 20+ questionable encounters before you lose this thing, you can pick one up at ThinkGeek. Come on girls...tell me it is not something you want to try out. POST ADDITION OR CORRECTION: NOOO, I am not saying I have tried it or am pregnant for those who are asking!!!

6 comments:

shayla said...

Is this a clever announcement????? I've never heard of a USB prego test! Oh, what will they think up next.

Marrianne said...

I seriously never heard of this and at first thought you were trying to say something . . . and I thought - I guess that new implant didn't work! ha!

Ruth said...

I thought this was a joke. That's just gross. Ben said, "No. That is unacceptable!"

Ruth said...

Ben wants to know if I can just pee into the USB port and save $18?

Ruth said...

Okay, one last comment. I was really curious why anyone would want this, so I went to Think Geek to learn more (not that I would ever get one). It was an April Fools joke. If you add it to your cart, you get a "Ha! Gotcha! Happy April Fool's, Silly Monkey" message.

Kristen said...

A man must have invented this for sure. I know I would never, EVER dream of doing this!