Talk:USB toy

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I wanted to create a page for all the USB or office toys which seem to have become an everyday part of office life.The products were supplied by the guys at [Home gadgets].There is a link to wiki commons where we can collect images of these toys. The article is fairly spartan at the moment but hope to beef it up over the next few weeks. Any help would be appreciated.

Collieman 19:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Usbmissilelauncher.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Violating USB spec
Many of these devices violate USB specifications, in that they immediately attempt to draw the maximum power - a device is supposed to start by drawing not more than 100 mA and then "request" an increase from the host. I don't have a source for this right now, but if one can be found it should be added. M0ffx (talk) 12:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Merge from USB decoration
The other article is somewhat stronger than the stub here, but the title USB toy seems more descriptive and more recognizable. There seems to be little reason to maintain the distinction and two separate articles. In terms of Google hits:
 * "USB toy": 144,000
 * "USB decoration": 5,980
 * "USB gadget": 441,000 (but this includes "Linux-USB Gadget API Framework", an unrelated topic)
 * "USB gadget" -driver -kernel -linux -api : 435,000

"USB gadget" is a possible name, but would have to be disambiguated from the software operating system driver meaning of the term. Reify-tech (talk) 14:39, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Will it include anything that uses power transmission, but no data transmission? Are these all "toys"? Eldizzino (talk) 17:33, 3 June 2015 (UTC)