For some years now we at gadgetshop HQ have been telling of the marvel that is Universal Serial Bus technology, otherwise known as USB, and of the multiplicity of amazing devices and gizmos this invention has enabled. There are USB gadgets to keep one's mug warm, to launch rockets on demand, to monitor one's typing speed... and now comes the gadget that finally celebrates that most un-digital of things, the written word.

Think of this device as a hybrid; one part 4-port USB hub, one part WH Smith-style desk tidy, one part mood-enhancing light. The hub not only enables multiple connections to multiple USB devices, it also provides a neat place to store one's pen (and make notes to one's self), and illuminate your workspace in a glow reminiscent of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Golly.

It's the very spot at which your digital hub meets all your analogue impulses in one place... where you can store the pen with which you scribe your thoughts, where you can connect your wired world, where you can bathe your workplace in luminescence... and where you can leave silly little reminders to yourself.

In short, a multiplicity of uses, all waiting to be discovered. And all there for one's digital delectation. Rather spiffing.