Mobile phone strap is a charging/data cable and microSD reader

I'm awfully fond of this Chinese mobile phone strap that unfurls into a USB charging/data cable and includes a microSD reader. Link (Thanks, Brando!)

[#1 posted by jahknow , April 9, 2008 7:31 AM]

And it's also a handy tool with which to strangle Tibetan dissidents!

[#2 posted by Buckethead , April 9, 2008 8:58 AM]

It's very poorly designed, with all the plastic around the USB plugs it would block the USB port next to the one you're using, and if your USB device's connector is recessed at all, or has something else around the USB port, this thing won't work.

[#3 posted by Takuan , April 9, 2008 9:14 AM]

Silence! You will appreciate the Peoples' USB Plug or be sent for re-education! (lousy Falung Gong sympathizer..)

[#4 posted by w000t , April 9, 2008 1:15 PM]

I only recently saw this (although it's 9 months out) a strap that's a usb data cable:
http://www.merax.com/products/Photo/USB_StrapTM(black).html

While looking for that link, I came across this solar charging cell phone strap:
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2008/02/mini-solar-char.html

[#5 posted by punctiliouspig , April 10, 2008 12:53 AM]

Nice..the website isn't made for dumb people as it doesn't explain the choices very well. Through the pictures I still can't tell how it works as a USB charger and SB reader. I know the gray one will work with my Samsung but then where does the USB plug go? ehhhhhh