USB-powered travel-sized Xmas tree

Cory Doctorow 1:53 am Wed Nov 19, 2003

Imagine that you're a business-traveller whose whole life is packed into a 22 kg, Euro-airline-compliant rolling suitcase. Imagine it's the holiday season. There's no way you're going to pack a Xmas tree into your little roll-along, even though it would brighten up the generic hotel-room something fierce, especially when augmented by a couple airline-sized miniature liquor bottles, a carton of convenience-store eggnog, and the warbling of the bolted-down television tuned to a Donny and Marie Xmas Special.

Fear not. The USB Christmas Tree Light glows in six neon colors, packs handily into even the smallest suitcase, and has a candy-cane-striped cable that you can plug straight into your laptop for hours of lonely, festive fun. So draw the blackout curtains, drown out the roar of the passing airplanes, and hoist a phlegm-nog while you contemplate your email by the light of this cheery bit of decor.

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