Let's face it, work can be stressful. Particularly when you work at an office full of nitwits. To provide release, the folks at Solid Alliance (site in japanese) provides us with a USB Stress Button.

Since I don't read Japanese, I'll have to take TOKYOMANGO's word for what it does. The device, which plugs into your USB port. has three modes:

• An explosion mode, where your computer "counts down" and displays a massive animated explosion


• A punch mode, where a picture of a face comes up on the screen and is summarily destroyed


• A worksheet mode, where you can bring up a fake worksheet to hide those non-work related activities you might be doing on the corporate computer

The reliance on Windows is probably enough to keep me from buying this, assuming it were available through an American distributor.