USB Word-Per-Minute Speedometer

In what would surely be a depressing addition to my work desk, the "USB WPM Speedometer" tracks your typing speed and daily word count, displaying them on a handsome analog dial (which is nested in a less-than-handsome chassis with a flower-shaped vent and a non-functional second gauge). Custom software is necessary to monitor your output, of course, and I suspect the £20 Speedometer's software will be Windows-only when it arrives in mid-March. (Call it a hunch.)

Catalog Page [DrinkStuff.com via Technobob via Nexus404.com]

[#1 posted by se7a7n7 , February 28, 2008 9:28 AM]

How long would it take someone to make a free widget that does the same thing? Like 30 minutes?

[#2 posted by w000t , February 28, 2008 12:19 PM]

This would be a great gift for a novelist whom you wished would commit suicide.

[#3 posted by MrScience , February 28, 2008 2:10 PM]

W000t: Indeed. This fellow wrote one in an evening, during a month-long application-a-day self challenge:

http://www.anappaday.com/downloads/2006/10/day-17-wpm-tray.html

[#4 posted by peterjlupoesq , February 28, 2008 4:11 PM]

SE7A7N7 says: "How long would it take someone to make a free widget that does the same thing? Like 30 minutes?"
You are doubtless correct, but it is the tactile fisher price feel of this gadget that is its selling point.
Widget-gauged typing would be work.
This is play.

Peter J. Lupo Esq.
antiaging4geeks.com

[#5 posted by michaelportent , February 28, 2008 4:57 PM]

This is hilarious. Now I can see how horribly-atrociously slow I type! =P