Everybody hates flies. They spread disease and puke on your food. They prowl around on corpses and dungheaps, and then crawl on your face with those same filthy feet – sometimes when you’re trying to sleep. Even the most placid Buddhists are tempted to brutally squash these furry, buzzy vermin, whatever the karmic consequences.

So Kensington must be really confident about their Flylight 3.0. “This USB-powered, gooseneck-mounted light is so awesome,” they seem to be saying, “we’ll give it a name that evokes one of nature’s most despised creatures! And people will love it anyway!” We can’t argue – once we saw how the FlyLight’s head unscrews into a detachable keyring flashlight, we overcame our revulsion to its insectoid patronymy. With the FlyLight causing an epidemic of productivity and a plague of convenient lighting, can the KockRoach wireless keyboard series and the PinWorm USB hard drive be far behind?

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