Is today’s gadget particularly useful? Probably not, because you can surely find a more generic-looking USB hub for quite a bit less, but there’s certainly a novelty factor involved here that may captivate the interest of bored cubicle (and corner office) types.

A common trinket that you’ll find on the desks of a lot of office workers is Newton’s Cradle. You’re probably familiar with these. It’s a rack that has a series of a few ball bearings and then you can pull one ball out of one side and it’ll start that perpetual motion thing, bouncing out the ball at the other end, getting it to swing out and back again, pushing your original ball back out the first side. Pull two balls out one side and two balls will bounce out the other side.

Well, someone has decided to take that premise and apply it to a USB hub. I’m not sure if it can still do the Newton’s Cradle thing, but it looks like it’s supposed to do it. At the very least, you can an funky-looking USB hub. I’d imagine that the bouncing motion thing wouldn’t work after you have cables and peripherals hanging out in every direction though, seeing how you’re affecting the weight distribution and such.

Find the Boynq Swing USB hub on Buy.com for under $20.