Chainsaws will occupy a special place in the heart of anybody who’s been around long enough to remember ID Software’s genre-defining game, Doom. (or, indeed, any fans of the Evil Dead series)

With the advent of the i.Saw USB chainsaw you can bring your space-marine/zombie hunting fantasies one step closer… or at least you might be able to in September when they actually start shipping the things.

It looks like a working, scaled down Husqvarna and is cool, in a “WTF?” kind of way – but when you get down to it the only thing it uses USB for is power so it’s not really that connected. Personally I prefer USB gadgets that actually interact with the computer in some way, like this cool missile launcher.

But since when has practicality ever had anything to do with gadgets?