Ajay Bhatt, Father of USB, on Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Hardcore techies were treated with a special interview on Conan O'Brien last night. Playing off the Intel commercial that appropriately deified Ajay Bhatt, the co-creator of USB. The actual commercial used an actor but Conan had access to the real McCoy. Now I'm not sure he showed the man the respect he was due but it was a very lighthearted albeit heavily sponsored interview. Conan made no secret of the financial incentive he had to do the interview but it was still pretty fun. The chit chat was pretty one-sided with Conan doing almost all the talking. He did his best though but still had to reference a note-card for his one technical question. It wasn't without it's humor trying to hype the fight between firewire and USB.

The interview did end up pretty cute, reenacting a bit of the commercial. You can see why they were forced to use a nerd stunt double as he is a bit stiff. With any luck someone with some geek-cred will interview him again, like Fallon. Head over to NBC's site to see Conan's brush with true greatness and a very humble legend. Video interview after the jump.