Anker, a well-known name in the PC peripherals space, has a new approach to docking stations and hubs: combine them.

Anker calls its new dock the Anker Nano Docking Station (13-in-1) , and sells it for $149.99 on its website. But you don’t have to be a 1980s nerd to understand how it works. (If you are, think of Soundwave , a boombox Decepticon of Transformers fame, which hid another Decepticon in its cassette deck, like LaserBeak or Ravager.)

In any event, Anker’s dock is both a docking station as well as a detachable hub, which neatly solves the problem of what to do with a desktop-mounted docking station when you take your laptop on the road. Anker’s 13-in-1 dock ejects a 6-in-1 hub, which you can connect directly to your laptop, too.

It’s a neat trick, but with a couple of dra

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