Neat USB Hub Almost As Handsome As Your MacBook
In the age of tiny, efficient Thunderbolt and Lightning ports, stuffing a full-sized USB plug into a Mac now seems so very very old fashioned. Still, USB is still the oversized and awkward norm, and stuff them into our Macs we must.
Which is where Satechi’s “Premium 4-Port Aluminum USB 2.0 Hub” comes in.
The non-powered hub gives you four ports, angled up for easy access. The styling is clearly inspired by Apple’s Magic Trackpad and aluminum keyboards, but is raked more steeply and also — inexplicably — includes a copy of the Apple devices’ battery port cover.
Still, if you’re going to plug a zillion (or, more accurately, four) USB gadgets into one USB port, then there are far uglier ways to do it. And this one costs $28. That isn’t cheap, but I guess this thing will last. At least until a USB 3.0 version becomes available, anyway.
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
