This 9-in-1 USB dock with a Blu-ray drive just smashed its Kickstarter goal by 300x—as backers succumb to dongle fatigue and physical media nostalgia

The BluHub USB hub and disc drive next to a Mac laptop.

• The BluHub reads and writes Blu-rays, DVDs and CDs
• It has 4x USB 3.0 ports and two card reader slots
• The Kickstarter Super Early bird price is $59 (about £40 / AU$80)

If you've got a fairly recent computer you'll be vividly aware that for everything but high-powered gaming PCs, thin is most definitely in: the pursuit of ultra-thin laptops in particular means that computers have shed their optical drives and many of their expansion ports to reduce their size and weight. But what if you want those things without having to live in World of Hubs, like I currently do? One Kickstarter may have the answer.