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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM hey guys we're here at a booth called j5 create and there's something that really caught my eye they have these things called Newports wormhole and ultra station technologies when I'm mainly interested in is the J UD 500 now I haven't been briefed on this but it's pretty easy to figure out so there's DC in and a host USB at the bottom so you plug the host USB 3 into your computer plug DC n into the wall and then that gives all this functionality up here to your computer so as you can see along here there's USB 3.0 charging point port here standard USB 3.0 port HDMI VGA audio mic Ethernet USB 2.0 and wormhole switch and I'm not entirely sure what wormhole switch does maybe if I can catch someone and get that explained to me we will figure it out later sorry guys we're having a few problems with our camera here if you are someone who has a business laptop or gaming laptop or really just a laptop and no desktop and you want to bring it home from wherever you are and you want to increase your functionality you can have this thing set up you can have already everything plugged in that you need you can have an additional monitor plugged in through this you can have your keyboard and mouse and everything plugged in drop your laptop down plug it all in have dedicated Ethernet everything so it makes it very easy just one cable plug in from a USB 3 and you basically turn it into a desktop of course it's not going to be as fast in multiple ways because it's not a desktop for one and two because you only have one USB 3.0 Lane going to your computer and you have all this stuff coming into it but it's still very very very helpful if you're not a super power user this is a very cool idea to get all that more functionality out of your laptop so thanks for watching hopefully this is something you're interested in and you want to see all of our kinetics content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips