Japanese company Marshal has announced a netbook dock that includes a DVD super multi drive, a USB hub, and room for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive or SSD.
The dock should hit Japan later this month for about $95. I’d be surprised to see it outside of Japan unless a western company decides to rebrand it under their own names. Of course, there’s a cottage industry of online retailers that purchase gadgets like this that are only available in Japan and resell them in other parts of the world.
via CrunchGear
If they swap the extra SSD etc for an extra battery, that might be interesting! Especially if they allow you to power off the bits you don’t need…