As a portable gaming machine, the Switch is pretty solid.

The Switch dock and adapter, on the other hand, add a considerable amount of bulk to the equation.

We’ve seen a few companies try their hands at releasing smaller, more portable docks, but some users have reported that those docks bricked their consoles.

That means that users need to choose between using the official Switch dock or potentially risking their hardware in using something more portable.

Human Things thinks that it may have found a solution with its new Genki Covert Dock for the Switch, which launched on Kickstarter today.

The Covert Dock features a USB 3.0 port, USB-C PD charging port, and an HDMI out port in a tiny body – one that Human Things says is 10 times smaller than the standard Switch dock.

Since the last time I wrote about a car charger, a significant amount’s changed – enough that it makes sense to point out a product from a brand that I’ve come to trust over the past half-decade via their Apple MFI Certifications, top-notch industrial design, and long-lasting materials.

You’ll likely find this device appear in a future review by me or someone else on SlashGear in the near future.

Until then, anything you read here is based on the information provided by Satechi on the product.

This device plugs in to the antiquated “cigarette port” of most any vehicle released around the world in the last several decades.

This device brings future-ready power delivery tech, pushing power at 72W to two devices at once, if you do so desire.

That means Satechi means business.

After releasing a simple dongle that finally let the Nintendo Switch connect to wireless headphones, Human Things is back with another product that vastly improves the console’s portability.

The Genki Covert Dock replaces the Switch’s charger and TV dock with a streamlined wall adapter that does everything.

Soon after the Switch was released it was discovered that its bulky dock, which allowed the console to be connected to a TV, couldn’t be replaced with one of the existing USB-C to HDMI cable adapters already available for phones and tablets.

It didn’t take long for third-party accessory makers to figure out how to replicate what the Switch’s TV dock was doing, and releasing much smaller solutions, but none of them promise as much functionality as Human Things new Genki Covert Dock in such a compact package.

The adapter looks no bigger than the USB-C wall wart Nintendo includes for charging the Switch, but it adds an extra USB 3.1 port for charging other devices like a smartphone, and an HDMI port for connecting the Switch to a TV while its battery is being replenished.

You’ll need to remember to bring the requisite cables, but the Genki Covert Dock, which uses Gallium Nitride instead of silicon so there’s more room inside for additional electronics, should take up considerably less room in your daypack or carry-on.

The Switch’s ability to dock and connect to a TV is still one of its most iconic features (it’s right there in the name), but in the two-plus years since the console was released, there haven’t been reliable third-party dock options out there.

If you want to connect a Switch to a TV, you’re basically stuck with Nintendo’s dock or nothing.

Switch accessory company Genki — which is fresh off a successful Kickstarter last year for a Bluetooth headphone adapter for Nintendo’s portable console — wants to change that with the Genki Covert Dock, a miniature GaN charger that also promises to work as a fully functional portable Switch dock.

It sounds like the makings of the perfect Switch dock... if it works.

Then there was the infamous Nyko Portable Docking Kit, one of the most high-profile alternative docks that customers claimed would break their console’s ability to charge or even brick them entirely.

In other words, Genki has a lot to prove here to show that it can succeed where everyone else (other than Nintendo and its comparatively large and clunky first-party dock) has failed.

VAIO’s SX12 ultraportable notebook wants to shame every other slimline laptop out there, and if you’re currently living the dongle life you may well find yourself cheering it on.

Despite being VAIO’s smallest model, with a 12.5-inch screen, the company somehow manages to fit in not only the ports you’d hope to find, but some we’d assumed had left notebooks for good.

So, you get a USB 3.1 Type A, a USB Type-C, HDMI, two USB 3.0 Type-A, and an SD card slot.

VAIO also finds room for a VGA port and ethernet port, too, along with a separate power connector.

Key pitch is 0.75-inches, and the backlit keyboard is designed to be quieter in use, too.

VAIO fits a fingerprint scanner as well.

Human Things is launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Genki Covert Dock, which uses gallium nitride to create a much smaller, more power-efficient dock and charger for the Nintendo Switch and other USB-C-powered devices.

It can replace your bulky Switch dock for connecting the Nintendo hybrid gaming console to the TV, and it can replace the charger as well.

It can also replace your larger MacBook chargers and display dongle and, charging multiple devices as once.

And it fits in your product, making it a lot easier to transport your Switch.

The company aims to raise $50,000 in the next 30 days on Kickstarter.

[Update: The company blew past its goal already and has $139,000 raised in a few hours]