Rare is the gadget that I use every day. It’s a short list — iPhone, clock radio, laptop, Bluetooth speaker in my bathroom. I can now add the Startech Thunderbolt Laptop Docking Station to that list.

It is not very often that you come across a “gadget” that does more than a one thing well. When you find one that enhances a number of things you do routinely, you protect it as though you’ve struck ...