Bionik Reveals Its Range Of Nintendo Switch Accessories

ok! gigabit adaptor!

Giganet Adapter for me

Bionik don't seem to supply their goods to/in Europe. I can't find anything on Amazon. The ethernet adapter, apart from a neat fit is twice the price of other 3.0 adapters.

@AlexOlney

It's like the comfort grip it goes between the joy-cons the Switch, itself, isn't in the picture

Backside of the box show, that for charging the Switch you connect by cable.

Gigabit adapter and the Rapid Charge Kit. Also, I have no idea what the Power Plate is supposed to be, what is that render they included?

The Power Plate looks like a contraption that attaches to the Switch from beneath, connected to its USB-C connector, for use with a pair of humongous Joy-Con nearly double the size of the original. Very sleek, right?

Why the USB 3.0 1 Gb/s LAN adapter?

USB 2.0's bandwidth cap of 480 Mb/s is still many times faster than the speed the majority of people get from their ISP.

Perhaps the USB 2.0 LAN adapters are 100 Mb/s, but it's still faster.

I dont know how usefull the tetra power will be but it sure looks cool

i like the power plate

Power plate looks amazing !
But I don't like Black color...
Maybe I should give it some stickers to cover...

@BornInNorway81 Switch games are supporting LAN play though, so it might be useful in a local tournament setting where you want the best possible speeds and are unrestricted by internet connections.

@BornInNorway81 I'm with you, I doubt many people will actually get anything out of this that you can't get from a £7 USB2 ethernet adaptor. Gigabit really comes into its own for routing between devices in a LAN rather than for connecting a single device to the Internet.

Actually, a quick search shows you can already get a USB 3 gigabit LAN adaptor for under £10 on Amazon

That tetra power thing looks so cool.

And they aren't outrageously overpriced?! What's the catch?

Thanks for this article! I'm already eyeing some of this.

Pretty sure the rapid charger won't work for the dock. Only official charger for docked play.

But does that Tetra Power charging dock spin...?

These all look like products that already exist, but at a $10-20 markup.

So what, exactly, does the Giganet Adapter actually do? Boost your internet signal/speed?

That powerplate image gave me a headache. But it sounds interesting!

It does look incredibly bulky and difficult to carry around, though. Maybe a simple powerbank is a better option.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Paid €10 on amazon for a usb 3.0 gigabit ethernet adapter. Got it in the early days of usb 3.0 too, still works perfectly from my wii, wiiu and now switch days

Ethernet adapter looks boss

Actually decent accessories - but that power adapter is the one thing that is the most needed since the official charger from Ninty is so over-priced it's ridiculous!

Omg, that picture up top made me realize, that you can't really easily load the Switch while in tabletop mode. That is ... an unfortunate design flaw =(

I'm all for a better internet connection for my Switch...but wouldn't a wireless wi-fi usb dongle be better (if there is such a thing)?

@bluedogrulez No. Wired is better than wireless in every way.

The joycon recharger looks like a buttplug.

Always interested in new Switch accessories. (What is it about the Switch that makes me want to blow all my money on accessories? I've never felt this way about any other system.) Eager for some reviews of these products.

Some pretty classy accessories!

None of this stuff interests me. I already got a Gigabit adapter for $14 on amazon when the Switch came out .

The charger seems nice. I'm looking for a smaller charger for when I'm in handheld mode, and until now, the pixel charger seemed the Best choice.

@cfgk24 You can get one that works exactly the same with the exact same chipset (the only difference is the outer shell's appearance) from AmazonBasics or Plugable or the like for less than half that price.

"Highly durable, USB A to TYPE C cable that stretches 6 feet long to charge your Nintendo Switch."

I would just like to point out that it is completely impossible to make a Type-A to Type-C legacy cable that can transfer enough power to power the Switch without completely ignoring all standards of electrical engineering and making something that is more likely to cause your Switch to explode (or whatever source you have it plugged into on the other end) than consistently charge it properly. Of course, tons of companies (mostly shady Chinese bootleg brands) have been doing this for a couple years already (ever since Type-A to Type-C cables started becoming popular), but that doesn't change the fact that, well, WEBSITES LIKE THIS SHOULD NOT BE REPORTING ON ANYTHING AS IMPORTANT AS AN ELECTRICAL CABLE WITHOUT DOING THEIR RESEARCH FIRST. Most of the stuff out there is improperly made, and it is often, as in this sort of case, not that difficult to find that out. And yes, I'm being completely serious, the vast majority of cables you can find online are wired just plain wrong.

But seriously though, stick with the OEM Nintendo adapter to charge the Switch. The chip that handles the charging on the Switch is actually ITSELF improperly engineered (seriously), and only the OEM charger is actually completely safe the use with it as a result (which itself is improperly engineered). It's a ridiculously stupid situation, but it's one manufacturers have been putting us in since the beginning of electronics.

@chriiiiiiiiiis if you put it on a fidget spinner

I won't be buying any of these. I have all the Switch accessories I need at the moment. Eventually I need to get another pro controller because my husband hates using the joycons. May get the Splatoon 2 one if I can find it.

Giganet for me!

What's an accessory marker? Is that something an accessory maker uses to mark their products?

Well, I don't usually get non licensed 3rd party accessories...

@BornInNorway81 im happy with the wireless ac to my router why would i use an ethernet? I really dont think the difference in performance will matter.

I want my traveldock!!

I'm curious how you know Nintendo's own hardware is "improperly engineered".

And I also wonder if what you're saying, is that USB Type-A to USB Type-C cables are unable safely to transfer 5V / 3A / 15W electricity?

Can you please elaborate, since what you wrote made me very curious about electrical safety when it comes to USB devices?

@XerBlade
"But seriously though, stick with the OEM Nintendo adapter to charge the Switch. The chip that handles the charging on the Switch is actually ITSELF improperly engineered (seriously), and only the OEM charger is actually completely safe the use with it as a result (which itself is improperly engineered). It's a ridiculously stupid situation, but it's one manufacturers have been putting us in since the beginning of electronics."

I have a couple more questions.

Many power converters with a wall plug (110V-240V) and a USB socket are marked with an output of 2.1A or 2.4A. Many portable batteries with USB sockets ("powerbanks") also have 2.4A output. Can USB 2.0 cables (Type-A to Type-B micro) safely transfer 5V / 2.4A?

And am I right in that the Switch's powersupply charges the Switch at 5V / 3A when portable, but higher when docked, but can also charge at lower ampere when portable?

@BornInNorway81 A Type-A to Type-C legacy adapter cable can be safely and properly designed to at most transfer 5V / 2.4A / 12W, and that's using proprietary tech that they'd have to license from Apple. Standard implementations would be capable of much lower than that. You can make a Type-A to Type-C cable that can do 5V / 3A / 15W fairly easily (all you'd need to do is put the wrong resistor in the Type-C end [which is (at a basic level) how basic Type-C client ports detect what sort of cable is plugged in so they can know how much power they can safely try to pull, basically if you put in a resistor that tells it that this is an actual Type-C cable and not a Type-A to Type-C adapter cable, it will try to treat it that way]), but it would be pretty risky to actually plug it into things. The reason being, when you boil it down, is that USB Type-A was simply never designed to do that. Type-C has been heavily engineered and future proofed to where the devices on both ends are supposed to do a handshake at the beginning to decide things like how much power to send (and in which direction), but Type-A ports are nowhere near that intelligent, it just, you know, kinda does its thing and assumes everything will be alright.

Alguien me podría decir si vale la pena el cargador de bionik?