All right, all you laptop users, here’s an ergonomic toy for you. APC is offering a sleek new desktop notebook stand that is, “designed to promote better ergonomic positioning of your notepad computer.”
It actually looks pretty cool. The stand allows you to swivel your laptop 360°, raise the screen to eye level, and it’s supposed to allow for better air circulation and cooling as well. It also has four extra USB ports.
The downside? You actually have to use your laptop at a desk in order to put it to use. Of course, those of us who pay attention to ergonomics should be doing that anyway, but half the fun of a laptop is being able to drag it anywhere. Oh, come on. Like you never type anything from the prone position on the couch, one leg flopped over the back rest.
What’s that? The sound of my joints screaming at me…