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A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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post #7

I don't see much point to this, it barely props up your laptop at all. You're still going to get tech neck. I recently got a nexstand, external keyboard, and mouse and it has been amazing.

Those are kind of ugly, at least for MacBooks.

Rain Design's mStand is my favorite, blends in perfectly.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

#14
If whoever did this cared about recycling they would just tell people how to do this.

If the people who bought this cared about recycling rather than having a virtue signaling conversation starter they wouldn’t have bought it.

This is insane, the carbon value of $22 is high enough without the garbage of shipping this crap all over the country and possibly the world.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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post #2

So they're selling 22$ for a sheet of paper?

The paper is $.01, it’s the folding you’re paying for.

No you are paying for the story that you’ll be able to smugly tell your colleagues of how much you care about the environment that you’ve purchased a recycled laptop stand, ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

#16

Terrible for your wrists though

Also terrible for the environment.

The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap.

We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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post #8

This is art. Love it.

It is sort of art. It looks fairly pretty I think, in a sort of everyday manner. But it also looks a little impractical, the part that might touch your wrists is very spiky. Also thought keyboards should be, if anything, tilted in the opposite direction.

It seems like an ok system if you don’t have to interact with your keyboard. But if you want to do away with the need to interact with the keyboard, a much more aggressive tilt could be used, right? This only gets you a couple inches. Ideally the top of the screen is around the top of your head, right? Of course this is for on-the-go use, so we don’t expect ideal.

Overall, it is art; I really do think it looks nice, but it is pretty impractical.

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