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What would a less idiotic timeline look like?
Stick a book under your laptop.
What an amazing idea. Carry 2kg book of necessary size instead of foldable cardboard. Truly genius.
A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stick a book under your laptop.
What's the carbon cost behind buying and shipping the book, or cutting down the tree to make the book?
Use whatever's lying around. Some more ideas:
- A shoebox
- An old binder
- A food container
- Some coasters
- Egg carton
- Jenga blocks
- Cereal box
- Legos
- Picture frame
- Tennis ball (cut it in half)
- Door stoppers
- Cake pan
- A screwdriver box
- A few junk mailer magazines
- Crumple up a couple newspaper pages
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#43Terrible 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.
I grew in poverty. This looks to me crazy expensive. Sustainability comes second. These things are probably made overseas, shipped in a container and distributed in a small package. Then used few weeks, paper will wear out and then thrown away. But that’s how quick fashion industry works anyway.
Edit: Asus laptop had foldable stand included in the paper packaging.
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#44Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#45Oh, I didn't expect that much skepticism. I love the idea and I love companies that are trying to create beautiful and sustainable things. They even try to give people a place that usually don't fit in. Yes, you can fold one yourself (will it be stable enough though?). Yes, I wouldn't use it for a laptop either. But for a tablet it could work really nice. Also shipping it around the world is a bit silly, like with mo…
Sustaining what?
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#46I 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.
Never heard of nexstand but it looks suboptimal for keeping the small laptop screen as close as possible to your eyes My preferred design is like https://amzn.eu/d/0KB8nGM (2x U shapes of metal), which lets you have the keyboard underneath the laptop , so the laptop is as close to the edge of the desk as if you weren’t using an external keyboard
If you need the laptop screen to be that close, maybe you need glasses.
I have a Roost stand and with my keyboard in front of it, the distance is mostly right (13” screen and it’s more comfortable if I scale fonts up by 20% or so). It’s actually closer to my eyes than my desktop setup (24” screen mounted on monitor arm)
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#47The article is seemingly outdated. The cheapest one I could find in the store was 29 USD. In Euros, it’s 36.37. And of course, you still have to pay for shipping. From Korea.
This seems quite absurd. Whatever good you do the planet by using something out of recycled paper (thumbs up on the idea) will surely be offset by all the logistics of the shipping.
This should have been a tutorial, not a product.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the carbon cost behind buying and shipping the book, or cutting down the tree to make the book?
Assuming you don't have a book in your possession?
this is actually more common place than you might expect. just like wearing tube socks vs ankle socks has become some sort of age delineation, owning books is as well.
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#49It blows my mind that stands like this one as well as keyboards are designed with an incline requiring constant tension in the wrists.
The natural position of the fingers when typing is below the wrist not above it.
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#50It's hard to justify $30+ for a sheet of paper, especially considering the fact that condensation from a nearby water bottle will kill this product.